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  1. Displaced Persons, Norwegian relief efforts

    Notes taken from NCJF documentation, cribbed from narration presented by Cedric Hardwicke: "This film describes the life of the "hard core" displaced persons in a village in South Germany. They were the handicapped, the old, and the victims of polio that no country wanted. For them no jobs were made available and their lives seemed hopeless until the Norwegian government allowed small numbers to immigrate and settle. The rest of the film shows two people: one woman whose husband and two children had TB but were rehabilitated and were able to return to normal family life, and a blind man who...

  2. Nuremberg: ruins of the city; IMT

    Excerpt from the film beginning with opening titles: "This film is made available for television by the Department of the Army in the public interest. Europe 1945." VS of destruction, rubble, etc. incurred in the European theater of war. Men, women, children, babies, walking aimlessly through piles of rubble. German intertitles list the major Nazi Party leaders, all on trial at Nuremberg. VS, scenes of the courtroom, prosecutors/judges speaking, translators in booth. Pan of International Military Tribunal. VS, crowds, Nazi Germany, Nazi Party rallies, large crowds running in the streets, Hi...

  3. Estelle Gerson collection

    Consists of four Jewish New Years cards; one photograph of a young woman seated at a table; two letters, the first dated August 1, 1947 and second dated October 28, 1948; and eight envelopes.

  4. U.S. liberators

    Group of U.S. liberators in front of building, posing for camera, some hanging from windows on second floor, civilians pass in FG. MCUs as some liberators are interviewed.

  5. March of Time -- outtakes -- Liberation of Paris

    The last days in Paris before the Arrival of US Troops. Street barricades; firing rifles from windows; FFI men rounding collaborators; captured German soldiers; Red Cross workers helping wounded; ceremony at City Hall; raising flag; new Prefect of Police; wounded man; barber.

  6. Medal

  7. Slonim Jews' Association memorial bronze medal

  8. Eugenics postcard

    Postcard printed in red, black and white showing a man and a woman seated together and reading a book with the caption, "Eugenics" requires close application." Message and address written in graphite on the verso

  9. Liberation: Raids on German Civilians

    Slate reads: "Shakedown". Tram at Wiesbaden, end of operation. Security control checks, civilians searched. MPs getting out of jeep. Escorting woman prisoner to MP jeep. US Army "Military Police" building entrance. Truck with arrested German civilians who will be put on trial. Confiscated material: food, weapons, knives, brass knuckles, American machine gun.

  10. March of Time -- outtakes -- Zlin; Bratislava

    Can 79. 100 feet. VS, brewery (Pilsner). Men working on casks in brewery yard, train passing in BG. CU, men drawing Pilsen beer. 01:09:50 Reel 63. 100 feet. Poster in window at Zlin announcing in English the Tenth Sokol Congress, crowd passing reflected in window. VS, Bata's workmen leaving the factories at Zlin, showing modern/contemporary buildings. Reel 64. 100 feet. Bata workmen leaving factory at dusk. VS of Bata's workmen going to work at 7am, through the gates, punching time clocks. INT of shoe factory with house paper published twice weekly, sold for 30 cents, being handed out to wo...

  11. Glass eye found in the Paneriai Forest, Lithuania, outside of Vilnius

    Glass eye found in the Paneriai Forest, Lithuania, outside of Vilnius. Thought to be from a burial site related to a Holocaust event.

  12. Book

  13. March of Time -- outtakes -- Liberation by Russians

    On the Eastern Front. Russian Newsreel. Prison at Posnan. Death chamber with guillotine. Pictures of Nazis who ran the prison. Bodies, women crying. German prisoners, men trying to hit them. Man handing out paper reading "Glos Interpolski" to crowd. Polish flag raised. Soviet soldiers talking on field phone. German General Mattern (with Russian captions). Aerial view of the Vistula River. Polish girls, former slave laborers showing their passports to Russian soldiers. Barracks of slave labor camp. Sign, "Lagerwache."

  14. Maurice Hoffman collection

    Contains two photographs, one depicting a man wearing a leather jacket standing against wall holding a gun, and the second an image of people standing on a sidewalk in front of burned building.

  15. Repatriation of POWS: new arrivals; distribution of clothing; interviews; working; eating; dentist

    Repatriation of Russian POWs in Bari and Florence, Italy. Reel 2: Bari: Russian guard, standing at entrance to company street, wearing helmet with USSR emblem, holding rifle, bayonet, and snapping to attention. CU USSR armband. Trucks loaded with Russians pulling into the camp, forming double line. American officer directing men in sign language and in German. POWs receiving blankets and mess kits. Russians marching down company street breaking off in sixes, entering tents. Russians standing in formation, girl in GI clothing, Mongolian removing hat. Six Russians with belongings entering ten...

  16. Maurine Grammer papers

    The papers consist of two postcards written to Maurine Grammer from the Secretary General of the Austrian Red Cross, and a letter written to the family of Maurine Grammer's friend offering condolences of their daughter's death in a sanatorium.

  17. Book

  18. March of Time -- outtakes -- Liberation by Russians

    On the Eastern Front. Russian Newsreel. Village street with road sign in Russian. Russian infantry advancing past wrecked building. Russian cavalry. Germany surrenders. Concrete fortifications with underground furnaces. Yugoslav and Serbian men (in striped coat), Jewish woman with black eye. 01:12: EXT of German prison, iron handcuffs. Pile of dead bodies in the prison yard (4,000 in all). Entire prison yard filled with corpses. To 01:14:03 Street fighting, house to house fighting. Soviet soldier helping wounded comrade. Concealed pill boxes.

  19. Playing cards used by child on the Kindertransport

  20. Israel, building a nation

    Documentary which discusses the founding of the nation of Israel and the issues facing contemporary Israel. A picture of the nation's political and cultural heritage emerges through interviews with political leaders and lay people, new immigrants and old settlers.