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  1. March of Time -- outtakes -- FDR declaration of war speech

    US Capitol, Washington, DC. Various shots of President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivering his declaration of war speech. Clark reading resolution. Reaction shots, members cheering and applauding. Speaker of the House, Samuel Rayburn, calling House to order.

  2. Police Intelligence Service (Sub-series GB from series G). Special Brigades under German Occupation

    Records of Les Brigades Spéciales (BS) [Special Brigades] of the Préfecture de Police, which were a part of the Direction Centrale des Renseignements Généraux (now called the Department of Intelligence of the Prefecture of Police) and was created specifically to track down enemies of the Vichy government. Records are divided into two parts: a group BS1 to follow Communist and Gaullist propaganda and activities (M.O.I. Francs Tireurs Partisans, etc.), and a group BS2 was created in 1942, to track-down “terrorist” groups and individuals who were planning attacks against the German occupying ...

  3. Diary of Nelly Epstein

    The diary of Nelly Epstein includes entries, drawings, clippings, and maps written from January 1, 1935 - January 18, 1943. Nelly began the diary with entries about friends, family, and activities, such as travel, theater, and life in general in Vienna. In the later years, Nelly documented her journey with her husband Emil (Aryeh) Katscher and other young Zionists fleeing on vessels down the Danube River, across the Black Sea, through the Gallipoli Peninsula to the Aegean, and the Mediterranean Sea, and finally landing in Haifa, Palestine. The diary includes illustrations of their journey. ...

  4. Scarf made by a concentration camp inmate and given to another inmate

    Scarf embroidered by unknown Hungarian girl and given to Dr. Flora Kerner while interned in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany.

  5. Selected records of the Voivodship Office in Vilnius Urząd Wojewódzki w Wilnie (Sygn. 1182)

    Monthly and weekly reports from the legal socio-political movement and national minorities, guidelines on communist actions among Jewish students; the study of the socio-political department "Jewish political and religious organizations in the voivodship. Vilnius" (1938); letter from the Directorate and District State Railway in Vilnius on the protection of objects in connection with 1 May (1933).

  6. UNRRA selected records AG-018-018 : Dodecanese Islands Mission

    Consists of the UNRRA Central Registry Files and Subject Files relating to relief and rehabilitation, welfare inquires, and displaced persons and refugees on the Dodecanese and Rhodes area.

  7. Destroyed village; Refugees evacuating

    [Refugies sur les routes - distribution de soupe, infirmiere, Mai 1940] Burning village, blaze. Carrying wounded civilian. Stone, timber on fire. Airplanes. Red Cross buildings, gate with sign, "Centre Hospitalie & H.O.E. Primaire." HAS, damaged roofs, etc. INT, rooms. INT, ambulances. Damaged train. "Hospice St. Ano?" Cathedral and cemetery, crosses, badly damaged. Village mourners, 2 women with umbrellas, flowers, CU, crucifix. Destroyed classroom, books, desks, etc. Pan, city in ruins, storefronts. MCU, mother and child, dead on street. People evacuating, bundles and valises massed i...

  8. Krakow Jewish quarter; business district

    Two orthodox Jews arguing in the street in the Jewish quarter of Krakow at the main market square at the intersection of ul. Sw. Jana and the Rynek Glowny. They lean close to each other in a heated conversation at the door. Street scene in the business district in Krakow, many pedestrians, kiosk, people looking at bookshop/newssatand window. Man walking around with a sign advertising the film premiere of the 1936 American film, and Oscar winner, "Anthony Adverse." Scenes of shops and shop windows, crowded streets full of men, women, children, baby carriages, automobiles, etc. A quick cut to...

  9. Joseph Schäfer certificate of Aryan descent

    Certificate of Aryan descent, issued to Joseph Schäfer (born 14 March 1863), of Mühlheim, Germany. The certificate, issued in Frankfurt am Main on January 16, 1936, consists of a typescript copy with stamps and signed by an official of the justice of peace in Frankfurt, and attests to Schäfer's parentage and his baptism in the St. Marcus Catholic parish in Mühlheim on 16 March 1863.

  10. Davidovic and Gottesman families papers

    Photographs and documents related to the family of David and Esther Davidovic, the donor's maternal grandparents, of Dorobratovo, Czechoslovakia (present-day Ukraine), including material related to the visit of their daughter (the donor's aunt), Florence Davidovic, who had immigrated to the United States, and returned to visit her family in Dorobratovo in 1939. Documents include a family photograph taken during the 1939 visit, other pre-war family photographs, Florence Davidovic's U.S. naturalization certificate, her travel documents, and a subsequent letter from the U.S. Department of Stat...

