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  1. Speer, Hitler and others inspect weapons

    R 1 of 3. Fuehrerhauptquartier Rastenburg (East Prussia) May 18, 1942. Albert Speer, Hitler, General Fichtner, Bodenschatz, Porsche, and others inspect some equipment and a map (?). The other men listen while Hitler speaks and gestures animatedly. The next title indicates that the location is now Goering's train and the date is 10 August [1942]. Footage shot from the top of the train as it travels. Men stand lookout on the top of the train. The train comes to a stop. Goering, Speer, Jeschonnek, Bodenshatz, and Milch stand talking beside the train. Title: Inspection of new weapons, 20 March ...

  2. Children playing in the sand in prewar Poland

    Hanna in a headscarf and Thomas dig around in the sand outside a house. They then run around the house with other children.

  3. Airfield; Lieberman family gardening; Boys gathered on a bench

    Airfield (probably in Poland - grass under the planes) This could be in February 1939 when the family hired a plane to go to Palestine. Biplanes are everywhere, lined up as far as the camera can see. Some are have their engines started. These are most likely Henkel HE51s, a plane used between the World Wars. They take off en masse. Pans of the airfield follow. Cut to the children and a few adults standing around (Poland or Palestine?). Group sits on a bench. Man and woman exit a house. The picture is rather washed out and it is unclear what is going on.

  4. Children play

    Children playing on the porch with adults lounging. Dr. Max Schur and Dr. Helen Schur, parents, seated in chairs behind the children.

  5. Oscar Mackour collection

    Contains documents concerning the Schlome family and their experiences in Berlin and the United Kingdom; includes information about Oscar Mackour's experiences leaving Berlin for the UK on the Kindertransport, and his mother's experiences fleeing later in 1939.

  6. Nurse exercises Hanna's baby limbs

    Hanna sits on the bed and is stretched out with the help of a nurse.

  7. Ehrenreich family papers

    Documents relating to the Ehrenreich family who fled Nazi Germany; includes a family photograph from the turn of the century, a family tree for the Levi-Berlinger-Ellinger family; two letters to Dr. Phil N. Ehrenreich about completing a family tree; naturalization certificates for Frieda and Nathan Ehrenreich from 1945; and a death certificate for Nathan Ehrenreich dated April 28, 1966.

  8. Henni Padawer collection

    Consists of documents and photographs related to the wartime experiences of Henni (Henny) Breslauer Padawer, originally of Dusseldorf, Germany. Includes pre-war and wartime photographs of Henni and her family and friends, including a Purim photograph, photographs of Henni's parents after their arrival in the United States, and photographs of the couple who sponsored the family's immigration. Also includes Henni's first place certificate in a Maccabi sporting event and a picture of a girl holding a lantern which was given to her by a teacher before Henni left Germany, as well as a copy of he...

  9. Schermeister family on vacation in the summer of 1928

    The donor's grandfather, Bernhard Schermeister, his wife, Edith Cohen Schermeister, and two of their three daughters get into a car outside of a home in Denmark. The oldest daughter is Lis, the donor's mother. Bernhard's mother, Hana Schermeister, is also in the car. A brief shot of the family outside the house. Bernhard holds a portrait of his three daughters. Bernhard, now alone in the car, pulls up to a house and escorts his mother from the house to the car.

  10. Red Cross center in Geneva

    The scene opens on a big Red Cross flag in a cavernous room. The narrator says that this is the Red Cross center in Geneva. The camera pans down to show rows and rows of filing cabinets, where volunteers work with index cards in the file drawers. Signs indicate the departments for various countries. Workers in the correspondence section, where letters to and from prisoners and their relatives are routed. CU of a woman attaching a photograph of a man to a letter with a paperclip. Another view of the filing cabinets. 01:02:35 A few seconds of another part of this newsreel (Not ordered by USHMM)

  11. UFA studio in Babelsberg

    A film about the creation of the new, modern UFA studios in Babelsberg. Views of the old Babelsberg Studio followed by a scene from Die Suenden der Vaeter, which was filmed in the old studio. In the clip, piano music plays while a woman, looking upset, lights a lamp and pours herself a drink from a glass bottle. Views of the old studio are replaced on the screen by the new buildings. Construction activity on film sets. Actors, some of them dressed in costumes, walk among the studio buildings at lunchtime.

