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

  1. Yugoslavia: soldiers dancing; officers and prisoners; villagers

    Reel 7: Soldiers dancing in streets of Vinkovci, accordion player. US ambassador Richard C. Patterson and US officers in Dakovo, entering cathedral - pan, steeple to partially damaged church. Patterson, Kusovac Labud, Yugoslavian Propaganda Chief, and Col Charles Thayer looking through field glasses at fighting. Group of officers leaving German prison. Soldiers riding in horse-drawn carts on way to front, Patterson and officers watching from jeep. Officers interrogating prisoners. CUs, men eating. 03:15:23 Partisan General Peko Dapcevic with an American official (Gen Dapcevic became Tito's ...

  2. Jews in Warsaw, Poland

    Unidentified German 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 (round-up). 01:44:48 Street scenes in Warsaw,Jewish district (ghetto). 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). 01...

  3. Oral history interview with Helen Mincberg and Ann Beckerman

  4. Ita Dimant papers

    The Ita Dimant papers include correspondence, photographs, personal documents, a diary, and memoirs relating to Ita Dimant’s experiences in hiding under false papers and in a labor camp in Germany. The collection includes false identification documents, correspondence between Ita and her family and wartime and post-war correspondence with the Brust family, who helped protect Ita. Also included are photographs of Ita’s family and her diary, in Polish, kept during her time as a forced laborer in Germany as well as English, Polish, and Hebrew editions of her memoir, based on her diary. The dia...

  5. Sentencing Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg Trial (SOUND ONLY)

    Sentencing of Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany, October 1946. NOTE: Here, the actual sentences for the defendants are read, but there was a court ruling that no filming and photographs were allowed during the announcement. So the voice of judge is heard, no pictures, white screen,. SOUND ONLY. Sentences pronounced by tribunal: Arthur Seyss-Inquart: Death (02:08:54) Albert Speer: 20 years (02:08:18) Constantin von Neurath: 15 years (02:09:45) Martin Bormann: Death in absentia (02:10:06) 02:10:27 British Justice Geoffrey Lawrence registers dissent of the Soviet Justice on the ver...

  6. War Crimes Trial: Franz Strasser

    Summary: Austrian Franz Strasser is tried for the murder of Lt E Warren Woodruff and an unknown airman. His testimony is in German. Cpl. Henry Halperin is the interpreter for all witnesses; Sgt. Sessler interprets for Franz Strasser.The six-officer Army Military Commission included Capt. Victor Miles, Lt. Harvey Szanger, and Col. Raymond E. Zickel. Reel 2: Defense attorneys questioning, listening. Pan, Commissioners to Pusch testifying. Back view: Reichl, Halperin. Prosecutor in BG. Pan. Strasser sitting with his attorneys; being sworn in; at table as his attorneys speak to others; attorney...

  7. Train station in Humenne; village square

    Reel 5. Brief pan of Budapest (gray, repeated in RG-60.1451). Intertitle: "Humenne -- My Home Town, A Typical Slovakia Village." Trains, people board and deboard. Train station. Boy on peasant cart with cows and a wagon in the main square of Humenne. People gathered in the town square for market days (on Mondays and Fridays). Lots of people, carts, wagons, activity, shops, and houses in BG. Hotel, pan through marketplace. Peasants selling boots, coffee house, man with bales of hay. Horses. People and shops on square. Tea house. Carts with a wagon (possibly with Hermann Klein on board). Hors...

  8. "Incurably insane"

    A Nazi educational film (propaganda) [Aufklaerungsfilm] produced by the Rassenpolitische Amt [Office of Racial Policy] regarding "unheilbare Geistkranke" [the "incurably insane"]. Part 2: Racially mixed boy, blond, part negroid. Intertitles: indicating cost to state, mother and son - 26 years; epileptic siblings, cost ____ RM (Reichsmark); two brothers. Titles and close views of various related people. Two girls, twins seen before; one holds up the other's head. Kids outside, grass and blankets. "Bloedes, taubstummes" [imbecile deaf mute] girls. "Taubstumme, schwachsinning" [deaf mute, feeb...

  9. Hungary and Yugoslavia sign treaty

    Hungary and Yugoslavia sign a friendship treaty. Hungarian Foreign Minister Count Csaky arrives by train in Belgrade for the signing of the treaty. The platform is decked with flags and Yugoslav soldiers stand at attention. Csaky is greeted by his Yugoslav counterpart, Aleksandar Cincar-Markovic. The two walk down the platform together. The next scene shows Csaky exiting the Hungarian embassy, presumably after signing the treaty. He stands with a group of people, including several women, and smiles at the camera beside a bouquet of flowers. 01:01:33 A few seconds of the next part of this ne...

