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  1. Global Structures Convocation panel discussion on UN reforms

    Panel Discussion: "Case for Comprehensive Reforms of the UN" Global Structures Convocation, Crystal City, VA. February 3-6,1994. (tape 50 in conference series) Panelists include: Benjamin Ferencz, John Logue (director of the Common Heritage Institute; president of World Federalist Association), Tad Daley (executive director of Campaign for a New UN Charter), and Benton Musselwhite (president of One World Now). The moderator is Melinda Burrell. Ferencz discusses his twenty years of dedicated work on trying to create a rational world order. He expresses great concern about the lack of enforce...

  2. Caviar factory; fishermen in Krakow

    There are burn-in time codes on the intermediate Betacam SP (Protection) video. There is no way to order a clean copy. CUs man and boys speaking. CU, camera (Leica factory). Caviar factory, worker packs and cases caviar for distribution. Slow pan of port with boats, fisherman, fish.

  3. De Kadt family in winter

    Sonja and Louis de Kadt each push Willie on a sleigh on a snowy day, as does another adult (possibly a nanny); Willie plays in the snow; 01:03:03 Indoors, close-up of Willie and a baby (possibly Maarten as the can label indicates); Willie romps in the snow; the village in winter, seen from across rows of fences; Willie and baby (Maarten?) ride in a sleigh.

  4. Message from David Ben Gurion

    A message from David Ben Gurion. Talking head shot of David Ben Gurion, Prime Minister of the State of Israel. Ben Gurion discusses the Israeli response to Egyptian aggression.

  5. Deutsches Gericht Warschau German Courts in Warsaw Sąd Niemiecki w Warszawie (Sygn.1207/III)

    This collection contain selected criminal and civil cases related to crimes or offences against German ordinances committed by Poles and Jews on the territory of the Generalne Gubernatorstwo (GG). The German court held absolute jurisdiction over all matters involving illegal residence on the "Aryan" site; absence of the prescribed armband (which was normally associated with attempts to disappear into the crowd on the other site of the ghetto walls); black market transactions (including non-compliance with the regulated prices); sexual contacts with gentiles, most specifically with German ge...

  6. Children playing in the sand in prewar Poland

    Hanna in a headscarf and Thomas dig around in the sand outside a house. They then run around the house with other children.

  7. Herschl Shreibman photograph

    Contains a black and white photographic portrait of Herschl Shreibman (donor's father), dressed in a concentration camp uniform, dated circa 1945; location unknown (possibly Germany where Mr. Shreibman was liberated).

  8. Sailing on the SS Normandie in 1938

    People on board the SS Normandie sailing from Le Havre, France on October 5, 1938, including Erna, leaning against the rails, reading papers. More views of ship passengers and Sally at 01:44:39.

  9. Photograph of two men in the Łódź ghetto

    The photograph depicts two mailmen wearing suits standing near the entrance of a building on a sidewalk in the Litzmannstadt ghetto (Łódź, Poland). Both men are wearing armands and Star of David badges. The man on the right is Yeshayahu Sewek Krotoszynski (b. 1923). He survived the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and escaped from a death march in January 1945.

  11. Rachel Garfunkel papers

    Collection consisting of a group of clippings of reviews of the book "And the Sun Kept Shining," a manuscript, a script of a play, correspondence, and two memoirs.

  12. "Fröhlich-Schipper family history"

    Consists of memoir, 55 pages, by Agnes Schipper regarding her mother, Sabine Fröhlich Schipper, who survived the Holocaust as a hidden child in the Netherlands. Although her older brother Andreas perished, she and her parents survived by moving constantly with the help of family friends. Sabine eventually married one of the resistance fighters who helped her, Cornelis (Cor) Schipper.

  13. March of Time -- outtakes -- Newspaper Correspondents

    August 13 and 16, 1937. Interior scenes with sound. MS, Westbrook Pegler typing in his office. CU, Pegler. CU, copy being typed. CU, wider angle, copy being typed. MS, Pegler discussing fascist and communist press attitudes (several takes). Interior scenes with sound. MS, Pegler discussing fascist and communist press attitudes. CU, Pegler (several takes). First 280 feet of roll, interior with incidental sound. Last 120 feet of roll, exterior-silent. MCU, Gilbert Seldes working in study of his home (2 takes). CUs, Seldes copy on typewriter (from different angles).

  14. Songbook attributed to Sachsenhausen

    Contains a handwritten and illustrated songbook believed to have been created in Sachsenhausen concentration camp

  15. Jews in Warsaw, Poland

    Unidentified footage, some in Warsaw. People walking in street. CUs of old man. Men working in street. Soft shots of Jewish men. CU of Jewish man (seen in newsreel). Unidentified footage of large group of Jewish men seated on ground (looks like round-up). Street scenes in Warsaw, Jewish district. German soldier directs people. Title: "Judentypen" CUs Jewish men on street. Shot of Warsaw main station. Title: "Mit der Kleinbahn zum HKD Gora-Calvaria" Flash of footage. Title: "Juden-Getto in Warschau" Street scene, pedestrians with armbands. CU sign: "Rogatschew" (seen before).

  16. Jewish Community Board, Skuodas (Fond 1235)

    Collection contains records of the Board of the Jewish community of Skuodas (Shkud in Yiddish) in Lithuania. It includes minutes of the Board's meetings, correspondence and other records related to the activities of the Jewish community of Skuodas (Shkud) before WWII.

  17. Russian Campaign

    Russian Campaign, Fuehrer Headquarters Wolfschanze

  18. German TV documentary film on antisemitism (reel 8)

    Turning to the West Front, the narrator says that Globke worked with the Alsatian "fifth column" against France. The leader of the Alsatian Nazis was Karl Roos, who was executed by the French in February 1940. A photogaph shows Frick with Globke, Stuckart, and others among a group of Alsatian Nazis who had been confederates of Roos. Footage of Hitler arriving at the train car at Compiegne (surrender of France). Globke earns another medal for his service in France. Imposition of the anti-Jewish measures in France and Holland. A quotation from a survivor over footage of the Warsaw ghetto (str...

  19. Liberation of Ebensee concentration camp: caring for sick survivors; crematorium

    (color) Traun Lake and castle in the town of Ebensee. Local Austrians. Roadside statue of Jesus. Town street scene, men walking, guest-house. CU, baby in carriage. Mountains. Good views of Ebensee concentration camp, electrified barbed wire fence, barracks. Men carry large pots of soup. Survivors walk past camera in striped uniforms, one is quite young. CUs, survivors, some with red triangles, eating. Pan, emaciated inmates, some lying on stretchers. American soldiers with the US Air Force and USAF ambulances in the BG. Soldiers (some African-Americans) help the sick on stretchers into ambu...

  20. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 5 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 5 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.