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  1. March of Time -- outtakes -- Refugees on the move in northern France and Belgium

    Refugees in northern France and Flanders. Refugees, mostly women and children sit in the backs of trucks, looking at the camera. A group of men and women stand with bicycles and wagons in front of the awning of a bar. Horse-drawn wagons drive off. French soldiers march through a town. A few spectators watch their progress and wave at the men. People with bundles strapped to bicycles stand on the street. A group of them move off down the street, watched by other people in the street. A nice shot of people wheeling their bundle-laden bikes past several destroyed buildings. Refugees on an open...

  2. Selected records of the Hungarian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MOL K 149 BM res.)

    This collection includes documents relating mainly to matters as: Communists movements; maters of neighboring states; the Hungarian Nationalists Party movements; Arrow Cross Party activities; Passport and naturalization issues; minority affairs; press affairs; parties and associations affairs; banning Jewish affairs meetings, and “Hungarista movements”. Contains signed and anonymous denunciations; decisions to grant or deny petitions; orders imposing police surveillance, round-ups, arrests, internment, deportations, mobilization, or the confiscation of property; instructions, monthly report...

  3. Liberated Czechoslovakia: American troops greeted by joyful crowds

    Cheering crowds greet American troops. This appears to be the same location as footage found in Story 4380. Medium shot of a man in a crowd wearing a hat and holding a movie camera. The people around him are waving and smiling. 01:26:30 Shot of a slate which provides the date 4/7/45. Men and women standing in the street. Many of them are waving white handkerchiefs. One person is holding an American flag and another is waving a Czech flag. A man wearing a trench coat waves his hat wildly at the camera. A blonde woman in red smiles at the camera and waves. She is wearing the Czech coat of arm...

  4. Bourstin family collection

    Consists of post-war photographs regarding the Holocaust experiences of Rachel Bourstin. Includes post-war photographs of Rachel and her family, including recent photographs with a survivor group, "Les Fils et Filles des Deportes Juifs de France," and photographs of family members who perished.

  5. Pollack family collection

    Contains birth certificates of Dorothy Pollack's three aunts, born in Libou, Latvia. Her aunts Sarah and Zelma Mau perished in the Holocaust, while Bette Mau survived the war in Moscow.

  6. Faun Abel Pann-Jerusalem

    Contains a special edition of "Faun" devoted to the artist, Abel Pann. His artwork portrays the mistreatment of Jews in Lithuania.

  7. Mayer and Mané family papers

    The collection consists of original and photocopies of biographical material, correspondence, and photographs related to Eugene and Selma Mané’s prewar life in Germany and their immigration to the United States in 1937, as well as their family’s wartime experiences in Germany and France. Biographical material includes an affidavit, immigrant identification card, and report cards for Eugene, as well as newspaper clippings and research of family history and the fates of family members. Family correspondence includes letters between family members in the United States and Europe, including le...

  8. March of Time -- outtakes -- French refugees, German prisoners, bombing of Paris

    The French army in action: tanks, soldiers shooting, dead horses by the side of the road. German prisoners behind barbed wire. Close-ups of individuals as they are questioned and registered by their French captors. Scenes of destroyed buildings shot from a moving vehicle; French soldiers attempt to shoot down a plane. Refugees traveling along a road. Women and children are helped from a truck. One woman is carried on a stretcher. Paris being bombed. Burning buildings, dead cows in a field. Badly destroyed houses, shops and cars. People pick their way through the rubble; a woman runs past a ...

  9. Eric M. Lipman documents

    Contains documents and photocopies of documents collected by Eric Lipman while he served as an intelligence specialist with the United States Third Army and in the following months when he helped to assemble evidence for possible use in the Nuremberg Trials. Includes correspondence and reports regarding Theresienstadt and Ohrdruf.

  10. Alex Feuer photographs

    Contains photographs of Alex Feuer after liberation taken in Memmingen, Germany in June 1945, and of a group of Greek Jews with Hauptmann Hoffman, the camp commander at Turkheim. Mr. Feuer, fifteen upon liberation, was a survivor of Auschwitz and Dachau.

