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  1. Broadside from Tel-Aviv announcing closures to mourn the sinking of the refugee ship "Struma"

    Broadside issued by the Municipal Corporation of Tel-Aviv and mayor, Israel Rokach, announcing closures and a day of mourning in response to the sinking of the refugee ship, Strumah, in the Black Sea off of Istanbul, Turkey, in February 1942. The Strumah (Struma) was an illegal immigrant ship that left Constanta, Romania, on December 12, 1941, with 767 Jewish refugees fleeing policies enacted by the German-allied, Romanian government. The ship was headed for Istanbul, where the passengers hoped to get visas to enter Palestine (now Israel). The old cargo barge was unsafe and overcrowded. The...

  2. 2 million celebrate May Day at Hitler rally

    An aerial shot shows a huge crowd gathered for a May Day rally. Hitler arrives in a car. He speaks briefly, greeting the German youth and mentioning president Paul von Hindenburg. Nuremberg. More crowd shots, then Hitler is shown speaking again. He speaks of the German workers of all occupations and the Reich's second celebration of May Day. Vast field covered with ranks of uniformed men. This footage is from a different speech than the first one.

  3. John Koenig collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of John Koenig and his family during and after the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  4. Edward Boehm Collection

    Artillery leaflets produced by the United States Armed Forces shelled/dropped in Italy where Edward Boehm [donor's father] was assigned to the U.S. 5th Army and British 8th Army as combat liaison propaganda officer with purpose of creating leaflets targeting Germans behind enemy lines. Books entitled “P.W.B/Shell Leaflets [Psychological Warfare Branch] containing leaflets fixed within books. Newspapers entitled Frontpost dating December 1943 through June 1945. Propaganda Leaflets produced by Germany targeted at Allied troops collected by Boehm. Identification card issued to Boehm during the...

  5. March of Time -- outtakes -- Palestine, 1938

    EXT, main entrance to Labor headquarters in Tel Aviv. Filing paperwork. Laborers present passbooks, CUs, pass. Reading notices in hall. Entering labor restaurant, eating, CUs, typical dish in labor restaurant. 01:48:59 INT, Tel Aviv city hall, meeting of Executive Committee of Labor Federation in Tel Aviv following the attack on Hanuta. David Remez, one of labor leaders in Palestine, presides at the meeting. At his left is Mereminsky, in charge of labor disputes. Eliahu Golumb, veteran labor leader, reports on the attack. Other meeting scenes, speaker, chairman, showing woman member of the ...

  6. 2 Pfennig coin

    Coin: 2 Pfennig, recto, "Reichspfennig" around top edge with large "2" in center; verso, Nazi eagle with swastika below, "Deutsches Reich 1938" around bottom edge; in German

  7. Family; ritual circumcision; children at play

    EXT, family with five adults and three children, presumably in front of their residence (#165). Good shots. They dress in furs and walk through a central park/garden. 03:13:13 Small boat at sea taking the Schaap family to England in 1939 and the passengers. 03:13:36 Well-dressed people gather in the city streets of Rotterdam and enter a building. The Chief Rabbi of Rotterdam, Yissachar-Berhard Davids, in a top-hat with Naatje Keizer Schaap with a white lace scarf. INTs, rabbi preparing for ritual bris ceremony of Chaim (Herman) Eljakim Vleeschhouwer (a cousin, b. June 5, 1935). Additional g...

  8. Arthur Lubinsky diary

    Diary written by Arthur Lubinsky in which he records his remembrances of his experiences during the Holocaust.

  9. Parade of Naval soldiers

    Probably April 20 (Hitler's birthday). Naval soldiers with drums parading on Michaelerplatz, Augustinerstrasse, in front of Palais Palffy, Albertina ramp, Phillipshof, and Kaertnerstrasse.

  10. 4 video programs about the Holocaust: ghettos

    Audiovisual monitors shown in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Permanent Exhibition called "The Holocaust" (according to exhibition number). Third floor (3.08a) - Ghettos: Łódź Third floor (3.07) - Ghettos: Warsaw Third floor (3.08b) - Ghettos: Kovno Third floor (3.09) - Ghettos: Other Ghettos

  11. Anti-Jewish propaganda film: culturally prominent Jews; Purim celebration

    A propaganda film declared as a "documentary film contribution about the problem of world Judaism," in which antisemitic stereotypes are disseminated by the Nazis, including scenes showing: Poland as a nesting place for Judaism; the comparison of Jews with rats; the difference between Jews and Aryans; "international crime"; "financial Judaism"; "assimilated Jews"; the Jewish influence on economics, culture, and politics; and Jewish religious practice with a portrayal of haggling and misused sacred Jewish texts. REEL 6 Extract from "Dimitri Karamazov - Murderer", starring "the Jew [Fritz] Ko...

  12. Ben Shahn poster with an image of a hooded man protesting the Nazi destruction of Lidice

    Poster created by Ben Shahn for the US Office of War Information as a response to the Nazi-led annihilation and destruction of communities throughout the Czech Republic, including Lidice. It also protests the retaliatory measures taken for the attempted assassination by Czech resistance members of Reinhard Heydrich, director of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, under the Nazi occupation.

  13. Creation of modern Israeli state

    Notes taken from NCJF documentation: A day in the life of a Histadrut worker, people taking care of different aspects of life on a farm. View of fields, new buildings going up, young man working in the fields, woman feeding chickens, more people in the field, people from different countries "a new society rooted in the old soil of Palestine", view of unidentified city. Purim festival in Tel Aviv, parade, floats, dancing in the streets. Guns, tanks, explosions. Symbolic march to Masada, view from the top of the mountain, traditional song and dance. Ben Gurion at meeting (no sync sound). Peop...

  14. P. 71- Collection of Blanka Tauber, artist, native of Hungary and Holocaust survivor

    P. 71- Collection of Blanka Tauber, artist, native of Hungary and Holocaust survivor The artist, Blanka Tauber was born in Somorja, Hungary, in 1910. She studied drawing and graphics at the Art Academy in Prague and exhibited her works in Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary, Israel and the United States. She lived in Israel from 1950 until her death [in 1989] and was one of the founders of the Safed Artists' Colony. Tauber and her family, among them her sister, Dr. Julia Tauber, were deported to Auschwitz. A large part of the Collection pertains to Julia Tauber. There is documentation in the C...

  15. Jewish children at play after the Holocaust

    Little girl (Menachem’s sister) waves flags outdoors besides car, plays with two older boys and mother (in Israel).

  16. Ruth Loeb Forrest collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of Ruth Loeb Forrest's family during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  17. March of Time -- outtakes -- German American Bund Office

    German American Bund stock shots. Fritz Kuhn stands reading, shots of doorway to office, shot of office window from street.

  18. Oral history interview with Mia Fendler Immerman

  19. Sophie Turner-Zaretsky collection

    The collection consists of a rosary, St. Anthony statuette, bible, and a doll's suitcase relating to the experiences of Laura and Selma (Zofia) Schwarzwald in Lvov and other areas of Poland where they lived in hiding under assumed indentites as Catholics during and after the Holocaust.

  20. Russians/Bridge at Elbe River

    LS, the Mittellandkanal bridge across the Elbe River, supports of former bridge visible above water. Pan right to houses of village in trees along river. 01:12:02 LS across expanse of new wooden bridge built by Russians. Another shot across river to location of old bridge. Pan right to entryway of new bridge complete with carved wooden spires. Heads of two soldiers visible. 01:12:27 MCU shot of Russian and American officers. Three Russian soldiers lean over railing of bridge. LS angle to bridge, pan right along its length to other side and MS of Russian and American officers talking. 01:13:...