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  1. Interrogation of suspected war criminal

    (LIB 6312) and (LIB 6313) Two German civilians, a man and a woman, enter a room and cremate a body, feeding the corpse into the flames. The narrator indicates that this is the crematory of the city cemetery of Hanover (Hanover-Ahlem, a subcamp of Neuengamme), where the bodies of slave laborers were cremated. The man has been doing this work [Heizer] since 1924 and will be interviewed by US Captain D.C. Nolan and an interpreter, Lieutenant A. Ackerman. An American soldier carrying a movie camera is briefly visible in the frame. After the body is cremated Nolan and Ackerman ask questions of t...

  2. Moosburg POW camp; bridge at Remagen; destruction of Cologne

    Liberated allied prisoners of war in the former Moosburg POW camp Stalag 7a, which housed prisoners from many countries. American pilots cook and serve food outdoors. They eat and smile at the camera. Two men wearing white shirts are shot from a low angle. Pan across former POWs sunning themselves, with barracks in the background. Nice view through barbed wire of former prisoners with rows of white tents in the background. Men shaving in the outdoors using a mirror mounted on a tent pole; a man pours gasoline into a bowl and washes a pair of pants. A group of men pose around a sign that rea...

  3. Pen and ink desk set carved by Israel Haimovich in a British detention camp

    1. Israel Haimovich collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn607642
    • English
    • 1948
    • a: Height: 5.000 inches (12.7 cm) | Width: 14.750 inches (37.465 cm) | Depth: 7.500 inches (19.05 cm) b: Height: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Width: 2.750 inches (6.985 cm) | Depth: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) c: Height: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) | Width: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Depth: 2.375 inches (6.033 cm) d: Height: 3.625 inches (9.208 cm) | Width: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Depth: 2.625 inches (6.668 cm) e: Height: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Width: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Depth: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) f: Height: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Width: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Depth: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm)

    Desk set with ink wells carved by Israel Haimovich while in a British detention camp in Cyprus in 1948. It is carved in the shape of the bridge that linked two of the camps and the inkwells are carved in the shape of the Nissen huts that housed the detainees, tents, and a guard tower. Israel was originally from Czechoslovakia, which was annexed by Nazi Germany and its allies in 1938-1939. Israel was deported to Buchenwald concentration camp. He was liberated by US troops on April 11, 1945. His siblings, mother, grandmother, wife, and son were all killed during the Holocaust. After recuperat...

  4. March of Time -- outtakes -- Hungary: Munkacs, troops, Yiddish sign, National Front meeting

    750 F: Count Pal Teleki in his office. Teleki was a Transylvanian aristocrat and geographer who was appointed premier by Horthy in 1920 and retired in 1921. He committed suicide in 1941. He is shown looking at maps at his desk. The next scene shows (from the dope sheet): "Andre Jaross, minister of Freed Regions." He is described as one of the youngest leaders of the "rather pro-Fascist" Magyar Elet organization. Jaross and another man stand at a desk and look at maps. 750 G: March/April 1939. Munkacs, Province of Ruthenia, Hungary. 04:34:25 LS, Munkacs showing Czech-built barracks, now occu...

  5. The Striker, Number 49, December 1936, 15th year 1936 Der Stürmer (Nuremberg, Germany) [Newspaper]

    1. Katz Ehrenthal collection

    December 1936 issue of Der Stürmer, [The Stormtrooper], a viciously anti-Jewish newspaper published by Julius Streicher, an early Nazi Party member, from 1923-1945 in Germany. The headline reads: Der Weltverbrecher [The World Criminal] with a drawing of a Jewish soldier running past a prostrate woman, with a Soviet hammer and sickle in the background, captioned Die Rote Schande [The Red Shame.] The newspaper's slogan was "Die Juden sind unser Unglück!" [The Jews are our misfortune]. The paper thrived on scandal, and preferred sensational stories of Jews committing disgusting, evil acts. It ...

  6. The Striker, Number 28, July 1937, 15th year 1937 Der Stürmer (Nuremberg, Germany) [Newspaper]

    1. Katz Ehrenthal collection

    July 1937 issue of Der Stürmer, [The Stormtrooper], a viciously anti-Jewish newspaper published by Julius Streicher, an early Nazi Party member, from 1923-1945 in Germany. The headline reads: Das größte erf, Die Errettung der deutschen Frau [The greatest pleasure, The salvation of the German woman] with an illustration of an unsavory Jewish man captioned Satanische Rechnung [Satanic Reckoning.] The newspaper's slogan was "Die Juden sind unser Unglück!" [The Jews are our misfortune]. The paper thrived on scandal, and preferred sensational stories of Jews committing disgusting, evil acts. It ...

