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  1. Froehlich family collection

    Contains letters and telegrams from Artur and Frieda Froehlich in Cologne, Germany to their daughter Lilo in New York, relating primarily to immigration efforts. Also includes letters from Martin and Hertha Noah [Frieda's brother and sister-in-law], dated 1940-1941, and an album and single photographs of the Froehlich family from WWI until c. 1938 in Cologne, Germany.

  2. American family visits the Balkans

    "Dubrovnik in Jugo-Slavia or Ragusa in Dalmatia" Sailors. Outdoor cafe, including a table with the Major family visiting from Kansas. Local people. Band performs. Pan up, church. Religious procession with young girls and boys. Harbor. "Bled The Summer Home of King Peter" (color) LS, lake and mountains in Bled with villas. Switches to black and white, marching soldiers. Rowboats on the lake in Bled. 01:12:30 KODAK

  3. Kan family life in US, postwar

    Color. EXT, row of houses along a street. "B.H. Sanders" on the side of a mailbox. INT, Betsy? holding baby. Front of a house, women and baby exit the house. MS of Betsy? holding baby. Baby in the stroller, Betsy? and her mother-in-law walk down the street (similar to 01:04:01 on Film ID 2478). INT and EXT shots of the baby and Betsy? with the baby sitting in a chair, the two outside, and the baby in a crib. There appears to be a Donald Duck toy in the baby's crib. 01:11:28 A man (Betsy's husband?) carrying the baby out of the house. MSs, father holds the baby. Betsy and her husband exit th...

  4. Concentration camp uniform coat worn by an inmate

    Concentration camp uniform coat worn by David Wharton (Wartonski), born in Kovno, Lithuania, and deported to Dachau concentration camp.

  5. O.64.2/WSZ.1 - Lists of deportees from Bohemia and Moravia to the Theresienstadt Ghetto

    O.64.2/WSZ.1 - Lists of deportees from Bohemia and Moravia to the Theresienstadt Ghetto

  6. Demonstration in London

    "Moslem Demonstration" Moslem demonstration in London. Two men carry banner, "Down With H.G. Wells Short History of the World."

  7. Oral history interview with Avedis Melkonian

  8. War Crimes Trials: Medical Case

    (Munich 529) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. High and MCU, prosecution counsel James McHaney interrogating witness. Unidentified defense lawyer at speaker's stand. Short shot, defense attorney Seidl Ratz. Judges filing into court. Unidenfitied witness being interrogated by his lawyer.

  9. Walter Kamlet papers

    Consists of original pre-war, wartime, and post-war documents, restitution paperwork, and photographs related to the life and Holocaust experiences of Walter Kamlet, originally of Berlin, Germany. The collection includes information regarding Kamlet's life as a teenager at the Château de la Hille children's home run by the Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants (OSE), as well as a large number of photographs of the other children in the home, and documents regarding his escape into Switzerland in April 1944. Also includes documents about Kamlet's parents, Benno and Mila Kamlet, who survived the Holo...

  10. Typhus - Propaganda associating Jews & Poles with the disease and its spread by lice

    Nazi propaganda film about the measures to contain typhus. The Polish-Jewish population is made responsible for spreading typhus. Wehrmachtslehrfilm #347 [Army Instructional Film #347]. Reel 2: KRANKEN REVIER. Important for soldiers and doctors. 'Just one louse.' Disinfection wagon (rail car). Polish soldiers (POWs) in uniform, give up uniforms, naked for delousing. Soldiers, hair shaved. Rub something, from heads, then all shower. Back through rail wagon to get clothes and leave train. Elaborate animation sequence of the "Entlaeusungszug" [disinfection train], showing the "reine Seite" [cl...

  11. Speeches by Hess/Goebbels re: Jews & Bolshevism

    Hess speaks to audience (not compellingly). CU of Hitler seated, looking distracted, glum. Hess leads "Sieg Heils." Goebbels speaks with authority and command. Crowd of SS behind him. "International Jewish conspiracy...and its pathological...goal of destruction of European culture."

