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Language of Description: English

  1. DPs return to Germany

    (LIB 6901) Return of Displaced Persons, from Ohrdruf to Chemnitz, Germany, June 2, 1945. LSs, MSs, Russian DPs board trucks. Trucks filled with DPs leave the camp as persons remaining wave farewell. HASs, LSs, DPs in US trucks moving over autobahn. MSs, CUs, smiling Russian DPs seated in trucks. MLSs, US soldier tells Russians to climb aboard truck. MSs, CU, woman giving infant its bottle. Russians dismount from truck with their belongings and walk to waiting train. MSs, CU, women, children, and men prior to boarding the train.

  2. War Crimes Trials: Medical Case

    War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. Judge Beals announces that the Tribunal has convened to hear last statements of the defendants of Case 1 and that the defendants do not have to make statements unless they desire to. Karl Brandt, once Hitler's personal doctor, makes his statement.

  3. March of Time -- outtakes -- Nazis in US; protest in NYC; Germans in US

    563 J: (shot in the studio) January 12, 1938. INT, two Nazi censors at work going through outgoing mail. CU, letter being opened. CU, letter placed back in envelope. 563 K: New York City, January 8, 1938. LS, Nazi propaganda workshop with artist making posters. CU, German drawing on bench of one of the artists. CU, finished poster held by Nazi officer. CU, poster only. MS, artist working, wall filled with German posters. MS, posters on wall. CU, folders inserted in envelopes by Nazi soldier. 03:13:00 563 L: New York City, December 24, 1937. EXT, main entrance to the Grand Central Palace. MS...

  4. March of Time -- outtakes -- National Assembly meets; Nationalization Decree signed

    (Czech Newsreel Material) EXT shot of the raising and lowering of the Czech flag over Czech Palace. Two shots of voting tickets being collected from members of Parliament in Vladislav Hall at the castle. Travelling shot of Edvard Benes entering Czech Parliament, mounts rostrum and bows to applauding members of the National Assembly. MS of Benes on rostrum of Parliament, during the playing of the Czech anthem. Shots of members of the Czech Parliament standing at attention. MS of President Benes getting into his car at Town Hall Square. EXTs of Czech Cathedral, people entering by stairway, fl...

  5. Rauter Trial, Westerbork

    "Het Proces Rauter" opens with the trial of Hanns Rauter, an Austrian who was the highest SS official in Nazi-occupied Holland and who was tasked with setting up Westerbork and Vught. The judge's voice, presumably reading the indictment, over footage of well-dressed civilians wearing stars either arriving at Westerbork or boarding for deportation to Auschwitz or Belsen. Men, women, and children. Good shots of Dutch military police on duty. Back to Rauter sitting at the trial. Men wearing wooden clogs getting off train at Westerbork lining up next to rail cars. At trial, evidence presented a...

  6. Oral history interview with Kazimierz Milobedzki

  7. Star of David badge with Jude printed in the center

    The Star of David was worn by Al Mondroe, or Mondrowicz, during the Holocaust while he was interned in the Łódź Ghetto. He hid the Star, returned to Łódź and retrieved it after the Holocaust ended.

  8. Chaplain; Burial in Ludwigslust (Wobbelin)

    Chaplain Takes Over, Deggendorf, Germany, May 4, 1945. EXTs, Lt Col Father Crain of the 4th US Armored Division exits from building and speaks to German chaplain captured with two German Colonels. Burial of Dead, Ludwigslust, Germany, May 7, 1945. Seq: German civilians bury dead of Woebbelin concentration camp. LS, bodies laid out near graves. At the back of each grave is a large wooden cross. LS, group of US and German officers stand at attention during burial ceremonies. CU, unidentified German civilian speaks into microphone. CUs, MSs, German civilians and officers viewing bodies before ...

