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  2. Maneuvers in Pottenstein

    Private film: German soldiers in Pottenstein. With German titles. "Wer kommt wohl dort des Weges her? Es ist Oberleutnant Rothe mit seiner Radfahrer.Kompanie" ["Who is coming from there on the way? It is Lieutenant Rothe with his cyclist.Company"] Soldiers on bicycles approach the camera. Soldiers dismount, run into the area, build machine guns. 10:00:40 "MG in Stellung" ....

  3. Poland; Warsaw ghetto

    Officer training course Prien, Chiemsee, chess game, excursion, sunbathing, rowing. 10:05:45 Knight cross holder, igloo building (exercise for Russia), snowball fight with women. 10:16:40 Title: "Poland 1940/41" Horses, Polish village, riders, everyday life, guns, Draw well. 10:24:16 Soldiers with young dogs, eating, riding column, guns, laughing young woman.10:30:00 Medical vehicle, winter, "patch hour", snowfall, hairdresser, market, graves. 10:40:41 Warsaw Ghetto, driving, train station "Warschau-West" sign. 10:42:20 In Mszczonow, Poland, sign "Mszczonow", village, ruins, market, office,...

  4. Wehrmacht basic training

    Wehrmacht soldiers, basic training. With title cards in German.

  5. Russia 1942; POWs; Luftwaffe

    AGFA 8.1942: Russia, population in the market place in Landser, village is on fire. 10:02:30 Landser, burning place in the background, Russian prisoners of war. 10:04:16 heavy gun fires. 10:04:33 soldier on typewriter, advance. 10:06:30 JU 52 in flight. 10:08:39 Air Force: bomb loading, various repairs to machines, bullets in the tail unit. 10:17:00 Paris, usual pictures. 10:22:36 Aerial photos: shadows of the machine on the ground, bomber loading. 10:24:57 train station, RK sisters, flash girls, bomb loading.10:29:08 aircraft in the air, view into flight cabin, pilot and gunner. 10:32:21 P...

  6. Wedding and honeymoon of HJ leader

    Film shows the marriage of HJ leader Friedrich Nowak on July 1, 1939 in Linz, followed by the honeymoon to Rab (F) and a trip with "KDF" to Carinthia. 00:04:08 - 00:15:19 Honeymoon Linz, HJ guide on the island of RAB in Yugoslavia, nude bathing, b / w and color, summer 1939. 00:15:22 - 00:17:37 Ober-Micheldorf. Vacation 1940, beautiful basket stroller, Friedrich Nowak. 00:19:39 - 00:20:03 Ferry across the Weissensee, Carinthia.

  7. Vacationing in Italy, 1929; parade

    Well-dressed woman walks around a manicured sculpture garden. Pan of a large building, terrace and mountains behind. 0:46 Pan of a café terrace; a string ensemble plays, waiters smile for the camera. 1:12 Well-dressed woman walks down the steps of a large building, walks towards the camera. 1:38 Views of a large sculpture, mountains in the distance. Children, group of women walk in front of a guarded fortress. 2:27 Pan of a café terrace, cars, bicycles pass by. Pan of a rooftop pool, women sit, drink at umbrella tables. A group plays in a fountain in the pool. Another pan of the pool. 3:57 ...

  8. Private films of DAF activities

    Contination of RG-60.5394

  9. Visiting Vienna and Budapest; wedding

    With intertitles in English. “Villach- on Austrian Border.” Woman walks around a parked car to the passenger door. 0:16 “Main Street of the Town near the Railway Station.” Busy street with people and carts passing by. 0:32 “On the way to Vienna.” Shot of a train station with sign reading “Judenburg.” 0:48 Shot of a train station with a sign reading “Knittelfeld.” People and a small dog pass in front of the camera. 1:06 “Vienna- The Ringstrasse- Before the Hotel Bristol.” Large Avenue with many people walking by. 1:20 “Some of the Gang Leave Us.” Group of well-dressed people smile and wave t...

