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  1. Barbie Trial -- Day 18 -- Victims testify

    18:01:24 Kurt Hipser confronts Barbie on his imprisonment in Montluc and discusses his collection of Nazi propaganda. 18:27:30 Julie Franceschini, an invalid carried into the courtroom, was arrested in February 1944, spent four months in the Montluc Gestapo prison in Lyons, and was both beaten and held under water by Barbie and a French collaborator, Francis Andre. She says she witnessed several tortures and killings and discusses her arrest, interrogation, torture, deportation to Ravensbruck, and "Nacht und Nebel." 18:44:45 "Oh yes! Oh yes!" Franceschini cries, turning with difficulty to l...

  3. Activities in New Zealand; Reopening of synagogue in Metz, France

    (LIB 1121) Reopening of Synagogue, Metz, France, December 2, 1944. SEQ: Jewish Army chaplain conducts services in synagogue. [Light is poor, scratches] EXT, soldiers and civilians exit from synagogue. CU sign, "Rededication, Jewish Services". CUs, Jewish chaplain shakes hands with soldiers entering synagogue. Unrelated footage about the Special Project QM Activities in the South Pacific Area, New Zealand (near Auckland) precedes this clip from 01:10:55 to 01:19:02.

  4. Blood and Soil ideology

    Reichsarbeitsdienst men sing as they march through a marble gateway engraved with swastikas. They carry shovels over their shoulders. The men are shown cutting down trees as the narrator states that they are erecting the festival hall for the Reichsbauerntag [Reich Farmer day] 1934. Richard Walther Darre, Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture, accompanied by men wearing civilian clothes and men in SS uniforms, inspects the progress of the construction. The next scene shows the celebration itself: the streets are hung with swastika banners; crowds; people parading in native (Pomeranian) cos...

  5. Drawing

    Crayon drawing depicting students and a teacher in a classroom.

  6. Agro-Joint in Kiev

    Morris Troper and three officials talk at a cooperative for support of invalids where cloth is made out of rags. CU (dark) of students of wood-working factory and training school. Good shot of lumber yard of plant. MS of former peddler leading work horses, followed by good CU of him. Panoramic sunset.

  7. Barbie Trial -- Day 7 -- The prosecution questions expert witnesses

    17:16 Witness Holtfort continues his testimony, explaining that there is written documentation coming from the January 20, 1942 conference about the decision to use Jews for forced labor, forcing them to create roads toward the East. Those who survived the labor needed a 'special treatment' (i.e. extermination). 17:20 Discussion of a document from 1942 in which Dannecker, the Paris head of the BDS-SIPO-SD, communicates to the head of the transport division in France the plan to exterminate French Jews.This information was disseminated from Paris to the regional offices, and the head of the ...

  9. Barbie Trial -- Day 13 -- Victims testify

    17:15:00 Judges enter the courtroom to begin Day 13 of the trial. 17:17:30 Rene Wucher gives his account of the raid at Izieu. 17:26:24 Andre Wucher, Rene's brother, supports his brother's account of the children at Izieu. 17:30:51 Gabrielle Tardy testifies and speaks directly about the yellow star. 17:40 Court lawyers and judges examine Izieu document. Intense exchange between Verges and prosecuting attorney Rappaport at 17:45. 17:52 Perticoz - absent, deposition is read by bailiff regarding the Izieu raid. 18:07 Court examines photographs presented under testimony of Favet.

  10. U.S. soldiers inspect debris in small town

    Panoramic shots of countryside, steeple, trees are bare, most likely shot in winter. Peasant walking in fields, cow sitting in the grass. High angle views, agricultural town. MS, US soldiers inspecting building debris, many brick buildings, sign for "Huile" (Oil) in French. VS, unidentified town, civilians moving about, soldier or police officer (dark colored uniform, wearing high boots, unable to identify uniform). CU, memorial/monument to soldiers of WWI, inscription in French. VS, American soldiers exiting building, smiling for camera, descending steps. US flag is flying on a flagpole on...

