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  1. Children play on a teeter-totter

    Hanna with braids on teeter-totter. Hanna, Thomas, and Babeta play on it.

  2. Meinberg family collection

    Contains a photograph of Walter Meinberg (donor's father) in the German Army during World War I, dated 1915; a driver's license issued to Walter Meinberg February 15, 1921, in Braunschweig, German; and a document dated November 9, 1938 from the German Oberfinanzpraesident to the customs office allowing the Meinbergs to take belongings abroad.

  3. Vosskamp family takes a summer holiday near Offenburg

    The Vosskamp family plays outside on a summer holiday. A man pushes a woman and child on a tree swing; others swim. Children dig in a sandbox. Three of the family members (Johannes's brother in Lederhoesen?) go hiking in the hills. They come across an old lady with whom they stop and chat. Waterfalls. The children climb up a tower lookout, their father Johannes Vosskamp joins them. The family visits old stone ruins, picks berries, and breaks for lunch. They then walk about town, observe the rail station at Offenburg, go to a swimming pool, and play in the sandbox some more. 01:09:35 Quick b...

  4. Corpses after Russian massacre; bodies; Jews beaten

    "Agfa 1941" Overturned train. Exhumation of victims of the NKVD in Brygidki prison in Lviv in the summer of 1941. Laying out the bodies of officers and soldiers. Crowd gathered around bodies. (VQ, very soft, dark) Women poking at bodies which are being laid out in the courtyard, sweeping them clean? Woman running after and beating a man in the crowd. Soldiers pull her back and comfort her. Woman keening. A Ukrainian militiaman, recognizable by his armband, beating a Jewish man in Brygidki prison in Lviv. This was during the "prison action" of the Lviv pogrom of 1941. Many bodies laid out in...

  5. Chaim Kaplan diary

    The Chaim Kaplan diary consists, in its entirety, of a diary that Kaplan maintained in Hebrew, from 1933 to 1942. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum obtained three original volumes of this diary in 2009, consisting of: Book 3, dating from April 4, 1935 to August 4, 1936 (pages 1-390); Book 7, consisting of entries from August 30, 1939 to December 23, 1939 (pages 53-280); and other fragments, dating from May 7, 1942 to July 2, 1942, paginated from 230-309. While earlier entries focus on personal matters and events, Kaplan made a conscious choice to chronicle Jewish life and external...

  6. Horthy at agricultural fair

    The Agricultural Fair in Budapest. Regent of Hungary Admiral Miklos Horthy arrives at the fair with his wife, Magda, and daughter. Horthy shakes hands with Reich Minister Walther Darre. Shots of men riding horses in formation. CU of a building with the words, "M. Kir. Klkereskedelmi Nivatal Kiållitåsa". Shots of some of the pavilions and agricultural machinery on display. CU of a map of Europe with what appear to be trade routes marked as part of a display. Horthy and his party view walk around the fairgrounds. 01:11:30 cameraman filming Horthy is visible.

  7. Ruth Daneshgar collection

    Photographs and correspondence concerning the Alexander family: Simon, Nelly (donor's parents), and Ruth, who were interned in France. Simon and Nelly were deported; Ruth survived by fleeing to Switzerland.

  8. World War I veterans take a trip

    Street scenes with well-dressed civilians and shops (this could be another day-trip taken by Johannes Vosskamp and his contemporaries from Duisburg). Signs show "Schenkwirtschaft Theod. Hünnekens", "Dortmunder...", and "Tivoli Beer". 01:06:15 Johannes Vosskamp, in a dark suit and bowtie, smoking, exits a building with others, including women and a uniformed soldier. Buses line the streets of the unknown city/village with a river. The well-dressed day-trippers (men and women) walk through a park and sit at a long table having refreshments with coffee. The group boards buses, with Vosskamp at...

  9. Liberation of Belgium

    Footage shot by Belgian cameramen. British troops are welcomed by crowds in the streets of Antwerp. A group of people wave to the cameraman from a balcony hung with a Belgian flag. HAS of people running down the street. A fire burns in a building that had been used by the Germans. Firemen attempt to put out the fire. More shots of happy Belgian citizens greeting British troops. Angry people surround collaborators. People on bicycles watch as German soldiers are marched down the street. Firemen spray water into a burning building. A woman pats a dog on a British tank. German soldiers march d...

