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  1. Parade of SS Division Galicia in Kolomyja; Estonian Waffen SS battalion

    Military ceremony for the SS Galizien in Kolymyia (Kołomyja). Men stand on a wooden platform in a field, surrounded by a crowd. They carry flags and military standards, including what may be a variation on the Lviv coat of arms (or perhaps on the West Ukrainian People's Republic's coat of arms, which itself is likely a variation on the Lviv one), several swastika flags, at least two SS standards, and a banner with sword painted down the middle, reading "For Ukraine, For Freedom, For Honor, For Glory. --- U.G.A. 1918". SS Galician Division parades through town, some dressed in traditional Uk...

  2. March of Time -- outtakes -- survivors (women) in hospital

    Jewish Concentration Camp. US medic examining women (former camp inmates). INT of hospital. CUs of victims and their wounds. US ambulance leaving the Red Cross hospital. Women on stretchers carried to and from ambulance. CU, German nurses.

  3. Concentration camp uniform dress with number 94593 worn by a German Jewish inmate

    Concentration camp uniform dress worn by Hannah Lenschitzki in Kaiserwald, Stutthof, and Thorn concentration camps from April 1943 to January 1945. It has a white patch with her Stutthof prisoner number, 94593. On December 15, 1941, Hannah, 19, and her mother Rosa were deported from Hannover to Riga ghetto in Latvia. In April 1943, they were sent to Kaiserwald concentration camp in Riga. Hannah and Rosa were separated and Hannah worked in an AEG factory. In September 1944, Hannah was sent to Stutthof concentration camp in Danzig, Germany, where she was reunited with Rosa. Hannah was sent to...

  4. Rabinowitz family photographs

    Collection of photographs related to the experiences of the Rabinowicz family from Gorlice, Poland, who fled to Lwów before being deported to a labor camp near Novosibirsk. After their release in 1942 they moved to Kuybyshev, then to Jambul (today Taraz) in Kazakhstan. After the war the family returned to Poland before moving to the Heidenheim displaced persons camp; eventually they immigrated to Israel in July 1949.

  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. FDR receives report on Nazis

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 10, No. 724, Part 2C. Release date, 11/30/1938. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: "FDR gets report on Nazis" Warm Springs, GA. In a conference which is expected to have far-reaching effects on the US foreign policy, President Roosevelt meets with Ambassadors Hugh Wilson, recalled from Germany, and William Phillips, home from Italy. EXT of White House and driveway. INT stone wall of lodge. FDR and two other men at small table. CU, FDR talking, smiling. MS, CU of men. Ambassador Hugh Wilson, who expressed some sympathy for Nazism, was recalled from Germ...

  7. German advance toward Caucasus

    The amateur films shot by German infantryman Corporal Eugen Biedenbach of 419 Infantry Regiment record his training and active service in the German campaigns against Yugoslavia and on the southern sector of the Eastern Front. The films also containg pre- and post-war scenes of Biedenbach family life in Stuttgart (where the family of Eugen's wife owned a clothes store) as well as recreational activities. Reel 16: Winter. German soldiers in village. Garmasch. Elderly Ukrainian peasant. Move to Latonovo, with patches of snow still lying. Destruction. Werchne Schiroky. In large town of Stalino...

  8. Concentration camp uniform and ID card collection

    The collection consists of a concentration camp uniform cap, jacket, and pants and an identification card from Trausdorf, Germany.

  9. Antisemitic Nazi propaganda leaflet mimicking a US silver certificate

    Anti-Jewish and anti-Allied forces Nazi propaganda leaflet like those dropped from planes over Paris in late 1943, as part of a German propaganda campaign to raise suspicions against the United States and its part in the worldwide Jewish conspiracy which threatened the safety of France and all of Europe. The streets would appear to be littered with real dollar bills. Then, after picking one up, a person would discover that it was fake and see the information detailing how Jews have manipulated the US and controlled its currency to support the Jewish threat and wage the Jewish war.

  10. Simon Strauss photograph

    Consists of one photograph depicting Jewish deportees from the Hanau, Gelnhausen and Schuechtern districts boarding a train at the Hanau station. Among those being deported is the donor's uncle, Ludwig Gernsheimer.

