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  1. Opening Reichsbruecke suspension bridge

    Opening of the Reichsbruecke suspension bridge in Vienna. Cardinal Innitzer, President Wilhelm Miklas, Vice Mayor (and later Nazi Vice Mayor) Fritz Lahr (far right). The construction project was an important propaganda tool for Austria's authoritarian 'Staendestaat.' Parade of workers, floats. CU, officials.

  2. Forced Resettlement of Krakow Ghetto

    Street scenes. Men and women moving their belongings into the ghetto. People are burdened, carrying many bundles. Armbands with Jewish stars are noticeable. Horses and wagons.

  3. Surrendered German soldiers; DPs; Liberation in Prague and Pilsen

    Displaced and surrendered German soldiers camping in a field at the time of liberation in early May 1945. Pan from road, column of surrendered troops resting. DPs washing up in a stream, traffic moving in BG. Pan from clothing to men redressing. CU, German officers. VCU, elderly German officer. MS crowds of German civilians in field -- they were picked up by American troops and are families of Nazi prisoners in Czechoslovakia. CU, crowd standing around. Approaching water truck. MS, standing in line for bread. CU, German woman and baby. CU, elder Germans. MS, American GI frisking Nazi soldie...

  4. Regis Gignoux papers

    The Regis Gignoux papers include a three-page typed letter and three photographs documenting Buchenwald concentration camp immediately following liberation. The letter was written by Gignoux’s commanding officer, a pilot who flew reporter Percy Knauth and photographers Marguerite Higgins, Margaret Bourke-White, and Lee Miller to the Buchenwald concentration camp in April 1945. The letter describes their arrival at the camp and the conditions they found there. The photographs depict victims in Buchenwald.

  5. Scrapbooks of German news clippings

    Contains four volumes of scrapbooks compiled by Siegfried Wenzel, as a child or adolescent while living in Germany, between 1939 and 1943, consisting of clippings from German newspapers of the era, reporting on wartime events. Consisting of four separate numbered volumes, titled "Kriegstagesbuch," with handwritten annotations added by Wenzel from that time, the volumes report on German military advances from the invasion of Poland in September 1939 through the battle of Stalingrad in early 1943.

  6. Paul Shapiro collection

    Antisemitic Romanian pamphlet illustrated with cartoon characters and coupon for mandatory donation to help pay for the integration of Bukhovina and Transnistria into Greater Romania.

  7. Zajonc family collection

    THe collection consists of a suitcase from Hinda Zajonc (Hilda Kreuzer in the United States), photos of liberation of Dachau and Dachau postcard in red photo holder, and copies of documents related to Zelda Zajonc (Sophie Morris in the United States).

  8. Frieder family on holiday

    The Frieder family on holiday. Women pose with Jane and Peggy on a mountain, probably in Hawaii. Pan of the ocean vista and city below, probably Honolulu. 00:00:29 Two adult couples lounge outdoors. The girls and their mother Julia pose before going to the beach and swimming in the ocean. Jane and Peggy on a ship deck with flowered leis around their necks. Smoke stacks from other boats are visible behind the rail of the ship deck. 00:01:21 People aboard an ocean cruiser. Shores. Someone dives from the boat. 00:02:14 Jane, Peggy, and Julia wear heavy coats on the ship deck. Other Frieder fam...

  9. Ernst Frank collection

    Collection consists of four Deutsches Reich Reisepasses issued for Ernst Frank [donor] dated March 6, 1939; his parents Johanna Frank, dated June 26, 1939; and Solomon Frank, dated February 27, 1939; and grandmother Yetta Frank, dated June 26, 1939. Ernst Frank escaped Germany via England with his family and emigrated to the United States in 1939. Included is accompanying red textile passport case.

  10. Ingrid Decker papers

    Consist of three manuscripts in German and English relating to the life of Elizabeth Koch-Thau during the Holocaust. They were written by Ingrid Decker [donor] in German and translated into English by her daughter. Contains another manuscript in German written by the donor entitled "Die Polenreise" along with some poems written by other authors.

