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  1. Ruth Taenzer collection

    Consists of correspondence written from Paula Teitelbaum to Ruth Schiller between 1938-1945. Ruth emigrated to the United States in April 1939, but her friend Paula remained in Europe and wrote to her throughout the war, describing her experiences, including the arrest of her father in 1940.

  2. 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.

  3. Soviet POWs work in factory

    VS, CU, MCU, MS of Soviet POWs who are put to work in a German factory receiving suits and shoes. VS, POWs being fitted for suits, smiling. VS, POWs sitting on a bench trying on shoes, continue to smile for the camera. Walking in front of shop window and bowing. Translation of Russian narration: Many Russians, Ukrainians, Byelorussians, and other Eastern Europeans who were forced to mobilization by the Bolsheviks and later on taken as prisoners of the war, have been freed for their good behavior and are now making their path to start their usual work. Right now we can see a group of former ...

  4. Mirski family papers

    Collection of documents, photographs, drawings, writings, newspaper clippings relating to Klara and Michal Mirski (donor's grandparents). Klara Mirski was born in 1901 as Chaja Fichman and grew up in Warsaw; she was a teacher. Michal was born in 1905 in Kowel as Mosze Tabacznik; he was a teacher and principal in Jewish schools before the war. Due to his Communist activity, he was incarcerated in Bereza Kartuska concentration camp. Michal and Klara married on June 4, 1926 in Skidel. Their daughter Maja was born in 1927. They managed to flee Warsaw in September 1939 to Kowel and in June 1941 ...

  5. Records of German Police Agencies in the Occupied Territories Deutsche Polizeieinrichtungen in den okkupierten Gebieten (Fond 1323)

    Diverse records of the police offices in Germany and includes plans, minutes, interrogations, bulletins, correspondence, personnel files, lists of police offices, reports and directives from the Reichsführer SS Himmler to intermediate levels and to SS Polizeiführer on lower levels. Consists of information about the organization of the Order Police (Orpo) units, Gendarmerie, indigenous formations ("Schutzmannschaften"), and Geheime Feldpolizei (Secret Field Police) in the Occupied Eastern Territories; the regional reports and action plans for numerous localities; information about the activi...

  6. Captured Soviet POWs

    Captured Soviet soldiers, long columns of captured soldiers guarded by Germans, and several destroyed military vehicles. Translation of Ukrainian narration: The number of prisoners constantly increases. Their long columns are being sent to the rear.

  7. Freiburg market and Corpus Christi Day parade

    “MARKET FREIBURG” Sellers and shoppers in the Munsterplatz Market in Freiburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. A man looks over goods in a large basket. “CORPUS CHRISTI DAY FREIBURG” Religious procession for Corpus Christi Day. Marching band. Young girls in white dresses wear flower wreaths on their heads. A large reliquary is carried down the street. German bishops, friars, and other clergymen march. Canopy. Marching band, men walking, and flag bearers.

  8. Shmuel Rosenbaum papers

    The Shmuel Rosenbaum papers consist of biographical materials and photographs documenting Shmuel Rosenbaum and his family before World War II in Poland and Palestine and after the war in Sweden. Biographical materials include identification papers, residence certificates, and a Swedish naturalization application documenting Rosenbaum’s birth in Radom, Poland, and his postwar life in Sweden. Photographs depict Shmuel and his family and friends in prewar Poland (Radom and Warsaw) and Palestine (Tel Aviv and Haifa) and in postwar Sweden (Konga, Malmö, Ryd, Stockholm, Tranås, and Tynningö). The...

  9. Krupp ammunition plant; Alliance of Axis countries; Invasion of Yugoslavia and Greece

    Title: "Hitler Pays Tribute to Krupp 13 August 1940" Hitler visits the Krupp ammunition plant. Hitler pays tribute to Gustav Krupp von Bohlen. MS Hitler shakes hands with Krupp as officers look on. Hitler talking to and gesturing to civilian in dark suit as officers look on. Large crowd of factory workers cheer and salute as Hitler walks past them toward camera, then steps up into car and remains standing. Title: "Signing of the Military-Economic Alliance by Germany, Italy and Japan 27 September 1940" Hitler welcomes delegates at the signing of the Germany-Italy-Japan alliance. LS Group of ...

  10. Industry shots

    Industry/factory shots. Enormous machinery hangs from track near ceiling of room, slides across clerestory windows on wheels. Enormous furnace spewing sparks. VCU of equipment, workers. LS, spewing sparks, workers in silhouette. Hamburg workers parade through the street. Streamers everywhere. Arrival of Hungarian Prime Minister envoy Paul Teleki and Foreign Minister Stefan Csaky in Rome.

  11. Sgt. Edward Tinter collection

    Correspondence includes letters written by Sgt. Edward Tinter (donors' father) to his wife Clara Tinter, during his service in the 9th Armored Division of the US Army during WWII; dated 1944-1945, collection of "Stars and Stripes", dated 1944-1945, and photographs depicting Sgt. Edward Tinter during his military service.

