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  1. Questionnaires, related to Ktav-Heter and Agunot, post-Holocaust Hungary

    Nine questionnaires recording testimonies of men and women whose spouses were killed during the Holocaust, and who were seeking to record documentation of such, in order to obtain a writ of permission (Ktav Heter) to remarry. Stamped and signed by rabbis in various locations in Hungary, approximately 1946-1952.

  2. German-American Bund

    German-American Bund (DAB) at Camp Bergwald, New Jersey, in 1939-1940 in color and black and white.

  3. Barbie Trial -- Day 11 -- Victims testify

    15:47:55 Mario Blardone was a Resistance fighter assigned to assassinate Barbie. In May 1944, he suffered 18 days of interrogation and torture and was then deported to Dachau. He tells how he saw Barbie watch prisoners return from interrogation, wait until they reached the third step of the prison, and draw his revolver and shoot them. At 16:08:50, President Cerdini calls for recess; video continues until 16:10:06 as audience chats and judges enter chambers. Tape-recording ceases and continues 20 minutes later when judges return to courtroom at real time 16:34:26, although tape time code re...

  4. Documentation of the Regierung der Oberpfalz (Regional government in the Upper Palatinate)

    Documentation of the Regierung der Oberpfalz (Regional government in the Upper Palatinate) Most of the files in the Collection deal with Aryanization.

  5. Jews hiding in a nightclub in Amsterdam

    Film without text. An older couple stands and converses. An adolescent boy comforts a young woman [this scene is clearly acted out with the characters wearing stage makeup]. An older man then opens the door, enters the room, and converses with a girl. Several people arrive and are greeted warmly. They all wear yellow stars. INTs of the apartment. The table is set. A girl knits. People lounge about; others arrive. The boy and young woman look out the window onto the street below. Women carry food trays. Women in the kitchen, clipping rations, and washing dishes. One dish falls and breaks. 01...

  6. Various scenes in Novogrodok, Poland

    EXT, large crowd of men and women, smiling, filing into a building. Title: "The Talmudical" VS, INT of Yeshiva. Boys at desks davening, teacher instructing. Title: "The Metchet" EXT of prayer house. Title: "The Jewish Library" Still of library, MCU books on bookshelves. Title: "House of Tarbuth School" EXT of school, men exiting. Title: "Jewish Trade School" EXT of trade school. INT of boys woodworking, students eating, girls working on sewing machines. EXT, Group of men posing for the camera, some are smoking cigarettes, some are speaking to each other and to cameraman, smiling, all are dr...

  7. Carol Mizrahi photograph collection

    Two photographic prints of Nazi party officials and SS officers. One image depicts Heinrich Himmler giving a speech at an unknown event at a stadium on May 24, 1942 and the second image shows two SS officers and a German soldier, dated 1942.

  8. US Army vehicles; Army-Navy Game

    US military supply vehicles travelling down dirt road, arrive at Army barracks. 01:01:19 (black and white) Army vehicles, labeled 104 HQ1. "HQ 1st BN 104th F.A. Message Center" sign. Soldiers sending telegrams. Map. 01:03:25 Camouflaged weapons. 01:05:16 (color) soldiers with map, dead fox. "104th Battalion" title. Play fighting. 01:08:15 Building, CU military car, vehicles lined up in building, military equipment lined up. 01:11:30 "Philadelphia 1939 Army vs. Navy" title. Tickets. Stadium, woman waving flag for Navy, band on pitch. 01:14:10 "This is the Navy field Goal" title. "Match" 01:1...

  9. Bavarian village; Hitler Youth; Autobahn

    Home in Bavaria. The visiting Americans (the Major Family) and locals dine outdoors. CUs of individuals in the garden. "The Fire Department of Munich rescues a cat" Many specators watch a fireman climbing firetruck ladder to rescue a cat in a tree. 01:14:17 "In the Bavarian Tyrol" (color) EXT, buildings in Bavarian village. Men in traditional Bavarian dress. Decorated maypole for a folk ceremony with swastika symbols at the top. Street scenes, local shops. Hotel Alte Post (Anton Preisinger guest house) in Oberammergau. Bicycles. (changes back to black and white) Group of Hitler Youth with b...

