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  1. Wochenschau cameramen at work

    The opening titles are superimposed over an image of a cameraman filming. Scenes of Hitler standing on the balcony on the night he became Chancellor, followed by good shots of rallies, flags, Hitler reviewing crowds, intercut with good shots of cameramen at work, sometimes in odd places or angles, such as crouched on the running board of a car. The narrator says that in the new Germany, where the state is fused with the folk, and the Fuehrer is fused with the community, the newsreel cameraman has an obligation to history. 01:55:09 Model of the Propaganda Ministry building. The narrator says...

  2. Garden of the family home in Olomouc, prewar

    Pan of the surrounding area, large houses and a large garden. A woman and the girl rake the soil. Cut to numerous people walking in a field, Hanna runs about and walks with her parents. She stands again in the garden, raking.

  3. Debora Korolchuk Brenner papers

    The Debora Korolchuk Brenner papers include photographs taken in the Föhrenwald displaced persons camp depicting Debora, her parents, family friends, and school groups, and an autograph book with signatures, notes, drawings, and pressed flowers collected by Debora Korolchuk while living the Föhrenwald DP camp.

  4. Cowboys and Indians home movie

    Indiscernible buildings. Title: "Eine Indianer Geschichte, mit Alfred Voshkamp u Herbert Birkenbeul" [An Indian Story, with Alfred Vosskamp and Herbert Birkenbeul]. Several boys make a home Cowboys-and-Indians movie. Three boys, one wearing an Indian head-dress, lie on the grass, pretending to hide. A boy dressed as a frontiersman comes along. The three Indians run up, take hold of the frontiersman and tie him to a tree. A fifth boy wearing wearing a cap and driving goggles comes to the rescue, using his toy gun to easily overpower the three unarmed Indians. The odds are stacked in his favo...

  5. German soldiers in the Caen area

    Animated map shows English Channel coast from Brest to Antwerp. A convoy of trucks camouflaged with branches drives toward the camera; soldiers smile and wave. CU of a wooden "one way" sign. Soldier distributes copies of a newspaper to soldiers as they pass him on bicycles. Shot of a soldier reading the newspaper with a headline that reads "Eisenhower hat uns nicht überrascht. [Eisenhower did not surprise us]." German sign cautions against traffic drawing fire upon itself by raising dust, "Feindeinsicht! Wirble keinen Staub auf sonst kriegst du eins aufs Dach drauf". Views of wrecked vehicl...

  6. Bela Imredy makes a speech

    Interior shot of a hall, crowded with people. Hungarian fascists salute. Bela Imredy addresses the crowd (natural sound) against a backdrop marked "HARC - Gyözelemig!"

  7. Wanda Wojick papers

    Collection consists of documents and one map likely related to a Polish underground group.

  8. Havdalah ceremony

    Havdalah ceremony in the garden in Snekkersten (despite the fact that it is still daylight at night in the summer in Denmark). Present are: Edith and Bernhard Schermeister (donor's grandparents), Edith's mother, father, and sister, Edith and Bernhard's three daughters (Lis, the oldest girl, is the donor's mother), and Bernhard's mother, Hana Schermeister. Edith lights the candle and Bernhard pours the wine. CU of Hana Schermeister.

  9. Nelson Warner photograph

    The collection consists of one black and white photograph depicting two parents with two children standing together indoors; all of them are wearing a star of David badge on their clothing; inscription on verso handwritten in black ink: "14 Juli 1942 / Fam. Schloss / mit / dem geben / Judenstern"; dated July 14, 1942; in German.

  10. Olga Degani photographs

    Contains three photographs: a portrait of Sara and Mordechai Warzager, donor's maternal grandparents, who both perished in the Holocaust; a group portrait, circa 1912, of the Warzager family, with Nela Necha Warzager, donor's mother, seated on the table; and a portrait of J. Edelman, circa 1967, a Warzager family relative, who survived the war in the Soviet Union.

  11. Men leave Yugoslavia for labor in Germany

    Yugoslav laborers leave by train for Germany. Festive atmosphere as people parade through town toward the train station. Smiling women and children say goodbye to their men, who crowd onto the train. A man holds a sign in Cyrillic. LS of the crowded train platform. People wave as the train pulls out of the station. 01:25:47 A few seconds of the next part of the newsreel. (Not ordered by USHMM)

  12. Denmark general election

    A report about the March 23, 1943 general election in Denmark. Men on bicycles exit a building (holding bags of ballots?). Montage of Danish pamphlets and newspapers about the election. A sign announces that it is election day. Flags in the streets of Copenhagen. A crowd of people outside a polling place (?). A woman affixes a badge with a Danish flag, presumably an indication that he has voted, to a man's lapel. A horse-drawn taxi drives down the street. Citizens enter a polling place. Overhead shot of people in voting booths. Boxes of ballots are emptied and sorted at tables.

  13. Brombart and Lewin families photograph collection

    Collection of photographs documenting the life of the Brombart and Lewin families in Poland and Belgium during the Holocaust era.

  14. Children bathe; parents swim in the river

    Hanna and Thomas are playing in the washtub in Jaremcze. Parents Benedikt and Ella are on the edge of the water in a small river. They walk about in the water attempting to get used to the cold.

  15. Occupation of Paris

    German troops in France discover a civil internment camp for Germans citizens. A German vehicle drives up to the camp, past barbed wire. The civilians wave happily at the troops and shake hands with officers. The narrator says that they will soon be sent back to Germany. French POWs marching down the street and at a POW camp. Shots of French colonial troops while the narrator says, "Again and again the same picture. White, brown, black, all races of the world. These wild hordes were called up to put all of Germany under the yoke." POWs dance in a staged "African" manner. More sarcastic and ...

  16. Barbara de Groot collection

    Contains correspondence from the Brenner family, Barbara de Groot's paternal extended family, in Mława, Poland; Tarnów, Poland; and Paris, France, to Sol Brenner (Barbara's father) in New York. A majority of the family did not survive.

  17. Volunteers from various countries

    Danish, Spanish, and Italian volunteers leave their countries for Germany to join the "fight against Bolshevism." In Denmark the youths parade through the street while being saluted by onlookers. They carry a Danish flag and a woman in uniform hands out flowers. CU on a poster reading "Germanerne". A train full of volunteers leaves the station. Good shots of crowds of people giving Hitler salute. In Spain, a train crowded with volunteers leaves a station. A huge crowd watches the train go. The narrator notes that most of these volunteers, now member of the Blue Division, are veterans of the...

  18. Redistribution of land in Latvia

    Redistribution of land in Latvia. A large group of Latvian civilians, many of them elderly, stand in a square decorated with swastika flags. Some of them hold signs with the German and the Latvian place names of their settlements. A German official hands out documents to the Latvians and shakes their hands. The next scene shows the same official going up to a house and greeting an old woman, and old man, and a younger man at the door. The official hands over a document, which the younger man reads to the older couple. In a different location in Latvia, pan down a church tower, then shots of...

  19. Hitler and Hitler Youth in last newsreel

    Excerpt from the last Wochenschau and the last footage of Adolf Hitler. In the garden of the Reich Chancellery, Hitler greets 20 Hitler Youth members who have won the Knight's Cross. Reich Youth Leader Artur Axmann is also present. Two of the Hitler Youth members talk about their actions. Good CUs of the boys wearing their medals.

  20. Clips from an anti-Jewish Nazi propaganda film, Jud Süß

    At the same ball as in the previous scene Suess wins a hand of cards and receives some coins. A masked man begins to insult him. The scene cuts off here.