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  1. Hitler youth Austria

    Recordings from a HJ / Jungvolkauf march in the Innkreis in Austria. 00:03:50 - 00:04:02 color: Innkreis 1938 00:05:16 - 00:05:21 filming man 00:06:42 - 00:08:18 color: teasing with girls in dirndls; Soccer game 00:08:24 - 00:09:28 boy runs into the camera 00:09:32 - 00:10:22 railroad

  2. Sardine address label

    Label with pre-printed destination address of Lager Barneveld. One of a set of four Lisbon pre-printed sardine address labels from Gremio dos Exportadores de Conservas de Peixe for registered shipping to different concentration camps including Bergen-Belsen, Lager Barneveld, and Birkenau bei Neubrunn.

  3. Herbert Kline papers

    Correspondence, documents, and photographs, related to the work of American documentary filmmaker Herbert Kline, and in particular his work on films documenting political crises in Europe in the late 1930s and early 1940s, in particular the film "Crisis," which treated the subject of Czechoslovakia during the Sudeten crisis of 1938. Includes scripts, correspondence with film companies, letters of reference, news clippings, and other materials related to the production and distribution of "Crisis," as well as material related to a film about the Spanish Civil War, "Heart of Spain" and a subs...

  4. Prague uprising; American soldiers

    Unassembled Czech newsreel material from the May uprising in Prague. A lone tank in the Old Town Square of Prague. Shots fired, smoke. WS, another tank in the square. Both fire. Jan Hus Memorial Monument in the center of the square. German tanks. Czechs use pickaxes to dig away at the stones in the street for use in barricades. Three men emerge from a car, two in uniform. People continue working away at the sidewalk. Crowds of Czechs at Wenceslas Square. Officers, pistols in hand, lead a man out of a building with his hands raised above his head, loaded into a car. People carrying bags of g...

  5. Nazi officials tour Polish countryside

    German military truck with diamond insignia on city street. License plate reads: WH 701975. Women in luxurious coats and Nazi officials tour Poland, maybe the Tatra mountains with its park headquarters in Zakopane. Frank's wife, Brigitte, wears a fur coat and headscarf. Hans Frank and Brigitte sit indoors and listen to someone speak about a natural spring or flame encircled with iron railing. 01:12:34 Pan of the Polish landscape and a spa village. A friend chases a goat. 01:13:17 Group of Nazi officials (men and women, including Hans and Brigitte Frank) tour outdoors. The man in uniform is ...

  6. Wehrmacht soldiers perform drills

    AGFA 8 1939 Title: “Meine Soldatezeit” Intertitle: “Grußubung” German soldiers perform drills. Intertitle: “Fußdienst.” The men do more exercises. Intertitle: “Gewehrubungen.” They perform drills with their guns. Intertitle: “Nachrichten-dienst.” They stand with a sign with the letter F on it. They use a field telephone. The men in a field. They look at a sheet of paper. The men set up wire lines and use the field telephone. Intertitle: “Bedingungs-schießen mit Karabiner.” A soldier hops. Shooting practice with the Karabiner 98k. Soldiers lay on a wooden table and fire the gun. Intertitle: ...

  7. Nazi architecture in Munich and Berlin, Brandenburg Gate

    Memorial, wreaths, snow, Oberpollinger (a well-known department store in Munich), flower-decorated buses

  8. Trial of Rudolf Slánský Ministerstvo národní bezpečnosti (Ministry of National Security)

    Court proceedings, protocols, letters, photographs from the trial of Rudolf Slánský. On 20 November 1952, Rudolf Slánský, General Secretary of the Communist party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ), and 13 other leading party members, 11 of them Jews, were accused of participating in a Trotskyite-Titoite-Zionist conspiracy and convicted: 11 including Slánský were hanged in Prague on December 3, 1952. The state prosecutor at the trial in Prague was Josef Urválek. Among the accused were two Israelis: Mordechai Oren sentenced to 15 years imprisonment and Mordechai Orenstein convicted to life sentence. Ac...

