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  1. Dachau at liberation; death train; SS bodies

    CU, "Muenchen Dachau" sign. MS, statue with sparse trees and a train car behind it. Soldiers look into the death train discovered by American troops on April 29, 1945. The train consisted of 30 rail cars with nearly 5,000 prisoners who had been evacuated from Buchenwald in the last days of the war. Soldiers guard the length of the train, a group smokes cigarettes. Open car reveals a pile of corpses in camp uniforms. The camera pans inside the car, revealing emaciated corpses. One is naked, some are wrapped in blankets and camp uniforms. Another car with more corpses inside; one naked laying...

  2. Invasion of Poland

    German planes on an airfield loaded with bombs. Shots of bombing, including a Stuka as it bombs a railway junction. The narrator tells the story of the siege of Warsaw, which started when the Germans were 31 miles outside the city. German troops load and fire artillery shells. Aerial shots of burning Warsaw. Germans enter the city on tanks and other vehicles while Polish civilians watch. Polish POWs surrender their weapons. Victory parade in Warsaw.

  3. György Bakách-Bessenyey papers (MOL P 2066)

    This collection contains the papers of György Bakách-Bessenyey (1892‒1959), Hungarian envoy to Switzerland who resigned upon the German occupation of Hungary on March 19, 1944, and who played an instrumental role drawing the attention of the West to the deportation of Hungary's Jews. His correspondence, reports, speeches, articles constitute the collection.

  4. Ferenc Rajniss papers (MOL P 2210)

    This collection contains papers and records of Ferenc Rajniss, an extreme right-wing politician and journalist, who in 1944 was Minister of Education and Religious Affairs in the Arrow-Cross Cabinet and was executed later for war crimes. Documents include his notes, articles, lectures, speeches relating to " Kristallnacht ", Jewish questions, Hungarian foreign policy, Fascist domestic program, and Rajniss' testimony about National Socialist beliefs; and more.

  6. C.H. Booth Library collection

    Consists of postcards produced in Nazi Germany, depicting the 1936 Olympics; photographs of Nazi officials (including Hitler, Goering, and Goebbels); mining operations in the Erz mountains; and of miscellaneous individuals and German pastoral scenes. Also includes clippings related to Nazi Germany from Reader's Digest magazine (dated 1938-1939), a stationery set featuring German propaganda portraits of prominent Nazi figures, and a November 12, 1933 issue of "Unser Reich."

  7. Helga Trauherz collection

    Contains a German passport issued to Helga Trauherz stamped with red letter "J" issued in October 1938, Berlin, Germany; and seven photographs depicting Helga in Paris, where she survived the Holocaust by posing as a non-Jewish woman with the help of false papers. Helga married Hanan Katz (donor's cousin), after the war.

  8. Veszprém Megyei Érseki Levéltár, Veszprém Holocaust-era records from the Archives of the Lutheran Church in Hungary

    Contains two group of the Lutheran church records: I. Records (1938‒1943) regarding education, administrative and registration materials related to problems stemming from anti-Jewish legislation, statistics and memoranda the Church had to submit annually. II. Records (1944) related to conversions, requests to provide services in ghettos and camps, statements by district Church offices regarding persecution of the Jews, documentation of personal matters, other materials.

  9. "My Yellow Star"

    Consists of one memoir, written by Dov Gury (Bernard Gurovici), originally of Paris, entitled "My Yellow Star." This collection consists of two copies of the memoir, one in French and one in Hebrew. In the memoir, Mr. Gury describes his Holocaust experiences in Paris, his experiences crossing the demarcation line and the frontier to Switzerland, and his post-war immigration to Israel.

  10. Agro-joint colonies in the Crimea

    Refer to RG-60.4679 on Film ID 2847 for the description and better visual quality of the first seven minutes of this film footage. 01:08:02 Dr. Yefim Lubarsky, vice-president of the Agro-Joint, presents flowers to Pauline Baerwald Falk and Evelyn Morrissey. The women smile at the camera. Scene of a grassy field shot from a moving car. Scenes showing one or more of the Agro-Joint colonies visited by the Falks and Evelyn Morrissey: two oxen yoked together beside a car; LS of a young boy running down a road beside a long line of houses; a woman carries two buckets of water. The next scenes may...

