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  1. Manfred Loeb photograph album

    Contains a photograph album with approximately 44 black and white photographs and postcards, compiled by Manfred Loeb of his school, family and travel, in Brussels, Belgium.

  2. Exodus Protest

    HA group protesting. VAR shots of signs, speakers. CU shot with banner:"Bevin! We will out live your reactionary policies!" Clapping audience. General shot of protest. Protesters parade. Banner: "Exodus in Hamburg a mark of cain for England." More good banners (English and Hebrew/Yiddish). Crowd waves fists, good banners visible. More close shots and speakers (Marc Jarblum speaks, Josef Rosensaft next to him).

  3. Corpse; children begging; roundup/beating (Aktion?)

    Bodies in street. Man walks along pavement, begging. Two men struggle to put body into wooden casket, then place casket onto cart with black box. Two girls huddled in the street, crying or begging. 14:37:37 Jewish police beating and driving people through streets; people running. Mix of men, women, children. (related to single shot in Story 2546 b)

  4. German anti-American propaganda film

    Statue of Liberty shots, FDR speaks, troops and mounted police battle strikers in various locations, wounded are picked up, rioters arrested. Workers smash windows in Detroit, coal strike in Pittsburgh and farmers dump milk during milk strike. Another large protest rally then CU of stills of American "Jews" including Major Rothschild, Untermeyer, Schiff, Frankfurter, Lehman, and (?)La Guardia. FDR speaking, footage from film "Grapes of Wrath," camps for refugees of Dust Bowl, shots of slums, footage of gangster Dillinger, other criminals, and Eleanor Roosevelt as fashion model.

  5. 1939 Day of German Art; Hitler and high Nazi officials

    Archival footage in color from 01:10:19 to 01:27:32 shows amateur 16mm film footage of the Day of German Art filmed by Hans Feierabend in Munich in 1939. Includes scenes of Philipp Bouhler (in glasses) seated among Nazi dignitaries for viewing parade from 01:23:59 - 01:24:02 and 01:24:09 - 01:24:12, Albert Speer appears at 01:24:03, and Himmler and Goebbels.

  6. Germans in Occupied Ukraine

    Footage shot by a German cameraman during Germany's occupation of Ukraine in World War II. Footage with German photographers traveling through the Ukraine photographing cities, villages, and collective farms. The most extensive footage is taken with a female photographer from her trip to Ukraine in the summer of 1943. She traveled by plane and car from southern Ukraine (the Melitopol region) just north of Crimea, then along the Dnepr River northward over Dnepropetrovsk to Kiev and then due west to Rovno and then the border of General Government. Reel 1: 05:14:33 Damaged church and defaced i...

  7. Self portrait by Josef Nassy

    Self portrait by Josef Nassy. This is the only known portrait of the artist. It was made while Nassy was incarcerated in Nazi Germany. The painting was presented to Tony Clark by Mrs. Nassy in appreciation for his efforts to preserve Nassy's collection of paintings and drawings known as The Holocaust Suite.

  8. 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.

  9. Small child dancing in ghetto

    Small child in rags dances in the street, bagel in hand, surrounded by onlookers.

  10. Book Ein Bilderbuch fuer Gross und Klein [A Picture Book for Big and Small].

    Anti-semitic propaganda book for children

  11. Photographic negative of corpses at Buchenwald

    The photographic negative depicts American soldiers looking at a mound of corpses in front of an incinerator building at Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation.

  12. Myer Glick photograph collection

    The Myer Glick photograph collection consists of photographs of Myer Glick at age eighteen shortly after he was liberated by the American Army on May 8, 1945, in Styria, Austria; and photographs of his two brothers, Chaskiel Gatek and Yankiel, in Warsaw, Poland, in 1939.

  13. Rudolf Höss statement

    The papers consist of a statement regarding the Jews killed at Auschwitz concentration camp signed by Rudolf Höss at Nuremberg, Germany, on May 15,1946.

  14. Morris Edelman photograph collection

    The collection consists of eight photographs of corpses and burial pits at Ohrdruf concentration camp at the time of liberation in 1945.

  15. Warren Brinley papers

    The papers consist of a daily report on activities in Theresienstadt ghetto on June 15, 1943 and an announcement dated June 22, 1943, concerning application information for a position in the Office of Ghetto Watch.

  16. William Pollin papers

    Two postcards sent to Cesia Greenberg in Brooklyn, NY from Regina Weinman in Warsaw, Poland, March 31, 1940, October 12, 1941. The first postcard regards obtaining an affidavit of support for Zdzislaw Weinman. The second postcard inquires about not receiving a letter from Cesia in a while, and asks after friends or family members. Both postcards are stamped with Wehrmacht censor stamps, and the postcard written in 1941 also has a Warsaw Judenrat censor stamp.

  17. Ann Hershkowitz papers

    The papers consist of an identification card issued to Hanka Schudmak (later Ann Hershkowitz) and stating that she was a prisoner at Bergen-Belsen, two photographs of Hanka standing near the grave of her younger sister, Itka Schudmak, at the International Cemetery at Bergen-Belsen, and a photograph of the gravestone of Itka Schudmak. Itka Schudmak, Ann Hershkowitz's younger sister, died of typhus on May 27, 1945, after liberation at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

  18. Charles Froelicher papers

    The Charles Froelicher papers consist of photographs of the Buchenwald concentration camp and children who were part of the transport Charles Froelicher accompanied from Buchenwald to Switzerland in June 1945; a document issued by the Allied Expeditionary Force Military Government authorizing him to accompany the transport; two German language clippings about the transport; and a blank questionnaire used by the Counter Intelligence Corps for interrogating arrested Nazis. The photographs were taken by Charles Froelicher or other soldiers from the U.S. 6th Armored Division.

  19. Pola Ross photograph collection

    The collection consists of a photograph of Pola Ross, her husband, and their daughter who was born in Siberia; her husband's brother Lakivif Gidel Gurman, a Holocaust survivor from Ukraine; and a photograph of a group of men and women working in a field in Siberia.

  20. Rudolf Steinbach papers

    The papers consists of a German passport (Reisepass) issued to Rudolf Steinbach in October 1937 by the police in Breslau, Germany, (now Wrocław, Poland) and a document intended to be kept inside the holder's passport stating the compulsory registration of German citizens in a foreign country.