  10. Trial of Marshal Henri Petain

    Trial of Marshal Henri Petain, Fortress Montrouge (outskirts of Paris), July 1945. MSs, crowds entering palace courtyard after credentials are checked by guards. VS, Palace of Justice. MSs, Pierre Mongibaud, President of the High Court, enters palace. Anteroom shots (dark), civilians and military enter; group watches from stairs. MSs, EXT, bedroom window of palace. Room formerly occupied by Petain. MSs, CUs, correspondents working in press room. LS, policemen and firemen on palace roof. INT of courtroom, Petain enters, sits in chair flanked by guards. INT, witnesses appear; Michael Clemence...

  11. "Krulik's Story"

    Consists of one memoir, 13 pages, entitled "Krulik's Story," by Israel (Krulik) Wilder. Wilder describes his childhood in Piotrkow, Poland, the German invasion in 1939, his family's escape to Radom, and life in the Radom ghetto. Israel Wilder got a job working forced labor at the Hortensia glass factory, where he worked until November 1944. He was deported to a series of camps, ending at Buchenwald concentration camp in December 1944, where he remained until the final weeks of the war, when he was sent to Theresienstadt, from which he was liberated. He was sent to England to recover, marrie...

  12. Binem Wrzonski collection

    Contains approximately 33 postwar photographs of young Holocaust survivors, including Elie Wiesel, taken at the Ambloy children's home in France soon after the war. Also includes one disinfectant certificate from Buchenwald, in English and Russian.

  13. Anti-semitic and anti-British propaganda

    Excerpt from a propaganda film about the dangers of listening to foreign radio broadcasts. Sergeant Weber, a patient in a hospital, is admonished by a nurse for listening to a BBC broadcast. He begins to argue with her, but she assures him that he will feel better in the morning and leaves the room. She hears him turn on the radio again and stands outside the door, listening, as Weber tunes the radio to the BBC. As the radio music ends and an announcer's voice comes on, the nurse opens the door (she is silhouetted in the doorway) and says, "No, my dear! That is the Jew!" A "Jew" standing be...

  14. Leo Mayers papers

    Consists of documents and photographs concerning Leo Mayerowicz (Mayers), including a work permit for the Łódź ghetto; and a postwar identification card from germany identifiying Mayerowicz as employee of the Darmstadt city government in the office of advisor for political, racial, and religiously persecuted people. One of the photographs, of a young boy outdoors, was carried by Mr. Mayers throughout his time in concentration camps.

  16. Baldur von Schirach speech

    Title on screen: "Eine Million deutscher Jungen und Maedchen beteiligten sich am Reichsberufswettkamp, den der Reichsjugendfuehrer im Transformatorenwerk der A. E. G. eroeffnete." Baldur von Schirach, leader of the Hitler Youth, speaking at a podium in a factory. Views of uniformed boys and girls standing at attention while he speaks. Schirach ends his speech with three "Sieg Heil" salutes.

  17. Matthaeus Pibal collection

    The collection consists of a concentration camp uniform jacket and pants relating to the experiences of Matthaeus Pibal, who was imprisoned in Germany for being a Jehovah’s Witness after the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany.

  18. Kaufbeuren Institution

    A title on the screen states that this film is about the construction of a lecture room or hospital ward [Saal] at the Kaufbeuren Institution during 1936/1937. The camera pans back and forth across the exterior of the institution. The rest of the film shows the stages in the building of the structure. Construction workers and machinery; occasional shots of men overseeing the work -- at one point three men consult blueprints or other plans. Many shots of men working on the structure - laying bricks, welding, nailing boards into place. The film ends with a shot of men on the rooftop below a S...

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  20. Hitler Protest in NYC

    "Gigantic Hitler Protest, New York" Ground shot of parade, flag bearers. Rabbi Wise is at the extreme right. Maj. Gen. O'Ryan, Commander of the 27th Division, leads the parade. Crowd shot. CUs, Jewish onlookers. CUs, placards. Shot of crowds at Battery Park. LS, Gen. O'Ryan speaking to crowds at microphone: "The principle that all citizens of a state stand equal before the law in relation to their persons and property has long since come to be recognized as a test of civilized government."