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  1. Family home movies of Germany; election poster; boat ride

    1936-1938. Handwritten intertitles. “Der neue Mantel fuer….” Women exit clothing shop with a shopping bag. “Hoppegarten” Horses race around track. Woman with glasses with an umbrella. “beim Da X.” Women with still picture camera. Woman with fur looks on the water with binoculars. Women sit at table on a balcony, CUs. Garden walkway. Sailboats and rowers. Hitler Youth on waterfront. Group of three walks along path, eat. Slow motion of a young man hopping over a wheelbarrow. INT, CUs, man eating. INT, chocolate shop. Pet bird in a cage. Nazi soldier stands next to election poster of Adolf Hit...

  2. Selected Records of the County Starosty in Stopnica Starostwo Powiatowe w Stopnicy (Sygn. 735)

    Files concerning the looting of the property of Żabiec-Muchówka owned by Fiszel Abramowicz, and files relating to Jewish associations and election to the Senate, 1927-1938.

  3. Nazi officials at the Große Deutsche Kunstausstellung (color)

    AGFA 1940. Officials gather outside the Haus der Deutschen Kunst in Munich for the Große Deutsche Kunstausstellung [Great German Art Exhibition] which took place from July 16 to October 15, 1939. 00:02:06 Otto Nippold, NSDAP Gauleiter in München-Oberbayern, smiling, before other officials in uniform. Gauleiter Adolf Wagner (in brown uniform at 00:02:16) gestures and speaks with other officials, woman in flowered dress and hat. Spectators gather for the occasion. Nippold walks on red carpet. 00:02:40 Nippold with NSKK-Obergruppenfuehrer Helmuth Oldenbourg (in brown uniform), Fuehrer of Motor...

  4. SS Police in France

    SS-Polizei-Verband [SS Police Association] in France, Paris, various private recordings "Leben als Besatzungsmacht" [Life as Occupying Power], arrest operation. Brief color sequence at 01:04:00.

  5. British and Americans in Tunisia; Sinking of the French Fleet at Mers el Kebir; Return to the US

    War in North Africa, combat scenes, parade for Eisenhower, German and Italian prisoners of war

  6. Koenig family papers

    The Koenig family papers primarily contain letters to Anna Sobel and Max Koenig from the Koenig family in Pasieczna, Poland (now Pasichna, Ukraine) and the Sobel family in Sołotwina, Poland (now Solotvyn, Ukraine). Also included are wedding and bris invitations of Max and Anna, and emigration instructions from the American Consulate in Poland.

  7. Morris and Hanna Fall collection

    Documents, photographs, and correspondence illustrating the Fajwlewicz [Fall] family in Łódź and Kalisz, Poland, later in Russia and Kyrgyzstan, then postwar in Germany.

  8. Gen. Elster surrenders

    German Major General Erich Elster walks forward with two officers by his side. The translator beside him salutes. Six German officers line up behind them. Elster and the two men walk forward, facing three US officers. Elster and US Major General Rob Macon salute each other. Elster surrenders, in German, with his hand raised. He takes out his gun and presents it to Macon. Macon stands with the gun in his hand. The translator relays Elster’s words: “...under the circumstances of war, the command over that of his march group, he saw fit to withdraw certain combat elements which were capable of...

  9. Trip to Italy

    AGFA 1940. Family comes out of the house, suitcases, cars. Cathedral in Münster. Snowy mountains, Dolomites? Florence, swing over the city. Ponte Vecchino, bridge over the Arno. Tower of Palazzo Vecchio. Santa Maria Novella. Hill on Florence. Cathedral. Mount Vesuvius. Pompeii. Roman ruins. 10:03:36 Gulf of Naples, fisherman sitting at the harbor, boats ashore and in the water, talking, mending net. Little girl. Fishermen feed a net. Street scenes, overlooking the Gulf of Naples. Roman ruins. Men sit and stand in front of a church wall, noon, siesta. Donkey with cart, picturesque alley, han...

