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  1. Russian Collaborator General Vlasov in Czechoslovakia

    Russian General Vlasov visits Germany and Czechoslovakia Reel 1: 4:47:35 German Air Force ace Maj. Walter Novotny receives award, visits Hitler with his parents, in military parade, then shot of his casket at funeral, CU of inscription (looks like "Hero"). 4:49:00 MS Soviet General Vlasov reviews troops in Prague. 4:49:07 LS Large hall in Prague full of officials (Gen Vlasov is walking through, seated officers include (Karl Frank?). LS Vlasov reading statement, CUs of various officials, CU Vlasov. 4:49:46 CU Flags LS Vlasov enters thru audience, banner in balcony. LS and CUs as Vlasov makes...

  2. Soviet Army wrist compass used by a young Jewish Lithuanian partisan

    Soviet Army wrist compass used by Khona Padison, a young Jewish partisan in Rudnicki forest near Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania, from December 1943 to June 1944. The compass was given to Khona by a Soviet prisoner of war so that he could scout for their resistance group, Death to the Invaders. In June 1941, Germany occupied Lithuania. Khona, his parents Perets and Rakhel, and sister Hena were forced into the sealed ghetto. In fall 1943, Khona and his father escaped shortly before the ghetto was converted into Kauen concentration camp. They became members of Death to the Invaders resistance unit ...

  3. Jewish refugees to Palestine

    Jewish refugees from Germany preparing to leave France for Palestine. MS of entryway to Marseilles harbor. Jewish immigrants from the British sector of Berlin arrive by train in Marseilles. Group standing beside train tracks and CU of people leaning out train windows. Shots of refugees being fed at station soup kitchen run by nuns. CU of little girl and pieces of bread, little boy with Star of David patch on jacket. Representatives wearing HIAS armpatches. LS Ship Providence which will be taking these legal immigrants to Palestine. LS crowd of passengers lining up at foot of gangplank. CU a...

  4. Spanish General; Spanish Street Scene

    00:04:05 - 00:04:50 MCU General Weyler, Spanish General, who fought against the Americans in War of 1898. 00:04:53 - 00:05:49 Horsedrawn carriages with women in fancy traditional costume (mantilla, etc.). A few people sell flowers from pots balanced on their head.

  5. Romani orchestra in restaurant

    MS, MCU, and CU of several takes of Romani people ("gypsies" according to USC catalog) playing in a small "orchestra" in a not-very-busy restaurant. Musicians dressed in suits.

  6. Dumbarton Oaks Conference, Allies Study Post-war Security

    Part 1: Cordell Hull, Edward Stettinus, Alexander Cadogan, and Andrei Gromyko attend the Dumbarton Oaks Conference in Washington, DC. According to UN contents sheet: "To conferences in Washington came Soviet Ambassdor Andrei Gromyko and a Russian delegation. Wth United States Under Secretary of State Stettinus and representatives of Great Britain, the three Allied nations are meeting here, at Dumbarton Oaks, to study world security and formulate a tentative United Nations proposal."

  7. Black Legion; Award Ceremony

    Black Legion members receiving medals at ceremony. 01:24:07 Officer giving awards to a line of soldiers at attention. Large crowd of civilians watching. Village nestled against foot of mountain in BG. MCU of men receiving medals and saluting. Max Lubovitch (commandent of Jasenovac) in attendance. Rows of black-shirted recipients. 01:26:18 March past Nazi officer. Nazi reviews troops, local civilians watch. Banners. CU, civilians delivering speech to assembled people. MS monument, shots of soldiers strolling thru town.

  8. Nazi conquest of Czechoslovakia: Berchtesgaden

    A documentary about the conquest of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis just prior to World War II. Berchtesgaden deal.

  9. Book

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn7143
    • English
    • 1945
    • a: Height: 9.120 inches (23.165 cm) | Width: 6.250 inches (15.875 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) b: Height: 4.120 inches (10.465 cm) | Width: 4.380 inches (11.125 cm)

    Book Documenting Bulgarian Holocaust

  10. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 2 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 2 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  11. [Newspaper]

    Newspaper translating and critiquing Hitler's "Mein Kampf"

  12. English-Yiddish Dictionary

  13. Loeb Family collection

    Consists of photographs from the Loeb family, as well as three documents: a death certificate from 1915; a notice from the military informing of the battlefield death of a son, 1915; and notice of recognition of WWI service of David Loeb, 1934.

  14. World Congress of "Agudas Jisroel"

    Nicely dressed men, delegates from a "new organization of Orthodox Jews," gather outside the Congress Building, chatting, posing, smoking. Names of rabbis and community leaders are listed on card catalogue, but difficult to determine correspondence to footage.

  15. Defendants at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 445) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, December 12, 1945. Pan, courtroom during session. Pan, prisoners' dock; attorneys for defendants in FG. MS, Herman Goering and Joachim von Ribbentrop whispering to Rudolf Hess. MS, Hans Frank and Wilhelm Frick. MCU, Julius Streicher.

  16. Ruins; ghetto bridge and gates; Aktion?

    Brief shots of streets. CU of sign on ruins "Poceijow, " pan of ruins. Pan of street with barbed wire, street traffic, Jewish police guard. Shots of crowded ghetto. Walking bridge over tram tracks. Gates to ghetto open and shut. Shot of colonnade.

  17. Evian Conference on Refugees

    With voiceover. EXT, buildings and homes overlooking Lake Geneva. Architecture of the Hotel Royal, the conference center for the committee. CU, Myron C. Taylor, the spokesman for the United States and the initial president of the committee, walking with a group of men including James McDonald (seen clearly at 06:57:58 - the tall man with white hair). French senator Henry Béringer and Great Britain’s Lord Winterton outside the Hotel Royal. Pan around the large conference room and delegates. Taylor addresses the committee members.

  18. Nazi conquest of Czechoslovakia: mobilization

    A documentary about the conquest of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis just prior to World War II. Mobilization.

  19. Begging; shops with food; children smuggling (staged)

    Beggars by shop window full of food. Woman buys lavish sweets from vendor. VAR shots of stores full of goods. Boy tries to steal a loaf of bread and shop-owner swats at him with a stick, then looks into camera. Children break through and then come through hole in brick wall, smuggling food. Note: Ghetto diaries document the staging of these scenes.

  20. Vichy recruits for German Army

    Good HA establishing shot of Place des Invalides in Paris as (Secretary of State of Vichy government) Joseph Darnand administers oath of allegiance to French recruits of the German Army. Quick shot of Darnand. Recruits in uniforms and berets kneel on pavement. VS onlookers in courtyard and pairs of women looking down from above. CU tricolor banner that says "Francaise" and has an unidentified symbol at center. CU men kneeling; they salute. LS men at attention in courtyard. Shot of banner again. LS March out through iron-grill gate to Arc de Triomphe. Several shots of tomb of France's unknow...