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Language of Description: English

  1. Russian News (1943, No. 73-74)

    Reel 1: Artillery shells Dobronske, White Russia. Tanks and infantry advance. A German observation tower is blown up and its occupants killed. Troops enter the rubbled town and are greeted; they cross the Soje and Dnieper Rivers in boats and on pontoon bridges that are heavily shelled. Titles in Russian.

  2. Russian DPs cross Elbe; German prisoners clean camp courtyard

    (LIB 6898) Russian DPs Cross Elbe, Magdeburg, Germany, May 31, 1945. LSs, train carrying DPs arrive at station. MSs, CU, Russian civilians with their belongings waiting at railroad station. CU, child standing next to trunk, crying. MLSs, British officer directing and counting groups as they pass. MLS, US, British, and Russian officers watch the long column of civilians crossing bridge. LSs, trash in camp courtyard which was recently evacuated by Russians. MSs, INTs, two Russian women carving meat in camp kitchen. HSs, platoon of German prisoners marching toward camera under British guard. S...

  3. Verdoner children playing

    Yoka, Francisca and Otto Verdoner playing on the floor of their home in Hilversum, Holland. Yoka and Francisca play with baby Otto as if he were a life-sized doll. Their mother Hilde picks up Otto to rescue him from his sisters' affections. CU, Hilde and Otto. CUs, Otto attempting to crawl, holding his torso up, etc. Yoka and Francisca try to help Otto. Brief shot of Francisca sitting at a table eating.

  4. HG Wells in Moscow

    "H.G. Wells Welcomed," Moscow. Air liner lands at Moscow airport. Mr HG Wells alights and is greeted. Close shot of him with others speaking into microphone.

  5. Kan children perform skits; at the beach in Zandvoort

    Sign placed next to a pot of flowers. INT, Robert and Betsy perform skits, adults watch (presumably at the Villa Elsa in 1938). Robert wears a military style uniform with a hat and plume and a toy gun. He bows to the audience (not seen) and salutes the camera. CUs are not in focus. Betsy performs as a ballerina, wearing a costume with a flowered wreath on her head. 01:00:59 Betsy and Robert in costume. VAR shots of the children in other costumes with pans to show entire costume. Frits and a light-haired woman in evening attire. Others in costumes performing for an audience. Camera pans up a...

  6. POW camp; destroyed railyards; the Alps; US military discover Dachau death trains; destroyed Munich

    (black and white) LS of a POW (?) camp surrounded by wire fencing, inmates moving about, a watch tower is visible in FG. Camp is located in a large open field with mountains in BG. Planes fly overhead. On nearby road, two women in civilian dress walk along carrying luggage. Notice the camp's proximity to the main road. Two US soldiers along road get out of a "HQ1" vehicle and look at destroyed railway carriages, there are many of them. 01:01:42 Road with destroyed buildings and cars, tanks and turned over military vehicles. MS of soldier, possibly Col. Dockum. 01:03:10 Sign, "Liege 56K, Hou...

  7. Judgement delivered on Frank, Frick, Streicher, Doenitz, Raeder at Nuremberg Trial

    Sentencing of Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany, 1 October 1946. Justice Francis Biddle (US) reading part of judgement on Hans Frank: "a willing and knowing participant in the use of terrorism in Poland; in the economic exploitation of Poland in a way that led to the deth by starvation of a large number of people; in the deportation to Germany as slave laborers of over a million Poles; and in a program involving the murder of at lest three million Jews. Conclusion: The Tribunal finds that Frank is not guilty on Count One but guilty under Counts Three and Four of the indictment."...

  8. Sentencing Sauckel and von Papen at Nuremberg Trial

    Sentencing of Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany, October 1946. HMS, Fritz Sauckel, German Labor Leader, listening to Justice Francis Biddle giving a resume of his career. Justice Biddle says that Sauckel is responsible for the deportation of some 5 million people into labor camps, and he was informed about the dire conditions there. He seems not to have taken any initiative to alleviate the situation for these workers. HS, MS as Biddle reads the tribunal's verdict on Sauckel: guilty on counts three and four in the indictment. HMS of Justice Sir Geoffrey Lawrence (British) declar...

  9. FDR at the polls

    "New Deal Dominates America" Hyde Park, NY; New York City, NY; Pennsylvania. Cartoon (from the library) of Uncle Sam at the crossroads. Good shots of FDR at the polls, giving his name to the registrar. CUs, Mrs. James Roosevelt, his mother. Casting their votes for Gov. Lehman. Shot of citizens lined up at the polls. CU, electioneering sign. Map showing how FDR carried all but the six shaded states in 1932, whereas today, other states have swung toward the New Deal. CU, Senator David A. Reed, Republican spokesman, and CU of New Dealer Joseph A. Guffey who defeated him. This was a blow to con...

