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  1. Helene Weisenberg collection

    Contains materials related to Helene Wiesenberg (donor) and her experiences in the Theresienstadt Ghetto. Includes ration cards, work certificates stating that she participated in the delousing of arriving convoys, examples of camp scrip, and documentation granting her permission to leave Terezin in June 1945. Also includes a typewritten poem, dated March 1945, apparently written in observance of Passover Seder in Theresienstadt.

  2. Taylor speaks of experiments and rules of war at Medical trial

    (Munich 464) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. LS, Taylor tells of concentration camp victims being injected with epidemic jaundice and being used for sterilization experiments. Numerous healthy victims were injected with spotted fever virus. Experiments in cholera, typhus, and other infectious diseases were also conducted. Experimental patients were shot poisoned bullets. General Taylor accuses the defendants of violating the rules of war, the rules of the Geneva convention pertaining to prisoners of war.

  3. 24 drawings from the concentration camps in Germany Print

    One of a set of twenty-three prints of drawings created by George Zielezinski

  4. March of Time -- outtakes -- NYC at night; German section; "Inside Nazi Germany"

    Night scene of New York city. Gradually more is visible. New York City buildings. Flashing sign atop the Park Central Hotel, visible BG, center of screen. Sunkist lighted billboard also visible in FG screen right. (This sequence is out of register towards the end). Neon signs: Restaurant. The Platz Dance. Barber shop. Yorkville section, NYC. Sunkist. Essex House. Deutscher Stock Broker: Geldsendungen. Reise Mks. Heute. Swastikas and US flag with dolls in same shop window. Several views. Hitler, swastika, US flag and hula doll. Cafe Hindenburg. Neon signs. 02:16:52 Sign on movie marquee: Exc...

  5. Jewish children return home

    "Going Home", Weimar, Germany, June 5, 1945. MSs, CUs, Jewish orphans boarding train and some saying goodbye; train pulls out as children wave from windows. LSs, MSs, CUs, Jewish flag hanging from train window. CU, signs on side of train. "Going Home", Buchenwald, Germany, June 5, 1945. LSs, MSs, Polish, Hungarian, Czechoslovakian and Jewish orphans board train with their belongings. CUs , of individual children. MCUs, children looking out of window of train. Jewish flag hangs beneath window. LSs, MSs, signs hanging from train: "Vive Truman, Stalin, Churchill"; and in French: "Our beginning...

  6. Female Austrian Jewish refugees at Czech-German border; England

    News of the Day: Czech-German Border. Jewish women refugees from Austria. Pan of tents on ridge, men and women; MS tents (loosely built) in rows. CU old women seated outside tents; CU old man. Piles of furniture, chairs, teapots. VLS: many people in field. England.

  7. War Crimes Trials: Medical Case

    (Munich 619 and 620) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Judgment and Sentencing, Nuremberg, Germany. MHSs, defendants enter the dock. Camera remains on defendants presiding judge hands down the following sentences: Wilhelm Beiglboeck, fifteen years imprisonment Herta Oberhauser, twenty years imprisonment Fritz Fischer, life imprisonment Hermann Becker-Freyseng, twenty years imprisonment (Reel is silent from here on) LS, MSs, Tribunal as sentences are read. Cut-ins, defendant Waldemar Hoven (death sentence). LS, counsel tables. CU, Judge Walter B. Beals ...

  8. Various wartime scenes

    A film report examining Nazi methods to control morale. Consisting mostly of captured films. Civilians leave bombed cities and receive food. Shows Goering and Himmler and explains their civilian defense responsibilities. Streets are cleared and antiaircraft guns fire during an air raid. Shows wrecked planes, US POWs, and a bomber being shot down. A newsreel shows boxing, Axis troops, and, on the Russian front, mud, demolitions activities, and tanks being strafed.

  9. War Crimes Trials/war criminals

    Army-Navy Screen Magazine, no. 79. Reel 2: "Guilty Men" War crimes trials. War criminals are beaten and hung by their heels. Moscow declaration. Concentration camp scenes. Collection of documents for the trial. CUs, dead bodies of Himmler, Goebbels, etc. Disorder. Arrest of major war criminals. Belsen trial. Hangings. Mobs gather to view bodies. Other European war crimes trials of Caruso, Quisling, popes. German war criminals are tried and executed. German concentration camp scenes. Trial of some Japanese war criminals.

  10. Oral history interview with Bronia Lessing

  11. Oral history interview with Virginia Gatenio

  12. Frank Gierlach photograph collection

    Consists of nine photographs depicting the immediate aftermath of the Gardelegen Massacre, including images of the burial of victims.

