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  1. Impact of Marshall aid on Germany

    This description of the film "Me and Mr. Marshall" is from the "Selling Democracy: Films of the Marshall Plan, 1948-1953" program: The impact of Marshall aid is told personally by a young German coal miner. He describes (and the viewer sees) conditions in Europe after the war and some of the ways the Marshall Plan helped Europe get back into production and into the import-export business. Footage includes Secretary of State George Marshall describing the way the European Recovery Program is supposed to work (a re-enactment - not the June 5, 1947, Harvard speech). Also includes animated grap...

  2. Annexation of Austria; Munich Pact; German invasion of East and West; Territorial expansion

    Part 2 of GERMAN language version [corresponds to NARA reels 3 & 4] Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg addressing government, speech in progress. Schuschnigg replaced by Arthur von Seyss-Inquart in Austria, riding in automobile, waving to crowd. CU, transcription of Goering's conversation with Keppler. In city street, Nazis round up civilians, slowly closing in on them with horses and police, man carried away. Nazis marching in streets, heiling, waving flags. Crossing Austrian border, over bridge LS, lifting up pole, Austrians with big grins. "21 May 1935" Annexation text superimposed...

  3. Berkowicz family papers

    The collection contains correspondence documenting the Berkowicz family’s experiences during the Holocaust. Included is correspondence to Bina Tac Berkowicz after her immigration to the United States from her sister Faiga Tac Bursztyn in the Warsaw ghetto; letters from family members in Slonim, Belarus; correspondence from Bernard Berkowicz’s brothers who were refugees in New Zealand; and letters enquiring about the whereabouts of various family members. Also included is the passenger list of the M.S. Piłsudski, the ship Bina, Bernard, and their daughter Barbara sailed on from Poland to the...

  4. Kliger family collection

    Consists of one photograph album containing pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of the extended Kliger family, originally of Germany and Austria. Includes correspondence and documentation regarding Evelyn Kliger, who was sent to England on a Kindertransport in 1939, while her parents, Josef and Katherina Kliger, escaped from Vienna to Switzerland. Includes letters from Evelyn in England to her parents as well as correspondence to relief agencies after the war, as her parents sought to reunite with their daughter. Also includes documentation related to Josef Kliger's post-war conversi...

  5. Shneur Elgar papers

    Papers consist of two identification cards issued to Baruch Engler and Shlima Engler, Shneur Elgar's parents, on July 18, 1942 in Romania.

  6. Motek Weglinski papers

    Documents issued to Motek Weglinski (Murray Weglinski) who, after his liberation from numerous concentration and slave labor camps, lived and worked in the displaced persons' camp Eschwege in Germany. The documents include an identification card issued to Motek Weglinski by the "Office aiding all..religious persecuted..", statement that he was liberated in concentration camp Bergen-Belsen in Germany.

  7. Judith Hanlon papers

    Papers consist of identification papers, correspondence, photographs, and a passenger list documenting the experiences of Hans, Elise and Herbert Stein and Moritz and Karoline Stein during the time period surrounding the Holocaust. The papers inlude correspondence written by Hans Stein while imprisioned in Dachau concentration camp after his arrest on Kristallnacht and information pertaining to the family's immigration from Vienna.

  8. Concentration camp uniform jacket and pants worn by a Catholic Polish prisoner in several camps

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn523852
    • English
    • a: Height: 27.750 inches (70.485 cm) | Width: 20.000 inches (50.8 cm) b: Height: 39.500 inches (100.33 cm) | Width: 15.750 inches (40.005 cm)

    Striped jacket and pants worn by Mieczyslaw Lewicki during his imprisonment in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald, and Dora-Nordhausen concentration camps from September 15, 1942-April 9, 1945. Nineteen year old Mieczyslaw, a Catholic, was arrested in Radom, Poland, on September 1, 1942, for taking food to Jews in the ghetto who worked at his family's shoe factory. He was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp where the uniform was issued and a mug shot taken. On August 15, 1944, he was transferred to Buchenwald in Germany. He was then sent to Dora-Nordhausen slave labor camp where he worked...

  9. Munich: Nazi memorials

    Cars and pedestrians pass the Feldherrnhalle memorial to the Nazis killed in the 1923 Munich putsch. Two armed men stand guard in front of two huge wreaths. There is a changing of the guard ceremony and shots of bicyclists riding by. Both the pedestrians and those on bicycles salute as they walk by. Another changing of the guard ceremony, this time at the honor temple where the dead putschists were buried. The Baker family traveled through Munich on the way to Vienna in October 1937. Helen Baker writes of the visit in a letter dated October 31, 1937: "We started out on an inspection tour, r...

