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  1. Richard Markiewicz collection

    Contains one copyprint of a photograph, dating circa World War I (1914-1918), of a couple sitting in a field, surrounding by uniformed soldiers. Also includes two documents issued by the American Joint Distribution Committee, certifying that Paja Kaplans (adult) and Mosze Kaplan (child) have passed a health examination, dated 1948.

  2. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 50 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  3. Szyfman and Rozental families collection

    The collection contains correspondence sent by Dr. Leon Szyfman in the POW camp Oflag VI B Dössel between September 25, 1943 and November 3, 1944 to Helena and Henryk Rozental in Bern, Switzerland; a Red Cross letter sent by Stephanie Pitzele in Kibali, Congo to Helena Rozenthal; a letter from M. Rappaport in ILAG to Helena Rozental regarding Dr. Szyfman; a wedding announcement of Paulette Ouvrard and Joseph Cukier, 1944; calling cards of Atalia Singer; and miscellanous notes.

  4. War Crimes Trial: shooting of American POWs

    LT GEN ANTON DOSTLER, GERMAN WAR CRIMINAL TRIAL, Palace of Justice, Rome, Italy. German Lt. Hans George Schultz is cross-examined by Col. Claudius O Wolfe, defense counsel. Schultz testifies that he is not sure who gave the orders to have the American prisoners shot. He further states how, when, and by whom the orders to destroy all records on the shooting were issued. Gen Dostler occasionally whispers to the defense counsel. German Lt. Rudolf Bolze being interrogated by prosecutor.

  5. Czechoslovakia and Poland in 1938

    B/W aerial shots from a cable car (it’s shadow can be clearly seen), interspersed with shots of the actual cable car system from the ground, CU of a woman pointing at the trees from the cable car. 01:00:58:2 Title: “Hradec Králové.” Pan, a public park. A shot of a group of people admiring topiary. 01:01:22:11 Title: “Moravska Ostrava.” Pan up, a trolley car drives by, as people walk around the city, shots of people going to and fro. 01:01:47:11 Title: “Poland.” Film is now in color, with a shot of farmers working in the field, followed by a brief shot of a parade in a city. 01:02:10:21 Titl...

  6. War Crimes Trial: Dostler testifies

    LT GEN ANTON DOSTLER, GERMAN WAR CRIMINAL TRIAL, Palace of Justice, Rome, Italy. Continuation of Dostler's testimony in which accuses the next higher in command of issuing the orders to shoot fifteen American soldiers.

  7. Prewar Czech families: birthday; beach; skiing

    Guttmann family picks vegetables from the garden in Bechyně (Continuation of RG-60.7181), eating. Suzi and Sylvie walk in the street with an older man (Simon?). Steffi and the two girls exit the sweet “Cukrářství” shop. INTs, birthday party for Suzi’s fourteenth birthday. Steffi brings in flowers and the cake. Suzi opens presents. CUs, sweets, cake with “14”. CU, her new watch (some soft shots). EXT, Girls and their mom carry baskets along the road. INTs man (Simon?) shaving. 01:02:15 EXTs Sylvie and her mother in bathing suits get into a row-boat for Sylvie’s swimming test. She passes and ...

  8. Family scenes in Prague; Beaune-la-Rolande transit camp in France in 1941

    Amateur film shot by Paul Engelmann, a Czech chemical engineer incarcerated by the French authorities in the internment camp at Beaune-la-Rolande (Loiret). Film ID 4338 (excerpt from reel 1): Paul Engelmann in Prague before his emigration to France in March 1939. Paul and a woman smile while holding and petting a dog. The couple walks towards the camera smiling in Prague. Film ID 4339 (excerpts from reels 3 and 4): Clandestine scenes of the daily life of the non-French Jewish inmates (prior to their deportation to Auschwitz in June 1942) at the Beaune-la-Rolande transit camp, most likely on...

  9. Facsimile of the Israeli Declaration of Independence

    Facsimile of the Israeli Declaration of Independence, commissioned by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for installation in the museum’s permanent exhibition. The facsimile was reproduced, with the State of Israel’s permission, from the original document, which is housed at the Israel State Archives in a custom-designed, silver storage case. The Declaration was proclaimed by the Va’ad Leumi (Jewish National Council or Jewish People’s Council) and was delivered by Zionist statesman David Ben-Gurion (1886-1973) on May 14, 1948, at the Tel Aviv Museum in Mandatory Palestine. The Coun...

  10. Laemmle family visits St Moritz; Carnival; skiing

    MS Laemmle family on vacation in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Shots include Kurt's parents, Siegfried and Alice Laemmle; Kurt and Alyse; and Kurt's brother, Max, and his wife, Bobby, and young son, Robert. They gather on a snowy mountain wearing skis. VS of the group, some don costumes, including one with a comically large moustache, a couple in wedding dress, and two people as a horse (probably during Carnival in the first week of March). VAR CUs of the family on holiday in St. Moritz. Shifts to black and white, skiing, Olympic Ice Rink.

