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  1. Eichmann Trial -- Session 102 -- Cross-examination of the Accused re: Sassen Document

    Session 102. Eichmann reads a document of the Sassen memoirs. The tape resumes just a few minutes prior to the end of Tape 2176. Eichmann reads his answer to Sassen concerning his role in the concentration camps, saying that the Gestapo was in charge of all of it. He explains, using as many hypothetical terms as possible, what would happen with the camp, especially with insubordination and problems with the Jews. He also describes the transfer of control from the Archives department to the Gestapo. When asked if these were the words of Eichmann, he says he cannot remember, but it was partia...

  2. Lt. Col. Ralph Willey collection

    Consists of 25 photographs from the collection of Lt. Col. Ralph E. Willey, a division Signal Corps officer for the 104th (Timberwolves) Division. Includes photographs of the liberation of Nordhausen and of the survivors and victims found by the 104th upon liberation. As Lt. Col Willey was a Signal Corps officer, he may have taken these photographs. Also includes a copy of a newspaper article entitled "Horror Conditions in Concentration Camps Told By Lt. Col. Willey, Who Saw Them," which references a letter he sent home after witnessing the liberation of Nordhausen, and a short memoir entit...

  3. Celebrating the opening of the new Reichstag; parades in Potsdam

    Celebrating the opening of the new Reichstag in Potsdam's Garrison Church on March 21, 1933 (film continues on Film ID 2682). Shows overpowering National Socialist propaganda. Goebbels staged this day as a device to win support from conservatives and to reassure Germans that the new Reich's Chancellor Hitler could be trusted. German intertitles (in quotation marks). "Der Tag von Potsdam 1933" "Ein Kinagfafilm aufgenommen mit der Agfa Movex auf Agfa Umkehrfilm 16mm" Bridge with Nazi decorations, sign reading "Wir grussen das neue Deutschland". German soldiers on the street. "Letzte Vorberitu...

  4. Demonstration; DPs inflate rafts for trip to Palestine; family life; DP protest in Bari

    Very brief shot of protest/parade in a field, probably in Italy (like Film ID 4154). DPs inflate large rafts on a beach in DP camp in Italy and carry Israeli flags. 07:05 Menachem in his carriage with a still camera. Young men participate in formal ceremony or initiation. The men on the rafts on the water preparing for trip to Palestine. 08:30 Hannah squeezes into her baby’s toy rocking horse. Pan of the DP camp in Italy, huts. Moshe with Menachem - good CUs. Friend makes faces and shows off her baby on camera (possibly Chaim Springer and his parents). More shots of Moshe and Menachem. 09:4...

  5. Idealized picture of Prussia to garner German support for total war

    Reel 5 begins with Gneisenau giving an inspiring speech to the Kolbergers in the square of the town. The speech ends with the words, "the best way to defend a fortress is to attack!" Schill is shown leading his soldiers into battle on white horses. Maria, presumably still on her return journey, is in a boat off the coast watching the battle from afar. The boat captain wants to go back but Maria insists on taking a rowboat to shore. Schill waits until the French get as close as possible before giving the order to shoot, thus inflicting as much damage as possible. Claus is shown briefly, clut...

  6. WW I, Russian Revolution

    Fox Movietone Newsreel excerpts. Yanks parade in NY. The first volunteers march on Fifth Ave. Troops load into transport, crowded decks. Wilson selects first draft number. VP Marshall selects second. Troop ships pull away. GIs with dog mascots. AEF lands, marches in Paris. Crowds cheer, flowers thrown. Yanks march in London. "Last Pictures of the Czar" with family before Palace. Russian army in snow. Wounded soldiers return from front. Kerensky. Bolsheviks parade in streets. Trotsky in uniform, briefly reviewing troops. CU, INT Lenin, speaking off camera. Krupskaya writing and frowning. Dom...

  7. Street scenes in Berlin; Pestalozzi Froebel Haus kindergarten; Kranzler Cafe; Woolworth; telephone

    Streets. Exterior of large brick building: Pestalozzi Froebel Haus kindergarten in Berlin. Woman walks baby carriage, dog in middle of street, pedestrian. Outdoor café - Kranzler. Dining outside. Nazi flag hangs from building. Waitress with giant bow. Aerial shot of café, pedestrians, patrons. Street traffic, buses, trolleys, cars, people. Woolworth. Nazi posters with Hitler. 01:11:42 Above ground trains, city traffic, police officer directs traffic. Woolworth windows, storefront. 01:13:32 Women using telephone booth "Offentlicher Fernsprecher" Men putting coins into machine. CUs.

  8. Jacket

    Worn after liberation in 1945 by Misha Mielup. Originally worn by Jewish police, 1943, St. Ottilien, Germany. Given to Misha Meilup while at hospital, St. Ottilien, Germany.

  9. German occupation of Kyiv (Kiev), Ukraine

    First days of German occupation of Kyiv [Kiev]. People in horse-drawn carts on a country road; perhaps they are peasants, perhaps they are Kievans fleeing their city. Train. Droves of people traveling along a country road, carrying sacks and leading mules and horses drawing carts loaded with their possessions (likely fleeing the German presence with their belongings). Germans in the streets of Kyiv, soldiers and tanks on the move. Fires burning, smoldering ashes and embers. Soviet soldiers surrender in the field to German soldiers with guns. Hundreds, perhaps thousands of Red Army soldiers ...

