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  1. 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...

  2. 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.

  3. 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 ...

  4. Charles Davey liberation photographs

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

  5. Elaine Zaks papers

    The papers consist of twelve photographs depicting Leah and Phillip Zaks Zakuska and their son, Michael in a DP camp in Florence, Italy, after World War II; seven photographs of unknown persons with Yiddish inscriptions on the verso; and one letter written to Ann Fonaroff of the United Service for New Americans, Enc. on November 2, 1948, on behalf of Philip, "Lisa", and "Moses" Zaks and concerning their immigration to the United States. Leah and Philip Zaks were from Poland. They made their way to Italy probably in 1945. Their son, Michael, was born in a displaced persons camp in Florence, ...

  6. Podbierski family photographs

    Consists of four photographs of pre-war Jewish life; photographs are of the family of Jenny Podbierski, who immigrated to the United States in 1905 from Wilczyn, Poland. The photographs were taken between 1924 and 1937.

  7. Larisa Berdichevsky Briggs collection

    Consists of a photocopies from "Byli Z Ojczyzny Mojej," ("From my Fatherland") by Miroslaw Krajewski, relating the experiences of Jakub Stencel's imprisonment and death; also contains one typed transcription of a February 1991 oral history interview with Eliakim Stencel in which he describes his experiences and the history of Rypin, Poland during the Holocaust. The interview was conducted by Louisa Weinrib.

  8. Romanian census card

    Contains a Romanian census card to be filled out by persons with Jewish blood; dated 30 May 1942 and filled out by Clara Reich.

  9. Ofra Bruno-Hirschenberg photographs

    Contains four pre-war photographs taken in Łódź, Poland.

  10. Lamet-Grosbard collection

    Consists of a pre-World War II photograph of the Lamet family of Warsaw, Poland, and post-war photographs of Esther Lamet Grosbard and Joseph Grosbard. Also includes one Polish driver's license issued in 1938 to Joseph Grosbard.

  11. Margalit Ben Ami papers

    The Margalit Ben Ami papers consist of a ration book issued to Margalit Ben Ami under a false name (Ingrid Maria Theresia Tulleners), two letters written by Ben Ami's rescuers, and a letter written by Ben Ami to Santa Claus. The letters were sent to Ben Ami's mother, Elisabeth Dotsch, who was also in hiding. Also included in the papers are three photographs of the Banens family who rescued and hid Ben Ami during the Holocaust.

  12. Theodore Fendrich photograph collection

    The collection consists of one photograph of Salomon Klein, his wife, and his daughter, originally of Fulek, Hungary (Filakovo, Slovakia), and one photograph of a couple with two little girls taken in Pilis, Hungary, in 1936.

  13. Kozienice, Poland, photographs

    Consists of five pre-war photographs taken in Kozienice, Poland, of posed groups. Includes photographs of yeshiva classes in pre-war Kozienice.

  14. Susan Heller photographs

    Consists of ten photographs of Slovakian Jewish refugees in Canada.

  15. Zoltan Farkas photographs

    Consists of a pre-war photograph, circa 1930, of Zoltan and Erwin Farkas, originally of Ombod, Romania, as children; a wartime photograph of Zoltan Farkas at the Jewish Gymnasium in Oradea (Nagy Varad), Romania; and numerous post-war photographs taken at the Prien am Chiemsee, Germany, displaced persons camp. Includes photographs of a practice of the Prien men's gymnastic team.

  16. Dr. Sándor Vig memoir

    Consists of a memoir, 131 pages, detailing the Holocaust experiences of Dr. Sándor Vig, originally of Slovakia. Dr. Vig kept a very descriptive daily account of his experiences in a Hungarian forced labor battallion, and wrote this memoir using those notes after the war. The memoir is available in both Hungarian and Hebrew versions.

  17. Ann Curiel papers

    Consists of documents related to Vilma Avolia (b. 1921, later Wilma D'Urbino) and her mother, Fortunata D'Urbino (b. 1893), who survived the war as Jewish women in Italy. Includes a 1941 identity card identifying Vilma as a resident of the Comune di Catanzaro, a 1944 copy of Fortunata's birth certificate, a 1945 refugee and ration card for Fortunata (with photograph) and a document listing her as a resident of the Prato displaced persons camp in 1945.

  18. Edith Monique Schneidman papers

    The papers consist of seven photographs and two documents relating to the Saias family and their experiences in France before and during World War II and documenting Louna and Issac Saias' [donor's parents] deportation to the Drancy transit camp and then to Auschwitz concentration camp.

  19. Panzer Division in city square and setting up field tents

    Reel 1: 00:00:01 German Panzers (Panzerkampfwagen IV) in a city plaza. Civilians in the street. Destroyed buildings. Tanks traveling through the Russian countryside. Burned out truck/tank. Soldiers waiting in a forest. Russian civilians traveling by horse and wagon, including CU. Team of horses pulling a Howitzer out of a river. Russian POWs running with German guards on horseback. Camouflaged tank and Howitzer. Reel 2: 00:04:32 Soldiers of the 3rd Panzer Division setting up camp. Camouflaging vehicles, setting up tents. Checkpoint sign. Soldiers walking around, typing, playing with dog, re...