  7. The Striker, Number 44, OCtober 1936, 14th year 1936 Der Stürmer (Nuremberg, Germany) [Newspaper]

    1. Katz Ehrenthal collection

    October 1936 issue of Der Stürmer, [The Stormtrooper], a viciously anti-Jewish newspaper published by Julius Streicher, an early Nazi Party member, from 1923-1945 in Germany. The headline reads: Die Antwort an Theologen und Schriftgelehrte, Die heilige' Schrift [The answer to the theologians and scribes, The Holy Scriptures.] The newspaper's slogan was "Die Juden sind unser Unglück!" [The Jews are our misfortune]. The paper thrived on scandal, and preferred sensational stories of Jews committing disgusting, evil acts. It was also infamous for its antisemitic cartoons and staff cartoonist Fi...

  8. The Striker, Number 16, April 1937, 15th year 1937 Der Stürmer (Nuremberg, Germany) [Newspaper]

    1. Katz Ehrenthal collection

    April 1937 isue of Der Stürmer, [The Stormtrooper], a viciously anti-Jewish newspaper published by Julius Streicher, an early Nazi Party member, from 1923-1945 in Germany. The headline reads: Istjuden, Die schleichen sich in Deutschland ein [The Jews, who sneak into Germany] with an illustration of a sneaky looking Jewish businessmen and an angry German, captioned Betrogen [Deceived.] The newspaper's slogan was "Die Juden sind unser Unglück!" [The Jews are our misfortune]. The paper thrived on scandal, and preferred sensational stories of Jews committing disgusting, evil acts. It was also i...

  9. Israel's independence war, produced by the United Palestine Appeal

    Shots of Jerusalem as the narrator says that despite the U.N. truce, Glubb Pasha (John Bagot Glubb) continues to arm the Transjordan Arab Legion. Looters in Jerusalem. King Abdullah of Transjordan pays a visit to the Dome of the Rock (Mosque of Omar). 01:01:07 Count Folke Bernadotte in Lake Success, New York, to report to the U.N. on the truce. Interior shots of delegates meeting to discuss the Arab Legion's defiance of the truce, June 11th, 1948. Shots of urban warfare after the May 15, 1948 declaration of the state of Israel. Women carry a wounded man on a stretcher; women and men prepare...

  10. Eichmann Trial -- Session 55 -- Testimony of Dr. G. Gilbert re. Nuremberg witnesses

    Session 55. Court has not commenced. 00:05:33 Witness of general information - Professor Gustave M. Gilbert, Professor of Psychology at Long Island University, USA. Military psychologist (first Lieutenant), then intelligence officer during War. Then assigned to the Military Tribunal in Nuremberg. Questioned about role at Nuremberg. 00:13:38 Discusses the Nazi's knowledge and reaction to Gilbert being Jewish. Gilbert discusses the defendants' sanity (Rudolf Hess is talked about), psychological tests and personalities. 00:21:57 Gilbert explains about notes he took on the Nazis and a diary he ...

  11. Waffen SS recruitment poster featuring a young uniformed soldier

    1. German poster collection

    Recruitment poster for the Waffen SS featuring a profile image of a uniformed soldier. The Waffen SS was the armed military division of the Schutzstaffel (SS), the Nazi paramilitary organization that was responsible for security, intelligence gathering and analysis, and enforcing Nazi racial policies. They controlled the concentration camp system and planned and coordinated the Final Solution. The SS was originally formed in 1925 to protect Hitler along with other Nazi leaders and provide security at political meetings. In 1929, Heinrich Himmler was appointed Reichsführer-SS (Reich Leader o...

  12. Yes referendum against war and Nazi criminals to ensure peace Postwar East German "vote yes" poster on a public referendum

    1. German poster collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn3755
    • English
    • pictorial area: Height: 33.500 inches (85.09 cm) | Width: 23.625 inches (60.008 cm) overall: Height: 34.750 inches (88.265 cm) | Width: 24.625 inches (62.548 cm)

    Poster encouraging the German public of the Soviet-occupied region of Saxony to vote "yes" on a referendum to expropriate factories and companies owned by Nazis. The poster was designed by Wilhelm Schubert, who worked with the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), and distributed in May 1946. The poster implies that voting "yes" to the referendum will help to ensure peace in occupied East Germany. On June 30, the referendum passed, with 82.9 percent voting in favor. After the German surrender on May 8, 1945, Germany was divided into zones of occupation by the Allies. The Soviet zone encompassed...

