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  1. Translations and murder of Jews discussed at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 373) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, November 22, 1945. MCU, LS, Dr. Dix, counsel for Hjalmar Schacht speaking before the court about their rights of objection. Pan from Dr. Dix to side view of the eight judges. Dr. Dix has trouble with his earphones and is assisted by several US officers. LS, Dr. Dix facing tribunal as voice of Lord Geoffrey Lawrence, Chief Justice, is heard to say that the best possible translations will be made and that they would be able to object to any document offered. Dr. Dix thanks the Tribunal and moves off. Major Frank Wallis tells of the Nazi plan ...

  2. Dorothy Thompson speaks out after being expelled from Germany

    Fox Movietone News Story 23-139. Filmed on August 28, 1934. Journalist Dorothy Thompson, wife of novelist and playwright Sinclair Lewis, speaking on being expelled from Germany because of newspaper articles written in 1932 against Hitler and the Nazi Party. Thompson speaks on her expulsion, censorship by German government, and German treatment of foreign correspondents.

  3. Buchenwald liberation photograph collection

    Collection of seven photographic prints taken after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Includes images of victims bodies and ashes found in the camp, inside the crematoria, and the entrance of the camp.

  4. Men review book; woman in fashionable dress

    Men sitting at table inside office building, chalkboard in BG, looking at book. MS, woman in white dress and hat.

  5. Ervin Abadi collection

    The collection consists of eighty-six artworks created by Ervin Abadi while hospitalized after his liberation from Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in April 1945.

  6. Nordhausen; dead US soldiers; demolition of Nazi swastika at Nuremberg stadium

    (LIB 5663) V Weapon Plant and Dead Workers. Nordhausen, Germany. 15 Apr 45 Maj Gen J Lawton Collins, Commander VII Corps, Third Army, followed by officers and men examines bodies of Nazi slave laborers and tours the grounds of weapons plant. CU, Gen Collins looking at corpse. CU, corpse with name and nationality written upon chest: "Orlich, Yuogoslave". (LIB 5787) Moscow Nazi Murder, Eller Str., Hilden, Germany. 18 Apr 45 MSs, US officer interviews Russian civilian near wrecked M-4 tank of the 13th Army Div. MS, bodies of three US soldiers of the 13th Army Div tank who were taken prisoners ...

  7. Frieder estate in Manila; family visits Baguio

    Pan of the Frieder family villa exteriors in Manila, including gardens, grounds, lush vegetation. People work in the large garden. View of Manila beyond the estate from roof(?) of villa. 00:02:56 Brief shot of the girls at play followed by views of the grounds at Camp John Hay in Baguio City in 1933. Jane and Peggy Frieder with their nanny and toys. 00:03:58 The girls pose with their dolls by a decorated Christmas tree in the garden. 00:04:08 An American flag waves, mountains visible in the distance. HAV of camp's amphitheater. 00:04:19 Jane, Peggy, and their Filipino nanny walk down a stee...

  8. March of Time -- outtakes -- Tito's Partisans

    Uniformed and armed partisans marching through the streets of a town and across a field. Shots of male partisans receiving instructions from a commander (close-ups of commander), then saluting. The commander chats with the troops; good close-ups of male and female partisans. The scene switches to the interior of a partisan barracks. British, American and Soviet flags are visible on the walls. The soldiers are at leisure, sitting or lying on the floor, smoking and reading. One writes a letter. Outdoors again, two female partisans are shown helping two small girls down a flight of steps. The ...

  9. Alter and Dora Edelman Skwarny Collection

    The collection consists of photogrpahs depicting the Skwarny and Edelman families and documents regarding Alter and Dwora Skwarny's immigration to Canada in 1948.

  11. New Yorker magazine collection

    Two covers of The New Yorker magazine: one dated August 1, 1936 and the other dated June 10, 1939.

  12. Gaumont British Newsreel (Reuters) -- Czech Jewish refugees arrive in Britain

    Appeal for Czech Jewish refugees who have arrived in Britain following the occupation of Czechoslovakia by Germany. The appeal was broadcast by Earl(?) Baldwin. Footage shows Baldwin at his desk, refugees at a tent camp, INTs mess hall, girls cleaning barracks, and young men writing letters.

