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  1. Agro-Joint colony of Sverdlov

    Intertitles provide information about the Sverdlov colony. MS of milling herd of cattle. EXT and INT of Sverdlov knitting factory. Note electrical lines outside. Sewing machines and men demonstrating work. One man holds a shawl (large light bulb in FG of shot).

  2. Shaving brush received in a concentration camp

    Shaving brush given to Elias Cala for safekeeping by a fellow inmate in 1944 at Auschwitz III-Monowitz concentration camp. The other inmate was a barber who gave the brush to Elias when he became ill. He was sent to the infirmary, but never returned. Elias had been deported to Monowitz from the Jewish ghetto in Mlawa, Poland, in November, 1942, with his wife and one-year-old daughter. His wife and daughter were selected for death upon arrival at Auschwitz. Elias was assigned to work as slave labor in the I.G Farben company’s Buna plant associated with the Monowitz camp. In January 1945, Eli...

  3. Black Sea, fighting in southern sector on Eastern Front

    Reel 1: 00:17:03 Melting snows, streams, water over land. German soldiers drive cross a river in a horse-drawn cart. Military vehicles ford a river/water logged road. Soldiers work on a wooden bridge. Observation post on the Black Sea. A soldier raises an alarm, other soldiers come running. Different shots of lookouts using binoculars/rabbit-eared telescopes. City on the Black Sea. Coastal gun installations; soldiers load and operate artillery. German soldiers come running out of a destroyed building. CUs of artillery. Different shots of defense preparations along the coastline. German sold...

  4. Photograph of prisoners standing next to corpses in a cart

    The photograph depicts concentration camp prisoners wearing striped prisoner uniforms standing next to a cart bearing corpses. The donor's husband was an American soldier and caried the photograph in his wallet until his death. Two additional copies of the photograph are included.

  5. Rene and Betty Braat photograph collection

    The collection consists of 53 photographs documenting the experiences of the Braat and Mooleman families in the Netherlands before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  6. Germans advance in Russia; Field Marshall Busch, General Zorn

    Reel 1: 00:00:11 Russian peasants carrying belongings down a dirt road. Large group of civilians lined up outside wooden building with sign in Cyrillic, "Bakadjea - Gastronomia" (delicatessen shop). CU of waiting civilians, man with bandaged head, women holding children, etc. Men, women, children - apparently Slavs. Friendly atmosphere. An old woman rolls a cigarette. 00:02:53 Soldiers firing artillery in the forest. German soldier in a foxhole talks on a field phone and writes on a piece of paper. Pan of ruined buildings, industrial installation? Pan of a damaged lock on a canal. Random sh...

  9. German military and police units in W. Ukraine. Lvov occupied by Germans. Men under guard, Jews put on truck by police units.

    Reel 1: 00:05:14 Western Ukraine. Some scenes could be Lvov. German tanks move through a field; charred landscape. 00:06:02 Large groups of Ukrainian civilians look suspiciously at the camera. Small town; German tanks in the streets. Young girls hand flowers to Germans. Tanks crest a hill top, move through a village with thatched-roofed homes. A deep anti-tank trench. 00:08:05 Various shots in a damaged city; burned automobiles, corpses/dead horses lie in the streets. Camera pans across a wide landscape with a village and river, smoke in the distance. Inside and outside views of a church th...

  10. Sioma and Tonia Bialer Lechtman papers

    Contains photographs and documents relating to Vera Lechtman's parents, Sioma and Tonia Bialer Lechtman, before World War II in Vienna, Austria, and in Łódź, Poland; their immigration to Palestine in 1936; and their subsequent immigration to Europe in 1938. Includes photogaphs of Sioma Lechtman in the Gurs concentration camp in France, where he was interned after fighting in the Spanish Civil War.

