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  1. Abraham Breski testimony

    Contains six pages of translation (pages 5 and 6 are both numbered 5) of first hand account of Abraham Breski, who was a survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The account documents Breski's experiences being deported from Pruzana, Poland to the Birkenau killing center in Poland in 1943.

  2. Visiting family and sights in Budapest

    In Budapest, street scenes, Kornhauser family (Marie's family) walking past shops, posing for camera. LS, city across Danube. Policeman on horse. More shots of the Kornhauser family.

  3. Twentieth Century Fox version, Reel 3: Anschluss; Munich Pact; Hitler speeches

    Reel 3 of the English language version of "The Nazi Plan" produced by Twentieth Century Fox with new graphics. Title: "1936." "Reoccupation of the Rhineland 7 March 1936." Newsreel footage and brief audio of troops marching into the Rhineland. Title: "Minister von Neurath expresses confidence all Germans will vote approval of Hitler's policies 29 March 1936." Von Neurath speaking. Hess, Frick, Goebbels vote and speak briefly. Title: "Address to Krupp Munitions Plant Workers 28 May 1936." Hitler speaking at podium. Shots of munitions workers. Title: "Eighth Party Congress 8 - 14 September 19...

  4. Ausstellung "Das Wunder des Lebens" Berlin 1935 Der Glasserne Mensch

    Contains a photographic postcard with image of the "glass man" model, with caption printed at bottom: "Ausstellung" Das Wunder des Lebens/Berlin 1935/Der Glasserne Mensch." Rectangular body constructed of paper; on recto, black and white photographic image of statue of human figure standing on metal circular platform with title of statue printed across bottom; on verso, handwritten text across top in pencil.

  5. Portrait of a US soldier by George Byfield, a former camp inmate, after liberation

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn518627
    • English
    • overall: Height: 22.125 inches (56.198 cm) | Width: 17.125 inches (43.498 cm) pictorial area: Height: 18.500 inches (46.99 cm) | Width: 13.500 inches (34.29 cm)

    Framed watercolor portrait made for Captain William Adams Bridgforth, United States 7th Army, by Gyorgy Beifeld (George Byfield), in Dachau concentration camp after liberation in exchange for a pack of cigarettes. Byfield had been an prisoner at the camp, which was liberated by the United States 7th Army on April 19, 1945. Byfield had been deported from Budapest to a concentration camp following the German occupation of Hungary in March 1944.

  6. Youth of the Netherlands! Waffen-SS recruitment text only poster that urges Dutch youth to help the Germans fight the Russians

    Waffen-SS recruitment poster issued in August 1941 in German controlled Netherlands asking young Dutch men to join the German Army in order to defend against the Jewish Bolshevik threat. Germany launched Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union, on June 22, 1941. This was their biggest military operation of the war and there was an increased need for soldiers throughout the Germany Army.

  7. Nazi crimes: early gassing; corpses; camp atrocities; forced labor; Nuremberg Trial proceedings

    Part 3 of GERMAN language version [corresponds to NARA reels 5 & 6] Includes extra shot of nurses and Mogilev gassing. Courtroom scene, Russian prosecutor Gen. Rudenko at podium, Gen. Erwin Lahousen in witness stand. Narrator quotes Lahousen speaking about Canaris and Hans Frank describing Nazi policies and methods for exterminating Poles and others. Goering, Hitler, and other Nazi officials in a meeting. Pan, hut with thatched roof. CU pipes from a German police car bearing a license plate POL-28545 and a German police truck with license POL-51628 (as well as military unit markings: 7 ...

  8. Arie and Rina Singer photograph collection

    Collection of 29 photographic images relating to experiences of Arie and Rina Singer and their families during the before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  9. Book

  10. Linz; Vienna

    Hitler's motorcade drives through the streets of Linz. Spectators wave Nazi flags. Aerial shot of Hitler's car as it crosses a bridge decorated with large swastikas. Medium shot of a crowd of children waving flags. Another aerial shot reveals the huge crowds that have come to greet Hitler. 02:00:32 Shot of a flag in a forest setting. The camera pans down to reveal Hitler walking at the head of a large crowd, surrounded by spectators. He salutes a group of civilian men holding shovels. The crowd salutes and a group of men follow Hitler to some open railroad cars. Hitler shovels dirt into one...