  9. Questioning von Schirach at Nuremberg; War Crimes Trials: Malmedy

    17:07:15 (Munich 187) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, May 24, 1946. HAS, Dodd, US prosecutor, questions Baldur von Schirach about a song printed in the Hitler Youth Song Books (witness not seen). HAS, Dr. Fritz Sauter cross-examines Schirach. (English interpreter is heard translating the questions and answers). 17:10:47 (Munich 176) Malmedy War Crimes Trials, Dachau, Germany, May 21, 1946. Former Lt Virgil P Lary tells how he and fifteen of his men made a break after witnessing the massacre of approx one hundred US soldiers. Former soldier Carl Daub is questioned about his background...

  10. Ohlendorf testifies in Einsatzgruppen Case

    War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 9 (Einsatzgruppen Case), Nuremberg, Germany, October 15, 1947. Ohlendorf, in suit and tie, wearing earphones, testifies about the number of persons his Einsatzgruppe D killed. Curtained windows behind him. Camera remains on Ohlendorf as he is cross examined by US prosecutor James Heath. 17:02:10 - 17:02:28 side view of Heath. Camera continues on Ohlendorf. 17:03:53 View of Heath & pan to Ohlendorf. 17:04:45 Close view of Ohlendorf in witness box. Musmanno (voice from off camera) 17:06:26 Musmanno and judges on bench. Musmanno rules ...

  11. Certificate

    The certificate ("Bescheinigung") of delousing was issued to Fryda Grossbard donor's mother by the Jewish Committee ("Jüdische Gemeinde") of Kraków, Poland.

  12. Raymond Soycher papers

    The papers consist of a postcard to Raymond Soycher in New York, N.Y., from his parents, Josef and Laja Sojcher, in Warsaw, Poland, and a postcard to H. Sojcher in Brussels, Belgium, from his brother, Josef Sojcher, in Warsaw.

  13. Envelope

    The envelope is addressed to Mrs. Martin Stern in Lansdale, Pa., from her stepmother, Rebos Markusz, in Hungary. Three Hungarian stamps are adhered as well as two censor labels. The envelope also bears the stamp of the British censor.

  14. Helena Tkaczyk identification card

    The forged identification card ("Kennkarte") was issued to "Helena Tkaczyk" [donor] by the Generalgouvernement in Warsaw, Poland.

  15. Ration book

    The ration book ("Zuteilungskarte") was issued by the Jewish Committee in Hannover, Germany, to Frieda Landau.

  16. Charlotte Ader papers

    The papers consist of a birth certificate for administrative use issued by the Ministère des Affaires Étrangères in France for Abraham Blatt donor's father who was unable to provide proof of his original nationality and an identification card issued by the Fédération Nationale des Centres d'Entr'Aide des Internés et Deportés Politiques in France to Abraham Blatt concerning his internment in Auschwitz.

  17. Susan Laurents papers

    The papers consist of a Jewish identification card ("Kennkarte") issued to Ilse Sara Waldheim in Köln (Cologne), Germany; a worker's book ("Arbeitsbuch") issued to Ilse Sara Waldheim in Cologne, Germany, and stamped by Federnfabrik Bernhard Stübecke; a change of address report ("Abmeldung") issued by the police to Ilse Sara Waldheim in Hemer, Germany; and a tax document ("Lohnsteuerkarte") issued to Ilse Sara Waldheim in Hemer, Germany.

  18. Victoria Hopkins papers

    The papers consist of a camera permit, a document recognizing honorable discharge from the United States Army, a discharge certificate, and a Separation Qualification Record. All of the materials were issued to Orville Barlow [donor's grandfather] who served in the United States Army during World War II.

  19. Christmas card from soldier

    The stationery card has "Adolf Hitler" embossed in the upper left corner. A message in German is written on the recto and has an illegible signature. A message in English is written on the verso: "Merrie sic Xmas and Happy New Year / from me, too, Jack! / Adolf is sending his greetings / this year / Love, Kisses, Hugs, [signature illegible] / P.S. That signature is authentic!."

  20. Alice Gadlin papers

    The papers consist of 28 file copies of identification cards ("Kennkarte") with photographs, two file copies of identification cards without photographs, one original identification card with photograph, and two documents concerning the disposition of identification cards.