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  1. Nazi conquest of Czechoslovakia: Berchtesgaden

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

  2. 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

  3. 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.

  4. [Newspaper]

    Newspaper translating and critiquing Hitler's "Mein Kampf"

  5. English-Yiddish Dictionary

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. Nazi conquest of Czechoslovakia: mobilization

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

  12. 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.

  13. 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...

  14. Tracking shot from train

    Tracking shot from train, passing houses, trees, fields.

  15. Truman aides sworn in

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 18, No. 419. Release date, 07/26/1945. According to UN advance information: "Vinson, Sec. of Treasury." Fred M. Vinson is sworn in as Secretary of the Treasury by Justice Groner as Henry Morgenthau, Jr. stands by. "John W. Snyder Sworn In." Ex-Federal Loan Administrator John W. Snyder is sworn in as director of War Mobilization and Reconversion. According to UN monolog: "Both these officials will be backed by the American spirit."

  16. Street scenes in ghetto

    Street scene in ghetto. Corner storefront, many pedestrians, carts, truck. Pan up building. Jewish policeman. CUs of street vendors, children. Tilt up storefront. Horse drawn wagon full of people in Warsaw Ghetto (could be new inhabitants moving into ghetto?).

  17. Ghetto prison

    Ghetto prison. Boys driven out of doorway by Jewish police, run in street (L to R on screen). Boys standing in prison yard. Group of men and boys in prison yard, one man shivering, shirtless. 14:35:56 Single shot of crowd of people running, driven through street, crowded, chaotic (related to separate scene in Story 2547 b). Women driven out of doorway by Jewish women police, hurried, one falls. Women standing in prison yard. Close shot of several with cropped and thin hair.

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

    Scrip, valued at 10 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.

  19. Churchill defeated

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 18, No. 419. Release date, 07/26/1945. According to UN advance information: "Churchill Defeated by Attlee." Major Clement R. Attlee, leader of the British Labor Party, is commissioned by King George VI to form a Labor Government after the Labor Party decisively defeats Churchill's Conservative Party, in the first general election Great Britain has had in ten years. According to UN monolog: Attlee..., the head of the Labor Party, and his associates swept the wartime government from power, only Churchill and Eden retaining their seats in the House of Commons....25,000...

  20. Buchenwald Standort-Kantine concentration camp scrip, 2 Reichsmark

    2 Reichsmark coupon issued at Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. Buchenwald opened on July 19, 1937, and issued undated notes in 0.5, 1, 2, and 3 mark denominations. The simply designed notes were printed on coarse paper. There were two types of coupons: canteen scrip and exchange scrip issued to members of outside labor brigades [Aussenkommandos.] In early April 1945, as US forces approached Buchenwald concentration camp, the German guards began to evacuate the camp. On April 11, the prisoners revolted and seized control of the camp. Later that day, soldiers from the Sixth Army Armo...