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  1. Buchenwald liberation photographs collection

    Collection of eight prints of photographs taken after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Includes images of victims bodies found in the camp, a memorial erected in the camp in memory of the victims of Buchenwald, and an effigy of Hitler hanging in front of one of the barracks in the camp; some prints include inscriptions on verso. Photos brought home from the war by Sgt. Miller (first name unknown).

  3. March of Time -- outtakes -- Vichy government ministers, ministry buildings; Darlan, Laval, Tixier-Vignancour

    811 A (04:19:30) (negative, shot with Leblay) Adrien Marquet, Minister of Interior, before the Vichy Casino where the Ministry of Interior is installed. EXT shots, Ministry of Interior at Vichy. EXT shots of the Ministry of Agriculture et Ravitaillement installed in the Hotel Albert 1er. CU, sign: "Ministère de L'Agriculture et du Ravitaillement." EXT shots - Hotel du Parc et Majestic where the Présidence du Conseil is installed. General view of the Hotel du Parc; flags and CU of the letters RF (République Francaise). EXT, the Supreme Court of Riom, which will judge the men responsible for ...

  4. Oral history interviews of the BILD TV collection

    Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors produced by BILD TV for its production on the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp.

  5. History of the UJA

    Part 1. Film depicts the history of the UJA. Still of Hitler, Nazis marching in rally, burning of books (at 05:41:30), wearing yellow star. Man sitting, girl with doll, Herschel Grynspan, Kristallnacht, formation of the UJA, newspaper headlines. Warsaw ghetto footage, Warsaw ghetto uprising (stills), man speaking at desk, declaration of the State of Israel. David Ben Gurion reading.

  6. Oral history interview with Nathan Burzinski

  7. Benjamin Wajl memoir

    Memoir: "Moje wapomnienia z okewau 2 wosny swiatowej..." [My calamities from the 2nd World War] by Benjamin Wajl; 58 pages. Wajl was a native of Łódź, Poland, who fled east when the war broke out, and fought with the Russian army.

  8. Frieders on vacation, horseback riding, playing

    People play and relax on the beach, probably in Hawaii. Morris Frieder and his girls wearing flowered leis aboard a boat. 00:00:47 Pan of a large garden in the Philippines, probably in Baguio City (see Film ID 2957 at 00:02:56 for film of the same location when the girls are younger). Peggy and a younger girl (likely her sister Sue - b. 1934) pose for the camera. Jane practices swinging a golf club. Catherine O'Connor, the governess from Indiana, helps the girls pick flowers from the garden, and Jane picks up Sue. 00:02:17 A plane lands on a dirt runway. Morris gets out and kisses Sue. The ...

  9. Schellenberg and Hoellriegel testify at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 483) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 4, 1946. Walter Schellenberg, Chief of the Security Police and SD, takes witness stand and testifies. CU, Schellenberg on stand. MLS, Justice Maj. Gen. I T Nikitchenko (Russia) questions the witness. MLS, Schellenberg is questioned by Von Papen's and Rosenberg's attorneys. LS, attorney for SS and SD questions Schellenberg. LS, MSs, SS member Alios Hoellriegel is sworn in and testifies. The witness studies a photograph supposedly taken near Mauthausen concentration camp. NOTE: Rear views only of attorneys questioning the witnesses.

  10. David Rich collection

    Contains an arbeitsbuch (labor book) for foreigners, issued to Johann Kussmenn (Ivan Kuzmenko, b. 1926) in Hannover, Germany, on June 26, 1943. born in 1926. Also includes an arbeitskarte (labor identification card) issued June 12, 1942 to Marie Romanenko (b. 1921) from Chernin, Ukraine and deported for forced labor to Kaltenhof, Germany.

  11. Charles Schwager collection

    Contains letters, envelopes, speeches, clippings, blank letterhead, and assorted attached documents and print materials received by Charles Schwager of New York, in response to letters he wrote to various United States Senators and Representatives, ambassadors, committees, and organizations he was actively involved with; bulk dated 1930s-1940s.

  12. Luftwaffe bomber squadron

    Film material collected regarding the Boelke squadron ('Kampfgeschwader' 27 Boelcke was a Luftwaffe medium bomber wing of World War II). Including shots of Roma/Sinti, Königsberg after the air raid of August 8, 1944. 10:00:12:20 Dr. C. Keller, medical officer of III./KG 27 Boelcke.

  13. Cactus breeding; gymnast; skiing in Grinzing; boy plays with a telephone

    Lizzy-Film Produktion. "Heute Doppelprogramm" “Wochenschau Feber 1931” [Alice Kessler's amateur version of a weekly newsreel.] “Kakteenzucht Ziechentrick” “Sehr schnell waechst hier der Kaktus, die Pflege man verstehen muss.” A series of cactus graphics appear on screen, interspersed with film of live cacti. Cactus breeding. 01:02:05 “5 Minuten Akrobatik” “Ausgefuehrt von Frau Hilde Altmann Gymnastiklehrerin” “Aufgepasst!!” A woman performs a gymnastics routine indoors. 01:03:17 “Grinzing im Schnee” Passers-by carry wooden skis as they walk through the snowy streets of the Austrian city of ...

  14. Internment Camp B70 plans

    Copies of plans of Internment Camp B70 (Camp Ripples) in Fredericton, New Brunswick (Canada). The donor's late father Walter Kohn, had been interned there.

  15. 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.

  16. Jewish daily life and culture shot by Roman Vishniac

    Religious Jews at work in their agricultural community. Various shots of them building homes and at work in the fields in the remote Carpathian village of Vysni Apsa. Also shown are children weaving baskets, studying and riding horses across a river. This footage contains several good CUs of adults and children, particularly focusing on facial expressions, gestures, and clothing. Shots are well lit and expertly framed. Chaim Simcha Mechlowitz, an Orthodox Jewish farmer, tanner, and father of eleven children appears from 12:33:50 to 12:34:11 and 12:35:54 to 12:36:00. He was killed at Auschwi...

  17. James Boalick collection

    Consists of three pages of typed testimony written by James G. Boalick, a member of Company B of the 45th Armored Medical Battalion of the 3rd Armored Division of the Third Army. He was a replacement on the front line in the Battle of the Bulge and, in the spring of 1945, participated in the liberation of Nordhausen, where he administered first aid to survivors. Also includes a copy of his honorable discharge and his separation record.

  18. Donald Molofsky collection

    The Donald Molofsky collection contains mainly correspondence sent from Donald to his parents, from 1947-1948. Molofsky served as an engineer on the SS Exodus, but the correspondence does not contain much information about the voyage itself. The correspondence concerns details from Donald’s time spent on vacation in Haifa, Na'an, and in France. Also included are correspondence from the Molofsky family to Donald, letters from Donald’s friend Zeev “Vivy” Siegel’s parents to the Molofsky family, and various other letters. The Donald Molofsky collection contains mainly correspondence sent from ...

  19. Eric Hauser collection

    The collection consists of two prisoner food bowls collected after the Holocaust by Eric Hauser, in the former Janowska concentration camp in Lwow where his family was prisoners.

  20. Robert Holczer papers

    The Robert Holczer papers include Hungarian identification and labor papers and Bor labor camp postcards documenting the experiences of Robert, Nelli, and Lajos Holczer during World War II in Hungary and Yugoslavia. Identification and labor papers include Robert’s labor card, a Swiss protective passport for Robert and Nelli, and identification cards documenting Robert’s and Nelli’s work for a medical clinic in 1944 in Budapest. Lajos Holczer’s postcards from the Bor labor camp to his wife and son document his own health and unease at being separated from them.