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  1. Innsbruck

    Title: CPC Film. Italian youth organization, light railway, Bavaria: dance, people's fair, beer. Ice skating. Motorcycle race.

  2. Ava Berry collection

    Contains a letter from Clara, Gidus, and Schulim in Lvov, Ukraine, written by Schulim three weeks after their liberation, describing their survival through Nazi occupation. Schulim describes torture and murder in and around Krakow and "Limberg." In addtion, he describes being interned in the ghetto [Lwow?] He describes being told about the killing center Belzec and Jews transported there to be killed. Letter is in English and addressed to Schulim's brother.

  3. Luftwaffe private film

    1. Luftwaffe private film

  4. Bodnar family collection

    Collection of documents, correspondence, and photographs which document the experiences of the Bodnar family of Vienna, Austria, who fled through Switzerland, Italy, and France before arriving in the United States. Includes a recording made by Fani Bodnar (Jacque's mother), and a visa signed by Hiram Bingham IV allowing Jacques to travel to the United States.

  5. Railway construction regiment in the Carpathian forest

    Construction, blasting. Last bridge built in Eastern Slovakia.

  6. Selected records of the City Bodzentyn Akta miasta Bodzentyn (Sygn.126)

    Files of the communal office of Bodzentyn with information about Jews living in the commune. Included are licenses to run industries, lists of landlords (estates and lands), documents related to election to the communal council, tax rates, shares to the firefighting fund, registers of the Bodzentyn region and indexes to the population ledgers, as well as a book of communal resolutions (1910-1938) and a list of births, marriages and death in the synagogue district of Bodzentyn (1923).

  7. Alicia Altmueller collection

    The Alicia Altmueller collection consists of three letters written in August 1947 by three survivors requesting assistance (warm clothing, shoes, physical support) from Mr. J. Garfinkel, Kiever Independent Unterstuzung Verein (KIUV). The three survivors wrote KIUV on behalf of themselves, family and friends from Campo Adriatico IRO, Milan DP. The IRO supported camp was also referred to as Transit Camp Bari, located in Apulia. Names in the letters are as follows: Miriam Kegen along with unnamed husband and daughter, Aron Bakalchuk and Lucy Bakalchuk, Girsch Goberman and Sonia Goberman (née T...

  8. Hitlertag in Munich; groundbreaking of the House of German Arts

    KODAK. “Hitlertag in Muenchen Juli 1932.” Soldiers march through Munich, spectators, some doing the Nazi salute. Another view. The soldiers raise their arms in salute. Hitler stands on platform, his arm outstretched in salute, beside Ernest Rohm. 10:01:35 Heinrich Himmler, the SS Reichsfuehrer. “Kesselbergrennen 1932” 10:02:14 “Grunsteinlegung zum ‘Haus der Deustchen Kunst' 15 Oktober 1933” [Groundbreaking for the House of the German Arts in Munich] Huge crowds of spectators watch from stands. At the center of the square, soldiers stand in formation. Nazi flags. 10:03:09 Nazi official speak...

  9. US Buy War Bonds poster depicting the Statue of Liberty

    American war bond poster printed in 1945, featuring a clenched fist holding war bonds superimposed in front of the Statue of Liberty’s arm and torch. The symbolism of the image implies that purchasing war bonds was a way the public could support and protect American liberty, represented by the Statue of Liberty’s torch, which is also the lone light in the night sky. The United States Government offered the public the opportunity to purchase war bonds, and return them for reimbursement at a later date. Purchasing bonds was considered patriotic and an investment in victory. U.S. posters tende...

  10. Ajlkichen and Fleichaker families papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of the Ajlkichen family of Brussels, Belgium, including the efforts of Kiwa Ajlkichen and his wife, Tcharna Fleichaker, to hide their children Roza and François, and the deportation of their daughter, Dora, in 1942 and her murder at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Documents include identification papers, a Polish passport, correspondence, a family book, a personal narrative describing Roza’s experiences, and material related to the family’s effort to learn the fate of Dora. Photographs include prewar family photographs of the Ajlkiche...

