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Language of Description: English

  1. GIs firing mortars; German prisoners and weapons

    Sign reads: "Berlin 137 kms, Duben 3 kms" on right. Pan left to another sign that reads: "Leipzig 32 kms" on left. GIs firing mortars, situation clearly genuine action. They are in a field behind some houses. LS of what apparently is the target in the distance. VS through an aperture of some sort viewing across a green field. More shots of GIs firing mortars. Another angle of mortar firing. CUs, three American GIs. GIs sweeping up shells in street next to armored vehicle. Group of GIs by tank. Pan of men walking across a narrow pontoon bridge over a river, continues pan to reveal German sol...

  2. GIs in Paris, Brussels, and Düren

    (b/w) American soldiers in Paris, sightseeing, street scenes, local civilians, opera house, Avenue des Champs Elysses, Arc de Triomphe, the Unknown soldiers' tomb. 01:04:59 Title card: “Maastricht, Holland.” Street scenes, soldiers in field. 01:05:26 Sightseeing in Brussels, street cars. Title card: “The King’s Memorial to his wife” 01:07:59 Title card: “US Army Pro. Station in rear” Well-dressed women, ornate buildings in city. 01:08:36 Sign for American soldiers, “Warning Curfew in Brussels”. Building destruction. Title card: “Bomb crater”. 01:10:54 Title card: “Duren, 40,000-complete rui...

  3. GIs swimming; Brenner Pass

    VS of Stevens and others in unit dressed in German hats. Shots on bridge over river. Old chateau or apartment building bombed out. Appears to be mausoleum with caskets with swastikas on them. GIs swimming in cold river. Men sitting by campfire. Stevens and others swimming. Stevens and others by jeep overlooking lake. This may be Berchtesgaden. VS of lake. Small two-engine German fighter in field. Village square with sign that reads: "Brenner Pass." Shot of main street of town, CU of sign that reads: "Brenner." Men of unit in street. Barricade reads: "All vehicles stop here." Sign with snow-...

  4. GIs visit pyramids; ships

    Trucks carrying supplies up hilly road. Soldier with green, white and orange flag. Stevens wearing pith helmet, another officer and three Egyptian men in uniform. The pyramids, Stevens, Capt. William C. Mellor (?) and local in front of pyramids. (Shot is partially obstructed by something in front of lens.) Other shots including Stevens arm in arm with man in native garb in front of pyramids. More shots of dock area, cranes and equipment, tires being loaded on the dock. Egyptian feluccas with sails on the sea and other large wooden sailing ships. About 30 Egyptians in summer uniforms carryin...

  5. GIs; battered corpses; Dachau camp victims

    Campfire burning. Hamilton, Stevens and others on ground cooking, drinking coffee. Change of scene, jeep Toluca covered with snow. Stevens in front of jeep Toluca shakes hands with crewcut American (Major Dick Cahoot). CUs, they are smoking, dressed in winter parkas (handwritten annotation to LoC cataloger's notes indicates that this footage was shot in Belgium). At Dachau, by a railroad track, empty boxcars, some snow on ground. Frozen corpse lying in coal beside track. Gruesome CU of snow covered huddled corpse by boxcar. Several gruesome shots of battered corpses of German SS. Frozen bod...

  6. GIs; German landscape

    Underexposed INT shot of American soldiers. Aerial shot of river running between mountains. VS, aerial views of mountains with wing of military plane in FG of shot.

  7. Gisela and Adolf Adler: Personal papers

    This collection contains correspondence, photograph and personal papers documenting the lives of Adolf and Gisela Adler, a Jewish couple who emigrated from Nazi Germany, and their search for relatives after the war.

  8. Gisela E. Zamora collection

    The collection consists of artifacts and documents relating to the experiences of Gisela Eckstein as an inmate of the Theresienstadt ghetto and Maerzdorf slave labor camp and of Joseph Zamoire (Zamora) as an inmate of Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  9. Gisela E. Zamora collection

    The collection consists of tefillin and tefillin storage bag relating to the experiences of Josef and Marcus Zamojre, originally from Germany, while living in hiding in Italy during the Holocaust.