  14. American Red Cross; Defendants enter dock at Nuremberg Trial

    03:30:00 (Paris 408) American Red Cross Activities, Wiesbaden and Frankfurt, Germany, December 1-2, 1945. LS, EXT of American Red Cross HQ building. MS, CU, two soldiers reading announcement of symphony concert sponsored by the Red Cross. CU, sign over entrance: "American Red Cross Headquarters, Occupied Territory." Shots in the Palm Garden Club in Frankfurt. A few soldiers and Red Cross girl look at globe of the world and walk in the glass-roofed conservatory. SEQ: American Red Cross Eagle Club building. Soldier and his bride enter and leave club; soldiers shower them with rice and congrat...

  15. Dunson family at Christian mission; baptism; baseball; church

    At the Kiamichi Mountain Christian Mission in Nashoba, Oklahoma, where Harold Dunson and his family were sent as missionaries in 1947. MS, man baptizing woman in lake. MS, MCU two pigs on a dirt road, eating grass. MCU, young boy bathing in bucket, goats drinking bath water. MS, panning group portrait, young men and women outside church. MLS, men playing baseball. VS, men, women, children posing for camera. VS, men, women, children exiting church.

  16. Belsen: German camp personnel identify themselves; British officers describe conditions; Hadassah Rosensaft speaks

    Testimony about camp given by former inmates, SS men and women, in German, Polish, and English. MCU, Dr. Fritz Klein speaks in German about his experience in Bergen Belsen. In BG, SS continue to bury corpses in pit. Same introduction in CU. MCU, Hela Goldstein speaks in German. Commanding Officer speaks in English, stands in front of chalkboard graph, "Most unpleasant task has been making SS, of which there are about 50, bury the dead...buried about 17,000...expect to bury about half as much again. When we came here, the conditions were indescribable. The people had had no food for six days...

  17. Nobel prize winners

    "Nobel Prizes Presented in Sweden" - newsreel fanfare. In Stockholm, Sweden, amid traditional regal pageantry, the Nobel Prizes are awarded by King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden. Brief shots of Max Born, German professor, receiving Nobel Physics Prize. Five Americans are Nobel Prize recipients: Dr. Linus Pauling of the California Institute of Technology in the field of chemistry; Drs. John F. Enders of the Harvard University Medical School, Frederick C. Robbins of Cleveland's Western Reserve Medical School and Thomas H. Weller of the Harvard School of Public Heath in Medicine-Physiology. Famed ...

  18. Germany Awake!

    Summary of film: Recounts Germany's wartime experience and encourages German citizens to help effect a successful peace. Reel 2: Survivors of atrocities are treated. Atrocities at Lublin, Poland, are described and bodies are shown. The Nazi race myth is decried as crematories are shown.

  19. Hanna plays alone, then with Thomas and Lieberman family adults in the yard of their home, and finally bathing

    Hanna plays with a very small wagon. Around her neck is some kind of purse. She puts many things in the wagon, and then walks around pulling it. She runs into another girl. Benedikt holds his daughter. Grandfather Sperber (older man with beard) hugs Thomas. Hanna gives Thomas a kiss, and then they play. The car drives past, they look on in wonderment. They walk up to the car with a nurse, and get in. Cut to the children in a wash basin taking a bath. They both splash wildly and play with sticks.

  20. Londner family collection

    Collection of documents, identification cards, and correspondence relating to Gedalia Londner (b. 1912 in Bedzin, Poland) and his wife Maria Mania Silbiger (b. 1918 in Oświęcim, Poland). The collection includes correspondence regarding reparations; a certificate stating that Mr. Londner was a Polish citizen; a certificate stating that Mr. Londner was a political refugee; a Ketubah of their wedding, dated March 12, 1948; a German ID issued to Maria Silbiger (later Londner) dated February 1947; and a UN certificate for Mr. Londner.