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  1. Portfolio

    Print from a set of 24 published rotogravures of drawings by Jerzy Zielezinski depicting scenes he witnessed from 1943-1945 while a political prisoner in Auschwitz and Flossenbürg concentration camps.

  2. Glass plate negative of Dachau at liberation

    Detailed image of corpse; negative in an Agfa film box with a label in French.

  3. Leaders in Warsaw; 30 Jan 1939 at Reichstag, Hitler threatens destruction of European Jews if war comes again; Torch parade

    05:46:37 Quick shot of event at night with soldiers in long coats. In Warsaw, von Ribbentrop with Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs Colonel Beck. Memorial wreath presented during ceremony for "Polish Ehrenmahl." Old German military leaders, distinguished-looking, sitting at table, conversing. President Ignacy Moscicki is among them. 05:47:43 Berlin, 30 January 1939. Sixth anniversary of the Nazi seizure of power. Decorated streets with banners, night. Hitler arriving at the Reichstag, motorcade, crowd heiling in BG. Marching on street, entering Reichstag, speaking about the Jews from a pod...

  4. Sailing on "Ile de France"

    Family footage of the Herz family vacation in Europe in 1937. Footage shows images of Jewish-American life before World War II with its European roots. Jacob's wife walks towards the camera on board the "Ile de France." Belle and Judith play ring toss on the upper deck. Jacob and his wife lounge in chaises. High angle shot nuns aboard boat, on deck. MS, sea, other passengers, sailors. MS, Jacob Herz poses for camera. Sailors. Brief shot of people playing shuffleboard.

  5. Recycling of Polish books into Nazi-approved books; anti-Semitic propaganda

    A woman's hands are shown tearing apart books and placing the pages in a basket. Most of the titles are in Polish, but one is "Bismarck" by Emil Ludwig. In an obviously staged scene, three Jews are shown shaking their heads, presumably in dismay at the destruction of the books. One of them wears an armband. More shots of the hands tearing pages, then the interior of a paper recycling facility, with huge piles of book pages. Workers throw the pages into a large receptacle, where they are ground into a powder by large stone wheels. The rest of the recycling process is shown. The end products ...

  6. VE Day in Washington, DC

    Downtown traffic on Pennsylvania Avenue, U.S. Congress building, automobile traffic, buses, trolleys, pedestrians. Hotel Washington. WS of the White House, flag at half mast for FDR's death. EXT, the Navy Department and the Department of the Interior. Military and civilians entering building. Pedestrians and street traffic. CU of "Washington Afro-American" newspaper front page title: WAR ENDS IN EUROPE. Front page of "Jewish Journal and Daily News" in Hebrew. Woman at gates of the White House. Group of naval officers and civilians enter Navy Department. DC newsstand with V-E Day headlines.

  7. Prewar Pacanow and Aleksandrów, Poland

    Home movies taken by Abraham (Abe) Hershkowitz while visiting family in Pacanow and Aleksandrów, Poland in 1934 including local villagers, street scenes in Pacanow, family members, water carrier, children's home, and a market.

  8. Julius Simon family collection

    The collection consist of artifacts, clippings, correspondence, documents photograph prints and album relating to the experiences of Julius and Gerda Bundheim Simon and their daughter Lore before the Holocaust in Karlsruhe, Germany, and in the United States after their 1939 emigration.

  9. German Generals confer at Eastern Front; Hitler and Mussolini arrive by plane; other OKH commanders

    Reel 2: 00:38:30 Local civilians: women, children, men, bearded old men. CUs of local men reading a paper, children laughing and an older man gesturing (obviously wants something) to someone off screen. Friendly exchange between a German with a pail and locals. He hands out candy to a crowd of gathered local children, CUs of children smiling and eating candy. Reel 4: 00:40:03 Group of military officers conferring, numerous military vehicles waiting and traveling along a road. Sign: "General". Soldiers play for officers and others: violin, two accordions, percussion. General Zorn and others....

