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  1. John and Harriet Isaack collection

    The John and Harriet Isaack collection consists of John’s description of his wartime experiences, Chinese currency and scrip, an original drawing, and biographical, photographic, and printed materials documenting the Isaacks' escape from Germany, life in occupied Shanghai, and immigration to the United States.

  2. Mascha Benya Matz scrapbook

    The scrapbook consists of photographs and clippings about Mascha Benya Matz's life in Germany as an opera singer with the Kulturbund organization.

  3. Pink pillow

  4. Stanley B. Frosh collection

    Contains a letter from a U.S. soldier, dated 24 April 1945, written to his wife, using letterhead of Nazi Party Gauleiter of Franken, describing sights and events in Nuremberg and surrounding area at that time.

  5. Bund Deutscher Mädel album (Rosenthal, Germany)

    Album, with title page of "Landjahrlager Rosenthal, 1941," and a photograph of an unidentified younog woman. The contents include handwritten texts with the following headings: "Worte für die Fahne," containing quotations from a variety of sources, including Hitler, Nietzsche, Himmler, Hölderlin, Frederick the Great, and Tolstoy, among others, and unattributed verses, "Der 9. November 1923," containing narrative texts and verses about the attempted coup by Nazis in Munich in 1923; and a variety of essays on other themes. The latter part of the book includes a mimeographed about race and gen...

  6. George Flaum Banet and Marlene Roberts Banet photograph collection

    Collection of family photographs and a silhouette documenting the experiences of Georges Flaum (donor), his parents Therese (Tauba Hirszberg) and Charles (Chaim) Flaum, and their family primarily in France during the time period surrounding the Holocaust. Georges survived the Holocaust in hiding. His parents both perished at Auschwitz.

  7. Surrender of Belgium

    MCU, LS, German soldiers crossing field, mounting machine gun by fox hole, crossing small pontoon bridge, fighting in streets of city. Buildings burning, wrecked guns and tanks in streets. Pan across destroy city in Belgium as the narrator announces that the Beligan king has capitulated. Various scenes of surrender: German and Belgian high-ranking officers (including Field Marshal von Manstein?) talking. Belgian officer signing document. Automobile carrying large white flag. Camera on car showing columns of soldiers on side of highway. German and Belgian officers on steps of building. Belgi...

  8. German soldiers in Austria; Celebrating liberation in Paris

    Title: "L'Allemagne entres est ou west" Tank. Border with Austria. Tyrol. Men aboard truck with armbands reading "Heimat," waving, shaking hands. Women in village courtyard, soldiers. CU, flag, memorial pillar with engraved names of towns. HAS, Austrian village. Dead French prisoners, preparing for burial. CUs, photographs. In city, CUs Daladier, Reynaud, Princess de Grace, Clemencau, Gen. Weygand, etc. Soldiers return home, marching with belongings, flag. In Paris, newspaper headlines, "Capitulation sans condition" "Victoire" De Gaulle's voice on loudspeaker, people listening on street, fl...

  9. Anti-Hitler posters and Palestine recruitment pamphlet collection

    The collection consists of one anti-Hitler broadside, one pamphlet issued in Palestine by the World Union, Zion Workers, and one anti-Nazi movie poster, produced before and during World War II.

  10. Anschluss and Austrian enthusiasm

    Starting with a map showing the borders between Germany and Austria fading, this footage illustrates the occupation of Austria by German military forces on March 12, 1938 and the enthusiastic welcome by the Austrian population shouting 'Heil' and 'Hitler,' waving flags, and giving the Nazi salute. Special occasions include the crossing of the border at Kufstein, the destruction of the turnpike at Passau, the occupation of Salzburg and Graz, the fraternization between German and Austrian troops in Villach, and Hitler waving from a balcony in Linz. Most of the film is shot in Vienna, showing:...

  11. Slovakian newsreel: Fascist youth at camp in Slovakia

    Slovak Sound Weekly: Representatives of the Croatian Ustashe Youth during a visit to Slovakia in Piestany, escorted by the leader of the Hlinka Youth, Alojz Macek.

  12. German educational film: 1936 Olympics, Berlin

    This short film depicts the scene at the 1936 Olympic Games held in Berlin, Germany. General, establishing shot of the entrance to the stadium, followed by a series of shots inside the stadium, of crowds saluting Hitler, and of the procession of participating countries. MCU of Italian delegation marching on to the field, their athletes in black shirts, saluting Hitler. CU of Hitler surveying the crowds. Cut back to the various countries rounding the track inside the stadium. CU of Hitler saluting, cut to Nazi flag being carried into the stadium. MS, crowds in the bleechers wave and cheer. L...

  13. 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...

  15. Buchenwald Standort-Kantine concentration camp scrip, .50 Reichsmark

    .50 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 Ar...

  16. 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.

  17. Samuel Kaufman collection

    The collection consists of 5 lids from cans used to house ashes of cremated victims from Buchenwald.

  18. Harold Fishbein collection

    The collection consists of a Torah-style scroll, correspondence, a manuscript, and photographs relating to the experiences of Harold Fishbein, Director of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's (UNNRA) Schlachtensee displaced persons camp near Berlin, Germany, after the war.

  19. Ruth Pizyc Berlinger collection

    Contains a memoir (photocopy of an original held by Yad Vashem) written by Miriam Pizyc Flint (donor's sister) regarding the Warsaw ghetto uprising; a letter and envelope written to Ruth in Sweden after the war by Casimier Bieberstein (later Casimir Biebers) in Canada, in English; letter in Polish written to Ruth from a friend dated June 19, 1946; family photographs and copy print of Ruth with her husband and friends in Stockholm after the war; and a glass negative with image of Ruth and her pet dog taken in pre-war Warsaw, circa 1936-1937.

  20. German 62nd Infantry Regiment Anschulss photo album

    Photographic album which chronicles the march of a German infantry regiment into Austria during the Anschluss in March 1938. Several pages contain inscriptions describing the actions of the 62 Infantry Regiment, 3rd Battalion, and 20th Infantry Regiment.