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  1. Russian campaign 1942 Tank forces 7./Pz.6

    Tank forces 7./Pz.6, Russian campaign

  2. The Bed family visits Capri and Rome, 1939

    Meijer, Kaatje, Elly (Jetje) and John Bed on vacation. In color, flowers, a house, and the ocean, from high up in the hills of Capri. Jetje, John, Kaatje, and an unidentified little girl hold grapefruits. Capri town square with lots of people. Jetje and John walk toward the camera playing recorders. John on a dock wearing blue shorts, tie and beanie with his camera case around his neck. More scenes of flowers, landscapes. 04:19 In Rome (black and white), landmarks, including the Forum, the Colosseum, the Pantheon, the Vatican, the Trevi Fountain. 07:45 Dark shots of a column of people march...

  3. Germans push through Luxembourg

    UFA Newsreel with German narration and triumphant music. Light tank on village street. Tank barriers on Maginot Line. Troops running through street. German soldiers tearing down stone wall. German soldier leading prisoners. Cars on village street. Mobile artillery pass through with motorcycles. Trucks towing anti-tank gun and artillery through streets. Barbed wire. Train. German troops traveling at high speed. German troops marching down street, smiling, laughing, receiving food from civilians. Marching through village, civilian cools them off with water hose. Horse-drawn cart towing guns. ...

  4. Carl Atkin collection

    The collection consists of photographs, artwork, documents, a ribbon, and scrip relating to the experiences of Carl Atkin’s work after the Holocaust with the UNRRA and later at the American Financial and Development Corporation for Israel.

  5. Torah Novaelle collection

    Contains a notebook of Torah novaelle, 32 pages, written by a student of the Mir yeshiva, who was exiled to Shanghai, China during World War II; dated February 18, 1943 to December 20, 1945. Includes a novaelle on various topics connected to the weekly Torah portion; a "dictionary" leaf of useful terms for exiles to Shanghai translated from Yiddish to English; and a list of students including Pinchas Hirschprong, Moshe Mendelbaum, Avraham Eiger, Anshil Weinhaus and others.

  6. Oral history interview with Isak Fligman

  7. Bernard Block photograph collection

    The Bernard Block photograph collection documents the Buchenwald and Ohrdruf concentration camps immediately following liberation. Images depict burial of victims, mass graves, and general scenes of the camps. The collection contains twenty photographs mounted with tape onto loose photo album pages, some with captions handwritten across the top in blue ink. The collection also includes an image of Major Bernard Block, DDS in his military uniform.

  8. Sirkis family papers

    The Sirkis family papers include records and photographs documenting Theodor and Frida Sirkis and their relatives in Moldova and Kazakhstan during the Holocaust. Documents include Theodore Sirkis’ Iasi student identification card, records documenting the evacuation of members of the Sirkis family to Salsk (Rostov oblast) and Tyulkubas (Kazakh SSR) in 1941, and a letter Frida composed but never mailed to the NKVD demanding justice for her mother and brother. Five photographs depict members of the Sirkis and Gore families and Theodore Sirkis with medical staff in an identified location.

  9. Eichmann Trial -- Session 103 -- Cross-examination of the Accused

    A slate indicates the date and the session time. The opening shots show the courtroom before the trial starts, focusing on people in the courtroom. Attorney General Gideon Hausner with his assistants at the prosecution table appear in the opening shot. The defense lawyer, Robert Servatius, enters the courtroom and sits at the desk closest to Eichmann's booth. Adolf Eichmann, carrying a stack of documents, is escorted by two security officers into the bulletproof booth. The people in the courtroom rise as the judges enter (00:05:29) and announce the opening of the 103rd session. Cross-examin...

  10. Jewish community in Żychlin Gmina żydowska w Żychlinie (Sygn. 111)

    Records of the Jewish community in Żychlin: lists of advance payments, lists of remittances paid for medical treatments, payment of shares to a communal fund, books of share payers and a list of community members.

  11. George Silviu family papers

    The George Silviu family papers document George Silviu, a Romanian poet, playwright, translator and lawyer. Records include administrative and professional documents, official letters, Silviu articles and poems published in journals, personal letters, and press clippings. The collection also includes copies of extensive files now held in the Securitate Archives in Bucharest that document how Silviu was banned from publishing under his true name, arrested, and imprisoned. The collection further documents the family’s Romanian citizenship and the career of Silviu’s father, famous architect Ia...

