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  1. Birthrate enouraged, children & mothers, twins, triplets

    Film encourages German women to have children. Film opens on an hourglass in the Glockenturm in Berlin. The narrator notes that in the five minutes that it takes the hourglass to empty, approximately fifteen children are born in Germany. However, "this is still not enough, if Germany wants to maintain its place in the world." Graphics illustrate the birth rate in Germany in the years since 1871, with a low point of 15 births per 1,000 citizens in the year 1933 and rising dramatically after the Nazis took power. Similar presentation of the marriage rates in Germany. Shots of flowering tress,...

  2. Factories in Łódź

    Newsfilm reportage of factories in Łódź in 1930s. General view of the city, factories, chimneys, workshops, women working at looms, cotton.

  3. Provincial police reports to the Hungarian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MOL K 149 PTI)

    Contains monthly police reports for more than sixty cities; Intelligence on rightists (e.g., Arrow Cross) and leftists (e.g., Social-Democrats and Communists); various nationalities (Ruthenians, Germans, Slovaks, and others); religious sects (e.g., Jehovah’s Witnesses); and Jews, including refugees from Slovakia; Secret reports on public opinion generally and among suspect groups in particular about political, military, and economic affairs.

  4. Book Eine berftändlichmachung und klarlegung zahlreicher bibelgeheimniffe. Die "lichtblitze" Jehovas und die gegenivartsereigniffe find der schlüffel zu berborgenem und offenbaren den menschen ewiggültige wahrheiten

    The collection consists of five books written by Jehovah's Witnesses that were among the titles of books burned by the Nazis in 1933

  5. Baksztanska and Sierpinski families papers

    The Baksztanska and Sierpinski families papers include biographical material and photographs relating to the pre-war and wartime experiences of Wiera Baksztanska, Stanisław Sierpinski, and their families in Poland and Russia. The collection includes false identity papers and documents Wiera obtained while living in the Warsaw ghetto and in hiding as well as correspondence and writings relating to Stanisław’s work as a physician in the Polish underground. Biographical material includes a false identity card (Kennkarte) for Wiera under the name of Zofia Weronika Wojtuńska, certificates statin...

  6. Bierzonski family papers

    The Bierzonski family papers consist of documents and photographs relating to Viktor, Bronia, and Gerda’s attempts to immigrate to the United States and Cuba and Bronia and Gerda’s time in hiding. Included in the collection is a German Fremdenpass for Viktor, a diary kept by Gerda while attending a Jewish boarding school in Switzerland in 1944, immigration papers relating to the family’s attempts to flee Germany, and pre-war and wartime photographs of the Bierzonski and Lefkowitz families. Gerta began her diary during her stay at Pensionnat Marta Marcus, in Clarens-sur-Montreux, Switzerland...

  7. Louis Papageorge photographs

    The Louis Papageorge photographs consist of ten photographs, 16 enlarged photographs, and eight negatives taken by Papageorge depicting victims of the "Abtnaundorf massacre" at the Leipzig-Thekla subcamp of Buchenwald in April 1945; two street scenes in Hof, Germany, including a group of captured German troops being escorted past the office where Papageorge was stationed in May 1945; and two buildings in Leipzig identified as the city hall and justice building. Leipzig-Thekla was a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp established in 1943 to supply labor for the German war effort. As...

  8. Buchenwald photograph collection

    Contains four photographs taken by John McGinnis, a member of the 553rd Military Police Escort Guard Company, upon the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp.

  9. Drevich family collection

    Consists of an 101-page manuscript and twenty photographs. The manuscript, "An Auschwitz memoir," written by Arka Drevich donor's father describes his experiences in the Auschwitz concentration camp from 1942 to 1945. Photographs show the Drevich family life before and after World War II; most photographs were taken in the Föhrenwald displaced persons camp in Germany between 1946 and 1948.

  10. Hitler at opening of Autobahn (Breslau to Kreibau)

    Hitler opens the stretch of the Autobahn between Breslau and Kreibau. Narrator: In ten different places segments of the Autobahn were opened at the same time. This completes the first 1000 km. Hitler opens the stretch between Breslau and Kreibau. Hitler arriving, greeted by crowds. He consults a map with two men, then speaks from a podium (quality changes - very dark). He waves his finger as he says that these streets will not be destroyed in five or ten years as were those from earlier... Hitler rides standing up in his car down the street, adored by the crowds. Men run alongside his car. ...

