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  1. Miriam Mordecai memoir

    Consists of a photocopy of a typescript memoir, which describes how Miriam Mordecai and her family, Greek Jews, survived the Holocaust. She gives credit to gentiles in Greece who helped save members of her family. Also included is information about World War II in Italy and Albania and the deportation of several of Mordecai's relatives to Auschwitz.

  2. Hitler meets Admiral Horthy

    Hitler meets Admiral Horthy of Hungary; German troops in Budapest: MS then CUs. Admiral Horthy disembarks and is met by Hitler and Von Ribbentrop and others. Lots of handshakes. MS Hitler and Horthy walk into conference room. Hungarian foreign minister Sztojay talks to German officer. Hitler and Horthy walk through room greeting others as camera follows. (Handshaking and bowing among uniformed officers.) German troops roll into Budapest as roadside civilians wave and smile. As tanks and equipment move through streets many civilians seem noncommittal. German talks to Hungarian policeman. MS ...

  3. Grodno Oblast Archive records

    Consists of microfilmed documents relating to the activities of various German occupation agencies in and near Grodno (Hrodna) during World War II. Records include proceedings of criminal investigations; examples of anti-Jewish propaganda; census name lists for Grodno and the vicinity; the use of forced labor; and documents with information on the destruction of synagogues, the treatment of Soviet prisoners of war, ghettos in Belorussia and Poland, partisan activities, resistance actions, transports of Jews from Grodno to concentration camps, arrests of Roma and Sinti, racial policies, and ...

  4. Stadtverwaltung Litzmannstadt records

    These documents relate to the Stadtverwaltung Litzmannstadt (Łódź) Poland, and the Kriminalpolizeistelle Litzmannstadt, Kriminalkommissariat Getto. They concern the general administration of the city and the ghetto. Subjects include the establishment of the ghetto; food supplies in the ghetto; public welfare; hospital administration; forced labor of Jews and Poles; police activities in the ghetto; "Germanization" of Polish orphans and their adoption by German families; confiscation of Jewish property by the ghetto police; birth and death statistics for the Jews in the ghetto; murder of Jews...

  5. Selected records from the National Archives in Prague relating to Roma

    Selected records related to administration of penal camps and labor camps; gendarmerie administration of the so-called "Gypsy problem"; Roma camps; deportations; Jews, Romani, and Russian populations in Danzig and East Prussia; and persecution of Roma peoples. Also included are documents with statistical and evidential data derived from investigating the Roma population, and documents recording pro-fascist legislation relating to persecution of Roma.

  6. Big Three at Yalta Conference

    FDR, Churchill, and Stalin meet at Yalta to discuss postwar issues. 01:53:54 MCU Pres. Roosevelt in cape lights cigarette next to Premier Joseph Stalin. Big Three seated. Behind FDR is Admiral William Leahy. Two shots of Churchill and Roosevelt. Two shots of FDR and Stalin. MS of all three seated on portico, Churchill smokes cigar. Among those standing behind them are Anthony Eden, Edward Stettinius, Vyacheslav Molotov, William Harriman, Harry Hopkins, Gen Marshall, Air Marshal Sir Charles Portal, Alexander Cadogan. 01:56:51 VS military and civilian cameramen shooting Big Three (most Russia...

  7. Market scenes in Warsaw

    Market scene. BAZAR sign. People, carts, horses. Shops line busy streets. Kiosks with posters. Some signs in Cyrillic.

  8. Romani people in Yugoslavia

    English intertitles. "Metrotone hits the Romany Trail: A Visit to a Camp of Cheerful Gypsies in the Balkan Mountains" Roma children and adults dancing and playing instruments (and seated, watching) outside tents. Some good MCU, mostly MS. Dust, bright sun, haze/smoke? Smiles everywhere. Great CUs of Roma boys singing. Kids swarm around visitor who is giving out "coppers." Romani woman reads fortune of visitor from cards.

  9. King Lear in Yiddish; Habima Players

    There are burn-in time codes on the intermediate Betacam SP (Protection) video. There is no way to order a clean copy. Prominent actor, Solomon Mikhoels, of the Moscow State Yiddish Theater, in his dressing room, applying makeup. Starkly lit closeup of Mikhoels as King Lear. Another prominent Jewish theater group in the Soviet Union, the Habima Players, perform an ancient Hebrew dance.

  10. Yalta Conference

    Part 2: Preparations are made for the Yalta Conference in Russia. Supplies arrive and communications lines are strung. Delegates arrive and are shown in conferences. Personages: Anthony Eden, Secretary of State Stettinus, Ambassador Harriman, Winston Churchill, President Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin. According to UN contents sheet: "The three parties reach a firm accord on military and political points. Coordinated plans are made for great new blows against Germany from all directions. Reaffirming the resolve of the United Nations to cooperate fully after the war, Roosevelt, Churchill, and ...

