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  2. Dachau prisoners at home of baker; candlesticks made in Allach

    This footage was shot by a baker who supplied bread to Dachau concentration camp. See Stories 1282, 1283, and 1284 for related footage. The family (and others?) of the baker gathered around the family dining table, eating and celebrating a first communion. One of the girls is dressed in white with a headband of white flowers. There are two candlesticks on the table, holding lit candles. The candlesticks were made by prisoners in Allach, a subcamp of Dachau, where there was a porcelain manufacturing factory. Several views of people eating; all of them are women and girls, except for one very...

  3. Desecrated section of a Torah scroll used as postal package wrapping

    Section of a desecrated Torah scroll used to wrap a parcel and addressed in multiple locations to the Schmid family in Munich, Germany. It was posted between 1941-1944.

  4. Brick from a Polish ghetto manufactured by the Heiss brick factory

    Brick from the Lwów ghetto in L’viv Ukraine (formerly Lvov, Poland). The brick is from the area that the Lvov Judenrat building was located and is marked with the name of the Heiss brick factory, which was owned by a Jewish family. Before World War II, the Jewish population in Lvov was 110,000. In September 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union invaded, occupied and partitioned Poland and Lvov came under Soviet control. During this time nearly 100,000 refugees fleeing German occupied areas of Poland streamed into the city. After the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, Lvov was oc...

  5. Nazi conquest of Czechoslovakia: refugees

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

  7. Justice Hughes gets award

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 12, No. 941. Release date, 12/29/1940. Justice Hughes receives an award and delivers a speech on democracy.

  8. March of Time -- outtakes -- Raids on Russian POWs; Patton's funeral

    1425 HH (16:15:11-16:18:12) Prattling, Germany. Snoop raids on civilian and returning Russian POWs. HAS, Russian POW camp, POWs being placed in line. HAS of POWs walking across field and being lined up. Closer shot, with POWs carrying their meager possessions. LS, line of GI trucks, Russian and US soldiers on guard. LS, line of Russian POWs being marched to trucks for return to Russia. Rear shot of prisoners getting into truck being guarded by rifle-carrying US soldiers. Rear shot, truck driving off. MLS, trucks driving up to train, prisoners being searched for knives or weapons of any kind...

  9. Family takes a walk and children play in prewar Poland

    It is winter, a group of older family members (including Benedikt's sister Nelly, who is Thomas's mother) are waiting outside the house in Jaremcze. The children are both walking. They all walk out of the house and down a pathway. Hanna is on the back porch with a croquet mallet, talking to Nelly in the window, playing around. Thomas joins her. They bang on the house a bit and walk around.

  10. Book

  11. Propaganda about Japan; troops preparing for Pacific

    Reel 1: "Japan" A cartoon shows Hirohito shoving Hitler aside and proclaiming himself the greatest conqueror, the operation of thought control in Japan, and US aid to Japan during the 1923 earthquake. "Here We Come" Shows troops from Europe showering, drawing new clothing, and preparing to embark for the Pacific theater.

  13. Alfred Ament papers

    Contains identification documents, including an Austrian birth certificate, an application for US immigration visa, a US quota immigrant visa document, a "Kinderausweis" (child identity card), a US immigrant identity card, all issued to Hans Ament (donor's brother). The family was unable to successfully emigrate despite receiving US visas, and Hans went into hiding in an orphanage in Izieu, France. He was arrested during a raid of the children's home in 1944, and deported to Auschwitz.

  14. Arrests and prison scenes

    Arrests and prison scenes. Jewish police arresting child, adults. Prisoners brought to ghetto jail. HA pan, market to prison yard. CU sign: "Arrestanstalt." Germans and police. Jewish police make prisoners run out of door. Young and very poor prisoners are lined up, forced to walk in circle. Similar shots of women prisoners. CUs of prisoners in prison.

  15. Hashomer Hatzair in Lithuania (RG-4-2) השומר הצעיר בליטא

    Circulars, publications, activities reports, Benjamin Grinboim archive, including reports on the situation of the Hashomer Hatzair in Lithuania in 1938 and his correspondence, the kibbutz training (Hakshara), information brochures and journals "Ziv", "Al Hamishmar" from 1927-1930, Akiva Wonhozker 's papers on children's house (Kinderhaus) in Kovno, reports on Jewish scouts movement in Kovno, Yaakov Amit's correspondence and legacy, Yekheskel Ben Tour memoirs on Ponevezh (Panevėžys ), 1922-1934, and national conference reports.

  16. Doll

  17. March of Time -- outtakes -- Russians liberate of Warsaw

    The Battle for Warsaw. Russian Newsreel. Russian Red Army advancing towards Warsaw. Russian infantry running through streets of Warsaw. Russian soldiers presented with flowers from girls, receiving food and wine. Smoke rising from burning Warsaw. Russian officers.

  18. Fighting as the Soviets advance

    Map showing cities from Berlin to Warsaw. German troops who survived the battle for Budapest receive food and drink. Sign on a building welcomes the "Rueckkaempfer aus Budapest der Waffen SS." CUs of soldiers, some of whom have beards. The men board an open truck and depart down a muddy street. German soldiers march past a sign reading Ratibor (Raciborz, Poland). Fighting in Silesia. Atrocities committed by the Soviet troops in territory re-captured by Germany. Destroyed houses and scattered clothing. The corpse of a murdered old man. Corpses covered in sheets while people mourn over their ...

  19. Stephen J. Fraenkel papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Stephen Fraenkel of Berlin, Germany including his immigration to the United States in 1938 with the financial aid of the Sigma Alpha Mu Jewish fraternity at the University of Nebraska, his studies at the University of Nebraska and the Illinois Institute of Technology, his engineering career, his pathway to citizenship, and his efforts to assist his father Max Fraenkel emigrate from Germany. Included are numerous letters sent to Stephen by his father in Berlin from 1938-1942. The bulk of the collection consists of biographical materials, ...

  20. Autobahn construction; German town, market scenes; Hitler Youth

    Autobahn construction: big crane, digger and dirt, rocks for construction, workers. 00:02:24 Marketplace scenes in Dinkelsbuehl town square: women selling and buying apples. Church entrance, timbered houses, crowds of civilians. VCUs, townspeople. Swastika hanging from building. Cows walking up cobbled street towards camera. 00:04:17 Woman with glasses and cat leaning from window, statue of Christ in niche on house wall. VS, views of river, tower. Woman leading animals through arch. 00:05:11 Men examine pigs, pull them out of baskets by hind legs. VS, pigs, carts, handling animals. Cobbled ...