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  1. World War I veterans in Braunschweig, 1934

    Flag with the Iron Cross. Barrels of four guns rest together. Cannon. Small planted shrubs, artillery. A crowd gathers in a square. Men in uniform on horseback. German World War I veterans wearing the Pickelhaube, followed by others, such as men with flags and sashes. A man carries a sign: “L.Eskadron Husaren-Regt. 17.” More marching, spectators. Men salute, and soldiers respond. “ENDE” (reverse)

  2. Book

    Book, Theodor Herzl, obtained by Willy Schwarz and given to Mayer Zarnowiecki from the library in the Theresienstadt ghetto/labor camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia.

  3. The New York Times (New York, New York) [Newspaper]

    Newspaper reporting the voyage of the MS St. Louis as the cover story.

  4. Gessner visits Moscow

    Gessner enters a doorway through two Red Army soldiers after one looks at his papers. 01:05:40 WS of the House of the Unions [Дом Союзов] in Moscow, Russia. Sign beneath reads ““Всесоюзный Съезд Советских писатепей”[All-Soviet-Union Meeting of the Soviet Writers].Three other banners hang from the building with quotes from Maxim Gorky Писатели- Это Инженеры Человеческих Душ [Writers are Enginеers of Human Souls]. 01:05:48 Gessner walks through a doorway again, pulling out his papers to show to the soldier. He looks back at the camera and flashes his papers. A young boy and girl talk to each ...

  5. Oral history interview with Pesach Rosen

  6. History of Kaltenbrunner presented at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 474) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 2, 1946. LS, Chief Justice Sir Geoffrey Lawrence states that it would be better to hold Ernst Kaltenbrunner's case because of his absence. MLS, rear view, US prosecutor Robert G. Storey asking the Tribunal to proceed with the evidence as the case against the Gestapo and Kaltenbrunner are linked. Rear view, defense counsel for Kaltenbrunner speaking to the Tribunal on behalf of his client. Defense counsel says that he has been appointed for the defense of "criminal organizations" summarily, and as such has no immediate client to be r...

  7. Judgment at Nuremberg Trial

    Sentencing of Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany, October 1946. Justice Sir Geoffrey Lawrence tells of Robert Ley committing suicide and Alfred Krupp unable to attend trial for his physical and mental condition (similar to Story 2611 but from a different perspective). Jackson gives summary of what prosecution claims and demands. French Justices Henri de Vabres and Robert Falco reading statements from bench. [The sound is partly gone, sketchy, four totally different scenes, partly in French before Biddle explains the Charter.] MS of Justice Francis Biddle speaking of the Nuremberg...

  8. YMCA in Poland, 1948

    Young boys at the YMCA playing ping pong and boxing.

  9. Booklet

    Booklet published on the occasion of 25th anniversary of the Jewish Gymnasium for Girls. The school was named after its founder, Józef Lajb Ab, who was the principal and the owner of the school which he established in August 1910. Over time, the school changed its curriculum from vocational to liberal arts elementary and middle and high school for girls. Ab served as the principal until 1931. The position was then held by Mrs. Stella Rein. The school continued to operate in the Łódź ghetto until September 1941.

  10. Vasilevsky family in Slovakia

    KODAK. Quick pan of workers in Spišská Nová Ves, Slovakia. The Vasilevsky family exits an automobile, including mother Elizabeth, daughter Emma, and son George. CUs. The children pick flowers and dance with George (the cameraman). Four schoolgirls on sidewalk and in town. An elegantly dressed man waves to the camera. Boy cries. Elizabeth and her children exit a building (possibly the Kvetnica Sanatorium where they visited Dr. Madziuk). Walking in the large park in the center of Kvetnice. Children, including Vitia and Peter Kalina, play in the garden with a rabbit at home in Spišská Nová Ves...

  11. Oral history interview with Jack Jacobs

  12. UNRRA delivers food and clothes to needy

    Issue 194, Part 6: Displaced persons are greeted on their return to Czechoslovakia. The Army transports and distributes UNRRA supplies.