  11. March of Time -- outtakes -- VE Day in London

    Huge crowds in Parliament Square in London. Flags of the victorious nations fly from the Office of Works building. Shots of the people in the crowd, some of whom hold British flags. Police attempt to keep back the crowds, which surge to surround a vehicle carrying American soldiers. They are followed by a parade and a double-decker bus trying to get through the crowd. People climb up on the railings outside the House of Commons. The crowd listens to Churchill declare the unconditional surrender of Germany. His speech is intelligible in parts, but the sound is bad. After the speech the crowd...

  12. Helena Sztajnberg memoir

    Contains a memoir, 37 pages, regarding the Holocaust experiences of Helen Sztajnberg. She was born in 1919, in Skarzysko Kamienna, Poland. After the German invasion she and her son Jurek were forced into a ghetto, where she attempted to obtain false papers as Helena Andrzejczak. She traveled from town to town throughout the war and was liberated in April 1945. Her parents and brothers perished in Treblinka and her husband was murdered by Poles after the war.

  13. Ley speaks after crushing labor unions (consolidation of power)

    Title on screen: "Schutz der deutschen Arbeit! Nach der Befreiung der Gewerkschaften von den Marxistischen Leiter hoeren 200,000 Arbeiter und Angestellte in Berliner Lustgarten die Rede des Leiters der Aktions-Komitees Dr. Ley. [Protection German labor! After the freeing of the labor unions from Marxist leaders 200,000 workers listen to the speech of the leader of the Action Committee, Dr. Ley, in the Berlin Lustgarten]." Shots of Ley speaking interspersed with low aerial shots of the huge crowd. After Ley finishes his speech, the crowd sings, accompanied by a band. The German labor unions ...

  14. Epstein family papers

    Contains documents and correspondence pertaining to Max, Hans, and Nella Weissmann Epstein's emigration from Vienna, Austria, in 1938. Includes passports, birth and marriage certificates, official correspondence, and travel documentation.

  15. Jane Ponczek photographs

    The Jane Ponczek photographs document her family before World War II in Poland. Photographs and copy prints include a wedding portrait of Holocaust victims Munisch Labiner and Sara Shajter Labiner in 1934 in Skała-Podolska, Poland; a photograph of the Shajter family in Skała-Podolska (Sara Labiner at the top left and Beila Shajter in the doorway); and a photograph of Chaim Weizmann with Holocaust survivor Jane Ponczek and other orphans in Wrocław, Poland after the war (Jane has her hand on Weizmann’s right shoulder).

  16. Shoah: an eyewitness testimony

    Consists of the testimony, 9 pages, of John E. Pfeiffer, presented at a Yom Hashoah remembrance ceremony on May 2, 1997. Mr. Pfeiffer was a part of a reconnaissance squad that discovered Dachau on April 29, 1945. He describes his memories of the conditions there and how his experiences affected him in later life.

  17. Föhrenwald kitchen photograph

    Contains one photograph taken in the Föhrenwald displaced persons camp. The photograph shows a group of people standing outside of a building, identified by Paula Lebovics [donor] as the kitchen.

  18. Fred Salomon photo album

    Contains a dark green photo album with photographs pertaining to Fritz (Fred) Salomon's experiences in Montintin, Villa Helvetia, and Home de la Foret (Switzerland) children homes, operated by the OSE (Oeuvre de Secours Aux Enfants).

  19. Esther Frydenberg photographs

    Consists of seven post-war photographs of Esther Frydenberg and others in Sweden after her liberation from the Ravensbrück concentration camp. Photographs include those taken at her job at a clothing factory and of a 1947 Chanukah party.

  20. Blum family papers

    Contains letters written to Richard J. Blum from Hans Wagner on March 26, 1938, and from Leo Haas on December 4, 1938. The letters describe the authors' fear of persecution of themselves and their wives because they were Jewish. Also contains a photograph of Liesel Haas.