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  1. 1930 election campaign

    1930 election campaign; various political parties campaigning. Intertitles in Russian. Motorized billboards, people handing out communist leaflets, demonstrating. Shots of police. A man in the sidecar of a motorcycle waves a Nazi flag as he rides down the street. Banners representing various parties hang from windows. Exterior shots of the KPD and Nazi party headquarters (?). SA reading a newspaper and marching in the street, shot from above and ground level. Good shots of SA marching. Police disembarking from vehicle. Perhaps street violence? Antifascists marching. Police and SA examine an...

  2. POWs?; city views

    Unknown location, perhaps nearby Zloczow as covered in film frames directly preceding this sequence (RG-60.1872), possibly in summer 1941. Column of men (soldiers? POWs?) walk along a country road, somecovered in dirt. Hundreds of local women (Ukrainian?) with headscarves in an open area. Destroyed military trucks, tanks, houses and trains. Soldiers fix a military car, one fuses metal onto the fender. 10:05:54 Panoramic, high-angle view of a city on a river, possibly Lwiw. Street views, shops. 10:07:10 Return to boat seen in RG-60.1872, German soldiers lounging shirtless. View of another bo...

  3. "Old Glory is Their Flag Now"

    Copy print: black and white image of children standing outside in front of Grant’s Tomb in New York with American flag raised on flagpole in background; pasted on verso are captions in English and Yiddish, stamped “Photo by Al Puhn”; Caption titled “Old Glory is their flag now” identifying the children as “…survivors of Nazi concentration camps from the nearby Reception Shelter of United Service for New Americans at the Hotel Marseilles…”

  4. Leon Trotsky

    EXT, day. Various scenes of review/parade of Red Army soldiers. MLS, Leon Trotsky taking salute from reviewing stand. MLS, pan, Trotsky, with staff, marching past camera.

  5. Annexation of Austria; Austrians welcome Nazis

    REEL 1: The annexation of Austria [Anschluss]. Hitler's motorcade through the streets, saluting citizens, flag waving, vast and enthusiastic crowds. In Graz (poor sound), brief SEQ of unrest, crowds in the streets. Police block street off. Horses are nervous. Good atmosphere of street-level activity and excitement (VQ: not great, grainy spotty, soft). Picturesque town, everyone saluting. Shots of crowd. "Oesterreich ist frei!" "Rucktritt der osten!" "Oesterreich is Nat--sozialistich." Vienna at night. Military parade. Tanks go by the Cafe Heinrichhof. CU of General Guderian(?). Boy and fami...

  6. Upton Sinclair

    Upton Sinclair delivers campaign speech. MS, Sinclair speaking about New Deal Economic Policy in California. States that California supports President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

  7. German siege of Warsaw, Poland 1939

    Scenes of the fire at night in Warsaw- these are the fires that burned on September 16, 1939 the first night of Rosh Hashanah, when the Germans set fire to the Jewish quarter destroying everything within a 20 block area (Jewish shops, homes, etc.) While it is difficult to make out- in the distance between the darkness and the flames you can see that there were bucket brigades set up and men were trying in vain to put out the fires. Julien Bryan's book "Siege" (1940) has a passage that tells this story. More shots of the fire at 01:06:38:12 trees are visible silhouetted against the flames, a...

  9. Henry and Fay Bialowas collection

    The Henry and Fay Bialowas collection includes four postcards Fay received from 1942-1943 while she was interned as a slave laborer in Ober Altstadt, a sub-camp of the Gross-Rosen concentration camp, from her father, Icek Gerschenowitz, who was imprisoned in Gleiwitz II (Gleiwitz-Steigern Judenlager) and from her mother, Hinda Gerschenowitz, who was confined to the ghetto in Sosnowiec, Poland. The collection also includes photographs found by Maks Bialowas, Henry's brother, who survived the Łódź ghetto and recovered the images after liberation. One image shows a group including Maks’ wife H...

  10. "Entartete Kunst" [Degenerate Art] exhibit in Paris with commentary

    Sign advertising "Exposition Internationale du Surrealisme" in Paris. Interior of exhibit featuring a naked female mannequin in a museum display. Shrill, harsh music over scenes of the exhibit and the narrator's critical comments about the exhibit on surrealist art.

  11. Arrow Cross execution photographs

    Consists of 34 photographs depicting the executions of Arrow Cross leaders. Included are images of Ferenc Szálasi's execution on 12 March 1946 alongside Gábor Vajna, Károly Beregfy, and József Gera.

  13. Holocaust survivor stories

    Documentary about Jewish Holocaust survivors who lived in concentration camps and Nazi occupied territories and the American soldiers who liberated them, bearing witness to Adolf Hitler's murderous rampage.

  15. Naomi Waldman collection

    Contains four photographs depicting young people, including Holocaust survivors, in Anvers and Brussels, Belgium, dated 1944-1945; all captioned on verso, some with personal inscriptions.

  16. Association of Jewish engineers in Wilno, Poland (Vilnius, Lithuania) (Fond 326)

    This collection contains minutes of the meetings of the Association of Jewish Engineers in Wilno ( Vilnius), Poland and its board, lists of members and engineers according to their professional qualifications, applications for the membership and copies of their professional diplomas (1932-1939), statistical data, annual reports about association activities, correspondence with other Jewish organizations (ORT, OSE) and branches of the Association in Poland ( Kraków, Lwów), bylaws, financial documentation, and questionnaires of unemployed members of the Assosiation (1940).

  17. Oral history interview with Harry Toporek

  18. Hanna playing in the yard of her home in prewar Poland

    Hanna places a baby doll in a wagon, taking great care in doing so. She hauls the wagon around, running through the garden in which she stands. She runs about while holding the doll.

  19. March of Time -- outtakes -- Democracy in Action; GIs with German girls

    Coburg, Germany. Democracy in Action in Germany. Mobs of German children and women (blonde/Aryan) around jeeps (GI) waiting for ride. CUs, faces of children in crowd. Trucks with kids. German infant. German boys in softball contest. Crowds, contestants. High jump. Wheelbarrow race. Red Cross girls. Grandstand. Prizes. Crowd. Lank Hannsa, near Berlin. GIs and German girls fraternize. MSs of GIs at tables at outdoor restaurant with German girls. Lake, beach, GI carrying rifle, walking across beach with girls. Two bosomy girls, walk by beach. On sand (seated), talking, sunbathing.

  20. Rotter family collection

    Photographs illustrating the experiences of Zbiegnew [Samuel/Steven] Rotter, born in Bielsko Biala, Poland in 1917 and interned in multiple concentration camps, including Mauthausen and its subcamp Gusen in Austria, and Aida Weinberg [alias Eugenia Domanska] born in Miedryzec, Poland in 1921 on false papers and their child Marian, born in the Degerlach displaced persons camp in Stuttgart, Germany in 1946; images primarily postwar.