  9. Polish troops in Kraków

    Polish Troops, SS, Theodor Eicke, Krakau

  10. Swastikas; Boycott of Jewish shops; Parade; Nazi soldiers

    Intertitles: “W L Film- Nr. 3.” “Leipziger Fahresschau,” “Ein Bild-Bericht von Walther Lenger,” “Camera…. Bearbeitung Walther Lenger Projektor….” “1933,” “März 1933: Sieg der nationalen Revolution: Schwarz-weiss-rote Fahnen und Hakenkreuz-Banner wehen überall.” Shot of a grid of Hakenkreuz side by side. A Nazi flag flies in the street. Then the flag of Germany. Flags fly from buildings in Leipzig. A woman eats a spoonful of something. 10:19:16 Intertitle: “1. April 1933. Boykott. Jüdischer Geschafte.” A newspaper reads, “Boykott! Wir Kampfen, bis Juda kapituliert!” There is a cartoon that s...

  11. Feder family photograph collection

    Photographic prints illustrating the experiences of Chaim and Luba Feder (donor's parents) in Chelm and Kowel, Poland before and during the second World War and in Lampertheim displaced persons camp in Germany after the war. Photographs include Chaim's first wife Esther and their two sons, Moniek (b. 1937) and Shimek (b. 1935), all of whom did not survive the Holocaust. Also included are images of Luba's immediate family in Chelm who also did not survive. Chaim and Luba who met during the war in Chelm, were married in 1944, and in 1946 moved to Lampertheim DP camp in Germany.

  12. stamped envelope

    Stamped airmail envelope sent to Mr. Kurt L. Levy at Internment Camp "N", Ottowa, Canada. The return address is in Bogota, Columbia and the sender is named Wallenberg. The envelope includes 3 stamps. The envelope is postmarked 13 May 1941.

  13. De Kadt children; train station; canal locks

    Quick shots of a woman walking away from the camera, baby, a man working on railroad tracks, Sonja carrying Willie in a crowd of people, a house from across a set of railroad tracks, while a train passes; 01:00:54 a road sign reads "Laag Soeren" (a village 140 km away from the de Kadt family home in Schoorl); 01:01:27 a large group of adults, including Sonja and Louis de Kadt, wait for a train, walk together on a country road in winter; a male adult pulling a stroller does an imitation of a goose-step; good CUs; hotel; 01:04:14 a group portrait including two strollers; Sonja's younger siste...

  14. Concentration camp correspondence collection

    Contains three letters written by prisoners of the Auschwitz, Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camp.

  15. Wehrmacht advances in Poland

    AGFA 8 1941. Eastern front. Pan down building, with sign in Cyrillic, brief INTS. Sign: Ukrainian public school in Wroblin Krowleski. Sign for "Rymanow" Soldier poses by sign, "Posada dolna Kreishaupt m. Sanok District-Krakau" . German soldiers greet cameraman, walk along road with rifles. Aerial shots of countryside, looking through binoculars. Soldiers bathe (brief). Perform a drill at camp. 10:27:08 Sign on barracks: "Juden u. Polen Eintritt verboten!" Woman & man pose in doorway of hut. Man plays accordion. Graves. More of the pastoral Polish countryside. Very brief shot of Jewish g...

  16. German soldiers and young women in occupied Paris

    Queues in front of stores, Paris, street views, villa

  17. County Command of the State Police in Będzin Komenda Powiatowa Policji Państwowej w Będzinie (Sygn. 1046)

    Various police reports, lists of criminals, reports of officers and police informants concerning political, social and professional organizations, security of the city, unemployment and crime.

  18. Guggenheim and Smali families papers

    The Guggenheim and Smali families papers consist of correspondence, memoirs, photographs, and a receipt documenting the Guggenheim family from Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and the Smali family from Merkinė, Lithuania. Correspondence includes a letter written by Malka Pugacka Smali from a Cyprus detention camp in 1947 describing a scene she witnessed in the Kovno ghetto in 1942 in which a little girl’s grandmother suggested miracles were still possible. The memoirs were written by Malka Pugacka Smali between the 1950s and 1980s and describe life in Lithuania, the Kovno ghetto, and her immigra...

  19. Soccer in Vienna

    Soccer match at Wiener Stadion. March 19, 1939 Austria wins against Rapid 4:2. Procession with marching band. Crowds.

  20. Nordhausen liberation photographs

    Contains photographs dated April 12-13, 1945, showing the Nordhausen concentration camp shortly after liberation by American troops. Includes two images of the dead laid out, rows of corpses lie outside the central barracks (Boelke Kaserne) in the Nordhausen camp where German civilians were then forced by American forces to bury the victims.