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  1. Paramount Newsreel, Year 1945, Issue 32 (part)

    Execution by firing squad of Anton Dostler for ordering the execution of 15 OSS men, without trial.

  2. Teheran Conference

    An American serviceman holds a slate that identifies the cameraman as Daniel and the date as November 30, 1943. US Army and Naval officers enter and exit a brick building guarded by MP's. The building appears to be part of a US military compound in the desert. 01:53:28 Soviet soldiers drill on the grounds of the Soviet embassy, where the Teheran conference was held. American miltiary cameramen film them. Shots of Joseph Stalin posing for the cameras with other conference participants. This material does not correspond to the description on the NARA story card.

  3. Barbie Trial -- Day 5 -- Discussion of Gestapo hierarchy in France

    14:55 Barbie's lawyer, Vergès, argues that the court has overridden France's judicial traditions in the trial so far, and that using force to make him appear in court would reduce the trial to a lynching 15:00 President Cerdini calls for a recess to deliberate 15:34 President Cerdini reads a decision noting the refusal of Klaus Barbie to appear in court and indicating that this will be ignored in the proceedings; reads a motion receiving the testimony of plaintiff Vogel, née Eissner 15:38 Prosecution lawyer Rappaport gives information concerning the recent desecration of a monument erected ...

  4. Drawing

  5. Barbie Trial -- Day 16 -- Two witnesses and a civil party testify

    14:57 the Attorney General asks the witness, Mrs. Vansteenberghe, to discuss her husband's mission within the Resistance, which was to follow Barbie 14:57 Prosecutor Iannucci asks the witness to describe the execution of Resistance members after the last transport, on August 11, 1944 15:00 Prosecutor Zelmati comments on the particularity of Barbie's pinky finger, and asks President Cerdini to circulate a photograph of Barbie to the jurors 15:07 Prosecutor Zelmati asks President Cerdini to circulate a group of photographs of the Montluc prison, which demonstrate the witness' view of the hall...

  6. German 50 pfennig scrip

  7. Barbie Trial -- Day 1 -- Deportation of French resistance

    19:00 The clerk tells the court of the deportation of Jewish Resistance fighters on a train on August 8, 1944 by Barbie.

  8. Records of the Jewish community of Belgrade (Fond 494, Opis 1)

    This collection contains bylaws, programs, circular letters, financial reports, membership lists, and other documents of the Jewish community of Belgrade. The bulk consists of annual reports and correspondence with local and worldwide Jewish communities and organizations.

  9. Letters of Jewish writer Isaak Nukhimovich Kipnis from Gulag

    Consist of 62 letters written by Isaak Kipnis to his relatives from a gulag in 1952-1953 as well as appeals to the Soviet government and judicial authorities to review his case. The correspondence provides information about his imprisonment, describes circumstances of Kipnis’s arrest and attempts of his relatives to free him from the imprisonment.

  10. German 50 pfennig scrip

  11. German troops clear snow and repair vehicle

    Reel 3 German soldiers working in a blizzard; shoveling snow, driving a car, standing guard. Soldiers shoveling snow into the back of a truck for removal. German soldiers in white gear unloading shells off a wagon. An 8.8 cm flack gun mounted on a train fires. German vehicles parked in between large piles of snow. CU of a sign reading "Einheit Büttel" (Unit Jail). Man working on the engine of a military car, others attaching a fender. A covered military truck plows a road. Panning shots of jumbled telephone lines wrapped around a tree and running to the eaves of a house.

  13. Barbie Trial -- Day 8 -- Three civil parties give testimony relating to the UGIF raid

    14:54 The witness, Michel Cojot Goldberg, explains the motivation for his trip to Bolivia in 1975, in which he planned to assassinate Barbie but found himself incapable of pulling the trigger; he describes meeting Barbie and talking to him 15:03 Prosecutor Klarsfeld asks the witness why he did not kill Barbie when he had the chance; the witness explains that the service to France would be greater were Barbie forced to stand trial 15:07 Defense attorney Vergès asks the witness how he learned about the Izieu raid, and the witness replies that he will not reply to the defense's questions as lo...

  14. Fighting on the Russian front; Lvov; work detail

    Reel 4: 00:00:00 Lvov. Street scenes with civilians, smoke in sky. Tanks in the street, soldiers and civilians walking around. Camera pans across a large apartment building with all the windows broken. People walk in the park with a smoke coming from a building in the background. A large crowd of civilians clap and wave in front of the city hall (Rathaus), a swastika banner is draped from the balcony. Reel 7: 00:00:54 German officers in a field discuss over a map, CU. One has a bandage on his face. Edelweiss insignia can be seen on sleeves. Shot of a radio operator in a truck. Reel 8: 00:02...

  15. Cohen family photograph collection

    The collection consists of seven photographs taken by Bina Cohen Spielman's father in Warsaw, Poland, before World War II and documents the experiences of the Cohen family before the Holocaust.

  17. U.S. military police; soldiers; wreath-laying

    MS, Military Police in uniform, in formation, most likely American MPs. MS, African (possibly French West African Colonial) troops in formation. Uniform is light colored shirt, dark shorts and hat. All soldiers are carrying weapons. Banners, flags (unidentifiable in footage), military parade, procession, wreaths are laid at the foot of a large stone monument/memorial. Marching bands pass by many civilian bystanders.

  18. Barbie Trial -- Day 15 -- Two civil parties testify

    15:57 Prosecutor Libman asks that photographs of the monument to the children of Izieu near Brégnier-Cordon, to which the witness, Mr. Robert Meriaudeau, had referred, be circulated to the jurors 16:00 President Cerdini calls a civil party, Alexandre Halaunbrenner, to testify; the civil party presents himself to the court 16:02 The witness recounts his family's arrest and internment at the Nexon, Rivesaltes, and Gurs camps; his father was separated from the family in a separate work camp; the family was liberated under surveillance in the region of Lyon, and Gestapo members came to the fami...

  19. Hakman family papers

    Consists of documentation regarding the Holocaust experiences of Mieczyslav Hakman and his wife, Helen Wachsberg Hakman. Includes identity cards for Ruchla Akierman and Mieczyslav Hakman, wartime and post-war photographs of Mieczyslav Hakman and postcards to Hela Sara Wachsberg in the Parsznitz work camp.

  20. Washington, DC newspapers collection

    Collection of front pages of Washington, DC, newspapers. primarily the Washington Post and the Sundar Star, from 1939 to 1945 featuring headlines related to World War II.