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  1. Agro-Joint in Pervomaysk

    Intertitle describes the first stop, which was the colony of Pervomaysk, which is one of 216 such colonies and consists of 216 families. Pan of Pervomaysk. LS of several houses, horse pulling wagon in FG. S of long low building and silo structures. CU of older man with beard cap and glasses with family. Isaac Jacobson, president of the Kolkhoz (colony) walks toward the camera. LS new home being built with brick. Stables are separated from homes. LS Modern school house in Kalininsk. LS looking back at local houses.

  2. Hitler lays wreath; Youth meeting; Ninth Party Congress

    Title: "German Sailors Killed in the Spanish Civil War Brought Home on the "Deutschland" 18 June 1937" Hitler lays a wreath commemorating the return of German soldiers killed in the Spanish Civil War and addresses a youth meeting. Title: "Ninth Party Congress 6-13 September 1937" Hitler speaks.

  3. Postwar wedding of Jewish survivors; ritual circumcision of their newborn

    Title, "Onze Trouw-Film" [Our Wedding Film]. City streets. At the Roxy Theater. Maurits Schaap and Rebecca (Bep) Bedak, soon to be married, meet and start toward City Hall in August 1945. Title, "Aankomst op het staduis" City Hall (The Hague). Street signs and the general location. There is no filming inside City Hall itself for the signing of the marriage license. The couple exits the building holding the marriage contract. In Rotterdam, Bep wears diamond jewelry just below her neck. The family prepares for the wedding ceremony in a synagogue in Rotterdam. Bep dresses in a gown and veil. 0...

  4. Liberator clips

    Video clips compiled for screening at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Days of Remembrance activities in April 2010 commemorating the role of liberators. The videos were displayed in the classrooms on the concourse level of the Museum during the Collections Open House activities. Contents include: Liberation of Buchenwald; white flags; US infantry (April 1945) in color (USHMM Tape HMM108, 01:00:13 to 01:04:56) 83rd Div, Ohrdruf patrols (April 6/7, 1945) in b/w (USHMM Tape HMM108, 01:21:31 to 01:25:59) Dachau Concentration Camp - Star of David, chaplain, horse drawn wagons (May ...

  5. Nora Orchan collection

    The Nora Orchan collection includes a autograph book that Nora carried with her during her emigration with her siblings from Germany to Israel in 1938. Autographs and entries date 1935-1941 and include poems and drawings as well as diary entries, perhaps by Nora. The collections also includes pre-war photographs of Nora and her family.

  6. 19th Zionist Congress in Lucerne

    Title: "All over the world the elections to the Congress are carried out on the principles of democracy. In Erez-Israel, 10 parties applied for a mandate to the 19th Zionist Congress. Election day in Tel Aviv." Men post election broadsides in Tel Aviv. People stand in line to vote at the Great Synagogue on Allenby street. People vote in other locations, interior and exterior shots. Advertisements for ships that will travel to Lucerne for the Congress. A busy train station in Lucerne; ferry traffic on Lake Lucerne. An intertitle identifies Dr. Kahn and Dr. Ullmann, the leaders of the Congres...

  7. Jewish Religious Service

    MS, religious service in a synagogue. Rabbi and cantor singing, praying with open prayerbooks. CU, Rabbi (back of his head) with ark open before him. Camera pans the congregation, singing. MCU, cantor standing before large, arched windows, glare of light through window. Cantor seen mainly in profile, while singing turns occassionally toward and away from the camera.

  8. Oral history interview with Kalman Russek

  9. Poster

  10. Fabian Brunner letter

    Fabian Brunner’s letter is the last letter written before he was transported to Auschwitz concentration camp, where he perished in June 1944. The letter, written while working as a forced laborer at an unidentified agricultural center, refers to his wife Sidonia Brunner being sent to Auschwitz concentration camp. The letter reflects Fabian’s anguish at not knowing the fate of his family. The woman to whom the letter is addressed is unknown but believed to be a Christian woman who was assisting or at least trusted by Brunner. The English translation of the letter was compiled by the donor's ...

  11. US Army on Patrol

    Patrols of the 83rd Division, Houstenbeck to Bad Lippsringe, Germany, April 6-7, 1945. US Army soldiers/tanks at rest in a village. Rainy. MSs tanks loaded with soldiers moving through town; soldiers waving. Soldiers examine burning enemy plane in a field (plane shot down). MSs and CUs faces of troops of the 331st Regiment, 83rd Division, atop M-24s and M-18s. Tanks move out. MSs soldiers on foot in town; marching toward tanks; mounting tanks.

