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  1. Jews in Livny with Soviet soldiers

    Two Soviet soldiers converse with a group of local Jews in the town of Livny, 1942. One Jew shows the two soldiers an armband with "Jude" written on it. Close-up on the armband.

  2. Le Havre harbor and on board Normandie ship to the U.S.

    Title: "Havre. Homeward Bound on the 'Normandie'." Le Havre harbor. HAS. Capsized hulk of the French Lines' ship PARIS, which burned and rolled over at Le Havre in April 1939. View of another ship, possibly the French Lines' ship CHAMPLAIN docked in Le Havre, seen from the deck of 'Normandie.' On deck, people on red chaise lounge chairs, man in swimming pool behind. Good view of the Statue of Liberty.

  3. Emergence of East & West Germany after WWII

    OMGUS censorship slates state that the film has been approved for public screening in the American zone of Germany. Words superimposed across an aerial view of Berlin state that this film is dedicated to the men women and children of Berlin, without whose loyalty it would not be possible to relate the following. Over scenes of the destruction of Berlin and people working among the rubble the narrator says that without an architect, without a plan somehow something new and strong emerged from the ruins in the summer of 1945. Crowds of West Berliners and a shot of SPD representative Franz Neu...

  4. Jews and other refugees moving into the USSR

    Shot of a Soviet border guard on a bridge at the border between the Soviet Union and Romania after the Soviet Union seized northern Bukovina in 1940. Long shot of a mass of refugees waiting to cross the border into the Soviet Union. Refugees, including Jews, move across a bridge from Romania to what is now the Soviet Union. Close-up on a Jewish family as they show their papers to a guard before they cross the bridge. The guard smiles and shakes hands with the couple. Shot of refugees running across the bridge.

  5. Liberation of Ozarichi and Minsk

    Wounded people, mostly children, are taken off a train that was intercepted on its way to Ozarichi, a concentration camp in Belarus. They are placed on a cart by Soviet soldiers. Soviet investigators inspect corpses lying in the snow. They perform an outdoor autopsy of sorts on a dead child. Shots of survivors at the camp. Liberated people struggle down the road. Interior scenes of the sick being treated in a hospital. Barbed wire around camp (still Ozarichi?). Scenes of German-occupied Minsk. Germans regulate traffic and check papers of civilians in cars. German soldiers break into a house...

  6. Mannsbach and Goldschmidt families papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of the Mannsbach and Goldschmidt families, originally of Beverungen and Gelsenkirchen, Germany. The collection primarily documents the emigration of Lilly Goldschmidt (née Mannsbach), her husband Bernhard Goldschmidt, and their son Fred to the United States in 1938, the emigration of her brothers Heinz, Otto, and Richard to South America, and her parents Karl and Luise Mannsbach, who remained in Leipzig, Germany. The bulk of the collection consists of official documents, including birth, marriage, and death certificates; pre-war, wartim...

  7. Duquesne spy case; enemy agents in the US; Private Snafu cartoon

    Title on screen: Duquesne Case: Secret. The word "Secret" has been crossed out. Grainy footage, shot clandestinely, shows a New York City street and the interior of an office. Hoover's narration tells of Harry Sawyer [pseudonym for William Sebold], a naturalized German citizen who became a double-agent after he was approached by the Gestapo (in reality the Abwehr) in 1939. The footage shows Duquesne entering Sawyer's office. Spies talk with Sawyer and give him money and the blueprints to the ship SS America. Duquesne, "the most cautious of them all," looks around the room before removing di...

  8. Ben Shahn poster of a hooded chained man issued to protest Nazi destruction of Lidice

    Poster created by Ben Shahn for the US Office of War Information as a response to the Nazi-led annihilation and destruction of communities throughout the Czech Republic, including Lidice. It also protests the retaliatory measures taken for the attempted assassination by Czech resistance members of Reinhard Heydrich, director of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, under the Nazi occupation.

  9. Henia Lewin photographs

    Contains eight pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs depicting Henia Wisgardisky and her family of Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania.

  10. Selected records from the Reichsforschungsrat (R 26 III)

    Contains records pertaining to Nazi research including racial and medical research, physics, plant genetics, livestock, aviation, pest control, malaria control in Auschwitz, and typhus control in Dachau. Also includes correspondence concerning confiscation of the Bohr Institute, Einstein, waste material from Dachau, forced labor prisoners, status of war prisoners with scientific knowledge, and the budget of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.

  11. Oscar Wasyng collection

    Consists of one photograph of Oscar Wasyng's family in Sighet, Romania; one "Amicale des Milices Patriotiques;" four post-liberation photographs of Nazi collaborators; seven identification cards for members of the "Front de L'Independance;" four wartime receipts for money donated to the resistance movement; and one letter regarding Emile Dehin from the Front de L'Independance.

  12. Marguerite Birnbaum collection

    Contains post-war photographs of Marguerite Birnbaum with her parents on the streets of Belgium. Marguerite was hidden child in an abbey in Limbourg with the help of Father Armand Elens; Father Elens' sister, Marie-Josephe Dincq, took 7-8 month old Marguerite and raised her for the next two years until the family was reunited in 1945. Marguerite's parents also survived the war in hiding in Belgium.

  13. Mauthausen liberation photographs

    Contains 11 photographs of the Mauthausen concentration camp post-liberation. Photographs include depictions of survivors and victims.

  14. Natalie Gonenn photographs

    Consists of pre-war photographs of the childhood and extended family of Nechama Rendler, originally of Chełm, Poland; also includes post-war photographs taken at the Templehof displaced persons camp. Nechama and her family spent the war in Siberia.

  15. Dr. Gunnar Vetne survivor photographs

    Consists of six photographs of female concentration camp survivors transferred to Halsingborg, Sweden. The photographs appear to be of three different women in hospital beds and show severe emaciation and malnutrition. They were taken by Dr. Gunnar Vetne, MD, in the spring of 1945.

  16. Curt Dressler photographs

    Consists of eight wartime photographs taken at the Orphelinat Israelite de Bruxelles; those pictured include Kurt Dressler, Bessie Sturm, and Harry Sturm; also includes post-war photographs of Kurt Dressler, 1947.

  17. Romanian Jewish Council census list for men born in Bucharest

    Consists of one CD-ROM, containing a PDF file of census lists of men born in Bucharest, Romania between 1892-1921, compiled by the Romanian Jewish Council. The CD-ROM is labelled "Tabelee Barlilateor 1893(sic)-1921" and the file is labeled "Leeson Book."

  18. Perpetrator postcards and photographs

    Consists of twenty-two postcards of portraits of SS officers and German soldiers in the field; eight photographs of perpetrators in powdered wigs and what appears to be French Revolution-era militia costumes; two postcards and nineteen photographs of animals, landscape, and architecture, 35 candid photographs of SS officers and soldiers at various ceremonial and non-ceremonial events; one booklet to record exercise training, issued to an SS soldier, 1938 (name is illegible); one newspaper article (nd) entitled "Princesses Police Up for GIs As Anti-Nazi Grandpa Laughs" (in English); one birt...

  19. Chaim Glicenstein photographs

    Consists of four pre-war photographs, from the collection of Chaim Glicenstein. of Zionist activities in Kalisz, Poland particularly of the Hashomer Hatzair Zionist youth organization. Also includes a photograph of Vladimir (Zeev) Jabotinsky in Poznań.

  20. German lottery ticket

    One lottery ticket for the NDSAP 1.5 million RM drawing, which took place 21-22 July 1934. The number on the lottery ticket is 2998512.