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  1. Bronze sculpture of a briefcase with initials R.W. made to honor the memory of Raoul Wallenberg

  2. March of Time -- outtakes -- Lord Vansittart

    Books by Lord Vansittart on sale. EXT and INT of Vansittart's home. Vansittart interviewed. Present: Steve Laird (Time), George Slocombe (head of Anglo-American Press Club), Jacqueline Saix (Time), Mr. Siggall (Lord Vansittart's manager), Jan Jindritch (British War Correspondent), Lady Vansittart. Lord interviewed (several takes). [transcript of speech attached to dope sheet in departmental files] Lord Robert Gilbert Vansittart was a British diplomat, author, and extreme Germanophobe. He was first secretary at the Paris Peace Conference and principal private secretary to Lord Curzon and to ...

  3. Order of the German Eagle medal

    Presentation box with two medals and a sash: Nazi German "Adlerorden" medals; circa 1939-1945. The box is red leather with a gold Nazi emblem. The first medal is gold-colored metal with a white enamel iron cross on a sunburst and 4 Nazi emblems and clasp pin on back. The second medal has a white enamel iron cross, 4 Nazi emblems and a loop on top. The sash is red ribbon with black and white borders. Medal: "a", Medal: "b", Sash: "c", Box: "d"

  4. Ukraine; concentration camps and aftermath

    The following notes are from NCJF documentation: MCU, overhead shot, woman rubbing shoulder of a man who is lying face down on the ground. Pan of hills, pan to bodies in a pit. MCU corpse. Pan across many bodies, side by side, people walking past sign at barracks: "HALT! SEIS MUIDULASEN!" (also in Cyrillic characters). VS, barracks filled with bodies, EXT, bodies stacked like lumber, intermingled with lumber, bodies in various states of decomposition, Russian soldiers walking through areas. EXT, MS, crowd, low angle, men on platform, one is speaking, many flags (not identified) in the crowd...

  5. March of Time -- outtakes -- Sudeten-Deutsche Party in London

    Konrad Henlein, leader of Sudeten Deutshe Partei in London, at a meeting at the Gorling Hotel on Ebury Street. Leaving the hotel for Croydon airport. Shot of Sabena airliner. German Lufthansa airplane with sign board, "London-Amsterdam-Berlin." Henlein entering plane. Shot of airplane leaving. Henlein speaking (before departure) with a German diplomat? (according to the dope sheet, this German refused to provide the name of the March of Time crew; he was apparently of some importance).

  6. Ring

    Ring created for U.S. serviceman by newly liberated prisoner of Dachau.

  7. Book

  8. Golda Meir; Israeli truce; Mid East peace

    Part Two of the event. Meir addresses an assembly in New York. This address was simultaneously broadcast in 19 other US cities via closed circuit TV. The main focus of Meir's speech is the need for the existence of an independent Jewish state and peace in the Middle East. The following people give their closing remarks: Sam Rothberg Abraham Feinberg Story ends abruptly.

  9. March of Time -- outtakes -- Yugoslavia during liberation

    Jeep with Russian officers going through cheering crowd. Yugoslav partisan army. Russian army and partisan leaders, proclamation from stage. Marshall Josip Broz Tito reviewing partisan troops. Allied observers present. Wounded partisans in the parade. Russian tanks through outskirts of Belgrade. Street fighting. Carrying wounded on stretcher. Russian artillery advancing through streets of Belgrade. Prisoners (Germans?) being marched through Belgrade streets. Aerial view of Belgrade.

  10. Bronia Chosid collection

    The Bronia Chosid collection consists of a photograph of Eliash Leib Prous, circa 1930; a photograph of Eliash Leib Porus and his sister before she left for America, in Swencian, Poland, 1928; a Mahzor in Hebrew and Russian which was kept by Bronia Chosid’s brother, who was a partisan.

  11. UJA appeal for refugees overseas needs

    The Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) endorses United Jewish Appeal (UJA) and American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) executives' appeal to bring DPs from Europe to Palestine or to the USA. Footage of liberation of camps. An appeal to raise money for displaced persons. Shows footage of a number of organizers and fundraisers, and speaks of an assembly in Atlantic City, NJ to raise one million dollars. Features founders of the UJA, JDC, United Jewish Fund, etc. Footage of Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg is interspersed with speeches given post war to US audiences.

