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  1. DPs; postwar rehabilitation

    A Crown Film Unit Production. Short film documenting the aftermath of the war, including the movement of refugees, Displaced Persons camps, rehabilitation, and going home. Young men crossing bridge. Women and men moving bushels of hay, guarded by a soldier. Labor in fields, railroads, factories. Liberation scenes: tanks moving through villages, people shaking hands, celebrating; men emerging from forests; crowds leaning out windows, cheering; beating a Nazi?; destroying buildings. Refugees moving on foot and truck with belongings/luggage. Destroyed bridge. More refugees, smiles beaming (sta...

  3. German soldier and women

    Outdoors on an athletic field. An older man wearing an athletic suit, jumps for camera. Two different women and German soldier with glasses. A nurse is visible briefly in the BG - maybe this is on the grounds of a hospital? CU, blonde woman. Women and 2 German officers talk, greet each other, walk about the field, look over stone wall.

  4. Jewish forced labor

    VO starts with "Zuruck nach Polen..." Jewish kids gathered in front of building. MLS of older religious man all alone walking slowly down a street, light streams through a delicate little tree, through wooden fence. Propagandistic CUs of Jewish men. Old and young. Narrator describes the Jewish problem as the greatest facing Germany, and other typical antisemitic statements. Camera pans back and forth across unhappy young Jewish men in a clean-up crew, digging in city street, working near white fence, in ditch, etc.

  5. Margaret House letter

    Consists of one letter, four pages, written by Lt. Margaret House, a member of the 91st Evacuation Hospital, on April 18, 1945, after witnessing the atrocities at Gardelegen. She compares the idyllic German countryside with the horrors of the things she had witnessed.

  6. V-1 rocket lauched and fired.

    SUMMARY: This is a three reel composite technical information film on the operation and launching of the FZG-76 (V- 1). Reel 3. VS, Rockets (V-1) mounted on launching ramp. Animated drawings of guided flight courses and accuracy of hits. Technician in concrete building operating rocket starting controls. SEQ, Technician making adjustments on duct, seconds ticking off, combustion duct firing, operator pushing start buttons, rocket shooting out of launcher and piston falling to earth. VS, FZG-76 (V-1) rockets being fired from launcher and in flight. Animated drawings of guided flight courses ...

  7. Regine Donner collection

    Contains photographs documenting the Holocaust-era experiences of Regine Donner and her family. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  8. Shulamit Bukowski Levin collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of Shulamit Bukowski Levin and his family during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  9. Julian Feingold collection

    Collection includes photographs of Feingold’s artwork documenting the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp and of a theatre production at Zeilsheim; clippings about Feingold, his wife, and the Holocaust; and a reproduction of a drawing by Feingold of a military photographer with Holocaust survivors in the background. It also includes a watercolor depicting the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp.

  10. Violet Dattner collection

    The collection consists of handwritten notes of the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial written by Violet Dattner as well as photographs, documents, and newsaper clippings of and from the trial. The collection also includes three maps of concentration camps and other materials relating to the Holocaust experiences of Wilhelm and Violet Dattner.

  11. Signed testimonies of the Deaf Holocaust Experience collection

    Interviews and recorded programs and presentations featuring Deaf survivors of the Holocaust

  12. Sprung and Braksmajer families collection

    Documents, photographs, an oral testimony, and correspondence illustrating the Sprung and Braksmajer families before, during, and after the Holocaust. Sisters Frieda and Blanche Sprung, born in Poland, lived in Rawa Ruska before the war, managed to secure false documents in the names of Tatiana Osemek and Katharina Lazar/Antonia Osymak respectively, and survived in several slave labor camps. Also documented is Schol Braksmajer whom married Frieda Sprung in 1947 after they met in Eschwege displaced persons camp in Germany.

  13. Bible

  14. Hertha Wolff Hellmann papers

    The Hertha Wolff Hellmann papers consist of biographical materials, photographic materials, a letter, and lyrics to “Das Ladenmädel” documenting Hertha Wolff’s family in Berlin, Hertha’s escape to Shanghai with her daughter Vera, her husband Georg Wolff’s deportation to Trawniki, Vera’s death in Shanghai, and Hertha’s immigration to the United States. Biographical materials include identification papers; birth, marriage, and vaccination certificates; emigration and immigration paperwork; and a death announcement documenting Hertha and Vera Wolff’s lives in Berlin, their travel to Shanghai a...

  15. Carl Lutz commemorative material

    Consists of a first-issue commemorative stamp and envelope, issued on September 29, 1999, featuring Swiss diplomat Carl Lutz. Also includes a post-war photographic print portrait of Lutz, and a printed program for a ceremony at George Washington University, dated March 3, 2014, at which Lutz was posthumously honored with the University's President's Medal for his work in Budapest in 1944.

  16. New York

    Location filming of scenes in New York City for SHOAH. FILM ID 3449 -- Camera Rolls NY 39.39A.139-142.161 La Ville -- 01:00:01 to 01:08:51 Car on Brooklyn Bridge going into Manhattan. World Trade Center (WTC) and Woolworth Building on left. Manhattan Municipal Building on right. Car on BB going towards Brooklyn. Financial District straight ahead. Major buildings from left to right Chemical Bank Building (at far left), 120 Wall Street (stepped design). The two tall buildings in BG are First National City Trust Co. and 60 Wall Street (the tallest building in this group). 01:00:41 First, a vie...

  17. In Their Memory Colored pencil drawing made postwar by a former hidden child in memory of his sisters' death and cremation at Auschwitz

    Drawing created by Henri Bomblat, circa 2000, in memory of his sisters, Sarah and Rosette, who were killed at Auschwitz concentration camp. It depicts a crematorium with smokestacks with portraits of 2 young women. Above is a large closed eye inscribed with excerpts from the Kaddish. Sarah, age 22, was arrested in Paris on July 16, 1942, and deported to Auschwitz on September 23, 1942, where she was killed. Rosette, age 18, was arrested in Paris in 1943 with her colleagues in Colonie Scolaire, a Jewish charitable organization. She was sent to Drancy internment camp, then to Auschwitz on Jun...

  18. Oral history interview with Agnes Hertzer

  19. Ferdinand Stift family collection

    The collection consists of a case with dental tools, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Dr. Ferdinand Stift and his family before the Holocaust in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, during the Holocaust in Italy, and after the Holocaust in Italy and the United States.

  20. American soldiers at an unidentified concentration camp; ruined cities; baseball

    Three American soldiers on a bridge construction site. Multiple dead bodies both covered and uncovered at a concentration camp. Two legs of a corpse in the door of the crematory furnace. American soldiers stand in front of the Bürgerbräukeller in Munich, Germany. Across the street soldiers stand around washing pots and pans in hot water from which steam rises. Trucks with French? flags carrying large numbers of people drive past. 01:02:38 One soldier sits chatting amongst three young men and four young women. He lights a cigarette and another soldier joins them, smoking a cigar. He tosses t...