  12. British dignitaries visit DC; FDR and Churchill join the Morgenthaus at their farm to relax; Henry Morgenthau films a spot on war bonds

    The Morgenthau family vacations in Hawaii in 1937 - hiking, waterfall, horseback riding, the beach. 00:36:35 Eleanor Roosevelt, Henry Morgenthau, Jr. and his wife Elinor pose for photographs, perhaps upon their return from France aboard the SS Normandie. Horseback riding, back at the Morgenthau family farm. Scenic views of Hawaii from a ship; a speedboar. 00:38:11 In June 1939, King George and Queen Elizabeth arrive at Union Station, Washington, DC, and are formally greeted. The Queen and Mrs. Roosevelt enter an automobile for transit to the White House. President Roosevelt and his guests b...

  13. British family on holiday in Germany; SA marching band; Walchensee; Cologne

    KODAK. Title: Holiday in Germany August 1936. Title: Coblenz. Rhine Shipping Passing Through Bridge of Boats. Ships on the Rhine River. Lots of scratches on film. Title: Coblenz. German Outing Headed by Storm-Trooper Band. SA marching band and civilians march in a parade down a street in Coblenz, Germany. Title identifies Rothenburg as a picturesque medieval town. People walk, bike, and drive in the streets of Rothenburg. Swastika banners hang from several of the buildings. 02:29 Title: Exploring Dinkelsbuhl Marvelous Old Town Full of Color. Color street scenes, with swastika banners visibl...

  14. Belsen immediately after liberation

    Overturned truck burning (same trucks which carried corpses in earlier shots) - Sgt. Lewis writes it was necessary to burn the wagon in order to "prevent any danger of Typhus spreading". British soldier gives cigarette to female survivor; he sits in jeep. View of mass grave over right shoulder of (Father?) Morrison. Profile of Jewish priest Reverend L.H. Hardman. MS of Father Morrison and Father Kadziolka, a Polish priest in civilian clothing, as they stand by grave and perform ceremony. Barbed wire in background. MCU, survivor seated, looking off in distance. VAR CUs of male survivors, sam...

  15. Sara Zyskind manuscript

    One unpublished manuscript titled "Sara Zyskind." The first few chapters of the third book by Sara Plager Zyskind, survivor of Łódź ghetto. Sara Zyskind was unable to finish her book about the lives of the young survivors in Łódź and their desires and efforts to reach Eretz Israel. The original was written in Hebrew and later translated into Polish.

  16. Sigmund Freud vacationing in Poetzleinsdorf (Vienna), Austria

    Head title, "Freud, Sigmund at Poetzleinsdorf, Vienna, Austria, between 1925 and 1935." Title, "Freud on Holiday, 1920, Institute for Psychoanalysis, 1983." Nice views of Freud. [One web source on Freud chronology identifies Poetzleinsdorf under the year 1931 as: "Weakened by an operation for cancer, Freud spends the summer in a rented villa in the Vienna suburb of Poetzleinsdorf."] Various shots of Freud at the lake home and on the porch, talking with friends - women, men, and children. Mountains in BG. Man with glasses, next to automobile. Garden, with statue and table and chairs. INT, ho...

  17. Hitler at HQ Ukraine, Generals, General Oshima, Ribbentrop, Goebbels

    Hitler's headquarters (FHQ) in the Ukraine. VS, EXTs, Hitler, Ribbentrop, Himmler, Goering, Speer, Doenitz, etc. greeting each other and other German Army officials. Includes Japanese ambassador Oshima, Sepp Dietrich. VS, supplies, airfields. VS, village, men line up and shoot rifles over a fence. VS, CUs of the soldiers faces.

  18. Verdoner family garden

    Otto Verdoner, at roughly four months old. VS, CUs, MCUs, Otto being bathed by his mother. CU, Francisca posing in the arms of a woman in the Verdoner garden, Yoka doing same. VS, MLSs, MSs, MCUs, Francisca and Yoka playing in the garden, and in a sand box. Their grandfather comes out to join them in the garden, followed by other unidentified relatives. The camera focuses for quite a while on a young man as he speaks to an older woman and then to Hilde Verdoner (uncertain of this man's relationship to the family). CU, older couple having tea in the Verdoners' garden.

  19. Carol Scott photographs

    Consists of an oversized photograph taken in 1936 of Adolf Hitler acknowledging a crowd in Austria during a parade. Also includes a copy of a photograph from the 1920s of a Ku Klux Klan parade in Virginia.

  20. Illich family visits Salzburg

    The three Illich boys stand outside a car with their luggage. Boarding a Lufthansa bus. A Nazi plane ("TACA D-AJAT" and swastika) takes off from an airfield. On the river, large buildings, taking photographs at a bridge, swastika banners. City street scenes, INT of café. Salzburg train station. Shots of the countryside from a train. The twins walk through a field. Taking a boat tour of the lake, photographs, rowboat with all three boys. A large group of tourists walk through the village - swastika, Konditerei, small streets, marching band, boat. Shots from inside a cave. Mountains in the di...