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  2. March of Time -- outtakes -- Sweden

    1021 E (04:00:40): View of Swedish Foreign Office in Stockholm. Christian Gunther, Swedish Foreign Minister, in his office at the Swedish Foreign Office, smoking, looking at papers. Various shots, CUs. VS Por Ablin Anson, Prime Minister, in his private office in the Kanslihuset (slightly underexposed). Looking at papers on desk, CU, Anson. Cabinet meeting in Kanslihuset, Stockholm. Members of the Swedish cabinet with the Prime Minister as president. CU, Swedish Foreign Minister (Gunther) on the immediate right of the Prime Minister (Anson). LS and CU of the cabinet, ministers in council. 10...

  3. Nazi Party Rally

    Title on screen: "Parteitag der Freiheit." Reich Party Day in Nuremberg, 9/10-9/16, 1935. Music plays over a view of a hall filled with Party members standing at attention in front of a large Swastika flag backdrop. The front row is composed of high-ranking leaders, including Hitler, Hess, Streicher, others. The camera pans slowly to an empty podium, then back to the Party leaders. Hess approaches the podium, salutes, and announces the opening of the seventh Reich Party congress. Low aerial shots of the huge crowd, and shots of other leaders, including Goering, Frank, Rosenberg, Goebbels (l...

  4. Documentary re: the Slovak State (part 2)

    Shop on Obchodna Street, with a gardist flag and a swastika, sign saying "non-Jewish business." Hitler Youth parade. Flags in the street. Women and children going to church in a village, a child in the arms of a German soldier. Guarded entrance to the building of the Central Customs Office in Bratislava. Poster: Anti-Bolshevik exposition. Guarded Telegraph Office. 00:21:00 Broken shop window of Samuel Eckstein's candy shop in Bratislava. Bridge from Petrzalka, Bratislava. Building with broken windows, Primate's Square, palace with flags. Military column, guarded building, parade of civilian...

  5. Hitler's retreat: Goebbels, Himmler, Hitler, dogs, children

    Reel 2 of the private motion pictures of Eva Braun (Seized Enemy Records). COLOR Panoramic view from the terrace of Hitler's Berghof retreat, Haus Wachenfeld. Eva Braun greets Josef Goebbels as he arrives in a Mercedes-Cabriolet and comes upstairs to Berghof. Hitler with his physician, Dr. Karl Brandt. New arrivals up the steps to Berghof. Heinrich Himmler, Reinhard Heydrich, Karl Wolff, close views on the terrace. Also with one other man. Panning shots over mountains at sunset. Hitler using large magnifying glass to look at photograph; with Julius Schaub and Hermann Esser. Berghof, August ...

  6. "Die Geschichte von Walter und Irmgard Stern"

    Contains one article entitled "Die Geschichte von Walter und Irmgard Stern," by Gerhard Heckelmann. In this article, Mr. Heckelmann describes making contact with the family of Walter and Irmgard Stern, who were originally from Mensfelden, Germany, part of a small Jewish community consisting of the villages of Dauborn, Heringen, Kirberg and Mensfelden. The article describes the Sterns' Holocaust experiences.

  7. Romani orchestra in restaurant

    MS, MCU, and CU of several takes of Romani people ("gypsies" according to USC catalog) playing in a small "orchestra" in a not-very-busy restaurant. Musicians dressed in suits.

  8. Martin Smith papers

    The collection consists of three passenger tickets from the ghetto in Łódź, Poland.

  9. March of Time -- outtakes -- The Russian Front

    The Russian Front. Russian Newsreel. Shots of artillery firing, shells exploding. Russian bombers (squadron) in flight. Russian tanks advancing. CU, observer in tank. INT, tank driver. Line of Russian soldiers advancing. Dead German soldiers. Road signs in German. German prisoners under Russian Guard. Slave laborers behind barbed wire. Russian peasants helping children (mostly girls) out of dugout. INT, slave labor camp. Russian soldier carrying children out of camp, into truck.

  10. Yaakov Borenstein collection

    The collection consists of a prayer-book found by Marguit Loewy Borenstein [donor's mother] in Auschwitz concentration camp in 1945 and a photograph of Marguit and her sister, Terka Loewy (b. 1928), taken in Nové Město, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic), during the summer of 1945 soon after their liberation from Auschwitz.

