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  1. Stanley Granat collection

    The collection consists of a photographic postcard with an image of Adolf Hitler and a propaganda calendar sent by the Organization for Germanness in Foreign Countries to German nationals living in foreign countries. The collection also includes a letter accompanying the propaganda calendar.

  2. Food; bazaar; vendors; shop; market

    HAS, INTs, crowds at food bazaar, probably in summertime. CUs, vendors, food and clothing for sale. 01:04:35 Quick sequence of designer sketching seen earlier on this Film ID 3038. Close shots of Russians, appear uneasy in front of camera. Stacks of sardines and canned fish. INTs, women, cashiers, children. CUs, serving/weighing caviar for sale. HAS, cafe. INTs, activity in shop, patrons, register, sales. 01:06:23 Quick, EXT, market woman picking over vegetables for sale. Pan down, chandelier in shop, HAS, INTs shop. 01:06:52 EXT, market, women with babushkas, child drinking. INT, woman tri...

  3. Gestapo Düsseldorf Geheime Staatspolizei-Staatspolizeileitstelle Düsseldorf (RW 0058)

    Case files of individuals arrested by the Gestapo in the Rhine Land region, consisting of questionnaires, protocols, internments and dismissals, Schutzhaft orders, arrest orders, flyers, photographs, and biographical information with particular focus on the Communist Party in Germany and associated political organizations (Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands (KPD), Kommunistischer Jugendverband Deutschlands (KJVD), Kampfbund gegen den Faschismus, Roter Frontkämpferbund (RFB), Revolutionäre Gewerkschaftsopposition (RGO), Rot Sport, Aufbruch-Arbeitskreis, Ringbolschewisten); the Communist move...

  4. Selected records of the Landrat Mikulov (A 8)

    Consists of selected files related to the aryanization of Jewish-owned properties in Southern Moravia.

  5. Photograph of Jewish men from Balta rounded-up for forced labor

    The photograph depicts Jewish men from the community of Balta, presently in Ukraine, who have been rounded up for forced labor. The men wear star badges on their clothes and some carry tools. The photograph is associated with the service of Arthur Peucker who served with Luftwaffen-Bau-Bataillon 16/XI on the Eastern Front.

  6. Hornstein family collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of the Hornstein family, originally of Przemyśl, Poland, including being forced from Poland 1942 to Soviet work camps in Siberia and Karaganda, Kazakhstan, and post-war immigrations to Cuba and the United States. Included are personal papers of Irving Hornstein, immigration paperwork regarding Cuba and the United States, an autograph book, clipping, and photograph album. Personal papers of Irving include Hebrew lessons from Havana, Cuba and New York, diplomas, and copies of U.S. Army discharge papers. Immigration paperwork includes affi...

  7. UNRRA selected records AG-018-022 : Greece Mission

    Correspondence, press releases, individual stories, monthly and annual reports, field trip reports, statistics, and working materials on training courses. Records relate to the UNRRA assistance and relief to war refugees, displaced Jews, child welfare, food supplies for hospitals and orphanages. Includes files of displaced persons organized by regions.

  8. Scenes of Ludwigslust at Liberation

    Remnants of Nazism, Ludwigslust, Germany, May 6, 1945. MCU, German civilians coming out of concentration camp building after viewing bodies of victims. Woman is very distraught, crying into kerchief. More civilians leaving building. LS, square. LS, MS, CU American soldiers entering and leaving same building. Digging Graves, Ludwigslust, Germany, May 6, 1945. LSs, MSs, CUs, German civilians digging graves for the concentration camp victims. MSs, CUs, German civilians walking past graves, viewing the bodies. American/Army flags. VIP, US and other soldiers exit building. Salute. Crowd in town....

  9. Goebbels at Handel concert

    Goebbels speaks at a commemorative concert for Bach, Handel and Schutz, re: "...Forms change, but the soul remains. The meaning of German [Culture] remains so long as the German people live. To keep their Immortality is the the duty of each generation..." Goebbels also speaks of Gleichschaltung, the spirit of German creativity, and a mix of culture and politics. MS of Goebbels speaking with CUs of audience, performers, theater (stage draped by swastikas). Several views of orchestra and chorus performing Handel's "Hallelujah Chorus."

  10. Hitler Youth

    Heini Voelker (Juergen Ohlsen, an unidentified Hitler Youth) is a 15 year old and non-political apprentice in Berlin with a jobless Communist father. While at a Communist Youth camp to which he was sent by his father, Heini is deeply intrigued by the expression of discipline and comradeship at a nearby Hitler Youth camp. His mother gasses herself and attempts to gas the boy. During his recovery in the hospital, he is incorporated into a "substitute family" of Hitler Youth. Heini is stabbed to death by members of the Communist Youth while disseminating Nazi propaganda materials for the parli...

