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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Ford-Eifel automobile

    Ford "Eifel" is a car manufactured by Ford Germany between 1935 and 1940. NSKK men conduct cars during off-road driving, Hitler salute from moving cars, subtitles: "The third day started with rain", car collection point, Wehrmacht soldiers, salute from car at the destination, celebration at Kynsburg, award of the winners (Werner Huth, Breslau), " Exit from Silesia ”, detailed list of the winners. Ford end titles. Pictures by Rolf-Dietrich Nath, Agfa cameraman, later PK film reporter. 10:07:30 gas station, repair Ford, Kynsburg, Lower Silesia, Wroclaw 10:11:06 Nazi women support the driver 1...

  2. Nazi conquest of Czechoslovakia: Berchtesgaden

    A documentary about the conquest of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis just prior to World War II. Berchtesgaden deal.

  3. Warsaw after bombing 1939, aerial views

    Low aerial shots of Warsaw after bombing.Warschau 1939 (in German print) Nor fur den Dienstgebruch! Diest ist ein geheimer Gegenstand im Sinnedes 88 Reichs, Strufges etzbuchs (04/24/34) Low aerial town, buildings some with smoke Augsgebrannte haufer and Gebaude blocks; thick black scratch; facade of big municipal buildings, interior bombed out, pan up wreckage of brick building, wrought iron balconies, twisted artfully in to sky; down an alley, bombed out buildings; MS and MLS QF, people and sidewalk, deserted rubbly courtyard; in front of palace only facades, pedestrians, down a humble str...

  4. Jewish Council in Pińsk Rada Żydowska w Pińsku (Sygn.224/1)

    Contains records of the Jewish council in Pińsk. Includes a payroll for the Jewish council workers in Pińsk.

  5. Foreign Office: Confidential correspondence

    The collection consists of correspondence and reports of the British Foreign Office concerning the situation for Jews in the Balkans. Also contains a file concerning the investigation of Nazi medical experiments on human beings.

  6. War Crimes Trials: Milch Case

    (Munich 669) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 2 (Milch Case), Nuremberg, Germany. Off-screen voice of unidentified attorney addressing the court in German. The defendants (German generals of the High Command) filing into the courtroom. MLS, the Tribunal. Chief Justice making the opening speech. Brig. Gen. Telford Taylor, the chief prosecutor, reading the indictment against the defendants.

  7. Liberation - Yugoslavia

    Airfield, airplane. Group of men converse. Injured POWs exit building. US soldier inspects wounds. Boys marching, some have bandages around heads. Group of girls marching. Children dancing in circle. Doctors examine children, CUs of wounds. US photographer plays with young boy who is knitting. Children dancing. Crowd of children running and playing with ropes. CU, sign on building in Serbo-Croatian. Yugoslav? soldiers on horses riding through villages. Peasants/civilians wave and cheer as they pass. Different angles, more shots of soldiers. MS,CUs children waving. CUs, troops marching past ...

  8. Jewish Memorial Pageant - "We Shall Never Die"

    Memorial service/pageant/event organized by the "Committee for a Jewish Army of Stateless and Palestinian Jews," dedicated to the "two million Jewish dead of Europe." LS of stage with big cast and chorus. MCU of Paul Muni reading (dramatically) about "the problem [belonging to] humanity." VLS participants, rabbis, actors (including Rod Steiger), etc on stage. Reciting Kaddish.

  9. Memorial to police

    Title on screen: "Ein Ehrenmal der Polizei auf dem Horst Wessel-Platz in Berlin enthuellt. Unweit dieser Stelle wurden vor drei Jahren die Polizei Hauptleute Anlauf und Lenk von Kommunisten ermordert. [The unveiling of a memorial to the police on the Horst Wessel Plazt in Berlin. Three years ago the police captains Anlauf and Lenk were murdered by communists]." A policeman stands and speaks at a flag-draped podium. He salutes at the end of his speech. The crowd salutes as the memorial is uncovered. Members of the military march past the memorial. Good shots of police in uniform, including c...

