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Language of Description: English
Country: United States

  1. Hitler returns to Berlin in July 1940

    Camera pans over Upper Rhine. Hitler's motorcade crosses pontoon bridge eastwards; tracking shot shows children in swimsuits waving near a customs post and adults showing signs of love, loyalty and gratitude. Hitler, now aboard train, accepts flower from girl and shakes hands of HJ boy. Train journey continues past Marbach (Neckar), peasant on his plow, and stops at stations where Hitler autographs postcard portraits of himself. Camera shows Hitler in profile. Berlin prepares welcome; swastika flags fly, BDM girls spread flowers along route from Anhalter Bahnhof to Reichs Chancellery, polic...

  2. Collaborators volunteer for German army

    Quisling in Norway, French volunteers, Latvian and Lithuanian volunteers for German army. MS Vidkun Quisling reviews with Nazi officer a line of Norwegian police in Norway. CU of insignia patch of eagle and swastika (uniforms suggest military volunteers rather than police). MLS French officers review bereted volunteers for German army on grounds of Versailles. CU several of them. They march out and off to train station. Good MCU as they sort through baggage, say goodbye and board train. 5:12:26 MCU as crowd of Latvian and Lithuanian volunteers for German army and civilians marching toward c...

  3. Greta Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Greta Z., who was born in the Hague, Netherlands, in 1913. Mrs. Z. recalls the German occupation in 1940; imposition of anti-Semitic restrictions; round-up of her parents and brother in 1942 (they never returned); and deportation with her husband and two daughters to Westerbork in September 1943. She describes the family's transport to Bergen-Belsen in early 1944; daily routine in the camp, including her exemption from work because she was a woman with children; and visits by her husband (he was in a different barrack). She tells of the family's evacuation in April 19...

  4. Selected records from the British Colonial Office : Confidential general and confidential original correspondence files on Palestine

    Contains confidential records relating to the distribution of immigration certificates to Jews in DP camps in Germany, the rate of immigration, illegal immigration, and files relating to the formation of a Jewish fighting force in Palestine.

  5. Nighttime event in Olympic Stadium; display of jousting

    Olympic Stadium, Berlin. EXT, extreme LS, undercranked night scene, all actions occur at exaggerated rate of speed. HASs from a seat in the stadium. Night scenes, spotlighted entry into stadium, marchers with flags, horses, acrobats and figures in formation, running and jousting. In the last sequence the silhouetted heads/hats of the audience are visible in the FG.

  6. De Kadt family at home in warmer weather

    Toddler Wilhelmina (Willie) and a baby picnic on the lawn with three adults; 01:02:39 Willie gets a haircut outdoors (because she had eczema) and roams naked in the grass; 01:06:09 Willie is sprayed with water by an adult standing behind the camera, and bathes in a metal tub outdoors. She holds a teddy bear and plays in the yard with glasses; 01:10:42 Willie carries a bouquet of flowers across the lawn toward the camera.

  7. Louise Wegweiser Kruk papers

    The collection primarily consists of post-war photographs documenting the experiences of Louise Wegweiser Kruk, originally of Tłuste, Poland, in the Föhrenwald, Rivoli, and Turin displaced persons camps. Also included is the marriage certificate for Louise and Martin Wegweiser, whom she married in Turin in 1947; and an O.R.T. diploma for Louise received in 1949.

  8. Collection of various documents Obce registratury (Sygn.VI)

    Records collected by various institutions, organizations, and offices: correspondence of prisoners from several camps and of prisoners of war; documents regarding individuals released from camps at Bliżyn, Dębica, Zamość, and Krochmalna Str. in Lublin; minutes of meetings of chief village headmen and town mayors in Kraśnik district (1941‒1944); lists of people arrested in the village of Jamy; documents of the Arbeitsamt (labor office) in Lublin; files from the St. Paul parish in Lublin regarding prisoner deaths; other documents.

  9. Birgit N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Birgit N., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1923. She recalls her assimilated family; being allowed to attend public school as a Jew only because of her father's service in World War I; his emigration to Holland in 1935; her present guilt at not intervening when a Jewish student was harassed; emigration with her mother to Holland in 1938; attending a Quaker school; their departure by ship to Chile; the sinking of the ship by a German mine and their rescue (many passengers perished); remaining in England as disaster refugees; going to Shanghai via Canada in 1940, the...

  10. Sailing on the SS Normandie in 1938

    People on board the SS Normandie sailing from Le Havre, France on October 5, 1938, including Erna, leaning against the rails, reading papers. More views of ship passengers and Sally at 01:44:39.

