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Language of Description: German
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  1. My memories of Raoul Wallenberg

    Contains a memoir with Tomas Kaufmann's reminiscences of the assistance given to him by Raoul Wallenberg.

  2. March of Time -- outtakes -- US Newspaper Correspondents in Paris

    Harry's New York Bar. General view, Paris correspondents at table, left to right: Edgar Mowrer of "Chicago Daily News" (once kicked out of Germany), Robert Parker, Jr. of Associated Press, replacing Lloyd during latter's vacation. Ralph Heinzen of United Press. Bill Reed of International News Service (crashed the party, leaving Paris shortly for New York, future job unknown). John Whittaker, formerly with "Chicago Tribune," then in Paris office of "Chicago Daily News." CUs of Mowrer, Heinzen, Whittaker, Parker and Reed (together). These shots were made at Harry's although Paris corresponden...

  3. Book

  4. Doily with embroidered yellow, red, and pink flowers recovered postwar by a Polish Jewish girl

    Doily with embroidered flowers recovered by 17 year old Masza Senderowksi after the war from the house of a non-Jewish neighbor who had looted the Senderowski home. It was likely embroidered by one of her older sisters, Frieda or Lea, who were presumed killed during the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto in Zdzieciol, Poland (Dziatlava, Belarus.) Masza, her parents, and three sisters lived in Zdzieciol, which was occupied by German troops in June 1941. In August 1942, as the Germans prepared to liquidate the ghetto, the residents were ordered to the village center. Masza, then 14, and her two...

  5. Slonim Jews' Association memorial bronze medal

  6. Airplanes; German POWs; VE Day in Paris

    Planes flying over countryside. Pilots getting onto planes. Taking off, landing. Man holds Nazi flag. 01:41:05 German POWs in front of barbed wire, speaking (no sound). 01:42:25 Celebrating VE Day in streets of Paris. People waving flags, parade, crowd cheering. Nurses and soldiers on Army hospital grounds. Beautifully dressed women, families on the street, marching, saluting. Soldiers kissing women. VAR CUs, French women. Girl with flag. Families. US cameraman on tank. VAR shots, excited civilians posing for the camera. Airplane.

  7. Strafing; VE Day in London

    Aerial shots of GSAP strafing town, vehicles on road, trains (pilots' names indicated on cameraman's slates). Dive bombing marshalling yard. 01:20:26 CU of Winston Churchill, the King, Allan Brooke, etc. Large crowd behind the gate leading to Buckingham Palace. Square filled with people. More GSAP strafing targets.

  8. UJA fundraising film about Jewish refugees

    From Cinematography of the Holocaust catalog: The long journey, by train, then bus, and then by ship, until refugees finally reach Israel. The poor facilities and the lack of care for the patients and the urgency for help. A former prison is used as a mental institution because no other facilities were available at that time. Shotlist: Jewish refugees arriving. CREDITS. GV: City (Vienna?). Train arriving at station and refugees alighting. Refugees proceeding to waiting bus. Jewish Agency official processing papers. GVs: Transit camp. Refugees at transit camp, having meal. Pictures of Israel...

  10. Pre-war Jewish life in a Jewish shtetl

    Amateur footage taken by an American Jew, Joseph Shapiro, during a visit to relatives in Horodok (Gorodok), a Polish shtetl, said to have been located somewhere between Minsk and Vilna. Milk and bagels are distributed to hungry children at an outdoor party. In addition, there are school scenes, market scenes, people going up and down the main street on foot and in horsedrawn wagons, women at work, wooden houses and farm animals.

  11. Gusen liberation document

    Contains a document summarizing the prisoner population at the Gusen concentration camp on May 3, 1945. According to the document on 3 May there were 21338 prisoners; 72 prisoners died and 21266 prisoners remained.

  12. March of Time -- outtakes -- Liberation of Paris

    Paris Liberation, 1946-1947. Overturned burning truck, exploding. Allied tank painted with cross of Lorraine. FFI men painting over captured German cavalry. French gendarme. Priest getting escorted under Red Cross flag. Man getting into ambulance. Gates of Paris, cemetary, graves of French patriots. Banner on the street with a German inscription. FFI men dismantling light machine gun.

  13. Celia Lee collection

    Consists of 12 pre-World War II photographs depicting the family of Celia Horwitz (later Celia Lee) in Germany and in England, and documents, correspondence, newspaper articles, and song lyrics relating to the history and experiences of the Horwitz family.

  14. Berlin after liberation

    Bomb damage in Berlin. Shots of Kaiser Temple, French Cathedral, Victory Column, Berlitz School sign above Mercedes-Benz entrance, theater, Cafe Vienna, Kaiserhof Hotel (Hitler's balcony). Civilians cleaning up debris, bucket brigade. Field Marshall Montgomery and Marshal Zhukov inspecting troops. Civilians pulling wagons loaded with possessions. MCU of children.

  15. Alex Sonnenfeld Trial papers

    Contains a trial transcript for James Alex Sonnenfeld, who was arrested in Berlin on June 12, 1936, for allegedly having sexual relations with a half-Jewish female after the passage of the Nuremberg laws.

  16. Book

  17. Message from David Ben Gurion

    A message from David Ben Gurion. Talking head shot of David Ben Gurion, Prime Minister of the State of Israel. Ben Gurion discusses the Israeli response to Egyptian aggression.

  18. March of Time -- outtakes -- Newspaper Correspondents

    August 13 and 16, 1937. Interior scenes with sound. MS, Westbrook Pegler typing in his office. CU, Pegler. CU, copy being typed. CU, wider angle, copy being typed. MS, Pegler discussing fascist and communist press attitudes (several takes). Interior scenes with sound. MS, Pegler discussing fascist and communist press attitudes. CU, Pegler (several takes). First 280 feet of roll, interior with incidental sound. Last 120 feet of roll, exterior-silent. MCU, Gilbert Seldes working in study of his home (2 takes). CUs, Seldes copy on typewriter (from different angles).

  19. Jews in Warsaw, Poland

    Unidentified footage, some in Warsaw. People walking in street. CUs of old man. Men working in street. Soft shots of Jewish men. CU of Jewish man (seen in newsreel). Unidentified footage of large group of Jewish men seated on ground (looks like round-up). Street scenes in Warsaw, Jewish district. German soldier directs people. Title: "Judentypen" CUs Jewish men on street. Shot of Warsaw main station. Title: "Mit der Kleinbahn zum HKD Gora-Calvaria" Flash of footage. Title: "Juden-Getto in Warschau" Street scene, pedestrians with armbands. CU sign: "Rogatschew" (seen before).

  20. Placing grave markers at Lidice, postwar

    Amateur footage. Opening shot, LS from high angle to green valley below, many Czech flags, on tall flagpoles waving in the valley below. People gathered in the valley, milling about. MCU, women, children and a nurse, with their backs to the camera standing outside of what appears to be a rescue or ambulance vehicle, the vehicle is bright red with a blue stripe, lettering on the truck is illegible due to poor image quality. MCU, a man and two women seated on a horse drawn carriage, they are all wearing shawls, their heads are covered and they look away from the camera. VS, men, women and chi...