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  1. Dachau photographic negatives

    Consists of photographic negatives of Dachau liberation photos, which were widely published and distributed to American soldiers in the spring of 1945. These images are from the collection of the Racimora family, who were imprisoned during the war and spent time in displaced persons camps after the war.

  2. Flemish Nationalist meeting in Brussels

    Flemish nationalist meeting in Brussels. Uniformed members of the Vlaamsch Nationaal Verbond (Flemish National Union; VNV) march into an indoor stadium. Some of the men play drums. Hendrik Elias, head of the VNV, enters the stadium accompanied by German officers and VNV members. Shots of the crowded stadium and a banner reading "Winterhulp." Elias stands at the podium. Good CUs of some of the audience members, many of whom wear uniforms. A couple of women wear nurse uniforms. The audience applauds.

  3. Zyndorf and Rosenbaum family collection

    Collection of photographs, correspondence and document (Registration/Identity Card) of the Zyndorf and Rosenbaum families in Bedzin and Dabrowa Gornicza, Poland before the war, during the war in the Srodula ghetto, in the Bobrek concentration camp a sub-camp of Auschwitz, ILAG XVVII in Austria, and after the war in the Landsberg displaced persons camp. Fela Zyndorf (donor's mother) was imprisoned in the Bedzin ghetto, the Bobrek forced labor camp, and in the Peterswaldau forced labor camp. Szlamek Rosenbaum (donor's father) survived nine forced labor and concentration camps, including Buche...

  4. Wedding; picnic celebration with local Greek Jews; marketplace

    Title card: “A Wedding in Kastoria.” A band walks towards the camera and down a set of stairs (not visible) for this Jewish wedding. Wedding guests follow behind in a procession, including Lena Elias and Allegra Confino. Everyone is nicely dressed. Brief shot of the synagogue with a sign in Hebrew above. Guests. Title card: “Picnic in honor of Mr. & Mrs. Bocko Mayo tendered by Mr. & Mrs. Calif H. Elias at Mavryotsas.” Adults dance the hora. Others relax on the grass. People sitting at a table toast, celebrate, and smile for the camera. Large group poses for the camera. Title card: “...

  5. Urano S. N. Caranchini collection

    The collection consists of two blankets removed from Dachau after liberation by Staff Sargeant Urano S. N. Caranchini of the 260th Combat Engineers.

  6. March of Time -- outtakes -- Gas mask fitting in London

    People in and around London prepare for the possibility of war. Several people look at a map posted on the side of a building. Closer shots of posters reading: "City of Westminster Air Raid Precautions, Fitting Gas Masks." Women and children gathering cut tree limbs from a street and construction of some kind, perhaps laying a sidewalk (these scenes are not described in the dope sheet). Shots of people waiting in line outside a building, then shots of people trying on gas masks and attempting to breathe through them. A child-sized mask is placed on the face of a crying toddler. More scenes ...

  7. Drawing

  8. Antisemitic propaganda of Jews in the Warsaw ghetto

    Warsaw ghetto [many scenes same as Library of Congress footage on Film ID 2257]. German Jews arriving in Warsaw Ghetto. "Aufnahme Lager" [Intake point] Exteriors and interiors. Close views of individuals. Tracking shot inside. Jewish Council building, visitors. Inside the Chairman Adam Czerniakov's office. Meeting with Czerniakov at his desk, with candelabra. Street scenes, peddlars, children, shopfronts. Women, with armbands, shopping from carts. Cobblestone streets. Scenes of Jewish police menacing people with truncheons, moving them through the street. Scenes "directed" for Nazi propagan...

  9. Gardelegen photographs

    Consists of nine photographs taken by Sergeant Al Elias of the United States Army after the discovery of the Gardelegen atrocity. Includes photographs (some with captions on the verso) of victims, of American military personnel, and of the burial of bodies.

  10. Oral history interview with Haya Bluma Newman

  11. Twentieth Century Fox version, Reel 1: Early struggle for power; Reichstag; boycott; book burning; Hitler Youth

    Reel 1 of the English language version of "The Nazi Plan" produced by Twentieth Century Fox with new graphics. Credits and Title: Producer and Director: Ray Kellogg, Commander, U.S.N.R. Legal Supervision by James B. Donovan, Commander U.S.N.R. Search teams commanded by Budd Schulberg, Lieutenant U.S.N.R. See notes field for more credits. Unlike the German version of The Nazi Plan, the English version contains film material from non-German sources. Scenes of American soldiers on the newly-liberated streets of Germany switches to a close-up of film reels. The voiceover indicates that teams of...

