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Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Youth Aliyah Department, Continental/European Office, Geneva - Paris, L58

    Contains records of the immediate post-war period of the Youth Aliyah. These records include correspondence regarding orphanages in Italy and France, records from the orphanages “Cambous” and “Rocquefort La Bedoule,” correspondence with the Youth Aliyah offices in Geneva, Marseille, Paris and Jerusalem, personal files, and other material. Also includes correspondence with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Inc. and the World Zionist Organization. Types of documents include lists of children, questionnaires, and various certificates (health reports, exit and entrance visas, em...

  2. Youth Meeting in Thuringia

    "June 18, 1933, Youth Meeting in Thuringia." Hitler speaks before a crowd of several hundred thousand. Hitler at outdoor rally of youths, screaming his speech and stabbing the air emphatically. Re: recruitment of millions. Long, wide pans of vast crowd; "heils" and Hitler above them on an elevated platform decorated with large swastikas.

  3. Youth of the Netherlands! Waffen-SS recruitment text only poster that urges Dutch youth to help the Germans fight the Russians

    Waffen-SS recruitment poster issued in August 1941 in German controlled Netherlands asking young Dutch men to join the German Army in order to defend against the Jewish Bolshevik threat. Germany launched Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union, on June 22, 1941. This was their biggest military operation of the war and there was an increased need for soldiers throughout the Germany Army.

  4. Youth Organization (Lwow Branch) (Hehaluta Haklal-Zioni), Fond 455, Opis 1

    The collection contains records related to cooperation with other Zionist organizations worldwide, records related to activities of the local branches of the organization and regional Zionist organizations across Eastern Galicia, including vocational and agricultural training for the Zionist youth immigrating to Palestine. This collection also includes a list of the members of the organization who completed agricultural and professional training before their immigration to Palestine.

  5. Yugoslavia during liberation: parade with troops and peasants

    Parade scenes. Troops marching through Terazyje Square (main square in Belgrade). Boys watching from trees. Children waving and cheering. Girls throwing flowers. Yugoslavian Partisan Army cavalry riding past. Reviewing stand in BG, officers saluting. Russian heavy tanks in parade. Pan across spectators waving scarves. Girls riding in truck. Peasants in native dress demonstrate, carrying banners and flags, marching. Boy playing accordian, band playing. Peasants dancing and singing. Demonstrators at Pozorizini Square. Statue of Prince Michael. National Theater in BG

  6. Yugoslavia during liberation: sports; wounded soldiers; parade; Tito

    Reel 1: Partisan sport event in Belgrade stadium. Soccer game at Belgrade Stadium. Crowds in stands. Army guards in FG. Girls' 100 meter race. Injured girl assisted off track. Man congratulates winners. Crowd cheering.Young Yugoslavian soldiers with machine guns in crowd. Young boys selling soft drinks. Girls finishing race. Winner and runner up. Crowds in stands watch boys' 100 meter race. Attendant at grill selling food. Spectators eating. Beginning and finish of race. Crowd singing at half-time. Soccer game in progress. Refugee children marching to river boat for transport to test camp. ...

  7. Yugoslavia during liberation: UNRRA Pact and diplomats

    C-47 taxiing to halt at Belgrade airport. Ambassador Patterson and staff arriving for the signing of the UNRRA Pact. Greeted by Colonel Charles Thayer of the US Embassy in Belgrade. Group gathered around place. Patterson talking wth Thayer and Harold Schantz, counselor of the embassy. Minister Subasic being introduced to Patterson. Group leaving in jeeps after introduction and greeting. Ivan Subasic at microphone welcoming Ambassador Patterson to Yugoslavia.

  8. Yugoslavia: damage; peasants; village; church; monastery; wounded partisan soldiers; German prisoners; weapons

    Reel 3: Boy watering oxen near well; street scene showing total destruction to row of houses; horse-drawn carts moving along streets. LSs, MSs, church in Bingula destroyed. Peasant walking across his destroyed barn and house; peasant living in wooden shack; more destroyed houses. Boy and girl, woman and man, peasants of the village of Bingula. Women walking with farm tools. In Mangelus, man with team of oxen plowing field; destroyed church, homes, peasants living in barn, oxen-driven carts moving along streets. Pan, village of Lezimir. Women spinning wool; destroyed church. Monastery in Sis...

  9. Yugoslavia: damage; village; soldiers marching; liberation ceremony in village square; food truck

    Reel 5: Destroyed bridge in Vinkovci. Street scene, troops marching through village; soldiers' feet as they are marching revealing ragged shoes; partisan soldier band playing in honor of late FDR. Tanks lined up, men standing at attention, bugler plays salute. Infantry troops firing volley of shots. Troops crossing destroyed bridge carrying Yugoslavian flag, supplies, ammunition. Speakers and dignitaries standing on flag-draped balcony; citizens of Vinkovci gathered in streets to celebrate the liberation of their village. Mayor Nikola Jaksic speaking to crowds, cheering. Col. Mijaklo Todoro...

  10. Yugoslavia: Easter church service

    Reel 6: INT, Saborna Serbian Orthodox Church on Easter Sunday; parishioners standing as priests conduct services. (Choir singing throughout entire roll.)

  11. Yugoslavia: farming; villagers; military vehicles; railroad yards

    Reel 8: Farmer plowing field, women sowing seed; sheep grazing. Man sitting on bench reading newspaper, soldier on crutches, woman resting on steps, street car motorman, woman with child in park. Belgrade Hospital, entrance gates. Man smoking cigar, man with beard, partisan boy soldier saluting, Serbian girl and Roma beggar sitting on walk. Military vehicles, troops and civilians boarding ferry, crossing Danube River and departing ferry. Pan, across destroyed German tanks and guns, destroyed Sava Bridge, railroad yards and town. Railroad yards in Belgrade, locomotives moving down tracks.