  10. Baby Otto Verdoner

    EXT, High angle shot, looking down on Otto Verdoner playing in his crib/playpen. CU of a stuffed elephant toy in the crib. VS of Otto in his crib and then crawling about on the lawn in the Verdoner family yard. The house is visible in the BG of several shots. Hilde Verdoner feeds Otto a cracker, Otto continues to prance around his crib and eat his cracker. MCU, a woman in the garden knitting while she keeps an eye on Otto. CU, Otto picks up a ball, he is playing with his sister who is off camera. VS, Yoka Verdoner playing with Otto. VS, Hilde and all three children (Yoka, Francisca and Otto...

  11. Children's playing cards

    Julia Schor played with the cards while she was in hiding during the Holocaust in the Netherlands.

  12. Armband stenciled Judenrat worn in the Plaszow labor camp

    The armband was worn by Dr. Edmund Goldenberg in a labor camp in Płaszów, Poland.

  13. Yugoslavia: railroad yard; bank; villagers; Ustashi prisoners marched through streets; scenes in Belgrade

    Reel 9: Railroad yards in Belgrade, locomotives. Kalemegdon Park, French Military Museum in BG. Pan across old fortified area overlooking mouth of Sava River; Danube River on right. People lined up in front of various banks to exchange old dinars for new dinars. Sign on bank telling people to exchange money. People leaving bank, guard standing by door. Yugoslavians looking at displays of new dinar money. Street scenes showing damages to residential section and hospital. CUs, faces of townspeople. Group of Ustashi prisoners marching under guard to concentration camp; Serbians beating prisone...

  14. Verdicts delivered on Speer, von Neurath, Fritzsche, Raeder, Rosenberg at Nuremberg IMT

    Verdicts rendered on Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg IMT, Nuremberg, Germany, 30 September 1946. Russian Justice, Justice Francis Biddle, and Justice Geoffrey Lawrence stating conclusions of the tribunal on Constantin von Neurath and Albert Speer. Speer: Guilty under counts 3, 4 (only the beginning and end of his verdict are audible). Von Neurath (in French) (sound cut off). Fritzsche: Not guilty under the indictments, because he was subordinate to Goebbels and Dietrich. LS, courtroom as Justice Lawrence states that any appeal of the defendants to the Control Council for clemency must be lodged w...

  15. Łódź becomes Litzmannstadt, reel 2

    Germans build new planned city for German Volk. Łódź being "rebuilt." Reel 2: School. Man painting. Poles in factory. Germans in dining area. Slow pan, eating/smoking in dining area. Sign: Staedtliches Krankenhaus Mitt. Hospital. Nurses caring for bed-ridden. Medical examinations, X-rays. Hitler Youth, drums. Stadium, sports, calisthenics. Track race, soccer, long jump, swimming, women's track race. Women doing calisthenics. Drums. Book: Das Wappen vom Litzmannstadt. CUs, swastika. Unveiling new city seal with Greiser.

  16. Fritz and Fratz cartoon of the North country

    Cartoon with German subtitles. Title on screen: "Die lustigen Streiche von Fritz und Franz... Winterfreuden [the comical escapades of Fritz and Franz... Winter Joy]. Various adventures of the two characters (they are children) on sleds in the snow.

  17. Poster

  18. German educational film: fishermen in the North Sea

    Scenes of daily life and activities of fishermen and their families in the North Sea region. VS of life on the sea and at home. Scenes of cleaning and sorting the catch of the day, maintaining their fishing boats, farming, etc.

  19. Kan family vacationing during winter in Switzerland

    "Onze reis naar St. Moritz Januari 1933" [Our travel to St. Moritz January 1933] Sign for "Chur," a city in eastern Switzerland, in a train station. Jeanne in a fur coat, large cart of luggage in BG. Swiss Alps. Camera pans across the words "St. Moritz 1933" drawn in the snow. View from a sleigh, horse pulling the sleigh seen at right. Wooded mountains and telephone poles in BG. Mountains, trees, and buildings from the sleigh. Another sleigh passes to the left. Pan from people walking in front of a building to the valley and mountains. 01:02:32 Jeanne looks at the mountains and turns to the...

  20. Wooden horse and wagon pull toy

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn512925
    • English
    • 1940-1945
    • overall: Height: 12.598 inches (31.999 cm) | Width: 9.449 inches (24 cm) overall: Height: 18.110 inches (45.999 cm) | Width: 5.906 inches (15.001 cm) | Depth: 7.087 inches (18.001 cm)

    The toy was created by for Max Arpels-Lezer by his rescuer while he was in hiding in the Netherlands during the Holocaust. Max (Marcus) Lezer was born Oct. 9, 1936, in Assen, Netherlands, to Flora (Arpels) and Solomon Lezer. In the summer of 1942, Solomon and Flora sent Max to his grandparents in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, for a holiday. During Sept. 1942 Flora was arrested and sent to Westerbork transit camp and then to Auschwitz where she perished. After Flora's arrest, Solomon felt he could no longer care for Max and arranged for him to be placed in hiding.