  12. Antisemitic propaganda of Jews in the Warsaw ghetto

    Street, Warsaw ghetto inhabitants, men with armbands. Pan up to "Fotografia" facade. CU, police officer with Ordnungspolizei armband, directing traffic, smiling (seems staged). Group, woman with tickets, wicker basket. Pan up, EXT of tram building. Open doors. Group of ghetto inhabitants on open cart, awaiting transport. CU, old man with crutch, boy. 01:43:15 CU, Star of David armband. INT, shop with piles of garbage/hay, empty bottles, jam, man purchases laboratory tube at counter. 01:44:05 Two children sit huddled together on sidewalk. German officer standing on street. Crowds walking abo...

  13. Neubiberg Air Force Base

    Neubiberg Air Force Base (9 km south of Munich). Pan (L to R) of truck trailer with "Camel Caravan to Berlin" painted on side, Fire Department, airport tower, sign "Field Elevation - 1800 ft", hangar. Small airplanes line grassy field. Airplane moves along runway, seen from inside plane with controls, view through windshield. Aerial views of war-damaged Germany. Return to AFB, planes on airfield.

  15. Lavoslav Schick (Šik) collection

    Personal papers of Lavoslav Schick (Šik). The collection consists of several hundred of his manuscripts, articles, speeches, reports, and extensive correspondence with individuals and organizations throughout Europe. Lavoslav Schick was a prominent Zagreb lawyer, killed in the Jasenovac concentration camp. He was a Zionist, but of the kind who did not wish to actually leave for Palestine themselves, and a well-known public figure in Zagreb’s inter-war period. Zagreb’s Jewish history cannot be told without talking or examining of his work.

  16. IMT Verdicts: Schacht, Doenitz, Raeder, Sauckel, Jodl, von Papen, Speer, von Neurath, Fritzsche at Nuremberg Trial

    Sentencing of Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany, October 1946. Shot of dock as Justice Francis Biddle gives the Tribunal's conclusion on Hjalmar Schacht: not guilty under the indictment because his influence was not established beyond doubt. More footage of defendants, defendants' lawyers, as Justice reads conclusions of the tribunal on the prisoners: Schacht: Not guilty Doenitz (in French): Guilty under counts 3 and 4 Raeder (in Russia): Guilty under count 4 Sauckel: Guilty under counts 3 and 4 Jodl (in French): ?? (verdict not audible) Von Papen: Not guilty Unidentified defend...

  17. Izba Zdrowia w Warszawie Gesundheitskammer Warschau (Sygn.497)

    Selected materials from the records of the Gesundheitskammer, an organization established by the German occupation authorities to govern the administration of health services in occupied Poland. The records include hundreds of personal files: questionnaires of Jewish health professionals "Questionnaire for the first submission of medical professions" ("Fragebogen erstmaligen zur Meldung der Heilberufe"). The questionnaires contain personal details, information about family, education, work history, and a photograph.

  18. Dickens' books

    Actors portraying characters from Dickens' books outside the "Old Curiosity Shop."

  19. US Army; Suicides at Leipzig; exhumations at Gardelegen

    Early Morning Patrol (B Co, 3rd Platoon, 406th Regt, 102nd Inf Div), Klotze, Germany, April 20, 1945. MSs, CUs, two soldiers with blackened faces in wooded area. CUs, soldier writes message he receives over walkie-talkie. Patrol moving thru thickly wooded area and across open field. MSs, CUs, patrol members speak to German farmers who are at work in field. Follow shots, farmer leads patrol thru orchard to farmhouse and barn. 1056th Engineers Complete Wesel Bridge, Germany, April 20, 1945. LS, Completed bridge over Rhine River. VS, transports logs to pile driver located in middle of river. C...

  20. Touring Switzerland

    Mountains and villages from a train as some members of the 51st Field Hospital travel around Europe at leisure. Beatrice and another nurse descend a staircase holding cameras. They pose beside Lake Lucerne and travel on Rigi-Bahn on Mt. Rigi in Switzerland. More views of the Alps and villages and corps members posing.