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  1. On board SS Champlain

    Pan, deck of ship SS Champlain. Man with cigar. MSs, passengers on lounge chairs, playing shuffleboard, and volleyball.

  2. War Crimes Commission: Concentration Camps

    There are breaks between reels. The film begins with titles and affidavits attesting to the authenticity of the film material to follow. A quote from Robert Jackson is followed by affidavits from George Stevens and E. R. Kellogg. Both affidavits are shown on the screen as they are read aloud. An animated maps shows the locations of the largest prison and concentration camps in Germany and occupied Europe. 01:04:27 Title on screen: "Leipzig Concentration Camp" [Leipzig-Thekla, a sub-camp of Buchenwald]. Long shots of the camp while the narrator tells of the political prisoners who were burne...

  3. Lindenbaum and Landau families collection

    The Lindenbaum and Landau families collection contains photographs of the Lindenbaum and Landau families, circa 1900s-1945. The family photographs were taken in Łódź, Poland; Warsaw, Poland; the Warsaw ghetto; and Belgium. The photographs feature friends and family members and include both victims and survivors of the Holocaust. Photographs of Tobiasz and Curtla Lindenbaum include the couple around the turn of the century; a portrait of Tobiasz, undated; Curtla holding an umbrella at an unknown resort, undated; Curtla, two of her daughters, and a grandson riding in a droshky, undated; Cur...

  4. Soviet partisans behind enemy lines

    Snowy scenes of a town liberated and controlled by partisans behind enemy lines. A partisan with a rifle checks the papers of two women. Interior scenes of people working at a printing press producing leaflets or a newspaper. Partisans listen to radio communications. Men and women build a barbed wire fence and other fortifications. Women and children are evacuated from the town by plane. A female partisan camerawomen shoots footage of other partisans in the woods. The record indicates that she was killed shortly after this film was shot.

  5. Letterhead stationery of The Jewish Brigade kept by a young female recruit

    Letterhead acquired by 17 year old Jutta Rosen while serving in the Jewish Brigade of the British Army in Palestine after the war. The Brigade, established in British ruled Palestine in September 1944, fought against Nazi Germany in Italy from March 1945 until the end of the war in May. Postwar, the Brigade helped create displaced persons camps for Jewish survivors. Many Brigade members were involved in organizing the flight of Jewish refugees from eastern Europe and arranging their clandestine entry into Palestine. Britain disbanded it in summer 1946. In November 1938, after Kristallnacht,...

  6. Ring with a red heart and inmate numbers made from a spoon in a concentration camp

    Silver-colored finger ring made from a spoon by Leib Krycberg in Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, where he was an inmate from 1942-45. It is engraved with the initials and prisoner numbers, of Leib and Miriam Litman, another prisoner with whom he had fallen in love. He made a duplicate ring for Miriam. In January 1945, both Leib and Miriam were deported from Auschwitz to Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria. After Mauthausen was liberated on May 5, 1945, Leib lived for three years in Arnstdorf displaced persons (DP) camp in Germany. During that time, he traveled to Italy to visit...

  7. 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.

  8. Aerial views of war-damaged Germany along the Rhine from U.S. Air Force plane

    Aerial views of Germany and Belgium from USAF airplane. Snow-capped mountains. INT plane with male pilot (US soldier) chewing gum, controls. CU passenger (US soldier & presumably the cameraman). More aerial views, including Liege, Belgium, the city of Cologne, Rhine River, smokestacks, farmland, railroad tracks, the Cologne Cathedral, and castles along the Rhine. 01:07:48 Passenger deplanes and pilot waves to camera as he gets back into the plane. Airport (USAF base?), MSs large airplane. Brief shot of an interchange with two US soldiers, civilians in BG. Small airplane takes off.

  9. Russian civilians dig up German graves

    Men unearth the corpses of German soldiers in a snow-covered graveyard. They pull German helmets out of the graves and throw them onto the snow. Shots of the men digging up the corpses and dragging them out of the graves. They toss the corpses onto a burning pyre.

  10. Postwar devastation; opening of Nuremberg Trial; early Nazi party history, events, leaders

    Part 1 of GERMAN language version [corresponds to NARA reels 1 & 2] "Europa 1945" Panorama of war devastation: buildings and cities laid to waste, rubble, mother climbing out of trap door shelter with naked baby in arms, people in hunger and despair emerge from shelters, children running down steps, clambering for food, poverty, homeless people, begging for food, weeping woman. "Nuremberg 21 November 1945" EXT and INT Nuremberg Palace of Justice. CU, document announcing trial and listing the accused. Seating of International Military Tribunal. Chief US prosecutor, Robert H. Jackson pres...

