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  1. Lucien Dreyfus papers

    The Lucien Dreyfus papers primarily consist of five parts of a seven-part diary written by Lucien Dreyfus from 1940 to 1943. An intelligent and discerning man, Lucien used his diary to document his intellectual and social life as a refugee in the south of France, his observations on the rise of antisemitic laws and violence, his cardiac condition, his daughter’s family and their emigration to the United States, and his efforts to retrieve his confiscated property. The diary includes information about Lucien’s students, his opinions about the limited utility of assimilation in fighting antis...

  2. The family of Aryed-Leyb Fingerhut (Leo Gerut) father of Rosalie and Zachary Gerut

    A memoir compiled by Rosalie Gerut describing the experiences of her father, Aryed-Leyb (Leybl) Fingerhut, in Švenčionėliai, Lithuania, Siauliai,Lithuania, and Kremenchug, Soviet Union (currently, Ukraine); his interest in music and the Yiddish language; his work as a researcher for YIVO (Institute for Jewish Research) in Vilnius (currently Vilna, Lithuania); his memories of the German invasion of Lithuania in 1941; his life in the Shavl ghetto; his experiences as a forced laborer; his transfer to Stutthof concentration camp in 1944; his transfer to Lager 10 of Utting, a subcamp of Dachau c...

  3. March of Time -- outtakes -- Czech/Slovak collaborationist government; trial

    LS Tiso, ex-Prime Minister of Slovakia, reviewing line of German troops in Czechoslovakia, during the war. CU Tiso decorating German soldier. CU soldier shaking hands with Tiso and giving Nazi salute. LS ex-president Czechoslovakia, Hacha, being welcomed in Berlin's railroad station by Meissner of the Reichskanzlei. Hacha and group walking past line of German soldiers. MS group of Czech soldiers at attention. Car carrying Karl H. Frank and Wilhelm Frick entering castle gate of Lany, Czechoslovakia. Frick and Frank enter castle room, meet Hacha. Shots of collaborationist Czech government mee...

  4. US Army advances at Iwo Jima

    Staff Film Report no. 46; Combat Bulletin, no. 46. (with intertitles) Reel 4: 08:46:30 "Pacific - Ulithi Anchorage" Shows aerial views of many ships anchored at Ulithi Harbor in the Carolines. Shows activities at an emergency landing field on a Japanese-held island in the Philippines. Guerillas help fuel and hide planes. 08:48:41 "Pacific - Iwo Jima" Troops and supplies reinforce Iwo Jima under enemy fire. Carrier planes bomb the island; ships and artillery shell caves. Shows dead Japanese and the flag raising on Mt. Suribachi.

  5. War Crimes Trials: Malmedy

    (Munich 174) Malmedy War Crimes Trials, Dachau, Germany, May 20, 1946. Former Lt. Virgil P. Lary, Jr. takes the stand and tells how his unit was captured and how many of the US soldiers were massacred. CU, Lt. Col. Barton J. Ellis, Chief Prosecutor, questioning Lary. MCU, Col. Ellis. MS, Lary demonstrates how the first two shots were fired by one of the defendants and walks to prisoner's dock and points out George Fleps (No. 14) as the man who killed the American prisoner.

  6. Ardeatine Caves Massacre: identifying bodies

    Ardeatine Caves Massacre, Italy. CUs, doctor in white lab coat taking notes. CU, notes. Sign: "Reparto Riconoscimento." Men carrying coffin, with body. Doctor in office, meeting with civilians dressed in black who identify personal effects. CUs, women with personal belongings. A man enters office, to identify personal belongings. CUs, clothing, documents. CUs, human remains with no. 101, 106. VAR, bodies in open coffins. Blessing of bodies by priest. Woman viewing remains, being held up by two men, crying. Coffins with flowers. CU, nameplates: "Montezemolo" "Renzo Giorgini" Pan, relatives d...

  7. March of Time -- outtakes -- Church patriarch elected; Exarcat leads mass at Church

    1150 W: Election of the patriarch of "Czech Church," Prague, Czechoslovakia, June 29, 1946. Priests and laymen elect patriarch of Czech Church. The liturgical service is sung in Czech. LS and CU of Christ hanging on the wall behind the altar. Several shots taken during the Office of three bishops who pray/sing in front of the Assistance. Several shots of the Assistance. MS lifting the host. CU lifting the ciborium and the host (the ciborium is the coat of arms of the Czech Church). CU the Holy Communion. LS and CU of the Assistance. Priests on the left and laymen on the right. LS of the Pre...

  8. Dried pressed flower brought to the US by an Austrian Jewish refugee

    Dried pressed flower 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.

  9. Hitler's first speech as Chancellor, Berlin Sportpalast

    Nazi party rally in the crowded Berlin Sportpalast on February 10, 1933. Hitler in uniform explains the ideological reasons for the Nazi rise to power and their main political aims. He announces the indictment of the politicians responsible for the evils of the Weimar Republic and promises to 'resurrect' a "Neue Deutsche Reich" [new German Empire] undivided and rooted in 'healthy' soil. He does not openly address the Jewish question. The audience of civilians and uniformed SA and SS rises, cheers, shouts 'Heil,' and gives the Nazi salute (several times during the speech). This is Hitler's "...