  10. Watercolor created in Theresienstadt

    Artwork: 'Mizrach' artwork, watercolor created by Hilde Zadikow in Theresienstadt concentration camp. The artist was born in 1890 in Prague, Czechoslovakia and deported to Terezin with her husband Arnold (who died there) and daughter Marianne. While there, Hilde created this Mizrach [a work of art placed on a wall facing Jerusalem] in 1943. Hebrew translates to "The Lord shall grant strength to His people; the Lord shall bless His people with peace" and "For You light my lamp; the Lord, my G-d, does light my darkness." Dictated to her by Leo Baeck. Hilde and Marianne survived and immigrated...

  11. Nazi officials tour Polish countryside

    German military truck with diamond insignia on city street. License plate reads: WH 701975. Women in luxurious coats and Nazi officials tour Poland, maybe the Tatra mountains with its park headquarters in Zakopane. Frank's wife, Brigitte, wears a fur coat and headscarf. Hans Frank and Brigitte sit indoors and listen to someone speak about a natural spring or flame encircled with iron railing. 01:12:34 Pan of the Polish landscape and a spa village. A friend chases a goat. 01:13:17 Group of Nazi officials (men and women, including Hans and Brigitte Frank) tour outdoors. The man in uniform is ...

  12. Defeat of France; Hitler with Mussolini

    Hitler surrounded by top Nazi leaders. Close up of Hitler speaking, smiling. General Keitel presents a document to Hitler for his signature. The narrator states that after the capitulation of Petain, Keitel is obtaining Hitler's signature on an invitation for Mussolini to come to Munich, which happened in mid-June 1940. A shot of Hitler looking happy, smiling with others, as the narrator exults that France is defeated. In his 1995 documentary about Hitler's cameraman, Walter Frentz, Juergen Stumpfhaus asserts that Hitler was somewhat unhappy about this piece of footage, because he was usual...

  13. Wehrmacht soldiers perform drills

    AGFA 8 1939 Title: “Meine Soldatezeit” Intertitle: “Grußubung” German soldiers perform drills. Intertitle: “Fußdienst.” The men do more exercises. Intertitle: “Gewehrubungen.” They perform drills with their guns. Intertitle: “Nachrichten-dienst.” They stand with a sign with the letter F on it. They use a field telephone. The men in a field. They look at a sheet of paper. The men set up wire lines and use the field telephone. Intertitle: “Bedingungs-schießen mit Karabiner.” A soldier hops. Shooting practice with the Karabiner 98k. Soldiers lay on a wooden table and fire the gun. Intertitle: ...

  14. Mezuzah pendant distributed to a young girl at the Bindermichl displaced persons camp

    Mezuzah pendant given to 10 year-old Anna Blatt in October 1945 in the Bindermichl displaced persons camp near Linz in Austria. It was given to Anna by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, working out of the U.S. Army office in the camp. When Anna first arrived at the camp, she continued to attend church and wear a cross, as she had done for the past 3 years when she and her mother, Ester, had hidden as Christians. She wore the mezuzah pendant as a charm and said later, “That little mezuzah restored my identity.” Anna, her parents, and her three older siblings had been deported...

  15. Black velvet embroidered tefillin bag buried for safekeeping while owner in hiding

    Black velvet pouch used to hold his tefillin, prayer boxes worn by Jewish males during morning prayer services, buried for safekeeping with other religious items by Johanna Baruch Boas while she lived in hiding in Brussels, Belgium, from 1942-1944. It originally belonged to her husband, Bernhard, who died in Berlin, Germany, in 1932. She brought it with her when she fled Nazi Germany for Brussels in March 1939 with her daughter’s family. Germany occupied Belgium in May 1940 and soon there were frequent deportations of Jews to concentration camps. Johanna had a non-Jewish landlady who hid he...

  16. Book Journal for the History of the Jewish People During the Nazi Regime

    One volume of From the Last Extermination : Journal for the History of the Jewish People During the Nazi Regime.

  17. Westerbork Camp: paper factory; carpentry hall

    MS, men cleaning a freight car floor with shovels. Group of men pulling small wagon filled with empty cans? Pressing cans, separating and cutting metal pieces. 01:34:28 Westerbork's paper factory. Men and women separating sheets of paper. MS, piles of white paper sheets. Large hall packed with women working on sewing machines, using dark colored textiles (for military uniforms?). Men cutting through layers of fabric. Making toys. Shelves filled with beautiful handmade toys (stuffed animals, wooden cubes, etc.) 01:45:05 MS, sign on brick building: TISCHLEREI, HIER MELDEN. Carpentry hall. Sig...

  18. Cheryl Mordfin collection

    Collection consists of a record book containing the meeting minutes of the Zduńska Wola Relief Organization; written and kept by Anna Katzowsky, donor's grandmother, who was recording secretary. Also includes a blank postcard sent out for meeting notifications inserted inside front cover; dated 1940-1957, in Chicago, Illinois. Anna Waksman Katzowsky immigrated to the U.S. from Zduńska Wola, Poland in the 1920s. She and others would meet regularly to collect money to send along with packages to family and friends still living in Zdunska Wola during WWII and after liberation when some had mov...

  19. People in Berestowitz, Poland

    Pan, village. White house. Group of men and children at storefront/building.

  20. International Exposition in Paris at night: fireworks

    International Exposition in Paris, 1937 at night, fast speed. "Philips RADIO" Lights, fireworks. "Les fetes de Nuit" "Les Illuminations" "L'embrasement de la Tour"