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  1. March of Time -- outtakes -- Postwar Germany, puppet show depicting Goering being hanged

    Men working on a badly damaged building in postwar Munich. People and horse-drawn carriages on the streets. A crowd of people gather to buy newspapers. The dope sheet indicates that this footage was filmed on the day after the executions at Nuremberg. A woman looks at a poster advertising a performance of "Die Schoene Helena" by Offenbach, a Jew whose works were forbidden under the Nazis. Men looking at more advertisements for entertainment, some of them in English. A huge billboard advertises a Loretta Young movie, "Roman einer Taenzerin," also with Konrad Veitd. Scenes from a stage perfor...

  2. Boycott of Jewish Businesses in Berlin

    The boycott of Jewish businesses in Berlin. [Rare views, not the oft-repeated scenes] Exterior scenes of Berlin streets, which, the narrator notes, are calm and orderly on the eve of the boycott. Scene opens on the "e v. Grunfeld" store; in the next scene shop names of "Rosenberg", others, are visible. Shot of "Leiser" store; heavy pedestrian traffic in the street, streetcars passing. Shot of "Kaufhaus des Westens," "Hermann Tietz" Sign in a window reads, in English and German: "Germans, defend yourself against Jewish atrocity propaganda!" People on the street, conscious of the camera. Clos...

  3. Young Bobby and Edith in prewar Austria

    Robert (Bobby) Tennenbaum as a young child just learning to walk. Bobby toddles along the path of a park and climbs stairs in a park in Baden, a suburb of Vienna. His relatives, including his grandparents and uncle, stand by to catch him in case he falls. Bobby plays with cousin Edith. Lots of very cute baby shots. Bobby in the arms of his mother, Ernestine (Erna), walking across a lawn in the park. Bobby and Edith seated on a blanket with their mothers. Very nice scenes of the family playing with the children. 01:27:32 Bobby's paternal grandfather walks in a park-like setting in Sauerbrunn...

  4. March of Time -- outtakes -- Annexation of Austria

    Hitler returns to Berlin from Vienna after the annexation of Austria. Shots of his plane touching down, with Nazi flags flying and a crowd waiting to greet him. Uniformed members of the League of German Girls and Hitler Youth await Hitler's arrival. Shots of his motorcade driving through the crowds. Aerial shots of Hitler and Hermann Goering walking into the Chancellery, then waving from the balcony. Aerial pans across the huge crowd. More scenes from Austria: Austrians waving Nazi flags; civilians marching down the streets giving the Nazi salute; Arthur Seyss-Inquart saluting. German soldi...

  5. Nazi concentration camps

    Film evidence of Nazi Atrocities: Various Concentration Camps, April 1945 CUs, mutilated mangled bodies lying on ground. German civilians cart them on litters to common burial grounds, under the direction of US military police. MS, charred human torso is placed on litter. MS, Catholic chaplain conducts rites for dead at altar set up on hood of jeep. LS, American soldiers looking down into open burial pit filled with bodies. LS, CUs, charred bodies of the victims. LS, MSs, corpses in grotesque positions lying inside barbed wire enclosure. MS, CUs, cadavers stacked on trucks. INTs, crematorie...

  6. Birthrate enouraged, children & mothers, twins, triplets

    Film encourages German women to have children. Film opens on an hourglass in the Glockenturm in Berlin. The narrator notes that in the five minutes that it takes the hourglass to empty, approximately fifteen children are born in Germany. However, "this is still not enough, if Germany wants to maintain its place in the world." Graphics illustrate the birth rate in Germany in the years since 1871, with a low point of 15 births per 1,000 citizens in the year 1933 and rising dramatically after the Nazis took power. Similar presentation of the marriage rates in Germany. Shots of flowering tress,...

  7. Factories in Łódź

    Newsfilm reportage of factories in Łódź in 1930s. General view of the city, factories, chimneys, workshops, women working at looms, cotton.

  8. Provincial police reports to the Hungarian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MOL K 149 PTI)

    Contains monthly police reports for more than sixty cities; Intelligence on rightists (e.g., Arrow Cross) and leftists (e.g., Social-Democrats and Communists); various nationalities (Ruthenians, Germans, Slovaks, and others); religious sects (e.g., Jehovah’s Witnesses); and Jews, including refugees from Slovakia; Secret reports on public opinion generally and among suspect groups in particular about political, military, and economic affairs.

