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  1. Anton Mussert gives a speech

    A gathering of Nationaal-Socialistische Beweging (NSB) members in the outdoor amphitheater in the Rotspark in Valkenburg. The stands are crowded with men and women. Anton Mussert, leader of the NSB, enters the amphitheater while the whole crowd salutes him. Flags are marched to the front of the amphitheater. Mussert walks to the podium to give a speech. IWM translation of the voiceover narration: Mussert stated that "Europe must remain the cultural centre of the world. We National Socialists do not hang our heads. To fight for fortunate Netherlands in a fortunate Europe remains our duty and...

  2. German, Japanese and Soviet officers watch military exercises

    A large group of German officers and military attachés from countries including Japan and the USSR watch German army exercises taking place in heavy snow. LS of German soldiers running through the snow with the sound of gunfire. A German officer points out features on a map. Closer views of soldiers in action. (Site is Doeberitz outside Berlin.)

  3. Soviet POWs with propagandistic commentary

    Shots of German troops crossing a river (the Dnieper?). Columns of Soviet POWS, then close-ups of some of the prisoners' faces. The narrator says that this is just a small sample of the Bolshevist Untermenschen who, at the order of Stalin, are overrunning Europe.

  4. Edwarda Powidzki collection

    Correspondence, photographs, and writings that illustrate the experiences of Edwarda Stopczynska (donor), a non-Jewish Pole, during the Holocaust in Poland. The collection includes letters sent from Edwarda and her maternal uncle, Stefan Dembski, who was arrested with Edwarda and interrogated in Auschwitz for their political activities, to their mother and sister, Stanisława Chentkowska, in Ząbkowice, Poland. Also includes a 1943 calendar clandestinely taken and inscribed by Edwarda; documents issued to Stanisława and post-war to Edwarda; notes written by and to Edwarda from people interned...

  5. Mignon Langnas papers

    Contains postcards received by Mignon Langnas (donor's mother), a Jewish nurse in Vienna, from Viennese Jews that had been deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp; the majority of the correspondence consists of inscriptions written on pre-printed postcards stating that the writer received packages sent by Mignon. Mignon remained in Vienna and sent packages to over thirty families interned in Theresienstadt, the majority of whom were ultimately deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp where they are assumed to have perished. Mignon was liberated in Vienna and ultimately immigra...

  6. Hanna and Thomas play in the snow; Hanna and Babeta swing in a hammock

    Hanna and Thomas run along a path in the snow. Scene shifts to the summertime, with Hanna and Babeta swinging in a hammock.

  7. Propaganda about Austria

    The symbol of the Vaterlandisches Front (Fatherland Front) appears on the screen, followed by a Star of David. Shot of Kurt Schuschnigg, whose name the narrator says in a menacing voice. The next section shows clergy celebrating the concordat (the 1933 concordat with Austria? Schuschnigg is present in two scenes). A series of Fatherland Front flags parts symbolically to reveal a Jewish man walking in Vienna, followed by a "Judisches Geschaeft" sign in the window of the Café Rembrandt. Jews in the streets of the Jewish Quarter of Vienna. Shops with Jewish names, including Geza Basch and Samu...

  8. Children bathe in the yard of their home in prewar Poland

    Hanna, Thomas, and Lisa Kunard bathe in a large wash tub, splashing about. The tub is emptied and rolled around the yard with Hanna's mother Ella and an older girl.

  9. Document collection

    Contains a registration document for Karol Heit; a Fragebogen [questionnaire] for health care provider Moszek Cukier, a dental technician in the Warsaw ghetto; and two legal documents from Tarnów regarding court cases involving repayment of debt; in German and Polish.

  10. Brown tablecloth with a floral design saved during a pogrom in Ukraine and recovered after the war

    Brown floral tablecloth, the only family item recovered by Zeev Raveh Werba in Maniewicze, Poland (Prilesnoye, Ukraine), after the war. It was taken when their home was looted during a pogrom by the local Ukrainian population after the June 1941 invasion by Germany. It was found and saved by a neighbor, who returned it to Zeev. He kept the tablecloth with him during the remainder of his military service. When Zeev left for a displaced persons camp in Italy, he used the tablecloth while conducting interviews for a writer researching stories of Holocaust survivors. In September 1939, Zeev's v...