  10. American officers/POWs in Mauthausen

    (LIB 6495) Concentration Camp, Mauthasen, Austria, May 7-8, 1945. Sound interview with Lt Jack H Taylor, US Navy, who tells of his work in the German-occupied countries of Europe, his capture, and his treatment as a prisoner. Sound interview with Sgt Louis Biagioni, US Army, who tells of his service behind the lines serving with Italian partisans in the the northeast section of Italy. The Sgt relates his capture by the Gestapo and treatment while in the prison camp. Transcription: Jack H. Taylor U.S. Navy, CA. "Interview with American Officer in Austria, October 44. Captured in December by ...

  11. Jewish refugees

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 17, No. 224. Release date, 04/08/1944. Montreal, Quebec, Canada. At railroad station, refugees getting off train, walking towards camera. Sign: "Canada... You." Welcomed by friends; getting into friends' cars; CU Jews getting into car, child, woman, man; CU baby in mother's arms.

  12. Sen. Wheeler; British/US troops; Rehabilitation

    (LIB 6748) 01:01:21 Senator Burton K. Wheeler, Orly Field, Paris, France, May 19, 1945. Seq: Senators Wheeler, Homer, Capeheart, Ernest MacFarland, Albert Hawles, Major General Frank Stoner and Admiral Joseph R. Redman are greeted at airport by General William S. Rambough and Major General Smith (?). CU, Senator Wheeler and US Ambassador Caffrey speaking. 01:03:34 Bremen Enclave to 29th Infantry Division. Bremerhaven, Germany, May 20, 1945. Seq: Elements of the British 2nd Army, 51st Highland Division, transfer command to the Ninth US Army's 29th Infantry Division. CUs, MSs, Major General C...

  14. Fighting war disease; UNRRA

    Orientation Film no. 17 : shows widespread devastation and deprivation resulting from the war and conducive to disease and epidemics. Reel 2: Medicines are made and administered. Italians are isolated and inoculated. Swamps are drained and sprayed and natives treated in the South Pacific. Europeans receive food and clothing from UNRRA and military units, are pooled for identification, and return to their homes. Includes views of the San Francisco Conference.

  15. Allied POW camp; Buchenwald

    Attempt at Danube Crossing, Near Neustadt, Germany, April 27, 1945. Seq: Soldiers of 2nd Br. 395th regt, 99th Inf Div, rest behind dike. LSs, MSs, CU, troops carrying assault boats make their way unopposed through forest. MSs, troops pinned down beside assault boats in woods. VS, crew fires mortar in wooded area. LS, medics carry wounded soldier on litter. MSs, MCU, soldier hurriedly digs foxhole beside assault boat. Allied POW Camp, Moosburg, Germany, April 29, 1945. LS, Prisoner of war camp known as Stalag 7A which housed 29,284 Allied prisoners. (Half were Americans, mostly Air Corps; in...

  16. US propaganda film: racial/religious prejudice

    Dramatizes, by animation, the mixing of "Dr. Hitler's purge medicine" (consisting of racial and religious prejudice) by Nazi propangandists. Efforts to see this "purge" tonic in the US are shattered on the rock of American tolerance.

  17. Peace program on 20/20 Vision

    Tips for Concerned Citizens and Peace Activists: New Strategies for the "Selling" of Peace in the 90s. Program presented by 20/20 Vision organization. Hosts: Bob Abrams and Lois Barber. Program provides tips and strategies to leverage effectiveness of efforts on behalf of world peace. Barber, a "repository of wisdom and experience in influencing people to take action on peace and national security issues," outlines several ideas: 1) start where people are and do good listening; 2) personalize the impact of their issues; 3) make action meaningful; 4) address something in their attention span...

  18. Landsberg DP Camp conditions investigated

    (Paris 429) Investigation of Jewish DP Camp, Landsberg, Germany, December 6, 1945. MS, train at station. Seq: Lt Gen Walter Bedell Smith accompanied by Maj Gen Albert W. Kenner, Judge SH Rifkin (Theater Commander's Adviser on Jewish Affairs), correspondents and photographers entering camp and touring the barracks, mess halls, and other buildings. They stop to speak to some of the DPs and question them regarding the conditions of the camp.

  19. Jewish religious service at Dachau

    (LIB 6553) First Jewish Religious Service, Dachau, Germany, May 5, 1945. Seq: Unidentified civilian (rear view only) of European extraction speaks in English at the ceremony honoring the Jews who died as a result of Nazi persecution. CUs, Capt. Rabbi David Max Eichhorn, Jewish chaplain of the US XV Corps, officiates at services. The Captain speaks in Hebrew and English.

  20. Second Global Structures Convocation lecture by Ferencz

    Lecture, "Creating Global Structures for Agenda 21." Second Global Structures Convocation, Washington, DC. February 6-9, 1992. ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT (tape 10 in conference series) Introduction by Robert Livingston, president of Positions for Social Responsibility. Second introduction by Catherine Porter, executive director of US Citizens Network. Ferencz discusses new structures needed to create a more peaceful planet. Broad frameworks include a world community that is environmentally healthy, free from war, and economically sound. He argues for coordinated action on an international ...