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Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Lieberman family looks out an apartment window in Poland

    The family looks out an upper story window with (from left to right) Henryk Kupferman (child cousin), Ella, Magda Kupferman (child cousin) with Thomas and Hanna behind near the window, and Avraham Kupferman (Benedikt's brother in law). Thomas and Hanna seem amazed by what they see.

  2. Belsen: Nazis unload corpses

    Nazi women unload bodies from truck into pit. Nazi woman, scowling, unloading/dropping bodies off truck and into a pit. In BG, pit getting full. Women walking along pit, heaving bodies in (little scratches), dragging woman with shirt.

  3. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 10 mark coin

    10 mark coin issued in the Łódź ghetto in Poland in 1943. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1940; Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and annexed to the German Reich. In February, the Germans forcibly relocated the large Jewish population into a sealed ghetto. All currency was confiscated in exchange for Quittungen [receipts] that could be exchanged only in the ghetto. The scrip and tokens were designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] and includes traditional Jewish symbols. The Germans closed the ghetto in the summer of 1944 by deporting the residents to concentration camps or killi...

  4. Explanation of SA at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 456) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, December 19, 1945. Rear views, US prosecutor Robert G. Storey speaking to the court about the organization and purpose of the Storm Troopers Organization (SA). CU, chart of the SA displayed at front of courtroom. 23:36:15 Rear views, US prosecutor Charles S. Burdel tells the court about the method of conscription in the SA. 23:39:15 Storey reading letter about the SA written by Goering to Hitler; he speaks about other Nazi documents and speeches called into evidence to indict Goering, and quotes Hitler: "After a grave wound, you again reent...

  5. Harmonious life in a labor city

    Through the eyes of a slightly naïve German engineer, this feature film depicts the harmonious life in the "Arbeiterstadt" [labor city] - a euphemism used for the harsh reality of a foreign labor camp. The commentary states that a 'forceful fate' drove "Millionen fremdvölkischer Arbeitskräfte" [millions of ethnically non-German laborers] to Germany. Eighteen nations are represented in the work camps, including French, Belgians, Norwegians, Croatians, Serbs, Bulgarians, and Ukrainians. All signs in the camp are in six languages: German, French, Italian, Polish, Serbian, and Ukrainian. A jour...

  6. Romanian oil fields; Roma/Sinti in the area

    Consists mostly of views of social and economic conditions in Italy, Hungary, and Rumania. With English intertitles. Part 3 shows activities at the Romanian oil fields at Ploesti and Moreni. Vendors of drinks/fruit: MS of men and women seated on slabs with posts all about them. Next to them are baskets of fruit and pails. Wagon with log on it passes in front of them. MCU of same group as woman walks by with basket. MS, 2 men with pole that has basket at each end are selling to a third man. One man has pole on shoulder, other has pole on ground. Man buying fruit having his bag weighed. 11:44...

  7. Book

    Medical book

  8. Triumph of the Will: Hitler addresses crowds at a rally

    Excerpt from "Triumph of the Will" {No Titles} Hitler addresses a night rally and a day rally and reviews a large military parade.

  9. Day of German Art 1933; Hitler salutes crowds

    “TAG DER DEUTSCHEN KUNST.” In Munich, people ride bicycles. Outdoor area with seats, decorated with large swastikas behind the podium and Reichsadler on the wall at the center. Nazi soldiers form a wall in front of the crowd on the street. Men in uniform walk by. “HERR HITLER” Hitler’s motorcade, he stands in the passenger seat of a car, salutes crowd. “PARADE” Spectators heil as the parade moves. Men transport a model of the Reichsadler. Soldiers on horseback with large Nazi flags. Classical-style sculpture of a male torso is carried. More parade floats and costumes. “SEEING THE PARADE WIT...

