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  1. Nazi crimes: early gassing, corpses, camp atrocities, forced labor

    Reel 5: Courtroom scene, Russian prosecutor Gen. Rudenko at podium speaking about Canaris and Hans Frank describing Nazi policies and methods for exterminating Poles and others. Goering, Hitler, and other Nazi officials in a meeting. Pan, hut with thatched roof. 05:38:38 CU pipes from a German police car bearing a license plate POL-28545 and a German police truck with license POL-51628 (as well as military unit markings: 7 circle-with-flag IX). Apparently metal piping is directed into the brick work of a small brick building, in an area that appears to be a bricked up window or door. Projec...

  2. Oral history interview with Isaac Kraicer

  3. Oral History interview with Hersz Milner

  4. Oral history interview with Abe Citrin

  5. Oral history interview with Eva Anne Gerstle

  6. Oral history interview with Christine Friedlander

  7. Nazi atrocities; Nuremberg Trial proceedings

    Reel 6: 1933 boycott of Jewish shops in Berlin, storefronts defaced, chanting crowd and SA men (scenes may be longer than usual with an additional chant). Nazi speaking. "Jude" painted on window. 05:48:03 Goering reading document to crowd, Nazi elite in FG (speech translated to English). 05:48:25 Round-ups, confusion, women and men pushed through Nazi crowd. Soft focus amateur footage of Lvov attack on Jews: unclothed women driven past, old man lying on ground, more naked women, hands up, terrified, women clutch own necks, women dragged by hair on ground. 05:48:51 Courtroom scene, prosecuti...

  8. Morris Kopels papers

    Contains two copies of a songbook from the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp which were part of the publication, "zamlung fun katset un geto lider," issued in 1946 by the Central Jewish Committee, Bergen Belsen and the same collection also appeared as an edition of the DP periodical "Undzer Sztyme." The papers also include a photocopy of a note to Morris Kopels' aunt, Sonya Kusevitsky, written when Pte A. Dean Brust entered Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The materials date from 1945 to 1946.

  9. Survivors of Buchenwald; Germans view display

    "Resurrection...Meditation" [Narration indicates this is Dachau - to be verified.] Survivors, delousing (re-clothed). Men climbing into truck, driving on road. Released. Some men still wear striped caps. Line of military tanks. Many German civilians walking along road (tracking shots), some hiding faces [USHMM collection contains color still images of this scene]. Great numbers of German civilians in central courtyard at Buchenwald. Shots of survivors behind barbed wire. CUs, wounded feet. Germans viewing display on tables. Pan, lampshade, skin, etc. Fainted women. Mass funeral, prayer at g...

  10. Songs of Erich Frost

    Songs of Erich Frost, a Jehovah's Witness who was imprisoned in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Songs include: "Wolkengedunkel," "Entfaltet die Paniere," and "Steht fest." These songs were composed while Mr. Frost was imprisoned and the recordings were arranged under his direction. The collection is comprised of four sound items.

  11. March of Time -- outtakes -- Copenhagen

    LS, Christiansborg entrance (Parliament and Foreign Ministry building). Amalienborg Palace, residence of the King. 05:08:14 Armed guards. CU, insignia with King's initials. 05:08:52 Oil tanks in Copenhagen harbor (Shell, BP, etc.) 05:09:24 Danish and German boats in harbor. 05:10:14 In Copenhagen, on street outside "Prwatbanken". Bicycles, cars, horse and cart, modern apartment blocks. 05:11:08 EXT, Shell Centralen petrol building. Street, City Hall, automobiles. 05:12:14 Train, station. Copenhagen power plant. 05:13:08 EXT, NSDAP headquarters, swastikas. Power plant. German freighter flyin...

  12. March of Time -- outtakes -- Grand Council of the Rabbinate; Talmud School; Court of Appeals

    Grand Council of the Rabbinate of Tel Aviv (reunion to remind rabbis of the principal points of Jewish orthodoxy and urge them to induce Jews to practice the religion more assiduously). Entrance to the hall of the Grand Council; Grand Rabbi Amiel (in soft hat) and Grand Rabbi Toledano (in the turban) go to their seats at a table, other rabbis stand. Rabbis talking. Rabbi Amiel speaks, others listen. Rabbis Amiel and Toledano talk to each other. CU, rabbi with beard listening. 05:53:30 Talmud School of the Grand Synagogue of Tel Aviv under the direction of the Grand Rabbi David Prato. Childr...

