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  1. School

    EXT, school. INT, children in the classroom learning geography; pictures of buildings/bombing they drew. Different kinds of dried and canned food (supplies from abroad). Women prepare food in the school's kitchen. Students serve lunch to the rest of the class.

  2. Hitler; bookburning

    WS, huge crowd, Hitler with Goering and other elite. Hitler giving Nazi salute, swastikas, Hitler in uniform, crowd, SA, burning books. "We thought he was funny that Nazi paper-hanger...and that Nazi salute, we thought that was funny too." CU, Hitler watches bookburning. Britain's Chamberlain and France's Daladier deplane airplane. "You saw the burning of the books, the non-Aryan books, remember? You thought that such hysteria wouldn't spread, that Chamberlain and Daladier would contain such poison inside Germany." MLS, defenses of France's Maginot Line. WS, Nazi rally at Nuremberg. VS, cro...

  3. Bible

  4. Illich family visits Bad Gastein, 1936

    More scenes of life and the family visit to Bad Gastein, beginning with a farmer and his boys shoveling hay into a wagon. The family eats at an outside restaurant. The boys walk along a path in the mountains with their grandfather Fritz (and a nanny/host?). Waterfall. The boys enjoy another meal outdoors. The family takes a carriage ride through the city, and into the mountains. The boys pick flowers and rocks for their grandfather, who rests on a boulder, and then they thank him with hugs. Countryside. Cows meander about on a country road, near village homes. The boys ride horses and walk ...

  5. Armistice Celebrations in Washington, DC, New York and Paris

    Armistice Celebrations in Washington, DC, New York, Paris, and London, 1918. Revised version, 1936. Summary: Reel 1: President Wilson leaves the White House and rides down Pennsylvania Avenue. Shows parade units and crowds in Washington, DC. The Kaiser is hanged in effigy in New York City. Jewish man with Hebrew paper blowing horn. British Gen. Haig, French Gen. Petain, Italian Gen. Diaz and King Albert of Belgium review troops outside Paris. President Wilson reads a Washington newspaper.

  6. Eichmann Trial -- Session 102 -- Cross-examination of the Accused: corrections to the Sassen document

    Session 102. Attorney General Hausner asks Eichmann to read the corrections he made to the Sassen memoirs. Questions concerning the German Minister of the Interior and his connection to Eichmann are addressed. He then decries the entire document, saying that it is completely muddled, and that he cannot answer any further questions on it. The President of Court says that he will answer questions until he is relieved; Eichmann cooperates, but says that he feels he is being "roasted" until they get the answer they want from him. 00:10:48 Following Eichmann's comments about feeling "roasted", t...

  7. Train travelling to Warsaw, Poland 1939

    Crowded train platform, several bourgeois looking families are boarding the trains, some soldiers are also on the platform, some help the women and children board. They seem to be from a mountaineering regiment, they carry rifles, and wear rounded felt caps with feathers in them. Another shot, passengers on board the train reach out the window to receive hunks of bread from people selling it from baskets on the platform. Several children are running around near the platform, some look curiously at the camera. 01:02:36:29 A group of young men and young women sitting in the grass and socializ...

  8. Erwin Marx and Ernst Rothschild collection

    The collection consists of World War I German medals and documents and corrspondence relating to the experiences of Erwin Mark and Ernst Rothschild in prewar Germany and of Erwin Marx during and after World War II in Germany, Shanghai, China, and the United States.

  9. 1933 events: Nazi Party Rally, Autobahn opening, oath

    Title: "Swastika becomes National Symbol 9 July 1933" Hitler speaks at a large rally. Title: "Fifth Party Congress September 1933" Hitler speaks. Title: "Inauguration at Frankfurt am Main of New Section of the Super-Highway Network 23 September 1933" Ground breaking ceremonies of a super highway. Title: "1934" Title: "Over Radio Network Hess Administers Oath of Allegiance to more than One Million Leaders of the NSDAP and all Affiliated Organizations 25 February 1934" Rudolf Hess administers an oath to Party leaders, SA. 01:36:48 Title: "Hess Reaffirms Hitler's Faith in S.A. After Roehm Purg...

  10. Selected records from the Panevėžys Branch County Archives in Lithuania related to restitution of Jewish property

    Records of various county agencies (State Notary, County Executive Council, People's Court, etc.) related to the restitution and inheritance of the individual and communal Jewish property located in the Panevėžys County, Lithuania after World War II.

  11. Central British Fund for Germany Jewry. Agreement.

    Contains a printed legal form from the Central British Fund for German Jewry, four pages, spelling out the relationship between the Central British Fund and those who would act as guarantors to bring persecuted Jews from Germany to the United Kingdom. Undated, circa 1933-1939.

  13. Book

  14. Alfred Jaretzki, Jr. papers

    Reports and correspondence from American attorney Alfred Jaretzki, Jr., reporting on visits to Vienna and efforts to work with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee to assist Austrian Jews with emigration, 1938. Includes one report, undated, 11 pages, describing his trip to Vienna in June 1938, including meetings with American diplomats, journalists, members of the Viennese Jewish community, and non-governmental organizations. Among his contacts were Therese Bloch-Bauer, and her daughter Maria; Josef Löwenherz of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien; the American journalist Vin...

  15. Slovakian newsreel: Slovakian government

    Slovak Sound Weekly: Celebration of Hitler's birthday in Bratislava at the Slovak National Theater with the participation of President Jozef Tiso and members of the Slovakian government and diplomatic corps. Speech by Ambassador of the Reich Hanns Elard Ludin and General Catlos. Individuals named are shown and mentioned in narration, but there is no original sound on film of Hanns Ludin.

  16. Invasion of France by Germans

    CU, vehicle passing though wrecked town around bomb craters; destroyed buildings in BG. CU, German soldier driving pigs into barnyard. German troops marching through French village, in open country. Farmers cutting hay with scythes. German soldier feeding hay to horses. Soldier leaning against horse, sleeping. CU, German troops sleeping alongside road, in trucks and motorcycles. CU, plates being filled with food from large copper kettle. CU, tanks passing through large concentration of artillery guns. Shot of trees and forest showing truck hauling section of pontoon bridge onto trailer. Cou...

  18. Ship

    Ship at sea.

  19. Helen Fruchter collection

    Collection of postcards and envelopes written and sent from Abram (Helen Fruchter's maternal brother) and Szprinca Szlewin in Warsaw, Poland. All but one envelope dated 1940 and 1941 and last postcard dated 9/2/1941 censored, received by donor's parents in Brooklyn. Photographs of Abram and Szprinca and their three children, Zelman and Zelig (youngest son's name unknown), all of whom perished, according to eye witness testimony given to Yad Vashem, in the Warsaw ghetto in 1942; in German and last postcard in Polish.

  20. Chaja and Teifeld families photographs

    The collection primarily contains pre-war photographs of the Chaja (Guyer) and Teifeld families of Gąbin, Poland. Subjects include depictions of family life, sports teams, drama clubs and the theatre, and post-war life in Poland, Israel, and Detroit, Michigan. Also include are theatre playbills in Yiddish of plays that Max Chaja and Zelda Teifeld performed in.