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  1. Medzhibozh, Ukraine

    Kino Journal, Release 4-170. Shtetl: Medzhibozh. Intertitle: "Let's clear the dust" Old cities, Turkish fortress in winter. Violin and crowd of workers. Closing two synagogues, reading room and library. Signs in Yiddish. Some CUs of faces. Red flag on top of synagogue. This is an anti-religion demonstration in Proskurov ( now Khmel'nytski)

  3. Eleanor Roosevelt visits Holland in June 1950; Marshall Plan parade

    EXT crowd lines the street. Motorcade. Eleanor Roosevelt beside a car shaking hands. Line of university professors in academic robes enter a building with an American flag flying over the entrance. People get out of cars, Netherlands flag in BG. INT church with crowd of seated academics. EXT Eleanor Roosevelt walking with academics, wearing hood and holding wreath and piece of paper. CU, crowd on street clapping. Parade for economic recovery (ECA) activities passes, including a band and a float of the Holland America Westerdam ship. Float of a beetle: “STAATSVIJANDA.” More parade floats, on...

  4. Amtsgericht Guttentag District Court of the Town of Dobrodzień Sąd Obwodowy w Dobrodzieniu (Sygn.584)

    This collection contains selected files from the German District Court in the town of Dobrodzień (Guttentag). Selected materials refer to the Roman-Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish religious communities. Contains statistical reports prepared at the behest of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. (NSDAP), and the official German regulations issued for religious communities. The records were unprocessed and documents are in poor physical condition.

  5. Warner J. Nelson, Jr. photograph collection

    Contains 15 photographs documenting the liberation of a concentration camp.

  6. Einhorn family collection

    Collection of documents and photographs relating to Matel Feldschuh Einhorn (donor's great aunt) and her husband, Efraim Einhorn, who managed to leave Vienna in November 1939 and immigrated to the United States. Photographs depict the three Feldschuh brothers in 1924; their mother Pearl; Sabina Feldschuh Korman (donor’s grandmother) and others; documents include two passports with the red letter “J” issued to Matel and Efraim Einhorn and other documents issued to donor’s grandmother and grandfather. Includes a certificate of residence issued to Efraim Einhorn; blank picture postcards with i...

  7. German educational film: soldiers build an igloo

    This short instructional film depicts German soldiers, in uniform, in an unidentified mountainous region surveying a snowy hillside to determine a fitting location to build an igloo. EXT, VS, a group of approximately 8 soldiers at work with shovels and saws in the snow, cutting and moving uniform 'bricks' of snow to construct their shelter. They load the blocks of snow onto a sled to transport them more easily. The soldiers work diligently to perfect their igloo, making sure to even out rough spots, and keep the bricks uniform and level. The igloo begins to take shape, there are now shots f...

  8. French case presented at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 511) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 19, 1946. LS, Tribunal enters court and is seated. MLS, new Chief of French delegation Champetier de Ribes presenting the case against the Nazis for the French. MSs, Justices Birkett, Lawrence, and Biddle looking through documents as Chief Justice Geoffrey Lawrence makes a comment to de Ribes. MCU, French prosecutor Mr. Herzog addressing the Tribunal about the National Socialist doctrine on labor.

  9. Records of Jewish communities and institutions in Paraguay Paraguay-Legajos de Comunidades e Instituciones Judías

    Records from the Jewish community in Asunción and several Jewish institutions in Paraguay, including the "Sociedad Templo Israelita Latino del Paraguay," "Unión de Israelitas pro Socorro Mutuo," "Unión Hebraica del Paraguay," "WIZO," and others. Features board minutes, protocols, statutes, correspondence and reports, account ledgers, newspaper clippings, commemoration records, publications and articles, photographs, questionnaires and lists, and other documents.

  10. Sightseeing in Washington, DC

    The Lindemanns visit Washington, DC. US Capitol building. The White House with autombile traffic and visitors by the fence. Fountains at the Washington Monument. The reflecting pool and the Lincoln Memorial. More sightseeing. Pan of the Union Station. A friend approaches the camera coming down stairs. Cherry trees in full bloom at the Tidal Basin, train passes by in the BG.

