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Language of Description: English
  1. William Horn memoir

    The collection consists of a personal narrative by William Horn regarding the persecution of the Jews of Radom, Poland.

  2. Erika Lewin Weinblum papers

    The Erika Lewin Weinblum papers document the efforts of Erika Lewin Weinblum in her role as the secretary of the Emergency Committee for Parents and Children of European DPs in Shanghai. The Emergency Committee series contains mainly correspondence to members of Congress and various political bodies including the White House, Department of State, and the United Nations. The correspondence concerns amendments to legislation that would permit Jewish displaced persons in China to immigrate to the United States. The personal items series contains various documents for Erika Lewin Weinblum that ...

  3. Heinrich Himmler photograph collection

    The collection consists of four photograph albums including family photographs of Heinrich Himmler, Reichsführer-SS and head of the Gestapo and the Waffen-SS; his wife, Marga; and their daughter, Gudrun. Also included are photographs of Nazi officials and gatherings.

  4. German siege of Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 1939

    01:03:45 Men digging in the aftermath of the German military air raids on Warsaw. Several refugees with bundles walk down the street, past where the ditches are being dug. Polish soldiers stand guard; civilians come up to them and question them. Scenes of the chaos in the streets after the German air attack. Two young men are recruited by a Polish soldier to help with the digging. They are all in suits and ties, some in trench coats and hats, and they keep digging. 01:04:18 Railway underpass, a train stuck on the tracks that are now covered with debris, women and men climb out of the railca...

  5. UNRRA supplies

    Boxes of UNRRA supplies from USA stacked. Ship "Falstria", bundles piled high in FG, crane, workers moving bundles. CU "US Mail" on side of bundle.

  6. Beatrice S. Zimmermann memoir

    Consists of one memoir, untitled, three pages, giving the testimony of Beatrice S. Zimmermann, who experienced the Holocaust in the Netherlands.

  7. Modern Poland before World War II

    English intertitles. Film taken prewar. Bridge. City streets and important buildings in Warsaw. A modern country: pedestrians reading newspapers, posters advertising arts and culture, vendors, trams, tall buildings, man with balloons and schoolchildren, storefronts. Cherished old quarters of Poland with ornate signs. Marketplaces - women selling flowers. City parks - women with baby carriages, CUs. High-rise apartment buildings and other modern housing structures. Jewish quarter, including arched street made famous by Roman Vishniac, geese transported in a wooden cart, the market in Krakow,...

  8. Shlomo Adler papers

    The Shlomo Adler papers include documents and photographs relating to Shlomo Adler's family in Bolechow, Poland (now Bolekhiv, Ukraine) before, during, and after World War II. Photographs include pre-war images of Shlomo, his parents Dolek and Sara, and his sister Musia in Poland and at the Tarbut school in Bolechow, wartime photographs depict the Bolechow ghetto, and post-war images depict Zionist youth groups such as Gordonyah (Gordonia) in Bielsko-Biała, Poland and Noàr ha-Tsiyoni (Hanoar Hatzioní). Also pictured in pre-war photographs are Salim, Pepcia, and Alta Diamand and Jozik Adle...

  9. By the Dar Pomorza Yacht to Stockholm

    Sailors on board ship, hoisting sails, very busy. The Dar Pomorza at sea. Life on board, including exercise and interacting with the ship's mascot, which looks to be a lemur or similar animal. Ship at anchor, sailors in dress uniforms stand at attention. Civilians on board inspecting the ship.

  10. KdF performance in occupied Paris

    A dance or circus performance of some kind, on a stage, including acrobatics, juggling, ice skating, and a comic routine with man dressed as a cowboy riding a bucking "horse". This was most likely a Kraft durch Freude (KdF) variety performance to exhibit German artists.

  11. Economic recovery activities in Europe

    The Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA) was a U.S. government agency set up in 1948 to administer the European recovery program (Marshall Plan). EXT building with several narrow smokestacks. CU man. Row of bicycles and motorcycles under a shelter, man rides a bicycle away. Woman leans out a window, speaking. Cycling down different streets. INT men enter a room full of large stacks of wound wire. Man walks across factory floor. Upside down slate reads “DAY 28 INT 1 ECA.” Two men carefully lower a large spool of wire onto something. Damaged brick building. Ruins People and clothing line...

