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  1. Jews at forced labor removing snow

    A title on the screen describes the very cold conditions under which the Reichsbahn is operating in Russia. Panning shots of snow covered train tracks and steaming locomotives. 01:36:19 Title on screen: Sowjetrussische Gefangene und Juden arbeiten in Minsk an der Beseitigung der Schneemassen [Soviet prisoners and Jews work on snow removal in Minsk]. High angle shot of women and men, many of them with badges affixed to the front and back of their jackets, removing snow from train tracks. More scenes showing the operation of trains in extremely cold and snowy weather. Shots of train cars and ...

  2. Parade of Naval soldiers

    Probably April 20 (Hitler's birthday). Naval soldiers with drums parading on Michaelerplatz, Augustinerstrasse, in front of Palais Palffy, Albertina ramp, Phillipshof, and Kaertnerstrasse.

  3. Volksdeutsch return to Germany from USSR

    Ethnic Germans (Volksdeutsch) return to Germany from the Soviet Union. Long line of horse-drawn carts traveling through heavy snow. The narration states that this is the largest emigration in modern times and that 135,00 ethnic Germans will arrive in Germany from Eastern Europe. Nazi officers greet refugees as they cross a bridge in their carts. These Volkdeutsch are from Volynia in Western Russia. Shot of a banner which reads "Grossdeutschland grüßt Euch [Greater Germany greets you]." Panning shot of many covered wagons with horses in a field. Shots of individual refugees wearing furs. The...

  4. Mathieu Muller collection

    Documents and correspondence related to the experiences of donor's father, the attorney Matthieu Muller, President of the Agudat Yisrael in France. Many of the documents relate to his rescue work together with George Mandel-Mantello in Geneva, Switzerland during the war. Also includes one photograph of Jews lined up in front of the Immigration Office of the Swiss Legation, Budapest, seeking protection. Verso is stamped "Schweizerische Gesandtschaft Budapest."

  5. Shmuel Elhanan collection

    Collection of telegrams and family photos sent from Minsk and Kovno, including a Polyfoto of Shmuel Elhanan [donor] and his brothers in Kovno.

  6. Woman's gold wrist watch kept with a Jewish concentration camp inmate

    Gold wrist watch carried by Marga Gussinoff throughout her imprisonment in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and Vittel internment camp from 1943-1944. The wrist band was added to the watch after the war. In 1943, Marga and her mother, Sarah, were arrested by the Gestapo at their apartment in Berlin, Germany. Her sister, Eva, was in hiding with a German woman at the time, but joined them after their arrest. The Gestapo demanded that they turn over all their money and jewelry, but 20 year old Marga "being that I was rebellious, I had this watch, a gold watch, and I decided not to give it to t...

  7. Buchenwald

    Intertitle: "Buchenwald" Human remains in crematoria at Buchenwald. Pile of bones. Survivors and GIs gathered around corpses in courtyard at Buchenwald camp. More shots of the dead, and CUs of the barely living. Doctors inspecting wounds. Intertitle: "Arrogant German citizens are forced to make a tour." German civilians, mostly women, filing into the camp. Intertitle: "Lampshades and pictures made of human skin." MSs, table in the courtyard displaying lampshades, tattoos, shrunken heads. Various shots of the German civilians gathered around the display. Intertitle: "A German officer is forc...

  8. Fritz Hippler's marriage ceremony

    Fritz Hippler, the head of the film department in the Propaganda Ministry and director of Der ewige Jude (The Eternal Jew), gets out of a car with his bride and two men. Inside the registry office a man behind the desk greets them with a Hitler salute. The clerk or judge performs the marriage ceremony and Hippler and his wife sign documents. Smiling, they exit the building and depart in their car.

  9. German invasion of Yugoslavia

    German troops struggle through the muddy Serbian countryside in vehicles and on foot. A column of troops crossing a bridge. German troops encounter resistance in a town. Sign in Cyrillic on a building. A Slovenian or Croatian soldier (according to the IWM) smiles as he surrenders his weapon to a German. The German dashes it on the ground and breaks it. Destroyed buildings. A soldier posts a sign that reads Kirsch. Germans search civilians, including a man who, the narration says sarcastically, knew nothing about the revolver that he was carrying. Captured Yugoslav soldiers march down the st...

  10. Children playing with mother

    Peter and Eva Schur chase a ball with their mother.