  11. Collection of insurgent and underground press Zbiór prasy powstańczej i konspiracyjnej

    Contains an underground press collection of 1283 titles (the biggest collection in Poland) from all pre-war Poland territory and published by all underground organizations.

  12. Repatriation in Prague

    News Film - The Week in Film: Ten thousand repatriates return home to Prague from concentration camps.

  13. Freddy Rotenberg collection

    The collection consists of artifacts relating to the experiences of Freddy Rotenberg in in Germany before the Holocaust.

  14. Montessori school in Vienna

    Peter Schur, dressed for winter, a lunch box hanging from his neck, is helped into the backseat of a car. Scenes from inside the car as it drives down a street lined with trees, snow. The car was later confiscated by the Nazis, along with a revolver and some gold coins. 01:14:56 Seasons change, scenes from inside the car as it drives on a city street with trams. The boy is on his way to school, possibly on his first day. Sign on glass: "Montessori-Kindergarten Hedy Schwarz." Peter smiles and waves from inside the window. 01:15:25 INT, Montessori-Kindergarten, with children playing and inter...

  15. Fascist volunteers from various countries; Invasion of USSR

    Volunteers in various countries. Danish volunteers for "Germany's fight against Bolshevism" enter a building with a sign that reads "Arbejdsfronten DNS." Norwegian men sign up for military service. Men in black uniforms march down the street in the Netherlands. Rowdy volunteers saluting and carrying anti-Bolshevik banners march down a street in Spain. Members of the Blue Division from Spain depart the Bordeaux train station for the front. They lean out the windows and wave. Mussolini bids farewell to Italian volunteers in Verona. The volunteers parade down the street in motorcycles and othe...

  16. Village, shops, winter, probably prewar

    Possibly Poland, car, rural landscape from the window of a moving vehicle or train. Two boys walk through a doorway. INT, bedroom. Two boys with a man and woman. Snow-covered forest, bare trees. ECU of a boy's face. Snowy landscape with a wide open field. Houses. Dog plays in the snow, shot through a wrought-iron fence. Someone pumps water from the well in town. A man steps out of a doorway: “Amiod flaszkorx. KAWA; HERBATA; PRZEKASKI.” An elderly man with a cane exits shop door, followed by two women. The man with the cane approaches the camera. The woman with the polka dot dress (seen befo...

  17. Factory of iron goods "Korenblum" in Końskie Fabryka Wyrobów Żeliwnych "Kronnenblum" w Końskich (Sygn. 615)

    Financial records and payroll of the S. Kronenblum factory in Końskie. Included are financial balances, inventory books, payrolls, lists of the factory assets compiled after the invasion of the Red Army on December 31, 1944, and a detailed situation plan of the “Kronenblum” facility in 1:000 scale.

  18. Barbie Trial -- Day 7 -- The defense questions two expert witnesses

    19:12 The defense questions the witnesses as to differences in the handwriting on the arrival notices written on both the Izieu telex and the Marseille telex 19:12 Cerdini asks the witnesses to remain in the area and available to the Court for further questions for a few days 19:15 Cerdini calls a recess

  19. Jozef Weiler papers

    The Jozef Weiler papers include biographical material, a diary, and photographs relating to Jozef and Helena Weiler’s pre-war and wartime experiences in Poland. The collection includes a repatriation card issued to Jozef, Helena, and their son, Ryszard, for moving from Drohobycz, Poland to Wrocław, Poland, a certificate stating that Jozef arrived from Drohobycz and was sent to Boza Gora (Mszana, Poland), and pre-war photographs of Jozef and Helena taken in Drohobycz, Poland. The collection also includes a diary written by Jozef on the back of 1939 lab reports from a Galicja oil company docu...

  20. Letter to Max Wolff, from the Reichsmusikkammer, March 1937

    One letter, addressed to the German Jewish composer Max Wolff, sent from Peter Raabe, president of the Reichsmusikkammer, effectively banning Wolff from exercising his profession in Germany, March 31, 1937.