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  1. Dr. Leon Cytryn collection

    Photo album from Marburg, Germany assembled by Dr. Leon Cytryn while he was in medical school. Documents relating to Dr. Leon Cytryn’s liberation and stay in Landsberg DP camp, circa 1946. Included is a group of loose photographs.

  2. Judge Ben Lindsey

    Judge Ben Lindsey pleads for a more humane court in the cases of women's problems. (filmed in studio)

  3. Battle of Britain

    Title: Yesterday's Big Story. Footage from the Battle of Britain, which began August 8, 1940, with pro-British, pro-Churchill narration. Stukas bomb supply convoys but are in turn shot down by shore batteries. Fires caused by bombs rage in London. Children are evacuated from London. Civilians reinforce buildings with sandbags. Panning aerial shot of the Great Fire of London, sometime between September and November, 1940. Churchill tours the devastation. Cheering Londoners. Also on this newsreel (beginning at 01:34:08): Title: Decathalon Record: UCLA Champ Sets Mark in 10 Events. Chinese ath...

  4. Sport events at DP camp; Eisenhower visits Neu Freimann

    Men and women outdoors doing calisthenics, gymnastics, various track and field events at a DP camp in Germany. Women playing tennis. Crowd of men watching a boxing match. Pan, men's soccer team. Men playing chess. 01:55:32 General Dwight D. Eisenhower arriving at Neu Freimann DP camp, touring buildings, school, warehouse, synagogue. Crowds gathering for Eisenhower. Eisenhower leaving in automobile.

  5. Tent camp

    Tents and flags in Palestine A girl seated in a tent looks up, speaking to someone. The tents with a white building behind them and more tents. INT boy sits on small stool next to an unmade bed. 01:10:50 A man sitting near a window looks back towards the camera, stands up, and closes a book. CU of a little boy wearing round glasses, another young boy in round glasses standing behind him. A man walks past and the camera focuses on him. CU of a little girl looking at the camera. People stand outside of a small shed in a field. White building with the tents in the BG at the top of the hill. An...

  6. 6th Anniversary of Power; Nighttime Rally

    Celebration on 6th anniversary of the NSDAP coming to power [Machtergreifung]. Nighttime torch rally in Wilhelmstrasse. CU of banners. SA and SS. LS Hitler and Goering on balcony. Torch parade goes underneath balcony, more torches. From rooftop looking down onto balcony and street (unusual angle). Quick CU of Goering and Hitler. Sync sound of marching band, crowds. Good sound of drums and bugles/horns. Band plays. More torches. VLS includes Reichstag building in background. Torches seen from inside and through a window. Three stormtroopers march together, leading a division. Goering. Everyo...

  7. Volunteers from Nazi-occupied countries

    Volunteers from Nazi-occupied or collaborator countries sent to help Germany in the fight against the Soviets. A column of Dutch Nazis marching down the streets, giving the fascist salute. The narrator describes them as the first transport of Dutch volunteers to travel to Germany, where they will join the army and fight against the Soviet Union. Crowds of well-wishers on a train platform wave goodbye to the volunteers. A close-up of a Dutch volunteer kissing his wife or girlfriend before boarding the train. The train pulls out of the station. Scene switches to Croatia, where Marshal Slavko ...

  8. Diana Mara Henry research material regarding Natzweiler-Struthof

    Consists of research material gathered by Diana Mara Henry related to the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp. Includes oral history interviews with survivors of the camp, including footage of survivor Boris Pahor showing a group of French school children around the camp; recordings of presentations about the camp; the memoirs of Eugene Marlot; copies of her own research and writings regarding the camp's history, and an interview with camp survivor Philip Maisel.

  9. Hitler reviews SA

    Title - "Fascists Hail Hitler - Thousands of Nationalists Opposing Compromises by Government are Reviewed by Leader in Thuringia." Crowds line a street as an SA band marches past (Steinitz department store (?) appears in the background). Scene of Hitler reviewing the parade, with Rudolf Hess behind him and Wilhelm Frick in civilian clothing in front of Hitler. The camera pans up to show people leaning out of windows (of a hotel?). Scene switches to Hitler in a car riding through the street - he stands and salutes the crowds lining the street.

  11. Marcus family correspondence

    Contains postcards written by Fraydl Marcus, addressed to her son Rubin Marcus and her brother-in-law Louis Marcus.

  12. Tola Ratz collection

    Contains letters written by Dr. Ignacy Izak Trocki (donor’s paternal uncle) in France to his cousin Renee Leszczynska in New York, dated May 1939-June 1941. Also includes photographs of the Trocki family in Zgierz, Poland and Benjamin Trocki with his cousin Renia in Nice in 1948. Dr. Trocki was born in Zgierz, Poland. He joined the Republican forces in Spain during the Civil War and in 1939 was imprisoned in Gurs internment camp. His wife Stefa and daughter Carmen lived in Paris and later the family lived in Narbonne. Dr. Trocki tried to leave France, without success. His brother Benjamin T...

  13. Irwin Newman collection

    Contains prewar photographs of the family of Nathan Katz (donor's cousin) in Poland and postwar photographs of Nachman Katz in a DP camp.

  14. Wolf and Zofia Paszko collection

    The collection consists of photographs, medals, and oral history tapes documenting the experiences of Wolf and Zofia Paszko before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  15. Srog family collection

    The collection consists of some family photographs and identification documents of the Srog family, including Ludwig Srog's Torah binder (wimpel).

  16. Louis Kampf collection

    The collection consists of some documents and correspondence in addition to Jewish ceremonial objects that all relate to the experiences of Louis Kampf and his parents.

  17. Cretaceous island Rügen

    Stralsund with railway ferry

  18. Silver box commemorating the launch of the MS St Louis

    Silver box commemorating the MS St. Louis given to Mrs. Carl F.G. Meyer in honor of the launching of the transatlantic liner on August 2, 1928. Mrs. Meyer sailed aboard the ship which sailed on December 6, 1928 to New York City, then from New York City back to Europe on December 27, 1928.

  19. Fighting war disease; UNRRA

    Orientation Film no. 17 : shows widespread devastation and deprivation resulting from the war and conducive to disease and epidemics. Reel 2: Medicines are made and administered. Italians are isolated and inoculated. Swamps are drained and sprayed and natives treated in the South Pacific. Europeans receive food and clothing from UNRRA and military units, are pooled for identification, and return to their homes. Includes views of the San Francisco Conference.

  20. Donald Q. Coster collection

    The collection contains two scrapbooks documenting the wartime experiences of Col. Donald Q. Coster, who served as an ambulance driver with the American Field Service in France in 1940, served with the Navy in North Africa, 1941-1945, and the Office of Strategic Service (O.S.S.) in Belgium in 1945. The first scrapbook documents his capture and eventual release by the German army near Amiens, France in 1940. Included are photographs, newspaper clippings, letters and telegrams, and other ephemera. The second scrapbook documents Coster's experiences in North Africa and the European theater, 19...