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  1. Nelson Warner photograph

    The collection consists of one black and white photograph depicting two parents with two children standing together indoors; all of them are wearing a star of David badge on their clothing; inscription on verso handwritten in black ink: "14 Juli 1942 / Fam. Schloss / mit / dem geben / Judenstern"; dated July 14, 1942; in German.

  2. Olga Degani photographs

    Contains three photographs: a portrait of Sara and Mordechai Warzager, donor's maternal grandparents, who both perished in the Holocaust; a group portrait, circa 1912, of the Warzager family, with Nela Necha Warzager, donor's mother, seated on the table; and a portrait of J. Edelman, circa 1967, a Warzager family relative, who survived the war in the Soviet Union.

  3. Men leave Yugoslavia for labor in Germany

    Yugoslav laborers leave by train for Germany. Festive atmosphere as people parade through town toward the train station. Smiling women and children say goodbye to their men, who crowd onto the train. A man holds a sign in Cyrillic. LS of the crowded train platform. People wave as the train pulls out of the station. 01:25:47 A few seconds of the next part of the newsreel. (Not ordered by USHMM)

  4. Denmark general election

    A report about the March 23, 1943 general election in Denmark. Men on bicycles exit a building (holding bags of ballots?). Montage of Danish pamphlets and newspapers about the election. A sign announces that it is election day. Flags in the streets of Copenhagen. A crowd of people outside a polling place (?). A woman affixes a badge with a Danish flag, presumably an indication that he has voted, to a man's lapel. A horse-drawn taxi drives down the street. Citizens enter a polling place. Overhead shot of people in voting booths. Boxes of ballots are emptied and sorted at tables.

  5. Brombart and Lewin families photograph collection

    Collection of photographs documenting the life of the Brombart and Lewin families in Poland and Belgium during the Holocaust era.

  6. Children bathe; parents swim in the river

    Hanna and Thomas are playing in the washtub in Jaremcze. Parents Benedikt and Ella are on the edge of the water in a small river. They walk about in the water attempting to get used to the cold.

  7. Occupation of Paris

    German troops in France discover a civil internment camp for Germans citizens. A German vehicle drives up to the camp, past barbed wire. The civilians wave happily at the troops and shake hands with officers. The narrator says that they will soon be sent back to Germany. French POWs marching down the street and at a POW camp. Shots of French colonial troops while the narrator says, "Again and again the same picture. White, brown, black, all races of the world. These wild hordes were called up to put all of Germany under the yoke." POWs dance in a staged "African" manner. More sarcastic and ...

  8. Barbara de Groot collection

    Contains correspondence from the Brenner family, Barbara de Groot's paternal extended family, in Mława, Poland; Tarnów, Poland; and Paris, France, to Sol Brenner (Barbara's father) in New York. A majority of the family did not survive.

  9. Volunteers from various countries

    Danish, Spanish, and Italian volunteers leave their countries for Germany to join the "fight against Bolshevism." In Denmark the youths parade through the street while being saluted by onlookers. They carry a Danish flag and a woman in uniform hands out flowers. CU on a poster reading "Germanerne". A train full of volunteers leaves the station. Good shots of crowds of people giving Hitler salute. In Spain, a train crowded with volunteers leaves a station. A huge crowd watches the train go. The narrator notes that most of these volunteers, now member of the Blue Division, are veterans of the...

  10. Redistribution of land in Latvia

    Redistribution of land in Latvia. A large group of Latvian civilians, many of them elderly, stand in a square decorated with swastika flags. Some of them hold signs with the German and the Latvian place names of their settlements. A German official hands out documents to the Latvians and shakes their hands. The next scene shows the same official going up to a house and greeting an old woman, and old man, and a younger man at the door. The official hands over a document, which the younger man reads to the older couple. In a different location in Latvia, pan down a church tower, then shots of...

  11. Hitler and Hitler Youth in last newsreel

    Excerpt from the last Wochenschau and the last footage of Adolf Hitler. In the garden of the Reich Chancellery, Hitler greets 20 Hitler Youth members who have won the Knight's Cross. Reich Youth Leader Artur Axmann is also present. Two of the Hitler Youth members talk about their actions. Good CUs of the boys wearing their medals.

