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  1. Dora Hass papers

    Contains sixteen original certificates including a false Aryan identification card, birth and police registrations, displaced persons papers, INS green cards, one copy of daughter's birth certificate, eighty-one black and white photographs of pre-war and wartime life and of the Lampertheim Displaced Persons camp, and three pieces of Displaced Persons camp scrip.

  2. Eric Berryman collection

    Includes one letter relating to an idea for a book publication and a wedding invitation from one of Shalom Steinbach's children. The letter was sent to Dr. Eric Berryman by the publisher, Stefan Grunwald, on September 9, 1985.

  3. Polish Army parade in Warsaw

    Short clip of a large military procession of Polish troops, including cannons, horses, etc. down a main street in Warsaw.

  4. German anthropological expedition to Tibet

    "Ein Filmdokument der Schaefer-Expedition, 1938/39." Sound track added in 1942, with racial content stressed. Terrain/map. "Tibet / Indien" Dr. Karl Wienert, hand measurements. 00:04:52 to 00:05:01Measuring woman's head. Dr. Bruno Beger, "Die menschen Rasse des Forschungs..." Cameraman. Terrain, model, map, Ganges. 00:06:21 Scenes, streets, Calcutta (very good). Train to the base of the Himalayas.00:07:23 Intro the wonders and dangers of flora, fauna. Mules, men on the move. Bridge over river. Dangers of the wild river monsoons, whitewater. Mules over narrow wooden bridge across, fixing bri...

  5. Rosette Teitel collection

    Collection of photographs, documents, and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Rosette Teitel and her family before the war, during the Holocaust in France, and immediately after the war.

  6. Get to know your Grandpa

    Contains a narrative about Yochanan Dreifuss that concerns the efforts of a German high office who asssisted the author's parents escape from Vienna and his father's release from the Buchenwald concentration camp.

  7. Heinrich Himmler identification card

    Contains a student identification card for Heinrich Himmler (later Reichsfuhrer-SS Himmler) from the University of Munich, where he was enrolled from fall semester 1922 through fall semester 1924, studying political science. The identification card includes picture and signature.

  8. Helena Bisicka family photographs

    Contains Bisicka family photographs as well as a photograph of Augusta Reiterova working in Terezin.

  9. Degenerate Art Exhibit [Entartete Kunst] in Munich, 1937

    Sequence of outtakes. INTs of the 1937 Munich exhibition of "Degenerate Art" [Entartete Kunst] in the Archaeological Institute, not far from the house of German Art. Visitors inside the exhibition are seen looking at art in Room 3, including Otto Dix's "War Cripples" on the north wall (CU). Paintings and sculptures located on the west and south walls of Room 3 are also shown. Views of visitors and the art exhibited are to some extent different from that seen on Nazi Germany reels at the Library of Congress.

  10. Rommel at El Alamein

    Graphic of a map, labeled "Afrika". The narrator states: "On the Egyptian front." Panning shot of desert, showing a soldier on watch at the Qattara Depression, near El Alamein. Rommel giving orders to another officer, surrounded by soldiers. They peer through binoculars and consult a map. The narrator states that the defense of El Alamein is being discussed in detail. Italian and German paratroopers are shown carrying equipment across the desert. They are shown setting up and shooting guns and skirmishing with British troops, some of whom are captured in their trenches. German tanks during ...

  11. German Fighter Airplanes

    German "Kampf und Jagd Flugzeuge" [combat and fighter airplanes] on a snow-covered airfield. German troops repair planes and shovel snow from the airfield, even as snow continues to fall. A German in a flight suit tries to warm himself by waving his arms and blowing on his hands. Men load bombs onto the planes. A large bomb is pulled on a sled across the field and then loaded onto a plane. The engines are warmed before takeoff, using a large tube shaped vent. Shots of different types of planes taking off and in the air. The pilot and copilot in the cockpit. Down below are dark tracks in the...

  12. Crimea

    Map of the Crimea. German soldiers in the devastated city of Jevpatorija, where houses and other buildings have been destroyed. Fires still burn in the background as the Germans reconnoiter. Explosions and sniper fire. Germans fire a howitzer and toss grenades. They climb onto the tiled roof of one of the houses. A group of Soviets surrender. German soldiers toss a grenade into the basement of a structure; an injured man tries to crawl out of the building a moment later. More capture of Soviets. Pan across a group of them standing next to a wall, their arms raised.

  13. Buchenwald report

    Contains one two-page newsletter, published September 2, 1938, for Yedioth Hayom in Tel Aviv, with an anonymous report about the conditions in the Buchenwald concentration camp. The information in the article was gleaned from a former prisoner of the camp and gives the location, makeup, and atmosphere of the camp.

  14. Immediate aftermath of the German invasion of Poland

    INT, broken windows and broken glass. Men outside shovel the glass from the windows of the American Consulate. Soldiers walk by the camera in city. Women milk a cow on the side of the street. Debris from destroyed buildings. People, refugees, destroyed buildings in Warsaw. A crowd surrounds a vehicle. CU, license plate. A plane in the sky. Destroyed American Consulate building, and other bombed buildings.

  15. Krakow Jewish district, pre-war; below Wawel Castle

    Titles: At the foot of Wawel Castle. Very brief glimpse of Orthodox Jews walking past.

  16. Workers building the Pilsudski mound near Krakow, Poland

    VS of Polish workers building the Pilsudski mound. The mound was completed in 1937 to honor Jozef Pilsudski.

  17. Łódź Ghetto grave marker for a Jewish woman recovered by her daughter

    Engraved marker for the grave of Chaja Gitla Fortunska recovered in Łódź, Poland, after the war by her daughter Alicja Dworzecka. On January 28, 1943, Chaja, 55, was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Łódź Ghetto, having passed away after unsuccessful intestinal surgery at the ghetto hospital. Chaja, husband Jankiel, children Dawid, Alicja, and Moniek, with their spouses, were residents of Łódź, which was occupied by Germany in September 1939. Many punitive restrictions were placed on the Jewish populace, including forced labor and confiscation of property. Jews were interned in a ghetto whic...

  18. Ella Lieberman Shiber artwork photographs

    Contains photogaphs of original drawings made by Ella Lieberman Shiber after her liberation in 1945 and immigration to Israel in April 1948. The 93 original drawings were donated by the artist to the Ghetto Fighters House Museum in Israel.

  19. Poles in apartment

    INT of apartment, clothing hanging on coat rack. Girl kisses mother, boy kisses mother, sick child in bed, CUs. Girl with kitten. Older man cleaning tile floor.

  20. Postwar Poland

    A partially edited film sequence about a Polish family in postwar conditions. INT A young boy picking up and arranging his school books. CU Boy doing school work. Man (the father?) enters the room and shows a box to the boy, boy shadow boxes, man takes boy by the ear and they leave together. CU Boy shadow boxing as man pinches his ear. CU Man speaking. In the kitchen, a woman (the mother?) lights the stove, the man enters and she passes him a bucket as he leaves. Two boys run down stairs, pick up and open the box, then leave through a doorway. CU Two boys opening the box. CU Cigarettes insi...