  11. Linda Mattioli collection

    Contains photographic prints of images taken immediately following liberation of concentration camps, including images of victims as well as mass individual grave sites. The photographs were possibly taken by Armando Mattioli, an American soldier stationed in Europe during the Second World War, dated circa 1945.

  12. Antisemitic Campaign opens: Boycott, Bookburning

    "Part 2: Acquiring Totalitarian Control of Germany, 1933-1935." Title: "Opening of the Official Anti-Semitic Campaign 1 April 1933" Minister for Public Enlightenment & Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, launches antisemitic campaign in Berlin Lustgarten. Original sound, Goering addresses a cheering crowd. Boycott of Jewish shops, Berlin. Crowds. SA men chant slogans from truck in the streets: "Germans, protect yourselves. Don't buy from the Jews." On doorway the sign with skull: "Achtung Juden". On closed stores the sign "Jude" painted on window. Party members put up signs, hold back crowds, ...

  13. Wooden sign with a painted butterfly made from trash found in postwar Berlin

  14. Barbie Trial -- Day 2 -- Case of Lesevre

    16:57 Charges may be brought against Klaus Barbie in the case of Mme Bogatto, concerning the crimes against humanity commited against her husband M Lesevre.

  15. Lt. Col. Pinckney McElwee photograph collection

    U.S. Signal Corps photographs taken shortly after liberation at Reichenau, Dachau, and Landsberg camps; includes photographs of a survivor of a death march to Munich and of a mass grave near Waldlager 11.

  16. Henry Baigelman collection

    Contains documents pertaining to Henry Baigelman's participation in a jazz band called the "Happy Boys" that performed in displaced persons camps in Germany after WWII. Includes handwritten sheet music, song lyrics in Yiddish, certificates acknowledging group's performances, documentation stating that Henry Baigelman had been interned at the Flossenbürg concentration camp, and a copy of a Passierschein issued to him. (See also Henry Eisenman collection, 2018.525.1)

  17. Simon Srebnik - Chelmno

    Simon Srebnik (Shimon Srebrnik) was a boy of 13 when he was deported to Chelmno from the Łódź ghetto. He worked on a Sonderkommando burying those who had been murdered by gas. Srebnik was seriously wounded by Nazi gunfire during the liquidation of the camp, but managed to escape and find refuge with a Polish farmer. The Germans offered a large cash reward for turning Srebnik in, but the Poles, who already feared the approaching Russians more than the Germans, did not betray him. After the war he immediately immigrated to Israel. Srebnik's story is a focal point in the film "Shoah." The inte...

  18. Promoting need for war crimes trials; bookburning

    Film promoting the need for war crimes trials in Nuremberg. Narration explains the various trials established to prosecute war criminals. Opening shot, statue of Thomas Jefferson in Jefferson Memorial, Washington DC. Ext CUs, Adolf Hitler addressing German people at Nuremberg rally (translated into English). CU, concentration camp victims; weeping relatives/civilians. Piles of corpses, atrocities. CU, documents. US soldiers shot in back, victims of Nazi persecution. Wagons loaded with corpses moving through streets. Marching with swastikas. 12:10:50 Book burning (all familiar images, good d...

  19. van Leeuwen and de Groot family photographs

    The van Leeuwen and de Groot family photographs consist of pre-war and post-war photographs of Rachel (Chellie) van Leeuwen, her sister Elly, and their parents, Isaac van Leeuwen and Judith Degroot, in the Netherlands. The photographs are accompanied by photocopies with identification information provided by the donor's family.

  20. Striking public transportation workers

    A strike by the public transportation workers of Berlin. A group of streetcar workers stand around and talk. A police car leaves the station and arrives at the street car depot. They talk with the workers and drive away in a street car. Shots of demonstrating citizens, under watch of the police. A long line of people walking down the street.