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  1. German soldiers advance; Jewish forced to dig a pit

    The German military enters Riga, Latvia: jeeps (some full of soldiers, some pulling ammunition) drive through cobblestoned city streets. Views of destruction all around: bodies and dead horses, rubble, shattered buildings. A sense of grim, utter destruction pervades. Pan of the bombed-out facades ending at an artist sitting in the street, sketching the sight. 03:28:15 At Kužiai forest (15km from Siauliai, Lithuania) rounded-up Jews, many in suits, some bearded and in religious garb, jump off the back of an open truck, shovels in hand. They are made to dig in field/orchard, then move large r...

  2. Bookburning

    07:15:44 Amateur footage of bookburning. Includes scenes of many others making speeches, students in their uniforms (of dueling societies?) and with swords, SA men, band with brass instruments and xylophone. 07:19:07 "The Nazi Plan" version of bookburning coverage, title reading "The Burning of Books." Ends with brief title regarding the dedication of the von Hindenburg, "Christening of the New German Aircraft." (no footage)

  3. Russian Collaborator General Vlasov in Czechoslovakia

    Russian General Vlasov visits Germany and Czechoslovakia Reel 1: 4:47:35 German Air Force ace Maj. Walter Novotny receives award, visits Hitler with his parents, in military parade, then shot of his casket at funeral, CU of inscription (looks like "Hero"). 4:49:00 MS Soviet General Vlasov reviews troops in Prague. 4:49:07 LS Large hall in Prague full of officials (Gen Vlasov is walking through, seated officers include (Karl Frank?). LS Vlasov reading statement, CUs of various officials, CU Vlasov. 4:49:46 CU Flags LS Vlasov enters thru audience, banner in balcony. LS and CUs as Vlasov makes...

  4. Jewish Religious Community of Hroznětín

    This fonds consist of a cash book (maintained until April 1938) and fragmentary accounting records of the Jewish prayer association in Nejdek. It also includes an acknowledgement of receipt of the cash book, of the accounting records, and of savings book from a savings bank in Nejdek, which was issued by the Supreme Council of the Associations of Jewish Religious Communities in Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia on 31 October 1938.

  5. Municipality of Farms 412-4/3 Gemeinde Farmsen

    Selected records of the Gemeinde Farmsen (Commune Farms), Gemeindevertreter (Municipal Representative), and Gemeindebeirat (Municipal Advisory Council) relating to farms, execution of the law for restoration of the civil service, road construction and maintenance, unemployment relief, free gymnastics and sport clubs, school medical examination (1931-1933), and a role of the public library.

  6. Výbor pro postavení pomníku židovské náboženské obci Pardubice

    • Committee for the Erection of a Monument to the Jewish Religious Community of Pardubice / NAD 658

    The fonds is incomplete and contains only 1 book of minutes of the 1947-1948 meetings.

  7. Polish Refugees Leave Teheran for Palestine

    350 Polish Refugees Leave Teheran for Palestine, (no date, originally reviewed March 27, 1944) INTs, Teheran railroad station. Polish refugees on platform bustle about as some bid farewell to departing friends. Persian/Arabic inscriptions. Pan, wall of newsstand/booth. Dolly shot, relatives and friends bid one another farewell from train windows; along railcars, more crowded, various men in uniform. Belongings on platform. Men, women, and children mill about, looking anxious and excited, some dressed well, some with hats (mix of Middle Eastern and Baltic looks). CU, native porter salutes in...

  8. Terezin ghetto records

    Contains selected records from the Terezin ghetto in Czechoslovakia, 1941-1945.

  9. "Hlas Pudy Q306" issues

    Contains photocopies of "Hlas Pudy Q306", a children's magazine written and published by eleven children, all under the age of twelve, who lived in the attic numbered Q306 in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto in Czechoslovakia. The children--editor-in-chief Mariana Kornova, Zdenek Grunhut, Hana Brockova, Jiri Kreisl, Anita Brandeisova, Tomas Sladkus, Jan Brod, Petr Abrahamovsky, Petr Fischl, Tommy Brandais, and Kitty Langendorfova--all perished in Auschwitz in the fall of 1944. In the magazine, they wrote short stories, poems, puzzles, and humorous observations about their lives and about...

  10. March of Time -- outtakes -- Recruiting posters and drives in US

    A group of people, many of them teenagers. A woman in a W.A.A.C. uniform sits behind a desk outside a van labelled "U. S. Army Recruitment Mobile Station" and speaks with a group of women. The scene shifts to soldiers in a parade down a street, then recruitment posters and a chart illustrating the number of people who have enlisted in Muncie during the month. Men walk into the recruitment offices. Interior of recruiting office where young men talk to a recruiter, who sits behind a desk. Close-ups of the boys and of recruiter. Outside, draftees (not enlisted men) board a bus while another ma...

