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  1. Dr. Howard Hoffman collection

    Consists of correspondence, a clipping, and copies of testimony related to Dr. Howard Hoffman. As an American soldier, he was a member of the 102nd Infantry Division and witnessed the aftermath of the Gardelegen atrocity. The collection includes a copy of Hoffman's recollections and information about his corrections to the exhibit text in 1978 at Yad Vashem which had misidentified Gardelegen as a concentration camp. Also includes text written by Hoffman's wife, Dr. Alice Hoffman, about her husband's experiences.

  2. Jewish Service at Belsen

    Jewish religious service outdoors, which cameraman describes as having a "simple sincerity." Two rabbis assisting Reverend R.H. Hardman are both ex-POWS - Rabbi H. Helfgot (Yugoslavian, bearded) and Rabbi B. Goldfinger (Polish, clean shaven). Sunny day, large gathering, organized event, lots of people. Young women with arms around each other, staring without apparent emotion. Rabbi holds up Torah. Makeshift ark, tapestry. VLS from above of gathering, big circle of people crowded together, outer ring of people stand on benches. Long line of little kids coming together, join and enter circle....

  3. Van Pragh, Polak, Elias, and Wertheim families collection

    The collection includes photographs depicting the Van Praagh and Polak families a photocopy of the journal written by Therese (Tesi) Wertheim. The journal, written immediately post-war, describes Tesi's describers her wartime experiences between May 10, 1940 and April 3, 1945, including when the Germans invaded Enschede in the Netherlands, the arrest of her son, Martin, who was killed at Mauthausen in October 1941, anti-Jewish legislation, life in in the underground in Enschede, and the aerial attacks on the city.

  4. US infantry in France; Female French collaborators

    American troops of the 4th Division advance through fields and woods. They take cover in trenches and behind trees. According to NARA the tanks are M-4 tanks and the howitzer is a 105mm on an M-7 motor carriage. Long shot down a road. Smoke billows in the distance. More howitzers firing. Close-up of shells being loaded and fired. Two captured German soldiers are marched down a road. 01:14:45 Sign at the entrance to a devastated town reads Cherence le Roussel. American soldiers advance through the town, looking for snipers. A soldier marks a mine with a flag. Young soldier holding a telephon...

  5. War crimes discussion

    Discussion of crimes against humanity and prosecuting Nazi war criminals today.

  6. Jewish quarter in Amsterdam

    Hand turns book. Views rooftops of Amsterdam, VAR shots of city. Street musicians. VAR shots of streets and houses. Old counting house. Canals and canal houses. Market in Jewish quarter. Canals, views of boats, water, bridges. Warehouses, loading. More buskers. Harbor scenes. Herring stall. Bell tower. Rembrandt monument. Jewish quarter: candle and star are superimposed on footage; boys, going to synagogue, wedding; market, men talk, flower stall, diamond cutting. Picture shop. Canals. Harbor. Canal reflections. More Jewish quarter. Sundial with Hebrew letters, interior lamp, brief EXT of P...

  7. Speer, Hitler and others inspect weapons

    R 1 of 3. Fuehrerhauptquartier Rastenburg (East Prussia) May 18, 1942. Albert Speer, Hitler, General Fichtner, Bodenschatz, Porsche, and others inspect some equipment and a map (?). The other men listen while Hitler speaks and gestures animatedly. The next title indicates that the location is now Goering's train and the date is 10 August [1942]. Footage shot from the top of the train as it travels. Men stand lookout on the top of the train. The train comes to a stop. Goering, Speer, Jeschonnek, Bodenshatz, and Milch stand talking beside the train. Title: Inspection of new weapons, 20 March ...

  8. German victories in East before invasion of W. Europe

    Reel 2: Vehicles move on an autobahn. British troops parade and drill. British recruits join up. Hitler reviews German troops. War materiel rolls from a German factory. Hitler rides through Vienna and across the Czech border. German troops and tanks parade. German refugees flee Polish oppression. Hitler speaks in the Reichstag. Panzer units invade Poland. Hitler looks through an artillery periscope. German railroads transport war materiel. Newspaper headlines proclaim the war. German naval units cruise off the coast of Norway, paratroops land in Norway. German planes fly over Norwegian moun...