  11. Mina Colton photograph collection

    Three photographs. One taken approximately 1936 of five school girls who attended Hochstein Gymnasium in Łódź, including from left, Mina Reiss Colton, Bronka Rheingold, Marysia Sheinberg, Mira Poznanska and Bela Ginzburg. One group portrait of women released from Ravensbrück concentration camp and brought to Sweden for recuperation taken in Annaberg, May 1945. One group photo of donor's brother Natek, aunt Ruth Goldman and her two daughters in the Cyprus detention camp in 1946.

  12. Pathe brothers footage of Mendel Beilis

    Russian intertitles. Excerpts from a Pathe brothers film about the 1913 trial of Menachem Mendel Beilis, who was accused of the ritual murder of a Christian boy (blood libel). This trial received worldwide attention and ended with Beilis' acquittal by an all-Christian jury. Shots of the house where Beilis and his family lived when he was arrested. Panning view of the court house where Beilis stood trial. Beilis' wife and his three children exit a building and smile at the camera. They pose against a wooden fence. Portrait of Beilis.

  13. Ruth M. Grill photograph collection

    The collection consists of pre-war, wartime, and postwar photographs of Ruth Rubenstein (later Ruth Grill) and her family, originally of Königsberg, Germany. Includes pre-war photographs of Ruth's father, Heinz Rubenstein, and his staff at a Jewish hospital in Berlin, and a postwar photograph of Ruth en route to the United States aboard the MS Nieuw Amsterdam in 1948.

  14. Ephraim Menaker photograph collection

    Collection of five photographic images depicting Ephraim Menaker and his family in Lvov, Poland before World War II. Ephraim Menaker was mobilized with the Russian Army in 1941 and remained in service until 1945. Most of his family was sent to the Lvov ghetto and from there to Belzec where they were killed

  15. Dead and dying at Dachau

    Closeup footage of the dead and dying in Dachau. MS pan of bodies in small room. Some clothed, some not. CU of hand clutching ribbon. Pan back over same bodies. CU of some of dead. MS of room in brick building bodies piled in long narrow space between two concrete partitions. CU of dead mans face, CU of water trough, CU of shoe floating in trough. MCU of bodies in camp uniforms visible through entryway in brick. CU of face of dead man. MS through brick entryway of stack of clothed bodies. MS and CU of dead men on floor. MCU Body of man half covered by blanket lying on straw in barracks room...

  16. 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...

  17. Sketchbook by Fips of daily prison life created while jailed as a Nazi propagandist

    Sketches created in 1945 by Philipp Rupprecht, pen name Fips, while a prisoner-of-war in the 7th Army Internee Camp #74, in Ludwigsburg, Germany. In late 1945, he presented the notebook to Army Provost Marshal William Gustin. From 1923-1945, Rupprecht was a well known antisemitic caricaturist for the viciously anti-Jewish newspaper, Der Stuermer, published by Julius Streicher. Rupprecht was arrested by the US Army in 1945, tried by a German denazification court, and sentenced to six years hard labor.

  18. Jan Niebrzydowski papers

    Papers consist of a postcard sent by Adolf Hettich, SS-Sturmmann serving in Gusen II, a sub camp of Mauthausen, located in Sankt Georgen in Austria. This postcard was sent on March 16, 1943 to Irena Bielicki in Pabianice, Poland. The reverse side of the postcard shows the dining hall for the SS in the Mauthausen concentration camp.

  19. Mordechai Theo Vered papers

    Papers consisting of letters, travel documents, certificates, photographs, and other documents relating to the experiences of Theo Markus Verderber [donor] as a child on the Kindertransports to England during the Holocaust.

  20. Ruth U. Pleszowski papers

    Collection of photographs and documents relating to Adam Pleszowski [donor's husband] and his parents Felicja Klopholcz and Jeshik Pleszowski, further documenting their experiences following the Holocaust and their immigration to Israel and the United States. Shortly after returning to Krakow after liberation, Felicja met a stranger on a street in Krakow who told her that he recognized her from her photographs. The Polish woman had moved into the Klopholcz's apartment and had discovered their prewar pictures which she preserved. She then returned the photo album to Felicja.