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  1. Nuremberg stadium, swastika blown up by US troops

    US and Russian troops meet at the Elbe. Shows General Emil Reinhardt. Shows scenes of Nazi headquarters in Nuremberg. Huge US flag is raised over the giant swastika atop the Nuremberg stadium. Swastika is later blown up - the actual explosion and flying debris.

  2. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 5 mark coin

    5 mark coin issued in the Łódź ghetto in Poland in 1943. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1940; Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and annexed to the German Reich. In February, the Germans forcibly relocated the large Jewish population into a sealed ghetto. All currency was confiscated in exchange for Quittungen [receipts] that could be exchanged only in the ghetto. The scrip and tokens were designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] and includes traditional Jewish symbols. The Germans closed the ghetto in the summer of 1944 by deporting the residents to concentration camps or killin...

  3. Oral history interview with Richard Korngold

  4. Students graduate; parade with antisemitic float

    Magyar Híradó 221. Young male students stand on the steps in front of a building, looking out towards the camera. They are all nicely dressed in suits and hats. Camera pans left on young men in uniform carrying glass steins. A few men stand facing each other on the front steps of a building (the school). One man walks up the steps and opens the large doors at the entrance to the building. A young man walks out and two men in uniform walk up to him. One gives him a bouquet attached to a stand. An intertitle reads, “Kallag már a vén diák.” In rows of four, the students exit their school, rais...

  5. Nuremberg IMT

    2009 restoration by Schulberg Productions with English subtitles. The film "Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today" is the official documentary of the International Military Tribunal held in Nuremberg from November 21, 1945 to October 1, 1946. It is set in the Nuremberg courtroom and recreates the case against the Nazi high command using German documents, photographs, and moving pictures. The film was completed by Stuart Schulberg and his editor, Joseph Zigman, in the spring of 1948, and premiered in Stuttgart in November of that year. For political reasons the film was subsequently suppressed by ...

  6. Poster

  7. Stills of Romanian fascist atrocities; pogrom

    A film showing photographs of Romanian fascist atrocities. Intertitle reads, POGROMUL DE LA BUCURESTI. Document, 2? January 1941 (text in French). Photographic stills illustrate atrocities, mangled faces, corpses, portraits. VAR images of devastation. Talmud/Torah. INT, destruction of synagogue, chairs, debris, rubble. CUs, documents with Jewish names. 01:10:56 Document, 29-30 June 1941 (text in French). More stills of atrocities. Corpses dead in the streets. Some images include soldiers and civilians. Corpses lined in fields. CU, document (text in French). More corpses. Trial stills. Prepa...

  8. Dog tag identification issued to a Jewish medical officer, 2nd Polish Corps

    Dog tag with his name, birth date and place, and blood type issued to Dr. Edmund Lusthaus, a medical officer in the 2nd Polish Corps, a unit of the British Armed Forces during World War II. Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, and seventeen days later, the Soviet Army invaded from the east. Lusthaus was captured and taken to a camp for Polish prisoners of war in Novosibirsk, Siberia, where he served as a physician. When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, Polish POWs were released to join the fighting. Lusthaus joined the volunteer Polish Army of the East, known as Anders Army...

  9. Kvaternik at Goering's headquarters

    Goering greets Marshal Slavko Kvaternik at Goering's Eastern Headquarters. Kattengel and other adjutants are present. Kvaternik presents Goering with gifts (including a sword) and a proclamation of thanks from the Croatian people. Goering smiles as he inspects the gifts. Goering, Kvaternik, and others on the train platform in front of a train.

  10. Exhumation of bodies massacred in the Katyn Forest

    Exhumations of bodies of 12,000 Polish army officers massacred by Soviets. The Katyn massacre took place in 1940. The bodies were exhumed by the Nazis in 1943.

  11. Slovakian newsreel: Hlinka Guard; Tiso

    Slovak Sound Weekly: Hlinka guard swearing-in ceremony. Inspection of the first Bratislava regiment upon the celebration of the anniversary of the Slovak state. Jozef Tiso, president of the Slovak state, at the inspection of the Hlinka Youth, awards ceremony, inspection.

  12. Marvin C. Jacobs family papers

    Contains documents and written testimony relating to the Holocaust experiences of Janowskiegoi Marii Markiewicz and Cyla Biderman.

  13. Oral history interview with Hertha Kluge

  14. David Klein collection

    The collection consists of stamps, stamped envelopes, scrip, correspondence, receipts, etc. to/from multiple concentration camps including Auschwitz Birkenau, Buchenwald, Neuengamme, Mauthausen Natzweiler, and internment camps in Mauritius and Westerbork, and official post-war documents from Bergen-Belsen and Feldafing displaced persons camps.

  15. American anti-Nazi protests

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 10, No. 720. Release date, 11/15/1938. Contains various Universal Newsreel clips of anti-Nazi protest speeches of prominent US leaders. 01:54:28: "FDR Leads Nation in Protest Against Nazi Persecutions" Denouncing Nazism. FDR at desk, quick flash, ready to speak, waiting (FDR does not actually speak). Street scenes, broken windows (quick) in Czechoslovakia. Bald man giving testimony. 01:54:51: Herbert Hoover at Palo Alto, CA. CBS microphone MCU. "Americans should be indignant at terrible outbreak of Jewish persecution in Germany... brutal intolerance...no parallel; e...

  16. Ilse Auerbach collection

    Contains correspondence, immigration documents, news clippings, certificates, and naturalization papers related to the life and immigration of Ilse Auerbach and her mother, Anna, originally of Berlin, to the United States in 1941. They arrived in new York on June 21, 1941, aboard the ship Villa de Madrid.

  17. Looking Back, But Not in Anger The Story of One who Eluded the Holocaust by the Skin of his Teeth

    Consists of one memoir, 12 pages, entitled "Looking Back, But Not in Anger: The Story of One who Eluded the Holocaust by the Skin of his Teeth," by Herbert P. Paisley, originally of Berlin, Germany. In the memoir, he describes his childhood in Germany, schooling in Belgium, imprisonment in St. Cyprien and Gurs, joining the French Foreign Legion and later the British Pioneer Corps, where he worked as an interpreter.

  18. Albert Speer Gives Award news

    Part 3, Albert Speer heads delegation walking into munitions factory, good CU, large crowd of workers listens to him. He is completely surrounded by workers on bombed factory floor. Puts ribbon around neck of award recepient and shakes his hand, walks out thru crowd, lots of kids among workers.

  19. Elsie Bitkower photograph collection

    Collection consists of five photographs documenting members of the During family at the time period of the Holocaust. Images include Kurt During (donor's brother), Elsa During (donor's grandmother) with her son Horst, all of whom were killed during the Holocaust. Image of Eleanora (Lore) During Markusfeld (donor's aunt) and her friend Fritzi Wolfinger in 1947 after their liberation and a pre-war photographic postcard from Koblenz, dated May 10, 1917.

  20. Eichmann Trial -- Session 98 -- Cross-examination of the Accused

    Footage begins in the middle of Session 98. Attorney General Gideon Hausner cross examines Eichmann about sending Jews from the Reich to Litzmannstadt/Łódź. There is a commotion in the courtroom and Judge Landau tells the guards to remove a man from the audience because he is shouting (00:01:42). The camera cuts to a man in the audience being taken out of the courtroom (00:01:50). The English translator is heard saying that the man pointed to a concentration camp number on his arm and shouted "you dog, you dog." The camera turns back to the proceeding. There are shots of Hausner and Eichman...