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  1. War Crime Trial

    EXT Academy of Music. Trial scenes. Bela Imre, Jeno Racz, Pal Tider.

  2. German Extermination Camps - Auschwitz and Birkenau

    Contains a copy of a report entitled "German Extermination Camps - Auschwitz and Birkenau" written by escapees from the camp (unnamed in the report, later identified as Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler) in April 1944. The report was distributed in the United States by the War Refugee Board in November 1944.

  3. 10th Anniversary of the independent state of Israel

    A special Film Report on the celebration of Israel's 10th Anniversary of Independence. As witnessed by Adolph Kiesler, Chairman, National Campaign Committee, United Jewish Appeal.

  4. A Jewish wedding in Budapest

    Tinted amateur film. S. Jay Kaufmann’s wife gets in a car, followed by S. Jay. The car pulls up in front of a building with an ornate iron fence entrance and they exit the vehicle. INT as the coupel moves through a hall, followed by their guests. They enter a room with a chuppah and rows of pews, where the Jewish wedding ceremony is performed. Still photos of the bride and groom and the ceremony. EXT young boys line the steps and a rabbi walks towards the camera. Another rabbi moves down the stairs, followed by the wedding party. The bride’s dress gets stuck for a moment and she tugs it fre...

  5. War Crimes Trials: Milch Case

    (Munich 544) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 2 (Milch Case), Sentencing of Gen. Erhard Milch, Nuremberg, Germany, April 17, 1947. LS, judges entering the courtroom. HAS, Chief Justice reading the verdict, recessing court, and exiting from courtroom. Pan from judges to Milch being removed from the courtroom. MS, judge handing recorder sentence of the Tribunal. Silent cut-ins of the Tribunal. Pan of portion of courtroom. Tribunal entering courtroom and court rising. Judge reading the verdict.

  7. German educational film: Scenes of nature and daily life in Spreewald, Germany

    Described in the opening titles of the film, as a "nature film", this footage depicts the town of Spreewald in the Brandenburg section of Germany. VS, EXT, stream, trees, various flora and fauna, wooden homes, locals canoeing down a stream or a river, farming, tending to the soil and to crops. VS, two canoes with two groups of children heading downstream, and then docking in front of their schoolhouse. MS of a police officer in uniform, patrolling in canoe. Bails of hay are also transported along the river. The rest of the footage is comprised of similar scenes of locals carrying out daily ...

  8. German War Memorial in Berlin

    Funeral/memorial procession in Berlin, men in uniform marching in city streets, large wreath carried at front. Huge parade/military review, marching band, spectators line the streets, bus passes in BG. Guard stands with rifle in doorway German War Memorial (columned building); CU, boots. LS, small crowd gathers at memorial, building with columns seen in LS. EXTs.

  9. Berestowitz, Poland: people; wagons

    Intertitles appear in Yiddish and English. "Somebody's Mother" VAR MCUs faces of townspeople. Street scene. CU elderly woman with scarf. "Grandpa" MCU old man and child. Carts with horses travel along a dirt road, creating dust clouds. Families on the carts. Some people walking. More carts pass by. MCU boy and mother pose in front of fence. Pan of horse-drawn (empty) wagon.

  10. US Army infantry advances in Germany

    Staff Film Report no. 46; Combat Bulletin, no. 46. (with intertitles) Reel 2: The 29th Division crosses bridge at Jülich. Aerial views of the wrecked city of Jülich. Gen. Gerhardt and his G-2 officer report plans and conditions at a staff meeting. Troops cross a bridge under enemy fire. Gen. Gerhardt crosses the bridge. The 102nd Division liberates US prisoners at Erkelenz. Undelivered Red Cross packages intended for American POWs but used by Nazis are found in Heppendorf. The 1st Army battles toward Cologne; the 83d Division takes Neusse. Telephoto images of Düsseldorf under bombardment fr...

