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  1. Feliks Puterman and Janet Rogowsky collection

    The collection primarily consists of three diaries authored by Feliks Puterman (previously Samuel Puterman), originally of Warsaw, Poland, documenting his experiences with the Polish Army in 1939; life in the Warsaw ghetto, 1940-1942; and life in hiding in Warsaw, 1942-circa 1944. The diaries are handwritten in Polish. Also included is a personal narrative authored by Janet Rogowsky (previously Genia Ajzenberg), a fellow survivor, whom Feliks married after the war, chronicling her Holocaust experience, including descriptions of her father and brother’s deaths in Łódź, her mother’s deportati...

  2. Carel Sternberg identification card

    The"Carte d' Identité" (identification card) was issued to Karel (or Carel) Sternberg donor, a Czech law student, in December 1938. Sternberg was in France when the Germans took over the country, and he worked closely with Varian Fry and the Emergency Rescue Committee in Marseille, France.

  3. British II Armored Division Advance

    British soldiers. Tanks move through a burning forest into Germany. Forests burned to clear out Germans. One short shot of sign reading "Danger Typhus". Tanks roll down road. At gate of camp; watchtower. Germans march in, past German officers. Another officer walks up and gives a Hitler salute. More views of the German and Hungarian soldiers watching British armor pass by, and the Belsen camp.

  4. 56th Armored Engineer Battalion arrives at Mauthausen to bury the dead

    The 11th US Armored Division advances through Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Austria. Includes scenes of surrendering enemies and the 56th Armored Engineer Battalion at the liberation of Mauthausen. Color: Countryside from moving tank. Liberation of German town: flames, civilians, some waving white flags, church. Views of German civilians from tank as US army passes through, 2 men with armbands carry a Red Cross flag. US soldiers marching along road (dark) and through town. Shots of farm animals and barns on fire. 01:22:26 Group of men - brewery workers - exiting building with arms raised. Wo...

  5. 11th US Armored Division Advances

    The 11th US Armored Division's advances through England, France, and Germany. Includes scenes of burning villages, surrendering enemies, tanks in fields. Black and white: US Army headquarters in England, pan of buildings. Skyline, factory, US soldiers on boat. Woman bicycling on path. LS, from train, Southhampton waterfront, warehouses, Cherbourg harbor, countryside. 01:03:45 Handing cigarettes and candy to women on train. City, shops, traffic in Paris, dark. 01:04:56 Color: In Bestogne, civilians on dirt road, snow, military vehicles in field, postwar destruction, dead animals, makeshift g...

  6. Nazi flag

    Taken from German Headquarters by Pfc. George Gelernt, August 1944, Paris, France. Sent to Gloria Aronow, circa 1944-1945, Belgium.

  7. Faces of International Hitler Youth

    HJ-Stabsfuhrer Hartmann Lauterbacher, deputy head of the Hitler Youth (HJ) speaking (partial), his speech continues over dramatic shots of Hitler Youth listening to him, holding Nazi flags, HJ banners, and signs/flags of various countries (Costa Rica, Cuba). Lauterbacher tells the youth that they are not strangers in Nazi Germany; that Nazi Germany is the home of all Germans.

  8. Gusen [War Crimes Commission: Mauthausen Concentration Camp]

    "Mauthausen Concentration Camp" [Title incorrectly identifies this camp as Mauthausen. The footage actually shows Gusen concentration camp.] High pan of concentration camp for slave laborers. Pan of buildings. Gallows with 2-3 men standing alongside it, courtyard wall behind. Soldiers provide "tour." American POW talking about experience at Mauthausen [filmed at Mauthausen], "fortunately my turn hadn't come," talks of two American soldiers/officers killed, talks about his uniform. Survivors. Pile of corpses. Inmates help each other through the camp, one washes another at trough. German civi...

  9. Oral history interview with Yehuda Dominitz

  10. Goebbels speaks at SA funeral

    Goebbels speaks passionately, emotionally, at rainy funeral of two SA men, Hans Eberhard Maikowski and Zavritz, who died 1/30/1933. Great drama and solemnity: "Deutschland free of Marxism...it was a dream, but now it is a reality. Germany is in your hands."

  11. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 5 mark coin

    5 mark coin issued in the Łódź ghetto in Poland in 1943. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1940; Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and annexed to the German Reich. In February, the Germans forcibly relocated the large Jewish population into a sealed ghetto. All currency was confiscated in exchange for Quittungen [receipts] that could be exchanged only in the ghetto. The scrip and tokens were designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] and includes traditional Jewish symbols. The Germans closed the ghetto in the summer of 1944 by deporting the residents to concentration camps or killin...

  12. U.S. leaders protest anti-Jewish attacks in Germany

    "America Condemns Nazi Terrorism: Roosevelt Protests, Envoy to Return, Leaders Speak" Prominent US figures condemn Nazi Germany's treatment of Jews after Kristallnacht. CU President Roosevelt, Hoover, Al Smith, Alf Landon speaking (prepared speeches to camera) against Nazism and about their hopes that Germans will stand up to the Nazis.

  13. Training film for indoctrinating American soldiers and unify the American public to support the war effort

    "Prelude to War" reviews events leading to the war and contrasts American democracy with fascism. This is the first film of Frank Capra’s "Why We Fight" propaganda film series, commissioned by the Office of War Information (OWI) and George C. Marshall. "Prelude to War" was made to convince American troops of the necessity of combating the Axis Powers during World War II. The film was based on the idea that those in the service would be more willing and able fighters if they knew the background and reason for their participation in the war. It was later released to the general American publi...

  14. Oral history interview with Lora Eliav

  15. Drawing

    artist: Kurant Created by Kurant, January 1941, Łódź, Poland.

  16. German officers roundup hospital staff and patients

    German officers gather hospital staff and patients outside hospital. MCU, all standing around, emotionless mood. Some wounded men. Germans interrogate one man.

  17. Cap worn by a young girl in a concentration camp

    Cap was given to Ruth Blocher upon arrival in Stuthoff Concentration Camp.

  18. Jews and POWs rounded up

    Soldiers and Jewish civilians behind barbed wire, being arrested (hands up in surrender). Marched onto truck, some are injured, all have shaved heads. Jewish men and others seated in barbed wire area, being loaded onto truck. At end of reel: Jewish men being separated from other prisoners and put onto back of truck.

  19. Dyno Lowenstein collection

    Contains photographs and passports documenting the experiences if Dyno Lowenstein, who escaped via Marseille with the assistance of the Emergency Rescue Committee. Includes photographs of the donor's parents, Kurt and Mara Lowenstein.

  20. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 1 krone note

    Scrip, valued at 1 krone, 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.