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  1. Painted metal sign with a blue Star of David from a tailor workshop in the Warsaw ghetto

    Metal shop sign with a wooden frame displayed in the window of Symcha Abramowicz's tailor shop in the ghetto in Warsaw, Poland. Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, and occupied Warsaw on September 29. By November, the Germans had shut schools, confiscated Jewish-owned property, and conscripted Jewish men into forced labor. On October 12, 1940, the Germans forcibly relocated the Jews into a ghetto which was sealed off from the rest of the city by a guarded, ten foot, barbed wire topped wall. The population reached 400,000, with an average of 7 people sharing a single room. Diseases ...

  2. Party day in Nuremberg w/military exercises and Hitler speech

    Military exercises on the field at Reich Party Day in Nuremberg. Smoke, explosions, soldiers simulate battle while spectators look on. Shooting machine guns, tanks. Hess, Hitler, members of military watch planes flying overhead. Good shots of blimp over the stadium. People in the crowd wave handkerchiefs. Hitler speaks to the military: "You are chosen by the nation to stand watch." Alternating shots between Hitler speaking and the field. Hitler reviews marching military, including Navy.

  3. Concentration camp striped uniform coat with yellow triangle worn by a Polish Jewish female inmate

    Striped concentration camp coat issued to 17 year old Esther Kessler, or her mother, Masha, when they were imprisoned in Kaiserwald concentration camp. It was worn from September 1943-January 1945 through several camps. It has a handmade prisoner id with a small yellow triangle patch. After German occupied Vilna (Vilnius), Lithuania, in June 1941, Esther and Masha were forced into a Jewish ghetto. They were transferred to Kaiserwald in Riga, Latvia, in September 1943 when the ghetto was liquidated. In the summer of 1944, they were sent to Thorn concentration camp in Germany, and worked as s...

  4. Alejandro Landman family papers

    Consists of two memoirs, one of Alejandro (Elhanan) Landman, born in Poland in 1933. Mr. Landman reconstructed by memory his childhood diary, which relates his life in German-occupied eastern Poland between 1941-1945 (25 pages). The other memoir is of Mrs. Pepe Landman, mother of Alejandro, written from Montevideo in 1986-1987, relating the Holocaust experiences of herself and her family (67 pages). The family moved from Stanislawow to Lwow in 1941 and lived there until 1943, when they went into hiding in Buczacz. After the war, they emigrated to Uruguay. Collection also contains copies of ...

  5. Year anniversary of takeover of Austria

    The one-year anniversary of the Anschluss, which occurred on 3/13/1938. Animated map of the expanded Reich with the superimposed words "Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuehrer." Standard shots of the lifting of the border crossing between Germany and Austria, Austrians saluting and holding Nazi flags, Hitler speaking to a huge crowd from a balcony. Germans marching into Austria; bucolic scenes of the Austrian mountains and countryside.

  6. Gardelegen burial of POWs

    (LIB 5953) "Murder, Incorporated", Gardelegen, Germany, April 25, 1945 SEQ: Catholic and Jewish chaplains conduct memorial services for 1100 prisoners of war murdered by Germans. VAR, graves in small cemetery. MS, Honor Guard firing salute. MS, bugler sounding Taps.

  7. Hermine Berkovits collection

    Consists of documents that relate the Holocaust era experiences of Hermine Berkovits, a French Jewish woman who survived the war with her children. Her children spent the war in hiding, and while using false papers, she helped to find hiding places for other Jewish children. Includes a copy of a photograph of Hermine, her children, and the children she helped to hide. Also included is a copy of a letter from the Red Cross stating that Henrich Berkovits (Hermine's husband) perished in Auschwitz.

  8. History of Majdanek camp; survivors

    An onscreen slate from WFDiF (not original to the film) reads: Film entitled "Majdanek" was produced after the liberation of camp by the Polish Army. The premiere of film: November 1, 1944. Original titles read: Film Polski Warsaw presents: a documentary of the Polish Army Film Unit made on 25th July 1944: "Majdanek". Majdanek was liberated by the Soviets on July 23, 1944. 25th July 1944: Celebration scenes outside in Lublin as Polish Army soldiers enter the city. Women weep with joy, people hand flowers to soldiers. The camera pans down a turret of the Lublin Castle to show the corpses of ...

  9. Nazi Party Rally

    Title on screen: "Parteitag der Freiheit." Reich Party Day in Nuremberg, 9/10-9/16, 1935. Music plays over a view of a hall filled with Party members standing at attention in front of a large Swastika flag backdrop. The front row is composed of high-ranking leaders, including Hitler, Hess, Streicher, others. The camera pans slowly to an empty podium, then back to the Party leaders. Hess approaches the podium, salutes, and announces the opening of the seventh Reich Party congress. Low aerial shots of the huge crowd, and shots of other leaders, including Goering, Frank, Rosenberg, Goebbels (l...

  10. Yaakov Borenstein collection

    The collection consists of a prayer-book found by Marguit Loewy Borenstein [donor's mother] in Auschwitz concentration camp in 1945 and a photograph of Marguit and her sister, Terka Loewy (b. 1928), taken in Nové Město, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic), during the summer of 1945 soon after their liberation from Auschwitz.

