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Language of Description: English
Country: United States

  1. Nowe Miasto nad Pilica ghetto

    Shots of road signs: Litzmannstadt 88 km, Rawa 29 km, Radom 58 km, Tomaszow 48 km, Warschau 81 km. German soldiers and two women walk past a row of German trucks. Scene changes to show LS of children playing in front of buildings, presumably in the ghetto of Nowe Miasto nad Pilica. An older man carries a basket into a building. Two men wearing armbands sit in a doorway. Dark shot of man smiling at the camera. Wide shot of a street - a man and a small child push a baby carriage toward the camera. Two men with bicycles can be seen behind him. Young girls stand in front of a house and smile at...

  2. Catholic church service in central Poland

    Undercranked shots (action sped up) inside a Catholic church for services. The church is full with men, women and children. The priest performs the mass facing the altar and the sacristy with his back to the churchgoers. VS of communion, Overhead shot from the pulpit of the congregation.The priest speaks from the pulpit.

  3. Selected records of the communa Nowa Słupia Akta gminy Nowa Słupia (Sygn. 139)

    Registers of residents, a book of traffic control of population, and financial files of the commune of Nowa Słupia.

  4. Baby Otto Verdoner

    EXT, High angle shot, looking down on Otto Verdoner playing in his crib/playpen. CU of a stuffed elephant toy in the crib. VS of Otto in his crib and then crawling about on the lawn in the Verdoner family yard. The house is visible in the BG of several shots. Hilde Verdoner feeds Otto a cracker, Otto continues to prance around his crib and eat his cracker. MCU, a woman in the garden knitting while she keeps an eye on Otto. CU, Otto picks up a ball, he is playing with his sister who is off camera. VS, Yoka Verdoner playing with Otto. VS, Hilde and all three children (Yoka, Francisca and Otto...

  5. Volkssturm defend the Eastern Front

    Map of the Eastern Front, indicating Warsaw, Breslau, Kattowitz, Litzmannstadt, and other locations. German refugees on horse-drawn carts with their belongings move West, fleeing the "Mongol storm." Shots of Soviet POWs. Civilians build barricades to defend against the Soviets. Refugees board trains to get away from the front. The woman getting on the train wears an armband bearing the insignia of the Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt (NSV; National Socialist Peoples' Welfare organization). Members of the NSV provide food and other care to refugees arriving in Germany. NSV members (all ...

  6. John P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of John P., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1904. Mr. P. describes the atmosphere and political conditions in Vienna; prewar antisemitism; his family's desire to assimilate; his marriage in 1933; early observations of changing conditions; watching a boycott against Jews from a rooftop in 1938; his mother's refusal to leave because she was the widow of a World War I veteran, was married to another at that time, and was reluctant to leave her art collection; and his escape with his wife to Paris. He relates their incarceration in a French jail for one month; release and...

  7. March of Time -- outtakes -- Annexation of Austria

    Hitler returns to Berlin from Vienna after the annexation of Austria. Shots of his plane touching down, with Nazi flags flying and a crowd waiting to greet him. Uniformed members of the League of German Girls and Hitler Youth await Hitler's arrival. Shots of his motorcade driving through the crowds. Aerial shots of Hitler and Hermann Goering walking into the Chancellery, then waving from the balcony. Aerial pans across the huge crowd. More scenes from Austria: Austrians waving Nazi flags; civilians marching down the streets giving the Nazi salute; Arthur Seyss-Inquart saluting. German soldi...

  8. Army broadcast regarding the liberation of Dachau

    Narrator introduces himself as Jack Parker, with the Seventh Army in Germany and describes the “Dachau death camp” which he had entered the previous Monday, April 30th. Parker is a correspondent for some American radio network but does not name which one. Parker and his colleagues had been in Munich, where there was still fighting, and was on his way back to their “press camp” when they got word that Dachau had been liberated. He describes in some detail as he and four other correspondents approached and then entered the camp: the death train (Parker describes it as well as the journey from...

  9. Eugene F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eugene F., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1922. He recalls his family's move to Kolomyi?a?; his father's Zionist activities; studying engineering in Lv?iv; futile efforts to return to Kolomyi?a? after the German invasion; round-ups of Jews; and escaping to the Soviet Union. Mr. F. recounts farm and office work; conscription into a workers' battalion; digging trenches near Stalingrad; working in a steel factory in Baku; returning to Lv?iv after liberation; traveling to Krako?w in 1945; learning his entire family had perished; leaving Poland; receiving help from Jew...

