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  1. Sentencing Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg Trial (SOUND ONLY)

    Sentencing of Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany, October 1946. NOTE: Here, the actual sentences for the defendants are read, but there was a court ruling that no filming and photographs were allowed during the announcement. So the voice of judge is heard, no pictures, white screen, SOUND ONLY. Continuation of sentences pronounced by tribunal. 02:17:15 Hermann Wilhelm Goering: Death 02:18:08 Rudolf Hess: Life imprisonment 02:18:34 Joachim von Ribbentrop: Death 02:19:01 Wilhelm Keitel: Death 02:19:33 Ernst Kaltenbrunner: Death 02:20:00 Alfred Rosenberg: Death 02:20:34 Hans Frank: ...

  2. Collective farms; Zhukov decorates partisans; soldiers defending Latvia

    Titles: "Soviet Newsreel / 35 / Moscow / April 23, 1942 / Directed by M. Fidelevoy" / "Through the front-line of Leningrad" Angled ELS of procession of partisans in horse drawn sleds moving through the woods. LS of men conferring on skis. Procession passing through collective farm. Title: 01:41:10 "Award of the homeland" Coverage of ceremony where Commander Zhukov greets and decorates partisans. LS of Zhukov giving partisan lengthy kiss. CU of woman adjusting medal pinned to her shirt. LS Zhukov speaking to assembly. Title: "An investment in the military - an investment in victory" ELS grou...

  3. Germany Awake!

    Summary of film: Recounts Germany's wartime experience and encourages German citizens to help effect a successful peace. Reel 3: German civilians are shown bodies in Nordhausen and Belsen concentration camps. People, body parts and objects from the Hadamar Institute are shown briefly. Brief shots of gold earings, teeth, etc. being sorted at Majdanek. American POWs shown. Female survivors being treated by Red Cross workers. Belsen- fields of decaying bodies, German civilians and soldiers placing bodies in trucks to be transported for proper burial. VS of high ranking Nazi officials. 08:14:00...

  4. Gusta Dickman collection

    Documents and photographs relating to Dr. Gusta Dickman (née Lempert), born May 20, 1904 in Żurawno, Poland. She graduated with a Ph.D. in chemistry from the Lvov University in 1927. In 1929 she married Michał Dickman, an architect, and the couple moved to Warsaw in 1935. They were forced into the Warsaw ghetto in November 1940. Michał Dickman was murdered in 1942, and Gusta managed to escape from the ghetto during the Warsaw ghetto uprising in April 1943. She obtained false documents, which allowed her to stay in Warsaw untill October 1943 at which time she moved to Milanówek near Warsaw a...

  5. Identification tag found by a US soldier near Auschwitz

    Clyde W. Dooley, a member of the U.S. occupying forces, found the tag near the Auschwitz Concentration camp.

  6. Bettelheim family collection

    Contains a passport issued by the German Reich "Reisepass" to Dr. Bruno Bettelheim stamped with a red letter "J" to mark the bearer as a Jew, issued in Vienna on January 26, 1939 and stamped with the US immigration visa, dated April 18, 1939; a driver's license issued to Bruno Bettelheim in Vienna in August 1932; birth certificates of Anton Bettelheim, Bruno Bettelheim and Pauline Seidler; Heimatschein [certificate of citizenship] issued to Anton Bettleheim; University Diploma issued to Bruno Bettelheim bestowing the title of Doctor of Philosophy, in Latin, dated February 2, 1933; a US natu...

  7. Orphans of Buchenwald; Ex-Prisoners Coming Home

    (LIB 7016) Orphans of Buchenwald, Buchenwald, Germany, June 19, 1945. LS, large crowd at Buchenwald outdoors on hillside. UNRRA official (woman) handing out papers. 01:46:51 Lilly Engelman (from Hungary and previously at Auschwitz) with the bandage on her face, prepares to board the train to Switzerland. Her sisters, Renee and Piri, appear later in this footage. Children at Buchenwald concentration camp are divided into small groups by UNRRA personnel. MS, American military truck taking the orphans to railroad cars. CUs, climbing off truck with belongings/luggage. US soldiers present. LS, w...

  8. Chana and Amatzia Tzirin papers

    The collection includes postcards sent by Chana Sara Pronska from Grajewo and by Yosef Fichman in Swiniuchy (currently Pryvitne, Ukraine) to son Arie (Leib) Fichman, in Tel Aviv, to his bride Chava Pronska, and to Chava’s mother and Chana Sara’s sister, Rachel and Mordechai Pronski in Tel Aviv as well as photographs sent by family in Poland to relatives who immigrated to Palestine. Mate and Feige Fichman, Klara Jastrzab, Rachel and Chava Jastrzab, and other unidentified relatives are included in the photographs.

  9. Ingeborg Price collection

    The collection consists of a printed leaflet containing a wartime poem, "La Terrible Epreuve"; a leaflet with an image of Marshal Petain on a horse, with a handwritten message to a child, addressed to Therese Majewski and counseling her to work hard, persevere, and be loyal; a broadside containing a mock testament from Adolf Hitler; and a copy of a French newspaper ("La liberte du centre"), announcing the surrender of the German army, May 1945.

