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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Russian

  1. Military chaplains

    Narration. U.S. War Dept. Misc. 1170. Different houses of worship. People pray, sing. Ministers, priests and rabbis. American soldiers read the Bible. “Battles are won by military power, wars are won by spiritual power.” Military chaplains present communion wafers to soldiers kneeling. Army chaplain provides a group of soldiers with cigarettes, magazines, and letters. They smile and laugh. Chaplain writes and converses with soldiers. Sermon on a massive anti-aircraft weapon. Soldiers read bibles. A chaplain uses broadcasting technology to deliver sermons to men on the battlefront. Locals an...

  2. Concentration camp from Oct. 1941 to May 1945

    The collection consists of a personal narrative written by Elizabeth Reif describing her deportation from Vienna, Austria, to Łódź, Poland; her occupation as a pharmacist in the Łódź ghetto; conditons inside the ghetto; the deportation of her mother to Terezín, Czechoslovakia (a.k.a. Theresienstadt); her deportation to the camps of Auschwitz and Mittelsteine; her liberation and her return to Vienna.

  3. Hitler Youth Flying Club

    EXT, LS, shirtless teenage boys with glider in open field in Trebbin, near Berlin. VS, MSs, MCUs, boys pushing glider into position, pulling glider along for "lift off," glider takes flight. Name on glider "Richthofen 5." A swastika is also visible on the tail of the glider.

  4. Poster protesting Nazi threat to Christianity

    Office of War Information poster 76 titled "This is the Enemy" depicting a Nazi supporter thrusting a sword through a bible.

  5. American POWs; DPs in Germany

    (LIB 5032) 2200 American POWs Liberated from Stalag 9-B, Bad Orb, Germany, April 4, 1945 [originally identified by NARA as Breslau, Germany, taken on April 6, 1945]. SEQ: Released prisoners are addressed by American officer in camp area. Soldier with tin can standing in line. American POW, Pfc. James M. Osman, with chunk of bread. MCUs, released prisoners receiving coffee. Medics carry men out of building on litters. Soldiers receiving cigarettes and rations. Soldier with burned face. The commanding officer of the liberating force was Col. Walter D. Fetterly. 01:16:13 (LIB 4907) Displaced P...

  6. Records of the Youth Zionist Organization "Ahva" (Fond 342)

    The collection contains the following types of documents: bylaws, programs, appeals, minutes of the meetings of the Board; correspondence with Zionist organizations in Poland and worldwide; documents related to the activities of the branches of the organization throughout the region (arranged alphabetically by locality); financial activities of the organization; and membership information, including various lists of members, representatives to the meetings, and questionnaires.

  7. 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...

  8. Pamietnik z getta Łódzkiego diary of the Łódź ghetto

    Contains a Yiddish-language diary recovered from an ash pit (see Acc. 1998.A.0135) at crematoria nr. 2 in Birkenau concentration camp. An unknown writer compiled the diary. It describes life in the Łódź ghetto. Also contains a Yiddish-language transcription of a diary.

  9. Corpses after Russian massacre; bodies; Jews beaten

    "Agfa 1941" Overturned train. Exhumation of victims of the NKVD in Brygidki prison in Lviv in the summer of 1941. Laying out the bodies of officers and soldiers. Crowd gathered around bodies. (VQ, very soft, dark) Women poking at bodies which are being laid out in the courtyard, sweeping them clean? Woman running after and beating a man in the crowd. Soldiers pull her back and comfort her. Woman keening. A Ukrainian militiaman, recognizable by his armband, beating a Jewish man in Brygidki prison in Lviv. This was during the "prison action" of the Lviv pogrom of 1941. Many bodies laid out in...

  10. Roger B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Roger B., a Catholic, who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1921. He recounts attending school; working as an accountant; contact with Jewish refugees fleeing to the United States; German invasion; military draft; service in France; capture by Germans; escaping with others; returning to Brussels; his father's participation in the underground; notification of his draft for labor in Germany; hiding; observing a killing of Jews from his hiding place; remaining in hiding despite obtaining false papers; liberation by British troops; joining a Belgian section of the British ...