  11. Joseph Birnberg and Mania Nussenbaum Birnberg papers

    The collection includes documents and photographs relating to the Holocaust-era experiences of Joseph Birnberg, originally of Kołomyja, Poland (Kolomyi︠a︡, Ukraine), including his wartime work in the Ural region of Russia, his postwar work with the American Joint Distribution Committee in Salzburg, Austria, his marriage to Mania Nussenbaum, and their immigration to the United States. Also included are a small amount of documents and photographs related to Mania, originally of Zborów, Poland (Zboriv, Ukraine), in the New Palestine DP camp in Salzburg. Biographical materials include documents...

  12. Barbie Trial -- Day 17 -- Discussion of the chain of command in the Lyon Gestapo; a witness testifies

    13:36 President Cerdini calls the session to order; asks that the accused present himself; Barbie refuses to appear; Cerdini calls on the bailiff to compel the accused to appear 13:37 The bailiff reads the names of the witnesses scheduled to give testimony in the session 13:39 Cerdini suspends the session while the bailiff goes to Barbie to compel him to appear 14:02 Cerdini calls the session to order; the bailiff reads Barbie's statement that he refuses to appear 14:05 Prosecutor Klarsfeld asks that the Floreck Report be read into the court proceedings: Vergès had referenced the report in ...

  13. Touring Vienna and Austria

    COLOR family footage of the Herz family vacation in Europe in 1937. Footage shows images of Jewish-American life before World War II with its European roots. Herz family posing in front of gardens in Vienna, plaza, "Blumen" stand, chalets. 01:15:22 Jacob, his wife, and two daughters walking towards camera. Two boys (probably Herz relatives living in Vienna). Swimming at the beach. 01:17:32 Herz girls and two boys walking around garden in German folk costumes and lederhosen in front of "Kointech" building. "Das Haus" sign. Strolling through town. Parade.

  14. "Zug Bist Ahtzen"

    Consists of one typed memoir entitled "Zug Bist Ahtzen" ["Say You're Eighteen"] as told by Auschwitz survivor Gary S. Rubinstein to his grandson, Benyamin Moalem. In the memoir, Mr. Rubinstein describes the German invasion of his hometown of Wołomin, Poland. He describes being placed in a ghetto and his attempted escape to Łomża, Poland, in the fall of 1942. Almost immediately upon his arrival, the Jews of Lomza were marched to Zambrów , and, six weeks later, deported to Auschwitz. He was assigned to Kanada, where he sorted prisoner belongings and describes both the Nazi officers smugglin...

  15. Eva Rosemarie Feigl collection

    Consists of documents, eight pre-war family photographs, and two books written in German and Hebrew entitled, "Gebetbuch and Stunden der Andacht" from the estate of Ms. Eva Rosemarie Feigl. The documents included in the collection are: Eva Feigl’s naturalization certificate, Alien Registration card, high school diploma, birth certificate, and a photocopy of an affidavit in lieu of a passport, issued by the U.S. consulate in Marseille, 1940. Also included are handwritten genealogical charts by Feigl, a handwritten copy of a text related to Feigl's departure from Europe in 1940, and a printed...

  16. Program for meeting of Bergen Belsen survivors

    Contains a program for a meeting of Bergen Belsen survivors which includes the name of the speaker, Nachum Goldmann, and the menu for the event.

  17. Invasion of Poland

    German troops opening border gate (Polish border)- well-known footage. Troops marching in. Planes taking off. Burning buildings. Tanks crossing a river.

  18. Alex Frieder and family visit tobacco plantations and workers in the provinces

    A Filipino man riding a water buffalo takes Alex Frieder for a ride in a cart pulled by the buffalo. Tobacco field, possibly in the Cagayan Valley and other provinces in the Philippines. Native Filipino men stand before bamboo hut. Alex inspects tobacco leaves for purchase. Alex talks with villagers. Locals show him how to row a bangka (an outrigger canoe) across a stream. 01:02:22 Village women squat and sort tobacco leaves. Wider view of the hut with a thatched roof. 01:03:04 Frieder gets a tour. INTs, women pound grain and tobacco leaves. 01:03:29 A woman (with a cigar) and her young chi...

  19. W. F. Schmid papers

    The collection consists of copy negatives and contact sheets of Signal Corps photographs and a photocopy of a booklet on the Buchenwald concentration camp by F. M. S. Miller.

  20. Jake Fersztand collection

    Contains 15 photographs pertaining to Jake Fersztand's family during the the Holocaust