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  1. Battle of Britain

    Title: Yesterday's Big Story. Footage from the Battle of Britain, which began August 8, 1940, with pro-British, pro-Churchill narration. Stukas bomb supply convoys but are in turn shot down by shore batteries. Fires caused by bombs rage in London. Children are evacuated from London. Civilians reinforce buildings with sandbags. Panning aerial shot of the Great Fire of London, sometime between September and November, 1940. Churchill tours the devastation. Cheering Londoners. Also on this newsreel (beginning at 01:34:08): Title: Decathalon Record: UCLA Champ Sets Mark in 10 Events. Chinese ath...

  2. Herbert Klaber collection

    Contains documents, correspondence, and photographs illustrating the donor's early life in Borken, Germany, and later experiences in the Netherlands, where his parents sent him for school and to avoid persecution in the late 1930s, and where he eventually physically went into hiding to avoid deportation. Includes the last letter of his parents Max and Regina Klaber, stating that they are being sent to "Theresin" [sic]; also included are a Dutch Jewish identification card issued to Herbert as well as his report cards, which he buried while he was in hiding.

  3. Dina Buchler Chen collection

    Pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of Dina Buchler [donor, now Dina Chen] and her parents. Includes are photos of Blanka First, with whom she lived after her mother smuggled her out of a concentration camp, and photos of the Beretics family, who hid her during the war. Includes a false baptism certificate; letters written by Dina's mother to her uncle Bela Weiss, who escaped to Shanghai; and a scrapbook and other materials pertaining to Paula Sitzer, an opera singer in Zagreb.

  4. Annie-Claude Ghozlan collection

    Contains an identification card from Jeunesses Musicales de France issued to Annie-Claude Ghozlan [donor] in Blido, Morocco, dated 1944-1945; a photograph of donor with her parents, Constantine, Algeria, dated c. 1937; a photograph of the donor's parents on the occasion of their engagement, dated 1931-1932; a photograph of Zionist Youth Movement Blida, Algeria; and 4 photographs of youth movement (Gordonia), Algeria, 1951-1952.

  5. Germany Gives Up!

    Title: Universal Newsreel. Germany Gives Up! Truman, sitting behind a desk, announces German surrender. Shots of a victory parade in NYC (?). Devastated landscape, destroyed train cars, dead German soldiers, German POWs. Compilation of German footage showing Adolf Hitler and other Nazi leaders, Nazi rallies, German troops marching, German POWs. British soldiers in the water and climbing aboard a ship (evacuation from Dunkirk?), Hitler at the signing of the armistice with France in the railcar at Compiegne, weeping French civilians watch the Germans enter Paris (?), London during German bomb...

  7. "Beshert: It was Meant to Be"

    Consists of one memoir, 212 pages, entitled "Beshert: It was Meant to Be", written in 1975 by Roma Talasiewicz-Eibuszyc and translated into English in 2007 by her daughter, Suzanna Eibuszyc. Part one of the memoir is entitled "At the Mercy of Our Luck" and covers April 1917-November 1939, when the family lived in Warsaw, and the second part of the memoir is entitled "The Troubles I've Seen" and covers November 1939-March 1946, when the family was forced to flee to southwestern Russia and Uzbekistan. Ms. Talasiewicz-Eibuszyc and her sister and brother, who were also unmarried, spent the war ...

  8. World War I ends; armistice

    WWI soldiers (US?) march along city street with spectators cheering wildly. Marching through ruins. Firing artillery. Tanks. Troops move out of trenches, forward, bombing, smoke (warfare). 01:38:42 Von Hindenburg and other officials sign the armistice. Excerpt from Ludendorff speech in October 1918 printed on film, "The offer of peace must be transmitted immediately. The Army cannot wait another 48 hours." Officials shake hands, walk in city square. Crowds. U.S. newspaper headlines: "Armistice". Crowds cheering, holding up newspapers and waving flags. Troops shaking hands in the field. CU, ...

  9. Meir and Paula Stein diaries and photographs

    The Meir and Paula Stein diaries and photographs consist of three diaries written by Meir Stein and five diaries written by Paula Stein while in hiding in Białystok, Poland describing their experiences from 1941-1944. Also included in the collection are photographs from the Białystok Central Committee and pictures of Meir and Israel, Meir and Paula’s son. Meir Stein wrote four diaries while in hiding in 1944, but the first diary was lost after the war. The diaries are written in German and describe his experiences in the Warsaw and Białystok ghettos and the time his family spent in hiding f...

  10. Dr. William C. Pursch collection

    Contains three loose album pages containing 39 mounted black-and-white photographs documenting the Mauthausen and Gusen concentration camps following liberation. The photographs were taken by Bernard M. Jacox (donor’s cousin).

