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  1. Nazi propaganda cigarette card album

    Nazi propaganda cigarette coupon album celebrating Adolf Hitler's rise to power.

  2. March of Time -- outtakes -- Palestine, 1938

    Brief shot, harbor, loading ship. CU, man. 01:24:06 Arabs hauling bags of oranges. Crane loading oranges for export on French SS Champollion. Passengers on deck. 01:24:43 "Gerusalemme / Trieste" ship at dock. Soldiers. Loading and unloading crates, oranges. 01:25:46 CUs, orange boxes. 01:25:57 Several scenes of unloading donkeys with a crane. 01:26:25 Polish immigrants on board ship. More shots of Poles. 01:26:57 Stevedores working with Haifa in BG. Oranges for export loaded onto Norwegian ship. 01:27:32 CU, Mr. William Peasley, Director of Customs and Excise, talking to British Police Serg...

  3. Lilach Gruenfeld collection

    Contains an untitled typescript memoir in Hebrew.

  4. March of Time -- outtakes -- Hungary: Munkacs, troops, Yiddish sign, National Front meeting

    750 F: Count Pal Teleki in his office. Teleki was a Transylvanian aristocrat and geographer who was appointed premier by Horthy in 1920 and retired in 1921. He committed suicide in 1941. He is shown looking at maps at his desk. The next scene shows (from the dope sheet): "Andre Jaross, minister of Freed Regions." He is described as one of the youngest leaders of the "rather pro-Fascist" Magyar Elet organization. Jaross and another man stand at a desk and look at maps. 750 G: March/April 1939. Munkacs, Province of Ruthenia, Hungary. 04:34:25 LS, Munkacs showing Czech-built barracks, now occu...

  5. March of Time -- outtakes -- Palestine, 1938

    EXT, main entrance to Labor headquarters in Tel Aviv. Filing paperwork. Laborers present passbooks, CUs, pass. Reading notices in hall. Entering labor restaurant, eating, CUs, typical dish in labor restaurant. 01:48:59 INT, Tel Aviv city hall, meeting of Executive Committee of Labor Federation in Tel Aviv following the attack on Hanuta. David Remez, one of labor leaders in Palestine, presides at the meeting. At his left is Mereminsky, in charge of labor disputes. Eliahu Golumb, veteran labor leader, reports on the attack. Other meeting scenes, speaker, chairman, showing woman member of the ...

  6. March of Time -- outtakes -- Szold funeral; Jerusalem; Shertok

    Crowd of people outside Hadassah Medical Organization. CU entrance. Nurses process for the funeral services of Henriette Szold, founder of the School of Nurses on Mt. Scopus. Towards Jewish cemetery. Shots of road, outside town. Crowd of men. Many people, Jerusalem seen in the BG. View of the mountains over the Dead Sea. Shots from hillside. Church of Nativity in Bethlehem. 06:19:49 Students walk under arcades which go from the library to the new University buildings in Jerusalem. Hebrew University, shot of Jeruslaem, churchs. 06:21:11 Inscription of an old Jewish tomb. La Jaffa gate and Je...

  7. Pamphlet

    Pamphlet containing photographic images from former Nazi concentration camps in Germany.

  8. March of Time -- outtakes -- South America, 1938

    On board the SS Brazil (tendered by the US Maritime Commission to North and South American diplomats, bankers, and businessmen to initiate the "Good Will Service" to South America). Conference of Admirals Hutchinson I. Cone, Emory S. Land, and H.A. Wiley. 01:34:21 INT, Mrs. Woodward, wife of Thomas Woodward of the Maritime Commission, in bedroom, at desk. Man cleaning room. 01:34:59 Harbor, view of Buenos Aires, ship. 01:35:40 Flags, other ships go by and are moored. 01:36:57 People on shore, disembarking. 01:37:53 Breckinridge Long, George Messersmith, and other diplomats talking. 01:39:02...

