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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Dutch

  1. Verdoner children at home

    Otto Verdoner, seated at a table in his high chair, wearing a bib, and being fed by his mother. He is wearing a party hat that resembles a king's crown, most likely it is Otto's first birthday. Francisca plays with her younger brother. MCU, Otto seated on the 'potty' playing with a hair brush. CU, Otto and his mother Hilde. CU, Francisca and her great uncle Paul Wallmann playing at the table. CU, Yoka and her great aunt Selma Wallmann at the dinner table; great aunt Selma is making sure that Yoka eats all of her food. Yoka shows off her clean plate. CU, Yoka learning to knit. CU, Francisca ...

  2. 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 3: Pusch testifying. Defense attorneys addressing Commission. Pusch testifying; Strasser listening; Reichl testifying; defense listening. Commissioners, including Judge Col. Raymond E. Zickel sitting the second from the right at 01:22:39 an...

  3. Drawing

    Image of a bearded man, a rabbi, wearing a hat and overcoat in the Kraków ghetto.

  4. German educational film: domesticating the African elephant

    This short film first depicts the African elephant in its natural habitat, aand then as domesticated elephants being used as work animals for a variety of tasks. All the scenes are EXT scenes. There are some interesting scenes shot at night in the camp, where the elephants can be seen with people riding them, etc. VS, of elephant hunting. There is a long, arduous scene where approximately 10 men try to rope and restrain a wild elephant. They are successful in roping one of his hind legs, but the elephant continues to fight off some of the men with his forelegs and his trunk, this struggle i...

  5. Book Lieder der Bewegung

  6. Child's white cotton dress with lace and embroidery

    Julia Schor wore the dress during World War II.

  7. DPs in Germany

    (LIB 4171-4178) Displaced Persons, Anrath, Germany, March 15, 1945. MSs, female displaced persons walk along corridor of former prison. Two girls enter cell. Inside cell, female DPs talk and sing. MCU, two Russian DP women. Two male DPs distribute German language newspapers printed by the US military authorities. LS, DPs in courtyard near entrance to mess hall. DPs unload beef and lard from truck. US soldier supervises unloading. MSs, CUs, DPs ready for transfer to their homelands are loaded on truck.

  8. War crimes trials of Ustasa

    Opening Text: Dokumuntarni film o procesu protiv grupe ustasko macekovsko cetnickhi koljaca spljuna I terorista u ovom filmu uvrstene su dokumentarne snimke iz ustaske filmske arhive. [Documentary film about the process against a group of Ustasa, followers of Macek, and Cetnik killers, spies, and terrorists. This film incorporates archival footage from the film archives of the Ustasa.] Narrated in Croatian. Judges enter courtroom. EXT; military guards accompany the war criminals into the courtroom. Each person to be tried is flanked by two guards. INT- crowd of civilians in the courtroom st...

  9. Verdoner children bathing

    CU, Francisca Verdoner in the bath tub, being bathed by her mother Hilde. Hilde washes her hair, makes a shampoo "mohawk", etc. CU, Yoka in the bathroom, making faces for the camera, sticking her tongue out at the camera as Francisca's bath continues. ECU, Francisca crying when she gets soap in her eyes. CU, Francisca sitting calmly, shrowded in a towel after her bath. CU, Yoka undresses and gets into the bath. VS, CUs, Yoka wetting her head, lathering with soap, then the mother takes over and finishes washing her.

  10. Morris Hillquit

    New York State Assembly. Assemblymen elected by the Socialist Party are prevented from taking "seat" and the lawyers who defend them. Morris Hillquit at his desk. William E. Karlin in group. Pan, group.

  11. Summary of Himmler at Nuremberg Trial (SOUND ONLY)

    SOUND ONLY. Sentencing of Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany, October 1946. Decisions reached on how the charges will be grouped. Description of Heinrich Himmler and the operations of the Gestapo.

  12. Verdoner children playing in the yard

    VS, Francisca and Yoka Verdoner playing in their yard with their mother Hilde and their grandmother, and two puppy dogs.

