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  1. Medal ceremony; baseball; crossing the Rhine

    A French general leads a V corps medal decoration ceremony in Meschernich, Germany. Village scenes, including shots of Murray and other soldiers. Ruins of buildings and a railroad depot. Soldiers play baseball. The crossing of the Rhine into Neuwied, Germany, over the Victor Pontoon Bridge.

  2. Selected records of the district of Błonie (Grodzisk Mazowiecki) Starostwo Powiatowe Błońskie w Grodzisku Mazowieckim (Sygn. 20)

    Contains records relating to the proof of the Polish citizenship (some documents contain personal photographs), and correspondence of the County Starosty of Błonie with the Polish consulates in other countries (mainly France, England, USA); also included are police documents concerning surveillance of political parties and social organizations of 1928-1932.

  3. Freikorps, NSDAP

    Various recordings Kapp-Putsch, Freikorps, Lütwitz, early NSDAP, Hindenburg, inauguration of the Freikorps monument in Schliersee, vigilante groups in Munich etc.

  4. Documentation of the Kerch municipal administration, between November-December 1941

    Documentation of the Kerch municipal administration, from the first occupation period Directives and orders issued by the municipal administration, lists of municipal workers, lists of German Army soldiers, lists of local residents, and circulars on various subjects: Karaites and more, work documents. German Army forces occupied Kerch for the first time on 16 November 1941. The new municipal administration began to work within the city from the earliest days of the occupation. Sonderkommando 10b soldiers arrived in the city a short time afterwards and started the registration of the Jews. A...

  5. Sign marking the malaria station at Dachau

  6. Records of various financial institutions (MOL Z)

    The collection contains records of Aryanization of various Hungarian financial institutions following the first anti-Jewish law in 1938, (various record groups MOL Z). Since the collection contains personal files, some records were created prior to 1938.

  7. Ardeatine Caves; FFI; torture chamber; corpses

    Corpses of Italians executed by the Nazis are removed from the Ardeatine caves; last rites are given the victims; this was most likely filmed in July 1944 by the March of Time. A funeral cortege for FFI dead moves through Paris. Shows a Gestapo torture chamber in the city; corpses of US airmen in a field at Gambsheim; the removal of corpses from a cellar in Bande, Belgium; and last rites and burial of the victims.

  8. March of Time -- outtakes -- British Agriculture

    Shot with Leblay camera: Richmond Park being plowed up to grow potatoes. Shots of farm being plowed by night (in Dorset) with a tractor fitted with headlights. (This is part of the effort to put an additional million and a half acres into cultivation). Various shots of London suburb dwellers on their new allotments for the producing of their own vegetables. The sites are in Brockwell, Dulwich, and Battersea Parks, in the SE suburbs of London.

  9. Henry Carter collection

    The collection consists of an armband, a concentration camp uniform jacket, pants, and cap, and a commemorative pin relating to the experiences of Henryk Karter (later Henry Carter) while a prisoner in Auschwitz I, II, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and III, Auschwitz-Monowitz (Buna) concentration camps in German occupied Poland during the Holocaust and in the United States after the Holocaust.

  10. Aron Zolty photograph collection

    The Aron Zolty photograph collection consists of 39 photographs relating to the experiences of Aron Zolty in the ghetto in Łódź, Poland, and in displaced persons camps in Hannover and Lübeck-Blankensee, Germany.

  11. Leser family papers

    Correspondence, diaries, photographs, identification documents, postcards, and books, belonging to the family of Helen Leser (also known as Helene Leser, Chana Leser), originally of Rozwadów, Poland. Documents include identification documents for family members during the German occupation of Poland; materials from the Soviet Union during the time of her family's exile there, including postcards received and a children's book; diaries written by Leser while in France after the war; notebooks containing written poetry in Russian and Yiddish; correspondence received by family members and frie...

  12. Four Americans visit Lake Lucerne

    The four friends pose in a doorway at Grand Hotel National in Lucerne, numbered 4 Haldenstrassen. At a pier from which they would take a ferry across Lake Lucerne, views of the mountains.