  11. De Gaulle's inspection tour; honoring heroes of Warsaw; V-2 rockets in Cuxhaven; Dachau orphans

    Welt im Film. Issue no. 25 (part) Title: Inspektionsreise General de Gaulles [General de Gaulle's inspection tour]. General de Gaulle tours the French occupied zone of Germany, beginning in Saarbruecken. The general rides in an open car and crowds line the streets. Many of those in the crowd wave French flags. De Gaulle greets French troops (some of them colonial troops) and inhabitants of Mainz. Shots of destroyed buildings in Mainz. His car drives past the Westwall fortifications. De Gaulle greets women dressed in ethnic costume. On the third day of his journey de Gaulle reaches the city ...

  12. Hermann family correspondence

    The Hermann family correspondence consists of letters and postcards written by Sophie, Julius, and Gerda Hermann in Munich and Brussels, Paul and Ruth Bohrmann in New York, and Elise Bickart in Munich and shared with Kurt and Gertrude Hermann in Cuba and Florida. The correspondence relates news about the Hermann, Bickart, and Bohrmann families and their relatives and friends, condolences on Julius’ death, and efforts to bring Hermann and Bickart relatives to America.

  13. Eva Salier papers

    Consists of 13 letters sent by Eva Salier in the Vught concentration camp, to her mother's assistant in Amsterdam.

  14. Belsen: Loading women's corpses onto truck

    Germans/Nazis heaving women's brittle flattened bodies on back of flatbed truck. (GRAPHIC FOOTAGE)

  15. Catheryne Morgen photograph collection

    The collection consists of pages from a scrapbook that contain photographs of the Ilkovic family before World War II in Vrútky, Slovakia, and photographs of Catheryne after the war in Bad Gastein, Austria, and Lido di Roma, Italy.

  16. Helen Rotenberg Goldberger manuscript

    Consists of one manuscript, 10 pages, written by Dr. David Goldberger about his wife, Helen Rotenberg Goldberger. In the text, he describes the facts he knows of his wife's early years, though she did not speak often about that period. Originally from Malecz, Poland [now Belarus], she was sent to the ghetto in Pruzhany after the German invasion of eastern Poland in 1941. Helen managed to escape the ghetto and spent the war in the forest [possibly the Pripet marshes]; after the war, she learned that the majority of her family had been killed. Helen emigrated to the United States; married an ...

  17. Ferencz: German industry, slave labor, compensation

    Audio recording of the German television program "Vernichtung durch Arbeit" that aired November 1984. Program is based on Benjamin Ferencz's authoritative book on slave labor: "Less Than Slaves," Harvard University Press, 1979. The book deals with the Nazi program of Vernichtung durch Arbeit [destruction through work] in which millions were coerced into labor by German industrialists for the Nazi war machine. The book also explains the quest of survivors to get compensation from the West German government. TAPE 1, 2 SIDES.

  18. Allied Invasion

    Part 1: Winston Churchill and Jan Christian Smuts wish luck to Allied troops boarding landing craft. General Eisenhower broadcasts to the French people. Shows street scene in London. Airborne troops board planes. The Navy and Air Force blast Normandy shore positions. Part 2: U.S. troops enter Rome. Shows General Clark. Stalin and Marshal Zhukov review Russian troops. Part 3: The 9th Air Force bombs German positions and airborne troops land in Normandy. General Eisenhower and General Montgomery inspect the beach positions.

  19. Blake and Anna Schiff papers

    Documents, correspondence, identification papers, and photographs regarding the Holocaust-era experiences of Blake and Anna Schiff in the Warsaw Ghetto, Grodno, and in hiding in Novosiolki. Biographical material includes documents regarding Blake’s education and employment in the United States, Blake’s false identity card under the name Stephan Podolski used in post-war Poland, and social security cards. Correspondence includes letters sent by Blake to Mary and Helene Daily, his aunt and cousin in the United States, regarding his efforts to immigrate to the U.S. in 1939 as a student, and sc...

  20. Oral history interview with Leonard Hilton