  11. Jewish soldiers in Palestine perform military exercises

    Palestinian troops wearing helmets and carrying bayonets rush up a hill through an arch in a stone structure (IWM identifies it as an old city castle). LS of troops aiming their rifles from the top of the stone wall. Two soldiers stand sentry beside a Star of David flag atop the stone wall (battlement?). Jewish soldiers, smiling, talking, smoking, one gives the camera a thumbs up. A soldier operates a field phone with a board of international codes hanging on the wall. Soldiers perform various military exercises. Captured German soldiers under guard of the Palestinian troops cross a desert ...

  12. Hanna plays with a camera

    Hanna plays with the photo camera and lipstick case again.

  13. Bernhard clowns around, 1929

    The donor's grandfather, Bernhard Schermeister, in a false beard and dark glasses, clowns around with his wife, Edith, in the yard of their vacation home in Snekkersten. He presents her with various gifts, including a bouquet of flowers and dolls, while she feigns disinterest.

  14. Yocheved Flumenker collection

    Collection of photos of Yocheved Flumenker [donor], her husband and friends, primarily from the displaced persons camps in Stuttgart and Bad Reichenhall. Included are photos of donor’s wedding to Zvi Flumenker, photos from pre-war Lublin, and a photo from the Lublin ghetto, where the donor briefly lived before escaping with her father to live with peasants in the surrounding area. Also includes one identification card and one graduation certificate.

  15. Copper food bowl used in Treblinka concentration camp

    Copper bowl that was used by inmates of the Treblinka concentration and extermination camp in Poland from 1941-1944. In November 1941, the SS and the German police authorities of the Generalgouvernement in German controlled Poland established a forced labor camp for Jews, known as Treblinka. In July 1942, they set up Treblinka II, a killing center where nearly 1 million Jews were killed. Treblinka II was closed in the fall of 1943. As Soviet troops moved into the area in late July 1944, camp authorities shot the remaining prisoners and evacuated the camp. Soviet troops entered the camp in t...

  16. Children ski outside their vacation home in prewar Poland

    Winter scene, snow covers most of the ground. Hanna is bundled up. She and Thomas strap on their snow skis. They get some help from her father Benedikt. Slowly they work their way along a path and down a slight slope, falling once.

  17. Hanna, her mother, and aunt model kimonos on the terrace in prewar Poland

    Hanna walks around in a kimono and holding a sun umbrella on the porch of their home in Jaremcze. Mother Ella and another woman are dressed similarly. Hanna walks around and plays with the umbrella.

  18. Nazi propaganda decorations in Vienna

    March (or early April) 1938. A column with a swastika is being raised. A tramway announcement for Hitler's speech at the Nordwestbahnhalle on April 9. A ruined building. A truck bearing the sign "HJ ZUG Ein Fuehrer - ein Reich - eine Jugend" [Hitler Youth Train One Leader - One Empire - One Youth]. Opera house being decorated. 01:01:38 Museumsstrasse (the square in between the state museums). Shopping window with a Hitler portrait, filmmaker's reflection is partly visible. SS men, informal posture, probably waiting for parade to commence (very likely March 14 or 15), on Schwarzenbergplatz i...

  19. World War II era Ukrainian newspapers from the Ivano-Frankivsk State Archive

    Contains the collection of Ukrainian newspapers published in German occupied Ukraine during the Second World War. Most of the newspapers were published in Ukrainian, however, some were published in German or even Hungarian. The collection contains the following newspapers: “Ukrainskoye Slovo,” “Stanislavskye Slovo,” “Samostima Ukraina,” “Rogatins’kye Slovo,” “Krakauer Zeitung,” “Ostanni Visti,” “Kalus’kii Golos,” “L’vivskii Visti,” “Nasha Sila,” “Ukrains’skii Visnik,” “Do Zbroi!,” “Ternopil’skii Golos,” “Do Peremogi,”, “Nashi D’ni,” “Ukrainskii Dobrovolets,” “Achrichtenblatt der Gruppe Puch...

  20. Celebrating May Day

    Crowd marching (summer attire), swastikas, acrobat on high-wire at Prater Garden (most likely). Maypole. Fireworks.