  13. March of Time -- outtakes -- Spring in Paris

    Eiffel Tower at dusk. 03:55:04 Building, trees. 03:56:59 Champs Elysee, busy street, restaurants, cars. 03:58:17 Flower stall, magazine stall. 03:58:50 Work men having lunch on pavement. AV street. 04:00:04 Base of Eiffel Tower - construction. Looking up at Tower. People on bench. 04:02:01 Bridge.

  14. March of Time -- outtakes -- Jerusalem, 1945

    In front of the Palestinian Police Headquarters in Jerusalem with guards, arrival of car of Gen. Inspector Rymer-Jones. Rymer-Jones exits car. Rymer-Jones at desk in his office, makes a telephone call. Group of men looking at a map of Palestine. 06:12:05 Horses with flags, car, military officers, soldiers lined up for inspection, camels. Marching in military procession, military vehicles, soldiers begin marching. Sign at far right reads "Palestine Police...and Training School."

  15. March of Time -- outtakes -- Palestine, 1938

    01:05:52 In Jerusalem, Government House, residence and office of High Commissioner. 01:06:13 Sentry at guardhouse of Residence. View from guardhouse tower. 01:06:43 Courtyard of the Rockefeller Museum in Jerusalem. Scenes of the Old City from roof of Museum showing walls around Damascus. 01:07:01 Italian General Consulate in Jerusalem. Jaffa road, looking north in Jerusalem. Changing Army guard inside Old City gates, Banco Di Roma in BG. Street scenes in Old City, praying at the Western Wall. 01:08:16 Market scenes at Bethlehem. CUs, Arab peasants at market, buying fruit. 01:08:57 Western W...

  16. March of Time -- outtakes -- Hitler in Sudetenland

    Hitler in Sudetenland. 03:51:52 MCU on Hitler, acknowledging crowds, cheering throngs. Nazi elite, including Goebbels, behind Hitler, looking pleased. Crowd, policemen four deep. 03:53:13 Hitler, Goering walk down street, in motorcade, town covered with swastika banners. 03:53:40 EXT banquet of Nazis. Himmler at Hitler's left, ring of Nazi soldiers surround them. 03:54:06 Hitler in motorcade. Great shots of crowds and people everywhere: windows, corridors, women crying from joy and chanting. MCU Hitler. Chaos. 03:55:17 Flowers.

  17. Hapag-Lloyd Collection

    The Hapag-Lloyd collection consists of a published map and cabin plan of the MS St. Louis, February 1937, and a copy print of a black and white photograph of the MS St. Louis.

  18. March of Time -- outtakes -- German Anti-Jewish Riots

    German anti-Jewish riots. Quick flash of store window "Jude" and Jewish Star. 04:09:22 Three folks looking in. SS on second SS shoulders' putting up poster. 04:09:35 LS, in crowded sidewalk (car camera) Jewish star. SS look at camera, street sounds, honking horns. Footage of the New Synagoue in Berlin from September 1932: Interior of synagogue. 04:09:50 Women singing (in choir). Cantor Leo Gollanin sings the Kol Nidre on the evening before Yom Kippur, 1932. LS of synagogue interior. 04:10:57 SS on cars, bike hangs on, street again, crowded sidewalk. Back to synagogue, LS of bimah.

  19. Laura Sacerdote Perrini collection

    The collection documents the Holocast-era experiences of Laura Sacerdote Perrini of Saluzzo, Italy and her relative Abramo Segre of Chivasso, Italy. Included are a handwritten personal narrative in Italian authored by Laura regarding her Holocaust experiences in Italy; two letters authored by Abramo to his fiancee Lucia Bracco, along with a will, dated 7 December 1943; and a genealogical chart of Sacerdote Perrini and Segre families. The letters are dated 30 November and 7 December 1943, and include transcriptions and English translations. The 7 December 1943 letter and will were written by...

  20. March of Time -- outtakes -- Palestine, 1938

    Views of Tel Aviv harbor. Boats (lighters) used to load/unload ships are docked. Workers repair boats. Bags of flour imported from America piled in customs sheds. 01:42:51 Loading and unloading goods at Jaffa harbor, a few miles from Tel Aviv (This harbor was used for imports and exports of Tel Aviv until the beginning of the Arab strike on April 19, 1936 when a new port was built in Tel Aviv.) CUs, loading and unloading citrus. Workers, cranes, donkeys. CU, an Arab supervises workers. Orange juice seller. View of Jaffa harbor from crane, man on crane. Shot of harbor with Tel Aviv in BG. Re...