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  1. Russia 1942; POWs; Luftwaffe

    AGFA 8.1942: Russia, population in the market place in Landser, village is on fire. 10:02:30 Landser, burning place in the background, Russian prisoners of war. 10:04:16 heavy gun fires. 10:04:33 soldier on typewriter, advance. 10:06:30 JU 52 in flight. 10:08:39 Air Force: bomb loading, various repairs to machines, bullets in the tail unit. 10:17:00 Paris, usual pictures. 10:22:36 Aerial photos: shadows of the machine on the ground, bomber loading. 10:24:57 train station, RK sisters, flash girls, bomb loading.10:29:08 aircraft in the air, view into flight cabin, pilot and gunner. 10:32:21 P...

  2. Wedding and honeymoon of HJ leader

    Film shows the marriage of HJ leader Friedrich Nowak on July 1, 1939 in Linz, followed by the honeymoon to Rab (F) and a trip with "KDF" to Carinthia. 00:04:08 - 00:15:19 Honeymoon Linz, HJ guide on the island of RAB in Yugoslavia, nude bathing, b / w and color, summer 1939. 00:15:22 - 00:17:37 Ober-Micheldorf. Vacation 1940, beautiful basket stroller, Friedrich Nowak. 00:19:39 - 00:20:03 Ferry across the Weissensee, Carinthia.

  3. Vacationing in Italy, 1929; parade

    Well-dressed woman walks around a manicured sculpture garden. Pan of a large building, terrace and mountains behind. 0:46 Pan of a café terrace; a string ensemble plays, waiters smile for the camera. 1:12 Well-dressed woman walks down the steps of a large building, walks towards the camera. 1:38 Views of a large sculpture, mountains in the distance. Children, group of women walk in front of a guarded fortress. 2:27 Pan of a café terrace, cars, bicycles pass by. Pan of a rooftop pool, women sit, drink at umbrella tables. A group plays in a fountain in the pool. Another pan of the pool. 3:57 ...

  4. Private films of DAF activities

    Contination of RG-60.5394

  5. Visiting Vienna and Budapest; wedding

    With intertitles in English. “Villach- on Austrian Border.” Woman walks around a parked car to the passenger door. 0:16 “Main Street of the Town near the Railway Station.” Busy street with people and carts passing by. 0:32 “On the way to Vienna.” Shot of a train station with sign reading “Judenburg.” 0:48 Shot of a train station with a sign reading “Knittelfeld.” People and a small dog pass in front of the camera. 1:06 “Vienna- The Ringstrasse- Before the Hotel Bristol.” Large Avenue with many people walking by. 1:20 “Some of the Gang Leave Us.” Group of well-dressed people smile and wave t...

  6. Spinning plant; anniversary

    Private films. Agfa 1938. Spinning plant Schründer in Greven, Westphalia - 1938 anniversary elebration of fifty years of the factory. With multi-generational faces, Nazi symbols, children, machines spinning wool. Banner at the factory “1888-1938.”

  7. SA march

    SA men in uniform convene outdoors, speeches, parades

  8. Mandel family papers

    The Mandel family papers include biographical material, restitution files, photographs, and family documents relating to Yehuda Mandel and his family’s experiences pre-war in Latvia and Hungary, their flight from Budapest, immigration to the United States, and their post-war life in America. A large portion of the collection includes materials relating to Yehuda’s Cantorial career including music, education records, programs, newspaper clippings, awards, speeches, and documents relating to various conventions and organizations.

  9. Josef and Ruth Rosenberg papers

    The collection primarily documents the post-war experiences of Josef and Ruth Rosenberg, both of whom were from Poland, interned in the Łódź ghetto, and liberated from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp where they met and later married. The collection includes identification papers, immigration documents, restitution claims paperwork, and photographs taken at Bergen-Belsen from 1945-1947 along with some pre-war family photographs. The biographical materials include identification papers and immigration documents that both reflect their status as stateless refugees. The restitution claims ...

  10. Murray and Hana Lustig Greenfield collection

    Collection of pre-war photographs of Hana Lustig Greenfield (donor's late wife) from Kolin, Czechoslovakia. Included are several documents. Hana survived Terezin and Auschwitz. Collection of photos and two negatives pertaining to donor's participation in MACHAL - "Overseas Volunteers" who came in 1947-1949 to fight for the nascent State of Israel during its struggle for survival and independence.

  11. "The Struggle for Life"

    Consists of one typed translation of a memoir, approximately 47 pages, entitled "The Struggle for Life" by Feivel (Shraga) Solomiansky. In the memoir, he describes hiding during two German raids on his hometown of Iliya (now Ilʹi︠a︡), when inhabitants were rounded up and shot, and his subsequent escape to the nearby forest, where he hid and eventually joined a partisan group. He describes raids against German units and German-held towns; attempts to free Jews from ghettos; a raid in Miadel (Myadel); the daily life of his unit; a raid on the Lida airport; and finally encountering the Red Arm...