  10. Ferencz discusses slave labor

    A BBC Production, aired November 11, 1990, 10:05 PM. Includes segments of interview with Benjamin Ferencz, among others. British Prisoners of War who worked for the German company I.G. Farben now want compensation for their years as slave laborers. After the war Farben was forced to sell its assets, so the question of compensation was impossible. But since the unification of Germany Farben has been trying to re-claim lost assets estimated at two billion pounds. Joan Bakewell investigates the POWs hopes for compensation. Ferencz tells of the absence of a Nuremberg trial on behalf of the Brit...

  11. Eva M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva M., who was born in Breslau, Germany (presently Wroc?aw, Poland) in 1918, one of three sisters. She recalls her family's assimilated lifestyle; attending private school; teaching in a Jewish kindergarten; one sister's emigration to South Africa in 1933; her other sister remaining in Berlin (she was protected as the wife of a non-Jewish judge); participation in Maccabi; her father and future husband's arrests on Kristallnacht; marriage after their release; her husband's emigration to Bolivia; traveling via Genoa to join him in December; her parents not emigrating b...

  12. Nazi concentration camps

    Film evidence of Nazi Atrocities: Various Concentration Camps, April 1945 CUs, mutilated mangled bodies lying on ground. German civilians cart them on litters to common burial grounds, under the direction of US military police. MS, charred human torso is placed on litter. MS, Catholic chaplain conducts rites for dead at altar set up on hood of jeep. LS, American soldiers looking down into open burial pit filled with bodies. LS, CUs, charred bodies of the victims. LS, MSs, corpses in grotesque positions lying inside barbed wire enclosure. MS, CUs, cadavers stacked on trucks. INTs, crematorie...

  13. Werner and Rosa Sallisohn papers

    The collection documents the wartime experiences of Werner and Rosa Sallisohn, originally of Berlin, Germany, who lived as refugees in Shanghai, China from 1939-1947 before immigrating to the United States. Included are birth certificates, Chinese identification papers, immigration documents, business documents regarding a potential job opportunity in Argentina for Werner, and correspondence. Some of the correspondence is from Werner's half-sister Hildegard, who perished during the Holocaust.

  14. BDM girls

    Girls at school, on porch, gardening, bread, milking goat.

  15. American nurses sightseeing in England

    Beatrice and some military personnel stand in Trafalgar Square in London. The 51st Field Hospital arrived in England in March 1944. Nelson's Column, the bronze lions, and crowds feeding pigeons are visible. A sign says, "Let our savings speak for us. Carry on London. Salute the soldier." on the base of the column. 01:03:47 Buckingham Palace. The group poses outside Westminster Abbey. They continue to sightsee in London: the clock tower at Westminster Palace, red double-decker busses, the Tower Bridge, the Tower of London, and St. Paul's Cathedral, and at 01:05:43 the Wells Cathedral in Some...

  16. Marta R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marta R., who was born in a small town in Moravia in 1921. Mrs. R. describes her happy childhood; her gradual awareness of antisemitism; the German occupation; her education and work as a teacher; her marriage; and her and her husband's deportation to Terezi?n in December, 1942. She tells of daily life in Terezi?n; her transport, with her husband, to Auschwitz, where they were immediately separated (she never saw him again); her transfer after two weeks to Birnba?umel, a labor camp in a small village; the death march to Gross Rosen, from where she was taken by train t...

  17. Selected records from the State Archives of Ivano- Frankivsk (formerly Stanislav) Oblast

    Contains reports and decisions from the Stanislavskaia Oblast’ State Extraordinary Commission to Investigate Crimes Committed by the German-Fascist Forces and by Their Collaborators in Ukraine. Also included is information on other activities of the Germans and their allies, details on various localities, and lists of Soviet citizens abused or killed. The collection also includes reports by local bureaus of the People’s Commissariat for State Security (NKGB).

  18. Diary of Anna Dashevskaya

    The diary of Anna Dashevskaya, a Jewish young student of the Kiev University, provides thorough account of her family evacuation from Kiev to the Ural Mountains describing major events, daily life and many problems she and her family encountered during the evacuation to the Urals.

  19. Selected records of the Départmental Archives of the Loiret

    Local administrative records concerning the two internment camps for foreigners in the Loiret, near Orléans, France: Pithiviers and Beaune-la-Rolande. From May 1941, these camps were reserved for Jews. Records of the regional headquarters of Loiret: health, administrative, internments, regulations, and orders. Records of the regional health department of Loiret. Records of headquarters 10, concerning Spanish refugees. Records of the Pithiviers internment camp. Records of the Montargis sub headquarters. Records of the Pithiviers sub headquarters. General administrative and police records co...

  20. Mendel Birnbaum photograph collection

    The photographs depict Mendel Birnbaum's experiences before and after World War II in Szczecin, Poland. The images consist of informal group photographs of family and friends as well as images of people dining, riding motorcyles, and farming.