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Language of Description: English

  1. Nazis advance in Montenegro; Serbian POWs

    Nazis continue their push Eastward. Nazis fighting partisans in rugged terrain of Montenegro. Nazi soldier setting up a telegraph machine. Soldiers on trucks on road. LS, mountain range. Nazis advance, fire artillery, scramble up mountainside. Firing. Very rugged terrain. Small forest, cavalry troops. Firing, bombing housing. Pan of "partisan" Serbian POWs, bedraggled, Asian features, swarthy skin, wearing turbans. CUs, weapons. POWs marching. Serbian villagers handing eggs to Nazi soldier as welcome gift, swastika flag visible. Farming, MS oxen plowing field. (Commentary: "The Volk thanks ...

  2. Documentation pertaining to refugees who escaped Germany to the Argentine Pampas

    Contains copies of documents and correspondence, relating to Ludwig Rosenblatt and other members of Rosenblatt and Plaut families, documenting their emigration from Germany to Argentina; the founding of Colonia Avigdor; and related subjects. Also includes a book about Jewish Colonization Association in Argentina

  3. Leather wallet with embossed images of Egyptian pharaohs acquired by a Jewish medical officer, 2nd Polish Corps

    Decorative brown leather wallet purchased by Dr. Edmund Lusthaus in Egypt circa 1943 where he was stationed with the 2nd Polish Corps, British Army, as a medical officer. When Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Lusthaus was drafted into the Polish Army. Seventeen days later, the Soviet army invaded from the east. Lusthaus was captured and taken to a camp for Polish prisoners of war in Novosibirsk, Siberia, where he served as a physician. When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, the Soviet government released the Polish POWs to join the fighting. Lusthaus joined the volunteer...

  4. Hand towel

    Paul Kuttner received the towel from his mother, Margarete Kuttner, before his immigration from Berlin, Germany, to Great Britain through Kindertransport in February 1939.

  5. Verdoner children eating and playing

    Yoka and Francisca Verdoner, with their mother Hilde Verdoner. The story begins with the two children playing in their backyard, followed by a series of interior shots, in medium close-up of Yoka and Francisca eating chocolate pudding. Several good closeups of the children feeding themselves and each other (and making a mess), particularly Francisca. Closeups of Hilde eating as well. Closeup of father, Gerrit Verdoner feeding Francisca, both wave to the camera. Closeup, Gerrit, Francisca and Yoka hamming it up for the camera.

  6. Morris Hillquit

    Morris Hillquit nominating Socialist Norman Thomas for President.

  7. Newsreels featuring warships in the Atlantic

    TIME weekly newsmagazine: "Crisis in the Atlantic", 1941. The March of Time, "The Atlantic 1941" LS, three warships in convoy. One sends blinker signal. INTs, captain and two attendants in ship's cabin. Aircraft carriers, battleships and destroyers in Atlantic Ocean. Full screen view, US fighter planes depart. LSs, MSs, Navy Dept building in Washington DC, as civilian workers enter. Sec of Navy, Frank Knox exits from car. Knox at naval dedication ceremony. Animation: comparative shipping tonnage of US, British, and Axis powers. US operators in code room send messages. CU, newspaper clipping...

  8. FDR speaking at NY World's Fair & in Washington, DC

    "Freedom - President Urges Tolerance in US" President Roosevelt speaking in Washington urges tolerance. On the site of the New York World's Fair, speaking before National Education Association, Roosevelt speaks out against censorship. 01:46:53 "Washington" In Washington, FDR argues that his policies are legitimate under the Constitution.

  9. DPs on General Black arrive in New York

    04:11:01 Gen Akin Making Presentation, Washington, DC, 1948. Maj Gen Spencer B Akin, Chief Signal Officer, presents a plaque to Dr Westmore of the Smithsonian Museum. 04:13:10 First Displaced Persons allowed to enter this country under new quota on the "General Black," New York, October 30, 1948. Several scenes of the transport "General Black" under way in New York harbor. Various scenes of DPs waving from the deck of the vessel. Atty Genl Tom Clark at pier. Clark going aboard "General Black." LS, a tug pushing the ship. Scenes on deck as gangway is set into place. Clark in BG shaking hands...

  10. Swimming; family takes a train in June 1940

    Eva is slightly older now, her hair in braids, she walks towards the camera with her mother Lilly and another young boy holding her hand. They play with a small terrier dog. The dog runs through a field. Large building. A girl jumps over a rope. Others practice handstands, backbends and cartwheels on the grass. The group picks up the little girl with braids. 01:02:37 Intertitle “Svábhegy 1940. Julius~ augusztus.” (film slightly damaged) Toy sailboat in water. People go down a water slide. Eva cries, and then relaxes on a float with a young boy. Everyone plays in the water. CU of Eva stickin...