  10. German soldiers in Germany

    With German intertitles. Scenes filmed by Lieutenant Edgar Forsberg of the 257 German Infantry following the collapse of the Polish army on October 6, 1939. "Mit dem Stab der 257. Inf. Div. im Krieg (schwarzweiss film)” “Tankabwehr an der Strasse Einod-Gersheim nordl. Von Webenheim” Trucks driving. A tank is buried into the side of a hill. “Offene Feuerstellung einer 10 cm Kanonenbatterie Nordausgang Herbitzheim.” A cannon at the base of a tree in a field. “Auf der landstrasse im Bliestal.” A soldier gets into a car on the road. “Gesprengte Eisenbahnbrucke bei Breitfurt.” A soldier walks ac...

  11. Oral history interview with Joseph Weismann

  12. Deutsches Gericht Żyrardόw Sąd Niemiecki w Żyrardowie (Sygn.1662)

    Selected records of the German Court (Deutsches Gericht) Żyrardόw, related to criminal and civil cases during the German occupation of that region of Poland during World War II. The records include penal warrants, warrants of payments, as well as letters from criminal and civil cases. Most of the cases refer to: common offenses (theft, plunder), and "crimes” or offenses against German ordinances, as well as divorces, and financial claims (please note the cases on behalf of the pre-war companies by German trustees (Treuhänders). In the case of the Poles there cases referred to: crossing the ...

  13. Plesser family collection

    Contains correspondence from Mendel and Perla Pepi Plesser in Hamburg Altona, the Zbąszyń area for expelled Polish citizens, and later in Stanisławów, addressed to their children Klara (b. December 14, 1921 [donor's mother]) and Oskar (b. May 29, 1920 [donor's maternal uncle]), who had arrived in the US on August 22, 1938.

  14. Frank family relaxes at Schoberhof

    In summer, the Frank children and mother Brigitte relax at their vacation home at Schoberhof. Brigitte consoles her son, Michael. Nanny reads book to the child Brigitte. Young Niklas in checkered-trim smokes a cigarette. Short scene where young women don furs on the porch with a uniformed German. These are two friends of Brigitte, including a Hungarian countess (Noell?) on the right. 02:04:47 The Frank children and others from the neighborhood wear traditional German attire and pose for the camera. Boys dress as "Cowboys and Indians" possibly for Fasching [could relate to a later scene at 0...

  15. Labor Court in Warsaw Sąd Pracy w Warszawie (Sygn.1944)

    Selected court record of cases from the Labor Court of Warsaw, Poland, related to payments of compensation for work, unused leave, disability pensions, etc. The records relate to everyday life and working conditions of Jews in Poland prior to 1939; Records also contain personal data of applicants.

  16. Iteld family papers

    The collection contains correspondence, identification and immigration papers, and photographs documenting the Iteld family’s pre-war life in Brańsk, Poland, and their immigration to the United States in 1938. Included are immigration cards and documents, an autograph book, passport, and a day planner from 1938. Also included are prewar and wartime photographs documenting the Iteld and Shereshefsky families in Brańsk and the United States. Many of the photographs are annotated on the back with identifications of relatives and friends.

  17. John (Hans) Buchsbaum papers

    Correspondence, documents, photographs, and typescript memoir, of John (Hans) Buchsbaum (1910-1988), originally of Ostrava, Czech Republic, relating primarily to his experiences following his immigration to first Britain, and then the United States in 1939-1941, and to the experiences of his family in Europe during the Holocaust. Includes correspondence from his mother, Clara Buchsbaum, his sister and brother-in-law, Gretel and Hugo Spitzer, and his uncle, Norbert Babad, 1939-1941. Also included are pre-war family photographs, correspondence with tracing services following the war seeking t...

  18. Pogrom in Zloczow, July 1941

    Brief panning shot of water and the shore. The next scenes show the Zloczow pogrom, which took place from July 1 - 4, 1941. Before the Soviets retreated from Zloczow, the NKVD murdered several hundred civilians at Zamek prison. Many of those killed were Ukrainian nationalists, but some Jews and Poles were also murdered. The bodies were buried in four mass graves. After the Germans occupied Zloczow, the Jews were blamed for the murders and a pogrom ensued. Corpses litter a muddy, grassy area. These are most likely the bodies of those murdered by the NKVD. A crowd of bystanders, including bot...

  19. Adolf Hitler visiting the Bayreuth Festival in 1933

    Hitler, Festival, SS Attendants, policeman, visitors, girl, cherry tree

  20. Oral history interview with Oscar Cukierman