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  1. Private film by Hiram Bingham from the Feuchtwanger papers

    Short color film by U.S. Vice Consul Hiram Bingham, Jr. in France. Includes Sanary-sur-Mer, the concentration camp at Sanary, the U.S. consular office at Château Pastré, Lion Feuchtwanger and Golo Mann in the garden at Bingham's residence in Marseille, and gulls over Mediterranean.

  2. Belarus, 1934

    Lourie family visits Pinsk and Deniskovichi, Belarus in August 1934. Outdoor market. Crowds walk and stand in the market. Three women with bundles on their backs walking in ankle-high water. Horse-drawn carts in the water. Men and women in boats/raft. Scenery and people on boats filmed from a moving boat. Car drives through shallow water and stops. People are helped onto the shore, men push the car in the water. Three men and one woman stand and talk.

  3. Refugees at Fort Ontario in Oswego, NY

    16mm film. Title card: "The National Refugee Service: A Constituent Agency of the United Jewish Appeal presents" Title card: "Over the Rainbow Bridge" Title card: "William S. Gailmor Narrator" Relates the story of one thousand Jewish refugees who were brought to the United States under special orders from President Roosevelt in 1944. Once in America, they were transported to the Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter in Oswego, New York. At the fort, the refugees led somewhat peaceful lives but were unable to travel beyond its boundaries. They remained in the shelter for about a year and a ...

  4. U.S. 8th Infantry in the Rhineland

    Title card: "Banen Productions" "8th Infantry Division: Normandy. Northern France. Rhineland. Central Europe." Swastika flag. American soldiers in the Rhineland, smoke in field. Damaged cathedral in Cologne. Ruins. "Cologne air field" Soldiers board U.S. Army Air Forces Air Transport plane. Title card: "Crossing the Rhine! surely Jerry won't hold out long now!" American military vehicles cross the Rhine River in March 1945. Traveling in trucks on roads, passing abandoned tanks. Rubble in villages. Road sign for Altenkirchen. 01:07:16 Medics loading wounded military into ambulance "USA 72544...

  5. Jewish refugees in Manila; Plaza Santa Cruz businesses

    The Rauscher and Eisner families in Manila. Pan, Manila harbor. Large ship arrives with passengers by the railing, waving. (01:11) Hanna Eisner sits in a small chair in a garden of their home in Manila, waving at the camera. She runs over to a water pump, washes her hands and drinks. Hanna plays with relatives who fled from Nazism, including mother Irma, uncle Walter, and grandmother Clementine. They dance, play with a guitar, and pose for the camera. (3:47) Leo Schnurmacher, the Honorary Consul of Czechoslovakia in Manila, Philippines, plays with his grand-niece Hanna. They hold hands. (04...

  6. Laemmle family in Stuttgart; returning to New York

    Laemmle family gathers on the balcony of their apartment in Stuttgart, which the family was forced to handover to the Nazis a few months after this film was recorded. Including shots of the grandmother of Kurt, Hermine, and Alyse. Alyse leans in to shake hands with Hermine, and kiss her. Kurt stands between the two of them. Kurt's parents, Siegfried and Alice talk to each other. The family, including Kurt's brother, Max, and his wife, Bobbie, and young son, Robert, stand behind Hermine, smiling at the camera. From left to right: Siegfried, Kurt, Hermine, Alyse, and Alice. Pan left and right...

  7. Jewish life in Radom, 1936

    Jewish life and the synagogue in Radom, Poland in 1936, filmed by an unknown cameraperson. The film was produced by the Radom Society/Club and includes Manny (Mendel) Sztainberg and his uncles, Jacob and Stanley. Added musical track, not original to the silent film, and captions. Well-dressed people walking in street, summer. 01:16 Radom Synagogue. Exterior views. Congregants in courtyard. Men in prayer shawls. 03:25 View from window to street. Teenage girls and boys leaving synagogue. 04:05 Families leaving and walking on street. 04:20 Family walking in street with crowd. Husband, wife and...

  8. Eichmann Trial -- Sessions 34 and 35-- Witnesses Dr. Melkman and David Melchior

    Session 34. Tape begins with Dr. Joseph Melkman (Michman) being sworn in as a witness for the Prosecution. He was born in Holland and immigrated to Israel. He was the director of Yad Vashem. 00:03:17 Tape jumps. Dr. Melkman is testifying, being asked about a man who helped organize the Judenrat in Holland because the Jews did not know how to deal with the Germans. Edelstein's status is discussed. He describes that at first, many Jews wore the yellow stars with pride; that they were not ashamed to be Jewish, and many Christians supported them in protesting the act. 00:08:21 Tape jumps. Dr. M...

