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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Latvian

  1. Green knapsack used by a Hungarian Jewish man in forced labor

    Large, two pocket rucksack used by Elek Brust while a forced laborer from 1941 and 1943-1944 in Hungary. He then used it while living in hiding with his family during the German occupation through February 1945. Elek was a manufacturer and prominent member of the Jewish community in Budapest where he lived with his wife Lilly and young daughter Eva. In 1941, Jewish males were required to do forced labor service and Elek was sent to a labor camp. Lilly obtained his release a few months later with black market papers. In 1943, Elek was again drafted, and not released until March 1944. On Marc...

  2. Pink pillow

  3. German educational film: 1936 Olympics, Berlin

    This short film depicts the scene at the 1936 Olympic Games held in Berlin, Germany. General, establishing shot of the entrance to the stadium, followed by a series of shots inside the stadium, of crowds saluting Hitler, and of the procession of participating countries. MCU of Italian delegation marching on to the field, their athletes in black shirts, saluting Hitler. CU of Hitler surveying the crowds. Cut back to the various countries rounding the track inside the stadium. CU of Hitler saluting, cut to Nazi flag being carried into the stadium. MS, crowds in the bleechers wave and cheer. L...

  4. US Army vehicles; Army-Navy Game

    US military supply vehicles travelling down dirt road, arrive at Army barracks. 01:01:19 (black and white) Army vehicles, labeled 104 HQ1. "HQ 1st BN 104th F.A. Message Center" sign. Soldiers sending telegrams. Map. 01:03:25 Camouflaged weapons. 01:05:16 (color) soldiers with map, dead fox. "104th Battalion" title. Play fighting. 01:08:15 Building, CU military car, vehicles lined up in building, military equipment lined up. 01:11:30 "Philadelphia 1939 Army vs. Navy" title. Tickets. Stadium, woman waving flag for Navy, band on pitch. 01:14:10 "This is the Navy field Goal" title. "Match" 01:1...

  5. Trial of Marshal Henri Petain

    Trial of Marshal Henri Petain, Fortress Montrouge (outskirts of Paris), July 1945. MSs, crowds entering palace courtyard after credentials are checked by guards. VS, Palace of Justice. MSs, Pierre Mongibaud, President of the High Court, enters palace. Anteroom shots (dark), civilians and military enter; group watches from stairs. MSs, EXT, bedroom window of palace. Room formerly occupied by Petain. MSs, CUs, correspondents working in press room. LS, policemen and firemen on palace roof. INT of courtroom, Petain enters, sits in chair flanked by guards. INT, witnesses appear; Michael Clemence...

  6. Hitler Protest in NYC

    "Gigantic Hitler Protest, New York" Ground shot of parade, flag bearers. Rabbi Wise is at the extreme right. Maj. Gen. O'Ryan, Commander of the 27th Division, leads the parade. Crowd shot. CUs, Jewish onlookers. CUs, placards. Shot of crowds at Battery Park. LS, Gen. O'Ryan speaking to crowds at microphone: "The principle that all citizens of a state stand equal before the law in relation to their persons and property has long since come to be recognized as a test of civilized government."

  7. Kan family vacationing during winter in Switzerland

    Hand-drawn title card with a ski hill, Swiss flag, and building: "Winter 1931-32 St. Moritz." At a train station. Scenic shots of the city of St. Moritz and surrounding mountains. Jeanne, wearing a hat, fur coat, and heels; walking up an angled street towards the camera. Cresta Run toboggan course. Scenic shot of the city, more shots of the toboggan course. 01:01:46 LS, ice rink. From a distance, people ice-skating with the Swiss Alps in BG. Closer view of the ice rink with figure skating performance. Various acts, audience, Alps in BG. 01:05:14 Ice rink from the side. Couples skate as the ...

  8. War Crimes Trials: I.G. Farben Case

    (Munich 617) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 6 (I.G. Farben Case), Nuremberg, Germany. Shots of defendants pleading "not guilty" to the indictment. The defendants rise and plead to charges in the following order: Carl Krauch, Hermann Schmidt, Georg von Schnitzler, Fritz Gajewski, Heinrich Hoerlein, August von Knierien, Fritz ter Meer, Ernst Buergin, Paul Haefliger, Max Ilgner, Friedrich Jaehne, Hans Kuehne, Walter Duerrfeld, Heinrich Gottineau. The other defendants standing trial but not answering to pleas are visible in the prisoners' dock: Christian Schneider, Otto ...

  9. Promoting need for war crimes trials; bookburning

    Film promoting the need for war crimes trials in Nuremberg. Narration explains the various trials established to prosecute war criminals. Opening shot, statue of Thomas Jefferson in Jefferson Memorial, Washington DC. Ext CUs, Adolf Hitler addressing German people at Nuremberg rally (translated into English). CU, concentration camp victims; weeping relatives/civilians. Piles of corpses, atrocities. CU, documents. US soldiers shot in back, victims of Nazi persecution. Wagons loaded with corpses moving through streets. Marching with swastikas. 12:10:50 Book burning (all familiar images, good d...