  11. Habima players

    Habima players perform.

  12. Fountain pen

    Originally used by "Mikolaj" Berezowski, circa 1945, Poland. Presented to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum delegation, Spring 1992, Warsaw, Poland.

  13. May 1934 Jubilee

    "1 May 1934, Jubilee" Members of the Krupp family attend a Nazi rally in Berlin.

  14. Illegal Immigrants

    British soldiers guarding groups of refugees. Refugees smile and wave at camera. Refugees dancing. Refugees mill about with bundles. Tired refugee on ground. Group of young refugees sitting, singing. Guard brings refugee on beach. Refugee ship (SS Susanna) anchored on beach. British soldiers on beach. More shots of ship. Life boat with refugees' goods.

  15. Bulgaria adheres to Axis Pact

    Crowds celebrate Bulgaria's adherence to Tripartite Pact. 5:06:35 Lots of flags. MS, buglers marching toward camera with banners and church in BG on Sofia street. CU, Eagle and swastika. 5:06:49 MLS, Man in uniform other people on frame edge. LS, Man on balcony, tops of banners lower frame. 5:06:57 LS, crowd, many in military regalia looking up at balcony. MS, unidentified Bulgarian leader saluting from balcony. More marching (may be Bulgarian youth brigade of some kind) then LS of large crowd gathered in front of building. 5:07:19 to 5:08:16 Tank crews demonstrating ruggedness and power of...

  16. Antisemitic Exhibit in Zagreb

    The production of an antisemitic exhibit. Gathering books and information, writing text, creation of "artwork," and preparation of propaganda. 01:31:29 Research Institute where traveling exhibit on "Jews" is to be assembled. People bring in whatever information they have on Jews including books and pamphlets. 01:35:42 Translations of parts of Talmud to find out what Jews thought of non-Jews. Preparation of text panels and illustrated art caricature of prosperous businessman. 01:38:04 Sculpting of stereotypic "Jewish" head, director gives preview to journalists. Shows map of Jewish expansion...

  17. Invasion of Yugoslavia and Greece

    Invasion of Yugoslavia and Greece. Animap of region as names of Yugoslavian areas appear. VAR Anti-tank spikes, destroyed railroad tracks in Croatia; soldiers confer, march past houses along road, cross stream and drag artillery over wooden bridge. Animap shows entry into Greece at Salonika and Xanthi. VAR LS, smoke rises in valley from German artillery hits, German guns fire and recoil, view of valley, German sketching. Germans in foxhole gesture. LS Stuka planes in sky. Extreme HA (probably shot from plane) flying Stuka, bombs drop and explode. German tank rolls down street in Salonika, w...

  18. Prison camp, slave labor, atrocities

    Slave labor, workshops, atrocities and leaders of camp are highlighted during war and at liberation. 01:07:10 Sign. MLS of large group of male prisoners with heads shaved. Siren and clock, men trudge up hill against big sky, men with horse-pulled carts as others work under observation. CU, men struggle with wheelbarrow full of stone and dirt, mixing cement, go up plank barefoot, watchtower guard, men at bread and water break. 01:09:27 Ustasa propaganda headlines regarding resettlement of Roma when they were being killed, CU of corpses of victims. Roma/Sinti men and women in field pulling ap...

  19. Oil fields; Romani people

    With intertitles in English. Part 2. Oil fields in Europe with short segment on Roma. Trains in the town of Ploesti, a large town near the oil fields. Oil wells in Moreni. Roma (?) carrying goods with bullock-drawn wagons. Intertitle re: vendors of drinks, fruit, etc. MS of Roma men and women seated on slabs with posts all about them. Next to them are baskets of fruit and a pail. Wagon with log on it passes in front of them. MCU of same group as woman walks by with basket. MS two men with pole that has basket at each end are selling to a third man. One man has pole on shoulder, other has po...

  20. Jewish Memorial Pageant - "We Shall Never Die"

    Lots of LS of stage production, chorus, Torahs being carried out and held by rabbis. Some MS of actors (both in the production and reading prepared speeches). American flag. Crowd shots, banner with Star of David. Edward G. Robinson reading a statement: These are the two million Jewish dead of Europe today. They will have no one to ...day of judgment. No one ... "Remember us." Of the 7 million Jews in German held lands, the Germans have said none will remain... When the time comes to make the peace, they will have been done to death. Fragment of Hebrew prayer. Orthodox Jewish men (or actors...