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  1. Surrender of General Elster; US infantry in France, Belgium, Maastricht, Netherlands.

    General Major Botho Elster studies a map with a French Lieutenant Colonel. Accompanied by other high-ranking officers, Elster bids farewell to some of his troops in a wooded area. He salutes, speaks to the men, and shakes their hands. On September 16, 1944, on the Loire bridge in Beaugency, France, Elster capitulated and handed over 19,500 men to the French. He did so without permission from his superiors, for which he was sentenced to death in absentia by a Nazi court. 01:01:37 US infantry patrols in France. Soldiers walk along devastated, empty streets. A tank rolls down the street. A med...

  2. Surrender of military and civilians in Engers and Germersheim

    (LIB 4671) American military activities in Engers, Germany. A soldier directs half-track tanks down the center of town. A German civilian wearing a white armband reads a proclamation while standing astride a bicycle. Soldiers and civilians are visible in the background. German soldiers or Hitler Youth surrendering. 01:54:22 Quality improves. Slate indicates that the date is March 25, 1945 and the cameraman is named Urban. American soldiers walk through the streets of Engers. Nice shots of an American soldier searching Germans. A First Lieutenant swears in two enlisted men as Second Lieutena...

  3. The surrender of the Dachau KZ prisoner compound, 29 April 1945: a compilation of documents and photographs

    Donor's purpose "is to provide documents to challenge the Sparks Scenario and to set the record straight." Last part of this collection is research conducted at National Archives by Arthur Lee, Jr., and Sol Feingold. Part B is selected material from BG H. Linden.

  4. Surrendered German soldiers; DPs; Liberation in Prague and Pilsen

    Displaced and surrendered German soldiers camping in a field at the time of liberation in early May 1945. Pan from road, column of surrendered troops resting. DPs washing up in a stream, traffic moving in BG. Pan from clothing to men redressing. CU, German officers. VCU, elderly German officer. MS crowds of German civilians in field -- they were picked up by American troops and are families of Nazi prisoners in Czechoslovakia. CU, crowd standing around. Approaching water truck. MS, standing in line for bread. CU, German woman and baby. CU, elder Germans. MS, American GI frisking Nazi soldie...

  5. Surrendering German troops

    MLS, German prisoners, closer shots. MS, tanks/jeeps moving down road, probably the surrender of the XI Panzer Division (and other German units) on May 4 and the days immediately following. The XI Panzer Division was a Wehrmacht unit. German prisoners stand beside road, start marching. CU, destroyed German weapons. Pan up to column of trucks of surrendering Germans. MS, German civilians standing around. CU sign: "Limit of Advance - All US Troops." CU, German general near tank. German prisoners on trucks pass by, GI directs route of surrender. MS trucks with dead German prisoners pass throug...

  6. 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...

  7. Surveillance of Zionists in Romania

    Contains records relating to the surveillance of Zionists in Romania.

  8. Survey of attitudes among Romanian students regarding the Holocaust

    Consists of a sociological survey of the attitudes of contemporary Romanian grade school students to the Holocaust along with pedagogical responses.

  9. Survival oral history, 1933-1945

  11. Surviving hell by Holocaust survivor Livia Szamosi (aka Lili Pollak/Lili Spielberger)

    Contains her typewritten memoir describing conditions in the ghetto in Budapest, Hungary; her escape from the ghetto first to a Catholic school where priests were sheltering several otherJews in the basement and later to friends' homes; the Soviet occupation of Budapest; and her reunions with family and friends. Lists of relatives and friends who perished during the Holocaust are included.

  12. The survivor as researcher

    Describes how Greenfield learned the fates of her mother and of 1,196 Jewish children and their adult guardians from Białystok, Poland, who were transported from Theresienstadt and gassed in Auschwitz on 7 October 1943. Includes a name list of those on the transport, excerpts of testimonies, photographs, and letters.

  13. Survivor testimonies relating to slave labor

    Contains 42,000 documents, including 25,000 accounts by Holocaust survivors of Jewish slave labor in ghettos and camps.All these survivors have been registered with The Institute of Documentation between 1970-1985 in Haifa,Israel.

  15. Survivors among us

    This edited program contains excerpts from testimonies of survivors living in the Hartford, Connecticut area, organized around the themes of "Early Memories," "The Camps," and "Resistance."

  16. Survivors among us

    Excerpts from testimonies of survivors living in the Boston, Massachusetts area.

  17. Survivors and corpses at Buchenwald

    Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Germany, 1945. LSs, civilians kicking German soldier. MSs, civilians breaking windows in building. Camera (on automobile) traveling through outskirts town, passing people with bags, cart. In town, crowd on sidewalk, looting? store. MS, survivors in square. MSs, CUs, furnace doors being opened in crematorium showing remains of bodies not wholly consumed by fire. Demonstrating oven "tray." Pan, survivor with three ovens/crematoria in BG. Corpses on cart, in truck. CU, "Jedem das Seine" gate closing. Men circled around corpse, taking hats off. MSs, CUs, emaciated...

  18. Survivors arrive in US

    News Film - The Week in Film: Arrival in the US of citizens coming from concentration camps who lost their homes in Europe.

  19. Survivors at Dachau; service

    (LIB 6520) Male survivor attempts to hold up a deceased man to the camera. 00:15 They move his body across the room. Other survivors lying down, looking. 00:41 Male survivors lying on the floor, filling the barrack, with blankets, looking at the camera. 00:54 CUs of five different men silently looking at the camera, not moving. 01:29 Cleaning process: Men stand in the BG in line for washing. Man with an amputated leg leans on a walking stick, zips up his pants. 01:43 Men washing each other with the hose. 01:53 CU of the water hose reel. 01:58 A soldier puts powdered soap from buckets in a d...

  20. Survivors at Lansdorf POW camp

    A sign in German points the way to the Russian section of the Lansdorf POW camp in Silesia. The prisoners were forced laborers in Germany. Shots of the barbed wire fences surrounding the camp. Russian soldiers remove survivors on stretchers from a barrack. Close-up on one of the emaciated men. Camp survivors, some of them wounded, file slowly past the camera toward the infirmary where nurses wait for them.