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  1. Surrendering to the Germans; burying German soldiers

    Reel 2: 00:04:23 Quick CU of a German soldier firing a rifle. German military trucks traveling through a village. Panning shot of locals standing outside village buildings. CU of a three-striped flag atop a flagpole in the middle of a large plaza surrounded by small buildings; German military vehicles enter the plaza. Soviet soldiers approaching the Germans on horseback waving a large white flag; Russians are surrounded by a group of German soldiers. Pan of a wooden bridge; a soldier swings a rifle (cuts out). Reel 3: 00:05:27 (Repeat in RG-60.4262) Shots of buildings on fire in the distanc...

  3. Signet ring with an engraving of the Łódź ghetto bridge owned by a ghetto resident

    Ring with his initials given to Jerzyk Wajnberg for his 18th birthday in the Łódź ghetto. It is engraved with an image of one of the two bridges that joined the three sections of the ghetto. The sections were created by the fenced intersection of two major roads that crossed through the ghetto. The bridges were needed for the inhabitants to travel between sections, as they were not permitted on the roads. Jerzyk,his parents, Julian and Regina, and his sister, Joanna, became residents of the ghetto in December 1939, when the Germans, who occupied Poland in September, evicted them from their ...

  4. Records of the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

    Collection contains political reports, memoranda, general correspondence, records pertaining to legal, consular, general travel, repatriation, citizenship, charity, deportation, property, real estate, and miscellaneous personal issues, concerning arrested and interned individuals, and requests for information. The documents were created by the general offices and the Legal Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Külügyminisztʹerium), and the Hungarian Embassies in Berlin, Brussels, Rome, Vichy, the Vatican, Washington DC, Bern, and the Hungarian Consulate in Amsterdam.

  5. Album

    Adolf Hitler - Bilder aus dem Leben des Führers [Adolf Hitler - Pictures of the Life of the Führer), a cigarette card album with 188 b&w and colored colored mounted cards, an encomium by Hermann Goering; text by Joseph Goebbels and others. Cigarette cards were a popular collectible item in Germany beginning about 1920. Large albums with text, but no pictures, were published for each series and the cards were collected to be added as illustrations. The album for this series has text and photo captions that tell the story of Hitler's life from birth in 1899, to his 1933 appointment as Cha...

  6. US Army and Navy chaplains perform Passover Seder

    Continuation of Story 4376. Members of the US Army and Navy celebrate Passover, perhaps in Hawaii (the originating unit is the 7th Hawaii). A woman identified in the NARA storycard as Mrs. Linczer lights candles. An Army and a Navy chaplain stand beside her. Officers and chaplains perform the ceremony. A view of the crowded hall. A slate identifies the cameraman as Sgt. Shivers and reads: "Jewish Passover APO 953 7th CCU 4-7-44." More shots of the ceremony. The participants seem very aware of the camera. Close-up shots of wine being poured, lit candles. Overhead shots of sailor and soldiers...

  7. Captured high-ranking Nazis, including Goering, Galland, Kesselring, Bodenschatz

    An American military truck carrying several high-ranking German officers arrives at an airfield. The officers get out of the truck and board a C-47 plane. Good shots but it is difficult to see their faces. The plane taxis and takes off. Shot of the sky and a formation of B-17s overhead. Sign beside a road lines with trees reads: "Only Road Surface Cleared of Mines." Two young women walk their bicycles down the road as American military vehicles drive by. An American interrogator stands beside a German general. Close-ups of the general. 01:15:47 Luftwaffe general Adolf Galland is shown on th...

  9. Resistance - women of the FFI (French Forces of the Interior)

    Two women of the Forces Francaises de l'interieur (French Forces of the Interior or FFI). One of them wears a badge bearing the double-barred cross that was the symbol of the French resistance. The camera pulls back to reveal several men in the room The FFI was a confederation of French resistance organizations.

  11. Radio broadcasting; propaganda; German home front

    Various radio programs being broadcast in Berlin. An announcer (perhaps Heinz Goedecke?) wishes citizen Heinrich Schultz a happy 90th birthday; a group of children performs songs; an outdoor concert featuring a harmonica player and other musicians; women wearing native costume singing. The first scene, which does not appear in the USHMM excerpt, shows a man entering a restaurant and speaking to a group of older men about the benefits of listening to the radio, as a way to strengthen the community (?). The last scene shows one of the older men asking to have the radio turned back on, as the ...

  13. Jakub Poznanski papers

    The papers consist of three diaries written by Jakub Poznański in the ghetto in Łódź, Poland, between 1943 and 1945.

  15. US Army and Navy chaplains perform Passover Seder

    Members of the US Army and Navy celebrate Passover, perhaps in Hawaii (the originating unit is the 7th Hawaii). A woman identified in the NARA storycard as Mrs. Linczer lights candles. An Army and a Navy chaplain stand beside her. An overhead shot shows two sailors reading the Haggadah. More shots of the ceremony and of the wall behind the participants, on which is written, "Passover Greetings." Mrs. Linczer and a man identified as Mr. Jacobs of the Jewish Welfare Board join several officers and the chaplain in singing Kaddish. A panning shot of the crowded hall, with sailors and soldiers s...

  16. Drawing

  17. Drawing

  20. Book, "Festschrift fur Walter Hubner"

    Book published by Erich Schmidt Verlag.