  11. Barbie Trial -- Day 12 -- Victims accuse Barbie

    Jean Gay - does not appear in person, deposition is read by the bailiff re: Resistance, arrest, interrogation, torture, and deportation to Neuengamme. Klaus Barbie enters the courtroom at 18:48:14, visible at upper screen right. He sits next to two interpreters: Margit Lipsker and Martine Billaud. 18:48:35 Lucien Margaine says "One cannot be mistaken. Look at that grin. You cannot forget; it is not a sane man." Barbie reads a short statement asserting that he is being tried illegally and that he was brought into court today by force: "Because I am judicially absent, I will not reply." Cerdi...

  14. Photograph of two men in the Łódź ghetto

    The photograph depicts two mailmen wearing suits standing near the entrance of a building on a sidewalk in the Litzmannstadt ghetto (Łódź, Poland). Both men are wearing armands and Star of David badges. The man on the right is Yeshayahu Sewek Krotoszynski (b. 1923). He survived the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and escaped from a death march in January 1945.

  15. Agro-Joint Activity in Russia

    Rolling titles describe development of Agro-Joint by JDC in 1924 and of assistance given to Jews with the cooperation of the Russian government. MS of Dr. Joseph Rosen, Director of Agro-Joint, Dr. Grower, Dr. Yefim Lubarsky, Vice-President of the Agro-Joint, and Morris C. Troper, European Director of the JDC. More titles state that the Agro-Joint acted as the operating agent of the American Society for Jewish Farm Settlement in Russia. The president of this organization was James Rosenberg, and Paul Baerwald was the treasurer. Photos of Rosenberg, Felix Warburg, and Baerwald and a photo of ...

  16. Steven N. Montrose papers

    The Steven N. Montrose papers consist of photographs depicting Montrose (born Nathan Rozenberg) and his parents and other relatives in prewar and wartime Łódź and postwar Germany. The collection also includes birth and naturalization certificates for Montrose and his father and a book proposal for an autobiography by Montrose describing his prewar and wartime life in Łódź, the Łódź ghetto, concentration camps, postwar Germany, immigration to the United States, and new life in America.

  17. French and German troops at the tomb of the unknown soldier

    The second anniversary of the foundation of Légion volontaires française on July 8, 1943. French volunteers lined up in the square in front of a palace. A French flag is raised as a bugle plays. French officers and German officers stand together. A French officer gives a speech over shots of French and German soldiers standing at attention. Shot of spectators watching the ceremony. The German and French soldiers (some on horseback) march out of the palace square and down the Ponte Alexander to the Champs Elysses to the tomb of the unknown soldier and lay a wreath. The soldiers and the crowd...

  18. Jews at forced labor

    Jews at forced labor digging a trench. Some of the men are in the trench, which has been reinforced with boards, and some beside it. They are very aware of the camera. Close-up of one man as he digs. The men unload bricks from the back of a truck. At least three types of Star of David badges can be seen. Most of the men have badges on the backs of their coats; one man has two. At least two of the men also have stars stencilled on the sides of their coats. A female overseer is visible in the background, yelling at the men (01:35:47). Close-ups of several of the laborers as they unload the br...

  19. Civilian men under arrest

    Reel 1: Five civilian men line up in front of a building, apparently under arrest, seen close up. Some may be Jewish. Poorly clothed, next to building.

  20. Mendel Grossman photograph collection

    The collection contains photographs primarily taken by Mendel Grossman in Łódź, Poland prior to and during the war. The prewar photographs document the Grossman family, including Mendel’s sister Rozka, and his parents Shmuel and Chana. His wartime photographs document daily life in the Łódź ghetto, and including street scenes, deportations, and activities of the Zionist youth group Noʻar ha-Tsiyoni. Many of his wartime photographs feature his extended family, including his nephew Jankush Freitag. Postwar photographs document Rozka Grossman and her husband Moshe Zilbersztajn's (Zilbar) f...