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  1. Book

  2. Golda Meir; Israeli truce; Mid East peace

    Part Two of the event. Meir addresses an assembly in New York. This address was simultaneously broadcast in 19 other US cities via closed circuit TV. The main focus of Meir's speech is the need for the existence of an independent Jewish state and peace in the Middle East. The following people give their closing remarks: Sam Rothberg Abraham Feinberg Story ends abruptly.

  3. March of Time -- outtakes -- Yugoslavia during liberation

    Jeep with Russian officers going through cheering crowd. Yugoslav partisan army. Russian army and partisan leaders, proclamation from stage. Marshall Josip Broz Tito reviewing partisan troops. Allied observers present. Wounded partisans in the parade. Russian tanks through outskirts of Belgrade. Street fighting. Carrying wounded on stretcher. Russian artillery advancing through streets of Belgrade. Prisoners (Germans?) being marched through Belgrade streets. Aerial view of Belgrade.

  4. Bronia Chosid collection

    The Bronia Chosid collection consists of a photograph of Eliash Leib Prous, circa 1930; a photograph of Eliash Leib Porus and his sister before she left for America, in Swencian, Poland, 1928; a Mahzor in Hebrew and Russian which was kept by Bronia Chosid’s brother, who was a partisan.

  5. UJA appeal for refugees overseas needs

    The Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) endorses United Jewish Appeal (UJA) and American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) executives' appeal to bring DPs from Europe to Palestine or to the USA. Footage of liberation of camps. An appeal to raise money for displaced persons. Shows footage of a number of organizers and fundraisers, and speaks of an assembly in Atlantic City, NJ to raise one million dollars. Features founders of the UJA, JDC, United Jewish Fund, etc. Footage of Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg is interspersed with speeches given post war to US audiences.

  6. March of Time -- outtakes -- Brussels during liberation

    Riots in Brussels. Leftist rioting on streets of Brussels, trying to prevent meeting of "Royalists." People, trying to enter Flemish Theater for the meeting, being pushed away and chased by the crowd. Gendarmes stationed along street. 01:03:10 Charles de Gaulle visiting Brussels, with Prince Reginal. Taking to crowd from Royal Palace balcony.

  7. VE Day in Washington, DC

    Downtown traffic on Pennsylvania Avenue, U.S. Congress building, automobile traffic, buses, trolleys, pedestrians. Hotel Washington. WS of the White House, flag at half mast for FDR's death. EXT, the Navy Department and the Department of the Interior. Military and civilians entering building. Pedestrians and street traffic. CU of "Washington Afro-American" newspaper front page title: WAR ENDS IN EUROPE. Front page of "Jewish Journal and Daily News" in Hebrew. Woman at gates of the White House. Group of naval officers and civilians enter Navy Department. DC newsstand with V-E Day headlines.

  8. March of Time -- outtakes -- Liberation of Paris

    Paris Liberation, 1946-1947. FFI men carying stretcher waving Red Cross flag, carrying wounded man. Holding captured Nazi flag. Captured collaborators being marched along by a group of FFI. French young woman having her head shaved. Tearing down German posters. Hitler's picture lying among the rubble in the street. Pan of Notre Dame. Men with machine guns.

  9. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 1 mark note

    1 (eine) mark receipt issued in the Łódź ghetto in Poland in May 1940. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1939; Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and annexed to the German Reich. In February, the Germans forcibly relocated the large Jewish population into a sealed ghetto. All currency was confiscated in exchange for Quittungen [receipts] that could be exchanged only in the ghetto. The scrip was designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] and includes traditional Jewish symbols. The Germans closed the ghetto in the summer of 1944 by deporting the residents to concentration camps or kill...

  10. Book

  11. Berlin street scenes (1936 Olympics)

    Various shots of Berlin street scenes during the 1936 Olympics. Olympic rings, banners. CU, statue. Flags. Sign: "Der Gruessen, Die Gaeste, Der Welt." Olympic rings. Flags. Torch, flame. Flags. Motorcade. Double-decker bus. Decorations erected in Berlin for Olympic ceremonies. Underground subway station. Flags. Putting flags up. Band playing. Crowd. Bicycles. Torch. MCU, street scene. Flags. Shot of street through reflection on automobile headlight. Auto traffic. CU, license plates. CUs, cars moving slowly, shot at street level (tires). Policeman directing traffic. Civilians walking, CUs fe...

  12. VE Day in Germany

    US Army soldiers receiving the news that the war is over (staged). Liberators listening to field radio and learning about the end of the war (staged). Men jumping for joy and drinking liquor. Men removing tarp from supply and covering cannon, writing in white chalk: "7 May 1945 So Long Berlin, Hello Tokyo." In small German town, mayor telling group of women and children that the war is over. People/child walking and bicycling. Refugees and displaced persons carrying belongings and lumber. German farmers working in field. Victory bonfire, pilot in FG drinking liquor. Pilot approaching airpla...

  13. Scrapbook

    Contains a scrapbook titled "Deutschlands Zukunft," and assembled by an admirer of Nazi Germany's military exploits. Contains clippings from newspapers and magazines from 1938 (headed "Die grosse Ereignis am 13.Maerz 1938," in reference to the annexation of Austria) to 1940, with clippings about the Blitzkrieg in Western Europe (invasions of Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium, and France).

  14. Repression of Jews, beating, slave labor; Riga synagogue burning

    Man beaten, pushed around through crowd. German soldier, man pushed into unidentified building. VS, CUs of men's faces. Brief shot of road sign: "Achtung Baustelle". Men with picks, shovels, clearing area. 04:02:30 Subtitles: "Leniwi zydzii" [Lazy Jews] "zostah natychmiast zabrani do roboty" [have been taken immediately to work]. Men getting off trucks and carrying shovels/tools. German soldiers giving orders. Men taking off shirts, looking at camera, continue digging, picking up large rocks and moving them. 04:03:03 Subtitle translation: "Polish population delivers the Jewish 'agents'." Ma...

  15. Jews removal to Krakow ghetto

    The segment shows the Jewish population being moved to the Krakow ghetto- people carrying their belongings, empty carts leaving the area, constant traffic going into the ghetto. All Jews wear armbands, including children. Section of town clearly marked "off limits". Overloaded horsedrawn carts with household belongings (beds, blankets, tables, etc.). People wearing armbands (on right arm) crossing street. People carrying loaded baskets (all wearing arm bands). Carts lining up the street, people walking back and forth through the streets, across a bridge, carrying their belongings. Streetcar...

  17. Small suitcase carried by a Jewish boy from Berlin to England on a Kindertransport

    Small suitcase carried by thirteen year old Max Dobriner (later Geoffrey Dickson) in July 1939 when he was sent by his parents Julius and Hertha from Germany to Great Britain on a Kindertransport.

  18. Cigarette cards

    Collection of cigarette cards with black and white images of Hitler, Nazi officials and political events. There is a caption, "Gammelwert Nr. 8: Deutschland Erwacht" on each card

  19. Clipping

    Consists of a clipping from Paris Match magazine (two pages) with an article entitled "Les Juifs Errant du "St. Louis," showing passengers aboard the MS St. Louis during the voyage and a photograph of their arrival in Antwerp, Belgium on 17 June 1939.

  20. Prayer book

    Daily prayer book given to Jewish woman living in Podomkly immediately following World War II.