  12. Investigatory Commission on Anti-Argentine Activities Comisión Especial Investigadora de Actividades Antiargentinas

    The collection contains the records of the Special Commission of Inquiry into Anti-Argentine Activities (Chamber of Deputies), prior to and during World War II; and sessions of the Argentine Senate of the Nation. Features reports, testimonies, financial records, publications, pamphlets, and photographs relating to National-Socialist activities on the territory of Argentina, including by the German secret services, local German-Argentine organizations, German-Argentine schools, and the German embassy, among others.

  13. Robert Sejwacz Collection

    Contains one postcard with a photograph of the donor, Robert Sejwacz, and his mother Freida Sejwacz. The photograph was taken in Paris to send to Robert's father Walek, who was in the French army awaiting combat. Another copy of the photograph was sent to Walek, and had an inscription on the back.

  14. DPs; newborn children; DPs celebrate a special occiasion

    Displaced persons climb into a truck [same men in march in Film ID 4154?]. Babies in a crib. Brief shots of a newborn. A group celebrates, gathers around a table before a decorated sign in Hebrew.

  15. UNRRA selected records AG-018-012 : Washington DC Headquarters

    Selected files of the UNRRA Washington DC Headquarters: files on the European Mission, the Displaced Persons Division, the Welfare Division and Branches, history of the UNRRA; files of personnel recruitment, status, regulations, trainings, salary and causalities, decorations and awards, staff visits to Europe, China and Middle East; files on the UNESCO Staffing and Fellowship Programs, the voluntary agencies, economic recovery and educational rehabilitation, finance and administration, clothing and food collection, minutes of meetings of various Committees and UNRRA Council sessions, report...

  16. Suwalki street scenes, orphanage, and cemetery

    Lottie Bland at the Suwalki cemetery. Ritual washing house [Taharah] by the entrance of the cemetery, plaque on wall with Biblical verses recited during the ritual washing, the washing table. Locals gather around the Bland family's car. Zlotke poses for the camera with a family member. Scenes on Kasciuszko Street, crowds. Suwalki city hall. A man collecting for the Talmud Torah. Harold pumps water at a well while his father Herman helps him. Two peasant women with a cart. Dr. Erdreich's apothecary store on Kosciuszko Street. Women wash clothes on a canal off of the Czarna Hancza River. Scen...

  17. Morgenthau family leisure activities at their farm in New York

    At the Morgenthau family farm called The Homestead - Fishkill Farms, ca. 1926, Henry III, Robert and Joan play in a pool. They play with a puppy outside. Father Henry Morgenthau Jr. and his wife Elinor Fatman Morgenthau, hold hands with Henry III, Joan, and Robert while walking outside, then play baseball. 00:01:25 Joan talks to Henry Jr. as he films her sitting at the beach in Weekapoag, Rhode Island, probably in August in the mid-1920s when visiting the Weekapoag Inn where the family rented a cottage. The three children sing. Henry and Robert on a rented sailboat called the Mahogany. The ...

  18. Jewish family in Poland

    INTs, the Blands socialize with friends and their families, possibly in Warsaw as can indicates. Bland relatives pose for the camera outside, probably in Suwalki. They attempt to get their dog to pose with them. More family and friends posing. 00:11:45 Harold chases ducks, Herman apprehensively visits a wooden outhouse in Suwalki. More family portraits and close-ups.

  19. Chil Turek papers

    The Chil Turek papers primarily contain identification cards, employment and testimony documents, photographs, and restitution papers that document his time in displaced persons camps at Feldafing and Stuttgart, Germany from 1946-1948. The employment and testimony papers relate to Chil’s work as a locksmith instructor and his testimony that he was in concentration camps in Lublin, Radom, Auschwitz, Vaihingen an der Enz, and Dachau. The identification cards include papers issued from the Political Prisoners Committee, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany; the International Information Office – Da...

  20. "L'histoire de Hersz Jedlinski et sa famille de Czenstochowa" [sic]

    Printed biography, 80 pages, compiled by Eliane and Claude Ungar, recounting the history of Hersz Jedlinski (1918-1992), the father of Eliane Ungar, and his family in Częstochowa, Poland, prior to and during the Holocaust. Included is a genealogy of the Jedlinski family, including relatives living in Israel, and a description of the history of Jews in Czestochowa prior to the war, and the events there following the German occupation and the formation of the ghetto. Jedlinski's own experiences are detailed, including his time as a forced laborer at a HASAG camp in Częstochowa and at other ...