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  1. Nazi propaganda film about Theresienstadt / Terezin

    Excerpts of well-known propaganda film made by the Nazis to show the International Red Cross and others that they were not mistreating Jews in the "ghettos." Documentary footage depicts the life of Jews in the ghetto of Theresienstadt [Terezin] in Czechoslovakia as harmonious and joyful. They wear yellow stars on their civilian clothing but are euphemistically called residents ["Bewohner"] instead of inmates. They look well-dressed and well-fed and keep smiling. No SS guards or other armed Germans are shown. Gardening scenes, young woman with watering can, older man raking in background. Wo...

  2. Laurie Mitchell Billowitz collection

    The collection consist of two labels of the type mandated for use by Jewish physicians during the Nazi regime in Germany, 1933 - 1945.

  3. March of Time -- outtakes -- Palestine; Hitler; Goebbels; Cantor, synagogue; Boycott of Jewish shops; Nazi flag

    Trims. 179 C: Singing in Hebrew, in dining hall (sound). 09:12:44 Factory (without sound). CU, women working in factory. 09:13:20 Man on desert with camera, tripod, camel in BG. 09:13:23 Hitler at podium giving speech (sound). 09:13:31 Pan, aerial landscape, Palestine (without sound). Valley of Israel, map. Tel Aviv, Jerusalem. Desert. Palestine, city streets with people, camels. Letters. Women in factory. 09:15:13 Different shots, newsreel footage of Hitler speaking (sound). 09:15:51 Palestine. Hitler. Palestine. Hitler speech. Camels. Factories, pantyhose. Palestine. 09:17:52 179 D: Herma...

  4. Charnitzki family collection

    The collection consists of a briefcase, purse, an autograph album, correspondence, a digital file, documents, photographs, and a prayer book related to the experiences of the Charnitzki family in prewar Königsberg, Germany, in Shanghai during the Holocaust, and in the United States after the war.

  5. Eichmann Trial -- Session 89 -- Decision of the court to cancel session

    Session 89. Empty chairs of the Defense and Prosecution. People milling about the courtroom. 00:19:51 The Judges still haven't entered, and everyone is seated. Attorney General Hausner and Dr. Servatius are pulled and walk out of the courtroom. 00:31:06 Judges enter. They open the 89th session of the trial. The President of Court says that the Defense requests this session be cancelled because the medical condition of Eichmann prevents him from being cross examined in both the morning and afternoon. They cancel the morning session, and adjourn. Shots of people leaving.

  6. March of Time -- outtakes -- Jews in New York City

    Jewish section, NYC. LS Jewish street, Jewish Daily Forward building. LS Jewish street, The Day Newspaper office. CU books on stand. CU newspaper stand. LS Jewish street, CU man at cart.

  7. US cities: Atlanta, Washington, DC and Panama City

    Location filming of Atlanta, GA, Washington, DC, and Panama City, FL for SHOAH. FILM ID 4626 -- Atlanta Ville ATL 24 Highway toward downtown Atlanta, where Lanzmann interviewed Steiner and Reams. Shots of the city from a car. FILM ID 4627 -- Washington Ville 52.61.62 (probably related to the interview with McClelland or Karski) DC. Lafayette Square, the White House and the Eisenhower Executive Office Building from street level. Lanzmann plays with a squirrel in Lafayette Square. (19:50) East side of the Capitol Building. Jefferson Memorial. Lincoln Memorial. . FILM ID 4628 -- Panama Ville P...

  9. General Jewish Council. Selected records.

    Constitution, meeting agenda, press releases, statements, memoranda, and similar documents, from the General Jewish Council (New York, NY), relating to its efforts to raise public awareness of the threats of Nazism and antisemitism, and to mobilize individuals and organizations in the United States to combat antisemitism, 1938-1942. The documents, which were mimeographed copies that were distributed to member organizations, were collected and housed in one volume at the library of the American Jewish Congress at time of distribution, and were later withdrawn from that library. In addition t...

  10. Joseph Lieberman ration card

    Consists of one War Ration Book No. 3 issued circa August 1943 by the United States Office of Price Administration to Joseph Lieberman, aged 19 months.