  10. Jewish war veterans, parade, protest

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 5, No. 130, Part 2. Release date, 03/23/1933. Jewish War Veterans parade in New York City to protest Nazi persecution of German Jews. The men are nicely dressed and some wear American flag pins in their lapels or carry American flags. There is a large crowd both watching and marching. Aerial view of two groups marching. MS of people watching the parade. Other parts of the newsreel include: 01:17:33 Washington, DC "Ban on beer lifted as President signs bill legalizing brew" 01:18:47 Chicago, IL "Windy City shivers as sleet and freeze greet gentle Spring" 01:19:28 Pal...

  11. Hungarian conscripts forced to perform labor in Budapest, 1944

    Hungarista Híradó 2. A long row of forced laborers in a field use pick-axes to dig away at the earth. Men in a deep trench dig, throwing the dirt up above, where other men shovel it away. Brief shot of two men in uniform surveying the activity. One looks through binoculars. The laboring men continue to hack away at the earth, with shovels and pick-axes. They sit by tables and pots, prepping food. CU of a bowl of onions and peppers. Men cut away at onions over a bowl and stir soup in large pots in the ground. A man serves others waiting in line for the soup. The Jewish forced laborers lounge...

  12. March of Time -- outtakes -- Trotsky

    Leon Trotsky and his lawyer, Mr. Goldman, in Mexico City, Mexico. Trotsky reads in garden, works at desk, writing, reading the "Internationale", and greets guests on veranda. Mexican police guard entrances to building.

  13. In the Wake of War in Germany

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 18, No. 392, Part 3. Release date, 04/23/1945. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: "Germany in Ruins" Duisburg, Limbourg, Osnabruck, and Munster are entered. The streets are filled with hills of broken buildings and wreckage. Mayors try to rally their citizens. The pathetic Volksturm - the home guard - surrenders, to join the thousands of combat troops previously captured. Frantic, hungry civilians break into ruined stores and stalled trains to steal food and clothing. "German Atrocities" Allied armies free thousands of slave laborers - both men and wom...

  14. March of Time -- outtakes -- Zlin; Bratislava

    Can 79. 100 feet. VS, brewery (Pilsner). Men working on casks in brewery yard, train passing in BG. CU, men drawing Pilsen beer. 01:09:50 Reel 63. 100 feet. Poster in window at Zlin announcing in English the Tenth Sokol Congress, crowd passing reflected in window. VS, Bata's workmen leaving the factories at Zlin, showing modern/contemporary buildings. Reel 64. 100 feet. Bata workmen leaving factory at dusk. VS of Bata's workmen going to work at 7am, through the gates, punching time clocks. INT of shoe factory with house paper published twice weekly, sold for 30 cents, being handed out to wo...

  15. Defendents talking at Nuremberg Trial; Defense plea for von Ribbentrop

    (Munich 285) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, July 8, 1946. MS, von Ribbentrop talking to Goering and Adm. Raeder. MP in FG (conversation inaudible). MS, von Ribbentrop speaking to Hess. MS, rear view, Dr. Martin Horne making a plea for his client von Ribbentrop. HAS, defendants talking to one another during recess. MLS, Dr. Horne making plea. HAS, Goering, Hess, von Ribbentrop, and Keitel. MLS, Maxwell-Fyfe at prosecution table. Unidentified member of the defense listening to Horne's plea.

  16. Selected records of the Court of the First Instance in Chęciny Sąd Grodzki w Chęcinach (Sygn. 1155)

    Records of the Court Grodzki in Chęciny related to Jews. Files usually consist of the following information: the date of the trial, the plaintiff’s name, the defendant’s name, a short description of the cause of litigation, the date of verdict, etc., as well as information about the trials in which Jews from Chęciny were participants.

  18. Selected records of the commune Przysucha Akta gminy Przysucha (Sygn. 1130)

    Registers of residents from the following settlements: Gwarek, Drutarnia, Janów, Kozłowiec, Puszcza, Huta, Lipno, Mazniczka, Plebania, Jakubów, Pomyków, Młyny, Hamernia, Topornia, Mechlin, Browarek, the settlement of Przysucha, Zapniów, Gródek, village Przysucha, Zajezierze colony, and index of the displaced persons from Warsaw. These registers include notes about the population returning from Germany and Jews who emigrated to Brazil, Palestine, Argentina, etc. The collection Includes also correspondence and other files of the Commune Office in Przysucha relating to n the judiciary, detenti...

  19. Noam Chomsky lecture

    Lecture by Professor Noam Chomsky. Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS.

  20. Portrait created by a Dutch internee at Drancy transit camp

    Portrait drawing of an unidentified man created by Max Van Dam, a Dutch artist, during his internment at Drancy transit camp in German occupied Paris, France, in February 1943. Van Dam was later deported to Sobibor killing center, where he perished.