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  1. American Red Cross pin

    Pin received by Helen Weisberger during her service with the American Red Cross in World War II.

  2. American Red Cross pin

    American Red Cross service pin received by Helen Weisberger during her service with the American Red Cross in World War II.

  3. American Red Cross Volunteer pin

    American Red Cross Volunteer pin received by Helen Weisberger during her service with the American Red Cross in World War II.

  4. American Red Cross; Defendants enter dock at Nuremberg Trial

    03:30:00 (Paris 408) American Red Cross Activities, Wiesbaden and Frankfurt, Germany, December 1-2, 1945. LS, EXT of American Red Cross HQ building. MS, CU, two soldiers reading announcement of symphony concert sponsored by the Red Cross. CU, sign over entrance: "American Red Cross Headquarters, Occupied Territory." Shots in the Palm Garden Club in Frankfurt. A few soldiers and Red Cross girl look at globe of the world and walk in the glass-roofed conservatory. SEQ: American Red Cross Eagle Club building. Soldier and his bride enter and leave club; soldiers shower them with rice and congrat...

  5. American Relief Administration: Russian Operations

    Records, 1919-1925; Correspondence, telegrams, memoranda, reports, agreements, minutes, histories, financial records, lists, press summaries, and photographs, relating to American relief in the Soviet Union following the Russian Civil War, and food and public health problems, agriculture, economic conditions, transportation and communications, and political and social developments, in the Soviet Union. Includes materials on interaction between the American Relief Administration and American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee.

  6. American Relief for Poland organization records

    Contains reports, bulletins, general correspondence, name lists, "welfare messages," financial records, newspaper clippings, photographs, and various other records relating to the work of the American Relief for Poland from 1939 to 1952. The files of the American Relief for Poland, Lisbon office, contain reports and general correspondence from Florian Piskorski, American Relief for Poland delegate to Europe, general financial records of the Lisbon office, name lists of Polish and Jewish refugees, Polish prisoners of war, and Roman Catholic priests, in concentration camps receiving aid, and ...

  7. American Responses to the Holocaust interactive monitors

    Interactive audiovisual monitors shown on the fourth and second floors in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Permanent Exhibition called "The Holocaust". This version is clean, with no titles and no menu button. 4.35a&b - American Responses 1933-1939 01:00:21 Persecution Begins (1933-1939) 01:06:58 Bookburnings 01:10:27 1936 Olympics 01:15:41 November Pogroms: "Kristallnacht" 01:21:31 Search for Refuge 2.16 - American Responses 1939-1945 01:29:41 First News of Extermination 01:35:36 War Against the Jews 01:41:47 American Jewish Responses 01:47:28 Attempts at Rescue 01:53:01 E...

  8. American serviceman papers

    The papers belonged to a unknown United States serviceman and include forty-eight photographs depicting wartime Europe and liberated concentration camps, an envelope, a set of souvenir postcards from Liverpool, England, and a business card from the Taverne Savoy in Brussels, Belgium.

  9. American siblings visit Berlin during the Nazi Olympics

    Americans visit Berlin. Street views and city monuments in Berlin. Nazi flags and banners. 01:56 Sign on hood of car: “Nancy Jeux Olympiques” [Nancy Olympic Games]. More street views and monuments and churches. Flags of the participating countries displayed on the street. The Brandenburg Gate, Berlin Victory Column, Reichstag building and exterior of Olympic stadium with crowds and rows of parked cars outside. 04:04 Field from the crowded stands; a procession begins. SS man seen in the stands. 05:00 People saluting en masse in the stands. More processions, a flock of birds is released from ...

  10. American soldier life in Belgium

    "Welcome to our home theatre.” Scenes from soldier life in the wintertime of 1944 in Belgium. The men wash mess kits, use latrines, walk around town, and have snowball fights. Panoramic shots of buildings and factories in Dolhain. The Grand Bazaar, a department store in Verviers. Scenes from a three day pass in Eupen, including destroyed buildings and rubble. Shots of Murray Goldblatt in a military office in Dolhain. Street scenes of soldier life in Dolhain.

  11. American soldiers and civilians looking at corpses at Buchenwald

    The photograph depicts a pile of emaciated dead bodies piled onto a truck with American soldiers and civilians standing around the truck. The photograph was taken at the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945. Caption on the verso: "Buchenwald; Jews are in cart / Sent by: Mrs. Leo M. Levens; Given by: Lt.C. Leo M. Levens 0344525 / Please print copies + distribute where it would do the most good. Thank you. Mollie Levens."