  11. History of 303rd Field Artillery

    Col. Redding chronicles the progress of the 303rd Field Artillery, primarily in Germany, includes DPs, POWs, and camps for Russian and Polish refugees. Map of Marienbad. Footage of the spa town around May 5, 1945. Newspaper headlines: VE Day; "Churchill, King George Speak Today." GIs on lawn in front of hotel. Radio. Roads with released German POWs. Unit camps in field. Eating at table in field, setting up generator, setting up tents, writing home, boxing up souvenirs, kegs of beer come in. 12:26:16 Nuremberg Stadium, WS. (May 29 sent to Le Havre, France), Red Cross entertainment in field, ...

  12. Gina Kaeser papers

    Papers consist of documents, letters, newspaper clippings, and photographs relating to the experiences of Heinrich and Gustava Skovronsky [donor's parents] during the time period surrounding the Holocaust. Some of the photographs were saved by Gustava while in the concentration camps by keeping them wrapped up in her hair with a comb.

  13. Dachau camp, postwar

    Pan of Dachau camp EXTs: buldings through barbed wire fence, Building B, dirt road, moat, Tower B, barracks.

  14. Nazi crimes: early gassing; corpses; camp atrocities; forced labor; Nuremberg Trial proceedings

    Part 3 of ENGLISH language version [corresponds to NARA reels 5 & 6] Excludes extra shot of nurses and Mogilev gassing. Courtroom scene, Russian prosecutor Gen. Rudenko at podium speaking about Canaris and Hans Frank describing Nazi policies and methods for exterminating Poles and others. Goering, Hitler, and other Nazi officials in a meeting. Pan, hut with thatched roof. CU pipes from a German police car bearing a license plate POL-28545 and a German police truck with license POL-51628 (as well as military unit markings: 7 circle-with-flag IX). Apparently metal piping is directed into ...

  15. Berlin ruins; US & German soldiers; rebuilding Germany

    Opening credits in German from the OMGUS censor's board: "Filmvorfuherungsschein / No.: 49-1012-85 / Es wird hiermit bescheinigt dass "Die Brucke" zur offentlichen Vorfuhrung in den amerikanisch besetzten Gebieten Deutschlands zugelassen ist. Bescheinigung ausgestellt im Auftrag der Amerikanischen Militarregierung / Zeit Im Film" Film title appears over an image of white puffy clouds in the sky: "DIE BRUCKE / Mit / ...blt. Lewis F. Droll [missing beginning title] / Joseph Muller [missing end of name] / Und Den Manneem der Luftbrucke" German language narration, but occasionally the voices of...

  16. Military parade honoring Pilsudski

    Title: "Warsaw, Poland. Military Parade in Memory of Pilsudski." MSs, CUs, parade in streets of Warsaw with Polish soldiers on horses, cannons, and soldiers on bicycles.

  17. Cyrla Kaufman papers

    Papers consists of pre-war images of Cyrla Kaufman's family; post-war images of Cyrla Kaufman and her rescuer Tadeusz Lasica, who helped Cyrla escape the Warsaw ghetto, hid her throughout the war, and later married her; and birth, death, and marriage certificates.

  18. Exhumation of corpses at a mental hospital in Vinnitsa

    Exterior shots of a mental hospital in Vinnitsa, Ukraine where a Soviet team conducts an investigation into killings at the institution. A man points out the location of mass graves where the executed patients were buried. Two men carry a corpse on a stretcher to a table, where a woman in a white coat prepares to examine it.

  19. Henry and Fay Bialowas collection

    The Henry and Fay Bialowas collection includes four postcards Fay received from 1942-1943 while she was interned as a slave laborer in Ober Altstadt, a sub-camp of the Gross-Rosen concentration camp, from her father, Icek Gerschenowitz, who was imprisoned in Gleiwitz II (Gleiwitz-Steigern Judenlager) and from her mother, Hinda Gerschenowitz, who was confined to the ghetto in Sosnowiec, Poland. The collection also includes photographs found by Maks Bialowas, Henry's brother, who survived the Łódź ghetto and recovered the images after liberation. One image shows a group including Maks’ wife H...

  20. Mikhoels at the 20th anniversary of the Moscow State Jewish Theater

    Solomon Mikhoels speaks at the Moscow State Jewish Theater in celebration of the theater's 20th anniversary. He says that it is unheard of for a Jewish theater to last for 20 years. There is a brief shot of Mikhoels sitting with the writer Peretz Markish.