  12. Yugoslavia: houses; factory; city scenes; market

    Reel 3: Residence of the British Ambassador, Ralph R S Stevenson. Walking to garden; talking. Stevenson; weaving looms in operation; Yugoslavian women working looms. Parliament building; trolley cars passing by in FG; dome. Yugoslavians in Kalenica Guvno marketplace, trading and dealing. Cuetnitrg Market on Sunday morning; basket of eggs, barrels of cheese, onions, chickens and garden vegetables sold at the market; curbside stalls, buyers walking through.

  13. Yugoslavia: part; street scenes; shops; ruins; airfield; civilians

    Reel 1: CUs, shoes, trinkets, food and other articles on stands in Cuetnitrg Market. Civilians and soldiers trolling down paths in Kalmegden Park, Serbian Orthodox Church in BG. Knez Mihaijlova St, people walking and riding in horse-drawn carts. View from store window onto Kralya Milana St at shoppers walking by; trolley cars passing by; Terazyje Square in FG. INT, looking over conductor's shoulder of trolley car going down street towards square. View from control tower at Belgrade Airport showing destroyed hangars. Pan across destroyed hangars and buildings; workmen repairing damaged build...

  14. Yugoslavia: partisan soldiers; marching; dancing; villagers

    Reel 4: Partisan soldiers firing guns. Col. Jagos looking through glasses. Men placing artillery guns in position, horses, men marching. Partisan soldiers resting on roadside, sleeping, writing letters. Solders in trenches; dead German soldier. Soldiers eating lunch. Marching through Sotin; peasants watching as convoy of artillery guns and soldiers march through village. Villagers watching haystack and home burning. Soldier playing the accordion and singing, eating lunch, listening to music; people resting. Dead German soldiers. Soldiers dancing the "Kola" as accordionist plays. Group of pe...

  15. Yugoslavia: plane doctors; repairing engine; supplies and airfield; village; damage

    Reel 2: CUs, traveling plane doctors. Mechanics repairing engine of downed plane, children watching and helping GIs move an engine. Mechanics and Yugoslavian officers working on plane. Planes taxiing on field; sacks of flour; partisan soldiers departing plane, laborers loading flour onto plane. Pan, field with planes; taking off. Street scene in village of Bingula showing damage left by the Germans, man salvaging bricks from his bombed home; other bomb-damaged buildings.

  16. Yugoslavia: railroad yard; bank; villagers; Ustashi prisoners marched through streets; scenes in Belgrade

    Reel 9: Railroad yards in Belgrade, locomotives. Kalemegdon Park, French Military Museum in BG. Pan across old fortified area overlooking mouth of Sava River; Danube River on right. People lined up in front of various banks to exchange old dinars for new dinars. Sign on bank telling people to exchange money. People leaving bank, guard standing by door. Yugoslavians looking at displays of new dinar money. Street scenes showing damages to residential section and hospital. CUs, faces of townspeople. Group of Ustashi prisoners marching under guard to concentration camp; Serbians beating prisone...

  17. Yugoslavia: repairing trucks; airfield; village; plane doctors

    Reel 1: Men unloading truck parts from plane. Bolting front and rear sections of truck together, putting on rear wheels. Mechanics and Yugoslavian assistants lifting body of truck onto frame; bolting and installing racks on truck bed; fueling and checking oil. Men driving off in completely assembled truck. Damaged airport, administration building, ruined hangars and buildings in BG. Village of Serpska Cryna. Horse-drawn carts and villagers along road, seen through window of village flower mill. GI trucks and repairmen passing carts and villagers on way to landing field. Trucks; mechanics si...

  18. Yugoslavia: riverside; propaganda; church; bridges; street scenes; memorial

    Reel 4: Pan across city of Belgrade across Sava River; Zemun Bridge. Placards displayed throughout the city of Belgrade. From steeple of Saborna Serbian Orthodox Church to people entering and leaving. Vehicles, horse-drawn carts and people crossing Zemun Bridge; main street in Belgrade, Terazyje Square, Albaivua building; Balkan Hotel, trolley cars and people. Russian grave in Knesev Spomenak Square, National Opera Theater in BG; inscription on gravestone, star on top.

  19. Yugoslavia: soldiers dancing; officers and prisoners; villagers

    Reel 7: Soldiers dancing in streets of Vinkovci, accordion player. US ambassador Richard C. Patterson and US officers in Dakovo, entering cathedral - pan, steeple to partially damaged church. Patterson, Kusovac Labud, Yugoslavian Propaganda Chief, and Col Charles Thayer looking through field glasses at fighting. Group of officers leaving German prison. Soldiers riding in horse-drawn carts on way to front, Patterson and officers watching from jeep. Officers interrogating prisoners. CUs, men eating. 03:15:23 Partisan General Peko Dapcevic with an American official (Gen Dapcevic became Tito's ...

  20. Yugoslavia: soldiers resting and singing; wounded soldiers; accordion

    Reel 6: Soldiers washing, resting, writing letters, reading, singing, playing accordion. Wounded soldiers carried, placed in hospital trucks; soldiers on straw-covered hospital floor. Nurses and doctors operating on wounded. Gens walking along path. Soldiers dancing the "Kola and Kozark" in streets of Vinkovci, accordion player in FG.