  9. Goebbels talks to US reporter Ward Price

    Josef Goebbels speaks to Ward Price (US reporter for the Daily Mail). MS Goebbels and Price, both in suits, seated on a park bench. Partial translation from Raye Farr's notes (1972): Goebbels: "I am of the firm conviction that peace must be kept in Europe. If war were to come, it would be the greatest misfortune for the world. And however it might end for the victors, the conquered would endure the most terrible suffering. And so it will be the Reich government's policy to try to keep peace no matter what, and to relieve the people's suffering, their anxiety, their unemployment." [original ...

  10. Samuel Insull returns to US to face fraud charges

    "Insull Return Triumph for Uncle Sam," Jersey City and Princeton, NJ. Editor's Note: The return of Samuel Insull after a chase halfway around the world once more demonstrates the power of the federal government. None can long defy its authority or escape its justice. Good LS of the SS Exilona coming into port. CS, Insull, Jr. CU, Insull. Insull leaving car, and coming to camera. CU, Insull saying that he will not grant an interview. CU.

  11. Oral history interviews of the Musée d'art et d'histoire du judaïsme collection

    Oral history interviews of the Musée d'art et d'histoire du judaïsme collection

  12. March of Time -- outtakes -- Refugees in Switzerland

    December 5-6, 1938. Jewish refugees in Zurich, Switzerland. All refugees at the camp are Austrians. VS of the kitchen with cooks at work. 04:20:42 LS of the dining room with refugees helping themselves and eating. Mountains in BG, visible through window. 04:21:28 Group of men and women carrying bags, etc, walking/escaping through the woods [staged]. LS of man peering through bush. 04:22:31 VS of group arriving at camp and being welcomed by everyone. 04:22:45 VS of them listening to radio. 04:23:17 VS in dormitory playing ukelele and singing. CU, man chopping wood and refugees arriving at ca...

  13. Bookmark

    Bookmark found in a book on eugenics, 1997.7.2.

  14. Claranne Bechtler collection

    Collection of Nazi pennants, banner and armbands.

  15. UNRRA selected records AG-018-040 : Office of the Historian

    Selected files of the UNRRA Office of the Historian. Consists of publications and monographs: UNRRA monthly reviews, the Facts and Figures, Operational Analysis Papers, the Director General's Report to the Central Committee-Supply Operations, Documents of the Central Committee of the Council, Indexes to the Council Documents, United Nations Committee on UNRRA, the President Roosevelt's message to the First Council, reports to the Allied Governments, various agreements; Subject files: agreements, Richard Brown's diary of trip with congressmen, reports, correspondence, displaced persons files...

  16. Ship SS France; Visiting Morocco and Spain

    With intertitles in English. “Europe and the North Coast of Africa, 1929. Before sailing on deck of ‘SS France’” Large group of well-dressed men and women gather on the deck of the SS France for a group shot. 1.11 Man leans on the railing looking out. Other groups of people gather for group shots, laughing and embracing each other. A final large group of people form a line, walking on the deck of the ship. 1:47 “Dropping the Pilot.” Overhead shot of a small paddle boat and shots of the open water. 2:18 “Advertising the races during 5 o’clock tea.” Men in uniform carry large cutouts of horse...

  17. Benjamin Myerow collection

    Contains photographs taken shortly after the liberation of Dachau, showing the death train.

  18. Leonard Reedy collection

    Consists of documents and photographs compiled in a multi-page document that illustrates Nazi war crimes and atrocities committed at the Helmbrechts concentration camp for forced labor and the Volary (Vondnany) death march. The evidence was brought to the United States from Germany by the donor’s father, Leonard Earl Reedy, Chief Warrant Officer in the United States Army.

  19. Selected records from the collection of the District Court in Piotrków. Regional Branch in Częstochowa Sąd Okręgowy w Piotrkowie. Wydział Zamiejscowy w Częstochowie (Sygn. 44)

    Contains records related to the history of Częstochowa and its industries, and social and economic activities at this time. Includes files relating to mortgages, estate property, allocation of property, alimonies, indemnities, draft debts, cancellations of draft agreements, and the cancellation of notary acts. Also included are files of civil cases such as the clarification of certificates of marital status, adoptions of children, death certificates, auctions of estate property, and concessions of the rights of the poor. Includes commercial registration files which contain the date of the e...

  20. Hans Walter collection

    Consists of newspaper articles about Hans Walter's youth in Berlin, Germany, his experiences in Auschwitz, Sachsenhausen, and Ebensee, photocopies of his friend Peter Edel's drawings, and a photocopy of a forged twenty-pound note created as part of Operation Bernhard, a forgery effort conducted in Sachsenhausen.