  11. German Hygiene Museum, Dresden; Transparent Man

    Film featuring the "world-famous" transparent man and the Deutsches Hygiene Museum [German Hygiene Museum] in Dresden. Dresden scenes, general views, Baroque architecture, river. 01:26:09: exterior: Deutsches Hygiene Museum. Interiors. 01:26:19 CU Poster 1911 Exhibition : "International Hygiene-Ausstellung Dresen" with large graphic eye. Bust of Karl Adolph Lingner, foiunder of the museum. A visit to the museum is shown. Visitors and exhibits, sculptures, models, visitors. Interactive exhibits on physiological aspects of the human body. 01:28:15 Cross sections of the human body on display. ...

  13. Records of the HeHalutz (Youth Zionist Organization for Education and Preparation of Jews for Immigration to the Land of Israel) Organization, Lwów Regional Branch, Poland (Fond 457, Opis 1)

    The collection consists of bylaws and correspondence of the local Zionist organizations with Polish authorities regarding funding, agricultural training, membership fees and financial records. This collection also contains card catalogue of the members of the local organization (1934) who went through the agricultural training before making Aliyah to the land of Israel.

  14. Hashomer Hatzair in France (RG-14-2) השומר הצעיר בצרפת

    Contains activity records, minutes of meetings of the Hashomer Hatzair Council, work plans, educational publications : Ha kvutza, on summer camps in France, articles Hashomer Hatzair leaders, a report on the World Zionist Federation, brochures of the "Lapidim" group, newspapers clippings "Al Hamishmar" (newspapers been published in France by the Hashomer Hatzair publishing house in 1931-1949).

  15. Norbert and Mina Butterklee letters

    Consists of letters written to Samuel and Paula Butterklee from their parents, Norbert and Mina Butterklee, from 1938-1942. Norbert (Nissen) and Mina (Menie) Butterklee, of Vienna, Austria, sent their children, Samuel and Paula, to the United States to escape Nazi persecution. Though they attempted to obtain visas for themselves, Norbert and Mina were unsuccessful, and perished during the Holocaust. The letters discuss their attempts to escape and their love and hopes for their children.

  16. Records of the Jewish Youth Scout Organization "Hanoar Haivri" (Fond 441)

    The collection contains the following types of documents: bylaws, programs, appeals, minutes of the meetings of the Board, correspondence with the Zionist organizations in Poland and worldwide, documents related to the activities of the branches of the organization throughout the Eastern Galicia and Silesia (arranged alphabetically by locality only "M"-"R"), financial activities of the organization and membership information, including various lists of members, representatives to the meetings, questioners. and the like.

  17. Linen runner belonging to Mirka Hausman

    A linen table runner embroidered with the initials "M.H." that once belonged to the donor’s maternal grandmother, Mirka Hausman (nee Levine), who perished during the Holocaust. The runner was later acquired by the donor's mother, Cila Hausman Knaster (1908-2007), when she revisited her hometown of Jasionówka, Poland after immigrating to the U.S. in 1949.

  18. Zvi K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zvi K., who was born in 1929 in a small town between Krako?w and Kielce, Poland. He describes attending the cheder; the German occupation; the influx of Jews into his town as the cities became ghettoized; the gradual imposition of restrictions on the freedom of Jews; the sudden siege of the town in 1942; and the mass killings which took place while Mr. K. hid in the fields, hating himself for being a Jew. Mr. K. also speaks of being sent, with his family, to Skarz?ysko-Kamienna, Werk C; and daily and cultural life there, where he escaped death, due in part to his moth...

  19. Bernard F. Engel papers

    The papers consists of six photographs taken by an American soldier named "Ray" at the V-bomb factory at Nordhausen; a pocket calendar issued to German soldiers; a document issued by Lieutenant General Omar Bradley outlining seven guidelines for dealing with the German people; and a booklet entitled "Pocket Guide to Germany" prepared by the United States Army Information Branch.

  20. District Committee, District Administrative Tribunal of Berlin Bezirksausschuss, Bezirksverwaltungsgericht Berlin (Pr. Br. Rep. 031-01, -02)

    Contains records relating to Jewish matters: the ban on performing one's profession; defilement of the race (Rassenschande); appreciation taxes for Jewish people; proof of Aryan ancestry; Jewish students, doctors and pharmacists; cancellation of driving licenses for Jewish people; and annulment of citizenship. Includes also information about Roma camps, organization of Gestapo, and small commercial matters like shops.