  10. Spinning plant; anniversary

    Private films. Agfa 1938. Spinning plant Schründer in Greven, Westphalia - 1938 anniversary elebration of fifty years of the factory. With multi-generational faces, Nazi symbols, children, machines spinning wool. Banner at the factory “1888-1938.”

  11. SA march

    SA men in uniform convene outdoors, speeches, parades

  12. Robert Slack collection

    Consists of 26 original photographs of the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp. Contains images of clothed and unclothed bodies in mass graves, local townspeople forced to move bodies from mass grave sites, and live prisoners in bunks. Taken by Robert Slack during his service with the US Army during WWII.

  13. Selected records of the Court of the First Instance in Skierniewice Sąd Grodzki w Skierniewicach (Sygn.1654)

    Court civil cases related to the custody of children, alimony, repayment of debt and other similar matters. Parties in these lawsuits were Jews, inhabitants of Skierniewice. The files contain personal data about participants of lawsuits.

  14. Selected records of the city Żyrardów Akta miasta Żyrardowa (Sygn. 2)

    This collection contains selected records of the city Żyrardów in Poland, e.g. registers of permanent inhabitants and houses, birth certificates, circular letters and other documents issued by the German authorities (1940-1943); witness testimonies relating to the crimes committed by the Gestapo and gendarmerie; documents relating to the changing of surnames, social welfare in the wartime including a list of victims, and documents of the WWII Committee of the Exhumation of those Murdered by the Nazis.

  15. Life (New York, New York) [Magazine]

    Consists of one "Life" magazine, dated October 19, 1942, containing a poem entitled "The Murder of Lidice" by Edna St. Vincent Millay.

  17. Santa Maria di Leuca DP camp; Jewish family; protesting British policy against immigration

    Quick pan of buildings at Santa Maria di Leuca DP camp, brief shot of two women and a Red Cross truck. Hannah plays with her son in the water at the beach, Moshe walks toward camera holding the baby. Hannah and Menachem play outdoors on a blanket with various toys, headphones. Hannah and another friend (seen in Film ID 4155 at 6:02) make faces for the cameraman. 02:11 City EXTs, building with British flag, plaque/crest in Bari city (note the fountain of Cavour Avenue in later shots). Men in uniform and large crowd of protestors gathered on street. Young people stand on others’ shoulders, ma...

  18. "One in 6,000,000" One Woman's Story of Survival

    Consists of one memoir, 36 pages, entitled, "One in 6,000,000: One Woman's Story of Survival," by Hilde Geisen. In the memoir, she describes her childhood in Cologne; her memories of Nazi persecutions; her failed attempt at immigration to the United States; the deportation of her parents; life in Theresienstadt; post-war life in Deggendorf; and immigration to the United States in 1947. Includes a copy of her identity card and a 2002 portrait.

  19. Kahn family papers

    The collection documents the Kahn family’s experiences in Germany, France, and Switzerland during the Holocaust. The bulk of the collection consists of letters written to Ruth Kahn in Switzerland from her parents Leo and Elfriede Kahn and her sister Marga Kahn in Sulzburg, Germany and internment camps in southern France at Rivesaltes, Gurs and Les Milles. Also included is other correspondence, identification papers, restitution paperwork, immigration documentation, and a photograph album. Biographical material includes Ruth’s birth certificate, a religious school report card, and a registra...

  20. Łódź ghetto document collection

    Correspondence from Chaim Rumkowski, Chairman of the Łódź Ghetto Jewish Council, concering delivery of furniture from company Schultz and Schmitz, dated November 28, 1941 and stamped December 1, 1941, on letterhead from "Der Aelteste der Juden in Litzmannstadt"; Receipt: discharge, stamped September 17, 1941, issued by Friedrich Hoppert [limited partnership] in Litzmannstadt [purpose of this receipt is unclear].