  12. Ernest Weiss family papers

    Contains documents and a photograph related to Ida Weiss, including a document issued to her in May 1949 in Vienna, Austria, stating that she had been born 11 August 1879, was deported to Minsk on 25 June 1942, and her card never appeared in the Vienna Jewish Organization return card files; and a letter written by Ida to her daughter Lilly, June 1942, Vienna, Austria, on the day before Ida was deported. The text of the letter reads: "My dearest Lilly! Pay balance of gas and electric bill, whatever they amount to. I gave uncle Max 20 marks - he should refund it to you. Small comforter - plea...

  13. Kedar (Krausz) family photographs

    Contains two photographs: one showing Dr. Samuel and Dr. Lydie Krausz (donor's parents) in Nitra, 1936; the second depicting the donor's parents before their marriage in Prague, 1930.

  14. Lübschütz and Urman families papers

    The Lübschütz and Urman families papers consist of documents and correspondence of the Lübschütz and Urman families, formerly of Schönebeck, Germany and Vienna, Austria, and later of the United States. Included is a certificate awarding Julius Lübschütz the Ehrenkreuz für Frontkämpfer (Honor Cross); a Kinderausweis (child identity document) issued to Jutta Lübschütz (later Judy Urman); a copy of a document issued by the Japanese Consulate-General permitting Jutta Lübschütz entry to Shanghai; a postwar postcard from the Red Cross informing the Lübschütz family that Ruth Lübschütz Nathan was ...

  15. Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia

    VS of Lvov*. Liberated Western Ukrainian and Belorussian cities return to their normal life. VS of trains and train stations, people in transit, daily life in an urban area, families on train platforms, several shots of women and children, workers exiting trains with their bicycles in hand, people lining up outside of a movie theater, VS of workers at a textile factory, inspecting the raw materials for making fabrics. *This may not be Lvov; it seems to be Bialystok. There is a shot of the Catholic Cathedral in Bialystok. The entire section could be Bialystok, or it could be a quick cut to B...

  16. Abram Pinczowski papers

    Consists of four post-war identity cards and one photograph, all for Abram Pinczowski (or Pinczewski).

  17. March of Time -- outtakes -- Hitler in Sudetenland

    Hitler in Sudetenland. MCU on Hitler, acknowledging crowds, cheering throngs. Nazi elite, including Goebbels, behind Hitler, looking pleased. Crowd, policemen four deep. Hitler, Goering walk down street, in motorcade, town covered with swastika banners. EXT banquet of Nazis. Himmler at Hitler's left, ring of Nazi soldiers surround them. Hitler in motorcade. Great shots of crowds and people everywhere: windows, corridors, women crying from joy and chanting. MCU Hitler. Chaos. Flowers.

  18. Tablespoon with scratched initials used by a German Jewish concentration camp inmate

    Stainless steel tablespoon with scratched initials used by Hans Finke while imprisoned in Auschwitz and several subcamps: Gleiwitz, Sachsenhausen, Flossenbürg, and Bergen Belsen. Hans carried the spoon, a crucial piece of property, in his shoe during transfers, including a death march, from March 1943 until liberation in Bergen-Belsen in April 1945. Hans, his parents and his sister Ursula lived in Berlin during the rise of the Nazi dictatorship from 1933 with its aggressive anti-Jewish policies. In February 1943, Hans, 23, an electrician, was a slave laborer for Siemens when he was hospital...

  19. Polish refugees in Persia

    Title: Polens Heer ersteht neu in Persien. [Poland's multitudes rise again in Persia]. Long line of people (look like refugees) moving across a desert landscape. They carry bundles. Some are barefoot. A group sitting, resting. A woman rocks her baby in her arms. Brief fade-out then title: Poland 1939. Refugees on the road on foot and by horse-drawn cart. Food distribution. Bedraggled woman waiting in line with a bowl. Map showing Europe and the Soviet Union. Line drawn from Poland toward USSR south around the Caspian Sea, in direction of Persia (Iran). Group of refugees in desert reach shel...

  20. Deportations, various locations; Himmler near Minsk

    05:15:34 Title: DEPORTATION 05:15:39 Balti, Romania. Deportation of Bessarabian Jews guarded by a few Romanian soldiers. Low shot as they pass over wooden footbridge. Medium close shots of people on the move, with bundles, children, etc. Long line curving into the distance, open field. 05:16:16 Unnidentified location: shot surreptitously from interior, through window. Woman shoved by German. 05:16:31 German deportees arrive in Warsaw Ghetto, "Aufnahmelager", 05:17:05 People gathered at the Killesberg assembly point in Stuttgart railroad station in 1943. They will be deported to Riga. 05:17:...