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  1. Refugees; Einstein; Belsen liberation

    Excerpt from "Genocide" documentary film. Still photos and archival footage fade into one another. Immigration. Refugees. Einstein on boat. 06:21 Chamberlain. Boycott. Newspaper headlines. Kristallnacht (the audio recording of C. Brook Peters reporting the events of Kristallnacht was recreated for the film - it is NOT an original radio broadcast) Destruction of synagogues. Newspaper headlines. Propaganda posters. 06:22:55 Einsatzgruppen murder (long, graphic). Military trucks, peasants. Mass graves at Belsen, bulldozers. German civilians forced to confront atrocities. ***Other parts of the ...

  2. DPs moving in Germany; Inspection of army band/troops

    03:46:41 (Munich 756) Movement of DPs from Berlin to American Zone of Germany, Kassel, Germany, July 24, 1948. DPs line up, getting ready to pull out of Kassel area. CU, Maj A S Hyman speaking to group and Dr. William Haber, adviser to Gen Clay on DP affairs. MCU, woman holding child. CU, blonde girl. Two women sitting next to their belongings. DPs waiting at railroad station platform. CU, girl holding doll. DPs walking to the station. DPs getting aboard trucks Pan, line of trucks filled with DPs at Camp Mattenberg. People getting of trucks at camp. Men getting loaves of bread out of truck....

  3. Chef der zivilverwaltung beim oberbefehlshaber im militaebezirk Posen Szef zarządu cywilnego przy dowódcy okregu wojskowego w Poznaniu, Sygn. 298

    The collection contains orders of occupation authorities, reports of the office activities and activity of the subordinated administration (Landrats) and police units, official reports of the meeting with military officials.

  4. "The First Generations: An early genealogical history of the Shanas, Stracovsky, Kimmelfeld, Gorstein, Mozart, Frimet, Smaller and other related families as they struggle for survival in both the Old World and the New"

    Consists of one manuscript entitled "The First Generations: An early genealogical history of the Shanas, Stracovsky, Kimmelfeld, Gorstein, Mozart, Frimet, Smaller and other related families as they struggle for survival in both the Old World and the New," by Bert Z. Shanas. The manuscript, which includes extensive copies of photographs, family tree information, maps, and documents, also includes a chapter about the members of the family killed in the Holocaust in Ukraine and the family members killed in military service.

  5. March of Time -- outtakes -- Recruiting posters and drives in US

    A group of people, many of them teenagers. A woman in a W.A.A.C. uniform sits behind a desk outside a van labelled "U. S. Army Recruitment Mobile Station" and speaks with a group of women. The scene shifts to soldiers in a parade down a street, then recruitment posters and a chart illustrating the number of people who have enlisted in Muncie during the month. Men walk into the recruitment offices. Interior of recruiting office where young men talk to a recruiter, who sits behind a desk. Close-ups of the boys and of recruiter. Outside, draftees (not enlisted men) board a bus while another ma...

  6. Signal Corps Cameramen; Nazi SS Trial

    21:00:41 (LIB 6866) Combat Cameramen, Germany, March-April 1945. LS, jeep pulls up to street corner, camera team gets out and still man pockets film in paratroop trousers. MLSs, CUs, two soldiers lead cameramen through rubble-strewn street. Cameraman stops to take pictures with a Speed Graphic. LS, still cameraman takes pictures of two infantrymen walking past burning building in Schweigen. LS, officer takes picture with still camera of advancing column of the 100th Div in Nussloch. LS, cameraman takes pictures of two soldiers as they pass burning rubble and buildings. CUs, cameraman using ...

  7. Clarence Kuhn photographs

    Consists of photographs and photographic postcards taken and collected by Clarence W. (Toby) Kuhn, a medic in the United States Army during World War II. Includes images taken at the Dachau concentration camp and at Berchtesgaden (including both original and Signal Corps photographs), photographs collected from German soldiers, and postcards.

  8. Germany at liberation: refugees, destruction, etc

    French liberated prisoners. US soldiers and ammunition, firing from tank. Tanks on village street. Airplanes dive bombing. MCUs German POWs. German civilians. Damaged gate entrance reading in part "Trier." German civilians departing town; horse, oxen, and tractor drawn wagons loaded with possessions. 01:07:20 Slate reads "Luxembourg, April 14, 1945" Germans with belongings on carts. CUs, displaced persons in line for water on city plaza, waving to camera, holidng up water cans (staged). Digging with shovels. April 16, 1945 - MCUs, German children in park, in Wiesbaden, Germany, wrestling. A...

  9. Russian DP camp

    (LIB 6513) Russian Displaced Persons Camp, Heidelberg, Germany, May 3, 1945. HSs, male Russian displaced persons marching by. CUs, Charles McDonald and Pat Dunne wearing UNRRA armbands. AV, campsite. Russian men and women dancing and celebrating May Day. Male DPs marching and drilling, training for enlistment in Russian Army. MCUs, children in and around day nursery. EXTs, food is poured from large containers into buckets for distribution to groups of DPs. CU, Russian Maj acting as liaison officer addresses youthful DPs. MSs, civilian bearing bundles and packages arrive at camp gate. AVs, D...

  10. Russian DPs at train station; Congressmen visit Berchtesgaden

    02:33:15 (LIB 6804) 17th Airborne Div, Germany, May 26, 1945. LSs, MSs, CU, Russian DPs from Wesel stand in doors of open freight cars as they are questioned by an American officer. HLSs, trains pull out of station. CU, railroad station sign: "Wesel." MSs, DPs standing in open doors of freight cars, wave as they pass by. MLS, Brig Gen Joseph Phelps and British officers wave goodbye as train leaves station. DPs carrying personal belongings and loading them into cars. DPs at station singing, holding huge picture of Stalin, and dancing. MLS, Maj Gen William M Miley standing at platform and ins...

  16. Westwall Defense medal

    1. Gerald Schwab collection

  17. Medal

    1. Gerald Schwab collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn44307
    • English
    • a: Width: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) | Diameter: 3.875 inches (9.843 cm) b: Height: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Width: 5.250 inches (13.335 cm) | Depth: 5.250 inches (13.335 cm)

  18. Ernest Waller collection

    Consists of one document, three pages, in English, describing the liberation at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp from the collection of Ernest L. Waller, who was with the British Army's RASC, attached to the 163rd forward ambulance group. The report, entitled "Notes on Belsen Camp," describes the terrible conditions after the liberation of the camp in April 1945, including a description of the thousands of prisoners who died due to typhus and other diseases and of the events leading to the liberation of the camp. Also includes a document listing the military units and voluntary organiza...

  19. Aerial views of postwar Paris

    Aerial shots of Paris and the Eiffel Tower. U.S. Air Force soldiers stand and kneel together posing for a photo. More aerial images of Paris neighborhoods, destroyed bridges and Notre Dame Cathedral. Aerial views of the French countryside.

  20. March of Time -- outtakes -- Nazi conquest of Austria, Vienna, 1938

    CU, sign, "Adolf Hitler Platz", the former Rathaus Platz, in Vienna. Shot of Rathaus with windows illuminated, shot at nightfall. Man shining shoes. Army trucks with food supplies. Stand erected in the Ring. Monument to Austrian Victims of the War. Vienna's Jewish shop district. LS, Danube Canal. Jews sitting on a bench. Car with Schupos on Danube Bridge. LS, facade of former Austrian War Ministry with Nazi flag. The Ring and Kaerntnerstrasse (Opera) with flags and posters showing Hitler's picture and the words: "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer." Peasants at work. Village street near Vienna...