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  2. Tasia Jolly collection

    Consists of material related to the life of Tassia (Tasia, Taisiya) Jolly (born Taisia Hlamionok, later Tchernoff), originally of Polotsk, Soviet Union.

  4. March of Time -- outtakes -- Execution of Dostler; bombing on USS Savannah

    1425 P (14:00:44) Official Motion Picture Release - Bureau of PR #1589. Signal Corps. Aversa, Italy. Execution of German General Anton Dostler. Pan shot of Dostler accompanied by guards, walking down embankment steps to place of execution through early morning mists. HS, group including Chaplain walking to post on execution spot. Close shot and HS of Dostler being tied to post. LS, group of GIs lined up at attention. HS, Dostler being blindfolded at stake. MS, man walking away from blindfolded Dostler. HAS, execution groups with firing squad walking in. Another angle, same with part of squa...

  5. Thomas Sulenski photographs

    The papers consist of six photographs from the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp and of Hitler's Eagle's Nest.

  6. German military welcomed in Estonia

    Reel 2: 00:24:31 A German military convoy crossing a bridge into a town (Narva, Estonia). Panning shot of a long line of German soldiers on bicycle riding down a dirt road. Men with armbands herd a group of captive local men and women down a street. (Bundesarchiv notes the men with armbands are likely affiliated with a local Baltic security service.) Several panning shots of German soldiers and locals standing and talking in a street. CUs of Russian soldiers taken captive, marching next to a train depot. Reel 3: 00:26:50 Several quick shots of captured military supplies/munitions. Soldiers ...

  7. Rommel in Africa

    "Afrika" superimposed over an outline of the continent. German artillery, vehicles, personnel in the desert. Upbeat music as tanks are cleaned and readied for service. Low-angle close-ups of German soldiers drinking water, cutting bread, smoking cigarettes. Good, if brief, shot of Rommel with other officers. Low-angle shot of troops on a tank, signaling to move out. Various views of a line of tanks moving across the desert. View from a German airplane as it attacks British tanks. Ground-level view of a shot-up British tank, with the word "Beacon" on it. Injured British soldiers; burning Bri...

  8. Correspondence from Gurs to Palestine

    Contains correspondence sent from the Gurs internment camp via the Red Cross by Jewish parents to their son, a student in Palestine, 1941-1942.

  9. Grunberg and Muller families collection

    Collection of photographs and documents relating to the Grünberg family from Krakow, Poland: Ziuta (b. October 11, 1927), daughter of Zygmunt ( b. Feb. 1, 1896), an architect, and Berta Miller (b. Nov. 7, 1898). Ziuta’s older brother, Roman (b. October 12, 1922) was sent by his father to a boarding school in London, on April 20, 1939. Zygmunt Grünberg was forced to become the chief architect and engineer of the Płaszów concentration camp. The family was deported to Auschwitz and Zygmunt was transferred to Flossenbürg and murdered there in the stone quarry on April 23, 1945. Ziuta and her mo...

  10. March of Time -- outtakes -- Fritz Kuhn on Bund Principles

    Several takes of Fritz Kuhn spelling out principles of German American Bund. Seated is national secretary and standing is national publicity director. First takes in MS, can see swastika and American flag on wall and photo of Hitler. "Patriotic law abiding organization...of loyal Americans of German extraction fighting to exterminate Jewish international atheistic Bolshevism, to uphold the Constitution and flag of a clean United States..." 01:28:52 CUs and more of same kind of statements.

  11. Opening of XI Olympics

    Hitler Heil/salutes the vast stadium crowd from viewing stand, where he is seated with Baillet-Latour, President of the International Olympic Committee, and Frick. Many shots of the stands; LS of vast crowd. German athletes in white suits enter the stadium, saluting Hitler. Music plays and the crowd salutes. Hitler speaks, officially opening the games with a speech declaring the games open. Olympic flag is raised, crowd salutes, and birds are released over the stadium.

  12. Map of Theresienstadt drawn by an inmate while in the camp

    Map given to Max and Johanna Liebmann by Bedrich Borges, whose brother Erik drew the map while interned at Theresienstadt concentration camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia. The artist told his brother that he drew the sketch under the orders of the SS command in the camp. The sketch is marked as an air raid shelter, however, the intended use was as a gas chamber. Erik was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp and killed in 1944.

  13. Janine Brittin collection

    Contains a photograph (unidentified, but likely Jacques Goldstein), and a letter to "Madame Veuve Goldstein" (likely Sonia Goldstein) from the "Fonds d'Entr'Aide," Brussels, November 1945, discussing a ceremony in memory of those lost and presumed dead in German captivity. The collection also includes a Hommage de Reconnaissance Medal awarded posthumously to Jacques Goldstein.

  14. Ruth Apfel photograph collection

    The collection consists of ten photographs relating to the experiences of Ruth Apfel and her sister's family history in France before and during the German occupation. Several of the photographs show the sisters wearing Star of David badges.

  15. Aerial shots of postwar Germany; destruction of Nuremberg

    Slate reads: Lt. Col. Wm. Clothier, May 29. From plane: flying over countryside in Germany. Planes. 01:19:18 Aerial shots of bombed Nuremberg, showing damage to buildings, streets, and marshalling yards.

  16. Eichmann Trial -- Session 99 -- Cross-examination of the Accused

    Session 99. Cross-examination of the Accused on methods of extermination (continued), his visits to concentration camps, his visit to the Warsaw Ghetto and concerning persons involved in the extermination of Polish Jewry.

  17. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 100 kronen note

  18. Pál Weinstein papers

    Papers concerning the Holocaust experiences of Pál Weinstein of Sátoraljaújhely, Hungary. Included is his memoir, interviews with Weinstein, photographs, correspondence, articles, and documents regarding his medical career.

  19. Book, "The Queen's English" Exercises in the Pronunciation of English

    Book by Philip Woolley, 1974 edition.

  20. Jar containing bars of soap presented to an employee at the American Victory Foundation