  9. Lourié family life in 1934

    Title: "5 Jahre Spaeter". Lourié family life in Vienna in 1934. Automobile. 01:01:27 "In der Zwengalle” Lourié’s home address #17, film pans residential neighborhood from rooftop perspective, Leopold Lourié and wife host guests. Family scenes.

  10. Richard Pfifferling and Ruth Pfifferling Knox family collection

    The collection consists of a tefillin set and storage pouch, two tallits, a tallit storage pouch, a stole, publications, and photographs relating to the experiences of Richard Pfifferling, who left Germany for the United States in 1939, and of documents, photographs, and publications relating to the experiences of his wife, Ruth Liebermensch (later Knox), and her sister, Hanna Liebermensch (later Lewin), who left Germany on a Kindertransport in 1939.

  11. Green admission ticket for an anti-Nazi rally in Madison Square Garden

    Green ticket for entrance to an anti-Nazi rally titled, Mass Demonstration Against Hitler Atrocities, held by the American Jewish Congress, B'nai Brith, and the Jewish Labor Committee in Madison Square Garden, New York City, on July 21, 1942.

  12. Private film recordings of a glider group

    With German title cards. "Wir lernen fliegen". "Ein Segelflieger-Film der Fliegerortsgruppe Greven e.V. des deutschen Luftsportverbandes". ["We learn to fly". "A glider pilot film of the Greven e.V. group of pilots of the German Air Sports Association".]

  13. Edwin Bergmann collection

    The collection consists of a Star of David badge and an identity card relating to the experiences of Edwin Bergmann in Germany during the Holocaust.

  14. Eichmann Trial -- Session 96 -- Cross-examination of the Accused

    The camera fades in on a medium shot of the prosecution table. Attorney General Gideon Hausner is seated at the desk. Assistant to the Attorney General Ya'akov Robinson stands to Hausner's right talking to an unidentified man. Assistant State Attorney Gabriel Bach enters (00:00:40) and talks with Robinson. The camera cuts to a shot of the empty booth (00:01:29). Assistant State Attorney Ya'akov Bar-Or enters and walk right to the prosecution table (00:02:19). Dr. Servatius enters the frame, standing behind the defense attorney table (00:02:29). Eichmann enters the booth carrying documents (...

  15. Prayer book

    Daily prayer book given to Jewish woman living in Podomkly immediately following World War II.

  16. Rita Kerner Hilton collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of Rita Kerner Hilton during and after the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  17. Nazi propaganda: racial science

    A Nazi educational film (propaganda) regarding questions of race and heredity of national/political value. [Aufklaerungsfilm ueber Rasse- und Vererbungsfragen / Praedikat: staatspolitsch wertvoll] Title on film: Kulturfilm-Abteilung Atelier 2. Woman calls on professor to show him what the beetles are doing. Additional colleagues join; a cameraman films them. Professor explains beetles' behavior - woman should not be sentimental. The weak are naturally destroyed. He finds it odd if cats and mice (and other pairs) live together. The professor takes a phone call. They watch a film about sunflo...

  18. Clip from the propaganda film about the 1934 Reich Party Day

    Shots of Hitler interspersed with shots of a nighttime rally. SA units holding torches march through the street.

  19. German invasion of Poland; start of WWII

    Reel 5: German troops attack fortifications, running, explosions. Shelling Gydnia harbor. "Soldiers in civilian clothing" rounded up. Triumphal entry of troops into city. Banner over road "Gelenhafe", POV from car - tanks and motor cycles across bridge. Crowds of troops surround Hitler. Hitler at field camp. Interiors of headquarters, Goering looking over plans, Hitler seated in headquarters. Radio operators. Hitler looking at battle plans. Graphic showing troop movements towards Vistula. Polish troops along road, German soldiers disarming them. CUs of captured Polish equipment.

  20. Germans in Occupied Ukraine

    Footage shot by a German cameraman during Germany's occupation of Ukraine in World War II. Footage with German photographers traveling through the Ukraine photographing cities, villages, and collective farms. The most extensive footage is taken with a female photographer from her trip to Ukraine in the summer of 1943. She traveled by plane and car from southern Ukraine (the Melitopol region) just north of Crimea, then along the Dnepr River northward over Dnepropetrovsk to Kiev and then due west to Rovno and then the border of General Government. Reel 7: 06:00:02 MS Wheat harvest, men and wo...