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  1. Schiffer family in Budapest

    János plays with a bucket of water in yard of vacation home in Viranyos in June 1932. Dressed in a suit, Ernö kicks the ball with his boy. (01:55) Nurse-maid coaxes János to walk toward the camera. (03:00) János walks up and down steps to the door of his house in Budapest, and continues water-play. (05:15) János and cousin Anni play in a trough of water. Freshly dressed, they greet a newborn baby in carriage, providing a pacifier. (08:13) At the city park, János plays ball with a small bucket and ball. (10:27) In January 1932, people in winter clothing gather in the park with babies in stro...

  2. Funeral for Werner von Fritsch; Ciano motorcade; Hitler Youth training; Polish Jews

    "Ausklang des heldenmütigen Ringens um Polen" [Concluding the Heroic struggle for Poland] "Staatsbegräbnis für den bei Warschau gefallenen Generaloberst Freiherrn von Fritsch" State funeral for von Fritsch in Berlin, Germany on September 26, 1939. Statue, funeral procession. CU of coffin covered in flowers, Nazi banners. Procession of military officials, civilians at a public square. Large group of soldiers stand at attention, flags are lowered near the coffin. CU of Nazi official. "Zielbewusst und rasch, wie die deutsche Wehrmacht zuschlug, vollendet die deutsche Staatsführung das Werk der...

  3. Ernest Michel papers

    1. Ernest Michel collection

    Correspondence from Ernest Michel, originally of Mannheim, Germany, that he wrote as an adolescent and sent to an American pen-pal (Robert Lindsay, of Wilmington, Delaware) from 1937-1939, describing his life and conditions for Jews in Mannheim during that period. Also includes selected postwar documents, such as letters of recommendation from American military personnel; a file of documents from the International Tracing Service, regarding the wartime fates of his parents and grandmother; and a file of materials related to an Auschwitz-Buna Memorial Scholarship Dinner in New York in 1964, ...

  4. Herzog family papers

    The Herzog family papers include photographs, correspondence, and a birth certificate documenting the Herczog family from Érsekújvár (now Nové Zámky, Slovakia, formerly in Czechoslovakia and Hungary) and from Nagybörzsöny, Hungary. The collection includes correspondence and postcards written to Tibor (Avigdor) Herczog in the Hungarian forced labor camps in Köszeg and Ripinye (now Repenye, Ukraine) between October 1943 and February 1944, as well as letters from family members in Italy (Fiume and Trieste) and Palestine. The collection also includes pre-war and post-war Herczog and Bacsi famil...

  5. Ghetto inhabitants, ruins, Germans, starving children

    General shot of pedestrians; partially-destroyed buildings. Shots of individuals on the street. Fight on the street (among street vendors?). Shots of individuals on the street, including a young boy with sidelocks. Damaged buildings, German Luftwaffe officer smiles and waves at the camera. Street vendor selling stars. Close-ups of men and women. 01:02:18 Ghetto inhabitants (including children) mugging for camera, shot from a car with at least one German Luftwaffe officer. Shots of destroyed buildings. Shot of a man dressed in rags. Street vendors hold up bread and smile. VAR shots of people...

  6. NSDAP / SA and political activities

    This propaganda documentary depicts the efforts of the NSDAP and SA to organize political activities. Special occasions indicated by intertitles include Hitler giving a speech in Alzey surrounded by mothers and children, the regional SA marching in plainclothes through Frankfurt/Main, a steamer trip of the NSDAP Wiesbaden on the Rhine, arrival in Caub, and SA marching through Caub. 07:11:06 Title cards read: "Zweiter Teil," "Der Kampf um Hessen," [The Fight for Hessen] and "Der Führer in Alzey" [The Leader in Alzey]. Nazi officials walk in step with each other down a path. People are lined ...

  7. German activity at the Westwall and the French border

    Title on screen: Ozaphan 12/39 Monatschau; Die Wacht am Westwall [The watch on the West wall]. The West wall was a German defense line along the western German border. Two German soldiers sit on a hilltop overlooking a river. One looks through binoculars and points into the distance. German soldiers march down into a concrete bunker (part of the West wall) with a relief of a soldier carved around the doorway. Soldiers running around a structure that appears to be camouflaged with tree limbs. A cannon, camouflaged with tree branches, rises up out of the woods. Germans fire cannons, presumabl...

  8. German invasion and occupation of Poland; arrest of men in Bromberg (Bydgoszcz)

    Titles on screen: Ozaphan 10a/39 Monatschau [monthly show]; Krieg in Polen [War in Poland]. Scenes from the invasion of Poland, including cannons firing and German soldiers, shot from a distance, moving across a field. Title on screen: Die Fliegerbilder werden sofort Ausgewerten [the aerial photographs are immediately evaluated]. Soldiers develop and analyze aerial photos at a mobile lab in the field. Familiar (newsreel) footage of Goering and Hitler with other officers. Back in the field, shots of soldiers with bombs, German airplanes taking off, and destroyed buildings on the ground. Titl...