  11. Hitler and Hindenburg reviewing troops

    Title: "Hindenburg-Hitler coalition grips all Germany - Leaders honor war dead on the eve of creation of Nazi dictatorship." Hitler, von Hindenburg, and von Papen are shown standing in a balcony of the Berlin opera house, on the annual occasion honoring German war dead. The narrator notes that Hindenburg has thrown his full support behind Hitler. A frail looking Hindenburg leaves the opera house and reviews troops as the narrator notes that Hitler has just asked the Reichstag for full dictatorial powers. The narrator states that Hindenburg is now 85 years old and wonders, "When his time com...

  12. March of Time -- outtakes -- General elections in Prague; Communist Party victory

    Wooden tower with "Volte 4" at left. St. Vitus cathedral in BG. Man reading a newspaper at side of Vltava River. MS bridge; large posters: "Terror," "Chaos" crossed out; Rudolfinum Palace in BG. Tramways, pedestrians crossing bridge. Poster on which the four political parties are united with coat of arms: "United in the War. United in the Peace." Night scenes before the general elections in Prague: huge crowds spread over the main streets in Prague, loud speakers pour music, songs and political eloquence in the streets while tracts are distributed, streets covered with tracts. Civilian prep...

  13. Kleiner, Wagman and Schmer families papers

    Collection of photographs and documents concerning the experiences of the Kleiner, Wagman, and Schmer families before the war in Boryslaw, Poland; during the German occupation, when Hela Kleiner and her baby son Marian were in the ghetto, and later when Hela asked Michasia Sulik to take her two-year-old son Marian. Hela remained in hiding with Tadzio Schmer (later Tadeusz Gorecki), who lost his wife and children. Includes writings by Tadzio in hiding; correspondence with Jona Kleiner and other family members and friends in the Soviet Union; and postwar correspondence and photographs, includ...

  14. March of Time -- outtakes -- Rally, NYC

    Citizens' Rally against oppression at Carnegie Hall, NYC. LS, from above, of Carnegie Hall then closer, men seated behind; second speaker, curly hair, "Dangers in situation in Germany..."; Man, older, waiting behind curtain; LS, crowd, well behaved. Participants (from March of Time card catalogue): Mayor LaGuardia, Victor Ridder, William Dodd, Theodore Green, Fulton Sheen, Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace, Bishop Manning.

  15. March of Time -- outtakes -- Breda, Netherlands

    Dutch army near Breda, Netherlands. Soldiers on bicycles, motorbikes, tanks moving through Dutch countryside. 04:40:23 Soldiers in trench, camouflaged lookout. 04:41:12 Soldiers and civilians, flasks being filled with rations. Digging trenches. Soldiers and civilians drinking, smoking. 04:42:48 Soldiers marching, windmill in BG. Putting dynamite around trees, for blocking roads in case of attack. Machine gun. 04:44:06 Soldiers marching in farm and along road. 04:45:00 Filling wheelbarrows, digging trench. 04:46:07 Sitting in shelter. Machine gun.

  16. Freikorps in Munich

    Freikorps through street and aboard train. WS, Burgermeister.

  17. Selected records of the City of Błonie Akta miasta Błonia (Sygn.107)

    Minutes of the Municipal Council of Błonie, projects of buildings of Jews living in Błonie, certificates of the birth, death and marriage, various ordinances and circular letters of German authorities, as well as documents related to sanitary actions in the town.

  18. Hitler youth Austria

    Recordings from a HJ / Jungvolkauf march in the Innkreis in Austria. 00:03:50 - 00:04:02 color: Innkreis 1938 00:05:16 - 00:05:21 filming man 00:06:42 - 00:08:18 color: teasing with girls in dirndls; Soccer game 00:08:24 - 00:09:28 boy runs into the camera 00:09:32 - 00:10:22 railroad

  19. Sardine address label

    Label with pre-printed destination address of Lager Barneveld. One of a set of four Lisbon pre-printed sardine address labels from Gremio dos Exportadores de Conservas de Peixe for registered shipping to different concentration camps including Bergen-Belsen, Lager Barneveld, and Birkenau bei Neubrunn.