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  1. Deutsches Rotes Kreuz [German Red Cross] flag with a black eagle with a swastika and a red cross on a white field

    Very large Deutsches Rotes Kreuz [DRK; German Red Cross] flag with a Reichsadler, a black Imperial eagle, with a white Swastika on its chest and a red cross in its talons, displayed upon a white field. After Hitler's appointment as Chancellor in January 1933, the Nazi Party began to reshape the private charity sector. By July 1933, the DRK was one of only four non-state aid organizations left in Germany. Its new president was a Nazi Party official, Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. In December 1937, the DRK became a unit of the Nazi Party and, the next year, it became a Social ...

  2. Tennenbaum family in Nazi Vienna; departing on the Queen Mary ship

    November 1937. Robert (Bobby) Tennenbaum (donor) at age 2 in the Volksgarten park in Vienna with his mother, Ernestine (Erna). Shots of Bobby, wearing a winter coat and hat, smiling and running in the park, while his mother and grandfather look on. Closer views of Erna and grandfather. Erna wears a fur stole around her neck. Other park-goers are visible in BG. Shots of Erna and Bobby's grandfather. More scenes of Bobby with various adults, including his father Marcus. Leo Beller with his son Paul in St. Johann park. Paul poses for the camera and sits on a bench while his father combs his ha...

  3. Volary burial of Nazi victims

    (LIB 6585) Reburial of Atrocity Victims, Volary, Czechoslovakia, May 11, 1945 SEQ: Prayers for the dead are said by a Jewish chaplain of the US 5th Inf. Div. at ceremony. Civilians unload coffins from truck. SEQ: French, Belgian, and US soldiers and civilians watch burials. LSs, MSs, CUs, one woman and two men remove corpses from shallow graves. MSs, women survivors, emotionally moved by the corpses. LS, women and children walk past a row of corpses lying on the ground. LSs, MSs, two US soldiers watch German civilians exhume the bodies of the dead and place them in coffins. LS, women carryi...

  4. Ascher Family home movies: skiing in Switzerland

    Home movies of the Ascher Family, featuring daily life and vacation outings of this German-Jewish family in the 1930s. The Aschers immigrated to Palestine in 1938 and later to the United States in 1959. "Engelberg Februar 1930" Skiing in Engelberg, Switzerland. Mountains, tram, Hans Ascher and Ilse Ascher entering ski lift, Hans is waving. Aerial shots from lift. Mountain scenery. Men downhill skiing. Spectators, ski jumping competition. CUs, competitors with numbers on their chests. Scenery, slopes. 00:23:42 Ascher family having lunch on the mountain. Aerial shots of town, ice skating, rin...

  5. Pál Weinstein papers

    Papers concerning the Holocaust experiences of Pál Weinstein of Sátoraljaújhely, Hungary. Included is his memoir, interviews with Weinstein, photographs, correspondence, articles, and documents regarding his medical career.

  6. Helene Mayer fencing for Germany at Olympic games

    Half-Jewish athlete Helene Mayer fencing for Germany. Mayer was the only Jewish athlete who represented Germany, and she was allowed to do so only under the pressure of international opinion. She won a silver medal in the individual foil event and gave the Nazi salute from the podium. After the Olympics she returned to the United States, where she had been living. Schacherer-Elek, who won gold, and Preiss, who won bronze, were also part Jewish. Mayer is the tall blond fencer.

  7. March of Time -- outtakes -- Sumner Welles at the Inter-American Conference

    Sumner Welles, the United States Under Secretary of State, at various meetings that took place during the Inter-American conference in Rio de Janiero. A large, crowded room with delegates around a large table. Photographers and journalists are also present. Sumner Welles first appears at 01:35:33. He is balding and wears a dark jacket and white shirt. Other attendees listed on the dope sheet are Argentina's Enrique Ruiz Guinazu and Alberto Guani of Uruguay. The debate appears heated at some points. Sumner Welles speaks at 01:41:30. The conference was convened to determine the appropriate re...

  8. Painted metal sign with a blue Star of David from a tailor workshop in the Warsaw ghetto

    Metal shop sign with a wooden frame displayed in the window of Symcha Abramowicz's tailor shop in the ghetto in Warsaw, Poland. Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, and occupied Warsaw on September 29. By November, the Germans had shut schools, confiscated Jewish-owned property, and conscripted Jewish men into forced labor. On October 12, 1940, the Germans forcibly relocated the Jews into a ghetto which was sealed off from the rest of the city by a guarded, ten foot, barbed wire topped wall. The population reached 400,000, with an average of 7 people sharing a single room. Diseases ...

  9. Party day in Nuremberg w/military exercises and Hitler speech

    Military exercises on the field at Reich Party Day in Nuremberg. Smoke, explosions, soldiers simulate battle while spectators look on. Shooting machine guns, tanks. Hess, Hitler, members of military watch planes flying overhead. Good shots of blimp over the stadium. People in the crowd wave handkerchiefs. Hitler speaks to the military: "You are chosen by the nation to stand watch." Alternating shots between Hitler speaking and the field. Hitler reviews marching military, including Navy.