  11. Temporary religious buildings during siege of Tobruk

    Australian soldiers fire a Howitzer. Pan of destroyed military vehicles in a desert. A shrapnel damaged school named for Benito Mussolini that is now being used to hold church services for Allied soldiers. The camera pans down from the minaret of a mosque to a hand-painted sign on the building that reads: "Out of Bounds Musulman Church." Camera pans around the exterior of a Catholic church with a statue of the Virgin Mary outside. Damage shown to a hospital mosque. A soldier walks into a heavily damaged building with a sign reading, "Out of Bounds Jewish Soldiers Synagogue." Panning shot of...

  12. Family in Olomouc; farming

    Hanna is blowing up balloons and playing with them at the garden in Olmuetz, with a few family onlookers. They move into the garden. These women are dressed nicely. They all walk in the hills (farmland?) 02:12:34 Probably Stanislawow - numerous men digging in the ground, Benno is in a white shirt. A wheelbarrow is brought to them. Child, probably Babeta (Alyssa Sperber), with the rake. Pan landscape, farm, Lieberman family. Emanuel Sperber with his wife, Nelly. Thomas Sperber drives the tractor, his father Emanuel (balding and seen from behind) walks towards the tractor.

  13. Wochenschau cameramen at work

    The opening titles are superimposed over an image of a cameraman filming. Scenes of Hitler standing on the balcony on the night he became Chancellor, followed by good shots of rallies, flags, Hitler reviewing crowds, intercut with good shots of cameramen at work, sometimes in odd places or angles, such as crouched on the running board of a car. The narrator says that in the new Germany, where the state is fused with the folk, and the Fuehrer is fused with the community, the newsreel cameraman has an obligation to history. 01:55:09 Model of the Propaganda Ministry building. The narrator says...

  14. Garden of the family home in Olomouc, prewar

    Pan of the surrounding area, large houses and a large garden. A woman and the girl rake the soil. Cut to numerous people walking in a field, Hanna runs about and walks with her parents. She stands again in the garden, raking.

  15. Debora Korolchuk Brenner papers

    The Debora Korolchuk Brenner papers include photographs taken in the Föhrenwald displaced persons camp depicting Debora, her parents, family friends, and school groups, and an autograph book with signatures, notes, drawings, and pressed flowers collected by Debora Korolchuk while living the Föhrenwald DP camp.

  16. Cowboys and Indians home movie

    Indiscernible buildings. Title: "Eine Indianer Geschichte, mit Alfred Voshkamp u Herbert Birkenbeul" [An Indian Story, with Alfred Vosskamp and Herbert Birkenbeul]. Several boys make a home Cowboys-and-Indians movie. Three boys, one wearing an Indian head-dress, lie on the grass, pretending to hide. A boy dressed as a frontiersman comes along. The three Indians run up, take hold of the frontiersman and tie him to a tree. A fifth boy wearing wearing a cap and driving goggles comes to the rescue, using his toy gun to easily overpower the three unarmed Indians. The odds are stacked in his favo...

  17. German soldiers in the Caen area

    Animated map shows English Channel coast from Brest to Antwerp. A convoy of trucks camouflaged with branches drives toward the camera; soldiers smile and wave. CU of a wooden "one way" sign. Soldier distributes copies of a newspaper to soldiers as they pass him on bicycles. Shot of a soldier reading the newspaper with a headline that reads "Eisenhower hat uns nicht überrascht. [Eisenhower did not surprise us]." German sign cautions against traffic drawing fire upon itself by raising dust, "Feindeinsicht! Wirble keinen Staub auf sonst kriegst du eins aufs Dach drauf". Views of wrecked vehicl...

  18. Bela Imredy makes a speech

    Interior shot of a hall, crowded with people. Hungarian fascists salute. Bela Imredy addresses the crowd (natural sound) against a backdrop marked "HARC - Gyözelemig!"

  19. Wanda Wojick papers

    Collection consists of documents and one map likely related to a Polish underground group.

  20. Havdalah ceremony

    Havdalah ceremony in the garden in Snekkersten (despite the fact that it is still daylight at night in the summer in Denmark). Present are: Edith and Bernhard Schermeister (donor's grandparents), Edith's mother, father, and sister, Edith and Bernhard's three daughters (Lis, the oldest girl, is the donor's mother), and Bernhard's mother, Hana Schermeister. Edith lights the candle and Bernhard pours the wine. CU of Hana Schermeister.