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  1. Luftwaffe in Romania

    MLS Plane with German markings taxis in on runway. MS German General Galland climbs out from belly of plane, MS walks over to greeting committee which includes German and Romanian officers and shakes hands. CU as Galland speaks to German Luftwaffe officer. MS Officers standing together under prop of plane, they walk away. 6:51:17 German General, Prof. Sauerbruch "Medical General" visits wounded in Romanian hospital, talks to hospital staff, examines an X-ray, observes patients in whirlpool. Visits prosthesis workshop.

  2. Solomon Zynstein papers

    Consists of photographs, scrapbook pages, loose documents, and newspaper clippings mainly related to Solomon Zynstein's life and work in the Bamberg displaced persons camp, particularly his work directing Yiddish Theater in Bamberg. Includes photographs, programs, and newsclippings about performances, as well as documents related to Zynstein's work as a journalist, including brief notes on the International Military Tribunal (the Nuremberg trials).

  3. Selected records from the State Archives of the Chernivtsi Region related to the history of the Jewish Communities of Northern Bukovina before and after WWII

    The bulk of the collection contains prewar records (1918-1940) of various Romanian government agencies related to the socio-economic and political history of the Jewish communities of Northern Bukovina. It includes government permissions for the opening Jewish businesses and Jewish public organizations, payment of taxes, revocation of citizenship, surveillance of activities of various Jewish organizations, individual Jews as well as foreign Jews residing in Northern Bukovina; vital records, applications of Jews travelling abroad for foreign passports, criminal and civil court cases involvin...

  4. Newsreels featuring warships in the Atlantic

    TIME weekly newsmagazine: "Crisis in the Atlantic", 1941. The March of Time, "The Atlantic 1941" LS, three warships in convoy. One sends blinker signal. INTs, captain and two attendants in ship's cabin. Aircraft carriers, battleships and destroyers in Atlantic Ocean. Full screen view, US fighter planes depart. LSs, MSs, Navy Dept building in Washington DC, as civilian workers enter. Sec of Navy, Frank Knox exits from car. Knox at naval dedication ceremony. Animation: comparative shipping tonnage of US, British, and Axis powers. US operators in code room send messages. CU, newspaper clipping...

  5. Refugees in France

    Paramount Newsreel, Issue 74, Released May 1941 “Preview of Despair” Voice: Gilbert Martyn "First authentic films of refugee camps in conquered France - the first real hint of what's going on throughout a Europe in Nazi chains." Refugees work in unidentified internment camp; French flag; man digging with one arm. Wounded refugees. Women walk into women’s barracks (probably Rivesaltes). INT of barracks, fixes bunks, luggage on shelf, scrubs clothes. INT, wounded men in hospital (matches photo from Récébédou), nurses. “1938” Refugees trek over mountain in snow, warm a boy’s feet at fire (acco...

  6. Book

  7. Calling card brought to the US by an Austrian refugee

    Calling card for Ella Nussbaum found in the autograph album, 1994.53.6.1, owned by Irene Rosenthal. Irene fled Nazi ruled Austria for the United States in March 1940. German troops marched over the border into Austria in March 1938. The next day, Austria was annexed to Nazi Germany. Anti-Jewish legislation was enacted to strip Jews of their civil rights. The November 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom vandalized Jewish businesses and homes and destroyed most of the synagogues in Austria. Irene received a visa to leave Austria in March and sailed that month from Genoa, Italy, to New York.

  8. Himmler and Greiser in Posen

    Heinrich Himmler presides at ceremonies celebrating the second anniversary of Posen's return to the Reich. Himmler, Gauleiter Arthur Greiser and Sergeant Lueth review troops and watch Hitler Youth and RAD members on parade.

  9. Rene and Betty Braat photograph collection

    The collection consists of 53 photographs documenting the experiences of the Braat and Mooleman families in the Netherlands before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  10. SS Sonderlager Hinzert in 1946

    Collection du Film Scolaire no. 204 SS Sonderlager Hinsert Sign: "SS-Sonderlager-Hinzert." LS camp, barbed wire, snowy grounds, destroyed camp buildings, debris. Some dark shots and interior shots of graffiti on walls. Gravesite 164 in forest, pan. 00:02:58 Cart with corpses. Int, barracks with bodies.