  11. Grave marker from the Łódź ghetto

    Grave marker of Gitla bat Shmuel Herszkowicz, who died August 4, 1940, and was buried in the Łódź ghetto cemetery in Poland. Gitla and her husband lived with her daughter and her family, Chaja and Szulem Kozienicki, and their 2 sons, Chaim and Ezra. In March 1940, they were forced into the Jewish ghetto by the Germans who had occupied Poland since September 1939. Gitla died soon after the move. Her husband died of starvation in 1941. The other family members were deported to Auschwitz concentration camp, where most of them perished. Her grandsons, Chaim and Ezra, both survived and were reun...

  12. Lt. Col. Casimir M. Mieszkowski (Casimir M. Mize) collection

    Consists of nine cigarette cards manufactured and distributed by the Nazi German Eilebrecht cigarette company. The cards, which depict propaganda images of Nazi leaders and wartime scenes, were collected and annotated by Lt. Col. Casimir M. Mieszkowski (Casimir M. Mize), who was a squadron intelligence officer with the American Army Air Forces 391st Bomb Group and who was the paternal grandfather of the donor.

  13. SPD party day in Leipzig 1931

    Scenes from the 36th SPD party day on May 30-31, 1931 in Leipzig. This was the last SPD party day before the Nazis took over. Demonstration through the streets of Leipzig with 150,000 SPD members from all over Germany. Parade with vehicles, signs, flags, people hanging out of windows, crowds lining the streets, marching, street vendor serving ice cream. Pan down of Volkshaus in Leipzig. Members of the SPD arrive for the meeting of the Party Day at the Volkshaus. Among them: Otto Braun (bald, arrives with two women), Arthur Crispien (bearded man on right) and Hans Vogel (bearded man on left)...

  14. Hitler at window

    NSDAP marchers (may or may not be part of the rest of the sequence), holding swastika flag. Munich 1923. Hitler looks out the window at a parade of members of the Vereinigten Vaterlandisches Vereine Bayerns [very approximately, Union of Bavarian Fatherland Organizations], a group of right wing nationalist organizations who had banded together. Crowded streets with paraders and spectators.

  15. Book

    The book belonged to Itzhack Jamenfeld, (b. 1913-d. Sobibor 1943). He was a book dealer. This book is an explanation of the Megillat Esther and was printed in Offenbach, Germany, 1649 and survived the war. It was picked up in his house after the war by the director of the committee of Jewish (stolen) books and returned to the donor.

  16. Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC) records

    Contains originals and photocopies of reports, meeting minutes, publications, correspondence, documents, newspaper articles, announcements, programs, obituaries, oral history transcripts, a bibliography, and photographs pertaining to the founding of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC), its evolving mission, objectives, and leadership. The records also pertain to the organization's projects, leadership, and offices in the United States and abroad during and after World War II. Other records relate specifically to the international medical missions of the UUSC.

  17. Filming feature films; Cardinal Faulhaber; Eisenhower in Germany; commemoration for victims of fascism in Berlin

    Welt im Film. Issue no. 72 Title: Filmstart in der Britischen Zone: Die beiden ersten Spielfilme [Beginning of filming in the British zone: the first two feature films]. A crowd watches as filming gets underway in Hamburg. The director describes the first scene before the action starts. The camera rolls along a track fillming the scene. The next film involves young people sailing in kayaks along the Weser river between Karlshafen and the sea. The camera, mounted on a raft, follows the boats on the river. The narrator names the stars of the film. The young stars are shown eating lunch and ta...

  18. Sari Siegel Spieler collection

    Collection of correspondence from Noe concentration camp written by Chaim Rosenbluth to his wife, Sara Rosenbluth, in Belgium, dated 1941-1942. Includes documents and photographs relating to the Rosenbluth and Kaner families in Vienna and Antwerp before and during the war, including a ketubah (marriage certificate) for Anna Kaner and Jehuda Rosenbluth, married in Antwerp, Belgium on August 7, 1936.

  19. Aerial views of postwar Paris

    Aerial shots of Paris and the Eiffel Tower. U.S. Air Force soldiers stand and kneel together posing for a photo. More aerial images of Paris neighborhoods, destroyed bridges and Notre Dame Cathedral. Aerial views of the French countryside.

  20. Dachau at liberation; death train; SS bodies

    CU, "Muenchen Dachau" sign. MS, statue with sparse trees and a train car behind it. Soldiers look into the death train discovered by American troops on April 29, 1945. The train consisted of 30 rail cars with nearly 5,000 prisoners who had been evacuated from Buchenwald in the last days of the war. Soldiers guard the length of the train, a group smokes cigarettes. Open car reveals a pile of corpses in camp uniforms. The camera pans inside the car, revealing emaciated corpses. One is naked, some are wrapped in blankets and camp uniforms. Another car with more corpses inside; one naked laying...