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  1. Nazi conquest of Czechoslovakia: mobilization

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

  2. 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.

  3. 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...

  4. Tracking shot from train

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

  5. 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."

  6. 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?).

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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...

  10. 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...

  11. Dress worn by a young girl while living in hiding

    Created by Miki Pear, 1941, Ukraine.

  12. French fascist Jacques Doriot

    French fascist Jacques Doriot addresses "Legion of French Volunteers" in Velodrome d'Hiver in Paris. Huge audience inside velodrome including German officers and CU of Vichy officers. MS officer at podium giving Nazi salute. Doriot speaking in French at podium in profile. Talks of difficult combat of winter of 1941 and 1942. MS German officers in front row. People in crowd give fascist salute. Additional unrelated footage: 3:44:39 to 3:47:40 Map showing Shitomir, Kirowograd, and Nikopol. German and Hungarian troops near Stanislavov, USSR, relaxing sleeping, being reviewed, marching, fightin...

  13. Burials, trial of perpetrators, protest

    Brief segment on memorial burial and trial of perpetrators. Newspaper headlines, tearful spectators attend burial of victims. CU men accused of crimes at town and camp at Jasenovac. MS as they stand in line in courtroom. AV of citizens marching in protest against atrocities of Jasenovac.

  14. Crowd in Alborg protests German occupation; Germans occupy Copenhagen

    Alborg (town in Northern Jutland, Denmark), crowds in the streets in connection with Niels Erik Vangsted's funeral on August 23, 1943. Bicycles. Man distributing/selling goods to a crowd of civilians. 00:09:31 HAS crowd, some people running, woman pursued in the street, German car forced backwards by angry citizens of Alborg. Sense of panic. People are fighting, beaten by German soldiers. HAS choppy movement. Bicycles and pedestrians. Soldiers marching through the city. People running. 00:10:06 Cut to airplane. Nazis exiting, saluting. Military vehicle (truck) entering Copenhagen, Denmark o...

  15. Prayerbook kept by a Jewish woman in concentration camps

    The prayer book was originally owned by Betty Rothschild, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It was received by Resa Klau at an orphanage in Westerbork. It was obtained by Ursula Klau after her mother's death in May 1945 at Bergen-Belsen and was kept by her through various DP camps and through arrival to United States at New York in 1953.

  16. Slums in Sicily and Naples, Italy

    In Sicily, "Grand-domed building contrasts with close-set houses crowding the streets of the poorer section of town." In Naples, Italy, pan down large elaborate building. Monuments and statues. Cut to slums of Rome, narrow streets, laundry hangs above, visibly poorer conditions, children in tattered clothing play. CU boy on sidewalk. "Many fountains and troughs in the cities serve a useful purpose, while others are merely ornamental or erected as memorials." Horse carrying load stands next to fountain. View of elaborate fountain that attracts spectators. "Naples, after Genoa, is Italy's mos...

  17. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 50 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.

  18. Deutscher Kleinempfänger [German small radio] produced in Nazi Germany

    Deutscher Kleinempfänger [German small radio] manufactured by G. Schaub in 1938. The radio was produced to help spread Nazi propaganda. It was made to sell at a low cost, so the majority of people could afford it. It lacked shortwave reception to make it difficult to receive foreign broadcasts. The radio was nicknamed Goebbels’ Schnauze [Snout], referring to the Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, who often addressed the public through radio.

  19. UNRRA at Displaced Persons Camp

    (LIB 7013) UNRRA at Displaced Persons Camp, Wetzlar, Germany, June 14-15, 1945. LSs, MSs, male displaced persons doing calisthenics and drilling under direction of UNRRA worker. MS, children enter bus for tour of local area. Girls wave as bus pulls away. MLS, men and women in uniform standing in front of doors labelled "Headquarters DET DP 46". CU, group of men and women. CU, another group of men and women. (Good image quality/camera work). MS, two men in uniform get inside UNRRA convertible. Seq: Children in playground with adult displaced persons directing their games under supervision of...

  20. Drawing

    Drawing of prison cell created by unknown artist, 1947. Found by Deborah Drapkin in pages of "Der Kampf Im Westen" (book donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Library by Deborah Drapkin in 1992).