  11. Watercolor of a female corpse by an inmate given to a liberator of Bergen Belsen concentration camp

    Full-length portrait of a dead female inmate painted by 24 year old Marianne (Mausi) Grant and presented to Major Charles Philip Sharp, a liberator of Bergen Belsen concentration camp, in May 1945 as he prepared to depart. Sharp wrote about it in his diary, USHMM collection 2005.20.1: "Marianne, the little Czeck artist presented us with a picture of a body in No 1 "To the Commandant so that he will never forget Belsen" --as though I could. She used to do cartoons and gay pictures before she was taken--now see what she does. We are using her as a signwriter so she apologized that this drawin...

  12. USHMM-edited version of the German propaganda film on the Warsaw ghetto

    ***This footage is from a roughly ninety-minute propaganda film that was never finished or shown publicly. It was created by a German propaganda camera team in the spring of 1942.The Nazi regime created these ghettos and imprisoned Jews within them, subjected them to these conditions of starvation and disease and overcrowding. And yet, with a film like this, they hoped to suggest that these conditions were chosen by the Jews, that they were natural Jewish living conditions. This film is considered propaganda because it is heavily staged, omits selective information, attempts to establish gr...

  13. May Day at DP camp

    (LIB 6186) Russian DP May Day Celebration, Kaiserslautern, Germany, May 1, 1945. Large group of Russian DPs marching past American and Russian officers. Individuals listening to speeches and applauding. Russians passing reviewing stand with black draped picture of FDR and inscription in Russian and English: "Long Live the 1st May." MCUs, Russian children passing review stand. Russian women presenting wreaths and flowers to American officers. MSs, American officers giving presents to Russian children. Russian DPs listening to speakers. (Slates indicate date as May 20 and 30, 1945)

  14. Hauptamt Wissenschaft (RG 216)

    Consists of individual files on German academic personalities, scientists and institutions; checks and reports on their political reliability; and examinations of their political credentials before granting promotions, appointments or honors. Includes also reports, newspaper clippings, summaries of lectures, petitions, applications and correspondence of various Nazi institutions. Records relate to the activities of the division of the Main Office of Science of the Nazi Party (NSDAP-Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei) under the direction of Alfred Rosenberg. The records are inco...

  15. Metal mezuzah found postwar and used by a Polish Jewish survivor

    Metal mezuzah found and used by Israel Miedzyrzecki (later Israel Nahari) after Warsaw was liberated in January 1945 and his family was able to come out of hiding and re-establish a home. He brought and used it as the family moved to Łódź, then Munich, Germany, and finally to Israel in 1947. The Torah states that every doorpost in a Jewish home should display a mezuzah klaf, a small parchment scroll inscribed with two prayers. The scroll is enclosed in a case and attached to the right doorpost to serve as a reminder of the covenant of faith and a notice of an observant Jewish home. Israel a...

  16. Belsen at liberation; Kramer; women jeer at SS

    CU of commandeered German truck driving burial detail to the mass graves outside Belsen, loaded with British soldiers and SS men in the back of the truck with corpses. Corpses on ground in BG. Naked female corpses dropped into grave, carried by two SS guards in uniform. Exuberant, clapping female survivors in crowd cheer and follow truck of British soldiers. CU of various women expressing pain and fury at SS; one holds her hands in prayer. Back to happy reactions of women towards British. VAR CUs of camp commandant Josef Kramer, under guard, with scarred face and untroubled look, speaks. 17...

  17. Czerner, Fröhlich, and Porges families papers

    The Czerner, Fröhlich, and Porges families papers contain correspondence, identification documents, immigration documents, school certificates, photographs, and a photograph album relating to the Czerner, Fröhlich, and Porges families living in Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic) before and during World War II and the Holocaust. The correspondence centers on the emigration of Max and Irma Czerner from Prague to the United States with their infant son in 1939. The correspondence relates their efforts to secure visas and transportation for their young daughters, Helga and Raya Czerner...

  18. Oral history interview with Eva Spielberger

  19. Concentration camp correspondence collection

    Contains three letters written by prisoners of the Auschwitz, Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camp.

  20. David Kovack collection

    Contains an album entitled "Slovakia," with copies of newspapers and documents created by David Kovack (donor's late husband) in memory of the Jews killed in Slovakia from 1939-1945. David Kovack was a survivor and was a member of the partisans in Slovakia for 4 years.