  12. Clips from an anti-Jewish Nazi propaganda film, Jud Süß

    At the same ball as in the previous scene Suess wins a hand of cards and receives some coins. A masked man begins to insult him. The scene cuts off here.

  13. Nazis advance to the Balkans and Russia; France falls; Atlantic charter agreement

    A Castle Films showcase of news events for the year 1941 with English titles: "War-Five Years! China fights on as tension in Pacific grows!" "Siege of Tobruk! British guns repel year-long Axis attack!" 01:01:04 "Balkan crisis! Nazis overwhelm heroic Greeks!" Ruins, shocked civilians, wounded. Crowds of troops. 01:01:25 "Germans halted! Capture of Iraq stops Hitler's march toward Suez!" Air warfare, bombing, automobiles. "British and Free French capture nearby Syria from Vichy forces!" Scenes of occupied Syria, fighting. Injured military officer exits military vehicle. "France's tragic fate!...

  14. Madeline and Sigmund Krauthammer photographs

    The Madeline and Sigmund Krauthammer photographs depict Madeline and Sigmund Krauthammer in Körösmező and Beregszász, Hungary (now Yasinia and Berehove, Ukraine) just before the Holocaust in Hungary and on their wedding day in August 1945.

  15. Judith Scharf Hartman collection

    Contains pre-war photographs and pre-war and wartime letters written by donor’s parents to their children in Palestine. Includes certificates sent by the British Red Cross to Palestine and a letter from donor’s sister Lili in Bergen Belsen. Judith Scharf survived the concentration camps of Auschwitz and Weisskirchen where she worked in an arms factory.

  16. Visiting a park, eating indoors, and playing with a dog toy in prewar Olomouc

    The adults (Ella's family) are outside, dressed for colder weather, walking on the edge of a wooded area/park. City of Olomouc. A few seconds later they are indoors again, with the children, first they are eating at the table with Grandma Karolina Ziegler (left), then Hanna is being carried by Terry Tugenhart, playing with dolls. Hanna plays with a toy dog on wheels along with a spoon. Her mother, Ella, comes and sits at her side as Hanna continues to play.

  17. Denise Layani collection

    Contains two identification photos of Josef Roger Cheraki (donor's father) in forced labor in Algeria.

  18. Schermeister family puts on a play for the camera, 1936

    The Schermeister family play act in the yard at their vacation home in Snekkersten. Edith, the donor's grandmother, appears dressed up in an overcoat, hat, and purse. She sits on a bench and beckons one of the girls. Bernhard whispers in her ear and sits next to her on the bench. View from behind as the girls dress Bernhard in his wife's costume clothing. Bernhard shows off, juggles oranges. One of the girls (Jeanne?) is shown wearing the same outfit. She sits at a table and knits. Her sisters come into the shot and stand beside her.

  19. Schermeister family in prewar Denmark

    Schermeister family in Denmark before WWII, walking in and out of the door to their small wooden vacation home in Snekkersten. A mezuzah is affixed to the doorway. The donor's great-grandmother, Franzisca Josies Cohen, wearing a large striped scarf. Her daughter Ida, a professional violinist, plays the violin. The other woman in a trenchcoat in front of the house is Asta Cohen, another daughter. [Another daughter not seen here is Edith, the donor's grandmother.] The donor's great-grandfather, Leopold Cohen, pretends to shoot Ida with a shotgun while she plays the violin. Leopold and his wif...

  20. Children at play in prewar Vienna

    Peter and Eva Schur crawling around, having fun, playing with blocks. 01:30:13 Eva plays with the housecat. Peter on scooter. Baby with man in glasses. Baby in carriage, CUs. Peter circling on the patio. 01:30:57 Peter and Eva row a boat on the lake (on vacation in Gmunden, Austria?). 01:31:19 Child eats an apple, then runs around with toy wagon. 01:32:11 Peter plays in snow. Story contains short pieces of footage of children at various ages, intercut non-chronologically.