  11. March of Time -- outtakes -- Soldiers; Munich Pact

    667 KK (09:01:12): Hilly countryside. Underground bunker with barbed wire. Group of soldiers going underground with rifles. Beds. Removing gear. Shaving, barechested. Pouring water from large bucket (preparing food?). Ladder. Switchboard. Nazi Party Rally. German horses, tanks, boats, submarines, planes. 667 MM (09:03:44) Heston Airport with Chamberlain leaving for Munich. Cabinet members at airport. 03:36:44 Plane taking off. 03:37:02 London street scenes, sandbagging. Marines jumping off truck. 03:38:08 Mussolini arriving with Adolf Hitler, entering hall where Munich Pact was signed. 03:3...

  12. Friedrich L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Friedrich L., a Catholic Romani, who was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1915, one of eight children. He recalls their traveling musical show; expulsion from the national musicians organization and no longer being allowed to travel due to anti-Romani laws; escaping with his sister to Yugoslavia (they were the only survivors); posing as a German musician; Ustas?as burning a barn filled with people; living in Austria; returning to Munich after the war; meeting his wife; and performing with his son because all his colleagues had been killed. Mr. L. discusses not speaking o...

  13. Selected records. Obóz Koncentracyjny Stutthof Konzentrationslager Stutthof (GK 138)

    Personal files of guards at the Stutthof concerntration camp, including Ukrainians, Lithuanians and Russians; lists of soldiers of the dissolved National Army of General Kurdic, operating in Lithuania (approximately 1,000 names) and pay lists, surveys of arrested persons; list of children from Tuszynek admitted to the camp.

  14. Dancing; young people relaxing by the river in swimsuits

    INTs, dancing couples including Győrgy at 01:26 (could be postwar 1945 or 1946). 01:28 Outdoors by the river (prewar summer), includes Bandi Kardos who perished in Holocaust. A man photographs a young woman lying on a boat. A different couple lounges in the grass. Woman in bikini puts on makeup as the man continues to photograph her. The group of young friends joke around on the riverside beach, CUs. HAS, they relax in chairs on a pier. Film ends 03:02

  15. Annie C. Holocaust testimony with Jackie B.

    Videotape testimony of Annie C., who was born in England. She married a Frenchman in 1915 and moved to France with her husband and two-year-old child after World War I. She describes her pleasant prewar life in France, her daughter's flight from France before the German occupation, and the German occupation. She speaks of her unsuccessful attempts to leave France after the German occupation; her and her husband's flight; hiding with the help of her husband's non-Jewish relatives and French civilians; and using false papers. She stresses the continual fear of discovery and betrayal. She tell...

  16. Records of the Jewish Community Board in Utena Utenos žydų bendruomenės taryba (Fond 1233)

    The collections includes various materials related to the activities of Jewish community of Utena (Utyan). Consists of correspondence with government offices, minutes of meetings, circular letters from the Ministry of Jewish Affairs in Lithuania, voter registration lists, lists of community members, and reports on community activities.

  17. Selected records from Kanzlei des Führers der NSDAP, Berlin (NS 51)

    Collection includes reports about the political situation in Austria, Belgium, France, Romania, and other countries before the beginning of World War II as well as press reports from other countries about anti-Jewish politics in Germany. Also contains records on aryanization and persecution of Jews in the occupied/annexed Eastern territories and antisemitic correspondence from various countries, including France and the United States.

  18. Sightseeing in Paris; German officers

    More tourist-y views of Paris streets, including Eiffel Tower and the obelisk in the Place de la Concorde. The camera sometimes focuses on individuals, such as the woman seen before, the elderly man, and the German officer leading the map meeting with the glasses (in Story 4414). 01:09:55 SEQ: German with dark-rimmed glasses with three French women (not seen before). Street scenes, signs, buses, pedestrians and German soldier, cars, "Café de la Paix" restaurant on corner. Policeman looks directly into camera briefly. Man with glasses in previous map scene walks across the city streets with ...

  19. General directorate of Passports Office records Directiunea generala a politie Paspoarte

    Contains records from the office of the General Directorate of Passports (Ministerul Administratiei si Internelor, Directia Generala de Pasapoarte) related to Jewish emigration to Palestine from Romania. Includes a name list of Romanian Jews who traveled to Palestine on the ships "Kasbek, "Mefkur," "Morina," "Selahadin," "Toros," and "Bulbul."

  20. Alice R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alice R., who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1922. She recalls active participation in Hashomer Hatzair and a Jewish swim club; attending a German language gymnasium; expulsion due to antisemitism; deciding to emigrate to Israel with her youth group; her mother accompanying her and the group to Prague; her mother leaving since the border was to be closed when Slovakia was formed (she never saw her, her father, or younger sister again); traveling through Germany to debark from Marseille; attending an agricultural girls school, working, t...