  10. Eller family collection

    Two letters and one envelope from Leon "Melamet" (donor's paternal uncle, brother of donor's father Charles), Sabina (donor's paternal aunt, sister of Charles and Leon) is mentioned in the letters. Three photographs: one of Sabina and the other two are unknown. Marriage certificate: for Fritz and Dora Feiler (Charles's second wife/donor's step mother) issued in Vienna, Austria in 1938

  11. 1942 color street map of Litzmannstadt (Łódź), Poland

    1942 map of Litzmannstadt (Łódź), Poland with an alphabetical street directory. The city had been occupied and annexed by Nazi Germany one week after the September 1, 1939, invasion. The Germans renamed the city Litzmannstadt, after the General Karl Litzmann, who had conquered the city during World War I. Łódź had the second largest Jewish population in Poland and, in February 1940, they were relocated to a small, closed ghetto. By September 1942, 70,000 Jews, neary half the population, had been deported to the Chelmno killing center. The ghetto was emptied by mass deportations and destroye...

  12. Records of the registry office of the Jewish community in Wolbórz Akta urządu stanu cywilnego gminy żydowskiej w Woliborzu (Sygn.1734)

    Books of the registry office in Wolbórz, Poland. Selected records contain registry books with data of marriages, births and deaths of inhabitants in Wolbórz as well as bound copies of annexes.

  13. Hospital; German POWs march; SA headquarters; Russian captain with US military and Germans

    (LIB 6276) Former POW hospital complex now occupied by American troops from the 666th Medical Collecting Company. The CUs of patients are former Soviet soldiers. Malnourished former prisoners of war stare at camera from hospital beds. CU of emaciated body. 00:00:27 Wounded man with amputated leg lies crying in bed. CU of injury. Former prisoner still in striped uniform in bed. 00:01:00 Hospital complex. Soldiers relax on lawn. One has a bandage covering his eye. Group posing. Soldiers look at sky. The complex. 00:02:04 Sign reads "Prov. PWX Hospital Hamm." The letters "PWX" overlay the orig...

  14. Documentation of the Reichsvereinigungen und Gemeinschaften (Reich Economic Unions), Germany, 1933-1945

    Documentation of the Reichsvereinigungen und Gemeinschaften (Reich Economic Unions), Germany, 1933-1945 The collection includes the following Record Groups: R10/I - Reichsvereinigung Bastfaser (Reel 406) R10/III - Reichsvereinigung Eisen (Reels 406, 407) R10/IV - Reichsvereinigung Textilveredlung (Reel 407) R10/VI - Gemeinschaft Schuhe (Reel 418) R10/VIII - Reichsvereinigung Kohle (Reel 418) R10/IX - Stickstoffsyndikat GmbH (Reel 418) R10/X - Verkaufsgemeinschaft Sanitärkeramik (Reel 418) R10/XI - Verband technisch-keramischer Fabriken (Reel 418) R10/XII - Vereinigung für Wand- und Bodenpla...

  15. Adolf Fingrut photographs

    Collection of photographs documenting the experiences of Adolf Fingrut during the time period surrounding the Holocaust. Some of these photos bear the stamp of Adolf's photo studio in Rembertów, Poland.

  16. Selected records from the Beauftragter für den Vierjahresplan/Zentrale (R 26 I)

    Contains records pertaining to measures concerning the Jewish question, results of the 4-year plan, report of the department Hauptverbandstelle Ost, confiscation and expropriation issues, construction and organization of the Lódź Getto, supply of fuel to Auschwitz, the Transdanubia report about the status of Jewish trade in Hungary, report of the arbeitswissenschafltiche Institut der DAF, amnesty petition for Ernst Starkenberg, manuscripts about the national revolution in Romania, report about the situation in Poland and the Jewish population of Łódź and Warsaw, and a report by Dr. Scha...

  17. Morris and Lucy Breitbart papers

    The Morris and Lucy Breitbart papers contain documents and photographs concerning Morris Breitbart of Szczakowa, Poland and his wife, Lucy Gliklich of Nisko, Poland, whom he married at the Rosenheim displaced persons camp after World War II in 1949. Included in the collection is a diary written by Morris while he was in hiding in Poland from 1943 until 1944, postwar documents regarding his credentials as a dentist, immigration to the United States, and restitution claims against the German government. Photographs in this collection depict the Gliklich family before the war in Nisko, Poland,...

  18. Harold Burson collection

    Collection consists of 44 typescript and mimeograph texts of the radio scripts authored by Burson, summarizing each day's proceedings of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, which were broadcast each evening over the American Forces Network (AFN). According to Burson, most scripts were written in the evening following the day’s trial proceedings and in preparation for a 9:00 p.m. broadcast over AFN. The scripts cover the period between 19 November 1945 and 29 March 1946, and while typically consisting of brief summaries of the day's events in the courtroom, they sometimes also ...

  19. March of Time -- outtakes -- American Embassy in Prague; "Rude Pravo"; Medical Teaching Mission

    1150 P: Prague, Czechoslovakia. LS American Ambassador Laurence Steinhardt driving his car up to the Czech Palace entrance. LS Steinhardt and secretary, William Kugeman, walking in the lobby of the Palace going to Minister's office. LS Steinhardt and Kugeman walking in lobby of Czernin Palace. LS Mr. Jean Masaryck, Foreign Minister, who was reading Czech papers, stands up, goes to door, and welcomes Mr. Steinhardt. MS Steinhardt and Masaryck in office discussing the results of the elections. CU Steinhardt speaking and smoking. CU Masaryck listening, talking, and smoking. Shots of both men t...

  20. March of Time -- outtakes -- workers; factory

    Different views of Zlin. Workers' houses. Building a new highway. Building a dam; men at work in FG. Gravelling a high road. Building the largest concrete building in Central Europe. Workers leaving a factory; on the factory street. A colony of workers' homes. Workers leaving the factory. View of the main gate. Bricklayers at the new factory (building in construction); other building in BG.