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Menachem Taffel's body, part of the Jewish skeleton collection. The Jewish skull collection was an attempt by Nazi Germany to create an anthropological display to showcase the alleged racial inferiority of the "Jewish race" and to emphasize the Jews' status as Untermenschen ("subhumans"), in contrast to the Aryan race, which the Nazis considered to be superior.
The Milken Archive of Jewish Music is a collection of material about the history of Jewish Music in the United States.It contains roughly 700 recorded musical works, 800 hours of oral histories, 50,000 photographs and historical documents, an extensive collection of program notes and essays, and thousands of hours of video footage documenting recording sessions, interviews, and live performances.
Memorial of the 86 Jewish victims murdered in 1943 at Struthof by August Hirt. Located at Institute of Anatomy of Strasbourg (Hôpital civil).. August Hirt (28 April 1898 – 2 June 1945) was an anatomist with Swiss and German nationality who served as a chairman at the Reich University in Strasbourg during World War II.
In 2001, the television programme Son of God used one of three first-century Jewish skulls from a leading department of forensic science in Israel to depict Jesus in a new way. Neave constructed a face using forensic anthropology which suggested that Jesus would have had a broad face and large nose, and differed significantly from the ...
Rudolf Hermann Brandt (2 June 1909 – 2 June 1948) was a German SS officer from 1933–45 and a civil servant.A lawyer by profession, Brandt was the Personal Administrative Officer to Reichsführer-SS (Persönlicher Referent vom Reichsführer SS) Heinrich Himmler and a defendant at the Doctors' Trial at Nuremberg for his part in securing the 86 victims of the Jewish skull collection, an ...
In 1940, Fleischhacker also joined both the Nazi Party and the Waffen-SS. [2] Before long, he saw service with the SS Race and Settlement Main Office. [3]: 253 Following the invasion of Poland he was sent to Litzmannstadt as part of this group in order to perform measurements on ethnic Germans and determine whether they were suitable for resettlement programmes in the east or simply for forced ...
Media in category "Jewish music" This category contains only the following file. Prokofiev - Advent Chamber Orchestra - Overture on Hebrew Themes.ogg 11 min 0 s; 18.09 MB
Two musicologists took part in the expedition, both were members of the Society for Jewish Folk Music. Zusman Kiselgof was born in a family of a melamed in Velizh, a shtetl in Vitebsk region. He became a teacher, and a collector of Jewish music. He started in 1902, and went to his first filed expedition in 1907 to Lubavitch, in Mogilew region.