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  1. Schermeister girls in the garden, 1929

    In the garden in Snekkersten. The three Schermeister girls, Lis (donor's mother), Jeanne, and Inge, return from a trip with their governess, wearing the same dresses as the Havdalah sequence, and big summer hats. All three girls jump rope with the help of their mother and their governess.

  2. Street scenes during Anschluss

    Distinct shots of a swastika (mirror-flipped) on a house bearing an official sign near entrance (unknown street, presumably near Schwarzenbergplatz, house has the #13) with Wehrmacht guard. 01:07:45 Street corner with prominent building, street sign unreadable. 01:07:50 Secession building with swastikas. 01:07:57 Crowd in front of Opera House, saluting.

  3. Schermeister family vacationing in Snekkersten, 1929

    An indoor shot of the donor's great grandparents, Leopold and Franzisca Cohen. They exit the door to their vacation home in Snekkersten, along with Bernhard (donor's grandfather) and his sister. The extended family on the lawn. The three girls, Lis (donor's mother), Jeanne, and Inge, eat ice cream with Bernhard's mother (Hana Schermeister). Various family members pose for the camera.

  4. Robert G. King family collection

    Collection of photographs given to Robert G. King (donors' father) that document the Gusen concentration camp in Austria shortly after liberation. These photos were brought home from the WWII by Capt. Herbert P. Ramsayer (Robert King's cousin) who was a doctor in the US Army and a member of the 131 Evacuation Hospital.

  5. Wehrmacht troops; military demonstration

    Includes handwritten slates in German. Uniformed German soldiers with helmets lined up for review. An officer inspects a rifle. Another view of the troops in the street. Small groups of Wachkommandos march ahead in a courtyard. Another group marches away, relieved from their duties of watching the barracks, with civilians in the streets behind. CU of a sign, "8. (M.G.) Komp. Inf. Regt. Goettingen" affixed to Barracks 3 with two soldiers at the entrance. Soldiers at target practice (mixed dress from WWI and new Wehrmacht outfits). The first man introduced as Sergeant Schmitz, followed by Pri...

  6. Hanna eats, plays with her father, and runs around in prewar Poland

    Hanna lies in bed, clutching a stuffed dog and playing. She is being fed. She stands up, her father Benedikt comes on screen to hug and play with her. She runs around in some coat without a back.

  7. Visiting Switzerland

    On a boat in Switzerland, views of villages, including Hotel Beaux-Rivage and Hotel "Gotthard" (sign). Seaside views of mountains.

  8. Hanna and Benedikt play in the river, prewar Poland

    Hanna and her father walk around a beach. She plays in the water. He stands around. They sit together next to what appear to be small railroad tracks. Pan up to a large flagpole (flag with circle in the middle).

  9. Kurtz family and friends on European tour in the south of France, Paris, and Switzerland

    MS of Liza Kurtz, Louis and Lillian Malina and Essie Diamond smiling for the camera and admiring the landscape from Parc Municipal du Mt. Boron in Southern France in mid August 1938. Panning shot of city and harbor of Nice and distant mountains. 01:05:12 Over shoulder shot of Louis in a sunhat pointing toward the old city of Monaco from the Jardins Exotique. 01:05:19 Street scenes in a city, possibly Cannes. Louis in a suit, and African soldier with a red hat. 01:05:27 LS of Liza, Louis, Lily, and Essie feeding birds in Paris in front of the Préfecture de Police and the Hôtel-Dieu, most lik...

  10. Children playing in prewar Vienna

    Possibly a kindergarten scene. Four little girls, posing for the camera, then running about happily. An infant is being placed into its carriage, CUs. Another baby. A few mothers with carriages gathered on a sidewalk, including Doris Lichtenthal. Children play. They begin raking sand or dirt of some kind. 01:01:08 Kids play, boys in lederhosen with hoops and sticks, girls with jump ropes. The boys try to climb the fence before giving up. Peter rides a scooter that is just a bit big for him. Peter plays with blocks (brief). A child writing, followed by a girl running behind a toy baby carria...

  11. Vacationing on Lake Traun, Gmunden, Austria

    Outside, a sign reads "Schloss Pension: Freisitz Roith" (a famous historic hotel on the Traunsee [Lake Traun] in Gmunden, Austria). Scenes of an estate at the end of a long scenic road, where children run about and peer over a railing to the view of Lake Traun with mountains surrounding it. They run back into the house. 01:05:11 Eva Schur stands on a man-made pathway, watching swans on the lake in front of her. Motorboats pass by. 01:05:30 Girls play with dolls, boys swim, mother crochets. A rowboat with everyone aboard, along with a new woman in glasses. The boat is landed and chained by t...

