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  1. March of Time -- outtakes -- factory; interrogations; concentration camp liberation

    1251 L: The Fall of Schweinfurt. German soldier who wished to surrender and was hung by the SS. Wrecked ball bearing factory. German civilians being interrogated. Group of German boys (16-18 years old) being questioned. They are dressed in German uniforms and they fought against the Allies. 1251 O: 01:20:24 Liberated Buchenwald concentration camp; inmates in striped uniforms; barracks. MS of crematorium building. Swiss Red Cross trucks. Large drawing at Stalin hanging outside of barrack.

  2. Torah scroll fragment in a wooden frame

  3. Corpses on sidewalks, passers-by, loading coffins

    Jewish-mortality chart. Shots of people walking by corpse on the sidewalk; some are running. Coffin wagon in street stops, men carry out plain coffin and drag body into it. Group of men carries and then loads coffin into wagon and walk it away. Two emaciated corpses laid out on sidewalk, people pass by. Men bring cart to bodies and begin to load them.

  4. JDC response to Nazi advance in Europe

    Fundraiser showing international refugee assistance programs of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC). Rights of Jews in the United States contrasted to the plight of Jews in Europe during the 20th century. "Jude" painted on store window. Focus on Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. Images of pre-Nazi times with Jews celebrating, dancing, etc. develop into images of confinement to ghettos, refugees, and post WWII restoration. Focus on Lithuania, Denmark, Holland, Belgium, and France. Shots of Nazi occupation and refugees. Focus on Balkans includes statistics of Je...

  5. Liberation - Yugoslavia

    Rear views, MSs Yugoslav? soldiers on horses, soldiers marching. Civilians waving. CU, elderly woman and child. CU, another child. MSs, young peasant women. Tito and other Yugoslav military personnel meeting, discussing around a table, smoking, looking over documents. Men exiting the building. Tito getting on a horse, riding. Peasants and children waving. Soldiers on horses marching through fields, towns. Civilians waving. Some aerial shots.

  6. Airplanes; VE Day in London

    (18 SFP 9500) Pilots, planes taking off for Operation Chowhound/Operation Manna Project, in which Allied bombers dropped food and supplies to the population of the Netherlands. (18 SFP 9501) 01:01:32 Sir Winston Churchill, Mrs. Churchill, Queen Mary, King George exiting limo, entering St. Paul's. Large crowd on London street on VE day, buses, Big Ben in BG. Trafalgar Square. Crowds gathered for VE Day, cheering. VAR shots, crowd, artist. 01:05:51 Planes flying over mountains, planes dropping leaflets.

  7. Pair of tefillin taken from a concentration camp by an inmate at liberation

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn514930
    • English
    • a: Height: 5.250 inches (13.335 cm) | Width: 4.125 inches (10.477 cm) | Depth: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) b: Height: 4.125 inches (10.477 cm) | Width: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm) | Depth: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm)

    Set of tefillin rescued by Yaakov Apelovitch, a 15 year old Jewish inmate in Auschwitz concentration camp, after the Soviet Army liberated the camp in January 1945. Tefillin are small boxes containing prayers attached to leather straps and worn on the arm and the head by Orthodox Jewish males during morning prayers. Yaakov took the pair from the Canada warehouse where confiscated belongings were stored. The inmates called it Canada because they imagined that country as a place of great riches. He gave the tefillin to Rachel Kutner in 1945, who later gave them to Morris Rosen. Morris was int...

  8. Antisemitism; Solidarity; Communism

    Silent feature film, originally produced in 1927(?) and restored in 1991 by NCJF with English intertitles. No opening or closing credits. See Soviet film under the title "Yego prevoskhoditelstvo". This film's plot deals mainly with ethnic peasants, banding together in solidarity against the regime. Also includes a requisite love story between a Rabbi's daughter and a struggling revolutionary.

  9. Large diazo print of Westerbork transit camp

    Diazotype print of the plan of Westerbork transit camp in German occupied Netherlands in 1944.

  10. Poster

  11. Waffen-SS ladle

    The ladle belonged to the donor's father, who was liberated at Dachau

  12. Blue and white vertical striped shirt worn in a displaced persons camp

    Shirt made from white cotton fabric with blue and white vertical stripe and 5 white buttons, short-sleeved. The shirt was given to and worn by Tonia Rotkopf in Landsberg Displaced Persons Camp, Germany.

  13. Book

  14. March of Time -- outtakes -- Hodza; Masaryk; Czech army; festival; Prague

    Czechoslovakian Prime Minister Hodza in his office. President Masaryk with the Czech Legion. Czech motorized army, cavalry. 1932 Sokol Festival in Prague. Bata (shoe) store in Prague.

  15. Surrendering German troops

    MLS, German prisoners, closer shots. MS, tanks/jeeps moving down road, probably the surrender of the XI Panzer Division (and other German units) on May 4 and the days immediately following. The XI Panzer Division was a Wehrmacht unit. German prisoners stand beside road, start marching. CU, destroyed German weapons. Pan up to column of trucks of surrendering Germans. MS, German civilians standing around. CU sign: "Limit of Advance - All US Troops." CU, German general near tank. German prisoners on trucks pass by, GI directs route of surrender. MS trucks with dead German prisoners pass throug...

  16. Book

  17. Funeral and procession; ritual slaughter; synagogue

    Elaborate funeral: Body lying in state, many plantings and flowers, guards. Taking up the width of the street, the funeral procession includes Jewish police, rabbis in robes, horse-drawn hearse, mourners with banners. At cemetery, lowering casket, service, shots of mourners (three rabbis chanting, one woman completely draped in black). Microphone can be seen on left side, briefly, held above the mourners and grave markers, 01:59:24. Synagogue service: Worshippers pray. Torah is removed from the ark, men kiss it, then read from it. Shochet: In kosher style, kills chicken while woman watches ...

  18. Der kluge Frosch [Book]

  19. Repatriation of POWS: papers; dispensary; marching; trains; roll call; interviews

    Repatriation of Russian POWs in Bari and Florence, Italy. Reel 3: Former POWs receiving pay from American and Russian officers. Russians entering American dispensary and at outdoor amphitheater. Sign reading: "USSR Repatriation Camp, 2616 Repatriation Unit." MLS, guard at camp entrance. Florence: Russians marching to railroad station and down street entering railroad yard and boarding trains. Women leaving trucks. Pan across Russians lined up at encampment in old German clothing. American officers separating officers from enlisted men. CUs, Russian officers and enlisted men. Sign: "Russian ...

  20. DP children at Christmas party

    American Red Cross Gives Christmas Party in Germany. Man dressed as Santa Claus entering American Red Cross hall, carrying little girl and leading other children, accompanied by US officers and Red Cross workers. Santa and US soldiers feed children. Children getting plates with cookies and ice cream, eating. Soldiers attempting to play with children. US Army band performing for kids. Pan up, Christmas banner with two angels on wall; children and soldiers look down to camera from balcony, singing Christmas carols. Pan up, another Christmas banner above the entrance doorway: "Merry Christmas....