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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Clip from the propaganda film about the 1934 Reich Party Day

    An aerial shot of the Luitpold Arena shows three men walking between rows and rows of men standing in formation. They are walking in the direction of the Hall of Honor. A slow panning shot from behind the columns at the front shows a band playing and reveals the three men to be Hitler, Himmler, and Viktor Lutze, who took over as top SA man after the murder of Ernst Roehm. They stop before a huge wreath in front of the memorial, which served the Nazis as a memorial to those Nazis who died in the Beer Hall Putsch.

  2. Frankfurt: food; DP camp Zeilsheim

    (MUN 376) City of Frankfurt - Food, Frankfurt and vicinity, Germany, August 19-20, 1946. LS, CUs cattle grazing in field near Heidelberg. CUs, cattle. SEQ: weighing and registering wheat. Middle-aged man and woman walking along path in park, same with man and child. MS, carton of cigarettes being exchanged for marks. LS, CU, black market dealer refusing to accept money, takes wrist watch in exchange for a package of food. LS, building which is part of DP camp at Zeilsheim. SEQ: people rummaging through garbage dump at Bad Vibel. CU, tin cans and refuse. INTs showing rooms in prosperous farm...

  3. Army film on postwar devastation and the threat of disease

    Orientation Film no. 17: shows widespread devastation and deprivation resulting from the war and conducive to disease and epidemics. Reel 1: Explains how these dangers can be combated. Contains many scenes of personal suffering of war refugees and displaced persons. Shows how uncontrolled reunions spread diseases.

  4. "The Story of the Szwarcbard, Cyterszpiler, and Minc Families"

    Consists of one memoir, on CD-ROM, entitled "The Story of the Szwarcbard, Cyterszpiler, and Minc Families" by Jerzy Kubowski. The memoir, which is in Russian, Polish, and English, includes excerpts from various family members' memoirs, letters, and copies of photographs and drawings. Members of the family were able to immigrate, while others were sent to the Warsaw ghetto. Some survived the ghetto, while others either perished in the ghetto or in the Treblinka extermination camp.

  5. Robert Julian Weill letter

    The Robert Julian Weill letter consists of one letter, dated May 17, 1945, from Major Robert Julian Weill to his wife, Lou Ellen Weill. Major Weill served with the 42nd Rainbow Division and participated in the liberation of Dachau concentration camp. In the letter, Major Weill reports that he has assumed control of a German prisoner of war camp near Kufstein, Austria, and remarks upon the irony that he, a Jewish man, is in charge of the Germans.

  6. Gendarmerie County of Ciechanów Żandarmeria Powiat Ciechanów (Sygn. 499)

    Reports on activities and functions of the gendarmerie, regulations and other documents.

  7. Return home: from the diary of Ms. Gorzędowska

    Collection contains an excerpt from the donor's diary describing her underground schoolwork in the Warsaw ghetto from 1940 to her Gestapo arrest in May 1943. After being beaten in the Warsaw prison, Gorzędowska was sent to Auschwitz until January 1945. On January 17, 1945, she and others were led on a four-day march to an unnamed train depot, packed into boxcars, and taken to Ravensbrück; she arrived on January 25, 1945. In February 1945, she and others were transported to a camp located at Neustadt-Gleve. While there, Gorzędowska was able to be detailed to "house help" in the children's b...

  8. DPs: food supplies; hospital; washing clothes

    (LIB 4071) Russian Slave Labor, Keynberg, Germany, 1944? EXT, displaced persons in front of AMG office. HAS, delivery of food supplies. CU, DP cuts beef with knife and axe. Pan, line of Russians who served in slave labor battalion await ration issue. CU, bread ration. INTs (underexposed) DPs are cared for in hospital. EXT, group of Russian male civilians singing, one plays accordion. CU, faces of DPs (one man has long black beard). Delousing Russian women. Women washing clothes in stream. Additional scenes, issuance of rations including meats, cigarettes, and bread.

  9. Goebbels talks to US reporter Ward Price

    Josef Goebbels speaks to Ward Price (US reporter for the Daily Mail). MS Goebbels and Price, both in suits, seated on a park bench. Partial translation from Raye Farr's notes (1972): Goebbels: "I am of the firm conviction that peace must be kept in Europe. If war were to come, it would be the greatest misfortune for the world. And however it might end for the victors, the conquered would endure the most terrible suffering. And so it will be the Reich government's policy to try to keep peace no matter what, and to relieve the people's suffering, their anxiety, their unemployment." [original ...

  10. Northern France; French Militia; Underground members

    Map of Northern France, "the battle for northern France." French militia come out of barracks, at attention with barbed wire in FG. CU of militia arm patch and face of militiaman. Prisoners (members of resistance) are led out doorway and marched away with their hands over their heads. CU of prisoner wearing glasses with his hands up, prisoners being questioned. Two cars used by underground (FFI) shot up on road, CU of bullet riddled windshield. Bicyclist searched by Germans at checkpoint. Auto is stopped, old man and passenger inspected by German. Germans walk up road and talk to farmer who...