  11. Agro-Joint activity in Russia, Morris Troper's 1936 trip

    Morris Troper arrives in Simpferopol and enters a building with a sign reading "American Jewish Joint, Agricultural Corporation." Mr. Zaichek, the chief agronom, shows Troper the route he will travel on a map. He leaves for Jonkoi in a car. MS, Mr. Zaichek's son. MS, cow. 01:02:19 Pervomaysk colony. Pan, LS village with little white houses, farming. MCU, man with white beard and glasses. Man exits house, chickens, walking towards camera. CU, man. LS Modern school in Kalininsk. 01:04:27 Maxim Gorky colony. Pan, bare-chested boys, smiling for camera. LS, women bake bread in an outdoor oven. H...

  12. Drawing

  13. U.S. & German soldiers

    MS, American soldiers sitting on wooden benches in an open courtyard. VS, CUs, MCUs, American soldiers. MCU, man walking down a street in an unidentified town wearing a tuxedo an a top hat with a flower in it, he is smiling and waving at the camera. MCU, German soldier with a white armband, walking toward camera. German and American soldier pose together for camera, shake hands, smile. Soldiers leaving in army jeep. VS, from jeep, of countryside, red-roofed homes, farmland, cows, locals with wagons, etc.

  14. Agro-Joint activities in Jankoi

    MS, tractor pulling large diameter pipe as men watch. The director of factory, Mr. Rappaport, shows Morris Troper the working tags of the employees. CU of the guard who stands at the entrance to the factory. Slow pan of the grounds and buildings of the factory. LS of bare-chested men digging a building foundation? LS Jewish worker repairing a well-shaft pipe. MS and CU of Jewish worker as they repair a tractor. MS of two vounteer firemen in white caps with their equipment.

  15. Hungarian Ministry of Internal Affairs: Central Authority for Controlling Foreigners (KEOKH) [MOL K 490-492]

    Miscellaneous correspondence reports from the head of the KEOKH (National Central Authority for Controlling Foreigners) in Budapest. Includes individual files of foreign citizens, most of them Jewish, who came to the attention of KEOKH. The files are arranged in alphabetical order.

  16. German military convoys in destroyed Paris

    Reel 1: 00:21:40 Panning shots of buildings severely destroyed in an air raid in Paris. German soldiers enter the city as civilians watch from the sidewalks. Two French police are seen standing in the street, crowds of locals on the sides, watching as German soldiers on bicycles enter. German soldiers on horseback crossing the bridge in front of Notre Dame. German soldiers stop and inspect a car. German parade into the city, led by a band. Local traffic and military convoys moving through the streets. Views of sandbag barricades in the streets. CUs of Notre Dame, a priest on the sidewalk in...

  17. Goering after his capture; bomb damage in Wiesbaden and Munich

    Slate reading" "Capt. Carter SFP-186, Roll C-85, Date: 5-15-45." Hermann Göring, dressed in his blue-gray Luftwaffe uniform and accompanied by a German shepherd and his "American interrogator," [term used on the dope sheet] exit a house and walk toward the camera. Göring moves toward the camera until he is in extreme close-up. Another man (identified on the dope sheet as Lt. Col. Crump) joins the two. The first man and Göring walk off together across a grassy area. More buildings can be seen in the background. More shots of Göring and the American officer walking past buildings. 01:28:43 Bo...

  18. Lubinski family papers

    The papers consist of 21 photographs and 12 documents concerning the experiences of Susan Lubinski [donor], her sister, Steffi, and her parents, Margarethe and Arthur Lubinski, during their flight from Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland), in 1939 to Shanghai, China, where they remained through the end of World War II.

  19. March of Time -- outtakes -- Free French in London

    Members of the French military who escaped from German camps into the USSR and have made their way to London to join the Free French resistance group. The men stand in the back of an open truck and look at the camera. Standing below them are three American soldiers (American flag patches on their sleeves). 01:26:06 begins apparently unrelated footage of American soldiers on an airfield. They inspect several badly damaged planes.

  20. Agro-Joint colonies of Tartar and Biukonnlar

    LS of building structures in Tartar settlement, passed on the way to the group's next stop. The intertitle points out how "backward" the colony is in comparison to the modern settlements. LS of group of Tartars standing in front of a cottage. At the Biukonnlar Colony, Morris Troper stands beside a glass blower and inspects glassmaking tools. Four such glass blowing factories were organized by the Agro-Joint in 1933.