  12. Eichmann Trial -- Sessions 32, 38 and 39 -- Transport of French children; how other leaders saw Eichmann

    Session 32. George Wellers is testifying for the Prosecution. He is discussing the transport of 1000 French children, in four transports from Beaune-la-Rolande and Pithiviers transit camps (from these transit camps Jews were then transported to the killing centers in occupied Poland). The children were accompanied by 200 adults. They arrived at the camp by bus. Wellers discussing the transport beginning at 5am. He describes the children, scared and often crying, as they were forced onto railcars and sent to Auschwitz. He says he never saw these children at Auschwitz. 00:04:04 Session 38. Mo...

  13. Bomb damage in Germany postwar

    German civilians clear rubble from heavily bomb damaged buildings. Young and old women pass buckets of debris to each other in a line. A young boy hammers stones into place. Brief slate indicates that the cameraman is Murphy. An explosion, followed by smoke and fire. Now in Frankfurt, P-47 planes taxi and take off from an airfield. Back in Berlin, young boys look at the camera. The top half of the screen is black. People walk down the street hauling belongings. American military trucks drive past. 01:05:54 An American soldier smoking a pipe holds a slate with the name Carter on it. Slow pan...

  14. Eva Friedman collection

    Consists of letters, dated between August 21, 1939 and March 14, 1940, from family members Paul, Herman, and Clara, to Martha, who had escaped from Czechoslovakia to Palestine with her family. In the letters, the family (likely siblings) inform Martha of their imprisonment, fears, and the increasing German persecution, as well as their inability to escape. Clara, who was Martha's sister, sent her letters from St. Nazaire, France, and while Herman and Paul's letters do not include a location, Herman was likely writing from Prague, while Paul was imprisoned in an unnamed camp. Also includes o...

  15. Verordnungsblatt für das Generalgouvernement

    Contains a copy of regulations of the Nazi General Government in the German zone of occupation, Krakow: "Verordnungsblatt für das Generalgouvernement", Nr 51, 20 June 1941. Among the subjects covered include a unification of the zones of occupation; an order given to the [Jewish?] communities of occupied Poland to move to Krakow, and that the city of Krakow will confiscate the property of these communities.

  16. Selected records of the City Pruszków Akta miasta Pruszkowa (Sygn. 87)

    This collection includes register books of identification cards issued in 1936, and a register of deaths in 1939 and 1940; files of properties in Pruszków, 1941-1944, and a book of the permanent inhabitants of Pruszków, 1837-1927.

  17. Dachau Concentration Camp

    April 30, 1945 MSs, three prisoners eating; in BG lies a corpse of prisoner. MCU, Jewish women prisoners including a fifteen year old Jewish girl. MCU, Jewish women prisoners speak with male prisoners thru holes cut in fence. LSs, Jewish women peer thru fence holes. CUs, faces of male Jewish prisoners. (Excellent composition) MSs, prisoners mill about camp grounds after release. (Men wear prison garb) HS, LS from guard tower with MG gun in FG, camp grounds, barracks. CUs, extremely emaciated male prisoners. One bares his chest for photographer. Seq: Maj Edward A. Jesser, Jr, US officer and ...

  18. Star of David badge with Juif printed in the center

  19. Pesticide, extermination of insects, Zyklon B

    Title: "Volksgut in Gefahr!" Airplane, insects/pests, farming, ships, rats, scientists, insects, statues. Woman sweeping house. Insects. Delousing, gas, factory. CU, Zyklon B gas, pellets in cans. Workers entering factory, production, extermination. Alert as pellets are exposed to air; "Gas! Gas!" Sign on door, "Poisonous gas: Entering the room is dangerous to life!" Ships, pellets in cans, in homes, greenhouse, moving furniture in home, farm/countryside.

  20. "Der Stuermer", Gestapo prisoner testifies, & forced labor discussed at Nuremberg Trial

    07:00:40 (Paris 489) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 11, 1946. Inserts, hands turning pages of "Der Stuermer." LS of courtroom as Chief Justice Geoffrey Lawrence adjourns court. LS, MSs, defendants talking to their lawyers during recess. MLS, Dr. Franz Blaha appearing as a witness. Dr. Blaha was arrested when Germany invaded Czechoslovakia in March 1939, held in a Gestapo prison without trial for two years, and sent to Dachau in April 1941. He tells how the Germans forced Russian children to work as slave laborers, and that nearly 60 percent of them died of tuberculosis withi...