  10. Two songs from the Anders' Army Performing Ensemble

    Songs from the repertoire of the 2 Korpus Polski (Anders' Army) Performing Ensemble. Privately recorded in Rome, Italy, 1945. Side A: Czekam (piosenka dla lotnika) [I am waiting (song for an aviator)] Music: Henryk Wars Words: Ref-Ren (Feliks Konarski) Vocalists: Renata Bogdańska; Filip Ende. Performing ensemble of the 2 Korpus Polski: Wydział Dobrobytu Żołnierza (Polish 2nd Corps, Soldier Welfare Department) Music Director: Henryk Wars Plyta Polska - La voce del padrone (BA-5928 N. 205). Side B: Gdzie Najlepiej (piosenka lwówska) [Where was it best (song about Lwów)] Music: Henryk Wars Wor...

  11. German educational film: African apes

    This short educational film features the apes of Africa in their natural habitat. VS of gorillas interacting with each other. There is a long sequence of two gorillas fighting, and VS of gorillas climbing trees. The subject shifts from Gorillas to Baboons. VS of baboons in their natural habitat, eating, interacting, etc. There are several good shots of a mother cleaning her young and teaching a baby to climb a tree. Sequence of baboons escaping some sort of unseen danger, CU of one alerting the group and then VS of the group running away across a stream (in slow motion.) They leap through t...

  12. Selected records of commune Pass Akta gminy Pass (Sygn. 60)

    The register of sought people from the Pass commune in Poland.

  13. Liberman and Tencer families papers

    Contains correspondence from the Liberman family in Lublin, addressed to their daughter Stefania Liberman Tencer (donor’s mother) in Lvov and later in Rovno, dated 1940-1941; from Rozka Zafsztajn and from Mrs. K. Tencer in Radom (donor’s paternal grandmother); postcard from Kazimierz Tencer (donor’s father) during his service in the Polish Army to his wife in Rovno, c. 1944; certificate regarding Stefania Tencer’s employment in Rovno in 1944 and her CV, in Russian; letters from cousins in Tel Aviv, c. 1947, in Polish; from Mr. Borensztajn c. 1947, in Yiddish; and letters from Elek in Torun ...

  14. Esther Kerdeman photographs

    Consists of four enlarged photographs taken of members of the Jewish Brigade, likely taken in the Netherlands in 1946, and one enlarged photograph taken of the interior of an exhibit entitled "Les Juifs en France" ["The Jews in France"] described on the verso as the version of the exhibit shown in Bordeaux, France, in March 1942. The photographs were collected by Esther Kerdeman, who worked for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee in the Netherlands in 1946.

  15. My life story hiding in Budapest as Christian

    Describes Magda Lipner's childhood in Czechoslovakia; the confiscation of her father's business; her use of a false identification document; her escape to Budapest, Hungary, and her work in a munitions factory; the death of family members; and her liberation from forced labor, reunion with a sister, and immigration to Chile and then to the United States in 1959.

  16. Peter Masters collection

    Material pertaining to the experiences of Peter Masters (donor's husband) [nee Arany] a Viennese Jewish refugee who served in the British commandos: Album with material documenting his service in 3 Troop of the British Commandos which contains photographs of various servicemen, documents and shoulder patches; Peter Masters's Solder's Service Pay Book; Precis on Military Law; Maps of Germany used in Peter Masters's military service; Confiscated service card from German POW; Correspondence from other members of 3 Troop, their families, and historians; Information about the fate of Peter Giles...

  17. Corpses on sidewalks, passers-by, loading coffins

    Jewish-mortality chart. Shots of people walking by corpse on the sidewalk; some are running. Coffin wagon in street stops, men carry out plain coffin and drag body into it. Group of men carries and then loads coffin into wagon and walk it away. Two emaciated corpses laid out on sidewalk, people pass by. Men bring cart to bodies and begin to load them.

  18. Lederer Collection

    The Leder collection consists of two documents regarding the ability to receive packages in Theresienstadt. The first is a document issued to Marie Lederer regarding her ability to receive packages in Theresienstadt from Irma Horner in Prague, July 20, 1944. The second document concerns the ability of Dr. Bernhard Mandl, in Theresienstadt, to receive packages from Rudla Kilian in Prague, September 16, 1944.

  19. Freezing experiments presented at Medical trial

    (Munich 480) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. MLS Prosecutor Alexander Hardy speaking of the freezing experiment reports. MLS, Hardy reads a letter from Sigmund Rascher who writes of his work and asks for captured Russians to be used for freezing experiments. MS, defendants in dock.

  20. 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.