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  1. Russian POWS singing

    Repatriation of Russian POWs in Bari and Florence, Italy. Reel 5: Russians seated on ground. Officer leaning against tree leading group in song. Marching and singing.

  2. Handbill

  3. Men undressed/examined; food, shops, cafe

    Sign and chart, "Fleckerflieberkrankungen bei...Typhus." Interiors: VAR thin men and boys undress, CU dirty feet; naked, they are checked for lice, get rough haircuts. VAR CU and MCU men scratching, bone-thin naked bodies, lice-infested scalps. VAR modern sanatorium: ext views of building in tree-filled, sunny setting; patients on porch, blanketed, reading, nurses; people chatting, sitting outdoors on benches. People at food shop/indoor cafe; appealing display at counter; waiters serve well-dressed crowd at tables.

  4. Hanseatisches Auktionshaus fuer Historica documents

    Artificial collection of documents including blank forms used to prove Aryan ancestry, completed forms for a few individuals, identification cards for Polish workers (undated), and postcards from German colonies in Africa (from World War I era).

  5. UJA relief for refugees; Israel

    Introduced and narrated by Cedric Hardwicke. UJA appeal for relief for new refugees, immigrants to Israel. This segment of the Adventures in Freedom series focuses on daily life in Jerusalem, both religious and secular. Screen credits at end: "Support the United Jewish Appeal on behalf of the United Israel Appeal, Joint Distribution Commi​t​tee United Service for New Americans ​Through Your Local Campaign​"

  6. Nazi Party Winter Hilfswerk collection box

    Red collection box with Nazi insignia used by the NSDAP [National Socialist German Workers' Party] to collect contributions during the Winter Hilfswerk, a charity campaign for the relief of the German people.

  7. Pre-war Jewish life in a Polish shtetl

    A portrait of shtetl Jews in their native setting, the streets and shots of a Polish town, said to be not far from Lublin. The dress is mostly contemporary, but there are some older men in more traditional dress with beards, caps and kapotas. Horsedrawn wagons on the streets. Scenes of a latter day "Tevye" with his horse, a pauper resting on a curbstone, several family portraits, contrast between the local church and the broken down old shul, the ancient cemetery. The film was shot by Jack Weisbord, an American whose father-in-law had emigrated from this town.

  8. March of Time -- outtakes -- Zlin; Bata shoe company

    Jan Antonin Bata arrives at Zlin airport from his trip around the world. Crowds on Work Square at Zlin, greeting Mr. Bata. Procession lead by Mr. Bata, including pupils of Bata School of Work. President Benes at his desk, in Prague's castle. Shows manufacturers at the Bata Shoe company in Zlin cutting leather, sewing, polishing, packing, loading boxes of boots on truck. View of Zlin. Women flying sports airplane. Sports festival day. Mr. Bata speaking (with sound). Young women exercising. Pre-military service of young men. Uniformed young men marching. Children putting on gas masks.

  10. Purple and gray padded satin cover

  11. Five Cities

    Notes taken from NCJF documentation: This rare film document captures the spirit of Jewish life in pre-World War II Vilna. Lively narration and music accompany film sequences of people engaged in the rituals and realities of daily existence at work, at play, in the synagogue, and in school. Vilna's famous landmarks-the Strashun Library, Shnipeshiker Cemetery and the YIVO Institute-are among the film's highlights.

  12. Ring family papers

    Contains photographs, identification documents, and medical records relating to the Sara Bak Ring donor's mother family: Meilech Ring (husband), Izaak Ring (son), and others. Photographs show Sara's family life in the DP camp in Speyer, Germany.

  13. Zula Schibuk memoir

    Contains a memoir about Zula Schibuk's Holocaust experiences.

  14. Scott Wade Stewart photograph collection

    Consists of seven photographs depicting the liberation of a concentration camp after World War II.

  15. Muller family papers

    Contains a memoir about Marianne Muller Vitez's Holocaust experiences; two identification cards issued to Marianne Vitez's parents, Hans Israel Muller and Alice Leven, in Morocco; Alice Muller's German passport; John Muller's German passport; a Carte d'identité d'étranger de la République française au Maroc for Marianne Sarah Muller; a list of clothes and household goods Alice Muller submitted to the Nazis before leaving occupied Belgium; and a Certificat d'identité des refugies provenant d'allemagne for Hans Muller, issued by the Belgium government.

  16. Arthur Pais photographs

    Contains a photograph taken of Arthur Pais in the Kovno ghetto and 25 photographs of life as a displaced person in Munich.

  17. Maya Freed Brown collection

    Contains thirteen black-and-white photographs of Maya and her family's post-war life in Berlin and a newspaper from the Mariendorf Displaced persons camp in West Berlin entitled "Der Weg."

  18. The Liberated

    Contains two newsletters entitled "The liberated" that were published under the auspices of the Chaplain Section Headquarters Command USFET by the Frankfurt Jewish GI Council, an unofficial organization sponsored by Chaplain Joseph Miller, Headquarters Command USFET, APO 757.

  19. Henry Bein photographs

    Contains eight photographs from Feldafing and Fohrenwald.

  20. Kindheit in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus in Österreich

    Contains the childhood memories of Margarete Petak, who lived and went to school during the war in the cities of Steyr and Enns, close to Mauthausen in Upper-Austria. She describes the life of her family at the time when her father and older brother were fighting at the Eastern front.