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  1. Wehrmacht advances in Poland

    AGFA 8 1941. Eastern front. Pan down building, with sign in Cyrillic, brief INTS. Sign: Ukrainian public school in Wroblin Krowleski. Sign for "Rymanow" Soldier poses by sign, "Posada dolna Kreishaupt m. Sanok District-Krakau" . German soldiers greet cameraman, walk along road with rifles. Aerial shots of countryside, looking through binoculars. Soldiers bathe (brief). Perform a drill at camp. 10:27:08 Sign on barracks: "Juden u. Polen Eintritt verboten!" Woman & man pose in doorway of hut. Man plays accordion. Graves. More of the pastoral Polish countryside. Very brief shot of Jewish g...

  2. German soldiers and young women in occupied Paris

    Queues in front of stores, Paris, street views, villa

  3. County Command of the State Police in Będzin Komenda Powiatowa Policji Państwowej w Będzinie (Sygn. 1046)

    Various police reports, lists of criminals, reports of officers and police informants concerning political, social and professional organizations, security of the city, unemployment and crime.

  4. Guggenheim and Smali families papers

    The Guggenheim and Smali families papers consist of correspondence, memoirs, photographs, and a receipt documenting the Guggenheim family from Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and the Smali family from Merkinė, Lithuania. Correspondence includes a letter written by Malka Pugacka Smali from a Cyprus detention camp in 1947 describing a scene she witnessed in the Kovno ghetto in 1942 in which a little girl’s grandmother suggested miracles were still possible. The memoirs were written by Malka Pugacka Smali between the 1950s and 1980s and describe life in Lithuania, the Kovno ghetto, and her immigra...

  5. Soccer in Vienna

    Soccer match at Wiener Stadion. March 19, 1939 Austria wins against Rapid 4:2. Procession with marching band. Crowds.

  6. Nordhausen liberation photographs

    Contains photographs dated April 12-13, 1945, showing the Nordhausen concentration camp shortly after liberation by American troops. Includes two images of the dead laid out, rows of corpses lie outside the central barracks (Boelke Kaserne) in the Nordhausen camp where German civilians were then forced by American forces to bury the victims.

  7. Wawel castle; Zakopane carriages

    Flag on pole. Guard on duty protects a government (?) building. Wawel Castle exteriors with automobile parked - Hans Frank set up residence in Wawel Castle after being named Governor General of the German-occupied Polish territories in October 1939. 01:18:40 Zakopane sign. People in the city square. Carriages wait for passengers. Street with horse and buggy traffic.

  8. Czechs in Mladá Vožice; local Nazi collaborators beaten; portaits of Czech resistance heroes; Soviet liberators

    “Mladá Vožice” (a town in the South Bohemian region of Czechoslovakia) “Za kvěnové revoluce a v prvých měsících osvobozené republiky” Hay fields move in the wind, farmland in the BG. Houses on a small hill, grove of trees. In the small Czech town, clocktower next to a building: "JG. SYNEK.” Small statue. Large white building, people walk up the front path. A horse and wagon along a road, a woman walks behind. Two church domes above the treetops. People in another part of town. Church from a different angle. Man walks toward the camera, bell-tower. Houses. Trees. Church. Clouds roll overhead...

  9. Lucie Ulin collection

    Contains a photograph of Herman and Helen Weissbard and their daughter Lucie (donor), aboard a train in Bremerhaven, Bramen, Germany during their postwar emigration from Germany to the United States. Herman and Helen had been interned in the Sambor ghetto and then as slave laborers in Sambor, Poland (present day Ukraine). After their liberation they were in Bad Reichenhall displaced persons camp; dated circa 1948.

  10. Norway 1940/1941

  11. Circular patch with a yellow Star of David worn by a Jewish Romanian woman

    Handmade, Star of David patch on a black background that belonged to Pincu Kaiserman’s sister, likely Rosa, in Romania, sometime between September 10, 1941 and 1943. In September 1940, Romania fell under the rule of a radical military coalition led by General Antonescu and the Iron Guard, a fascist, anti-Semitic military group of Nazi collaborators. In November, Romania joined the Axis Alliance and began passing many anti-Semitic laws similar to Germany’s Nuremberg Laws. On June 26, 1941, Romanian authorities accused members of the Iași Jewish community, where the Kaiserman family lived, o...

  12. Reich party day, Nuremberg

    Reich Party Day in Nuremberg, Day of the Wehrmacht, 1936 or 1937. Soldiers engage in military maneuvers. 10:15:44 Arrival on the stage of Goering, Rudolf Hess, military men, Martin Bormann, SA- Obergruppenfuehrer Wilhelm Brueckner. Hitler at the podium in the Zeppelinfield, upper commander of all armed forces greeting Hitler as they pass by, Hitler greets with salute. (Film runs much too fast) - parade, marching band, Army. Pan of Hitler and the officers and functionaries standing behind the stage, among them SA group leader Wilhelm Brueckner appears large in FG. 10:17:33 Large marching ban...

  13. Leon Buchholz collection

    Collection of documents, newspapers and correspondence concerning the Union Générale des Israélites de France [UGIF], for whom Leon Buchholz (donor's great uncle) worked during World War II. Included in the collection is almost a complete weekly newspaper series issued by the UGIF entitled "Bulletin," as well as correspondence received by the UGIF, unused stationary for the American Joint Distribution Committee, receipts of packages sent from UGIF, and reports of Viennese Jewish Community and deportees.

  14. Americans vacation in France and Italy

    With intertitles in English. Pan of a city from up above. A man and a woman pose on an outside patio overlooking the coast. Views of the city. 0:45 “Cap D’Antibes and a British Flotilla.” Coastal views with ships in the distance. 1:05 “The Funicular Railway down to Cannes.” Shots of the railway. A woman walks towards the camera from an upscale home. 1:25 “Hotel Imperiale and Gardens in Mentone.” A woman walks in front of luxurious hotel; walks around the gardens, stopping to smell a flower. The same woman sits at a table and then again walks around the gardens. 2:30 “Venice, Italy. St. Mark...

  15. German Warships

    Warships, torpedo launch, radio control unit, naval mines, anti aircraft missile, sports festival, Goering in Kiel

  16. UNRRA selected records AG-018-011 : European Regional Office (ERO). Subject Files

    Selected files relating to displaced persons operations in British Zone (BAOR) and the Australian United Jewish Overseas Relief Team: correspondence, statements of accounts.

  17. Raphael Allie photograph collection

    Collection of photographs, copy prints, and photographic postcards documenting the Dachau concentration camp and other locations, and American GIs after liberation. Possibly images of the 3rd Armored Division. First Sgt. Raphael "Ray" Allie, a member of the 3rd Armored Division, brought these photographs home after his military service during WWII.

  18. OSE home for Jewish boys

    OSE (Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants) home for Jewish boys in Ecouis, France. The teenage boys had been liberated from Buchenwald just three months prior. The boys dance. 00:02:46 The boy carrying a suitcase is Israel Meir Lau. The teenage boys engage in sports, visit the city and some board a bus and wave goodbye, perhaps emigrating to Palestine or other places. A memorial service/parade and display of models the boys made in a woodworking class. They socialize with girls and build a fire.

  19. Skiing

    A large group is gathered outdoors in winter to watch skiers; a horse pulls several people on a sleigh, including Sonja de Kadt; close-up of Willie in her stroller and on a rocking horse

  20. From Vienna to Greece

    Troop transport from Vienna to Greece, Drill with gas masks