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  1. National Socialist German Workers Party pin worn by a Party member

    National-Sozialistische-Deutsche Arbeiterpartei ("N.S.D.A.P.") [National Socialist German Workers Party] pin worn by Party member.

  2. Star of David badge with a Z for Jew worn by a Yugoslavian Jewish woman

    Badge worn by Yugoslavian Jewish woman during the Holocaust; Issued to and worn by Erika Reiss Kinel, 1941. "Z" identified bearer as a Jew.

  3. Abram Pinczowski papers

    Consists of four post-war identity cards and one photograph, all for Abram Pinczowski (or Pinczewski).

  4. Bronze bust of Etty Hillesum, a Dutch Jewish woman who perished in Auschwitz

    Bronze bust of Etty Hillesum who was deported from Westerbork transit camp in the Netherlands to Auschwitz where she perished, age 29, on November 30, 1943. The sculpture was created by Pieter Starreveld, circa 1986-1988.

  5. Records from Romanian State Archives

    Photocopied documents from various Romanian military officers relating to the case of David Margulies of Iasi.

  6. Collective farms; Zhukov decorates partisans; soldiers defending Latvia

    Titles: "Soviet Newsreel / 35 / Moscow / April 23, 1942 / Directed by M. Fidelevoy" / "Through the front-line of Leningrad" Angled ELS of procession of partisans in horse drawn sleds moving through the woods. LS of men conferring on skis. Procession passing through collective farm. Title: 01:41:10 "Award of the homeland" Coverage of ceremony where Commander Zhukov greets and decorates partisans. LS of Zhukov giving partisan lengthy kiss. CU of woman adjusting medal pinned to her shirt. LS Zhukov speaking to assembly. Title: "An investment in the military - an investment in victory" ELS grou...

  7. Molotov addresses the Soviet people re. German invasion.

    Title: "Soviet newsreel / 59 / 1941 / M. Fidelevoy"/ "Radio address of the USSR's Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars and the People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs, V.M. Molotov / June 22, 1941" MS of Molotov. Voiceover of Molotov speech: "Today at 4 a.m. ... without declaring war, Germany attacked our country ... the attack was perpetrated despite a pact of non-aggression between the USSR and Germany, which the USSR faithfully abided by ... responsibility for this attack falls entirely upon German fascist rulers ... at 5:30 a.m. the German ambassador in Moscow relayed the messa...

  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. Nazi propaganda: history of Germany

    This historical feature film begins in 1862 with King Wilhelm I appointing Otto von Bismarck as head of the Prussian government. Since Germany was divided into 35 different political entities and transferred to various principalities, the nation is portrayed as desperately longing for national unity. Bismarck's first political action of dissolving the Prussian parliament because the opposition leader Virchow refused to finance a military reform and rearmament plan is followed by tough censorship of the press. From 1866 to 1870, Bismarck wages wars against Denmark, Austria, and France accord...

  10. Book Journal for the History of the Jewish People During the Nazi Regime

    One volume of From the Last Extermination : Journal for the History of the Jewish People During the Nazi Regime.

  11. Construction, BDM, German children, flying club

    City of Berlin. Construction crew at work, pouring cement. City view, with radio tower. 00:17:02 "Reichskrafts" sign on building. Farm scenes. BDM (Bund Deutsche Maedel) girls with their arm badges, milking goat. Blond girl cutting bread for two children. CU of children at tables, eating, outdoors. INT, Kindergarten. Children painting, washing dishes. 00:19:51 Children go off together with school satchels on their backs in Essen, arms around each others' shoulders, various combinations of boys, girls. Smokestacks, city in BG, Krupp factory. 00:21:23 Flying club, gliders, young men carry gli...

