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

  1. French Fascist rally in the Velodrome d'Hiver

    Mass rally of Légion des Volontaires Français [Legion of French Volunteers against Bolshevism] in Paris. Crowds outside the Vélodrôme d'Hiver. A group of women enter the building. Prominent attendees include Ambassador de Brinon, Colonel Edgar Puaud and Capitaine Jean Bassompierre. Overhead shot of the crowded stadium. Banners read "Il faut des actes de soldat" and "Le combat seul conduit à la vie." Parti Populaire Français leader Jacques Doriot gives a speech. A banner behind him features the swastika and the symbol for the LVF. According to the Imperial War Museum record, Doriot praises t...

  2. DPs in Germany

    Reel 1: "Displaced Persons" Displaced persons in Germany are herded into a field; given food, clothing, and medical care; interviewed by officials of the American Military Government.; and assigned billets in a camp. "By Request" Shows brief shots of Charleston, WV; Springfield, IL; Newark, NJ; Tucson and Winslow, AZ; Whiteville, VA; and Fall River, MA.

  3. Documents from the occupation of Belgium

    Collection of printed items and handwritten documents from World War II in Anderlecht and Brussels, Belgium. Includes a broadside published on behalf of "Association des Juifsen Belgique" of 1941, announcing an order to concentrate Jews in Mechelen transit camp; four tickets, printed and completed by hand, for compulsory insurance for old age or early death (Carte D'Assujetti), issued for Alta Szajndla Frysz; two "certificates of good conduct" (Certificat De Bonne Conduite, Vie Et Moeurs) issued for Alta Frysz and Chia Percikow; and three handwritten letters, one in the original envelope wi...

  4. San Francisco conference

    Reel 1: April 25, 1945 and June 26, 1945. Jan Christian Smuts, V. Molotov, Sec. Stettinius, and other delegates to the UN conference deplane and detrain in San Francisco. Shows US war casualties and flags flying at half-mast on Roosevelt's death. President Truman addresses conference delegates via radio. Secretary Stettinius confers with Anthony and V. Molotov. Conference delegates register, attend meetings, speak, browse through the San Francisco art gallery, and look at Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms paintings. Charts the UN organization and shows UNRRA supplies being loaded aboard ships.

  5. Yugoslavia: houses; factory; city scenes; market

    Reel 3: Residence of the British Ambassador, Ralph R S Stevenson. Walking to garden; talking. Stevenson; weaving looms in operation; Yugoslavian women working looms. Parliament building; trolley cars passing by in FG; dome. Yugoslavians in Kalenica Guvno marketplace, trading and dealing. Cuetnitrg Market on Sunday morning; basket of eggs, barrels of cheese, onions, chickens and garden vegetables sold at the market; curbside stalls, buyers walking through.

  6. Sasha Kaufman letter

    Contains a letter, possibly a form letter, with envelope, signed by Sasha Kaufman in the Landsberg DP camp, addressed to UN Secretary General Trygve Lie. The letter appeals to the United Nations to help open Palestine to Jewish refugees who had suffered in Nazi concentration camps.

  7. Charles Kremer collection

    Contains an autobiography about Charles Kremer's experiences as a Nazi hunter, with an introduction by Simon Wiesenthal. Documents Kremer's thirty-seven year pursuit of Viorel Trifa, Iron Guard commandant turned Archbishop of the Romanian Orthodox Church. Other items include a copy of a July 1982, "Reader's Digest" magazine article; a copy of an article from "Esquire" magazine written by Howard Blum; a program from a banquet honoring Dr. Simon Wiesenthal and Dr. Charles H. Kremer; an article from "Health Affairs" at the University of Pennsylvania; a copy of a proclamation from the Office of...

  8. Debbie Borenstein collection

    The Debbie Borenstein collection consists of correspondence; the title page of a December 1949 issue of "Frankfurter Rundschau; memorial text/pamphlet for the community of Czestochowa, Poland from 1942-1948 which was published under EUCOM Civil Affairs Division (Authorization no. UNDP 240).