  11. Ilia Ehrenbourg speaks.

    Ilya Ehrenbourg, the great Soviet poet and writer, speaks. He and several men, are seated around a large table having a discussion before he begins to speak to the camera. Intertitle in Ukrainian: "Ilya Ehrenbourg visits Kiev." Translation: Honored writer Ilya Ehrenbourg is visiting Kiev. In a writers' circle, he reads from his poem "March 18th", which speaks about the occupation of Paris, France

  12. "Against the Odds"

    Consists of one memoir, 79 pages, entitled "Against the Odds," written in 1998 by Greta Grossman Lake, originally of Mikulov (Nikolsburg), Czechoslovakia. She describes her childhood in Mikulov, her family life, her memories of World War I, and her marriage in 1932 to George Lakenbacher. Despite difficulty, the couple, who were converted Catholics, along with Greta's brother Joe and his family, were able to immigrate to France in 1938. In 1942, after the first waves of arrests in the Langeac area, George escaped to Spain, but was arrested across the border and interned at the Miranda del Eb...

  13. Indictment: Opening Petition for the Auschwitz Trial Antrag auf Eröffnung des Hauptverfahrens, Anklageschrift, Landgericht Frankfurt am Main

    Contains files from the opening of the main proceedings of the first Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial.

  14. "A Visit by Eisenhower"

    Consists of a four-page typescript, written by Eli Rock, entitled "A Visit by Eisenhower." The subject is the writer's observations of a visit by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Gen. George S. Patton Jr. to the Feldafing displaced persons camp in Jul. 1945.

  15. Munich Agreement conference

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 10, No. 709, Part 2. Release date, 10/10/1938. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: "Four-power Parley brings Peace" Munich, Germany. The conference between Europe's leaders that averted war! Spectacular scenes as Prime Minister Chamberlain of England, Premier Daladier of France, and Il Duce arrive at the flag-bedecked city for the epochal agreement over Czechoslovakia. Other parts of the newsreel include: 11:37:29 4A: "Yanks Sweep World Series" 11:39:01 4B: "Grid Thrills of the Week", Los Angeles, CA 11:39:50 4C: "Grid Thrills of the Week", Atlanta, GA ...

  16. Michael Lowenthal collection

    Collection of documents, photographs, and correspondence illustrating Alfred and Herta Gotthilf Levy and their son Heinz. Included are receipts and correspondence between Alfred Levy and his colleague Andreas van Mierlo, who sent packages to the family in Vught, s'Hertogenbosch, and Westerbork concentration camps between 1943-1945; post-war correspondence concerning Heinz, who survived, mainly to the van Mierlo family from Klara Gotthilf, Heinz's maternal grandmother in Switzerland; and accounting, through an attorney of possessions left in Edem, the Netherlands upon the family's deportatio...

  17. JDC supplies unloaded for refugees in Cyprus

    Dockworkers unload relief supplies (most likely in port of Famagusta) for Jewish refugees held in British detainee camps on Cyprus (from August 1946 to February 11, 1949). The Joint provided food, medical, and welfare supplies and other services for detainees. Two men wheel a box filled with fish. Boxes offloaded from a ship by a crane, the boxes lowered. Boxes of fish are loaded on hand trucks by dockworkers and carted away. Men move a large wooden board labeled “AJDC 832 CYPRUS”. Workers carry large sacks on their shoulders. Ship in BG. CU of fish in open box as it is wheeled past, truck ...

  18. Jewish officials, DPs at Bensheim

    (Munich No. 375) Jewish Officials at Bensheim, Bensheim, Germany, April 8, 1946. Jacob Blaustein, I.L. Kenen and Chaplain Friedman visit Bensheim Jewish DP center. MS, CU, displaced adults and children. Children marching through the camp street. Blaustein and Chaplain Friedman with group of DPs. More of young boys and girls marching energetically. Officials arrive at Victory Club, where they were to stay. Greeted by Judge Phillip Forman, Joint Distribution Committee, and Dr. Nahum Goldmann of the Jewish Agency for Palestine.

  19. Borge and Tove Siebern scrapbooks

    Consists of five scrapbooks assembled while Bjorn Siebern, former Danish policeman and member of the resistance, and his wife, sometime between 1964 and 1973. They contain a combination of wartime photographs, documents, and three-dimensional objects documenting all aspects of the German occupation of Denmark. Some documents relate directly to Mr. Siebern's work, including ID cards, false IDs and forgery stamps. He assumed multiple identities during the war. There are also leaflets dropped over Denmark, Nazi propaganda and anti-Nazi cartoons. The photos include photos of German officials, D...

  20. Torczyner collection

    Contains documents about the activities of the Maccabi Aid Committee and the Maccabi World Union. The activities involved the 1939 organization of illegal transports of Jewish refugees travelling by boat on the Danube River from Vienna, Austria, across Hungary and Yugoslavia, to Palestine. Another activity was to find a place in Bolivia to settle hundreds of Jewish refugees. Includes an atlas of Bolivia. Also includes corresdondence between various members of the family living as refugees in Palestine, Shanghai, China, and Havana, Cuba. The Palestine branch of the Torczyner family are survi...