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  1. Verdoner children eating and playing

    Yoka and Francisca Verdoner, with their mother Hilde Verdoner. The story begins with the two children playing in their backyard, followed by a series of interior shots, in medium close-up of Yoka and Francisca eating chocolate pudding. Several good closeups of the children feeding themselves and each other (and making a mess), particularly Francisca. Closeups of Hilde eating as well. Closeup of father, Gerrit Verdoner feeding Francisca, both wave to the camera. Closeup, Gerrit, Francisca and Yoka hamming it up for the camera.

  2. German occupation of France and Belgium

    Tank crossing river. MCU, workmen building bridge. MCU, horse-drawn wagon driven by German soldiers. German soldiers on bicycles, motorcycles, scooters, side cars. Tanks fording small stream. Truck hauling large German mortar. German aircraft in flight. City below. Pilot of German aircraft, taken from nose of plane. City smoking. Wreckage around railroad yard. German soldier firing machine gun, digging foxhole, firing into city streets, talking in street. Street is ablaze. Bullet in hand of soldier. Pan, burning building, city. German trucks moving through wrecked city. Inspecting destroyed...

  3. Nazi S.A. banner captured by member of US Army in Germany

    This Nazi banner was brought to the U.S. after liberation by Samuel Reiss, a member of the Army Corps of Engineers stationed in Europe.

  4. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 1 mark note

    1 (eine) mark receipt issued in the Łódź ghetto in Poland in May 1940. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1939; Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and annexed to the German Reich. In February, the Germans forcibly relocated the large Jewish population into a sealed ghetto. All currency was confiscated in exchange for Quittungen [receipts] that could be exchanged only in the ghetto. The scrip was designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] and includes traditional Jewish symbols. The Germans closed the ghetto in the summer of 1944 by deporting the residents to concentration camps or kill...

  5. Photograph of prisoners standing next to corpses in a cart

    The photograph depicts concentration camp prisoners wearing striped prisoner uniforms standing next to a cart bearing corpses. The donor's husband was an American soldier and caried the photograph in his wallet until his death. Two additional copies of the photograph are included.

  6. Morris Hillquit

    Morris Hillquit nominating Socialist Norman Thomas for President.

  7. Eichmann Trial -- Session 43 -- Prosecution submits documents: foreign relations, deportations, legal matters

    Session 43. The Prosecution submits documents to the court, beginning with a letter concerning a citizen of a neutral country wanting to emigrate, a case which Eichmann denied. Another about the treatment of Jews of foreign nationalities, along with the decision to work towards the Final Solution, including dealing with mixed marriages. Another describing a deadline in 1943 for the deportation of each nation's Jews. Also, a preface of the Reich's Foreign Ministry discussing the pressure placed on foreign nations to return their Jews. 00:05:50 A summarizing report of the Gestapo office. A me...

  8. US generals; DP camp; Boxcar near Seeshaupt; Prisoners marching

    01:18:49 (LIB 6194) General Meets General, Delitzsch, Germany, April 28, 1945. SEQ: Maj Gen Terry Allen, CG of the 104th (Timberwolf) Div, meets Russian Maj Gen Sohonov, Division Commander of the 118th Div, 34th Corps, 5th Russian Army. The officers speak to one another through an interpreter. 01:20:00 (LIB 6195) Displaced Persons Camp, Camp Kray, Germany, May 1, 1945. VS, displaced persons unload loaves of bread from truck. The distribution is made by ARBN troops. LS, buildings and grounds of camp. (Campsite is a former German barracks). LS, MSs, CUs, DPs listening to loudspeakers set up o...

  9. Dr. Gerald Holton Collection

    Contains a Kindertransport lottery ticket for England.

  10. Sam Verstaendig collection

    Sam Verstaendig collection consists of photographs of the Verstaendig family of Tarnów, Poland. Also included are photographs of a Jewish cemetery and memorial in Tarnów, as well as a sample of Theresienstadt ghetto scrip.

  11. Alice and Peter Masters collection

    The collection consists of pajamas, an autograph book, correspondence, documents, drawings, and photographs relating to the experiences of Alice Ebserstark and her family during the Holocaust in Czechoslovakia and Great Britain and after the war in Great Britain and the United States. It also contains documents on the German Army collected by Peter Masters when he served in the Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps in the UK and 3rd Troop 10th Commando in France and Germany. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  12. SS concentration camp officer testimony

    Consists of one typed testimony, eight pages with some additional pieces, written by an unknown author, about the testimony of an SS officer regarding his work in concentration camps, including Treblinka. The author describes begins the essay by describing his surprise when one day in 1943, he ran into an old acquaintance on a street in Berlin. The friend, who had previously been imprisoned on account of his activities with the Confessing Church, was wearing an SS officer's uniform, much to the author's surprise. The friend confided in the author that he was using this position to record in...

  13. Buna rubber tire-making plant

    Buna rubber plant. Men and women working with equipment, making tires. Big machinery. MLS pan of factory. Big machinery. Mud-like clumps (of rubber?) pulled along conveyor belt. Worker pulls a wide sheet of rubber from a hot metal roller. Women operating machinery.

  14. Goebbels' residence; German civilians and policemen; bomb damage in Berlin

    Airplanes bomb from the air. (KELLEY SFP 186 BERLIN T185) Berlin damage. Highway sign in yellow, "Berlin-Mitte." 02:30:05 LS, Goebbels' residence, civilians pass by in FG. Another angle showing bomb damage. German traffic cop gives direction to civilians. LS, large column of German policemen marching down street, policemen directing traffic in FG. CU, bomb damaged building with graffiti. CU, old German woman. LS, bomb damaged buildings in Berlin and civilians. Several shots and angles. CU, sign "Ihr lebt - wenn der Nazismus Stirbt! KPD." CUs, individual civilians in side view, one taking no...

  15. Oral history interview with Rubin Minsky

  16. Medieval town; peasants working

    Establishing shot, LS of two footbridges across a canal, figures visible on bridge in BG, narrow street alongside canal, screen left in a medieval town (possibly Nuremberg); stone buildings with thatched roofs. [There is a brief scene of the Kindergarten children from Story 513, this is a miscut.] More scenes of the town and countryside. VS, MS, peasants in fields, picnicing and working, baling hay onto ox-drawn haywagon in Wetzler. LS, return to town street scene, narrow, winding street, bicycles, pushcarts and cars move through shot.

  17. Acrylic painting by Rick Prol

    Acrylic painting by Rick Prol created in 1984.

  18. Chicago Herald and Examiner (Chicago, Illinois) [Newspaper]

  19. The Nazi Plan, edited version

    Edited version of "The Nazi Plan" for screening at the Goethe Institut on November 29-30, 2005, in conjunction with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's public program commemorating the 60th anniversary of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg called "Filmmakers for the Prosecution: Budd Schulberg, Stuart Schulberg, and the Nuremberg Trial."

  20. 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.