  11. Catheryne Morgen photograph collection

    The collection consists of pages from a scrapbook that contain photographs of the Ilkovic family before World War II in Vrútky, Slovakia, and photographs of Catheryne after the war in Bad Gastein, Austria, and Lido di Roma, Italy.

  12. March of Time -- outtakes -- French and British soldiers arrive in England after being evacuated from Dunkirk

    Various types of ships and boats arriving at South Coast port in England, carrying English and French wounded from Dunkirk. Men wrapped in blankets wave to the camera from a small fishing boat. British soldiers wearing helmets disembark from a boat. A soldier with both his eyes bandaged is helped from a boat. The camera pans across a bedraggled group of men (French soldiers? Most of them are not in uniform). A couple of the men smile and give thumb's up signals. More shots of men arriving on ships and disembarking; wounded men are removed on stretchers.

  13. March of Time -- outtakes -- British citizens listening to Neville Chamberlain on the radio

    Interior shots of people listening to Neville Chamberlain's September 27, 1938 speech about the Sudeten crisis. No sound. The setting appears to be the interior of a British home, with women and men listening intently to the radio. Close-up of the radio being turned on. Presumably the footage was actually shot in England, because the same cameramen shot the mid-September rally in London (Story 4061). 01:01:37 A man sells Evening Standard newspapers outside Victoria station in London. He wears a placard that reads, "What Hitler Said." Male and female members of the British Union of Fascists ...

  14. March of Time -- outtakes -- Tito's Partisans

    Uniformed and armed partisans marching through the streets of a town and across a field. Shots of male partisans receiving instructions from a commander (close-ups of commander), then saluting. The commander chats with the troops; good close-ups of male and female partisans. The scene switches to the interior of a partisan barracks. British, American and Soviet flags are visible on the walls. The soldiers are at leisure, sitting or lying on the floor, smoking and reading. One writes a letter. Outdoors again, two female partisans are shown helping two small girls down a flight of steps. The ...

  15. Returning from a Camping Trip with My Boy Scout Troop, May 1945 Cartoon of a chaotic train station created soon after the war by a former hidden child

    Cartoon created by Simon Jeruchim, 16, in Paris soon after the war ended in May 1945. He drew it for his brother Michel, 8, who was still in Normandy with the Leclerc family that hid him during the war. Simon had joined the Boy Scouts and he wanted to show his brother the mad scene at the Montparnasse railroad station in Paris after the troop returned from a camping trip. Transportation was not yet back to normal in Paris, so trains were often ridiculously overcrowded. Simon lived in hiding in Normandy from June 1942. He returned to Paris to live with family friends, the Bonneaus, once it w...

  16. Patton & Russians; Volary burial of Nazi victims

    (LIB 6688) Patton and Russians, Regensburg, Germany and Linz, Austria, May 14, 1945 MSs, Gen. George S. Patton and staff entering plane at Regensburg. MS, Gen. Patton greeted by Lt. Gen. Walton H. Walker at Linz airport. MSs, CUs, Patton and Walker talking to news correspondent Doris Duke Cromwell. VAR, Patton and Russian Marshal Tolbuhkin at his heaquarters. Patton and Tolbuhkin reviewing Russian troops. MSs, Patton and Walker receiving medals from Tolbuhkin. (LIB 6689) Atrocities, Volary, Czechoslovakia, May 13, 1945 MS, CU, bodies of Jewish women in mass grave. SEQ: German civilians remo...

  17. Anniversary of Manfred von Richthofen's death

    Ceremony commemorating the 15th anniversary of the death of Manfred von Richthofen. Opens on a portrait of von Richthofen, then a shot of his gravestone with a rose laid across it. Large crowds at the cemetery; pastor speaks a brief part of eulogy, people salute as music plays. Civilians and military in crowd. Photographers visible.

  18. Handkerchief received as a Hannukah present

    Handkerchief given to Ilse Meyer as a Hannukah present while at Rotterdam Kloster.

  19. March of Time -- outtakes -- Protest against British appeasement of Germany over the Sudetenland

    A protest and march organized by the International Peace Campaign demanding that Britain take action against Germany if they seize the Sudetenland. The clips are out of chronological order. The first scene shows a large crowd in Trafalgar square. A banner reads: "Stand by Czechoslovakia! No plebiscite!" The camera pans across the huge crowd. The next shots show the protesters marching toward Downing Street; the framing of the shots is uneven. Some of the protesters hold their fists aloft and some carry signs. According to the dope sheet, the procession was turned back before it could reach ...

  20. Vichy-French newsreel about destruction caused by Allied bombing campaigns

    A newsreel illustrating the damage and suffering caused by allied bombing raids in France. Title onscreen, superimposed over a statue of a woman: "France Meurtrie" [France ravaged]. The camera pans down from the top of a church to show pallbearers removing coffins from the church while crowds of mourners watch. Women weep as the coffins are loaded onto the back of a truck. The cortege passes a square crowded with mourners. A speaker addresses the crowd. His speech is heard over shots of individuals in the crowd, workmen excavating the still-smoldering ruins of a building, various other shot...