  13. Ferencz interviewed by Fred Fiske

    Radio interview with Benjamin Ferencz. Host: Fred Fiske. WAMU-FM 88.5 Ferencz argues that war criminals should continue to be prosecuted today to indicate revulsion of the crimes committed. He mentions repeatedly that we need to remember man's inhumanity to man. He discusses the Kurt Waldheim controversy, the problems in selecting defendents for his trial at Nuremberg, and slave labor in German big business. He regards laws, courts, and a system of effective enforcement as necessary to achieve a peaceful world. Ferencz stresses that all genocidal acts should be condemned in an international...

  14. Euthanasia

    Hanna, the wife of medical doctor Thomas Heyt, suffers from multiple sclerosis. He decides to 'redeem' her through a sleeping draught, giving her a 'merciful death.' Hanna thus voluntarily and peacefully ends her own life after unbearable suffering. Dr. Heyt's friend and colleague Dr. Lang (Mathias Wiemann) denounces him to the police, but changes his mind when a child he saved from death becomes mentally disabled. A court jury comprised of a cross-section of German society discusses all the moral, religious, and medical arguments in favor of and against euthanasia. Dr. Heyt argues, with gr...

  15. Yalta Conference

    Reel 2: FDR, Churchill, and Stalin pose. Shows views of Sevastopol. FDR entertains Churchill, Haile Selassie, Ibn Saud, and King Farouk aboard ship; Ambassador Winant, Admiral Leahy, and Hopkins are present. FDR addresses Congress on the conference.

  16. March of Time -- outtakes -- Chamberlain returning from Germany

    (Leblay camera) Neville Chamberlain's trip to Berchtesgaden to see Hitler, 09/15/1938. VAR, Chamberlain at Heston Aerodrome, walking towards plane, delivering a speech into microphones. VAR, Lord and Lady Halifax, Herr Kordt, German Charge d'Affaires, and others. Chamberlain gets into plane. Plane taking off. (Leblay camera) Chamberlain returns to Heston Aerodrome from Berchtesgaden, 09/16/1938. Crowds of press awaiting Chamberlain's arrival. Lord and Lady Halifax awaiting arrival. Shots of plane arriving, Chamberlain getting out, reading King's message, delivering speech, surrounded by pre...

  17. Defendants read statements during Pohl case

    (Munich 632) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 4 (Pohl Case), Nuremberg, Germany, September 22, 1947. HS, Judges bench. Chief Justice Robert M. Toms declares that the Tribunal is ready to hear the statements of the defendants. Defendants Oswald Pohl, August Frank, Heinz Karl Fanslau, George Loerner, Erwin Tschentscher, and Rudolf Scheide read their statements to the court. Karl Sommer and Hermann Pook read their statements.

  18. Calling card brought to the US by an Austrian refugee

    Calling card for Lilly Bergl found in the autograph album, 1994.53.6.1, owned by Irene Rosenthal. Irene fled Nazi ruled Austria for the United States in March 1940. German troops marched over the border into Austria in March 1938. The next day, Austria was annexed to Nazi Germany. Anti-Jewish legislation was enacted to strip Jews of their civil rights. The November 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom vandalized Jewish businesses and homes and destroyed most of the synagogues in Austria. Irene received a visa to leave Austria in March and sailed that month from Genoa, Italy, to New York.

  19. German invasion of Poland, advance

    Summary: The German viewpoint of events prior to and during the Polish campaign. Reel 6: Camp of Polish POWs, long line of POWs marching on road, CUs feet. German troops move east, through rural terrain. Graphic of southern front (Lemberg). Troops cross River Sam, Hitler reviews. Hitler looks at map. German troops, tanks through burning town. Tired German troops and artillery along road. Troops rest by road, sleeping, cleaning equipment, washing shaving, etc. Read papers while marching. Tanks through terrain, villages

  20. Buchenwald

    French prisoners (dressed well, coats, shoes) standing by RC jeeps and in them. View from rear of jeep/truck, everyone getting off. MS, former prisoners talking amongst themselves. CU, three seated on bench, heavy white coat on. CU, on stretcher being taken away (smoking). Jeeps/trucks driving away, soldiers wave. From above, LS, camp square, barracks. People scattered around, walking. View directly down of civilians in square. MS, soldier walks by camera, in front of small stack of mostly naked corpses, winding a little camera; same pile, different angle, different soldier, crosses left. M...