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  1. Frankfurt -- city views

    A variety of nice quality city views of Frankfurt, including houses, the Main river, a busy café, landmarks (the opera, the university) and townspeople. 03:03:56 People buy wurst and bread from vendors, followed by a scene in a beer garden. 03:06:20 Nazi flags are visible in the street, dating this film to the Nazi period (probably early on). Interior shots of the Goethe House museum. Staging of Goethe's play "Goetz" and other works outdoors in front of the City Hall. Title: "On the way from yesterday to today." Shots of streetcars. Interiors of the art museum. Title: "The face of today." H...

  2. Concentration camp for Polish juveniles in Łódź

    Film about the detention camp for children in Łódź at Przemysłowa street, where Polish children and young people were used as forced laborers. Includes contemporary oral histories.

  3. Nowogrodzki family papers

    Collection consists of six sets of notes written by the donor's stepmother, Helena Szefiner, after coming to the United States in 1946; the notes regard Mrs. Szefiner's experiences in the Warsaw ghetto. Includes 10 photographs relating to the donor's life in Warsaw before the war and her journey to Japan.

  4. Robert Gunther Spiro collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of Robert Gunther Spiro during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  5. Sabine Pons collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of Sabine Pons. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  6. Street scenes and establishing shots of Krakow

    Establishing shots of Krakow, shot circa 1936/37. LS of the famous castle, shot of a small boat letting in along the Vistula River, LS of two women walking across the courtyard of an unidentified building. From Julien Bryan's film "Poland the Country and the People" released in 1948, shot 1936-1937.

  7. Oral history interview with Jossi Harel

  8. Eichmann Trial -- Session 106 -- Eichmann's personal feelings

    Session 106. Tape starts midsentence with some duplicate material from Film ID 2192. Judge cites that Eichmann ordered the release of a group of Jews from the ghettos in eastern Hungary. Eichmann says that this, along with other examples, were ordered by his superiors, and he explains how and why this was. Generally, he says that he was ordered to do such things, never could he do something like that on his own, and he never questioned the motives behind his orders. 00:11:14 The Judge questions the decision to transfer Jews to the Eastern front instead of the Western front, accusing Eichman...

  9. Reporters cover the opening of the Barbie Trial

    The opening of the trial against Klaus Barbie on the lunch hour news show "Midi 2," dated May 11 1987. Press were only allowed to film the opening of the trial. Shots include the arrival of Klaus Barbie and the President of the Court (the steward of the trial, Andre Cerdini), the roll call of attorneys and present witnesses, and commentary by Midi 2's reporter on the trial itself. The press are dismissed at the end of the clip, as they aren't allowed to film anything beyond the very start of the session before jurors are selected. As the dismissal takes place, the reporter (Paul Lefevre) de...

  10. Edward E. Harriman report

    Contains a report written by Edward E. Harriman (donor’s paternal uncle by marriage) after the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp, accompanied by pasted-in photographs, describing the conditions in the camp. The report was released by the military censor on June 14, 1945.

  11. Selected records of the Voivodeship Office in Kielce Urząd Wojewódzki Kielecki II (Sygn. 305)

    Diverse documentation from the Voivodeship Office in Kielce, records related to: identification of dead corpses of people who died during the World War II, war graves, removal of gravestones from pavements, security matters (assaults on Jews in the postwar period, including the Kielce pogrom of July 4, 1946 and other antisemitic riots), registers of war damages, changes of surnames, giving names to the children with unknown parents, the matters of Jewish religious associations, lists of graveyards and synagogues, lists of people of non-Catholic denomination in individual counties, various m...

  12. Freezing experiments presented at Medical trial

    (Munich 480) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. MLS Prosecutor Alexander Hardy speaking of the freezing experiment reports. MLS, Hardy reads a letter from Sigmund Rascher who writes of his work and asks for captured Russians to be used for freezing experiments. MS, defendants in dock.

  13. Street performer; riverside

    Street perfomer. Birds flying. Sunset. Boat, river with buildings at shore.

  14. Lindemann family at leisure

    Sister Oda swings at a playground. Her mom pushes her down a slide. She plays on the seesaw and smiles. Children play in the sand at a lake. Adults on beach blankets. A younger boy joins. Thee kids play in a small garden, using miniature tools including a wheelbarrow and a trowel. The girl picks fruit from a bush and puts it in her bucket. “ENDE"

  16. Banners

    Archway with garlands woven into the frame to say "Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer." Signs and banners saying "10 April: Ja" (ratification of Anschluss). Panning shots around city. Trolley cars, buses, cyclists. LS pan up street. Churches visible. Berliner Rathaus, Unter den Linden, Denkmal Humboldt statue, Friedrich des Grossen [Frederick the Great], Janowitz bridge, Teltow Kanal, Hallesches Tor, Pergamonmuseum, Hausvaerland, Messegelande, Pferderennen, Leipzigerstrasse. Train station. Olympic stadium. Marketplace.

  17. Work for Jews Watercolor

  19. Safety fountain pen used by a courtroom illustrator at the Major War Crimes Trial

    Waterman-style safety fountain pen used by Edward Vebell, 24, to create courtroom sketches at the 1945 Trial of Major German War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany. The sketches were published in the U.S. Army newspaper Stars and Stripes on December 9, 1945. A young commercial artist when he was drafted for the US Army, Vebell was the first staff illustrator for Stars and Stripes. His assignments included combat zones in Italy and France. For the Nuremberg trial assignment, he sat in the press gallery for 3 days and used field glasses to “bore into th...

  20. Meyer family collection

    Correspondence, photograph and prayer book illustrating the experiences of Tana and her parents Gerda and Heinz Meyer and her grandmother Charlotte Abelt. Correspondence from Charlotte and Gerda to Charlotte's sister and brother-in-law in Sweden. Charlotte and Tana survived in Theresienstadt. Gerda and Heinz separately deported to Auschwitz where Gerda was killed.