  13. Agricultural exhibition

    Agricultural exhibition in the town of Radomyshl in the Zhitomir area of the Ukraine. For some reason, a map of Italy flashes for a split second, then cuts to a road sign reading "Radomyschl" (the German spelling). German officers, accompanied by farmers, walk about, inspecting farm equipment and machinery. Farmers look at model houses, signs advertising seed prices, and bundles of grain. VS, women and children looking at a demonstration on bee keeping and fish in glass tanks. Translation of Ukrainian narration: An agricultural-scientific exhibition is opened in Ukraine under German supervi...

  14. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 20 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 20 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  15. Nazi Welfare Org'n: 10 year report, community assistance

    Title: "Ein Leistungsbericht zum 10 jährigen bestehen der NSV." [A progress report on 10 years of achievement by the Nazi Welfare Organization]. 1932: Man stamping ID papers, pan, factories with smokestacks. "Eröffnung des Winterhilfswerkes 1933/34". Headlines of Voelkischer Beobachter. Nazi community self-help - Winterhelp work (WHW). Collecting, donating money. Crowds, street entertainment, circus, airplane, marching band in streets, gymnastics, exchanging money, officials meet. CU, "Mutter und Kind" card. Donating supplies of food. Women sewing, children's shoes. "Winterhilf Werk 1933/34...

  16. Eichmann Trial -- Session 112 -- Prosecution continues summing up

    Session 112. Hausner talks about Eichmann's relationship with the General Government, stating that he should have had no dealings with them if he held the position he claims he held. 00:02:53 Hausner begins discussing Hungary. He says that this is proof not only that the Nazis wanted to fully execute the Final Solution, but that Eichmann was in charge of all of this. 00:10:36 Hausner goes on to discuss the deception of the Jews, as well as when Eichmann eventually admitted to ordering the deception when presented with enough evidence. The things that Eichmann told the Jews is brought into q...

  17. Franz Sobotka papers

    The Franz Sobotka papers consist primarily of letters Franz wrote to his family while imprisoned at Buchenwald. The letters relate how Sobotka misses his family, include instructions for sending him packages, and inquire about news of relatives and friends. The collection also includes letters to him from his wife and son, many with draft replies from him on the versos, as well as a 1944 map of the Weimar SS garrison command (Standortbereich), stamped "SS-Kraftfahr Ausbildungs und Ersatz regiment!"

  18. Removal to Krakow Ghetto

    Jews moving into the Krakow ghetto in winter. Carts/wagons piled with belongings. Jewish people with Star of David armbands, carrying belongings. Tram passes in BG. Busy street scenes. Men, women, and children walking across a bridge, moving into the Krakow ghetto. Bicycles, street activity. A man takes a photograph. Moving furniture, CUs, some Jews pose for the camera, snowy streets. Young girls walk in a line with chairs above their heads. More street views of people with belongings and moving about in the streets of the ghetto, furniture/paintings, trucks, the bridge, people walking, and...

  19. Soviet Lviv, Ukraine

    Lvov, 1929-1939 (Polish Production). VS, streets and buildings, lion and coat of arms, several fountains with statues, VS of main market that still exists today. The market is filled with people. MLS, MS, MCUs of people buying and selling wares. Two intertitles read, in Polish, "Types of peddlers" and "Old stone houses at the Lvov Market". Shots of said houses, then the façade of the Boym Chapel. High angle shots of the city. An intertitle reads "Armenian quarter, with the Armenian Cathedral." The Armenian district's many arched alleys and entryways, porticos, windows, and cobblestones. An ...

  20. Ney and Grundmann families collection

    Correspondence, documents, autograph books, printed material, audiovisual recordings, and other related materials, documenting the history of the families of Herbert Ney (Neu), originally of Munich, Germany, and his wife, Hannelore (née Grundmann), originally of Essen, Germany, relating to their emigration from Germany due to anti-Semitic persecution, as well as documenting their lives in pre-Holocaust era Germany, and following their immigration to the United States.