  11. Kristallnacht burning of Bielefeld synagogue while bystanders watch

    Brief shot of crowds at a swimming pool (see notes about the history of this footage). Title on screen reads: Die Synagoge brennt! 10.11.1938. [The synagogue burns! 11-10-1938]. Footage of the dome of the Bielefeld synagogue on fire interspersed with shots of bystanders watching it burn from open windows and balconies. The dome is consumed until just the frame is visible, then it collapses in on itself. Shot of crowds of people in the street. Briefly visible on screen is the next title: Der Krieg bricht aus! 1.9.1939 [The war breaks out! 9-1-39].

  12. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 1 krone note

    Scrip, valued at 1 krone, 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.

  13. Factory scenes, Katowice, Poland 1936

    Katowice, Poland, 1936. CU, worker takes off his mask as he exits the zinc refinery. MLS, camera pans down the refinery smokestack to reveal the entire refinery in the valley, full pan of the valley, and then back into the mine, miners hacking away at the rocks with pick axes. Shots of bubbling molten ore at 01:01:55:00. The workers leave the refinery, and head off to the church. More shots inside the mine, the cars full of zinc ore, etc. VS of the women sorting the good pieces from the bad. EXT, the miners emerge from the mine, head into another building at the refinery. 01:04:54:00 Worker...

  14. War Crimes Commission: Buchenwald and Dachau Concentration Camps

    "Buchenwald Concentration Camp" General views of the camp at Buchenwald. Red EXT of camp. HSs of the area. "Jedem Das Sein" gate closes. Red Cross trucks from Switzerland enter the camp grounds. Male survivors leave the camp. Among the survivors are 1000 boys under 14. Evidence of crimes: CUs of dead with numbers tattooed on stomachs; emaciated survivors; stacks of bodies outside and inside the crematorium; the experimental building where various toxins were tried; truckloads of the dead; CU weapon of torture; INT, crematorium ovens showing skeletons inside and piles of bone ash. 1200 Germa...

  15. Henryk Gawkowski and Treblinka railway workers

    Henryk Gawkowski was a locomotive conductor at the Treblinka station and estimates that he transported approximately 18,000 Jews to the camp. He drank vodka all the time because it was the only way to make bearable his job and the smell of burning corpses. He describes the black market and the prostitution that developed around the camp. This interview also includes conversations with several other Polish witnesses who were railway workers. FILM ID 3362 -- Camera Rolls #4-7 -- 01:00:00 to 01:13:26 Gawkowski and a Polish choir sing "W mogile ciemnej ?pij na wieki," a Gregorian-chant style fu...

  16. Hand knitted wool sweater made after liberation from donated materials

    Sweater made by Frances Oxenhandler with material received from the Joint Distribution Committee.

  17. Displaced persons at Zeilsheim camp around 1947

    Quick pan of men with a flag at the Zeilsheim Displaced Persons camp in Germany. A young child eats an apple and stares at the camera. Posters tacked to tree trunks showing photographs of men and writing in Hebrew. 00:00:38 Outdoors, an archway decorated with a menorah, a star of David, and Hebrew/English inscriptions, including "Jewish Scout Camp". A large number of scouts -- teenaged boys and girls in uniform -- stand in rows while a white flag bearing a star of David is raised. Children and adults march behind the flag bearers. In Wiesbaden (?). A woman, possibly Lorna Adelman, with a wo...

  18. Dr. Sievers on the stand at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 354) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, August 8, 1946. HAS, MSs, British prosecutor Mr. Jones questioning the witness Dr. Sievers. The cross-examination concerns the decapitation of concentration camp victims and sending the skulls to laboratories for pathological research. Pan shot of defendants (Goering) in prisoners' dock. Repeated mention is made of a report by Prof. Hirt, who was mainly responsible for the "acquisition" of skeletons and skulls. Sievers repeatedly delegates questions away from him to the report, prosecutor's assistance repeatedly points to the fact that he ...

  20. Outtakes from a comedy film about a family eating (3 reels)

    Outtakes from Lizzy Kessler's comedy film "Familie Unterernährt isst Gansl Lustspiel in 2 akten" (RG-60.7029)