  11. Lourié plywood factory and daily family life in 1929

    Outtakes (3 reels) of the Lourié plywood factory and daily family life in Vienna, Austria in 1929.

  12. USHMM Memorial Tribute to Jan Karski

    AV production shown at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Memorial Tribute to Jan Karski on January 16, 2001 including excerpts from the Museum's Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection of outtakes from the film "Shoah". Clips from Film ID 3134 (RG-60.5006) include: 02:02:32-02:03:50 02:04:20-02:07:36 02:09:13-02:09:49 02:12:32-02:13:02 02:13:48-02:14:59 02:32:45-02:35:11 02:35:30-02:35:47

  13. Sgt. Edward Cooney photographs

    Consists of five photographs taken after the liberation of the Wöbbelin concentration camp and depict the exterior of barracks and piles of corpses of prisoners. The photographs were taken on May 3, 1945, by Sgt. Edward Cooney, a member of the United States Army, 8th Infantry Division, 28th Infantry Regiment, Company M, Heavy Weapons Unit.

  14. Collection of Florian Efraim Sokołów Akta Floriana Efraima Sokołowa (Sygn.103)

    Personal papers of Florian Efraim Gotthold, his wife and son. He was a Jewish lawyer and journalist. The collection includes political correspondence and journalistic work, as well as press services, newspapers and news clippings, collection of postcards, and family private correspondence, telegrams and bills. The smaller group are papers related to the period of his work in the Joint Distribution Committee (Files 9-10) and Jewish issues (Files 11-12). There are contributions to the activities of Zionist organizations in Poland and abroad, a speech of Nachum Sokolow (Florian's father), note...

  15. Police headquarters in Brno Policejní ředitelství Brno (B 26)

    Records pertaining to anti-Jewish measures, the treatment and deportation of Jews and Roma, the aryanization and expropriation of Jewish properties and assets, lists of Jews and foreigners including prisoners at the Gestapo headquarters on Orlí street, and other relevant records

  16. Inspector of the uniformed Protectorate police in Moravia Inspektor uniformované protektorátní policie na Moravě (B 300)

    Includes daily orders and reports from 1943 to 1945; records pertaining to the fight against partisans and paratroopers including lists of anti-partisan volunteers; arrest records; records pertaining to American, British, French, Italian and Russian POWs, forced laborers, black market profiteers, the use of convicts for the removal of unexploded ordinance, the setting up of detention camps, and other relevant records pertaining to the daily activities of the uniformed police and gendarmerie in the Protectorate under German control.

  17. Schermeister girls at the beach, 1928

    Lis (the donor's mother, age 6) and her sister Jeanne (age 5) take off their shoes and wade in the water at the beach. Their parents (Bernhard and Edith Cohen Schermeister) are also in the scene. Nice CUs of the two girls.

  18. Elbe river crossing; Woebbelin after liberation; POW camp

    Field camp of German anti-aircraft soldiers. Title card: “Forced labor camp of Poles, Russians and French" Low brick buildings of unidentified forced labor camp. Men, women and children dressed in civilian clothes, daily activities. Title card: “Just married this morning! I just missed it. Romance blossoms under any conditions it seems”. Social gathering in town center. Title card: “The Germany of the future…I hope!” People tilling soil on farm with cow pulling plow. “Note primitive wood plow” Walking along road - soldiers in uniform along with women and men in civilian clothes, all smiling...

  19. Arrival of Nazi sub in New Hampshire

    Arrival of Nazi Sub U-234 at Portsmouth, NH. MS German sub crew members gather gear & debark from boat alongside pier-SV. LS-MS-Pan German prisoners walk along pier with personal gear-SV (camera lost loop & image jumps). LS-DA Prisoners in small boat underway. LS-Pan Submarine officers & men cross gangway & walk across pier-SV; armed Marine guard stands by. LS Surfaced submarine underway, coastline BG following escort vessels. LS YTs transfer boarding party to sub-SV. MS YT comes alongside pier as men handle lines. LS Gen. Ulrich Kessler & other German officers cross gan...

  20. Alfred and Meta Mayer Levy family collection

    The collections consists of medals, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences Alfred Levy and Meta Mayer Levy and their children Marie-Louis and Theo Levy, and their extended family before the Holocaust in Germany. [Accretion: pair of silver candlesticks given to Alfred Levy by the Jewish Community of Saarbrucken after the war as a gift for his tenure as president; Shabbat lamp; Framed family portrait of Siesel family, Framed portrait of Alfred Levy; Framed drawing of Simon Levy; Film reel (to go to Film & Video); photo album of Marcel, a member of the resistance who was ex...