  13. Nazi propaganda: people with physical disabilities

    Propaganda film with German intertitles (some transcribed below). "Krüppel sind infolge eines angeborenen oder erworbenen Knochen=, Nerven= oder Gelenk= leidens in dem Gebrauch ihres Rumpfes oder ihrer Gliedmassen dauernd behinderte Kranke. Krüppel geraten ohne recht= zeitige und umsichtige Füersorge in Not und soziales Elend. 1) wegen unzweckmässiger Lebensweise, mangelnder ärztlicher Behandlung und Beobachtung. 2) wegen der Unfähigkeit, eine Schule zu besuchen. 3) wegen der Unfähigkeit, sich fuer eine Erwerbstätigkeit auszubilden." 03:09:16 Title: "I. Die nicht heimbeduerftigen Krüppel ko...

  14. Album of 26 black and white linocuts of scenes from a detention camp in Cyprus

    Album of 26 black and white linocuts of scenes from a detention camp in Cyprus, and with a list of linocuts in Hebrew; black ink inscription in English captioning each interior linocut. This album was drawn, printed, and bound in 120 copies by pupils of the art-class of the Rutenberg Seminar in the Detention Camps of Cypress."

  15. Persecution of Jews; isolating, labeling, deporting, murdering Jews

    Pre-title sequence: Bookburning in Berlin, Joseph Goebbels speaking. View of bodies stacked with wood for burning, and Heinrich Heine quote. Film title: DER GELBE STERN: Ein Film ueber die Judenverfolgung 1933 - 1945. Events of January 30, 1933, when Adolf Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany. NSDAP (Nazi Party) organization, new members, SA marching in streets. S.A. Heim [Sturmabteilung headquarters]. Joseph Goebbels speaks at Sportpalast in Berlin, against the lying Jewish press etc. This preceded Hitler's first speech as Chancellor, February 10. Still of burned Reichstag building, and a...

  16. Post war documentary on lessons to be learned from the Holocaust

    Scene behind open credits is a bustling city square. Still of man hanging from a telegraph pole. Famous photo of young boy and woman with their hands up during the Warsaw ghetto uprising, it is a Stroop Report photo. 01:01:39 Concentration camp. Writing on wall. 01:02:43 CU of letters. 01:03:14 Still photos of individuals. "Poruke". Writing on screen. 01:04:18 Still photos - people about to be shot, inmates on wire, men with signs around their necks stating what they are guilty of. 01:04:45 Stills of many bodies in mass grave. 01:05:20 Still of people hanging, firing squad, bodies. 01:07:08...

  17. Albert Einstein

    Tower built to prove Albert Einstein's theory of relativity. Costly structure with expensive laboratory equipment is built by exponents of scientist's discovery. Three shots of tower.

  18. Blasting IG Farben plant

    Blastin the I.G. Farben War Plant, November 12, 1945. MS, Gen Lucian K Truscott speaks with Col S Y Giffert of the Industry Branch of the Military Government. CU, Gen Truscott. HS, the general pushes the handle of the magnetic exploder. MSs, MCUs, officers connected with the project. CU, sign, "Schwaben Control Office". CU, sign, "Enemy Ammo Collecting Point". VS, results of the blasting. Officers and men inspect the damage. Pan, VS, destroyed trees, ammunition bunkers, and building structures. (These buildings were camouflaged). Note: The actual explosion was not photographed.

  19. Verdoner family playing in the garden

    Francisca Verdoner and Yoka Verdoner, in the family yard with their mother Hilde Verdoner. They are eating and playing. VS, some overhead shots, taken from a window or a balcony in the house. Francisca beginning to crawl, being picked up off the grass by her grandfather. Francisca and Yoka playing with wooden blocks and toys. CUs, their father Gerrit Verdoner helps them to build a tower from the wooden blocks.

  20. Norman Winestine correspondence

    Contains correspondence pertaining to Norman Winestine's role in helping Jacob Hess and family leave Germany for the United States in 1939.