  10. Gisela G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gisela G., who was born in Tarnów, Poland in 1924, one of four children. She recalls her close and large extended family; her father's death in early 1939; working in his hat business; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; arrest for walking on the sidewalk; release; her mother and younger brothers hiding with a former non-Jewish employee during round-ups; she and her sister being exempted from round-ups due to their factory jobs; her mother being caught; ghettoization; building a bunker for those with no work permits; one brother's deportation; a selection in w...

  12. Gisela M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gisela M., who was born in Schivelbein, Germany (presently S?widwin, Poland) in 1925 one of two daughters of a Jewish father and non-Jewish mother. She describes harassment at school; witnessing her father being beaten; expulsion from school following Kristallnacht; her parents' futile efforts to emigrate; non-Jewish friends supplying their food; moving to Berlin; working as a factory apprentice; losing her job because she was the daughter of a Jew; her father's arrest; her mother demonstrating daily with other wives of Jewish men; her father's release; forced relocat...

  13. Gisela Nathan collection

    Gisela Nathan: correspondence

  14. Gisela Rosenthal Tucker collection

    Contains materials related to the Holocaust experiences of Gisela Rosenthal and her family. Includes birth certificates in German and Czech issued for Gisela Rosenthal in 1926, 1927 and 1935.; correspondence from the US Department of State to Samuel Rosenthal in London, where he fled with his wife Regina where they were awaiting US visas; a letter from Eleanor Roosevelt, dated March 21, 1945, thanking Samuel for a gift he sent; a naturalization certificate for Gisela Tucker, dated 1948; and photographs of Gisela as an baby and toddler with, potentially, her parents in Germany. Copy drawing ...

  15. Gisela S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gisela S., who was born in Eschwege, Germany in 1931. She recounts her father's blindness due to a World War I injury; living in Abterode until 1937; moving to Frankfurt; her mother's death; not being harassed on Kristallnacht because they were the only Jews in their building; her father not being arrested because he was a decorated veteran; his remarriage in 1940; attending an illegal Jewish school; their deportation to Theresienstadt in fall 1942; her first encounter with corpses; transfer to a "youth home"; forced labor in a tailor shop; Danish prisoners sharing th...

  16. Gisela W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gisela W., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1925. She recalls her family's wealthy, assimilated life; antisemitic vandalism; attending a private girls' school; expulsion as a Jew; attending the American school; living with an uncle in the Hague (her brother had been sent to England); visiting family in Stuttgart; living with an aunt in Switzerland; staying in a hotel in Lugano; moving with her parents to Amsterdam in April 1939; attending Dutch school; German invasion; obtaining permission to leave through her uncle, who headed the Warburg Bank in Holland; leaving w...

  17. Gisele W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gisele W., who was born in Leipzig, Germany in 1934, the youngest of three children. She recalls her family's orthodoxy; her brother and sister caring for her while her parents worked; avoiding deportation to Poland in 1938 (her parents were born there) with assistance from a non-Jewish friend; going to her grandmother's home on Kristallnacht (she later perished in Theresienstadt); her father's arrest when escaping to Belgium in January 1939; her mother joining him when he was ill; placement in a orphanage; learning her father had died; being smuggled to Antwerp with ...

  18. Giselle Kurz papers

    The papers consist of postcards, letters, identification cards, and other documents relating to the Holocaust in several countries in Europe.

  19. Giselle W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Giselle W., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1902, one of six children. She recounts their affluence; moving to Vienna in 1914 due to the outbreak of war; two brothers serving in enemy armies, one in the Austrian, one in the French; a rich and exciting cultural life after the war which ended with the Anschluss; non-Jews helping them; her engagement (her fiance? went to Australia); she and her sister traveling illegally to join three brothers in Paris (the fourth was in Italy); her parents joining them; becoming "legal" after German invasion; hiding from round-ups wi...

  20. Gisevius testimony at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 128) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, April 26, 1946. LSs, Dr. Rudolf Dix, counselor for Schacht, questions the witness Hans Bernhardt von Gisevius. MLS, Gisevius testifying. Pan to Hermann Goering scribbling notes. 19:02:40 Pan to dock, Ribbentrop. CU, Gisevius testifying. MCU, Dr. Otto Stahmer and another defense counselor making notes. 19:07:33 MCS, right side of dock, including Speer, Von Hindenburg, Fritsch, Frank, Frick, Streicher, and Funk listening to Gisevius testify. LSs, Gisevius speaking of the relationship between the German Army and the Gestapo. Pan from Chief Pr...