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  1. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 20 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 20 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  2. Star of David button used to identify a Bulgarian Jew

  3. Planes on airfield; "Deutsche Lufthansa"

    VS, Tempelhof Airport and airstrip. Sign on building: "Deutsche Lufthansa." Airfield; fuel truck marked "Stanavo." Several small propeller planes taxiing on runway; various views. Swastikas visible on the tails of most of the planes. One plane with name written on side "Vogelsberg." MCUs, maintenance crew, fueling plane. One mechanic on wing of aircraft, working on plane that is parked on airstrip.

  4. Airship hangars in countryside

    Airship hangars in the German countryside.

  5. Fighting in Warsaw

    Soldiers walking through rubble. Tossing hand grenades. Searching house-to-house. Mostly MS and MLS. Town is deserted. Flamethrowers. The last image is of a German eagle and Swastika, indicating the triumph of the Nazis. Footage and narration seem to indicate that this shows the German response to the Warsaw uprising (Polish revolt) which began on August 1, 1944 and lasted for two months. During and after the rebellion, the Germans razed the entire city of Warsaw.

  7. Jewish Refugees in Czechoslovakia

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 10, No. 728, Part 2. Release date, 12/14/1938. November 26-30, 1938. Jewish refugees in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. LS of field with round tents. CU of baby, rumpled man, woman by tub. Also, shots of men and women working at chores: sawing wood (cutting down tree), at water well, cooking. Refugee getting haircut and shave. Group near outdoor stove with little pots of water. Note: According to dope sheet, these are 360 Jews banished by Hungarian government and denied admittance by Czech authorities. They are in "no man's land" by the border. Newsreel footage also inc...

  8. Book

  9. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 5 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 5 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  10. Market; shops

    Reel 5. Intertitle: "Market Days - Monday and Friday." Crowds mill about town square (fuzzy) on market day. 02:07:03 One of the visiting Americans (Louis or Harry Sommer) buys a chicken from a vendor. Carts, cows, automobiles at the marketplace on the main square (across from the Klein family's shop). People walk towards camera. Buying and selling material. Shops in BG. Carts pass, followed by women. 02:07:50 Brief scene of Sommer and Klein family members walking towards the camera in alley. Crowds in town square for market days, walking toward and past camera. "Jakob Grossman", a leather g...

  11. German soldiers in USSR

    German scouts surround and investigate a farm which is found to be abandoned. Riflemen aim at the house while others investigate. Snow on the ground.

  12. Boycott of Jewish businesses in Berlin

    Berlin, boycott footage, SA putting signs in Jewish stores, carrying placards.

  13. Anti-Hitler demonstrations

    LSs, AVs, large group of men and women walking down a main thoroughfare in Chicago. MLSs as the men and women walk towards/past the camera, they are talking amongst themselves and some glance at the camera as they pass out of the frame. They are dressed warmly in fur coats and collars, hats, etc. marching to protest Hitler. A variety of banners are being carried, with slogans saying, "Down with Hitler-Avoid War", "Hitler Revives German Militarism", "Hitler's Henchman Goebbels Must not Greet the Centruy of Progress", "Join in the Jewish Protest Demonstration against Hitlerism, Today at 3:00 ...

  14. Kalevi-Liiva concentration camp, Estonia

    Footage and photographic stills of Kalevi-Liiva concentration/extermination camp in Estonia, including shots of a crematorium, barbed wire, Arbeit Macht Frei sign, victims (survivors?). Documents with names Ralf Gerriets and Jan Viik. City scenes. Trial footage, witnesses testify, photographic stills of atrocities presented as evidence, including Einsatzgruppen? acts, pits with corpses, decapitated heads. Memorial service at camp.

  15. Autobahn; tobacco picking

    Shots of Autobahn with scarce traffic, including trucks. Bridge over roadway in rural area. Worker with scythe cropping grass in island of road. CU hands picking tobacco leaves from stalk. WS of rest area on Autobahn, automobile approaches roadway.

  16. 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.

  17. German troops leave Belsen

    Group MS of German officers with Colonel. In foreground, frame right, is Lt. Col. Taylor. MS as members of Colonel's staff board lorry - older men, long coats, all lifted up/climbing onto back of truck. Lots of soldiers with machine guns, backpacks as they await transport. Men climb into lorries, watched by British and German officials in foreground. Column marches past, men seem cheerful. MS of one man, a medical orderly, in back of lorry as he flirts with a local girl who has come to see him off. Convoy ready to go. View from truck. CU, soldiers' faces. Women alongside road waving. Office...

  18. Election propaganda

    Election propaganda for the November 12, 1933 plebiscite on Germany's withdrawal from the League of Nations. Nazi banners cover buildings, swastikas, banners read: "Wir wollen nichts anderes als Frieden und Ruhe, aber auch nichts anderes als unser Recht"; "Wir wollen kein Volkminderen Rechtes"; "Fuer Frieden und Ehre." CU of Nazi lapel button "12. Ja 11" (The Ja stands for Yes, and the 11 for November - Vote Yes November 12, 1933). .

  19. Yellow cloth Star of David badge with the letter J. to identify a Belgian Jew

    Issued to Kitty Goldberg, Brussels, Belgium.

  20. Jewish Immigrants at Haifa

    Sign on prow "Haganah Ship Exodus 1947." Children watch from section of bombed out ship. Beleaguered women and children sit on ground. Injured carried away on stretchers.