  10. Kan family postwar in US: Robert's child

    Color. Robert gets into a car, out of the car, and walks to the house. Robert walks out of a house with a boy. They walk down the sidewalk and wave. LS, mother in the doorway of the house. She then walks toward the camera. The boy gets into a car and sits in the driver's seat. 01:07:06 City skyline. Boy plays with children on a sidewalk, children line up for the camera. 01:07:56 Robert holds the hand of a younger child in a blue snowsuit who looks and waves at the camera. Robert and his wife, seen earlier, walk down the sidewalk with the children.

  11. Justices provide summary, judgement and verdicts at Nuremberg Trial

    Judgments rendered on Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg IMT, Nuremberg, Germany, 30 September 1946. Pan of courtroom from tribunal to prisoners' dock. LS, prisoners' dock and their attorneys sitting in FG as Justice Sir Geoffrey Lawrence reads from the Nuremberg Charter. MSs, Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Karl Doenitz, Erich Raeder. MS, Wilhelm Keitel, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Alfred Rosenberg. Albert Speer and Fritz Sauckel sitting behind them. MS, Alfred Jodl, Hans Frank, Franz von Papen, Wilhelm Frick. Pan, von Papen, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Julius Streicher, Speer, Walter Funk...

  12. 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.

  13. Joseph Wulf phonograph records

    Two original record discs (LPs) of recordings by Holocaust survivor and historian Joseph Wulf (b. Chemnitz, 1912 - 1974, Berlin). Includes songs composed by Joseph Wulf, accompanied on piano by Friedrich Scholz.

  14. Kan family: daily life in Netherlands; children at play

    House shot from across the street. Jeanne and children on sidewalk. Two children walk hand in hand in backyard. Four older men look down hill in yard, woman and two children in BG. Children stand by a window looking out. 01:10:14 Two older women stand next to little girl (Betsy?) and watch the little boy walk towards the camera. Little boy (Robert?) walks around the yard and plays with a ball. Woman and children cross street, walking. Boy eats in chair and points to the camera with Betsy(?) on the right. Shot of both children. 01:11:43 Scenes of a band playing on the beach. People gathered ...

  15. Judgment at Nuremberg Trial

    Sentencing of Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany, October 1946. Justice Sir Geoffrey Lawrence tells of Robert Ley committing suicide and Alfred Krupp unable to attend trial for his physical and mental condition (similar to Story 2611 but from a different perspective). Jackson gives summary of what prosecution claims and demands. French Justices Henri de Vabres and Robert Falco reading statements from bench. [The sound is partly gone, sketchy, four totally different scenes, partly in French before Biddle explains the Charter.] MS of Justice Francis Biddle speaking of the Nuremberg...

  16. Kan family vacationing during winter in Switzerland

    "Grand Hotel Tschuggen" reservation slip. Handmade picture of the hotel and "1937." Robert, Betsy, and Frits ice skate. People in observation bleachers next to the rink, waving. One woman taking photographs or film. People skate. Landscape shot of the mountains. Betsy and Robert pull their sleds. Jeanne walks behind them. Betsy ice skates. Frits ice skates. 01:02:49 Boy (unidentified) with skis and ski poles. 01:03:23 The boy skates with Robert and Betsy and the Kan family. Robert wears new ski goggles. 01:05:30 color Ice skating. Older man and woman outside the hotel, smiling and waving. R...

  17. Hitler; bookburning

    WS, huge crowd, Hitler with Goering and other elite. Hitler giving Nazi salute, swastikas, Hitler in uniform, crowd, SA, burning books. "We thought he was funny that Nazi paper-hanger...and that Nazi salute, we thought that was funny too." CU, Hitler watches bookburning. Britain's Chamberlain and France's Daladier deplane airplane. "You saw the burning of the books, the non-Aryan books, remember? You thought that such hysteria wouldn't spread, that Chamberlain and Daladier would contain such poison inside Germany." MLS, defenses of France's Maginot Line. WS, Nazi rally at Nuremberg. VS, cro...

  18. War Crimes Trials: film used as evidence in Ministries' Case (#11)

    War Crimes Trials, Case 11 (Ministries Case). Footage pertains to Germany's entry into Austria. An old Austrian barracks is burned to the accompaniment of speeches, saluting, etc. Several night shots of the burning and collapsing building are featured. "Gros-Deutschland". Views of Graz, Bavaria: the streets, buildings, etc. Hitler arrives in his car, crowds heil. In a great hall, he stops on the way to the platform to smell a flower, shake hands with people. There are many WW I wounded in the audience. CUs, weeping and ecstatic people, wounded with crutches, etc. Himmler is among those list...

  19. Nazi propaganda poster

    The antisemitic poster was issued by the Nazi party in preparation for an election

  20. German educational film: soldiers build an igloo

    This short instructional film depicts German soldiers, in uniform, in an unidentified mountainous region surveying a snowy hillside to determine a fitting location to build an igloo. EXT, VS, a group of approximately 8 soldiers at work with shovels and saws in the snow, cutting and moving uniform 'bricks' of snow to construct their shelter. They load the blocks of snow onto a sled to transport them more easily. The soldiers work diligently to perfect their igloo, making sure to even out rough spots, and keep the bricks uniform and level. The igloo begins to take shape, there are now shots f...