  10. Baksztanska and Sierpinski families papers

    The Baksztanska and Sierpinski families papers include biographical material and photographs relating to the pre-war and wartime experiences of Wiera Baksztanska, Stanisław Sierpinski, and their families in Poland and Russia. The collection includes false identity papers and documents Wiera obtained while living in the Warsaw ghetto and in hiding as well as correspondence and writings relating to Stanisław’s work as a physician in the Polish underground. Biographical material includes a false identity card (Kennkarte) for Wiera under the name of Zofia Weronika Wojtuńska, certificates statin...

  11. Bierzonski family papers

    The Bierzonski family papers consist of documents and photographs relating to Viktor, Bronia, and Gerda’s attempts to immigrate to the United States and Cuba and Bronia and Gerda’s time in hiding. Included in the collection is a German Fremdenpass for Viktor, a diary kept by Gerda while attending a Jewish boarding school in Switzerland in 1944, immigration papers relating to the family’s attempts to flee Germany, and pre-war and wartime photographs of the Bierzonski and Lefkowitz families. Gerta began her diary during her stay at Pensionnat Marta Marcus, in Clarens-sur-Montreux, Switzerland...

  12. Louis Papageorge photographs

    The Louis Papageorge photographs consist of ten photographs, 16 enlarged photographs, and eight negatives taken by Papageorge depicting victims of the "Abtnaundorf massacre" at the Leipzig-Thekla subcamp of Buchenwald in April 1945; two street scenes in Hof, Germany, including a group of captured German troops being escorted past the office where Papageorge was stationed in May 1945; and two buildings in Leipzig identified as the city hall and justice building. Leipzig-Thekla was a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp established in 1943 to supply labor for the German war effort. As...

  13. Buchenwald photograph collection

    Contains four photographs taken by John McGinnis, a member of the 553rd Military Police Escort Guard Company, upon the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp.

  14. Drevich family collection

    Consists of an 101-page manuscript and twenty photographs. The manuscript, "An Auschwitz memoir," written by Arka Drevich donor's father describes his experiences in the Auschwitz concentration camp from 1942 to 1945. Photographs show the Drevich family life before and after World War II; most photographs were taken in the Föhrenwald displaced persons camp in Germany between 1946 and 1948.

  15. Hitler at opening of Autobahn (Breslau to Kreibau)

    Hitler opens the stretch of the Autobahn between Breslau and Kreibau. Narrator: In ten different places segments of the Autobahn were opened at the same time. This completes the first 1000 km. Hitler opens the stretch between Breslau and Kreibau. Hitler arriving, greeted by crowds. He consults a map with two men, then speaks from a podium (quality changes - very dark). He waves his finger as he says that these streets will not be destroyed in five or ten years as were those from earlier... Hitler rides standing up in his car down the street, adored by the crowds. Men run alongside his car. ...

  16. Rivka Radzinski photograph collection

    Consists of approximately 186 pre-war photographs taken from the photograph album of Rivka Radzinski of Warsaw, Poland. Rivka, her father Dawid, a Zionist activist, and her mother, Miriam Twersky, were killed in the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

  17. David Glick's JDC mission to South America

    EXT, Lima Peru. LS, camera pans a shanty town at the base of the Andes Mountains. VS of clear blue sky, clouds and mountains as seen from the window of an airplane, the plane's wing is visible in the FG. EXT, a city in the main plaza and on city streets. The cameraman concentrates on capturing images of the indigenous people in traditional dress with bundles, packages and even their children on their heads or backs. Men, women and children are featured. People in the BG of several shots wear contemporary Western style clothing, and look much more European. 01:26 La Paz and surroundings. The...

  18. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 50 kronen, issued in Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The currency was designed by inmate Peter Kien and printed by the National Bank of Prague. Inmates received the scrip according to a 5-tiered distribution system or as payment for conscript labor arranged by the Jewish Council of Elders who administered the daily life of the ghetto for the Germans. It is unclear what, if anything, could be purchased with the scrip,...

  19. Pencil portrait sketch of a German Jewish refugee

    Portrait sketch of Kurt Singer saved by his daughter, Margot. It was drawn by Clara Asscher-Pinkhof in 1942 in Amsterdam when he lived there as a refugee from Nazi Germany. Singer was a neurologist and the Director of the Berlin Opera. Soon after the Nazis came to power in 1933, he lost his position at the Opera due to a law that ousted Jewish civil servants from public positions. In May, he co-founded the Judische Kulturbund, a Jewish cultural organization. In 1938, his daughter, Margot, left for Switzerland, and in 1940, to Palestine. That October, Kurt left for a one year appointment at ...

  20. Selected records of the Umwandererzentrale Litzmannstadt/Posen (R 75)

    Contains records related to the forced expulsion of Jews and Poles from Litzmannstadt (Łódź) and Poznań (Posen), Poland, and the insertion of ethnic Germans ("Volksdeutsche") in their place.