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  1. Verdoner children playing

    Yoka, Francisca and Otto Verdoner playing on the floor of their home in Hilversum, Holland. Yoka and Francisca play with baby Otto as if he were a life-sized doll. Their mother Hilde picks up Otto to rescue him from his sisters' affections. CU, Hilde and Otto. CUs, Otto attempting to crawl, holding his torso up, etc. Yoka and Francisca try to help Otto. Brief shot of Francisca sitting at a table eating.

  2. War Crimes Trials: Buchenwald

    (Munich 541) Buchenwald Trial, Dachau, Germany, April 12, 1947. Spectators enter courtroom. LS, attorneys are administered oath by the Military Tribunal. At 16:20:42 U.S. Army Major Carl Everett Whitney, Jr hands papers to the tribunal and begins speaking. Major Whitney was assigned as attorney for the defense. Pan, prisoners in the dock, including Ilse Koch at 16:22:01. Scenes of the trial. LS, prisoners pleading to the indictment. One defendant hides his face with a card.

  3. Hitler visits Krupp factory

    Hitler pays tribute to Gustav Krupp von Bohlen. 03:19:39 MS Hitler shakes hands with Krupp as officers look on. 03:19:45 Hitler talking to and gesturing to civilian in dark suit as officers look on. 03:19:55 Large crowd of factory workers cheer and salute as Hitler walks past them toward camera, then steps up into car and remains standing.

  4. German Army in Slovakia

    German troops enter region of Slovakia, round up civilian suspects. Reel 1, cont.: 4:50:15 Animap of Slovakia showing towns of Neusohl, and Altsohl, (German names for towns of Zvolen and Banska Bystrica). 4:50:21 MS German troops in truck and artillery piece being pushed on road, LS German troops firing into town at "bandits." MLS German troops advance through field toward town. 4:50:37 MS Peasant woman crying, holding head goes to German officer, watches her barn burn, cows in FG. Reel 2: 4:50:48 LS Burning farm houses, cows, men try to put out fire. 4:50:56 MLS German soldiers striding ac...

  5. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 5 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 5 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.

  6. Oral history interviews of the Life After the Holocaust collection

    The Life After the Holocaust collection reveals the complexity of starting over for six Holocaust survivors whose journeys brought them to the United States following WWII.

  7. Oral history interview with Ilse G. (Gerty) Levy

  8. War Crimes Commission: Concentration Camps

    There are breaks between reels. The film begins with titles and affidavits attesting to the authenticity of the film material to follow. A quote from Robert Jackson is followed by affidavits from George Stevens and E. R. Kellogg. Both affidavits are shown on the screen as they are read aloud. An animated maps shows the locations of the largest prison and concentration camps in Germany and occupied Europe. 01:04:27 Title on screen: "Leipzig Concentration Camp" [Leipzig-Thekla, a sub-camp of Buchenwald]. Long shots of the camp while the narrator tells of the political prisoners who were burne...

  9. Allach liberation

    (LIB 6088) Various shots of the grounds of Allach, a subcamp of Dachau, including shots of the barracks, fences, and guard towers. Low overhead shot of freed prisoners in striped uniforms. Slate indicates that the cameraman is Gerzen, member of the 163rd Signal Photo Company and gives additional information: date 4/30/1945; 45th Div., 157th Inf. Regt., 1st Btn., 3rd Btn., 7th Army, Germany. Freed inmates wave vigorously from behind the barbed wire fence. Blurry CUs of some of the men. Survivors stand beside an American flag. Good CUs of former prisoners, including at least one woman. Former...

  10. Magnus and van Oosten families papers

    The Magnus and van Oosten family papers consist of correspondence, certificates, printed material, and photographs, related to the experiences of the extended family of Sary Melles (née Magnus) during the German occupation of the Netherlands during World War II. The collection includes correspondence from her brother, Ibertus Magnus, written shortly before and during his imprisonment by the Germans, first in Assen, the Netherlands, and then at Buchenwald, as well as a notification of his death and a death certificate. Also included is a brochure that documents the jazz band that he performe...