  12. Cigarette card album

    German cigarette album, Deutschland erwacht. This album was probably received as a gift by the donor’s grandfather or great-grandfather who worked with the Frankfurt Zoological Society. All the German captions have been translated into English and pasted into the album.

  13. Phillip Drell collection

    Publications and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Philip Drell [donor], sergeant attached to the Special Motion Picture Coverage Unit, Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force from June 6, 1944 to May 8, 1945. Collection includes a series of publications and newspapers circa 1930s and 1940s [list below]; letter written by donor from Paris, dated May 15, 1945, addressed to his “Folks” describing in brief detail seeing the newly liberated concentration camp Dachau in Germany; hand-inscribed note asking Parisian photography to develop and process donor’s film for news med...

  14. Family in garden

    Family shots (probably) of a man (the filmmaker?) from behind crouching before a boy and mother tearing grass. Probably at Prater garden.

  15. French resistance members captured by Milice

    Animated map from Brest to Antwerp. Members of the Milice leave a prison building and stand at attention. CU on a patch on the uniform of one man. The Milice leads a column of resistance fighters out of the prison under armed guard. CU of the shattered windshield of a car that has been attacked by "terrorists." German field police check papers of vehicles and pedestrians, including an elderly man with glasses and a beard. The Germans interrogate the owner of a farm and then burn his farm. The Germans find and inspect false French currency printed by the Americans. German troops march down a...

  16. Elmar Martin photograph collection

    Contains photographs taken by Elmar L. Martin (donor's father) in Leipzig-Thekla and Berga an der Elster concentration camps (sub camps of Buchenwald) after the liberation in April 1945. Mr. Martin served as a photographer in the US Army Signal Corps, War Crimes Investigating Team.

  17. Atrocities; liberation of concentration camps

    Propaganda compilation of graphic newsreel and documentary materials showing concentration camps as Allied cameramen entered between 1945 and 1946. Opening credits: "An AF Film Release" (Actualites Francais Films); "Sterling Films" ; "Camps of the Dead / They need no explanation, no titles. Just look and be glad you live in America." "Langestein [sic]" Langenstein: Corpses in open area, pits, doctors and other civilians, exhumation, lining bodies on soil. "Ohrdrus [sic]" Nordhausen: Corpses, pits, VAR CUs. Two male survivors. "Dachau" Soldiers at gate with eagle. CU sign, "Zentral Bauleitun...

  18. Poster of Schuschnigg

    March (probably very early after the Anschluss). Single shot of a sign with Chancellor Schuschnigg portrait and "JA" (etched or stencil-painted?) and partially scratched off. All the Staendestaat propaganda was removed (often by forcing Jews) after March 12.

  19. Lieberman family hiking in the Carpathians and at a farm

    The Lieberman family is walking along a mountain path, hiking in the Carpathian Mountains, near their vacation home in Jaremcze. Scenic view of the rolling hills of the area. They crawl under a wire fence. 02:09:34 Quick view of a man with a necktie holding a U.S. flag.

  20. Framed oil painting of a country scene created in the Łódź Ghetto

    Painting created by Stefan Krengel in the Łódź ghetto in Poland that was presented to Mr. Regner, the director of the transport division in the ghetto, on his birthday, July 14, 1942. The painting was signed on the back by all the clerks in the transport office and has a caption wishing Mr. Regner a happy birthday. Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, and one week later occupied Łódź. They renamed it Litzmannstadt and in February 1940 relocated all the Jews, roughly 100,000 people, into a sealed ghetto. Prewar Łódź was a thriving industrial city and the ghetto was an important ...