  12. Concentration camp atrocities

    "Welt im Film": The Anglo-American newsreel series screened in occupied Germany, 1945-1950. A harrowing film record of post-liberation scenes at concentration and prison camps, with the message to the defeated Germans "Dass ist Fascismus, dass ist National Sozialismus." [That is fascism, that is Nazism]. Film of dead and barely surviving prisoners at thirteen camps. Shots include: Arnstadt: tents in camp; corpses Belsen: survivors; corpses; German civilians (under compulsion) viewing the atrocities; Josef Kramer; interrogation/detention of SS guards and camp officials Gardelegen: corpses; i...

  13. Kindergarten, Concert Party at Belsen

    Kindergarten at Bergen-Belsen. Bus arriving with children. Children leaving bus, entering school. Board reading KINDERGARTEN 9-12 2-5. CU children at desks, drawing. Milk and cookies distributed by Miss S J Reekie, a British trained nurse and child welfare specialist, in a beret. Concert at Belsen. Stage in theater. Band playing to audience. Soldier with children in audience, woman and children in audience. Group of women surround man playing piano. Three girls dancing "Hoki-Koki." Polish woman dancing peasant dance. Girl singing and playing piano. Girl playing violin, CU.

  14. Liberation of Kiev

    Titles: "Soviet Newsreel"/ "70-71"/ "Moscow"/ "November 1943" / "Directed by I. Kopalina"/ "Kiev is liberated" Aerial shots of countryside, aerial pan and various ELSs of Kiev. Titles: "The red army, successfully having infiltrated the Dnepr, has held fighting positions on the right side of the river and, having broken the German resistance, moved on toward Kiev, fighting as they approach the city." ELS Soviet soldiers loading and firing cannons. LS field of soldiers crawling across field. Aerial views of Soviet planes. CUs corpses, LS soldiers running across burning rubble. MS Medic bandag...

  15. "Entartete Kunst" (Degenerate Art) exhibition; BDM; farming; Reichsarbeitsdienst

    INT "Entartete Kunst" (Degenerate Art) exhibit, "Nehmen Sie Dada ernst" in Munich. 00:20:47 BDM girls place flag in ground, write letters. Landscape with ploughed fields, oxen and cart, between Nuremberg and Leipzig. Road between Nuremberg and Dresden with BDM girls, marching and singing with banner. CUs faces, braids, white blouses. While resting at roadside, two girls perform a singing act, flirtatious, very animated. Others seated, write in diaries, then march on. Ages range from 8 to 12, most in braids or bobbed hair. BDM girls eating, with group leader, CU BDM flag, reading magazine, r...

  16. French pilots; heroic Soviet soldiers

    Titles: "Soviet Newsreel"/ "12"/ "Moscow"/ "February 1944"/ "Directed by M. Fidelevoy"/ "The Red Army will follow comrade Stalin's orders with honor"/ ELS military procession. Soldiers march and salute while others look on. A message from Stalin is read to soldiers from an elevated platform. Title: "Infantry school" ELS long line of infantry at attention. LS officer reading Stalin's orders. Various CUs and MSs of soldiers. Title: "Moscow's salute" Various ELSs of fireworks lit up over Moscow cityscape. Title: "Stalin's order inspires new combat and labor achievements in the Soviet people"/ ...

  17. Fighting in Stalingrad

    Titles: "Soviet Newsreel"/ "80"/ "Moskow"/ "November 1942"/ "Directed by S. Gurova"/ "All for the Front, All for Victory" Series of shots of women harvesting grains, feeding chickens, painting farm building, men inspecting vegetables. Pan across a sign promoting a regional economic exhibition. Over the shoulder shots of men and women looking at vegetables. ELS of procession of carts carrying vegetables to Leningrad. Trains loaded with good for Leningrad. Scenes in a gun workshop. MSs and CUs of women sanding rifles. MS of boy fitting barrel into wooden rifle. 02:13:57 Titles: "Film-reportin...

  18. Yaffa Margules Shnitzer and family papers

    Consists of photocopies of correspondence related to writing and attempts at publishing a memoir entitled "I Survived Belzec Crematories," by Jaffa Margulies Shnitzer (alternate: Schnitzer), dated from the 1970s through the 1990s.

  20. Oral history interview with Judith Schanda