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  1. Kiedy | Oriental Tango

    Circa 1947 recording featuring Polish popular jazz band exiled to Iran, "The Jolly Boys." Performers include Stanislaw Sperber, S. Helishkowski. The Jewish band found unexpected sanctuary in Tehran, where they had been invited to perform at the future Shah’s wedding party (in the summer of 1939), and where they continued to perform as a group until the war had ended. Although the “Jolly Boys” never made a commercial recording in Poland, the group did record several songs in Tehran. One bandmate, pianist Artur Baigelman (AKA “A. Bay”), one of Henry Baigelman’s many musical siblings, did not ...

  2. Oral history interview with Meyer Vesterman

  3. IRO Children's Village in Bad Aibling

    This personal film of the IRO Children's Village Bad Aibling in the American Zone of Germany was filmed by John Powelson, an AFSC worker assigned to the Children’s Village. Military vehicle driving past a sign pointing to “IRO Children's Village Bad Aibling IRO Area 7.” Children hold hands with adult men and women, probably in late winter 1949. 0:31 The woman in the green overcoat could be Wendy Elliott who coordinated kindergarten teachers and activities (this woman appears in several following scenes). Adults and teenagers pose for the camera and speak with one another in front of camp bu...

  4. Oral history interview with Raoul Hilberg

  5. Hunting scenes in Brandenburg province; Group of Sinti

    AGFA 1939. Hunting scenes in Brandenburg province [Location based on car registration shown in minute 11 - IE 38214]. Tracking shot from car on dirt road, countryside. Bouncy views. Animals running in field - LS. Deer, fox. Dog retrieves birds. Two dogs retrieving geese. Dog carries fox in mouth. 01:02:45 (b/w) Sinti group. Wagon, woman, clutter, small dog, pail steaming on fire. Boys, 8 or 9 kids, pose for camera. Toss a dead fox. Woman walks up. 01:03:57 (color) More hunting and retrieving. Dog, man with rifle, two adult women. Very pretty shots, still fields. 01:05:20 Rabbit running. Gee...

  6. Contemporary footage of Treblinka

    Contemporary film showing a transport to Treblinka. Point of view given by a passenger from the train, over which a woman sings. Arrival at the former death camp.

  7. Jewish DPs leaving Berlin, Germany

    DPs (Jewish) Leaving Berlin, Germany, May 17, 1949. Semitrailer truck loaded with personal belongings of families pulling away from apartment house. LS, neighborhood in German city, truck standing in courtyard. MS, few civilians standing at entrance as workmen are taking out personal belongings. MS, middle-aged woman holding infant child; several people in BG. Household goods standing next to truck. CU, truck. Hand-written on truck "Lufttransport Munchen Frankfurt." LS, man carrying suitcase in litter-strewn yard. LS, semitrailer truck loaded with household effects going into courtyard entr...

  8. Oral history interview with Dina Abelson

  9. Flight and Rescue special exhibiton monitors

    AV monitors exhibited as part of "Flight and Rescue" at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum from May 4, 2000 to October 21, 2001.

  10. Transit camp in Eindhoven

    Scenes from a transit camp located in the Philips factory in Eindhoven, Netherlands. According to the IWM record, the camp was run by the 506 Detachment, Civil Affairs, and the nationalities of the laborers include Dutch, French, Polish, and Russian. Adult and children civilians (former foreign forced laborers) and British soldiers in front of military trucks. CUs of a woman talking and laughing with a British soldier. Military truck carrying civilians enters a gated compound. Passengers disembark from the back of the truck. Quick shot of slate indicating 3/15/1945 and cameraman Sgt. Collin...

  11. Records relating to Jews and Roma in Berlin "Ostarbeiter" file from the Oberfinanzdirektion

    Includes information about various "Ostarbeiter" (forced laborers from the East) and their property.

  12. Dachau at liberation; Stevens

    Jeep in front of what appears to be a garage building with a swastika over it, sign reads: "Quarantine Typhus, This concentration camp is off limits to all civilian and military personnel by order of General Patch, C.G. 7th Army." The jeep Toluca in front of a yellow sign that reads: "Dachau." A building is marked: "Burger Brau-Keller." Stevens on bridge, opening a pack of cigarettes.

  13. Di hoyfzinger | Di Wanderer

    Radio Leon / Yiddish recordings published in Buenos Aires in 1950. Side A = Di hoyfzinger. Music and text: unknown (repertoire probably from "Ararat" theater, prewar Lodz). Side B = Di Wanderer (Di vandere; AKA Tango fun geto). Music: Sholom Secunda (parody of "Mayn yidishe maydele"); Words: Unknown. Performers: Elvira Bochcovska, Shimon Nussbaum, Max Neufeld, instrumental ensemble. The Bochcovska/Nussbaum/Neufeld revue "'Di freylekhe vanderer" oder 'Nisht dos vos geven'" (the happy wanderers or not what it used to be) toured Latin America in the 1950s, and may have recorded under the group...

  14. Smithsonian Folklife Archive broadcast recordings

    Holocaust audio collection containing radio broadcast recordings in English and Yiddish.

  15. The United States Holocaust Memorial Commission and United States Holocaust Memorial Council

    Contains information about the establishment of the President's Commission on the Holocaust by President Jimmy Carter in 1978 and the establishment of the United States Holocaust Council in October 1979.

  16. Belsen: corpses

    LS bodies, limbs, ribs, male corpse in pit.

  17. Liberator clips

    Video clips compiled for screening at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Days of Remembrance activities in April 2010 commemorating the role of liberators. The videos were displayed in the classrooms on the concourse level of the Museum during the Collections Open House activities. Contents include: Liberation of Buchenwald; white flags; US infantry (April 1945) in color (USHMM Tape HMM108, 01:00:13 to 01:04:56) 83rd Div, Ohrdruf patrols (April 6/7, 1945) in b/w (USHMM Tape HMM108, 01:21:31 to 01:25:59) Dachau Concentration Camp - Star of David, chaplain, horse drawn wagons (May ...

  18. Oral history interview with Kalman Russek

  19. Kriegsberichterstattung: Judenherrschaft in Sovj. Russland

    War coverage in French addressing the Jew in the Soviet Union to illustrate that the war is about the Jews or was fomented by Jews. Bertrand Nicole, the war reporter/correspondent, speaking in French with a German accent, talks to a Russian woman who escaped the Soviet Union with her daughter with just the clothes on their backs, finding refuge in a camp run by the Waffen-SS. The Russian woman barely speaks any French (the interviewer finishes her sentences). The conversation is meant to demonstrate that the Jews are responsible for all of the ills that befall Russian citizens. For example,...

  20. Oral history interview with Sergei Petrovich