  11. Prewar Warsaw city scenes

    Reel 3. A rural landscape from a train as it quickly moves by. Windmills. A boat on a canal. More waterways. Farmland. Women and children walk on a sidewalk. Buildings with scaffolding along the front. The Old Town Square in Warsaw. Doors open on a balcony. A woman holding her son. People outside of Holy Cross Church. A street corner and the building above. A woman pours cups of water on the sidewalk. A shoeless boy on the sidewalk. Children gather on steps in a doorway. A woman sits with her son on her lap. Another mother sits with her child who is eating soup. Plants. Through an iron gate...

  12. Private films; Hitler posters/propaganda

    Kodak. Private film. Germany

  13. Schützenpanzer; Russian campaign

    Schützenpanzer [armored personnel carriers]. German soldier on scouting armor, field exercise. 02:26 Soldiers on street, Krad. 03:08 Winter: patrol on foot. 03:22 HK flag, eagle, barracks "Schlieffen-Kaseme", MG shooting, (Winter), then spring: recruits. 05:47 light armored car, various shots, slipped into ditch. 10:14 Start of Russian campaign, tanks, captured Russian flag, German leaflet to Russians.

  14. Olympics 1936

    KODAK. German amateur filmmaker, Willi Wünsch. 10:00:00 Grünau, rower, commentator, Japanese. 10:05:38 Stadium, spectators close: Norwegians, Italians, Jesse Owens? run. 10:06:37 diving. 10:08:38 triple jump. 10:10:50 Diving (Slomo), swimming

  15. Journey continues in Konstanz, Zurich, and Paris; Family celebrations; Onboard the SS New York returning to America

    With intertitles in English. “On the boat to Konstanz- Germany- scenes along the Bodensee.” Scenes of the town and seagulls from the water. 0:23 “The Insel Hotel and Gardens at Konstanz.” Shots of swans, other birds in the water. Well-dressed woman walks around the courtyard of the hotel. 1:13 “Scenes in Zurich- Switzerland.” Views of Zurich and the mountains behind it. 1:22 “The University.” Views of the University, city behind it and a busy, snowy street. A man directs traffic as a streetcar passes in front of the camera. 1:42 “The Garden of the Hotel Baur au Lac.” Well-dressed woman walk...

  16. Königstiger 1944

    Königstiger 1944. Panzer III. Filmed on 35mm by a PK soldier and presented to Mr. Richard Freiherr von Rosen on the occasion of his birthday.

  17. Labor Service

    With Geman titles (and French translations). Scenes from the Arbeitsdienst des Stahlhelms [Labor Service of the Steel helmets]. "Bund der Frontsoldaten" [Front Soldiers Association]

  18. Reichsarbeitsdienst in Poland 1940

    "RAD Lager Freiburg" 1940. Boarding train. Fires. Ruins. "Rückfahrt nach Radom" Swimming.

  19. Adolf Hitler, filmed by his pilot Hans Baur (partly in color)

    10:00:00 View from a flying plane on wing and propeller, flight over clouds 10:00:27 Inside the cabin: Goebbels reads, Brückner sleeps, Schaub behind Hitler, Hitler reads in the "Völkische Beobachter". 10:01:05 Color: Hitler on an airfield. Cannon. Hitler eats standing in the midst of officers, 10:01:38 Hitler gets on the car, the car is surrounded by members of the Luftwaffe, all of them raise their arms to greet the Germans, several vehicles set off. 10:01:51 Hitler with escort (including Wilhelm Keitel and Julius Schaub) holds on to his cap and welcomes Luftwaffe officers.

  20. Private Nazi films; ice sailing; Jews with armbands in Poland (color); Roma camp

    Material from Götz Hirt-Reger. Some parts with title cards in German. Air rifle shooting, women's sport, men's sports, man limps, stadium sports competitions, lunch table. Family, dog, garden, Leipzig. Agriculture, grain harvest in Saxony, hunting. 10:54:41 1943. Ice sailing on the Rangsdorfer See. 11:00:19 German withdrawal in Russia, mud, stuck vehicles, riders. City, bomb damage, Dornier whale. Russia, soldiers hunt pig, tanks. 11:17:17 RAD camp (color). Brief shot, Jews performing hard labor. 11:17:49 Title card: "Warschau ost-Einfahrt" City views, rubble, Jews with armbands (color), ar...