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  1. Distribution of propaganda; crowds

    A banner announcing a food transport for the Sudetenland. Food for Sudeten Germans brought in on trucks. Propaganda papers tossed to crowds. A close up of a newspaper reading "Memel ist frei!" View of banner reading, "We have arrived home!" A man is shown painting over the Lithuanian words on a sign so that only the German is visible. The sign appears to designate a train station. Memel, formerly part of East Prussia until it was ceded to Lithuania under the Versailles Treaty, was annexed back to Germany in March of 1939. Soldiers enter town in trucks, greeted by rambunctious crowd. Shots o...

  2. Jews in ghetto of Dabrowa Gornicza & Bedzin, Poland; street scenes, workers, sewing workshop of Rossner

    Jews walking on sidewalk, nicely dressed, past storefronts, including "Schumacherei". Jewish Stars marked "Jude" worn on clothing, mostly young adults. CUs. Funny angle up, Jewish star on clothes of boy and his dad. 01:00:24 Policeman passing quickly close to camera. 01:00:30 Large group of many smiling women with Jewish stars close together, elevated camera angle. CU, pan CU to more faces. 01:00:31 Wider shot, big crowd on street in front of building. Pan up brick building to window with bars, three men lean heads out window. CU men from elevated angle. Serious-looking man, grim woman, two...

  4. Nazi atrocities

    Views/scenes of concentration camps Ohrdruf, Hadamar, Nordhausen, and Buchenwald. Exhumation of bodies, German civilians taken on tour of camp; survivors and soldiers; stacks of bodies. Shots of US war prisoners at a camp.

  5. Hitler and others study map

    General Dietl walks with Hitler at Hitler's headquarters in Berlin. INT shots, Jodl, Keitel, and Hitler stand over map on desk. Pointing at maps, discussing.

  6. Latvian Nationalists massacred by GPU

    Bodies of Latvian Nationalists murdered by GPU in or around Riga. Shots of the dead carried on stretchers and lined in rows on the ground, some placed in wooden coffins. Women stand, gathered together, rocking, weeping, holding each other; some CU of their mourning. Some brief, gruesome views of the bodies, including children. Alone, wailing old woman clasps her hands in despair. (Anti-Bolshevist propaganda) Mangled bodies.

  7. Hindenburg's Funeral

    Hindenburg's funeral. Wagon carries coffin. Six soldiers stand by coffin. Iron Cross. MS, then VLS of Hitler walking past coffin to podium. Hitler speaks.

  8. Nazi Party Rally (Nuremberg): Hitler Youth, BDM, SS

    Nazi Party Rally at Nuremberg / Armed Forces Day. Planes fly over, tanks in formation on field. Close shot of older woman in scarf selling fruit in main square, Nuremberg. (Some spoiled footage, frame line out of rack 01:07:25 - 01:07:34) Hitler Youth airclub; young men launch gliders near Berlin. BDM (Bund deutscher Maedel / League of German Girls) on the road between Dresden and Nuremberg. Small troops walking on cobblestone country road, singing; one carries BDM flag. Adolescent girls in BDM uniform of white shirts, kerchiefs. Some in regular clothes. Older BDM members lined up on parade...

  9. Shlomo Goldberg collection

    Consists of the diary of Shlomo Goldberg and other documents relating to his life in Europe and the United States.

  10. Mordechai Goldsamer collection

    Includes various documents and copyprints relating to the activities of Mordechai Goldsamer before, during, and after the Holocaust. Among the topics covered are the Jutrznia sports organization (athletic club for Jewish youth), the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, and Goldsamer's work with the United Jewish Survivors of Nazi Persecution.

  11. Office of the Government Kommissar for the Productivity of Jewish Population in Poland records (AAN 201)

    Consists of various documents concerning the activities of the Office of the Kommissar of the Productivity of the Jewish Population in Poland. Subjects include finances, industry, employment, Jewish settlement, population movement, and aid to Jews.

  12. Autobiography of Edith Gerda Riemer

    Consists of a copy of an autobiography by Edith Gerda Riemer (née Lefor). The autobiography describes Riemer's experiences as a young Jew in Germany prior to the Holocaust and her emigration to England in 1939. The autobiography also includes information concerning Riemer's family history and her years spent in summer camps and hospitals in England. Three pages are missing from the original manuscript.

  13. Berlin collection (MK 310.33)

    Contains instructions from the Generalkommissar in Belarus (White Russia); photos of Reich Finance Minister Lutz von Schwerin-Krosigk in Riga; correspondence about the Jewish Question and gassing equipment; a list of books; the funeral speech for the Generalkommissar of White Russia, Wilhelm Kube; reports on the mood of the population in White Russia; statistics on Germans in White Russia; documents of Einsatzstab Rosenberg dealing with Minsk, Orel, Brjansk, Gorki, and Białystok; material relating to resistance in White Russia and the Baltic states; and information about propaganda.

  14. Nathan Koenig articles from the Washington Jewish review and the Jewish daily bulletin

    Consists of clippings of articles written by Nathan Koenig for the Washington Jewish review and the Jewish daily bulletin. The majority of the articles appeared in a column of the Jewish daily bulletin titled "Capital comment." The articles discuss a wide range of topics, among them economic conditions in Europe during the 1930s, American reaction to the Nazi persecution of Jews and certain Christian groups, immigration to the United States, and Adolf Hitler's rise to power.

  15. Anti-Hitler rally in Berlin; Hindenburg voting

    An anti-Hitler rally in Berlin. Heinrich Bruening, then-Chancellor of Germany (he resigned under pressure from president Paul von Hindenburg on May 30, 1932) speaks negatively about Hitler and the consequences to the country should he come to power. The next few scenes seem to be out of order chronologically. The first one shows von Hindenburg exiting a building and getting into his car. A crowd has gathered on the sidewalk and he greets them briefly. The next scene shows von Hindenburg inside the building, presumably before voting. He is instructed to face the camera and pose, and says som...

  16. Joel Levin collection

    Consists of a collection of posters and other printed materials relating to 1990 observances of the Babi Yar massacre by the Jewish community of Kiev.

  17. Records of the Gestapo in Łódź

    Consists of various documents created by the Gestapo in Łòdź, Poland, from 1940 to 1944. The records relate to emergency plans for air attacks, air-raid shelters, rebuild in after bomb raids, anti-Nazi literature, resistance of the Polish population, and individual criminal cases investigated by the Łódź Gestapo office. Also included are files for individuals who were deported to Auschwitz.

  18. Renée Fodor Schwarz writings

    The Renée Fodor Schwarz writings consist of essays and poems by Schwarz in which she remembers and reflects on her childhood in Poland, her internment in the Krakow ghetto and at Auschwitz, and her new life in Israel and the United States. Most of this material has been published in her books (Renée, Covenant of the Rainbow, and Symphony of the Heart).

  19. History of Soviet-American relations during the Second World War

    Consists of photocopies of documents and copy prints of photographs relating to the United States-USSR relation during World War II and after. The variety of subjects mentioned ranges from military hardware to agricultural experiments.

  20. Itzhak Giterman collection

    Contains records relating to the German occupation of France, Poland, and the Soviet Union. Subjects include activities of the Wehrmacht, the transport of Jews from France, and the establishment of German communities in the occupied territories in the East.