  10. Sophie Zajd Berkowitz photograph collection

    Sophie Zajd Berkowitz photograph collection consists of nine photographs documenting the experiences of Zofia Zajd Berkowitz and of Cecia Berkowitz (Zofia's niece) during the time period surrounding the Holocaust dated 1930-1946. Zofia Zajd Berkowitz survived the war working forced labor at the Hasag labor camp in Czestochowa. Her niece Cecia Berkowitz survived in hiding with the assistance of Genowefa Starczewska-Korczak, a Polish Christian woman who was recognized as Righteous Among the Nations in 1986.

  11. Dachau crematorium and museum

    EXT, Dachau camp. Sign displayed in front of Dachau's first crematorium, "This area is being retained as a shrine to the 238,000 individuals who were cremated here. Please don't destroy." Slow pan of camp buildings and large white cross marking the old gallows stand. INT, crematorium, ovens (overexposed). MS, sign in four languages: "Old Gallows Stand." EXT, Barrack X with crematorium and gas chamber. MS, wood platform, cross, coffin on gallows stand. INT, exhibition in the crematorium-gas chamber building (Barrack X) with life-size mannequins dressed in prisoner uniforms demonstrating tort...

  12. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Côte-d'Or

    Contains records pertaining to the systematic expropriation of property belonging to Jews and Freemasons in the Côte-d’Or. Also contains information regarding the harassment, internment and deportation of Jews and Freemasons from the Côte-d’Or.

  14. Giovanni Palatucci collection

    Collection consists of four vintage photographs and one document relating to Giovanni Palatucci [donor's maternal uncle].

  15. John and Barbara Helman papers

    The John and Barbara Helman papers consist of biographical materials and photographs documenting the Helman and Wiewióra families from Łódź, John and Barbara’s survival of the Łódź ghetto, John’s survival of the Auschwitz and Görlitz concentration camps, and the couple’s postwar marriage and refugee and immigration status. Biographical materials include identification papers, certificates, and correspondence documenting John’s status as a survivor of the Łódź ghetto, Auschwitz, and Görlitz; his marriage to Bronia Wiewióra; her survival of the Łódź ghetto; and the couple’s refugee and immigr...

  16. Speeches on the occasion of the opening of the antibolshevist exhibition in Nuremberg

    Coverage of the opening of the Great Antibolshevist exhibition in Nuremberg. The narrator announces the exhibition, which shows the danger to the world posed by bolshevists and Jews. A group of men in uniform are greeted by Julius Streicher. The narrator introduces the guest of honor, General Maggiore (? Melchiori?), leader of the fascist delegation. The camera pans over the uniformed men and spectators. The delegation and the spectators salute as a band plays. 01:02:26 The general gives a speech in Italian. The camera pans over uniformed Nazis as they listen. 01:05:00 The camera pans aroun...

  17. Isaac Berneman collection

    The Isaac Berneman collection consists of an identification card and a residence cards issued to Isaac’s father, Dawid (David) Berneman (b. Kozienice, Poland, 1913-1980), and his mother, Cecylia Berneman (b. Rajcza or Zywiec, Poland 1923-1981). The documents were issued in displaced person camps in Austria following the Holocaust and indicate that David was a Polish Jew living in New Palestine DP Camp and that Cecylia was a slave laborer in Gabersdorf, the Czech Republic. Isaac was born in Salzburg in 1947, the family immigrated to the United States in 1951, and Isaac’s brother and sister w...

  18. Berlin, 1936

    Traffic, bus with Persil advertisement, traffic conductor, automobiles, street scenes in Berlin. Buildings decorated for 1936 Summer Olympics. Nazi banners with swastikas. Traffic. Multiple country flags erected for Olympics. MS, Reichstag.

  19. Vienna scenes; Helen Baker; dogs

    Street scenes of Vienna. People in Austrian dress, streetcars, bicyclists. Helen Baker talks to a young man who sells bread from a large basket on his back. She inspects a large round loaf of bread and then tosses it into the air. The donor, Stan Baker, who was sixteen at the time, feeds a bird and then a squirrel. More street scenes, including several chimney sweeps and people who carry large bundles of wood on their backs. Helen, Stan, and Raymond (Stan's twin brother) appear again at 01:02:27. The camera follows a woman who crosses the street with a huge bundle on her back. Ground level ...

  20. Celia and Arthur Stern papers

    The Celia and Arthur Stern papers comprises mainly of identification and travel documents relating to Celia and Arthur Stern, a married Jewish couple living in Vienna, Austria during the Kristallnacht, and their subsequent immigration to the United States. Within the collection are passports, identification cards, a marriage certificate and a naturalization certificate for Chaim (Arthur) and Celia Stern. Also included report cards from when Celia was attending school in Vienna, a certificate of apprenticeship for dressmaker’s guild of Vienna, and a police document pertaining to Celia. In ad...