  11. Kan family ice skating; at home in Amsterdam; Betsy at school

    Title card: "1934" EXT shots of an ice rink with people skating in Amsterdam. 01:00:31 Side view of a house. Betsy and Robert exit the house and walk down the steps towards the camera. Jeanne exits the house behind the children and closes the door. 01:00:44 Tall fence with the number 66. Children run down the walkway towards the camera. 01:00:53 EXT, wooded area. Children run towards the camera. Ice rink in BG. EXT of ice rink and people skating. 01:01:05 Betsy skates while holding Robert's hand. More shots of the ice rink including two swans swimming in a patch of open water. 01:01:38 City...

  12. Nazi officials dining; January 1940 document

    People descend stairs of stone building, the Berglandschaft in the Tatra mountains, a place for high-ranking German officers during the Nazi occupation. Pan up to Nazi flag. Women and children enter through a door. Nazi officials drink beer and eat in a large dining room with patterned curtains. 01:08:39 CU, handwritten document 2749-PS signed by Heinrich Himmler dated 28 January 1940. 01:08:44 Frank and two other men (possibly Bühler to the left and Dr. Karl Lasch to the right) in civilian clothes eat dinner in same dining room. Quick shot of spire (possibly the Kressendorf castle).

  13. March of Time -- outtakes -- Hodza; Masaryk; Czech army; festival; Prague

    Czechoslovakian Prime Minister Hodza in his office. President Masaryk with the Czech Legion. Czech motorized army, cavalry. 1932 Sokol Festival in Prague. Bata (shoe) store in Prague.

  14. Lazega family collection

    Documents, photographs, papers, correspondence documenting the experiences of Jacob and Leah Lazega, and their children Fanny (donor), Eva, and Max before, during, and after the Holocaust. The Lazega family fled their home in Brussels during the German invasion of Belgium and went to Paris temporarily. When the Germans arrived in Paris, the family fled first to Vannes and then south to Marseilles. Jacob was taken to Camp des Milles, where the family could occasionally visit and bring him food and supplies. Leah was able to help her husband escape from the camp, and he then went into hiding....

  15. Phyllis Shaw collection

    Collection of photographs taken in a sanatorium in Sweden, depicting liberated Jewish women originally from Rumania and Hungary. Among them is Regina Pollak (donor's mother) born on August 10, 1925. The women were liberated from Bergen-Belsen and gave each other photographs as mementos. Includes two photographs of "Ester" with her family taken in Rumania before the mass deportations, dated February 15, 1944. Other photographs show Josef Ganz (donor's father), born February 21, 1919, who survived Mauthausen and Dachau concentration camps. Regina survived Auschwitz, Dachau and Bergen-Belsen c...

  16. Testimonies

    Contains copies of notorized confirmations (witness statements) about Nyssya Milman's presence in the Luchinets Ghetto in the Ukraine.

  17. Territorial collection-Holland (RG-116-Holland)

    Records reflect primarily the activities of the Amsterdam Judenrat with its various departments, and the Jewish interaction with the German and Dutch authorities, the daily life and living conditions of the Jews in Holland under the Nazi occupation, some documents relate to Jewish life in Netherlands prior to, and subsequent to the Holocaust. Included are records of the Joodsche Raad (Judenrat), the Nazi-appointed Jewish councils in Amsterdam, the Hague and Rotterdam; reports about anti-Jewish laws; weekly and monthly reports about deportations, 1942-1943; communications with internees in t...

  18. Mass funeral service, Neuenberg; UNWCC visit to Buchenwald

    (LIB 6133) Atrocity, Neuenburg, Germany, April 29, 1945. Seq: Civilian population gathers for reburial of slave laborers killed by the German SS troops. Wooden coffins are carried by women and men to lawn of government building. CUs, faces and bodies of murdered victims. VS, procession of men carrying bodies in open coffins marches through streets. (LIB 6114) Buchenwald Concentration Camp, near Weimar, Germany, April 26, 1945. Seq: United Nations War Crimes Commission officers visit camp site. Group tours camp. Included in those photographed are Mr. Oldham, Australia; Mr. Stavropoulos, Gree...

  19. Nazi losses in the Russian campaign

    Reel 10 maps the Russian encirclement of Nazis at Stalingrad. Marshal Nikolai Voronoff confers with his aides. The encircling Red armies meet in Dec. 1942. Flamethrowers, rockets, and artillery are used to force the surrender of remnants of 22 Nazi divisions. The final scene maps Russian gains and cites statistics on Nazi losses thus far in the campaign.

  20. "Victims of Bolshevik Terror"

    CU, women, crying. Bodies laid out (victims of the Soviets). International press visits the site. CU, personal effects of victims; clothing, photographs, papers, documents, all laid out on tables. Table of religious artifacts and relics (crosses, crowns, etc.) Translation of Ukrainian narration: European press representatives are shown the place of mass executions so they could be convinced of the barbaric tortures Ukrainian people were put through. These are the pits where victims are buried. Letters and other possessions of the tortured are used to help people to identify the dead. Items ...