  11. Warsaw Ghetto photographs

    Contains 28 photographs taken in the Warsaw Ghetto. Included are street scenes with white armbands prominent on many of the people depicted in the imagery.

  12. William Asadorian collection

    The collection consists of Nazi propaganda leaflets produced during World War II and postwar American propaganda documents and newspapers.

  13. Maurice Wolkomir photograph collection

    Collection consists of photographs depicting an unidentified camp and prisoners, presumed to be a Prisoner of War camp holding Soviet POWs.

  14. George Pratt Wooters photograph collection

    Contains 11 black and white photographs taken by George Pratt Wooters (donor's husband), US Army Private First Class, who was stationed in Germany during WWII. The photos document exhumed corpses from a mass grave near Nammering, Germany that was discovered by US troops on April 28, 1945; American officers in the area forced imprisoned SS POWs housed nearby to exhume corpses and lay them out on either side of the ravine above the mass grave.

  15. Invasion of USSR

    Title: Universal Newsreel Nazis War on Russia. Compilation of German and Soviet footage. Sound intermittent. Germans marching on parade, tanks, airplanes in formation, paratroopers parachuting out of planes. Brief shot of von Ribbentrop speaking. Happy peasants harvest crops, probably in the Ukraine. Tanks in Red Square, Soviet planes in the air, Soviet paratroopers, Molotov and Matsuoka sign the Japanese-Soviet non-aggression pact in April, 1941. Stalin stands in the background. In Washington, DC, at the embassy of the USSR, the Soviet Ambassador (?) makes a speech to the camera. He says t...

  16. Rose Schwartz photographs

    Consists of 12 post-war photographs of Holocaust survivors at the 1949 exhumation and rebural of victims killed by Nazis in Kozienice, Poland and at a 1954 memorial event for Kozienice survivors in Wrocław, Poland. The photographer's identity is unknown.

  17. Adolf Hitler election speech in Eberswalde

    A crowd assembled to hear Adolf Hitler speak. They salute and cheer. Hitler stands at a flag and garland-draped podium, shot from below. Cameramen can be seen occasionally in the lower right of the screen as they film and/or photograph the speech. Occasional shots of the crowds and SA men. Hitler finishes his speech and descends from the podium. SA men hold back the crowds as Hitler's motorcade passes through them. Music plays, ending with "Deutschland ueber Alles." Shots of an orchestra playing the song while the crowd watches and salutes. Although the film is titled "Reichskanzler Adolf H...

  18. "Deeper Into the Forest"

    Consists of one memoir, 250 pages, entitled "Deeper Into the Forest," written in 1989 by Stanislaw Kalwinski, originally of Hołosko, near Lwow, Poland. Mr. Kalwinski recalls his family's history and childhood memories, including his memory of the German invasion of Poland and the subsequent Russian occupation of the area. In the summer of 1942, the family decided to hide Jews in their basement; they eventually saved 23 Jews, including Leon Wells. Mr. Kalwinski, a child at the time, describes the people they hid and how they hid them. In 1944, after accidentally almost revealing the secret, ...

  19. Trzebinia photographs

    Consists of one CD containing copies of 266 photographs of Jews before and during World War II in Trzebinia, Poland. Also contains one booklet containing thumbnails of each photograph with an English caption. Many of the photographs are personal photographs of individuals who lived in the area.

  20. Destroyed building and car

    Ruins. Narration: "In the revolution the unity of the worker movement is broken. In the National Assembly vote on 19 January, the SPD emerges as the strongest party with over 37 percent. The USPD receives a disappointing 7.6 percent of the vote." Bombed building (presumably) that was part of the fighting in the lead up to this vote, which was the vote that resulted in the establishment of the Weimar Republic. Overturned car. Digging in the ruins.