  13. Illich family activities in 1941 to 1942 including forced sale of villa

    Family activities in the years 1941-1942. [There are no German titles.] Leader shows "Agfa 1942" and "Agfa 1941". (Color) Pan of the Vienna skyline at dusk. The boys saw a tree stump with the help of their driver Leithner. Good CUs. Fritz Regenstreif and nurse walk arm in arm down a cobblestone road [this is the last film of Fritz before dying a natural death in his house on May 8, 1941]. The boys continue sawing and Maexie appears for a brief moment. One of the twins awkwardly pushes lumber in a wheelbarrow. Aerial views of the villa grounds. 03:17:15 (B/W) Boxes and furniture are being lo...

  14. Solomon Surowitz collection

    Consists of one brown placard dated 11 April 1947, Dachau, presented to Mr. Solomon Surowitz, a prosecutor at the Buchenwald trial from New York, NY; states that the group will always remember the dead of Buchenwald. Collection also contains one bound copy of "An information booklet on the Buchenwald concentration camp case: the United States of America v. Josias Prince zu Waldeck et al. : to be heard at Camp Dachau, Germany, 11 April 1947" (published in Dachau, Germany; 47 pages with signatures of participants in the back).

  15. Kan family vacationing during winter in Switzerland

    "Grand Hotel Tschuggen" reservation slip. Handmade picture of the hotel and "1937." Robert, Betsy, and Frits ice skate. People in observation bleachers next to the rink, waving. One woman taking photographs or film. People skate. Landscape shot of the mountains. Betsy and Robert pull their sleds. Jeanne walks behind them. Betsy ice skates. Frits ice skates. 01:02:49 Boy (unidentified) with skis and ski poles. 01:03:23 The boy skates with Robert and Betsy and the Kan family. Robert wears new ski goggles. 01:05:30 color Ice skating. Older man and woman outside the hotel, smiling and waving. R...

  16. Antisemitic float in parade

    Scenes from the celebration of the 450th anniversary of the founding of the town of Schneeberg. SA men on horseback carry banners with the town's symbol on it. Close-ups on a parade float show a caricature of a Jew paying wages to a German citizen. In the other hand the "Jew" holds a bill of huge denomination. A caption along the bottom of the float states: The Jew led the nation into hunger, poverty, and inflation. In the next scene, men wearing Prussian helmets assemble in formation and then march. A brief shot of people working on a float, then a shot of another float labelled, Schluss d...

  17. DP camps

    Notes taken from NCJF documentation: The film provides a rare look inside DP camps, the crowded living conditions, the lack of activity, the new generation born in the camps, and the attempt at creating some normalcy under difficult conditions. Smiling children eating. Training dentists, lab technicians. People arriving at unidentified DP camp, waiting in line, loading belongings onto truck, truck leaves, people waving. Long lines of people, uniformed man directs traffic. People waiting, some sitting on suitcases, another truck pulls up, people get on with belongings. Buildings in BG. Train...

  18. War damage

    Street scene. Large statue. Warm weather with many people in the streets. On the corner there is a demolished building and new billboards. Side street, damaged buildings. Women sell flowers in the square. Crowds. (1:19) Street vendors. Destroyed building facades and rubble. Locals walk and shop. (2:23) Sign: "Frankfurter Herbst-Messe". Other advertising. (2:31) Film ends.

  19. Zitta Christiansen Stubstad collection

    Collection consists of photographs and a document pertaining to Zitta Christiansen Stubstad and her mother in Copenhagen during the war. Permit issued to Zitta Christiansen, donor's mother, which enabled her to go to work at the telelphone exchange in Copenhagen, Denmark; dated September 15, 1943. Also includes two photographs of the telephone exchange in Copenhagen circa 1943 and one photograph of Zitta and her friend in pre-school, which was bombed by the British AF in March 21, 1945 by mistake.

  20. Eichmann Trial -- Session 1 -- Reading of 15 counts of indictment

    Session 1. German translation of the First Count, Letter (h). Judge Moshe Landau continues to read the fifteen counts against Adolf Eichmann, followed by the German translation. When the recitation is complete, Judge Landau asks Eichmann if he understands the charges against him, and Eichmann responds affirmatively. Defense Attorney Dr. Robert Servatius requests permission to voice objections against the court before his client enters a formal plea. Judge Landau agrees, and Dr. Servatius states a concern for both the objectivity and competence of the court. Dr. Servatius suggests that an Is...