  9. Schiffmann and Fischer families collection

    This collection includes a letter written by Max and Bernhard Schiffmann in the Dachau concentration camp to Olga Schiffmann (Max's wife), in German, on camp letterhead; Document for the release of Max Schiffmann from Buchenwald, dated February 22, 1939; two letters from Chaim Sharfstein in Staten Island to his cousin Max Schiffmann, September and November 1939, in Yiddish; Four photographs depicting Ewa Fischer (donor's late mother-in-law) who left Vienna on the Kindertransport; negative showing the department store of brothers Schiffmann in Vienna before the war; Olga Schiffmann (b. Septe...

  10. Aussenstelle Dahlwitz-Hoppegarten records : ZAST

    Records compiled by the former East German state security service (Stasi). Contains files from the state prosecutor's office in Leipzig, Germany, relating to Nazi crimes, partially including pre-1945 material used in the investigation.

  11. British counter-propaganda short

    Cartoon title: Official Films presents... "Schichlegruber Doing the Lambeth Walk assisted by the Gestapo Hep-Cats." Produced by Leslie Winik. Counter-propaganda film made to mock the Nazis by reversing and repeating newsreel shots of Adolf Hitler saluting and his troops goose-stepping from "Triumph of the Will" to create the illusion that Hitler and his gang were dancing to the popular British tune of the day, The Lambeth Walk. Uses reverse, stop motion, and jump cuts. Footage reproduced in rhythmic sequnces by an optical printer. Adds appropriate slide whistle and Bronx cheer sound effects.

  12. Ety Rosinski-Moncarz photograph collection

    The collection consists of four photographs relating to the experiences of Ety Rosinski-Moncarz during the Holocaust. Several of the photographs depicts Ety and other girls at a convent preparing for their first communion, and one photograph shows Ety walking along a street in Binche, Belgium, with her aunt, Betty Szyper, and her cousin, Albert Szyper.

  13. Selected records from Drancy

    Contains a list of food and care packages sent to Drancy internees via the Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français (French national railway service). The list contains the name of the recipient and date of receipt.

  14. Selected files from various collections of the Landesarchiv Berlin

    Contains records relating to Jewish properties and cemeteries, health care, forced labor, discrimination, Jewish children's home, and adoption issues. Also contains personal files, name lists of Jewish people and addresses of Jewish properties, including alphabetical street names register of expropriated Jewish property in Berlin, alphabetical name register of Jewish people whose mortgages on land were sold, correspondence concerning Jewish mortgages and war damages; Jewish marriages; and the Blood Protection Act.

  15. Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection

    The Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection contains sound recordings, objects, microfilms, correspondence, music scores and notation, personal narratives, artwork, poetry, manuscripts, research notes, photograph, negatives, and various other documents compiled by Aleksander Kulisiewicz from 1945 until the time of his death in 1982. The materials in the collection relate to a variety of Holocaust topics, but mainly music, poetry, art, and theater in the concentration camps during World War II. Kulisiewicz compiled the small archive of music, poetry, literature, photographs, and sound recordings d...

  16. Freud familie (Sig.19)

    Contains correspondence, reports, autobiographical writings, genealogical material, certificates and awards, financial, legal, and business records pertaining to the Freud family. Includes a photocopy of the 1938 registration of the property of Alexander Freud (April 19, 1866– April 23, 1943).

  17. Robert C. Goldberg letter

    Letter dated Rosh Hashanah 1945, describing the plight of Jewish Holocaust survivors who were living in the American sector of Europe; author's pleas for American Jews to help European Jews; and author's desire that Palestine be opened for Jewish immigration.

  18. "Das Krematorium in Dachau"

    Consists of a copy of "Das Krematorium in Dachau," a four-page eyewitness report given by Willy Furlan-Horst shortly after the liberation of Dachau. The report describes the interior of the crematoria, the gas chambers, the procedures for torture and execution of prisoners, the duties of the Kommandos, and the facilities for housing the SS attack dogs.

  19. Lutz questioned at Medical trial

    (Munich 479) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. Prosecutor Alexander Hardy reads a letter from the Waffen SS to the Luftwafffe asking that Dr. Rascher be transferred to the SS. 02:14:40 Prosecutor James McHaney asks that Wolfang Lutz be called to the stand. Lutz is sworn in. McHaney questions Lutz about his medical career. Camera remains on defendants and lawyers as Lutz is examined. MS, three judges on bench.

  20. Oral history interview with Leo Anspach