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Language of Description: German
Language of Description: English

  1. Coin

    Commemorative coin issued on fiftieth anniversary of the deportation of the Jewish population from Kolin, Czech Republic.

  2. Toy car set used by child on the Kindertransport

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn13908
    • English
    • a: Height: 12.750 inches (32.385 cm) | Width: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) | Depth: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) b: Height: 12.750 inches (32.385 cm) | Width: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) | Depth: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) c: Height: 12.500 inches (31.75 cm) | Width: 3.690 inches (9.373 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) d: Height: 10.500 inches (26.67 cm) | Width: 3.750 inches (9.525 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) e: Height: 10.500 inches (26.67 cm) | Width: 3.750 inches (9.525 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) f: Height: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) | Width: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Depth: 1.380 inches (3.505 cm) g: Height: 6.750 inches (17.145 cm) | Width: 3.370 inches (8.56 cm) | Depth: 3.120 inches (7.925 cm)

  3. Poster

    Poster, printed in multi-color ink, with image of a dragon wearing a British union jack and a crown with a Star of David swimming across the ocean and blocked by a French figure. The caption on the bottom reads, "La France est le bastion avance de l'Europe Defends La!"

  4. March of Time -- outtakes -- munitions/arms factory

    Can 28. 100 feet. VS, different angles of a red hot steel ingot being carried on a crane to the pressing machine. VS, ingot on machine being pressed and rounded into shape for making a cannon. Can 29. 100 feet. VS, different angles of red hot steel lengths for barrels of rifles, being beaten into shape by workman with hammer. CU, steel being taken out of machine. Can 30. 100 feet. Lt. Col. Letov of the Czech army inspecting bolts for army rifles. Letov walking into picture, checking up on man at testing machine and inspecting various trucks filled with bolts. CU, Letov inspecting bolt. CU o...

  5. VE Day, Germany

    VE Day in Heidelberg, Germany. 6th Army Group and 1st Tactical Air Force at mass on VE Day. INT, cathedral, priest making the sign of the cross, celebrating mass. Germans gathered outside of cathedral watching soldiers and officers leaving service. Gen. Robert Morris Webster and Gen. Ned Sohramm leaving cathedral, walking to their cars. Webster and Sohramm entering cathedral, followed by officers and enlisted men of the 6th Army Group and 1st Tactical Air Force. Servicemen presenting arms, marching, and parade rest. Germans watching parade. INT of cathedral with group standing as prayer is ...

  6. Blue, white and yellow Jewish Relief Unit Star of David badge worn by a German Jewish nurse

    JRU [Jewish Relief Unit] Star of David shaped pin worn by 26 year old Alice Redlich while working as a nurse at Bergen Belsen displaced persons camp. The British Army liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on April 15, 1945, and it then became a DP camp. Alice had left Germany in 1938 to study nursing in Great Britain. She volunteered with the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad and, in September 1946, arrived with Team 110 in Bergen-Belsen. She cared for infants, children and young women, and taught hygiene. When Alice left Berlin, she left behind her parents Ella and Georg and younger ...

  7. March of Time -- outtakes -- Red Army advances; destruction of Warsaw

    On the Eastern Front. Russian Newsreel. Slate in Russian: "Front Issues-First Belorussian Front, 1945" Russian officers studying map. Explosions on Visla riverbanks. Underground bunkers. Map with Russian names of the Western Front, showing Red Army advancing. Dead German soldiers. Russian and Polish soldiers put up a Polish flag (Polish Hymn heard in BG). Destroyed Warsaw. Ruins of: University; theater; Chopin's home; streetcars. Sign "Adolph Hitler Platz." Warsaw inhabitants march on street with orchestra. Red Army, Polish Army, crowds.

  8. Lester Klein photograph collection

    Consists of six photographs depicting Lester Klein's family in Hungary before World War II and in the United States after the war.

  9. Book

  10. March of Time -- outtakes -- President & Madame Benes

    Reel 52, 100 feet. Two shots, different angles of the President's Palace in Prague. CU, flag on the President's Palace. CU, Czech officer in Italian uniform on duty at the Palace, this uniform is still worn by certain troops in memory of the Czech legion who fought with the Italian army in the war. CU, sentry. Can 74, 100 feet. Several shots of the changing of the guard at the President's Palace. A Czech army band followed by a company of the Czech Italian legion marching into the courtyard of the Palace, with the crowd watching. VS in the courtyard of the Italian legion taking over from th...

  11. Israel, Jewish refugees, relief efforts

    Notes taken from NCJF documentation: Animated stills, followed by live action. CU, smiling woman. LS, people on ship waving, old woman eating, child, doctor. Man hammering, training cobblers, blacksmiths. Refugees at dock. Tractor plowing. Irrigation trench. House with Star of David on roof. Construction of building, pouring metal. Soldiers on horseback. Railways, building a road, more animated stills.

  12. Liberation of Buchenwald

    Liberation of Buchenwald, the Nazi concentration camp in Germany. MCUs, Trucks lined up outside of camp, French prisoners getting out and standing beside trucks, waiting to go home; trucks leaving camp with prisoners waving and signing. HASs prisoners walking around camp and courtyard. MCUs, MSs, pile of corpses, funeral wreaths of pine and ribbon hanging on each side of window. MLS, MS, flags erected by Czechoslovakian prisoners; memorial made by prisoners and erected in memory of the 51,000 dead from the KLB (Konzentrations Lager Buchenwald). MCUs, prisoner behind barbed wire sleeping on ...

  14. Toiletry kit

    The toiletry kit was given to and/or used by the Strochlitz family in a displaced persons camp in Berlin, Germany. The kit was hand-carried by family members when they emigrated to the United States. The kit contains: a-leather case, b- nail file, c- scissors, d- brush, e- brush with handle and f- soap dish with soap. There are several items missing from the kit.

  15. The future of European Jewry

    From opening credits of film: "The story of Europe's Jews Today as told by Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Herbert H. Lehman, Edward M.M. Warburg, Harold F. Linder, Moses A. Leavitt. This film has been made possible by the active guidance and counsel of Al Paul Lefton and the cooperation of numerous persons and organizations including: United Jewish Appeal, South African Jewish Appeal, United Jewish Relief Agencies of Canada, News of the Day, Paramount News, Film-Polski, Decca Reocrds, The American Federation of Musicians, Larry Adler, and others." Leaders of the JDC convene in New York City to disc...

  16. Organization of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

    Includes title of the film and intertitles. From opening credits of the film (Foreword): "American Jews at the outbreak of the World War in 1914, organized the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) to aid the Jewish masses overseas suffering from war, pogroms, famine and pestilence. The following episodes depict the activities in Russia only." Brief shots of Felix Warburg and Julius Rosenwald, to whose memory the film is dedicated. Stills of other JDC officials and footage of the members of the JDC relief unit sailing for Russia. Dr. Rosen, organizer of Agro-Joint. Scenes of th...

  17. Illustration

    Portfolio containing 20 illustrations of prisoner life in Buchenwald concentration camp and text about artist and his work;

  18. Commemorative coin case

    Commemorative coin case issued on fiftieth anniversary of the deportation of the Jewish population from Kolin, Czech Republic.

  19. The Bible

    CBS News correspondent Alexander Kendrick interviews the first Prime Minister of Israel David Ben Gurion on the Bible and his individual religious ideology.

  20. Book