  11. Kan family vacationing during summer in Switzerland

    In 2002, siblings Robert F. Kan and Betsy Klein donated this and other films (see more below) that capture vacations, daily activities, and other moments in their Dutch Jewish family's prewar life. They and their parents, Frits Kan and Jeanne (Bloch) Kan, escaped the Nazis by immigrating to the United States in May 1940. Robert's wife, Francisca Verdoner Kan, and her siblings also donated family films. Side view of a bus. Plaque: "Chur - Flims Wald Haus." Jeanne, Robert, and Betsy sit in the bus. People move luggage, seen from the rear of the bus. Robert in a lake wearing a hat and playing ...

  12. Illegal Ship

    Night-time shots of refugees with large packs boarding rubber boats. Crowded onto deck, rushing into hold and covering selves with tarpaulin when British airplane flies overhead. Airplane is an RAF : Lancaster. British warship (destroyer) sited, Brits jump from their decks to refugee ship. English and Hebrew sign "Haganah Ship Unafraid" and "Jewish" flag raised.

  13. FDR and Churchill meet in North Africa

    President Roosevelt and Churchill meet in Casablanca. They ride in a jeep and review Allied trooops. FDR inspects US troops in Liberia and meets President Vargas in Rio de Janeiro, Other personages: Adm. King; Gen. Marshall; Gen. Arnold; Brit. Gen. Alan Brooke; Adm. Alfred Dudley Pound; Gen. Giraud; Gen. de Gaulle.

  14. Gábor Izsák collection

    The collection consists of a Hungarian Socialist propaganda leaflets and 3 Hungarian Socialist propaganda stickers.

  15. Folk dancing in Zakopane, Poland 1936

    Folk dancing in Zakopane, Poland, 1936. A group of male and female folk dancers perform a series of circle dances in full costume in an open field. It seems to be an exhibition, staged for a small local audience or perhaps simply for Julien Bryan and his camera crew. Bryan did film several circle dances throughout his travels, as a sort of comparative study of folk dances throughout the world.

  16. Norbert Orgler collection

    The collection consists of a newspaper, correspondence, documents, and a photograph relating to the experiences of Norbert Orgler in Germany and Belgium before the Holocaust, and in several internment, forced labor, and concentration camps in France, Poland and Germany, including Bergen-Belsen where he perished during the Holocaust.

  17. Global Structures Convocation panel discussion on security council reform

    Panel Discussion: "Security Council Composition Reform Proposals" Global Structures Convocation, Crystal City, VA. February 3-6,1994. (tape 35 in conference series) Panelists include: Sohn (provides an opening background), Scwartzberg (delivers his proposal), Childers (comments on proposal and subject), Ferencz (comments and delivers his proposal). The moderator is Ved Nanda. Ferencz boldly evaluates the present-day Security Council, calling it "tremendously ridiculous." He is outraged at the arrogance involved and the veto power provided. His modification and proposal allows the Security C...

  18. Julien Bryan footage of Warsaw

    Warsaw, forced labor, Polish POWs, Royal Castle in flames. People walking past dead horses in the street, general destruction, fires (including a church), people running in the streets.

  19. Day of German Commerce is celebrated; speech; antisemitic propaganda in animation

    Propaganda film showing the first German Commerce Day in Braunschweig, Germany. [Titles: Ein Film des Hauptamtes für Handwerk u. Handel der NSDAP. Nach Gedanken von Pg Joachim Walter. Mit Aufnahmen vom 1. Deutschen Handelstag in Braunschweig. 19 November 1933] Scenes showing Nazis marching, parade with floats, vast crowds of spectators. Nazi official delivers a speech, filmed as an interior scene. Speech continues over maps, animation and other graphics. 00:04:52 graphics begin. Speaker appears intermittently, also with footage of shops, consumers, workers, industry. German trade, German bu...

  20. Sinclair

    "Upton Sinclair to Run for Governor," California. Upton Sinclair, noted author explains what he hopes to accomplish if elected. VCU, Sinclair. NOTE: Footage preceding this story from 01:38:07 - 01:38:45 is unrelated News Flashes.