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  2. Ruins of Nuremberg with German civilians; Russian DPs celebrate V-E Day; strafing of German countryside

    Visual opens on a slate reading: "Crump Nurberg [sic]." German civilians carry bundles of belongings past bombed-out buildings. A boy holding a large bundle on his back poses for the camera. German civilians stand in line for water distribution -- American soldiers are visible in the shot. 01:00:37 White surrender flags in front of piles of rubble. Shots of Germans looking into the camera. Civilians carry water cans. A young boy with a whistle in his mouth poses for the camera. An American soldier carries a piece of equipment over his shoulder (tripod or surveying equipment?). 01:01:31 A sl...

  4. Oral history interview with Esther Fabian

  5. Roza Schevchenko photograph collection

    The collection consists of three portraits of Roza Schevchenko and her family taken in Mogilev Podolski (Mohyliv-Podilʹsʹkyĭ), Ukraine, before the Holocaust and following her mother's death and her father's arrest and exile and in Czernowitz (Chernivt︠s︡i), Ukraine, after liberation.

  6. Isaia Zabludowski collection

    Consists of a letter, written on the letterhead of the Embassy of Japan in Rome, Italy, to Towja Zabludowski in Trieste, Italy. The Embassy informed Towja that Japanese law prohibited issuing entrance visas to persons of Jewish origin.

  7. Siegmund Pluznik photograph collection

    The collection consists of photographs depicting the Holocaust-era experiences of Siegmund Pluznik (born Zygmunt Pluznik), originally of Będzin, Poland. The photographs include depictions of Siegmund with friends in the Będzin ghetto, a group of Jewish youth in Romania awaiting a ship which will take them to Palestine, and Siegmund on a beach in Natania, Palestine.

  8. Prayer book

  9. Oral history interview with Rudy Katz

  10. Larry Rosenbach papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Larry Rosenbach (born Eliezer Lajziu Rosenbach) and his family, originally of Leżajsk, Poland. The bulk of the collection consists of photographs depicting the Föhrenwald and Zeilsheim displaced persons camps in Germany, the Bielski partisans, and passengers on board the "Champollion" en route to Palestine. Also included are three postcards from Larry’s mother, Ewa Rosenbach, written in Zaklikov (Zaklików), Poland to cousins in Przemyśl, Poland describing the first deportation that occurred in her town and begging her cousins to t...

  11. Kramer family collection

    Consists of six photographs and four postcards from the collection of Annette Colton (nee Kramer). The photographs include those of a Jewish school class photograph, labelled "Usshiki Dolna 1935;" a portrait of Rabbi Ushtiki Dolne of Pokemyol, Poland; three landscapes, including one labeled "looking from the wreckage of Mareinebruecke to that of Schnedenbruecke;" and a photograph of people gathering in a town square. The postcards consist of two landscape postcards, one depicting a large gathering of people, and one of Mendel Mokher Jeforim.

  13. Schmelc collection

    Consists of documents relating to the Schmelc family: a 1940 letter addressed to Leo Malzner; a 1946 report that Samuel Schmelz Matzner was deported from Drancy to Auschwitz in 1942; and a 1947 letter from "L'Entraide Temporaire," describing two children, Jacques and Rachel Schmelc, and providing the details of their imminent emigration to Canada. Both documents are addressed to Madame Gottlieb, in Montreal, Canada.

  14. Chaim and Dora Rosenkovitch collection

    Contains a wedding photograph of the donor's parents, Dora and Hertz Lissic, who married in Paris, France on 2 Feb.1935.

  15. German surrender; Nazi officers surrender

    Two German boys and an old man push a cart laden with belongings past the camera. A family with cart pulled by a cow moves down a road. German soldiers, one of whom is barefoot, walk down the road. American soldiers resting. Red flags hang from windows in the town of Carlsbad. According to the NARA story card, the flags indicated the town's surrender to the Russians, who had not yet arrived. Low aerial shots of surrendered German troops and equipment. 01:19:19 Newly released British POW's smoke cigarettes and smile at the camera. A truckload of liberated French drives down the street. More ...

  16. Awards ceremonies featuring Axmann, Backe, Mutschmann, Funk, Ley

    Nazi officials preside over awards ceremonies for youth and workers. Artur Axmann, who replaced Baldur von Schirach as leader of the Hitler Youth in 1940, speaks to a group of young women and men. Reichsminister Herbert Backe hands out certificates. Gauleiter Martin Mutschmann is also present. Another awards ceremony for workers features Robert Ley speaking at a podium. Reich Economy Minister Walther Funk presents the awards. Close-ups on some of the workers' faces. Nine men who have been named Pioneers of Labor (Pionere der Arbeit) by Hitler are congratulated by Ley.

  17. Towns in ruins as German troops advance; dead Russian soldiers

    Reel 1: 00:22:06 First scene appears to be in German territory(?), view of a large church and a city street with people walking. Several different shots of a city with severe damage, including civilians carrying on with their business. German soldiers work to clear a road of debris (vehicle wreckage). CU of a dead Russian soldier on the ground. CUs of several Russian prisoners with hands raised. A vehicle blazes in the middle of a road. German soldiers and young Soviet prisoners (some appear to be boys) talking, close views. Planes circling overhead, with German soldiers watching explosions...

  18. Red Cross; U.S. soldiers

    CU, Red Cross worker in BG, nurse, uniformed soldier looking through rubble. VS, nurses, more Red Cross personnel (German uniforms). American soldiers, civilians, peasants in town square. Carts, wagons, some animals, chickens, damaged buildings. Local women with kerchiefs pumping water at well, cows, farm animals are present. Children (very briefly in shot). More American GIs with rifles, standing by Red Cross truck. Scenes of countryside, local girls.

  19. Funeral for SA men at which Goebbels speaks.

    The cortege and funeral of three SA men: Walter Apel, Robert Gleuel, and Franz Klein, who were purportedly shot and killed by members of the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD) in June 1933. People are shown laying flowers at the location of the murder in Berlin-Köpenick. The funeral cortege leaves the hospital and passes crowds of mourners, who line the street and give a Hitler salute to the passing hearses. The heavy-handed narration is accompanied by mournful music. The coffins are taken to their local SA headquarters for some sort of ceremony, attended by Joseph Goebbels. Low ...

  20. Charles Davey liberation photographs

    Consists of 34 photographs, some duplicates, taken upon the liberation of the Nordhausen concentration camp; includes photographs of corpses.