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  1. Family films; Nazi Party Rally in Nuremberg; Hitler; Western campaign; Göring; Everyday-life in occupied France.

    July 1934: private life, children. Sep 1934: Vienna trip, zoo visit, wedding.1935: Winter and carnival delights, soldiers in a private atmosphere 15:20 Nazi Party, Volksfest, Adolf Hitler in an open car. Railroad, private, moving, May celebrations, sea vacation in Karshagen, carnival run 38:40 Western campaign, ruins, Dunkirk, war goods left behind, church, Lille 44:57 Bus with the inscription "Rheinisches Landestheater Neuss" / front theater 45:13 Goering at Air Force Unit 46:20 Everyday life, Luftwaffe, Donnerbalken, airfield, Stukas, France, typical shots, Ride on the Eiffel Tower, debri...

  2. Nazi Germany, 42 pfennig postage stamps, one sheet

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn538398
    • English
    • a: Height: 6.375 inches (16.192 cm) | Width: 10.560 inches (26.822 cm) b: Height: 6.375 inches (16.192 cm) | Width: 10.560 inches (26.822 cm)

  3. Inauguration of the Carl Benz monument, April 1933

    10:00:51 April 1933, Mannheim: Monument unveiling: Carl Benz monument in Mannheim. Large crowd, wreaths are carried to the veiled monument. 10.01:04 motorcycle relay of the NSKK, mounted police

  4. Innsbruck

    Title: CPC Film. Italian youth organization, light railway, Bavaria: dance, people's fair, beer. Ice skating. Motorcycle race.

  5. Ava Berry collection

    Contains a letter from Clara, Gidus, and Schulim in Lvov, Ukraine, written by Schulim three weeks after their liberation, describing their survival through Nazi occupation. Schulim describes torture and murder in and around Krakow and "Limberg." In addtion, he describes being interned in the ghetto [Lwow?] He describes being told about the killing center Belzec and Jews transported there to be killed. Letter is in English and addressed to Schulim's brother.

  6. Luftwaffe private film

    1. Luftwaffe private film

  7. Bodnar family collection

    Collection of documents, correspondence, and photographs which document the experiences of the Bodnar family of Vienna, Austria, who fled through Switzerland, Italy, and France before arriving in the United States. Includes a recording made by Fani Bodnar (Jacque's mother), and a visa signed by Hiram Bingham IV allowing Jacques to travel to the United States.

  8. Railway construction regiment in the Carpathian forest

    Construction, blasting. Last bridge built in Eastern Slovakia.

  9. Selected records of the City Bodzentyn Akta miasta Bodzentyn (Sygn.126)

    Files of the communal office of Bodzentyn with information about Jews living in the commune. Included are licenses to run industries, lists of landlords (estates and lands), documents related to election to the communal council, tax rates, shares to the firefighting fund, registers of the Bodzentyn region and indexes to the population ledgers, as well as a book of communal resolutions (1910-1938) and a list of births, marriages and death in the synagogue district of Bodzentyn (1923).

  10. Alicia Altmueller collection

    The Alicia Altmueller collection consists of three letters written in August 1947 by three survivors requesting assistance (warm clothing, shoes, physical support) from Mr. J. Garfinkel, Kiever Independent Unterstuzung Verein (KIUV). The three survivors wrote KIUV on behalf of themselves, family and friends from Campo Adriatico IRO, Milan DP. The IRO supported camp was also referred to as Transit Camp Bari, located in Apulia. Names in the letters are as follows: Miriam Kegen along with unnamed husband and daughter, Aron Bakalchuk and Lucy Bakalchuk, Girsch Goberman and Sonia Goberman (née T...

  12. East Prussia, Breslau

    Several short documentaries with titles on East Prussia, Silesia, Transylvania, Refugee Camp in Denmark

  13. Samuel Kramer papers

    Consists of correspondence, memoranda, notes, photographs and similar materials collected by Samuel Kramer, an attorney who was legal counsel to Agudas Chasidei Chabad in Brooklyn, NY, and who worked closely with Rabbi S. Gourary and his father-in-law, the Lubavticher Rebbe Joseph Isaac Schneersohn, in attempts to secure visas for several dozen rabbis and students of the Tomchei Tmimim yeshiva, first so that they could leave Lithuania for Japan, and then from Japan onward, 1940-1941. The “Correspondence” series is the largest component of the collection, and consists primarily of letters fr...

  14. Trip to Italy, 1930s

    Ponte Vechhio, the Duomo, The David, Colosseum, fisherman sitting at the harbor, various Italian sites

  15. Lviv city life

    Lvov, Poland. People on the sidewalk by Mickiewicz Square. Monument dedicated to Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz. Polish officers walk by on the sidewalk. Two men set up a camera on tripod. People on the streets of Lviv. Foot traffic by Mickiewicz Square. KINO building. Two young boys walk towards the camera. Bronze monument to Count Aleksander Fredro. A monument to Kornel Ujejski with a bust of Ujejski at the top. Pedestrians. “PLUTON” shop. Two men carry a banner for the Hungarian-born American actress and singer, Marta Eggerth: “MARTA EGGERTH. PALAC FLANDE” with a photo of one woman’s face o...

  16. Elmer Jesse Fisher papers

    Contains a multi-paged report titled "We Saw Dachau" (V. 1 No. 6) dated "Mon. 14 May 1945." Report written by numerous soldiers, but primarily by Elmer J. Fisher (donor's grandfather). Signed by him, upper left corner of cover. Includes three photographs of post-liberation of trains with corpses, taken near the Dachau camp, dated May 1945.

  17. Romanian photograph collection

    Photographs include Jewish hostages shot in the Soborului Vechi park/garden in Balti, Romania; a Zeppelin; a non-Jewish burial, and an unidentified building in Romania, undated.

  18. Basic training, German soldiers in Ukraine

    Basic training in tank reconnaissance, motorcycle riding, German soldiers. Jassy 1944 (Southern Ukraine). Bazooka. Tank mine. German-Romanian. Gen. Radulesci. Dead civilians. Stanca 1944. Panzer IV, counterattack. 01:29:50 - 01:42:00 Same as M 2574 (http://www.archiv-akh.de/filme/2574#1).

  19. Carl Schurz Tour of American professors and students through Germany in summer 1934

    REEL 1. Portrait bust of Carl Schurz. Title: “The Vereinigung CARL SCHURZ Berlin presents GERMANY 1934. Directed by O.V. Bothmer, Photographed by Erich Menzel, Music by Walter Winnig, Sound by Erich Dolle, Recorded on Klangfilm apparatus Afifa Sound Print Material Agfa.” UFA Rolling title: “This film is a pictorial record of the ‘Carl Schurz Tour’ of American professors and students, representing 26 American universities and other institutions, through Germany in the summer of 1934. With the object of furthering the friendly relations between America and Germany on the basis of mutual under...

  20. Oral history interview with Tania Lefman