  10. Concentration camp striped uniform coat with yellow triangle worn by a Polish Jewish female inmate

    Striped concentration camp coat issued to 17 year old Esther Kessler, or her mother, Masha, when they were imprisoned in Kaiserwald concentration camp. It was worn from September 1943-January 1945 through several camps. It has a handmade prisoner id with a small yellow triangle patch. After German occupied Vilna (Vilnius), Lithuania, in June 1941, Esther and Masha were forced into a Jewish ghetto. They were transferred to Kaiserwald in Riga, Latvia, in September 1943 when the ghetto was liquidated. In the summer of 1944, they were sent to Thorn concentration camp in Germany, and worked as s...

  11. Alejandro Landman family papers

    Consists of two memoirs, one of Alejandro (Elhanan) Landman, born in Poland in 1933. Mr. Landman reconstructed by memory his childhood diary, which relates his life in German-occupied eastern Poland between 1941-1945 (25 pages). The other memoir is of Mrs. Pepe Landman, mother of Alejandro, written from Montevideo in 1986-1987, relating the Holocaust experiences of herself and her family (67 pages). The family moved from Stanislawow to Lwow in 1941 and lived there until 1943, when they went into hiding in Buczacz. After the war, they emigrated to Uruguay. Collection also contains copies of ...

  12. Year anniversary of takeover of Austria

    The one-year anniversary of the Anschluss, which occurred on 3/13/1938. Animated map of the expanded Reich with the superimposed words "Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuehrer." Standard shots of the lifting of the border crossing between Germany and Austria, Austrians saluting and holding Nazi flags, Hitler speaking to a huge crowd from a balcony. Germans marching into Austria; bucolic scenes of the Austrian mountains and countryside.

  13. Gardelegen burial of POWs

    (LIB 5953) "Murder, Incorporated", Gardelegen, Germany, April 25, 1945 SEQ: Catholic and Jewish chaplains conduct memorial services for 1100 prisoners of war murdered by Germans. VAR, graves in small cemetery. MS, Honor Guard firing salute. MS, bugler sounding Taps.

  14. Hermine Berkovits collection

    Consists of documents that relate the Holocaust era experiences of Hermine Berkovits, a French Jewish woman who survived the war with her children. Her children spent the war in hiding, and while using false papers, she helped to find hiding places for other Jewish children. Includes a copy of a photograph of Hermine, her children, and the children she helped to hide. Also included is a copy of a letter from the Red Cross stating that Henrich Berkovits (Hermine's husband) perished in Auschwitz.

  15. History of Majdanek camp; survivors

    An onscreen slate from WFDiF (not original to the film) reads: Film entitled "Majdanek" was produced after the liberation of camp by the Polish Army. The premiere of film: November 1, 1944. Original titles read: Film Polski Warsaw presents: a documentary of the Polish Army Film Unit made on 25th July 1944: "Majdanek". Majdanek was liberated by the Soviets on July 23, 1944. 25th July 1944: Celebration scenes outside in Lublin as Polish Army soldiers enter the city. Women weep with joy, people hand flowers to soldiers. The camera pans down a turret of the Lublin Castle to show the corpses of ...

  16. Nazi Party Rally

    Title on screen: "Parteitag der Freiheit." Reich Party Day in Nuremberg, 9/10-9/16, 1935. Music plays over a view of a hall filled with Party members standing at attention in front of a large Swastika flag backdrop. The front row is composed of high-ranking leaders, including Hitler, Hess, Streicher, others. The camera pans slowly to an empty podium, then back to the Party leaders. Hess approaches the podium, salutes, and announces the opening of the seventh Reich Party congress. Low aerial shots of the huge crowd, and shots of other leaders, including Goering, Frank, Rosenberg, Goebbels (l...

  17. Yaakov Borenstein collection

    The collection consists of a prayer-book found by Marguit Loewy Borenstein [donor's mother] in Auschwitz concentration camp in 1945 and a photograph of Marguit and her sister, Terka Loewy (b. 1928), taken in Nové Město, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic), during the summer of 1945 soon after their liberation from Auschwitz.

  18. Catheryne Morgen photograph collection

    The collection consists of pages from a scrapbook that contain photographs of the Ilkovic family before World War II in Vrútky, Slovakia, and photographs of Catheryne after the war in Bad Gastein, Austria, and Lido di Roma, Italy.

  19. March of Time -- outtakes -- French and British soldiers arrive in England after being evacuated from Dunkirk

    Various types of ships and boats arriving at South Coast port in England, carrying English and French wounded from Dunkirk. Men wrapped in blankets wave to the camera from a small fishing boat. British soldiers wearing helmets disembark from a boat. A soldier with both his eyes bandaged is helped from a boat. The camera pans across a bedraggled group of men (French soldiers? Most of them are not in uniform). A couple of the men smile and give thumb's up signals. More shots of men arriving on ships and disembarking; wounded men are removed on stretchers.

  20. March of Time -- outtakes -- British citizens listening to Neville Chamberlain on the radio

    Interior shots of people listening to Neville Chamberlain's September 27, 1938 speech about the Sudeten crisis. No sound. The setting appears to be the interior of a British home, with women and men listening intently to the radio. Close-up of the radio being turned on. Presumably the footage was actually shot in England, because the same cameramen shot the mid-September rally in London (Story 4061). 01:01:37 A man sells Evening Standard newspapers outside Victoria station in London. He wears a placard that reads, "What Hitler Said." Male and female members of the British Union of Fascists ...