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  1. Short interviews near Grabow (Maisons)

    Interviews with Polish inhabitants of Grabow, a village located 19 km from the Chelmno extermination camp. Prior to the war, Jews had accounted for over half the population of Grabow. In 1942, all of the approximately 4,000 Jews of Grabow were rounded up, locked in the town's Catholic church, and then transported to Chelmno. In these outtakes, Lanzmann reads a letter written by the rabbi of Grabow in January 1942, detailing the horrors that awaited his people. He conducts short interviews with town residents about their memories of that time, and the outtakes also contain mute shots of town...

  2. Fanny and Leo Englard collection

    The collection consists of a metal shard, military patches, and a wallet, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Fanny Dominitz in Germany and several concentration camps during the Holocaust and of Leo Englard in Palestine and the Jewish Brigade Group during World War II.

  3. Otto Schick collection

    The collection consists of a luggage tag, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Otto Schick and his family in Vienna, Austria, before and during the Holocaust and the experiences of Otto Schick in the United States following his emigration in 1940.

  4. German Army South moves into Lvov; roundup and beating of Jews; victims of NKVD massacre

    Tank leaves tire tracks in field. Brief shot of a caravan of vehicles on road, poles torn down, and tank overturned. LS, farm and fields. 00:04:34 Dark shots of troops marching along city road, silhouette of a gate and a village. A soldier knocks down the star from the gate. CU fallen star. 00:04:53 Troops march towards camera. Troops march into Lemberg. Good shots of civilians watching and cheering. The crowd parts for a military car (with camera on dashboard). 00:05:38 Various shots of the city of Lemberg, homes and buildings. 00:06:31 CU of a German officer smoking and talking to soldier...

  5. Metal notebook cover

    The note pad was given as a gift to the mother of Elzbieta Lichtman while in the Lvov ghetto.

  6. St. Louis in Cuban Harbor

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 11, No. 777, Part 2A. Release date, 05/28/1939. Various MLS of ship St. Louis (shot from sea level looking up to bow). At harbor. From starboard, people at rail. MS well-dressed and good looking men in white jackets, uniforms stand on ground/dock. LS "St. Louis" on side of ship. LS ship pulling out of harbor (backwards). People standing around on land. Intended narration according to UN Motion Picture Release: "907 Jewish refugees from Germany aboard the liner Saint Louis, who were refused admission into Cuba as the liner rode at anchor for days or cruised in West I...

  7. Policja Ochronna w Warszawie. Batalion Szkoleniowy Polizei-Ausbildungsbataillon Schutzpolizei Warschau (GK 720)

    Registers of Hifspolizei officers in Warsaw, Poland

  8. Jewish Communities in Hamburg Jüdische Gemeinden Hamburg (522-1)

    Files for the administration and organization of the municipalities of the Jewish communities in Hamburg, the Religious Association ("Religionsverband") and the Reich Association of the Jews in Germany ( "Reichsvereinigung"), as well as personal files of its members. Files contain information on daily life and the treatment of Jews in Germany before and during the Nazi era (including deportations, administration of Jewish assets and correspondences). This collection contains mixed collections of original documents and reproductions which reside half at the Hamburg State Archive and half at ...

  9. Touring Germany

    In the mountains (Alps?). A man and a woman talk before a tree and look at the camera. Several young men smoke and pose for the camera at the foot of a ski slope. Guesthouse. Visiting the traditional frescoed facades of the Bavarian village Oberammergau and the Ettal Monastery. Pan across the mountain landscape and small towns below. Three men pose near the summit mount with their skis. People ski and ride in cable cars. Large church. 01:02:07 Pan and LS of an ice rink. A villager herds his sheep. Cut back to ice skating, mountains and people hiking. More aerial views, the ski slopes, and a...

  11. Dorothy Shapiro collection

    Consists of American newspaper articles discussing the situation of Jews in the immediate postwar era. Includes two letters from the Vaad Hatzala rescue organization addressed to Dorothy Shapiro, dated March and April 1945, acknowledging her fundraising efforts.

  12. Hans (Jan) Löw collection

    Consists of enlargements, CD photographs, original negatives, copyprints, and original photographs of Hans "Jan" Löw, originally of Brno, Czechoslovakia. Prior to his 1936 emigration to England, Hans had previously edited a Revisionist Zionist publication in Prague and worked for Keren Tel Chai. Upon his arrival in London, Hans served as a secretary to Vladimir Jabotinsky in his office at 47 Finchley Rd. The office operated from 1936-1939.

  13. Archives of the Jewish Community of Rhodes

    Registration cards of the Jewish families residing in Rhodes in 1939, registered by the local authorities in accordance with Italian Racial Laws of November 17, 1938.

  14. Hitler addresses Reichstag; occupation of Czechoslovakia

    "1939" "Hitler Predicts Annihilation of the Jewish Race in Europe if War Occurs, 30 January 1939." Hitler speaking at Reichstag. 00:02:07 "President Hacha of Czechoslovakia arrives in Berlin as Guest of Hitler, 14 March 1939." Hacha walking in street lined with SS officers. CU, flag. Hacha gets into automobile. 00:02:34 "Occupation of Remainder of Czechoslovakia, 15 March 1939." Various newspaper headlines. Nazi soldiers on village road, on motorcycles and bicycles in winter. Officers conversing. Arriving in Prague with military vehicles, snowing, marching. Hitler riding in automobile, exit...

  15. Nazi atrocities; surrender

    06:12:46 Reel 2: "Activities in European Theater of Operations" In Germany, Schweinfurt citizens gather in courtyard. Confiscated art, belongings, etc. German male civilians march in columns in streets to be screened by US counter-intelligence. Cached gold and art treasures emoved from Merkers salt mine. Nordhausen citizens loot shops, walk through streets, stopped by armed US soldiers, forced to surrender stolen goods. French POW camp in Seurst, Germany. The liberated wave out of three story building windows, give hugs, pats, and kisses to liberating soldiers, large crowd, US and French ra...

  16. Visit to Ukraine by Soviet writer Marietta Shaginyan and folk dancing

    "Soviet Ukraine"- Release 43. Soviet writer, Marietta Shaginyan, biographer of Lenin, visits the Ukraine. Speech to Dykan'ka kolkhoz youth in the Poltava region of Ukraine (members of a collective farm group) in Russian (not certain of language of speech as this story is accompanied by voiceover naration in Ukrainian, and the original sound of the speech is not heard, and was perhaps never recorded). Four Ukrainian couples performing Jewish folk dance, they are members of the official Ukrainian State Folk Dance Troupe. Part of this story takes place in the small Ukrainian village of Dykan'k...

  17. Bernard M. Fishman collection

    The collection consists of a table knife and filmstrips relating to the experiences of Bernard Fishman while serving as a member of the United States Army stationed in Ulm, Germany, in the immediate postwar period.

  18. Chester C. Boone collection

    The collection consists of two welding torches and associated parts related to the experiences of Chester C. "Jack” Boone of the United States Army at the Dora Mittelbau V2 rocket factory during and after World War II.

  19. Diane Keeley collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and published materials relating to the experience of Diane Keeley in Germanywith the US occupation forces after World War II.