  11. Rivka Radzinski photograph collection

    Consists of approximately 186 pre-war photographs taken from the photograph album of Rivka Radzinski of Warsaw, Poland. Rivka, her father Dawid, a Zionist activist, and her mother, Miriam Twersky, were killed in the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

  12. David Glick's JDC mission to South America

    EXT, Lima Peru. LS, camera pans a shanty town at the base of the Andes Mountains. VS of clear blue sky, clouds and mountains as seen from the window of an airplane, the plane's wing is visible in the FG. EXT, a city in the main plaza and on city streets. The cameraman concentrates on capturing images of the indigenous people in traditional dress with bundles, packages and even their children on their heads or backs. Men, women and children are featured. People in the BG of several shots wear contemporary Western style clothing, and look much more European. 01:26 La Paz and surroundings. The...

  13. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 50 kronen, issued in Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The currency was designed by inmate Peter Kien and printed by the National Bank of Prague. Inmates received the scrip according to a 5-tiered distribution system or as payment for conscript labor arranged by the Jewish Council of Elders who administered the daily life of the ghetto for the Germans. It is unclear what, if anything, could be purchased with the scrip,...

  14. Pencil portrait sketch of a German Jewish refugee

    Portrait sketch of Kurt Singer saved by his daughter, Margot. It was drawn by Clara Asscher-Pinkhof in 1942 in Amsterdam when he lived there as a refugee from Nazi Germany. Singer was a neurologist and the Director of the Berlin Opera. Soon after the Nazis came to power in 1933, he lost his position at the Opera due to a law that ousted Jewish civil servants from public positions. In May, he co-founded the Judische Kulturbund, a Jewish cultural organization. In 1938, his daughter, Margot, left for Switzerland, and in 1940, to Palestine. That October, Kurt left for a one year appointment at ...

  15. Selected records of the Umwandererzentrale Litzmannstadt/Posen (R 75)

    Contains records related to the forced expulsion of Jews and Poles from Litzmannstadt (Łódź) and Poznań (Posen), Poland, and the insertion of ethnic Germans ("Volksdeutsche") in their place.

  16. March of Time -- outtakes -- Refugees on the move in northern France and Belgium

    Refugees in northern France and Flanders. Refugees, mostly women and children sit in the backs of trucks, looking at the camera. A group of men and women stand with bicycles and wagons in front of the awning of a bar. Horse-drawn wagons drive off. French soldiers march through a town. A few spectators watch their progress and wave at the men. People with bundles strapped to bicycles stand on the street. A group of them move off down the street, watched by other people in the street. A nice shot of people wheeling their bundle-laden bikes past several destroyed buildings. Refugees on an open...

  17. Selected records of the Hungarian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MOL K 149 BM res.)

    This collection includes documents relating mainly to matters as: Communists movements; maters of neighboring states; the Hungarian Nationalists Party movements; Arrow Cross Party activities; Passport and naturalization issues; minority affairs; press affairs; parties and associations affairs; banning Jewish affairs meetings, and “Hungarista movements”. Contains signed and anonymous denunciations; decisions to grant or deny petitions; orders imposing police surveillance, round-ups, arrests, internment, deportations, mobilization, or the confiscation of property; instructions, monthly report...

  18. Liberated Czechoslovakia: American troops greeted by joyful crowds

    Cheering crowds greet American troops. This appears to be the same location as footage found in Story 4380. Medium shot of a man in a crowd wearing a hat and holding a movie camera. The people around him are waving and smiling. 01:26:30 Shot of a slate which provides the date 4/7/45. Men and women standing in the street. Many of them are waving white handkerchiefs. One person is holding an American flag and another is waving a Czech flag. A man wearing a trench coat waves his hat wildly at the camera. A blonde woman in red smiles at the camera and waves. She is wearing the Czech coat of arm...

  19. Bourstin family collection

    Consists of post-war photographs regarding the Holocaust experiences of Rachel Bourstin. Includes post-war photographs of Rachel and her family, including recent photographs with a survivor group, "Les Fils et Filles des Deportes Juifs de France," and photographs of family members who perished.

  20. Pollack family collection

    Contains birth certificates of Dorothy Pollack's three aunts, born in Libou, Latvia. Her aunts Sarah and Zelma Mau perished in the Holocaust, while Bette Mau survived the war in Moscow.