  11. United States Department of Justice, Office of Special Investigations (USDOJ-OSI), Denaturalization Cases Transcripts and Decisions

    Consists of paper copies of transcripts of more than 40 denaturalization and removal cases that OSI and/or, in some instances, other components of the Department of Justice, litigated to trial, as well as the transcripts of hearings in the two contested extradition matters in which OSI participated. These transcripts are uncorrected stenographic transcripts. The OSI decisions consist of copies of published and unpublished decisions relating to the final dispositions of OSI’s denaturalization, removal and extradition matters, as well as interim decisions and orders on a variety of important ...

  12. HG Wells in Moscow

    "H.G. Wells Welcomed," Moscow. Air liner lands at Moscow airport. Mr HG Wells alights and is greeted. Close shot of him with others speaking into microphone.

  13. Arrival of Berlin Youth Theater in Odessa; Solomon Mikhoels

    Title in Ukrainian, translation in English: "Hello to the Western European revolutionary artists! Odessa. Train from Berlin with members of the Berlin Youth Theater." LS, train station, arrival of train in station, passengers disembark. Crowds of civilians are gathered on the platform to greet them. Intertitle translation: "Solomon Mikhoels, director of the Jewish State Theater of Moscow(GOSET) greets them." CU, of a young man smiling for the camera, notes identify him as Veniamin Zuskin, a Jewish actor. CU of Mikhoels speaking. Crowd clapping after Mikhoels finishes speaking.

  14. Schoenfeld and Mandelbrot families collection

    Collection of documents, correspondence, photographs, papers, negatives, newspapers and clippings, and other assorted materials which primarily document the experiences of Siegfried, Elsa (nee Schonfeld) and Liselotte Mandelbrot of Stuttgart and their friends and family, and the Mandelbrot's attempts to flee Nazi Germany. The family had visas for the United States, but the papers expired before they could get out. They were deported to Theresienstadt on August 22, 1942, and from there to Auschwitz on October 12, 1944 where they were killed. Elsa Mandelbrot is the donor's father's half siste...

  15. Branch of the Temporary State Board for the Jędrzejów county in Jędrzejów Sąd Grodzki w Jędrzejowie (Sygn. 1699)

    Court files in civil and criminal matters in which one of the parties was a person of Jewish origin. Post-war materials regarding real estate owned by Jews, applications for correction or reconstruction of birth, death or other documents.

  16. Collection of announcements and leaflets about the social life of the Jewish population Zbiór obwieszczeń i ulotek dotyczących życia społecznego ludności żydowskiej (Sygn. 144)

    A pre-war collection of posters, leaflets and announcements from Poland relating to elections to the parliament (a number of announcements refer to the Bund party), theater events, funeral services, lectures and literary evenings.

  17. Presentation by Milton Gottlieb

  18. Ralph J. Scheiderer collection

    Contains photographs, negatives, and documents collected by U.S. serviceman T/Sgt. Ralph J. Scheiderer. Many images concern the liberation of Landsberg/Kaufering concentration camp, and bear handwritten descriptions on the verso. Contains a typwritten report prepared by Robert J. Hartwig entitled "Atrocities of Lansburg [sic] Concentration Camp," and the text of an April 17, 1945 radio report about the actions of the 12th Armored Division.

  20. Nuremberg Trial; War Crimes Trials in Tokyo

    14:15:00 (Munich 366) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, August 20, 1946. (English and German) MS, Justices Francis Biddle and John J. Parker at bench, Biddle is dozing. MS, Hermann Goering and Joachim von Ribbentrop. MS, Erich Raeder, Fritz Sauckel in dock. HAS of Fritz Sauter questioning witness. HAS, US prosecutor Thomas J. Dodd cross-examining Walther Funk (not in scene). 14:20:18 War Crimes Trials, Tokyo, Japan, August 12, 1946. (English) . Mr. John Goetee, a US newspaperman who spent twenty years in China, continues describing his education, background, and work involving politica...