  9. Book

  10. March of Time -- outtakes -- Copenhagen

    LS, Copenhagen from church tower, harbor. 05:01:06 "Bruarfoss" ship from island. Dutch ship "Tilly," lines of steamships. "Hans Brog Danmark" ship. Greek flag painted on side of ship. 05:02:26 Trams, bicycles in Copenhagen street. Shops, traffic. EXT, conservative paper "Politiken" building with map of German invasion into Poland. News from the front on the EXT of "Berlingske Tidende" building, busy street, bicyclists.05:04:21 MS, Thorvald Stauning, Danish Premier Minister, in his office, writing. 05:05:10 EXT Ministry building, horse. Aerial shot of Raadhuspladsen, Copenhagen's main square...

  11. March of Time -- outtakes -- Lisbon harbor

    At Lisbon harbor, people getting off boats. Ships - US Coast Guard cutter, cargo ship from England. 04:54:13 Swiss boats in port. 04:55:03 Portuguese steamer "Serpa Pinto." Port with sailboats, Portuguese fishermen in FG. Sails on the Paille Sea (in front of Lisbon). Shots of River Tage (which Lisbon faces). Transport barge. 04:56:20 Pier with Portuguese fishing boat. Various shots of seaplane arriving, US flag on side of plane. 04:59:40 Customs officers boarding small boat. Willkie and others arriving, getting off planes into dinghies, coming ashore, late in the afternoon. Men carrying dip...

  12. March of Time -- outtakes -- US Embassy in Buenos Aires

    INT "Casa Rosada" [Pink House], the official residence and executive office of President Ortiz in Buenos Aires. MS, CU, Weddell, Breckinridge Long, President Ortiz, and Foreign Minister Cantilo talking on couch. 01:43:03 Group of men in suits, including men from before. 01:44:58 Buildings, trams, horse and carts, in front of US Embassy in Buenos Aires, guards. 01:45:50 INT, staircase. Weddell and his butler. 01:46:54 Plaque to Franklin Roosevelt. 01:47:43 Shaking hands and greeting visitors for official reception. 01:50:16 EXT, embassy, cars coming and going. 01:51:43 Guests outside. 01:52:...

  13. March of Time -- outtakes -- Scenes from "Land of Promise"

    Farmers, industrialists working. Pan up telegraph pole. 04:12:44 Pushing rocks, cameos, breaking stones. 04:13:47 Fabric factory. 04:14:14 Soap factory. 04:15:40 Woman looking through book, studying, science experiments. 04:16:08 Building, many people entering. 04:16:23 Children sit with chickens. Sheep, cows. 04:17:25 Orange and fruit packing. Men working. Cuts between factories, fruit packing, hard labor, typing.

  14. March of Time -- outtakes -- Jews in Palestine

    EXT, shops, cafes, man with trumpet calls for shopowners to close. Wedding party going down stairs. Morning prayer at Tel Aviv. Men dressing, putting on tefillin, praying, reading in synagogue. 06:03:15 Jewish Passover week in Jerusalem. LS, crowd meets in front of Hurva synagogue, aerial views. CUs people's faces, singing and praying in memory of the Jews murdered by the Nazis. Rabbi speaking. Men walking downstairs toward the Western Wall, beggars line the wall, mosques in BG. Mass of people praying at the Western Wall. INT synagogue, Torah.

  15. Steven Galezewski collection

    The collection consists of a memoir containing information describing the liquidation of the Minsk-Mazowiecki ghetto and a copy of an arrest warrant dated 30 August 1941.

  16. Pamphlet

    Pamphlet published by US Army describing conditions at Gunskirchen concentration camp upon Liberation.

  17. Oscar and Lillian Stempler Foundation collection

    Contains an album of postcards, envelopes, postage stamps and other items with accompanying captions.

  18. Kahan family collection

    Contains identification cards ("Kennkarten") for donor, Hildegard Kahan, and her mother Else.

  19. Photograph album page

    Page from a Jewish family album that depicts pre-war life in Yugoslavia. Page bears two black and white photographs on recto and one on verso. Found in front of photo album [Ref 1]

  20. Photograph

    Photograph portrait of woman wearing a black headband, black dress, and fur; mounted in wooden frame covered in gold paint, with glass front and red-and-white paper backing.