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  1. Judge Royce S. Weisenberger collection

    The Judge Royce S. Weisenberger collection consists of photographs of men, women, and children being loaded into a train at Buchenwald concentration camp, June 1945; newspaper clippings regarding liberation and the arrest of Dr. Robert Karl Neuman; and a three-page testimony written by Major Royce S. Weisenberger on the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp and its conditions.

  2. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 50 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.

  3. Freyer and Lichtenstein families papers

    The collection consists of biographical material, immigration paperwork, correspondence, and photographs documenting the pre-war lives of Leo and Eva Freyer (née Lichtenstein) and their children Marion and Ursula in Berlin, their emigration from Germany to the United States in 1939, and wartime correspondence with family members and friends still in Germany. There is a small amount of material related to the Lichtenstein family of Königsberg, East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia). Biographical material includes birth certificates, German identification cards and passports, marriage papers,...

  4. Refugees arrive at Fort Ontario

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 17, No. 319, Part 5. Release date, 08/06/1944. Refugees arriving at Fort Ontario, Oswego, NY. CU, families; people mingling. LS from above, two story barracks; train arrival. MLS, people waiting alongside tracks. CU, train slowly going by, with young people waving. "982 refugees...housed at Fort Ontario 'Til War's End." View up from ground to windows, bottle of juice passed up. CU, curly-haired girl and father look out window. 02:28:35 At next train window, mother and son, Regina and Albert Gal, and three others smile for the camera. Refugees helped off train. Woman...

  5. Wachttruppen (guard troops) take oath

    Guard regiment troops swear allegiance to Hitler at the Tannenberg Memorial in Berlin. Groups of soldiers line the courtyard of Kaserne, hands held up in "Sieg Heil" salute. Single voice leads oath, troops repeat. VAR LS pans of scene; sound is clear.

  6. Berlin street scenes: park bench marked for Jews only

    Street in Berlin: uniformed Nazis salute guard at door. Edge of park at Olivaerplatz, wooden benches below stone columns & arbors, child. CU of signs: Top: Citizens are asked to keep their dogs on leash. Bottom: "Die gelben Baenke sind fuer Jueden." [The yellow benches are for Jews.] (One shot of the sign "for Jews" is upsidedown in the original film.) Various people sit on other benches in the small park. Different camera angles of park, none showing the actual sign in context. Note: J.Bryan's film lecture "Germany 1937" identifies this location as "Oliviaplatz" which is, in fact, Oliv...

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

    Scrip, valued at 20 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.

  8. Star of David button used to identify a Bulgarian Jew

  9. Planes on airfield; "Deutsche Lufthansa"

    VS, Tempelhof Airport and airstrip. Sign on building: "Deutsche Lufthansa." Airfield; fuel truck marked "Stanavo." Several small propeller planes taxiing on runway; various views. Swastikas visible on the tails of most of the planes. One plane with name written on side "Vogelsberg." MCUs, maintenance crew, fueling plane. One mechanic on wing of aircraft, working on plane that is parked on airstrip.

  10. Airship hangars in countryside

    Airship hangars in the German countryside.

  11. Fighting in Warsaw

    Soldiers walking through rubble. Tossing hand grenades. Searching house-to-house. Mostly MS and MLS. Town is deserted. Flamethrowers. The last image is of a German eagle and Swastika, indicating the triumph of the Nazis. Footage and narration seem to indicate that this shows the German response to the Warsaw uprising (Polish revolt) which began on August 1, 1944 and lasted for two months. During and after the rebellion, the Germans razed the entire city of Warsaw.

  12. Oral history interview with Shlomo Hillel

  13. Jewish Refugees in Czechoslovakia

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 10, No. 728, Part 2. Release date, 12/14/1938. November 26-30, 1938. Jewish refugees in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. LS of field with round tents. CU of baby, rumpled man, woman by tub. Also, shots of men and women working at chores: sawing wood (cutting down tree), at water well, cooking. Refugee getting haircut and shave. Group near outdoor stove with little pots of water. Note: According to dope sheet, these are 360 Jews banished by Hungarian government and denied admittance by Czech authorities. They are in "no man's land" by the border. Newsreel footage also inc...

  14. Book

  15. 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.

  16. Market; shops

    Reel 5. Intertitle: "Market Days - Monday and Friday." Crowds mill about town square (fuzzy) on market day. 02:07:03 One of the visiting Americans (Louis or Harry Sommer) buys a chicken from a vendor. Carts, cows, automobiles at the marketplace on the main square (across from the Klein family's shop). People walk towards camera. Buying and selling material. Shops in BG. Carts pass, followed by women. 02:07:50 Brief scene of Sommer and Klein family members walking towards the camera in alley. Crowds in town square for market days, walking toward and past camera. "Jakob Grossman", a leather g...

  17. German soldiers in USSR

    German scouts surround and investigate a farm which is found to be abandoned. Riflemen aim at the house while others investigate. Snow on the ground.

  18. Boycott of Jewish businesses in Berlin

    Berlin, boycott footage, SA putting signs in Jewish stores, carrying placards.

  19. Anti-Hitler demonstrations

    LSs, AVs, large group of men and women walking down a main thoroughfare in Chicago. MLSs as the men and women walk towards/past the camera, they are talking amongst themselves and some glance at the camera as they pass out of the frame. They are dressed warmly in fur coats and collars, hats, etc. marching to protest Hitler. A variety of banners are being carried, with slogans saying, "Down with Hitler-Avoid War", "Hitler Revives German Militarism", "Hitler's Henchman Goebbels Must not Greet the Centruy of Progress", "Join in the Jewish Protest Demonstration against Hitlerism, Today at 3:00 ...

  20. Kalevi-Liiva concentration camp, Estonia

    Footage and photographic stills of Kalevi-Liiva concentration/extermination camp in Estonia, including shots of a crematorium, barbed wire, Arbeit Macht Frei sign, victims (survivors?). Documents with names Ralf Gerriets and Jan Viik. City scenes. Trial footage, witnesses testify, photographic stills of atrocities presented as evidence, including Einsatzgruppen? acts, pits with corpses, decapitated heads. Memorial service at camp.