  12. Family vacations at the beach in prewar Austria

    Summer scenes near the lake on a beach (the same vacation resort in Gmunden, Austria?). A teenage girl swings, older men swim, a motorboat passes by, a woman (their mother?) does gymnastics, and the children Eva and Peter play in the sand with a ball, beach chairs, and fishing rods.

  13. Liberation of Belgium and capture of collaborators and POWs

    Civilians gathered in a city plaza welcome Allied soldiers arriving in trucks. A joyful crowd of Belgian men, women and children ride on a tank and wave Belgian and American flags. Interior shots of German soldiers and Belgian collaborators kept in animal cages lined with straw at the Antwerp zoo (shots are dark), including CUs of a German officer looking through the bars. Belgian collaborators are led down the street by armed Belgian resistance fighters, members of the L'Armee Blanche. German soldiers are escorted to waiting trucks by troops from the 4th Battalion King's Shropshire Light I...

  14. Inspection of euthanasia facility Meseritz-Obrawalde

    Doctors examine and care for very sick, emaciated children and youth. Panning shot of a medication (barbiturate) called Evipan Natrium, made by Bayer, and other medications (used for euthanasia?). Interior of a cell with a blanket labeled "Anstalt Obrawalde" (Obrawalde Institution, located in Obrawalde, Germany, now Obrzyce, Poland). A medic and another man inspect the cell. Views of the crematorium and the graveyard, with graves marked with small, numbered stones. CU of one of the stones, numbered 1632. A hand withdraws the stone from the ground and shows the camera that there is another n...

  15. German trains receive oil from USSR

    A Soviet and a German train meet and the German train receives Soviet oil. Officials from both sides look over documents related to the transfer. A man climbs up on the top of the snow-covered train and opens a hatch. Men on the ground pass hoses up to those on top of the trains. It is snowing heavily. 01:04:52 A few seconds of another part of this newsreel (Not ordered by USHMM)

  16. Grand Mufti visits Muslim volunteers

    Hajj Amin Al Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, meets Muslim SS volunteers. The Grand Mufti greets a German officer and reviews Muslim SS volunteers standing at attention. Some of the men wear fez hats. German officers and two civilians accompany al Husseini. He greets some volunteers personally and smiles at them. Some of the volunteers look quite young. The Grand Mufti passes a rack with many loaves of bread on it and receives a loaf of bread from a female baker.

  17. Marion Mahler photograph

    Photograph of Marion Mahler (later Marion de Jonge) in Karlsruhe, Germany in 1936 before her family immigrated to Palestine.

  18. Aluminum cooking pot used by a Greek Jewish family

    Cooking pot used by Claire Elhai when she lived in hiding with her family in the Greek countryside from 1943-1944. Nazi Germany and the Axis powers occupied Greece in 1941. Claire, her husband, Jacob, and their infant daughter Elvira lived in Athens which was in the German zone. In September 1943, Italy, an Axis partner, surrendered to the Allies. Jacob decided it was no longer safe for Jews in Athens and went to the Greek police station and explained that he needed false identity cards as Christians for his family. The police supplied them. With the help of friends, Jacob traveled to the P...

  19. Lotte Bacharach papers

    Contains correspondence and photographs illustrating the experiences of Lotte Bacharach [donor], born in Kaltennordheim, Germany in 1931 and placed by the Oeuvres de Secours aux Enfants in Eaubonne, Montintin, and Montmorency, France, as a refugee and then into hiding until fleeing to Switzerland in 1944, where Lotte was interned in Lager Ringlikon and then with family friends in Baden, Switzerland. Correspondence included is from Lotte to her parents and brother who were reunited with Lotte in the United States in 1946.

  20. Fascist volunteers from various countries

    Title: FRIVILLIGA till Fronter i öster fran Franrike, Belgien Danmark och Italien. Volunteers from France, Belgium, Denmark and Italy (USHMM excerpt does not include Italian volunteers). Interior shots of a crowded stadium with a banner displaying the letters LVF (Legion of French Volunteers against Bolshevism). Uniformed volunteers march down a street carrying a flag with the symbol of a fascist organization (Legion Flanders? Belgian volunteers?). Panning shot across the side of a train that has been painted with the words "Legion Flanders." Crowds of civilians in the train station wave go...