  10. Fascist recruits from various countries

    Sequence of images of SS volunteers from several countries. The shots change quickly from one location to the next so the time codes given may not be entirely accurate. Estonian SS volunteers at roll call (induction?). Men in civilian clothes and in uniform. CU of a patch on one man's arm that reads "Estland." An older officer wears a cap with a Death's Head insignia. 01:05:29 Ukrainian volunteers stand at attention holding banners. Men holding banners, one written in Ukrainian flanked by two banners with SS insignia. Men, some of them in native dress, march down the street holding swastika...

  11. NOTICE! NOTICE! Text only wanted poster listing people sentenced to death for crimes against the German government in occupied Poland

    Warning announcement issued in Zakapone, Poland, on October 31, 1943, by the Chief of SS and Police in the Krakow District. The poster announces that the 27 listed persons have been charged with various crimes committed against the German government in Poland and sentenced to death. Persons 1-6 for participation in the roving bands, person 7 for illegal weapons possession, persons 8-9 and 11-27 for illegal activities, and person 10 for participation in a terrorist group. Although the sentence has been carried out on the first five people, the remaining people may be pardoned if no further a...

  12. Hitler visits troops in the last days

    A frail-looking Hitler visits soldiers in the East. He greets military officers and sits at a desk with a map in front of him. Hitler exits the building and is greeted by saluting soldiers. Hitler drives off in a car. Deutsche Wochenschau eagle graphic on screen.

  13. Judith Korot collection

    Contains documents, letters, and photographs illustrating the Grunberger and Freimann families in Slovakia during the Holocaust.

  14. Hanna plays with a camera and lipstick case with her father Benedikt

    Hanna has a photo camera, her father Benedikt looks over her shoulder and sticks his tongue out at the camera. He begins explaining it to her, helping her to use it. She also plays with a lipstick case.

  15. Petain and Leval receive the Vichy diplomatic corps

    Henri Petain and Pierre Laval receive members of the Vichy diplomatic corps, who give them New Year's greetings. Very dark shots of Petain, Laval and Papal Nuncio Valerio Valeri.

  16. 100th anniversary of the German railway

    Hitler arrives at the ceremony to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Reichsbahn at the train station in Nuremberg. The narrator says there are 3,000 spectators. Nazi flags wave in the wind. Hitler walks past a train, accompanied by a large contingent of railway officials, including Julius Dorpmueller (in bowler hat). They walk across a field crisscrossed with train tracks. Hitler salutes a group of railway workers and receives cheers from a stage in front of a huge crowd. Views of new trains rolling down the tracks. 01:04:31 Dorpmueller stands beside Hitler. More views of new trains, ...

  17. Sephardic Songs of Monastir Kantigas de los Sefardes a Monastir

    Sephardic songs of Monastir, Macedonia. CD 1 contains forty tracks of music sung by Avram Sadikario, recorded in 2004. CD 2 contains a document with the text of the lyrics.

  18. Lieberman family relaxes on the terrace in prewar Poland; Hanna and Thomas bathe

    The family is in the yard. Hanna and Thomas run around unclothed. High angle shots looking down at the porch, where the family eats. Includes Thomas, Benedikt, Heinrich, Hanna, and Magda. CUs, Emanuel (with glasses) and Nelly. The children bathing in the wash tub with Benedikt.

  19. Peter Kauf collection

    Contains thirty-eight original photographs of the Kauf family before the war in Berlin, during the war in Belgium, and after liberation. Peter Kauf survived the Holocaust in hiding; his older brother was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and murdered upon arrival; his parents were hiding most of the time, but at the end of the war, they were arrested and imprisoned in a transit camp in Belgium.

  20. Otto Kundert collection

    Identification card issued to Otto R. Kundert (donor's father), War Crimes Duty Officer for the 7708 War Crimes Group of the United States in Germany; two (2) photographic prints - black and white images identified on verso by Otto Kundert as atrocities from Buchenwald used as evidence in war crimes trials in Germany in 1945 and 1946; both images are dated November 8, 1945, Wiesbaden, Germany, inscriptions are in English.