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  1. Anti-Semitic Nazi sticker

    Anti-Semitic Nazi sticker: "Gestorben am/5 Marz 33." Depicts a man lying in bed. Red, white and red ink on paper with adhesive backing.

  2. "The Holocaust Years"

    Consists of one memoir, 20 pages, entitled "The Holocaust Years", written by Morris Gliklich, originally of Nisko, Poland. In the memoir, Mr. Gliklich describes pre-war life in Nisko, the German invasion of Poland, anti-Jewish legislation, and their escape into Russian territory. While in Russian territory, the family was reunited with Mr. Gliklich's father, whom they had believed to have been killed during the German invasion. The family was forced onto a train headed east and arrived in Siberia, where they lived in the areas of Synia and Kirinsk until 1943. The family slowly made their wa...

  3. March of Time -- outtakes -- May Day celebration; Masaryk

    Universal Newsreel outtakes: May Day celebration in Prague. Czechs honor Masaryk's birthday; Czech troops. 1919, Masaryk pinning medals on French soldiers.

  4. Suwalki street scenes, orphanage, and cemetery

    Lottie Bland at the Suwalki cemetery. Ritual washing house [Taharah] by the entrance of the cemetery, plaque on wall with Biblical verses recited during the ritual washing, the washing table. Locals gather around the Bland family's car. Zlotke poses for the camera with a family member. Scenes on Kasciuszko Street, crowds. Suwalki city hall. A man collecting for the Talmud Torah. Harold pumps water at a well while his father Herman helps him. Two peasant women with a cart. Dr. Erdreich's apothecary store on Kosciuszko Street. Women wash clothes on a canal off of the Czarna Hancza River. Scen...

  5. Irene Parkinson papers

    4 documents, 6 photographs, and one copy print documenting Irene Parkinson's experiences on the ship Exodus.

  6. FDR speaks

    "Roosevelt Reports to the Nation!" Editor's Note: "What the man on the street thinks of Roosevelt's report." FDR at desk speaking. Shots of Americans and US soldiers listening to radio address. "Man on the street" talks: Mrs. Benjamin Levy (housewife); Mrs. Gustav Denreuther (elderly woman); and Douglas Fairbanks, Esq. (speaking after he leaps over rail of ship).

  7. Goebbels speaks at SA funeral

    Goebbels speaks passionately, emotionally, at rainy funeral of two SA men, Hans Eberhard Maikowski and Zavritz, who died 1/30/1933. Great drama and solemnity: "Deutschland free of Marxism...it was a dream, but now it is a reality. Germany is in your hands."

  8. March of Time -- outtakes -- England 1939: posters with Hitler & Goebbels "wanted for murder"

    Blackout preparations in London: men paint white stripes on trees, lamp posts, and curbs. People at a gas mask depot in Lambeth. A newly married couple exits a church. The bride, groom, and bridesmaids all carry gas masks. A sign on the side of a building informs the public that gas masks are the property of the government and must be properly cared for. A young boy sitting on a curb opens a box containing a gas mask and puts it on. Men pile sandbags around a fire alarm box. "Wanted!" posters featuring photos of Hitler and Goebbels. Men paint car bumpers white for driving in a blackout. San...

  9. Polish villagers relocating, receiving new clothing, relaxing

    Poles on country road, moving with carts/horses. CUs, women eating soup. Map. Tent city. Well-made civilian clothing and shoes distributed to peasants. Performance, dancers. Group walking, smiling. Waterfall, families at rest, relaxing, knitting by lakeside. Church service outdoors. Polish soldier speaking to family. Waving goodbye. 01:16:08 Children eating at long tables, at school outdoors, working in fields. Female and male officers marching.

  10. Rose and Ben Gross collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, photographs and identification cards for Rose and Ben Gross who survived the Holocaust in Europe, met in Reichenbach and married.

  11. War Crimes Trials: Malmedy; various scenes of the Nuremberg Trial

    16:00:40 (Munich 263) Malmedy War Crimes Trials, Dachau, Germany, June 27, 1946. Different shots of Capt. Raphael Schumacher questioning former Lt. Heinz Tomhardt. MS, visiting newspaper men seated in courtroom. 16:04:41 (Munich 211 and 222) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, July 1946. (silent) LS, defendants in prisoners' dock. CU, assistant British prosecutor at table. CU, an American prosecutor at table. MS, Gen. Telford Taylor. MS, Sir Maxwell-Fyfe speaking to colleague. MS, showing part of the interpreters' bench. Pan to prisoners' dock. Two defense lawyers conversing during reces...