  12. Invasion of France

    German military vehicles winding down a road in France. Soldiers on bicycles pass a sign that reads : Sacy-Le-Gr__" The rest of the town name is cut off in the frame. Soldiers conduct house-to house searches in order to secure the town. The narrator makes reference to World War I and what that means to the soldiers as they fight in France once again. Soldiers get into a small inflatable boat and cross a river, under enemy fire. Scene switches to show a road sign indicating the direction in which Paris lies. German soldiers on horseback ride toward the camera, and the narrator states that th...

  13. Robert Ley in Italy

    Black screen with the words: "...mit Frontaufnahmen der Kriegsberichter: Elsaesser, Ertl, Hardacker, Huth, Hans Jacobi, Kester, Kramer, Meisenkothen, Oberhoff, Olesko, Paulsen, Rolf Richter, Schiffko, Waldmann." Presumably these are the names of the journalists/cameramen reporting from the front. Heroic music. Celebration of 20th anniversary of the March on Rome, which occurred in October 1922. Troops marching, playing drums, at the Palazzo Venezia in Rome, which is where Mussolini's offices were and the location of the balcony from which he gave his famous speeches (not shown). Robert Ley ...

  14. Black and gray checked blanket given to Kindertransport refugee

    Wool checked travel blanket given to 13 year old Mimi Alice Schleissner by her mother Berta to keep her warm when she left on the Kindertransport in May 1939. Mimi's parents Berta and Julius and her brother Edi, 18, stayed behind in Kolin, Czechoslovakia. Until October 1938, the family resided in the spa town Marienbad [now Marianske Lazne], in the Sudetenland region. It was annexed by Nazi Germany in October 1938 and most of the Jewish population fled. In November, the Marienbader Zeitung ran the headline "Marienbad is Jew-free." After arriving in Great Britain, Mimi joined Hachshara, a Zi...

  15. Luftwaffe officers & Goering's staff tour Mt. Vesuvius & Pompeii

    Scenes of Mt. Vesuvius and ruins of Pompeii in Italy with uniformed Luftwaffe men. Men in civilian clothes include at least 3 Luftwaffe staff or officers closely associated with Goering (they also appear in Film IDs 2548 and 2549): Fritz Goernnert in lederhosen; wavy-haired man in knickers who may be Kattengel; dark-haired man seen in target practice scenes; and the man with dark-rimmed spectacles and photo camera (Eitel Lange, the personal stills photographer for Hermann Goering, who joined Goering's staff in the summer of 1940). 01:01:02 WS with volcano. Priest in long black frock scamper...

  16. Georgia, Caucasus Mountains, circa 1933

    Peasants baking bread, harvesting grain, going about their daily lives in this rural, mountainous region. This footage is stunning. Julien Bryan himself is featured in this footage. He traveled at this time with the noted anthropologist Maurice Hindus and a group of Princeton University students on a journey through Russian villages. Several of the students can also be seen in this sequence. They traveled with local guides, with horses and mules through the mountains. VS of their local guides, the mountains, children and women in the villages, sifting grain and baking flatbread, local men h...

  17. Industry in Poland, mining in Upper Silesia

    LS of a zinc mine/refinery, labeled in Julien Bryan's original notes as "Catowicz, Silesia - Giesche Zinc Mine." MS, workers in uniform, wearing caps, masks around their necks, on break outside the refinery. VS of the mine and refinery, the machinery in operation inside the refinery: ovens, molten metals, the workers stoking the furnaces, etc. VS, of women sorting pieces of zinc on a conveyor belt before processing. Good shots of quick, nimble fingers at work, several CUs of their hands.

  18. German siege of Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 1939

    Poignant shot of two little boys, one little girl, and one woman with her head bandaged holding an infant in her arms sitting on the street surrounded by rubble, the children are barefoot, and they look frightened and confused. This scene was shot in the immediate aftermath of a German air attack over Warsaw. MLS the two young boys dragging a chair, down the street full of rubble. 01:05:48:22: MS residents milling about on the street, sitting on chairs, surrounded by the few belongings they have left- several young women, one man. Clear shot of more destruction at 01:05:55:29 man in suit ro...

  19. Warsaw and Danzig, Poland, destruction and rebuilding circa 1946

    Bombed out multi-story YMCA building in Warsaw, Poland. Several workers chip away at the concrete structure, others collect and stack bricks from the rubble. Another worker examines window frames for damage. (This footage likely dates to 1946 - see notes section for further information). MS, low angle, a man and a woman walk down a bombed out street in Warsaw, toward the camera, snow covers the ground. VS of the destruction in the city, civilians mill about the streets, with torn, threadbare clothing, there are some Polish military personnel in these shots as well. Poles board a street car,...