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  1. Dr. David Rosenberg photograph collection

    The collection consists of eight photographs of concentration camp scenes from either Dachau or Buchenwald taken immediately following liberation. Scenes depict victims being exhumed and reburied with German civilians and American soldiers taking part in the work, trucks containing victims, the interior of barracks, and a gallows.

  2. Factory interiors of Agro-Joint at Jankoi

    Factory interiors, generally very dark. Light comes in though windows of a long room. Dark shots in a blacksmith shop as man demonstrates the use of a trip hammer.

  3. German 50 pfennig scrip

  4. Pamphlet, "Beitrage zur Einheit von Bildung und Sprache im Geistigen Sein"

    Pamphlet published by Walter de Gruyter & Co. Berlin.

  5. American soldiers prepare a "propaganda bomb" to be dropped on German occupied territory

    An American serviceman salvages parts from wrecked planes to make shells for propaganda leaflets to drop over German-occupied territory. Three men load a "propaganda bomb" into the bay of a plane. The man shown collecting scrap brings the pieces to another man, who is constructing a shell. Interior of an office with a sign on the door that reads "ORDNANCE." A man seated at a desk speaks on the telephone, then studies a piece of paper that contains instructions for a "leaflet bomb" as well as a diagram of the bomb. The man, identified in the NARA story card as Lt. Kick, is shown arriving at ...

  8. Book

    A condensed version of Hitler speaks.

  9. Ink drawing by Esther Lurie of Michlean Amir

    Portrait drawn by Esther Lurie, in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1951. Michlean Amir met Esther Lurie in the apartment of her grandmother’s friend, the historian Nellie Schur. Dr Schur was working on a project to create maps of the new state of Israel with the cartographer, Joseph Shapiro, who was Lurie's husband. Lurie offered to do her portrait. Esther Lurie was a professionally trained artist whose drawings and sketches, done from 1941-1944, while she was imprisoned in the Jewish ghetto in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania, and Stutthof concentration camp, were published in 1945, providing eloquent visua...

  10. "Un Enfant dans la Tourmente: 1942-1944"

    Consists of one memoir, 42 pages, entitled "Un Enfant dans la Tourmente: 1942-1944," by Albert Goldsztejn. Mr. Goldsztejn, a young child during the war, hid with his parents in the towns of Sassenage, France and Marcollin, France, posing as Poles and Catholics.

  12. German troops advance in Russia; captured Russians; wounded soldier

    Reel 1: A tank rolls past several waiting trucks. German soldiers mill about next to a burning Russian tank. Panning shot of German military vehicles and soldiers at the edge of a forest clearing. 00:01:10 Box marked "Akten" [files] and box marked "I a" with other items at outdoor HQ. CU of a soldier sleeping next to the base of a tree. A German soldier looks at a grieving Russian soldier (?). Panning shot of captured Russians. 00:01:55 General Baron von Funck (Commander of the 7th Panzer Division) without hat, exits large vehicle. 00:02:07 Gen. Zorn (?) in coat and hat, close view (before ...

  13. Aron Zolty photograph collection

    The Aron Zolty photograph collection consists of 39 photographs relating to the experiences of Aron Zolty in the ghetto in Łódź, Poland, and in displaced persons camps in Hannover and Lübeck-Blankensee, Germany.

  14. [Newspaper]

  15. Drawing

  16. Barbie Trial -- Day 10 -- A victim testifies

    15:47 Mrs. Ennat Vitte, a civil party, continues to testify regarding her experience in Ravensbrück 15:48 President Cerdini asks the witness to describe the circumstances under which she lost her eyesight in Ravensbrück, and whether her inability to walk is a consequence of her time there; the witness has difficulty answering the questions posed 15:52 Prosecutor Vuillard asks the witness to confirm a particular threat leveled at her by Barbie 15:54 President Cerdini calls forward the next witness, Mrs. Simone Lagrange née Kadosche, a civil party in the suit against Barbie 15:55 Mrs. Langran...

  17. German military welcomed in Estonia

    Reel 2: 00:24:31 A German military convoy crossing a bridge into a town (Narva, Estonia). Panning shot of a long line of German soldiers on bicycle riding down a dirt road. Men with armbands herd a group of captive local men and women down a street. (Bundesarchiv notes the men with armbands are likely affiliated with a local Baltic security service.) Several panning shots of German soldiers and locals standing and talking in a street. CUs of Russian soldiers taken captive, marching next to a train depot. Reel 3: 00:26:50 Several quick shots of captured military supplies/munitions. Soldiers ...

  18. Ruth Apfel photograph collection

    The collection consists of ten photographs relating to the experiences of Ruth Apfel and her sister's family history in France before and during the German occupation. Several of the photographs show the sisters wearing Star of David badges.

  19. Book, "The Queen's English" Exercises in the Pronunciation of English

    Book by Philip Woolley, 1974 edition.

  20. Anti-semitic, Anti-British, and other propaganda

    The excerpt opens on a group of well-fed people around a table eating a sumptious dinner. They complain about rationing as they eat. A young boy dressed in a Hitler Youth uniform comes in and stands at the door listening, where he is joined by the maid. She says that if people don't give things up for the war, then it will end up as it was in 1918. The boy says, "yes, and they are waiting for that in London." The next scene, which is set in London, shows a group of German Jews meeting with a representative of the BBC. The Englishman leaves in frustration after voicing his opinion that the p...