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  2. Hitler and Nazi demonstrations re: reparations

    Hitler and Nazi demonstrations regarding reparations. Crowds line the streets as Hitler arrives in an automobile with Ernst "Putzi" Hanfstaengl. A close up shot of Hitler; Hanfstaengel in profile. Hitler reviews SA troops and Hitler Youth as they march down a street.

  3. Jerzy and Zofia Guminski papers

    The Jerzy and Zofia Guminski papers contains two letters and two photographs relating to the Guminski’s experiences in the Auschwitz and Ravensbrück concentration camps. One of the letters was written by Jerzy Guminski while in the Auschwitz concentration camp and addressed to his sister, Hanna Guminski, who was in Swinder, Poland. Jerzy reports on his health condition and asks her to send him sheet music. The second letter was sent by Zofia Guminski from Ravensbrück concentration camp and addressed to her family. In the letter she thanks them for sending her packages. Both letters are hand...

  4. Merrill S. Mays collection

    The collection consists of two black and white photographs of a concentration camp in Germany. The exact location can not be determined. The number 17 is legible on the side of one of the buildings in one of the photographs.

  5. Samuel Weissberg collection

    The collection includes, but is not limited to photographs, identification documents, membership cards, false identity documents, and documents attesting to war time resistance activities by Samuel Weissberg in France.

  6. Nuremberg Rally 1935

    MS Hitler speaks at podium on Hitler Youth Day. Swastika flag is raised and waves. Great pomp and circumstance parade through picturesque town of Nuremberg. VAR HA views, including SA in knee socks and tassels and shorts. VAR participants: military attachees from Germany, Poland, Italy, Spain, et al. In stadium, Hitler salutes Hitler Youth as they cheer and "Heil." Several CU of Aryan boys, girls. Hitler speaks: "Ideal of the German people...healthy...we must have a new type of man...so our nation isn't destroyed by degenerate characteristics."

  7. "Der Stuermer"; antisemitic propaganda

    CU of hands holding the front page of "Der Stuermer" with a caricature of a Jew and sphinx and the headline "4000 Jahre Krieg: Die Juden sind unser Ungluck" [4000 year war: The Jews are our misfortune]. Also, old woodblock illustration with caption, [At the Weekend Home. Far right the Jew Lichtenstein.] Photo of people playing croquet. Cartoon mocking the USA. Various antisemitic cartoons, and other photos in the newspaper.

  8. Memorial for the Fallen

    Wreath laying ceremony for Nazis (rainy day/overcast). Procession with dignitaries and military officers. Military band marches past. Troops with rifles and packs goosestep to monument - The New Guard House/Neue Wache designed by Friedrich Schinkel. Honor guard with bayonets approaches mausoleum, with six large fluted columns. CU, guard, boots. Civilians walking in and out of the area. WS of the monument and uniformed men moving away from memorial. Onlookers, small crowd.

  9. Harvesting hay and potatoes

    MS, church, cows in FG. VAR shots of farm scene, possibly in Bavaria; people pitching hay onto wagon while train passes in BG. CU bearded old man pitching hay up to woman atop haystack. CU of ox. Man smoking pipe with workers in BG. Picking potatoes. Woman with bicycle. Silhouette of man sowing seeds.

  10. Klooga concentration camp

    Burning town. Civilians, soldiers, survivors. Smoke. Camp, barbed wire. Sign reading O.T. BETRIEBE KLOOGA. Photographic still of Hitler. Corpses piled next to bunks, corpses in pits. Pan of survivors, simulating murders/torture. Footage of brutally murdered bodies.

  11. Program for the Nazi propaganda film, Jud Süss found by an American soldier

    Program for the Nazi propaganda film, Jud Süss found by Les Biner, an American soldier, in the German home in which he was billeted.

  12. Model built by the rescuer of his house where 32 Jews lived in hiding

    Model of his house built by Staszek Jackowski, a Christian man, who hid 32 Jews there for 1 1/2 years. The model lifts to expose the hiding place in the basement. Jackowski built the model for Ruth Gruber in 1967. The hiding place was built in the basement of a house which was 2 blocks away from Gestapo headquarters.

  13. Passenger ship in Bremen harbor

    Various LS of passenger ship SS Bremen with two smokestacks pulling into harbor. "Norddeutscher" on gangplank. CUs of hull, bow. Civilians deboarding. The crest (or "coat of arms") of the ship includes US flag in design.

  14. Milton Margolis photograph collection

    The collection consists of two photographs taken by Milton Margolis at Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation.

  15. Hans Nussbaum papers

    The papers consist of a document issued regarding the upcoming transport of Jews from Weimar, Germany, to Theresienstadt, Czechoslovakia, a document on luggage regulations for transport, a document regarding the collection of mattresses and suitcases, and three photographs of a memorial for Gentiles and Jews who were victims of the Nazis in the city of Suhl, Germany. All of the documents were issued in September 1942 by the Erfurt branch of the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland Reich Association of Jews in Germany.

  16. Listing of Jews for deportation to Riga, Latvia

    The papers consist of a 20-page document listing Jews for deportation to Rīga, Latvia, on November 20,1941. Contains names from all over Germany with about 20 to 30 names per page.

  17. Victor Katz-Laffite papers

    The papers consist of two French periodicals: "Le Médicin Français" (No. 4 / 15 June 1941) and "Les Lettres Françaises" (No. 19 / August 1944). "Les Lettres Françaises: Revue des Écrivains français groupes au Comite national des Écrivains" was founded by Jacques Decour who was killed by the Germans on May 30, 1942. The review contains various articles on the French resistance and French literary figures and news. It bears the original signature of Paul Eluard.

  18. Mauthausen and Ebensee concentration camp photographs

    The collection consist of 41 photographs of Mauthausen and Ebensee concentration camps at the time of liberation. The photographer is unknown. Captions in French are typed on the verso of the photographs.

  19. Lila Lam Nowakowska papers

    The Lila Lam Nowakowska papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, and photographs documenting Lila’s assumed identity in Warsaw during the Holocaust, her internment at Mauthausen and forced labor in Steyr and Znojmo, her postwar reunion with her mother, and the Jewish orphanage where her mother worked in Chorzów after the war. Biographical materials include identification and work papers under Lila Lam Nowakowska’s assumed identity, Leonora Leska. Correspondence includes postwar letters from Lila and Dorota Lam in Chorzów, Nowy Tomysl, Elblag, and Cracow to Adam Sznaper in S...

  20. Witold Kuhn letter

    Contains one letter written by Witold Kuhn while he was in the Auschwitz concentration camp, addressed to his father Johann Kuhn in Jasień, Poland. He writes of his health, the weather, the harvest, and the packages he has received and sends his best wishes of health.