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  2. “Old Guard” of the Nazi Party in 1939

    “Old Guard” of the Nazi Party in 1939. Police festival. Winter Relief. SS-Standarte Germania gives public concert. Day of Commemoration of Heroes. Carnival in 1939. May Day celebrations in 1935

  3. Book

  4. Book

  5. Jewish religious service; destroyed drug stores

    Military Government, Cologne, Germany, May 31- June 2, 1945. Full screen view, former prisoners of concentration camps attending Jewish religious services. CUs, man's sleeve patch which reads "Buchenwald." Seq: Jewish religious services are held in remains of Cologne temple (this portion with synch sound). Silhouette shot, light passes through one remaining stained glass window of former temple and shines upon rabbi and cantor standing at altar. Seq: German civilians under MG direction remove drugs and other medical supplies from bombed drug stores.

  6. Jeremiah (Jerry) Tax papers

    Correspondence from Jeremiah (Jerry) Tax to his wife, Deborah, and to his parents, Clara and Ben, while Tax was stationed with the 71st Infantry Division, U.S. Army, in the European Theatre, World War II. Includes correspondence describing Tax's impressions of occupied Germany and Austria and of liberated concentration camps, as well as newspaper clippings, a greeting card, and a booklet titled "The 71st Came to Gunskirchen Lager," commissioned by Maj. General Willard G. Woman, for which Tax authored piece titled "And Afterwards . . .." Also includes a map of the 71st Infantry Division's mo...

  7. Hitler Youth; Rearmament

    Title: "Part III Preparation for Wars of Aggression 1935-1939" Title: "1935 Von Schirach Urges Hitler Youth to Follow Principles of "Mein Kampf"" von Schirach addresses youth. Title: "Goering Announces Rearmament of Germany March 1935" Miscellaneous military scenes.

  8. British enemy

    Reel 9 Michael O'Brien, an Irish rebel leader from Dublin, is hanged in 1903 by the British for subversion and high treason. His eighteen-year-old son, also named Michael O'Brien, is sent to St. Edwards College -- a boarding school specifically aimed at making Irish children 'think English' by tight surveillance and ideological education. There, a fellow student collects information for his uncle at the British Secret Service. As a result, Patrick O'Connor unconsciously betrays Michael's widowed mother for harboring Irish freedom fighters even though he eventually joins the rebels' cause. O...

  9. Havaner lebn Vida Habanera (Havana, Cuba) [Newspaper]

    Newspaper from Cuba documenting the arrival of the MS St. Louis.

  10. Documentation of the municipal administration in Kolomiya, 1941-1942

    Documentation of the municipal administration in Kolomiya, 1941-1942 Included in the collection are lists of Jews sent to labor on railroad tracks, instructions by the district administration in Kolomea regarding the repopulation of the Jewish population in the district, and documentation regarding the payment of salaries to Jews.

  11. Joseph Starkman collection

    Contains two certificates issued to Sonia Starkman and to Josef Starkman testifying that each served in a Belorussian Partisan unit from June 18, 1942 until July 20, 1944; two temporary certificates issued to Sonia Starkman and to Josef Starkman awarding them medals for fighting as partisans against Germany during the “Patriotic War,” dated: June 22, 1944, in Russian; a “Deutsche Kennkarte” issued to Joseph and Sonja Starkmann, issued in Passau, Germany, dated October 2, 1951; two identity cards issued by Civilian Services attached to Polish Forces entering U.K. issued to Jozef and Zofia Gr...

  12. Nazi conquest of Czechoslovakia: refugees & fascists

    A documentary about the conquest of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis just prior to World War II. Unrest; refugees; fascists.

  13. Capture of partisans in Crimea

    Waffen SS members search for partisans in the Crimea. Soldiers walk through wooded mountainous territory (at 1200 meters) in search of "Soviet soldiers in civilian clothes, Jews, and Soviet agents" who have allegedly been terrorizing the population. The Germans throw grenades and shoot at a stone and wood structure. They capture the "bandits," all in civilian dress. The narrator says that "these rabble can expect no mercy." The prisoners are led away by armed Germans.

  14. Shaving brush received in a concentration camp

    Shaving brush given to Elias Cala for safekeeping by a fellow inmate in 1944 at Auschwitz III-Monowitz concentration camp. The other inmate was a barber who gave the brush to Elias when he became ill. He was sent to the infirmary, but never returned. Elias had been deported to Monowitz from the Jewish ghetto in Mlawa, Poland, in November, 1942, with his wife and one-year-old daughter. His wife and daughter were selected for death upon arrival at Auschwitz. Elias was assigned to work as slave labor in the I.G Farben company’s Buna plant associated with the Monowitz camp. In January 1945, Eli...

  15. Hand towel

    Paul Kuttner received the towel from his mother, Margarete Kuttner, before his immigration from Berlin, Germany, to Great Britain through Kindertransport in February 1939.

  16. Black Sea, fighting in southern sector on Eastern Front

    Reel 1: 00:17:03 Melting snows, streams, water over land. German soldiers drive cross a river in a horse-drawn cart. Military vehicles ford a river/water logged road. Soldiers work on a wooden bridge. Observation post on the Black Sea. A soldier raises an alarm, other soldiers come running. Different shots of lookouts using binoculars/rabbit-eared telescopes. City on the Black Sea. Coastal gun installations; soldiers load and operate artillery. German soldiers come running out of a destroyed building. CUs of artillery. Different shots of defense preparations along the coastline. German sold...

  17. German Army advances

    Trucks cross "bridge" over mud. Army struggles to move through muddy street. Clear, close-up shot of dead German soldier.

  18. Broadside

    Broadside entitled "Every penny earned by Singer Sewing Machines goes to the Enemy.." and stamped by Toni Eggler, Wolfratshaussen of the Reichsverband Deutscher Mechaniker.

  19. Onie Rogers photograph collection

    Contains photographs of the aftermath of the Gardelegen atrocity.

  20. Poland destroyed; French troops; invasion of the West; refugees

    Reel 4 shows war-torn Poland: Warsaw is bombed, evacuated and burned. Hitler reviews his troops. French troops man the Maginot Line. Norway, Denmark, Holland and Belgium are invaded. German films show the power of the army; big guns, mechanized equipment, paratroops, etc. Dutch refugees clog roads. Rotterdam burns.