  11. Signal Corps cameramen; DPs in street

    (LIB 6865) Signal Corps Cameramen, Germany, March/April 1945. LSs, camera team jeeps assembled in year with cameramen repairing tires and tuning motors. MLS, two cameramen discuss their Speed Graphic cameras. Cameramen check map in front of HQ. MS, cameraman with Eyemo shooting infantry coming across field. MLSs, CU, still cameraman with Speed Graphic kneels behind smoking enemy armored vehicle to take pictures. MLS, still cameraman taking pictures of displaced persons in street. MSs, CUs, Sgt loads his Speed Graphic, writes captions as he kneels in rubble at Heilbronn. MSs, Lt switches len...

  12. Quisling sentenced to death

    World in Film. Issue no. 20 (1940-1949) 03:39:08 "Last Fight Pictures from the Pacific." British Naval and air units at sea. HS, US convoy under way. Admiral Rawlings, British officer being transported from his ship at sea via breech buoy to an American ship alongside. GSAP pictures of Japanese land installation being strafed. MS, Admiral William F Halsey aboard ship speaking to group of men in fire control room. LSs, American battleship's guns firing at shore in the battle of the Honshu Sea. Scenes aboard US battleship of ammunition being sent to upper deck. 03:42:40 "Soldiers become Farm ...

  13. Yugoslavia: Easter church service

    Reel 6: INT, Saborna Serbian Orthodox Church on Easter Sunday; parishioners standing as priests conduct services. (Choir singing throughout entire roll.)

  14. War Crimes Trial: Franz Strasser

    Summary: Austrian Franz Strasser is tried for the murder of Lt E Warren Woodruff and an unknown airman. His testimony is in German. Cpl. Henry Halperin is the interpreter for all witnesses; Sgt. Sessler interprets for Franz Strasser. The six-officer Army Military Commission included Capt. Victor Miles, Lt. Harvey Szanger, and Col. Raymond E. Zickel. Reel 3: Reichl continuing testimony. Defense attorney reading Reichl's sworn statement; defense attorney questioning Strasser; prosecutor questioning Strasser.

  15. Kan family vacationing during winter in Switzerland

    Color. Scenic shots of Arosa, Switzerland and mountains. Ice skating in FG. Ice rink. Betsy sits on some steps outside of a building and waves. Ice rink. Pan up to the snow covered mountainside. Betsy gets a skating lesson and Jeanne also skates. Betsy and Robert stand next to a building, balloons hang from the side of the building's railing. From overhead, a long line of horse drawn sleighs with balloons. Jeanne sits in a sleigh, waves, balloons hang from the sleigh behind her. More shots of the sleighs and horses. 01:06:37 MS, Betsy holds a blue balloon with "Tschuggen Club Arosa" in whit...

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  17. Yugoslavia: farming; villagers; military vehicles; railroad yards

    Reel 8: Farmer plowing field, women sowing seed; sheep grazing. Man sitting on bench reading newspaper, soldier on crutches, woman resting on steps, street car motorman, woman with child in park. Belgrade Hospital, entrance gates. Man smoking cigar, man with beard, partisan boy soldier saluting, Serbian girl and Roma beggar sitting on walk. Military vehicles, troops and civilians boarding ferry, crossing Danube River and departing ferry. Pan, across destroyed German tanks and guns, destroyed Sava Bridge, railroad yards and town. Railroad yards in Belgrade, locomotives moving down tracks.

  18. VE Day in Paris

    Scenes of massive VE day celebration. French civilians, American soldiers, and WACs parading in the streets, riding on military vehicles. Crowds of people, confetti. More scenes of wounded soldiers at the 48th General Hospital, upon hearing the news of victory, dancing with nurses. Marching band, parade. Ceremony in field.

  19. Royalty, politicians, statesmen, authors highlighted

    REEL 1: In the 1930s. Opening scene is of an orchestra playing with big poster of Hitler on wall behind them, they are playing to a full hall of all men who appear to be prisoners. Close shots of the Duke of Windsor seated in the front row with non-prisoner VIPs. Various European royalty. 01:33:35 Politicians and statesmen. League of Nations. 01:38:11 Closeup of book by H.G. Wells, "The Shape of Things to Come". H.G. Wells is asked about "the terrible state of the world today." Lady Astor prophetically says that we can lead the Russians out of communism by trading with them. Great George Be...

  20. Pair of toddler's well used black and white leather lace-up boots worn in Theresienstadt ghetto/labor camp

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn512987
    • English
    • 1943-1945
    • a: Height: 7.635 inches (19.393 cm) | Width: 3.125 inches (7.938 cm) | Depth: 4.375 inches (11.113 cm) b: Height: 7.375 inches (18.733 cm) | Width: 3.125 inches (7.938 cm) | Depth: 4.625 inches (11.747 cm)

    Child's heavily used black patent and white leather ankle boots worn by 3 year old Judis Baehr while she was imprisoned in Theresienstadt ghetto/labor camp from 1943-1945. The already used boots were obtained by Elly Winterstein who adopted Judis at the camp. They were too big at first and had to be stuffed with newspaper and the heels and soles repaired with nails, but Judis wore them until after liberation. The boots are inscribed with the name Georg Weiss. A 7 year old child by that name arrived in the camp in 1942 and was deported to Auschwitz in October 1944. Judis was born in October ...