  12. March of Time -- outtakes -- Brussels during liberation

    Riots in Brussels. Leftist rioting on streets of Brussels, trying to prevent meeting of "Royalists." People, trying to enter Flemish Theater for the meeting, being pushed away and chased by the crowd. Gendarmes stationed along street. 01:03:10 Charles de Gaulle visiting Brussels, with Prince Reginal. Taking to crowd from Royal Palace balcony.

  13. VE Day in Washington, DC

    Downtown traffic on Pennsylvania Avenue, U.S. Congress building, automobile traffic, buses, trolleys, pedestrians. Hotel Washington. WS of the White House, flag at half mast for FDR's death. EXT, the Navy Department and the Department of the Interior. Military and civilians entering building. Pedestrians and street traffic. CU of "Washington Afro-American" newspaper front page title: WAR ENDS IN EUROPE. Front page of "Jewish Journal and Daily News" in Hebrew. Woman at gates of the White House. Group of naval officers and civilians enter Navy Department. DC newsstand with V-E Day headlines.

  14. March of Time -- outtakes -- Liberation of Paris

    Paris Liberation, 1946-1947. FFI men carying stretcher waving Red Cross flag, carrying wounded man. Holding captured Nazi flag. Captured collaborators being marched along by a group of FFI. French young woman having her head shaved. Tearing down German posters. Hitler's picture lying among the rubble in the street. Pan of Notre Dame. Men with machine guns.

  15. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 1 mark note

    1 (eine) mark receipt issued in the Łódź ghetto in Poland in May 1940. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1939; Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and annexed to the German Reich. In February, the Germans forcibly relocated the large Jewish population into a sealed ghetto. All currency was confiscated in exchange for Quittungen [receipts] that could be exchanged only in the ghetto. The scrip was designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] and includes traditional Jewish symbols. The Germans closed the ghetto in the summer of 1944 by deporting the residents to concentration camps or kill...

  16. Book

  17. Berlin street scenes (1936 Olympics)

    Various shots of Berlin street scenes during the 1936 Olympics. Olympic rings, banners. CU, statue. Flags. Sign: "Der Gruessen, Die Gaeste, Der Welt." Olympic rings. Flags. Torch, flame. Flags. Motorcade. Double-decker bus. Decorations erected in Berlin for Olympic ceremonies. Underground subway station. Flags. Putting flags up. Band playing. Crowd. Bicycles. Torch. MCU, street scene. Flags. Shot of street through reflection on automobile headlight. Auto traffic. CU, license plates. CUs, cars moving slowly, shot at street level (tires). Policeman directing traffic. Civilians walking, CUs fe...

  18. VE Day in Germany

    US Army soldiers receiving the news that the war is over (staged). Liberators listening to field radio and learning about the end of the war (staged). Men jumping for joy and drinking liquor. Men removing tarp from supply and covering cannon, writing in white chalk: "7 May 1945 So Long Berlin, Hello Tokyo." In small German town, mayor telling group of women and children that the war is over. People/child walking and bicycling. Refugees and displaced persons carrying belongings and lumber. German farmers working in field. Victory bonfire, pilot in FG drinking liquor. Pilot approaching airpla...

  19. Scrapbook

    Contains a scrapbook titled "Deutschlands Zukunft," and assembled by an admirer of Nazi Germany's military exploits. Contains clippings from newspapers and magazines from 1938 (headed "Die grosse Ereignis am 13.Maerz 1938," in reference to the annexation of Austria) to 1940, with clippings about the Blitzkrieg in Western Europe (invasions of Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium, and France).

  20. Repression of Jews, beating, slave labor; Riga synagogue burning

    Man beaten, pushed around through crowd. German soldier, man pushed into unidentified building. VS, CUs of men's faces. Brief shot of road sign: "Achtung Baustelle". Men with picks, shovels, clearing area. 04:02:30 Subtitles: "Leniwi zydzii" [Lazy Jews] "zostah natychmiast zabrani do roboty" [have been taken immediately to work]. Men getting off trucks and carrying shovels/tools. German soldiers giving orders. Men taking off shirts, looking at camera, continue digging, picking up large rocks and moving them. 04:03:03 Subtitle translation: "Polish population delivers the Jewish 'agents'." Ma...