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  1. Election day

    Berlin election day. Street scenes. Trams, pedestrians, bicyclists riding in single line wi th placards. Leaflets tossed in air. Potzdamer Platz. Group of people running along street while others watch. Vehicles with banners waving.

  2. Oral history interview with Uzi Narkiss

  3. Russian troops celebrate liberation; conferences; invasion of Normandy; Allied troops

    Records world-wide war activities. Reel 6: (1943-44) Russian troops, guerrillas, and citizens celebrate their victory. Marines land and fight on Tarawa. FDR and Churchill meet with Chiang Kai-shek at Cairo and with Stalin at Teheran. Shows Tito and Yugoslav guerrillas. Normandy is invaded; Allied troops and French guerrillas battle Germans.

  4. Pinchas Schuldenrein collection

    Two (2) DP posters made by artist Pinchas Schuldenrein titled "Amalek" and "Yizkor" for the Central Historical Commission, and other graphic material created for various Jewish organizations, especially HIAS.

  5. Neu family collection

    The collection consists of documents, photographs, books, and artifacts relating to the experiences of Richard and Hedwig Sanders Neu and their daughter, Beatrice (later Melov), in Germany and the United States before and during the Holocaust.

  6. Arnold Kronfeld collection

    Contains materials related to the Holocaust-era experiences of Herbert E. Kronfeld, Arnold Kronfeld's father. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  7. Heinemann family papers

    Contains naturalization certificates, birth certificates, correspondence, and oral history interviews and edited films related to the Heinemann family.

  8. Erna Weyl and Walter Rothschild collection

    Documents, photographs, pamphlets, books, clippings, artifacts concerning the experiences of Walter Rothschild and Erna Weyl Rothschild.Collection includes: photo albums; loose prewar, wartime and postwar photographs; correspondence (some with translation); personal documents including: citizenship papers, Army documents, birth, marriage, and death records; Passports and identification cards; film roll in metal canister from Frankfurt; US Sarmy file including: maps, photos, official documents, clippings, US Army prayer book, Camp Ritchie menu, telephone directory and ID cards; wallet of doc...

  9. Piri Piroska Bodnar collection

    Contains poetry describing Piri Piroska Bodnar's experiences during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  10. Eliyahu and Ninette Cohen collection

    Collection of photographs, identity photos, and photo torn from identity card that document Eliyahu Cohen, his wife Ninette (nee Arish), their family and friends in Tunis, Marseille, and Israel primarily after the Holocaust; dated circa 1948-1950s. Cobbler’s last used by Eliyahu Cohen in Tunis, Tunisia when he began as an apprentice shoemaker after liberation.

  11. Nathan Zepell collection

    Nathan Zepell's oral testimony and presentations about his experiences as a survivor of Buchenwald concentration camp

  12. Blogier, Wekselman, and Wides families collection

    The collection consists of photographs, documents, correspondence, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, and a pair of youth soccer cleats pertaining to the experiences of the Blogier, Wides, and Wechselman families. Abraham Blogier and his sister Edith Blogier Wechselman were the only survivors of their immediate families. Abraham survived the Bedzin ghetto and subsequent transfer through multiple concentration camps, including Auschwitz, before his liberation at Dachau. In summer 1945, Abraham was reunited in Germany with his sister Edith and her son Max who had escaped the Bedzin ghetto and h...

  13. Artur Klein collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of the Klein family from Žilina, Slovakia. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  14. Blechner family collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of the Blechner family. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  15. Nazi architecture in Munich and Berlin, Brandenburg Gate

    Memorial, wreaths, snow, Oberpollinger (a well-known department store in Munich), flower-decorated buses

  16. Bach-Zelewski testifies at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 488) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 7, 1946. MS, Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and Wilhelm Keitel in prisoners' dock as Col. Telford Taylor addresses the Tribunal. MS, witness Eric von dem Bach-Zelewski testifying in German. MLS, rear view, Russian prosecutor Col. Pokrovsky cross examines Bach-Zelewski, regarding Einsatzgruppe B. Questions are asked in Russian; witness answers in German. Alfred Jodl's counselor, Dr. Franz Exner, questions Bach-Zelewski. Questions and answers are in German. Another defense counselor, Dr. Kraus, questions the wit...

  17. Ukrainian nationalists

    Documentary film on Ukrainian nationalists and their trial and sentencing. World War II period photos, documents, and film illustrate the history of Ukrainian nationalist collaboration with the Germans. Formation and activities of the Ukrainian S.S. Division. Locations where crimes occurred, recollections of aging witnesses. Accused testify before court/audience; witnesses testify. Footage and still photographs of pillage and destruction by Ukrainian nationalists.

  18. Poster, American Relief for Poland

  19. Sara Weis-ova. Collection

    This collection contains two photographs showing Sara Weis-ova and young Gilbert Furcage outside in a park in Antwerp in 1941.

  20. March of Time -- outtakes -- Vichy deputies meet; Petain; S. American diplomats; main streets in Vichy; Minister of War at airport

    811 C (04:28:36): (with Leblay camera) Meeting of the Comité d'Organisation du Parti Unique at Vichy. From left to right: Antoine Cayrel; Emmanuel Temple; Charles Spinasse; Gaston Bergery; Marcel Déat; Michel Brille; René Chateau; Remy Gousseau; Louis Deschizeaux; René Dommange; and standing Paul Saurin; Paul Rives. The men are all former deputies and the main chiefs are Marcel Déat and Gaston Bergery. Meetings are held in a small house, 83 Rue du Maréchal Pétain in Vichy. CUs and group shots of various members. 04:28:45 (with Leblay camera) Adrien Marquet, Minister of the Interior, in his ...