  13. Hanna Herzig collection

    Contains family photographs of the Herzig and Stock families in Drohobycz, Poland before the war, and in the Foehrenwald DP camp in Germany after the war, including photographs showing Zygmunt Herzig in his official role as legal council. Includes a drawing depicting Zygmunt Herzig's sister, who was murdered in Drohobycz; identification cards of donor's parents from the DP camp; immigration application forms; receipts for donations; and general correspondence, Also includes prayer books from the Foehrenwald DP camp; contemporary photographs showing the house in Drohobycz where the donor's p...

  14. Nazi propaganda film about Theresienstadt / Terezin

    This version includes scenes from the children's production of "Brundibar." Excerpts of well-known propaganda film made by the Nazis to show the International Red Cross and others that they were not mistreating Jews in the "ghettos." Documentary footage depicts the life of Jews in the ghetto of Theresienstadt [Terezin] in Czechoslovakia as harmonious and joyful. They wear yellow stars on their civilian clothing but are euphemistically called residents ["Bewohner"] instead of inmates. They look well-dressed and well-fed and keep smiling. No SS guards or other armed Germans are shown. With En...

  15. Dachau negatives collection

    Contains two negatives with images of concentration camps following liberation, including one taken at Dachau.

  16. Selected records from the collection Court of the First Instance in Częstochowa Sąd Grodzki w Częstochowie (Sygn. 45)

    Contains selected records of the Civil and Criminal Departments of the Sąd Grodzki w Częstochowie. The records relate to various cases: estates (e.g. cases concerning portioning out family property), payments of rent and expulsion from apartments, cases concerning dues of different kinds, drafts, and the like. There are files of writ cases and tutelary cases in the Civil Department (e.g. applications for guardianship of a minor). In the Criminal Department, there are files concerning theft, assault and battery, defamation, ignoring regulations concerning health, evasion of paying alimonies,...

  17. Children and ruins in postwar Poland

    EXT Boy pulling cart in the street. Boys with a dog digging in rubble. Boy riding a scooter past rubble. Ruined buildings. CU Traffic officer. Traffic officer directing traffic. Building under construction. Horse drawn cart passes hauling dirt or rubble. Boys and a dog playing in rubble. Two children, a boy and a girl, walk up a street of damaged buildings as men work in the BG. Damaged buildings. Man using a pick on a damaged wall. Debris falling through a damaged building. A boy and girl walk up a street of damaged buildings. Boy and girl pick through rubble. Boy and girl on a street corn...

  18. Corpses at Ohrdruf Concentration Camp; atrocities

    German Atrocities, Ohrdruf, Germany, April 7, 1945. MPs herding civilians of Ohrdruf through shed to view bodies of victims. Germans reluctant to enter shed. Taken to outdoor crematorium. CUs, charred bodies lying in piles in mud. MCUs bodies stacked in shed. Civilians shocked. 4th Division Finds Victims of Atrocity, Ohrdruf, Germany, April 7, 1945. Corpses scattered around camp grounds. MS officer looks into shed and sees piles of dead bodies. Officer speaks to remaining prisoners who hid in woods until Germans left. MS victim of malnutrition.

  19. Gessner returns to ruins in Egypt

    Men rowing a boat along a river. A young boy stands on rocks, looking at the camera. Other boys float along in small boats. Some swim through the water. People on the banks of the river walk past, looking at the camera. A boy jumps from a wall into the water and swims towards the boat. 01:07:19 A man looks at the Aswan Dam from ground level. Water forcefully runs through the dam. Gessner’s friend on top of the dam points outwards. Another boy jumps into water. Young children use hand paddles to move their small boats along in a line formation through the water. 01:08:17 Gessner? rides a don...

  20. Romanian units; Iron Cross decorations

    Reel 1: 00:38:20 A column of Romanian units march past the camera, includes numerous CUs of individual soldiers. Reel 3: 00:41:06 Romanian and German officers gather around a table and go over a map (CU of Romanian officer wearing Iron Cross) and look through binoculars. A motorcycle messenger delivers a message. The officers are then seen talking on a field phone. Another motorcycle messenger arrives (Romanian). Reel 5: 00:44:54 Soldiers hoist a Third Reich battle flag on a pole atop an ornate building, followed by a Romanian flag draped down the face of the building. Several ships move in...