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  1. Farm Work

    Sugar beet harvest. January 1940. Workers in the snow, horses, woman with skis cross-country skiing, Women and men rake hay on the field together, machine in action: grain is harvested, greenhouse, Sudeten Mountains with Schneekoppe, house rebuilding in Franzendorf/Neisse, 1937

  2. German cruiser "Königsberg"

    German cruiser "Königsberg," Laboe memorial site, Everyday life at an airfield, pilot in the cockpit, machines in the air, light railway, Hitler youth BDM (League of German Girls)

  3. Hand-carved wooden chain carried to Australia by a Jewish refugee

    Wooden chain carved by Hillel Szajner, of Plauen, Germany, before his death in 1924. Hillel taught one of his sons, Max, how to carve chains from a single piece of wood. While imprisoned in a French transit camp during the Holocaust, Max used this skill to make decorative chains, at least one of which began as a broomstick handle. Max’s wife snuck the chains out of the camp in a loaf of bread. Two of his chains are on permanent display in Israel, at Yad Vashem and Lochamei Hagetaot. Max’s sister, Dora Szajner Faktor, carried their father’s chain when her family immigrated to Australia durin...

  4. Lenger at Koenigstein in winter

    “W.L. Film 62,” “ Kriegsjahre auf der Festung Königstein.” Walter Lenger in his uniform filming with his camera, the Elbe river in the background. Intertitle: “Winter.” A model train snakes along a train track. Walter Lenger in a train car. The landscape outside shot from the train window. People on an icy river. A handwritten sign reads “Eisübergang.” Men walk across wooden planks on the frozen body of water. Other views of the landscape. Walter Lenger explores a snowy forest. Men walk single file across the snow and towards the camera. Panoramic view of a winding river. Walter salutes ano...

  5. 1000 Year Anniversary Celebration in Eschweiler, Rhineland

    Parade, Catholic parish, festival, marketplace, mass choir, theatre performance

  6. City children

    Street kids in Berlin, Playground in Neukölln, Sail on the Havel

  7. Chamysz family photograph collection

    The collection contains pre-war photographs of brothers Jacob, Josef, and Samuel Chamysz and their families in Lwów, Poland (present day Lviv, Ukraine). Also included is a letter with multiple authors dated 27 April 1921.

  8. Esther Schimmel collection

    Contains receipts for monies sent to Aron Siedlecki in Ostrów Mazowiecka, Poland and to Amalia Kresch in Sanok, Poland, sent from Esther Schimmel in Saint Louis, Missouri. Small green receipts included in collection indicate monies being sent to Poland as early as 1935. The relationship between the three people is unknown.

  9. Marokus family collection

    Documents and correspondence illustrating the efforts of Leon Marokus, who immigrated to the United States in 1938 from Poland and worked to bring over his wife Lajcia and daughters Henryka and Pola, who were in Lwow, Poland and unable to leave. Includes pre-war correspondence between Leon and various organizations including the US Department of State as well as post-war correspondence concerning his youngest daughter Pola, who was hidden in Lwow and potentially survived. The correspondence documents Leon's exhaustive but unsuccessful efforts to find Pola or her rescuer Anna Chodek over mor...

  10. Propaganda Kompanie; Jewish quarter of Krakow

    PK 666 camera in Krakow and on the eastern front. PK 666 filmed in the Lublin ghetto. 02:44 Propagandakompanie armband. Target practice, camp Potsdam. 06:23 Poland "Kielce", winter. 08:25 Krakow: Jewish quarter. Tram "Not for Jews". Sign on Jewish shop. 11:48 Camera of the PK unit, Jewish quarter, Jews waiting in line, armbands, Polish police. 14:15 Narrow-gauge railway, "Zagnansk", at locomotive "Radom". 14:57 Landser with boats over river, "Skawina", civilians, ragged children. 18:35 Landser with portable fire launcher. 27:30 Beginning of the Russian campaign (1941), stage, village, motor...

  11. Training film for the German Army

    German army training film, 1943. Armored personnel fighters of the Bundeswehr are trained on armored non-combat weapons.

  12. POWs?; city views

    Unknown location, perhaps nearby Zloczow as covered in film frames directly preceding this sequence (RG-60.1872), possibly in summer 1941. Column of men (soldiers? POWs?) walk along a country road, somecovered in dirt. Hundreds of local women (Ukrainian?) with headscarves in an open area. Destroyed military trucks, tanks, houses and trains. Soldiers fix a military car, one fuses metal onto the fender. 10:05:54 Panoramic, high-angle view of a city on a river, possibly Lwiw. Street views, shops. 10:07:10 Return to boat seen in RG-60.1872, German soldiers lounging shirtless. View of another bo...

  13. De Kadt family at home in warmer weather

    Toddler Wilhelmina (Willie) and a baby picnic on the lawn with three adults; 01:02:39 Willie gets a haircut outdoors (because she had eczema) and roams naked in the grass; 01:06:09 Willie is sprayed with water by an adult standing behind the camera, and bathes in a metal tub outdoors. She holds a teddy bear and plays in the yard with glasses; 01:10:42 Willie carries a bouquet of flowers across the lawn toward the camera.

  15. Yona and Foa family memoirs

    Two unpublished memoirs, related to the Holocaust experiences of the Yona and Foa families, of Turin Italy: “A Memoir of an Immigrant who Escaped the Holocaust in 1940,” by Eva Yona Deykin, 53 pages, typescript; and“Memoires of David Yona,” by David Yona, typescript, 223 pages. The memoir by Eva Yona Deykin relates the history of the families of both of her parents, David Yona and Anna Foa, their life in Turin after their marriage in 1932, the arrest of Anna Foa's brother, Vittorio Foa, for his anti-fascist activities in 1935, and his betrayal by the writer Pettigrilli (Dino Segre), who had...

  16. Sardine address label

    Label with pre-printed destination address of Lager Birkenau Bei Neubrunn and a typed name, Edita Weissova. 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.

  17. Remembrance ceremonies for Heydrich in Prague, Brno, Plzen, and Tabor

    Official Czech newsreel folowing the assassination of Heydrich. The Czech government proclaims their loyalty to the Germans in a remembrance ceremony. “Cesky ZVUKOVÝ TÝDENÍK” “Prag-Praha” “KTULIA AKTUALITÀ” Church of Our Lady Before Tyn in Prague - a mass demonstration in Old Town Square on June 2, 1942. Stage with Czech coat of arms. Crowd. Astronomical Clock Tower. People stand and sit on the Jan Hus Memorial. The square is packed. German officials walk towards the grandstand. Around 60,000 people have gathered in the square (the German minority in Prague was significant). Aerial view. Dr...

  18. Germans Fleeing from the Eastern Territories

    Crowds of people travelling through the snow and elements, ocean, freight ships, fire.

  19. Bund Deutscher Mädel album (Rosenthal, Germany)

    Album, with title page of "Landjahrlager Rosenthal, 1941," and a photograph of an unidentified younog woman. The contents include handwritten texts with the following headings: "Worte für die Fahne," containing quotations from a variety of sources, including Hitler, Nietzsche, Himmler, Hölderlin, Frederick the Great, and Tolstoy, among others, and unattributed verses, "Der 9. November 1923," containing narrative texts and verses about the attempted coup by Nazis in Munich in 1923; and a variety of essays on other themes. The latter part of the book includes a mimeographed about race and gen...

  20. German-American Bund

    German-American Bund (DAB) at Camp Bergwald, New Jersey, in 1939-1940 in color and black and white.