  13. German Army in Slovakia

    German troops enter region of Slovakia, round up civilian suspects. Reel 1, cont.: 4:50:15 Animap of Slovakia showing towns of Neusohl, and Altsohl, (German names for towns of Zvolen and Banska Bystrica). 4:50:21 MS German troops in truck and artillery piece being pushed on road, LS German troops firing into town at "bandits." MLS German troops advance through field toward town. 4:50:37 MS Peasant woman crying, holding head goes to German officer, watches her barn burn, cows in FG. Reel 2: 4:50:48 LS Burning farm houses, cows, men try to put out fire. 4:50:56 MLS German soldiers striding ac...

  14. Barbie Trial -- Day 10 -- Victims testify

    Lise Lesevre: Resistance member. She was arrested by the Gestapo on March 13, 1943 while she carried a letter addressed to Didier, the false name of a Resistance leader. She was then interrogated and tortured by Barbie: hung by hand cuffs with spikes, forced under freezing water in a bathtub, and beaten with a spiked ball against her back which broke a vertebrae. She was condemned to death by a German military tribunal for "terrorism" but was placed in the wrong cell and deported to Ravensbruck instead. Her husband died at Dachau and her son was killed in a detention center in Neuengamme at...

  15. Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg

    In Adolf Hitler Platz in Nuremberg, Germans salute/heil en masse for the Party Congress, soldiers marching in BG are barely seen, VAR shots of spectators heiling. LS, parade with flags. View of spectators in windows (some flanked with Nazi flags and flower boxes). Closer shots of parade with swastika flags, drummers, crowd saluting. Hitler arrives, salutes crowd from middle of square. More goose-stepping. Close shots of Nazi elites in uniform. In crowd, brown shirt purchases hot dog and bun from a female vendor. More LSs of Nazi elite, including Goering, Goebbels, Hess, and others standing ...

  16. Majdanek: objects of former inmates

    Pan, pile of corpses outside gas chamber/crematoria, bones on the ground. CUs, cremation ovens. Family photographs of a victim. More shots of ovens and bones. CUs, women weeping. Pan down, from one woman to a pile of bones. Tall chimney and burial grounds are shown. Bones. A vegetable garden. Men inside barracks. CUs, shoes salvaged by the Nazis. Victims' belongings including: clothing, gloves, toys, eyeglasses, scissors. The Russian commission continues questioning. CUs, passports, indicating prisoners from Poland, Holland, France, and other countries. CUs, survivors. Commission. Prisoners...

  17. Boris Gurevich papers

    The Boris Gurevich papers are comprised of over fifty letters Boris wrote to his brother and sister while in the Red Army between 1942 and 1944. The majority of the letters are to his sister in Andijan. In them, Boris enquires frequently about her health and food availability and describes his situation as a student in military training and later, as a soldier. Many of his letters describe his health, food rations, his uniforms, and his daily activities in training and in his free time. He often reports that he is happy, especially so while living in Rybinsk, where he lived with a friend, M...

  18. Ernest Steen papers

    1. Ernest Steen collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Ernest Steen (born Ernst Levistein), originally of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, including his employment in Frankfurt, immigration to the United States in 1940, and service during World War II in the United States Army. Included are a small number of personal and biographical papers, clippings, newsletters, songs and poems, and military papers. Correspondence includes letters Ernest received from his mother Henrietta Steen (née Langenbach) in Frankfurt July 1940-August 1941, prior to her deportation to Łódź ghetto in October 1941. Pho...

  19. SA and Ernst Roehm in Bayreuth, 1934

    SA March of the SA Brigade 77 in Bayreuth on May 13, 1934. Men march in columns. They then stand side by side, Nazi flags billowing in the wind beside them. WS of the soldiers in a field with long rows of motorbikes. Officers on horseback do the Nazi salute. 10:01:30 Ernst Röhm, a Nazi Party founder, leans over to speak to a soldier. They salute, before the officer continues down the line of men. Three men on horseback carry flags bearing the symbols of the Nazi party. The officers ride away down the field. Soldiers stand still in rows, looking right towards the camera. The men bring their ...

  20. Train station and sights in Krakow; Nazi motorcade

    Handwritten film title card reading "Krakau." A train pulls into station. German soldiers carry bags down the stairs. Men unload luggage and cargo from the cars. A child sells newspapers in Krakow's main square. Troops and civilians mull about. Horses and carriages are lined up for passengers. Telegraph offices, St. Mary's Basilica, and the Podgorze Church. Street scenes including a tram and horses and carriages. A Polish civilian in a business suit crossing the street heils for the camera. Peasants exchange goods at the marketplace. Polish women smile at the camera. CUs of money and food e...