  10. Liberation: Raids on German Civilians

    Slate reads: "Shakedown". Tram at Wiesbaden, end of operation. Security control checks, civilians searched. MPs getting out of jeep. Escorting woman prisoner to MP jeep. US Army "Military Police" building entrance. Truck with arrested German civilians who will be put on trial. Confiscated material: food, weapons, knives, brass knuckles, American machine gun.

  11. Selected records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish : Embassy in London Ambasada Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Londynie (Sygn.503)

    Reports, publications, press releases, correspondence, press clippings notes related to national minorities in European countries and Russia, emigration polices, Jewish affairs and political parties before WWII, international preparation of postwar political and economic reconstruction of Europe and Poland, UNRRA planning for mission in Poland, investigation of Nazi crimes, compensation for victims of German atrocities, activities of Jewish socio-political organizations and emigration to Palestine.

  12. Olympic City of Berlin Poster with maps of Berlin and the 1936 Berlin Olympics stadiums

    Poster featuring 5 maps of districts of the city of Berlin with the 1936 Olympic stadium venues highlighted for spectators of the games.

  13. Heimstatt AW photograph

    Contains a photograph, mounted on card stock, depicting barracks on the outskirts of an unidentified city, possibly Cologne, attributed to Elly Hirschberg. The sign at the entry gate reads, "Heimstatt AW."

  14. Nazi parade; Religious Jews in Berlin

    "East Berlin" Jews in street (in religious garb) intercut with Party Day 1927. Nazis marching in the street. Hitler, standing with Streicher in an open car, greets/salutes. Streicher et al festooned with flowers. Lots of people waving, saluting in the stands. Goebbels at NSDAP office, working at desk.

  15. Theresia Bauer papers

    The Theresia Bauer papers consist of genealogical books, identification papers, and apprenticeship, military, and accounting records documenting the Bauer family of Horitschon (Austria) and the Koller family of Neckenmarkt (Austria), Theresia Bauer’s participation in the Bund Deutscher Mädel, and Stefan Bauer’s captivity as a Soviet POW after World War II. Theresia Bauer documents include a genealogical book and a picture of Theresia with other Bund Deutscher Mädel girls at a political event in the village. Stefan Bauer documents include a genealogical book, two apprenticeship diplomas, an ...

  16. Wooden spoon from Dachau prisoner-of-war camp

  17. Children at school

    INTs Teacher in her home with a dog, She arranged books, puts on coat, and exits. Woman (teacher) at head of a classroom full of children. Brief shot of men setting up large lights. Woman using an abacus to teach the children. They learn. Children raise hands in the classroom. CU student. Children walk beside puddles underneath large power lines. Children run up the muddy road and through the door of a school as a boy rings a bell by the doorway. CU children answering questions in class. EXT group of boys playing with a ball, fields and power lines in BG. INT, woman sitting at desk writing,...

  18. Zinnowaldschule (a German school): girls in class

    EXT of school with CU of sign "Zinnowaldschule" at front. Schoolgirls on bicycles outside school. VAR shots of the school INT. Girls in class painting and drawing, at desks.

  19. Collection on Vught, concentration camp in Herzogenbusch (Collection Prisons and camps) Collectie gevangenissen en Kampen-deelcollectie Vught, Konzentrationslager Herzogenbusch (Fond 250g)

    This collection contains documents relating to the Vught concentration camp in Herzogenbusch between 1943-1944. Including are documents, maps and some photos as well as pre-war correspondence and court proceedings.

  20. Trial in the case of the atrocities committed by Germans and a Ukrainian accomplice in and around Kharkov in 1943

    7 reels, titles and voice-over in Spanish. Coverage of the actual trial of Captain Wilhelm Langheld; Reinhard Retzlaff, an official of the German field police; Lieutenant Hans Ritz, an SS company commander, and Bulanov, a Russian traitor. Spectators include people whose families had been murdered. Every statement in the trial was translated into German, and each defendant was represented by counsel. Many witnesses were called, and the defendants themselves testified. Captain Langheld stated that he had personally beaten women to death but pointed out that he was not the only one. "The entir...