  11. French resistance

    Newsreel describing resistance activities in France. Title reads: France Actualites. La France et L'empire L'Europe et le monde. Destruction in city. Books in a pile. Civilians look at destruction. Weapons. CUs members of the Manouchian Network (mostly young). These individuals are identified at the end of Film ID 411 with inserted titling: Manouchian; Boczor; Rayman; Celestino; Fingercwajg; Wajsbrot. Soldiers guarding entrance. Diplomats enter sanctuary, viewing body, exiting. Coffin loaded onto a wagon and paraded through the city. Civilians and soldiers watch.

  13. Judenrat in Nowy Sącz Kolekcja dokumentów z gett i obozów Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej, 1939-1944. Judenraty Rada Żydowska Nowy Sącz (Syg. 261)

    Records of the Judenrat in Nowy Sącz, Poland. Consists of a portrait photograph of Boruch Roth (Born June 24, 1874). The photograph was taken before deportation (according to the note in Polish on the verso of the photo.

  14. Beatrice Maier papers

    The Beatrice Maier papers contains correspondence and a deposition. The correspondence consists of two letters, written by "Gerda," May and June 1939. The first letter, addressed to "Else," was written aboard the MS St. Louis; the second was written after arrival in Mirebeau, France. The letters describe experiences aboard the ship, their arrival in Havana and Florida. The deposition was prepared by Hugo Zivi of New York, addressed to the Badische Staatsanwaltschaft in April 1947, in which he describes events he witnessed during Kristallnacht in Mühlheim, Germany, and identifying by name th...

  15. Documentation from the Court of Law (Amstgericht) in the Neukoelln neighborhood in Berlin: Wills of Jews, 1935-1939

    Documentation from the Court of Law (Amstgericht) in the Neukoelln neighborhood in Berlin: Wills of Jews, 1935-1939 Files of the Court of Law, that deal with the handling of the Wills of Jews, most of whom resided in the Neukoelln neighborhood in Berlin (and a minority of them in the Treptow neighborhood in Berlin). The files include details regarding the possible inheritors, death certificates, and other personal documentation of the family members (mainly birth certificates and marriage certificates), and Inheritance Orders (Erbscheine) from the Court of Law. In several files there are de...

  16. Selected records from the Beauftragter für den Vierjahresplan/Zentrale (R 26 I)

    Contains records pertaining to measures concerning the Jewish question, results of the 4-year plan, report of the department Hauptverbandstelle Ost, confiscation and expropriation issues, construction and organization of the Lódź Getto, supply of fuel to Auschwitz, the Transdanubia report about the status of Jewish trade in Hungary, report of the arbeitswissenschafltiche Institut der DAF, amnesty petition for Ernst Starkenberg, manuscripts about the national revolution in Romania, report about the situation in Poland and the Jewish population of Łódź and Warsaw, and a report by Dr. Scha...

  17. Jewish soldiers in Palestine perform military exercises

    Palestinian troops wearing helmets and carrying bayonets rush up a hill through an arch in a stone structure (IWM identifies it as an old city castle). LS of troops aiming their rifles from the top of the stone wall. Two soldiers stand sentry beside a Star of David flag atop the stone wall (battlement?). Jewish soldiers, smiling, talking, smoking, one gives the camera a thumbs up. A soldier operates a field phone with a board of international codes hanging on the wall. Soldiers perform various military exercises. Captured German soldiers under guard of the Palestinian troops cross a desert ...

  18. Stefan R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Stefan R., who was born in a small city in Romania in 1914 and spent most of his prewar life in Oradea Mare. He tells of his family life without his father, who died when he was six years old; his service in the Romanian army (1934-1936;) his conscription in 1942, after the Hungarian takeover, into the Jewish brigade of the Hungarian army, from which he repeatedly escaped; and his hiding in Budapest, at times with the aid of the Communist and Jewish undergrounds, and for a time in a Swedish safe house, until the city's liberation by the Russians.

  19. Allied Invasion

    Part 1: Winston Churchill and Jan Christian Smuts wish luck to Allied troops boarding landing craft. General Eisenhower broadcasts to the French people. Shows street scene in London. Airborne troops board planes. The Navy and Air Force blast Normandy shore positions. Part 2: U.S. troops enter Rome. Shows General Clark. Stalin and Marshal Zhukov review Russian troops. Part 3: The 9th Air Force bombs German positions and airborne troops land in Normandy. General Eisenhower and General Montgomery inspect the beach positions.

  20. German invasion of Poland

    This story consists of a montage of various shots of life in Poland depicting a prosperous, hard working Polish people engaged in everything from forging steel to threshing wheat. The tone shifts as the story shifts to the German invasion of Poland. Slate: "Why? Answering Humanity's Question." Produced and directed by A.E. Caraco. 1919, Polish Independence. Ruins. Mining, textile industry. Railways, city of Gdynia and its harbor. Polish navy. Submarine ORZEL. Nazi rise in city of Danzig. Danzig port (harbor). "JUDE" written on house walls. Danzig synagogue, voice over narration speaks of th...