  9. Polish Order Wojenny Virtuti Militari Silver Cross medal and box awarded posthumously to a Polish Jewish soldier

    1. Michal Goldin collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn84515
    • English
    • a: Height: 3.875 inches (9.843 cm) | Width: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) b: Height: 5.000 inches (12.7 cm) | Width: 2.625 inches (6.668 cm) | Depth: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm)

    Polish Order Wojenny Virtuti Militari (War Order of Military Virtue) Silver Cross medal, 5th class, awarded posthumously to 21 year old Corporal Michal Goldin, a Polish soldier who died in combat in Normandy, France not long after D-Day in 1944. The medal was issued on December 7, 1944, by the Polish government in exile in England. Michal was a high school student in Antwerp, Belgium, when Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Separated from his family in Warsaw, he went to France and enlisted in the Polish Army. France surrendered in June 1940 and Michal’s unit retreated to Switzerl...

  10. Brass Shabbat lamp and drip tray acquired by a German Jewish woman

    1. Emanuel and Louise Suessmann family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn617428
    • English
    • a: Height: 14.500 inches (36.83 cm) | Diameter: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) b: Height: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) | Diameter: 4.125 inches (10.477 cm)

    Six pointed star shaped brass Shabbat lamp and drip tray brought to the United States, by Louise Schwarzenberger (later Suessmann) when she emigrated from Germany in 1939. Shabbat is a day reserved for rest and worship, and any form of work is prohibited. The Shabbat lamp is lit every Friday before sunset, usually by a woman in the household, and left burning until the following evening. Louise emigrated from Germany to St. Louis, Missouri, and found work as a hospital attendant. She joined her siblings, Maria, Kathe, and Kurt, as well as their families, who had immigrated in the wake of th...

  11. Print

    1. Liliane Yates collection

    Print of a drawing originally created by Henri Gayot, a French resistance member imprisoned in Struthof concentration camp in France.

  12. Print

    1. Liliane Yates collection

    Print of a drawing originally created by Henri Gayot, a French resistance member imprisoned in Struthof concentration camp in France.

  13. Print

    1. Liliane Yates collection

    Print of a drawing originally created by Henri Gayot, a French resistance member imprisoned in Struthof concentration camp in France.

  14. Print

    1. Liliane Yates collection

    Print of a drawing originally created by Henri Gayot, a French resistance member imprisoned in Struthof concentration camp in France.

  15. Print

    1. Liliane Yates collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn2530
    • English
    • Height: 10.250 inches (26.035 cm) | Width: 13.500 inches (34.29 cm) Height: 7.500 inches (19.05 cm) | Width: 10.750 inches (27.305 cm)

    Print of a drawing originally created by Henri Gayot, a French resistance member imprisoned in Struthof concentration camp in France.

  16. Print

    1. Liliane Yates collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn2515
    • English
    • Height: 7.500 inches (19.05 cm) | Width: 10.750 inches (27.305 cm) Height: 10.250 inches (26.035 cm) | Width: 13.500 inches (34.29 cm)

    Print of a drawing originally created by Henri Gayot, a French resistance member imprisoned in Struthof concentration camp in France.

  17. Print

    1. Liliane Yates collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn2516
    • English
    • Height: 10.250 inches (26.035 cm) | Width: 13.500 inches (34.29 cm) Height: 7.500 inches (19.05 cm) | Width: 10.750 inches (27.305 cm)

    Print of a drawing originally created by Henri Gayot, a French resistance member imprisoned in Struthof concentration camp in France.

  18. Print

    1. Liliane Yates collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn2518
    • English
    • Height: 10.250 inches (26.035 cm) | Width: 13.500 inches (34.29 cm) Height: 7.500 inches (19.05 cm) | Width: 10.750 inches (27.305 cm)

    Print of a drawing originally created by Henri Gayot, a French resistance member imprisoned in Struthof concentration camp in France.

  19. Print

    1. Liliane Yates collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn2519
    • English
    • Height: 10.250 inches (26.035 cm) | Width: 13.500 inches (34.29 cm) Height: 7.500 inches (19.05 cm) | Width: 10.750 inches (27.305 cm)

    Print of a drawing originally created by Henri Gayot, a French resistance member imprisoned in Struthof concentration camp in France.

  20. Print

    1. Liliane Yates collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn2521
    • English
    • Height: 10.250 inches (26.035 cm) | Width: 13.500 inches (34.29 cm) Height: 7.500 inches (19.05 cm) | Width: 10.750 inches (27.305 cm)

    Print of a drawing originally created by Henri Gayot, a French resistance member imprisoned in Struthof concentration camp in France.