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Language of Description: English

  1. War Crimes Trials: I.G. Farben Case

    (Munich 624) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 6 (I.G. Farben Case), Nuremberg, Germany. Judge Curtis Grover Shake, presiding, calls upon Carl Lautenschlaeger (defendant) to plead. Judge Shake states in part that a petition put forth by the defendants for more time to prepare their answer to the indictment is denied. Brig. Gen. Telford Taylor at lectern, reading the indictment says that the prisoners are accused of leading the world into the most catastrophic war known to mankind, etc. What these men did, Gen. Taylor says, was not something that was done in a rage, but ...

  2. Cooperative Bank with limited shares for the Productivity of Jews in Warsaw Bank Spółdzielczy dla Prodyktywizacji Żydów w Warszawie (Sygn. 242)

    Minutes of sessions, a register of members and shareholders, activities of the bank, including the budget preliminaries and balances, cash reports of regional offices, crediting of Jewish cooperatives and individual loans, records of the Provincial Committee of Jews in Lublin, including reports, and payrolls of the regional office staff.

  3. US Army poster for public display of war news for May 1-8, 1945

    News poster arranged for display by Tina Gioffredi Battani in the ordnance plant in Ankeny, Iowa, where she worked during World War II. She changed the posters on a regular basis as they were issued weekly by the United States Army Information branch to explain and update the public on the status of the war in Europe and Asia. This 2-sided poster, issued May 14, 1945, depicted events from the week May 1-8. One side, titled: Victory in Europe, has an image of captured German soldiers and a map pointing out Japan with an explanation of the danger posed by the escalation of their military forc...

  4. Airplane takes off; destroyed German plane

    Hamilton and other GI in uniforms with service caps. A silver B26 taxis on a dirt runway and takes off. Jeep alongside DC3. Destroyed German plane, MS and CU. CU of German markings on plane. Aerial shots from interior of DC3.

  5. Staged (comic) sequence in Zakopane

    A comic sequence of an individual dressed in a furry bear costume who teases passersby on the streets of Zakopane in central Poland. CU of the bear hiding in bushes along the roadside. A young girl in traditional central Polish dress walks by on cue, and the bear jumps out of the bushes, feigning to attack the young girl. The girl laughs and plays along. Two takes of this action. The bear then proceeds to walk into the center of the road, and approach two men on a horse drawn cart. The bear plays with the cart and the horse, attempting to get the horse to move, eventually the driver of the ...

  6. Prominent German Jews

    Oranienburger Str. Synagogue. Jewish neighborhood in Berlin. Footage of prominent political and cultural Jews: Lanzburg (member of Parliament); Philip Scheidemann; Paul Hirsch (Minister/President of Prussia); Theodore Walt (Chief Editor Berliner Tagebuch); Gerhard Bernhardt (Director of Unstein Publishing House); Hugo Preus (Min. of Interior); Walter Rathenau (Min. of Foreign Affairs); Max Lieberman (painter); Emil Ludwig Kohn (author); Max Reinhard (theater director); Ernst Lubitsch (film director); Richard Lauber (opera singer).

  7. Franz Wohlfahrt family collection

    The collection consists of a paint roller and stencil, two wallpaper samples, a plaque, a death certificate, and a Bible relating to the experiences of Franz Wohlfahrt and his family and their persecution as Jehovah Witnesses by the government of Nazi Germany, 1933-1945.

  8. History of Danzig and Volksdeutsch (anti-Polish propaganda)

    Map showing Germany, Russia, Austria. Poland appears on the map in black. Map showing the Free State of Danzig. The narrator lists the various abuses of sovereignty perpetrated by the Poles. Scenes of Danzig, including shots of Nazi flags flying and pro-German signs. Shots of Danzig harbor. Men of the Danzig SA fortifying a border crossing. A parade of marching troops of the Danzig SS-Heimwehr. Volksdeutsch refugees crossing a field with suitcases, fleeing "Polish terror." A sequence showing refugees arriving in the "protection of the Reich." They are provided with food, and give lengthy in...

  9. German 50 pfennig scrip

  10. Armband inscribed with camp names where the Polish Jewish inmate was imprisoned

    Armband worn by Mordka Grynbaum in Theresienstadt inscribed, possibly postwar, with his prisoner number and the names of concentration and slave labor camps where he was imprisoned. The red triangle would identify him as a political prisoner.

  11. Polish Military Mission to the Allied Council of Control in Berlin. Consular Section Polska Misja Wojskowa przy Radzie Sojuszniczej w Berlinie. Wydział Konsularny (Sygn.190)

    Reports on missions activities in individual German occupation zones, concerning the Haupttreuhandstelle Ost, HTO (Main Trustee Office for the East), lists of assets confiscated by HTO in Poland, lists of losses incurred by Poland during the war, war damages refunds, questionnaires, German compensation, child care and invalidity. The vast majority of documents concern war claims and property revendication.

  12. Visiting Paris

    Pass to Paris. The Louvre, Venus de Milo, street scenes, Sacre Coeur, view of the city from above, more street scenes, bouquinistes, the Pantheon.

  13. Sightseeing in Paris

    Title reading, in English and French: "Paris La Nuit / Paris by Night." Sights by night, with lights, Place de la Concorde, yellowish light, nice effect, especially fountain, with traffic rushing by. Arc de Triomphe, camera lingers on details, pans upward. Les Grandes Boulevard. Paramount theater, various theaters and advertisements in lights. People window shopping, lots of activity on the street. Tout Va Bien restaurant. Interior of a restaurant with people drinking coffee, reading [motion is fast forward]. Montmartre: cafes, more lights, Moulin Rouge. Gaumont

  14. Documentation from the Stadtarchiv Barsinghausen (Municipal Archives)

    Documentation from the Stadtarchiv Barsinghausen (Municipal Archives)

  15. Whip

    William Weinberg, a member of Company B, 15th Infantry Regiment of the 3rd Division, took the whip in April 1945 from a German man who was presumably a Dachau concentration camp guard.

  16. Smietanowski family papers

    Contains fifteen photographs, identification documents, and one postcard, documenting the experiences of Jozef and Irena Smietanowski, of Warsaw. Includes German-issued identification card for Irena Smietanowska (1942), two identification cards issued to Jozef in 1939, and one issued to the couple in 1938. Also, one postcard sent to Irena Smietanowska from friends in Rovno, 1940.

  17. Wolff family papers

    The collection documents the childhoods of siblings John and Marianne Wolff in Berlin, Germany, their immigration to England via Kindertransport in 1939, and eventual immigration to the United States in 1945. Included are documents and photographs.

  18. Blinshteyn family papers

    Correspondence, documents, and photographs related to Semyon and Velya Blinshteyn, and their children Naum, Zhanna, and Fanya, originally of Odessa, Ukraine, and pertaining primarily to the experiences of the Blinshteyn family in the Soviet Union during World War II. Includes poems written by Naum Blinshteyn and correspondence related to Zhanna (Blinshteyn) Berina's search for the grave of her brother Naum, and the placement of a headstone there.

  19. Suitcase carried by a Jewish girl on a Kindertransport to the United Kingdom

  20. German officers roundup hospital staff and patients

    German officers gather hospital staff and patients outside hospital. MCU, all standing around, emotionless mood. Some wounded men. Germans interrogate one man.