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  1. Non-Aggression Pact -- von Ribbentrop to Moscow

    Newspapers with headlines about the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, which was signed by Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop in Moscow on August 23, 1939. Nighttime shots of von Ribbentrop at the airfield preparing to leave Germany for Moscow.

  2. White bead rosary on a chain with a cross

  3. Bookburning; filming of Britain's books for safety

    (01:27:22) Part 3, "We Guard Britain's Books." 01:27:31 Berlin bookburning. Crowds at night, burning pyre of books, people tossing books onto the pyre [May 13, 1933 is date given by narrator.] Staged scenes of German book title pages (including H.G. Wells) being stamped with a swastika (swastika is reversed image). 01:27:50 AVs of England, aftermath of Nazi firebomb raids. CUs of books. VS of archivists photographing books on microfilm in England for shipment to the US. VS, crates of microfilmed books being loaded onto a freighter. VS, librarians at Library of Congress in Washington, DC cat...

  4. Eisenhower returns to Washington, DC

    Pathe News. Milestones of the Century. "General Ike Comes Home". Arc de Triomphe. General De Gaulle presents Medal of Liberation to General Dwight Eisenhower. Eisenhower returns home and is welcomed by General Marshall in Washington DC. There is a victory parade down Pennsylvania Avenue. Eisenhower addresses Congress. Eisenhower is decorated by President Truman (3:05) Film ends.

  5. 5 video programs about the Holocaust: prewar Jewish life

    Audiovisual monitors shown in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Permanent Exhibition called "The Holocaust" (according to exhibition number). Fourth floor (4.07) - Life Before the Holocaust (all) 01:02:00 - 01:04:47 North Africa 01:04:52 - 01:07:03 Southeastern Europe 01:07:08 - 01:10:18 Soviet Union 01:10:21 - 01:20:04 Eastern Europe 01:20:09 - 01:27:12 Western & Central Europe

  6. Selected records of the Court of the First Instance in Skierniewice Sąd Grodzki w Skierniewicach (Sygn.1654)

    Court civil cases related to the custody of children, alimony, repayment of debt and other similar matters. Parties in these lawsuits were Jews, inhabitants of Skierniewice. The files contain personal data about participants of lawsuits.

  7. Kaiser Wilhelm Institute lantern slide collection

    The collection of lantern slides and boxes is from the holdings of the former Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin. This Institute for anthropology and genetics was one of many centers used for the study of eugenics during the Third Reich. Aside from ordering sterilization and other eugenic "procedures," medical experiments originating in euthenasia killing centers and concentration camps were also evaluated at the Institute. Such names as Von Verschuer, Fischer, and Mengele are associated with the Institute. The slides contained in the boxes were probably used for teaching purposes. The slid...

  8. Das Ziel

    Magazine; “Das Ziel”; cover image of bride seated at table; article about Jewish DP wedding on pages 14-16; dated June 1948; in German

  10. Rabbi Nathan Landman collection

    Consist of a copy of Nazi illustrated magazine "Signal," published by Deutscher Verlag, Berlin.

  11. Jehuda Feitelson collection

    Consists of documents illustrating Jehuda Feitelson's experiences immediately following his liberation from concentration camps, 1945-1947.

  12. Pnina Blum photograph collection

    Consists of a photographic print; monochromatic black and white image of Jewish man being forced to cut the beard of another Jewish man to publicly humiliate them; men with beards, all wearing long coats, standing on left and center, man on far left getting his beard cut, two German soldiers, one wearing armband reading "Deutsche/...ehrmacht" standing on right; verso: brown ink stamp in center "FOTO ZEISE/C817/REICHENBACH." Also includes a photographic print; monochromatic black and white image of close up of corpses, some wearing striped prisoner uniforms, others unclothed, "JUGO..UTO" at ...

  13. Lonnie E. Linderman photographs

    Consists of fourteen photographs taken or received by Lonnie E. Linderman in either Buchenwald or Dachau concentration camp immediately following liberation.

  14. Jack Dygola collection

    The collection consists of seven loose photographs of Jack Dygola with other children at the Landsberg displaced person camp in Germany.

  15. Sheva Alszuld Zilberberg collection

    The collection consists of a prenuptial agreement for Marjem Alszuld donor's aunt, documents relating to the donor's family, a letter written by the donor's cousin, 15 photographs of images of the donor and her family before, during, and after World War II, and a Megilat Ester. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  16. March of Time -- outtakes -- Downing Street, Hore-Belisha

    Politicians enter and exit 10 Downing Street and the houses of Parliament in late August 1939 as Germany threatened to invade Poland. Leslie Hore-Belisha, the Secretary of War, is one of those shown. People protest with signs reading "Churchill." Police attempt to control crowds of people. Placards advertising The Evening Standard newspaper tell of the crisis: one placard reads, "Americans told to leave Britain" and another "Britons told to leave Germany." Politicians arrive at Parliament in cars.

  17. Gita Feuerwerger photographs

    The collection consists of 27 photographs of Gita Feuerwerger and her time spent at the International Children's Center at Prien on Chiemsee [PCIRO Team 1069] children's camp after the war.

  18. Hanoch Gerstel papers

    The Hanoch Gerstel papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence files, photographic materials, printed materials, and sermons documenting the life of a Vienna‐born pastor who was arrested by the Gestapo in Vienna and his family members in Austria, Sweden, and Hungary. Biographical materials include birth certificates, a Ketubah and marriage certificate, a certificate of origin, a certificate documenting non‐Jewish status, identification cards, and passports documenting the lives of Hanoch and Ester Gerstel, his father Carl Gerstel, and his grandparents Julius and Charlotte Gerst...

  19. Truman and Berlin Conference

    President Truman on board the Navy ship Augusta enroute to Berlin Conference. Casual shots of Truman waving to a crowd in Antwerp. Truman on parade in Europe. Truman getting on plane, various shots of plane taking off and landing. Meeting of Truman and military leaders to discuss the primary goal of winning the war in Japan. Parades and processions of British Army and Navy. Discussion of Cairo Declaration. AVs of war ravaged Berlin. [Nazi footage-Hitler addressing crowds at 1930's Nazi rallies]. Truman raises the flag of victory over Europe. Various shots of American soldiers and civilians ...

  20. Marion Schultz collection

    Consists of one black and white photograph of Nazi war criminal defendants seated during proceedings at the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, Germany, and accompanying original signatures of each defendant.