  13. German educational film: instructional film on boxing techniques

    This instructional film teaches young men how to box. The film features an adult trainer and several young (adolescent and pre-adolescent) boys practicing boxing techniques. They are in a gym and at times in a boxing ring. Intertitles in Boxen der Jugend 8: Gewhonung an finten Dopplestobe zum kinn und zum korper und umgekehrt. Translation: Practicing the art of the 'fake' or the 'dodge' Doublehook to the chin and the body and reverse hook.

  14. Richard H. Ennis photograph collection

    Contains six photographs from Richard. H. Ennis (donor's father), a member of the 10th Armored Division during the liberation of Landsberg, Germany in 1945. Images depict medics and US Army personnel examining corpses in the front of burnt huts which the inmates were forced into; later burned by German military before retreat from the advancing 7th Army.

  15. Rommel in Africa

    Shows German tanks, trucks, and motorcyclists advance in Libya; narration mentions Bir Hakeim. General Rommel in a staff car; German 88mm guns and mobile anti-aircraft guns firing against British tanks; Stukas attacking British around Tobruk; a German ace landing and being congratulated on his victories; German antiaircraft guns firing at attacking British planes; flaming wreckage of British bomber; desert sandstorms; Germans banqueting with Arab chiefs; and German troops bathing at an Oasis.

  16. Bequest Jan Sehn

    Jan Sehn (1909-1965) was born in Tuszów Maly in former Austria-Hungary on April 22, 1909. He graduated high school in Mielec and became involved in the youth organization Legion Mlodych (Legion of the Youth) of President Józef Pilsudski. He then studied law at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. After graduating in 1933, Sehn obtained a position first as a judicial clerk and later as an assessor at Kraków District Court. During the German invasion in September 1939, Sehn participated in the defence of Poland. To avoid collaborating with the judicial apparatus of the new rulers, he then c...

  17. Gertrude Buff Spangler papers

    Collection of documents, photographs and notebook illustrating the pre-war and wartime experiences of Gertrude Buff's and her mother and father, Elsa and Berthold Buff. Also included is a Deutsches Reich Reisepass [German passport] for Paul Spangenthal [Gertrude's husband, Paul Spangler]. Collection contains Arbeitsbuch [worker's book] for Gertrude, who was forced as a Jew to leave school and work for private German companies until she and Elsa emigrated in 1939. Includes German documents concerning confiscated family property and post-war restitution efforts; a handwritten German cookbook ...

  18. Goebbels visits troops in the last days

    Goebbels visits the front town of Lauban (Luban, Poland) on March 6th, 1945. He meets with General Ferdinand Schoerner. Goebbels greets troops, including 16 year old Hitler Youth member Wilhelm Huebner, on the market square of the town. View of the square shot through a broken window pane. Goebbels speaks to the soldiers. Graphic shots of dead civilians from the same area. The narrator describes the perpetrators as Untermenschen and the associates of Roosevelt's Christian soldiers. Original sound of Goebbels giving a speech in Goerlitz. He says that the German soldiers will show no mercy to...

  19. Ferencz: German industry, slave labor, compensation

    Audio recording of the German television program "Vernichtung durch Arbeit" that aired November 1984. Program is based on Benjamin Ferencz's authoritative book on slave labor: "Less Than Slaves," Harvard University Press, 1979. The book deals with the Nazi program of Vernichtung durch Arbeit [destruction through work] in which millions were coerced into labor by German industrialists for the Nazi war machine. The book also explains the quest of survivors to get compensation from the West German government. TAPE 2, 2 SIDES.

  20. Agnes Lugosi collection

    Consists of documents and photographs pertaining to experiences of the Biel family during the Holocaust. The documents include one Swiss Schutzpass issued to Dezso Biel, October 23, 1944, Budapest and one refugee document valid for 14 days for Dezso Biel. Twenty-eight pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of the family are included; some which are described by the donor, Agnes Biel Lugosi, who was born in 1938.