  12. American soldiers at an unidentified concentration camp; ruined cities; baseball

    Three American soldiers on a bridge construction site. Multiple dead bodies both covered and uncovered at a concentration camp. Two legs of a corpse in the door of the crematory furnace. American soldiers stand in front of the Bürgerbräukeller in Munich, Germany. Across the street soldiers stand around washing pots and pans in hot water from which steam rises. Trucks with French? flags carrying large numbers of people drive past. 01:02:38 One soldier sits chatting amongst three young men and four young women. He lights a cigarette and another soldier joins them, smoking a cigar. He tosses t...

  13. American soldiers holding Nazi flag

    Rectangular form with scalloped edge; black and white image depicting United States Army soldiers holding a German flag bearing a Swastika.

  14. American soldiers in Landsberg; liberated Polish Army soldiers and surrender of German forces

    (LIB 6181) A soldier holds up a slate that reads: "30 April 45, Hitler's Room Landsberg Prison." The cameraman's name is Olin. Far view of the prison. A street sign reads "Hindenburg-Ring." Various exterior shots of the prison. Men hang flags (surrender?) out of two prison windows. Two guard watchtowers and downed fencing, presumably part of the prison complex. 01:39:09 Two uniformed American soldiers and a civilian wearing a white armband enter Hitler's former prison cell. The civilian points out details in the cell, including a guest book and a portrait of Hitler hanging on the wall. He p...

  15. American soldiers in Paris; Louvre Palace

    From left to right: Hymie Green, his older sister Zelda Blatt (wife of Julius Blatt) and their mother Ada Green. Zelda wearing a fur coat speaks. Large ship with steam rising from its two funnels. Pans right along the dock. Hill with various buildings. Views of the sea from a boat. 01:20:33 Julius and friend talking and laughing along the edge of the boat. Julius lifts a cigar to his mouth. Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel in front of the Louvre Palace. A young girl in winter clothing leans on a stroller. A bearded man sits on a bench in the garden feeding the birds food from his pocket. Anothe...

  16. American soldiers move through Belgium and Germany

    Reel 11: (1945) Eupen, Belgium; Duren, Germany Aachen in ruins. Sign, "Deutsch Pilsener Aus Der Brauerei Decker Aachen." [Fedeli reports moving to Eilendorf, Germany through Aachen, Siegfried Line, and Duren in mid-March 1945 and then to Euskirchen.] Army trucks on the road. VAR shots of another city in ruins, a dead horse lies in the street. More ruins, planes fly overhead. Tanks and trucks, soldiers. More city views. HAS, group of boys with soldiers in the street. Truck, passing ruins, dead animals in a field. Signs, "Vamoose, Master Signal Depot #3 and Bonn, Remagen and Euskirchen; N56, ...

  17. American soldiers prepare a "propaganda bomb" to be dropped on German occupied territory

    An American serviceman salvages parts from wrecked planes to make shells for propaganda leaflets to drop over German-occupied territory. Three men load a "propaganda bomb" into the bay of a plane. The man shown collecting scrap brings the pieces to another man, who is constructing a shell. Interior of an office with a sign on the door that reads "ORDNANCE." A man seated at a desk speaks on the telephone, then studies a piece of paper that contains instructions for a "leaflet bomb" as well as a diagram of the bomb. The man, identified in the NARA story card as Lt. Kick, is shown arriving at ...

  18. American soldiers prepare a "propaganda bomb" to be dropped on German-occupied territory

    Newspapers and typewritten pages in French, English, Dutch, German, and other languages. The stories are about the positive turns the war has taken for the Allied forces. The next scene shows American soldiers loading a "bomb" with these leaflets. The men place a top on the "bomb" and fasten it shut.

  19. American soldiers return home

    Soldiers line up on a dock and board a ship. The ship from afar. A parting view of the dock. Smoke stacks on board the ship. Murray and fellow soldiers at the deck’s railing. A soldier shows off his American money. Ocean shots. Scenes of soldier life on the ship: playing cards, smoking cigarettes, reading, laughing, sleeping, getting sick over the side of the boat. Murray poses for the camera. More ocean shots. Shot of buildings on the coastline. A smaller rowboat by the side of the ship. Soldiers jump off this boat and swim in the ocean. More coastline shots. “The End.”

  20. American troops help a wounded German soldier in the aftermath of a counter-assault

    Card: "German G.I. Shot in Counter-Attack, Bonn." Two soldiers in full gear stand in front of a brick house with rubble. Soldiers kneel in the forest with a gun. Trees. Fence post with wire. Plane in the sky. Soldiers in a ditch with guns. Plane. Wounded German soldier on the ground, face bloodied, covered in a camouflage makeshift blanket; he looks toward the camera. American soldier lights a cigarette and gives it to the wounded man. Two soldiers cut open his camouflage layer/poncho and pat him down. The Americans help him drink from a canteen.