  10. Hagana Troops

    Men walking through streets of Jerusalem. Suitcases sign on wall of old city. CUs, woman and her children. Crowd gathered in square. Hagana troops on jeep. CUs, moving villagers on truck, boat. Dead bodies. Aerial shot of buildings. Soldiers on truck with thumbs up. Boys walking towards camera with guns. Weapons moved onto cart. Sandbags block streets. Civilians searched. Hagana officer guards captured Palestinians. Villagers interrogated. Walking with belongings in streets. HAS, city. Civilians walking on streets. Holding portraits. Women with belongings carried on top of their heads. Sold...

  11. Charles Bartfeld collection

    The collection consists of a butter mold, wooden stamps, medals, documents, copies of memoirs, photographs, and photocopies relating to the experiences of the Bartfeld family, owners of a dairy business in Vienna, Austria, before and during the Holocaust and after their emigration to Palestine.

  12. Eichmann Trial -- Session 29 -- Testimonies of A. Aviel and H. Behrendt

    Session 29. Court is adjourned. There are shots of the audience, frontals of the courtroom, and a conversation between Defense Attorney Dr. Robert Servatius and Adolf Eichmann. Following a blip at 00:05:21, excerpts from Tape 2040 with witness Avraham Aviel are repeated. He discusses the liquidation of the Radun ghetto, and his escape to the group of Jewish men being used for labor. After joining the second group, Aviel recounts the death of his mother and younger brother: "Only afterward did I learn that I had been the only one who somehow managed to escape from that situation." Aviel disc...

  13. Begging; shops with food; children smuggling (staged)

    Beggars by shop window full of food. Woman buys lavish sweets from vendor. VAR shots of stores full of goods. Boy tries to steal a loaf of bread and shop-owner swats at him with a stick, then looks into camera. Children break through and then come through hole in brick wall, smuggling food. Note: Ghetto diaries document the staging of these scenes.

  14. Unger family bids farewell to relatives in Polish village

    Grainy footage of the Polish Ungers standing by the sitting American Ungers. The little Unger cousins peer at the camera and roam about. Camera pans over the forest in the BG and lumber in the FG. 01:25:47 Monument in the middle of the village of Niebylec. The local constable walks by the camera. A man carrying a sack walks by with a cow; it is Market Day. Kalman Unger walks up a hill towards the camera. Livestock among the townspeople. A woman sells bread out of her wagon. Morris sits among children. A woman stands on the balcony rocking a baby. The Ungers prepare to leave and drive to Cra...

  15. Delousing DPs; medical examination; interview w/ Russian DP

    (LIB 3385-3390) Displaced Persons, Verviers, Belgium, February 10-13, 1945. MSs, MCUs, delousing displaced persons. Short scene, small child and woman undergo medical examination. MCU, US Army officer through German/Russian interpreter, interviews a Russian displaced person. The security examination of the Russian reveals that he served with the Russian army and was captured by the Germans in 1943, hospitalized for six months, and returned to the German front as a forced labor battalion member.

  16. March of Time -- outtakes -- Protest against British appeasement of Germany over the Sudetenland

    A protest and march organized by the International Peace Campaign demanding that Britain take action against Germany if they seize the Sudetenland. The clips are out of chronological order. The first scene shows a large crowd in Trafalgar square. A banner reads: "Stand by Czechoslovakia! No plebiscite!" The camera pans across the huge crowd. The next shots show the protesters marching toward Downing Street; the framing of the shots is uneven. Some of the protesters hold their fists aloft and some carry signs. According to the dope sheet, the procession was turned back before it could reach ...

  17. March of Time -- outtakes -- Liberation of Paris

    Paris Liberation, 1946-1947. FFI men carying stretcher waving Red Cross flag, carrying wounded man. Holding captured Nazi flag. Captured collaborators being marched along by a group of FFI. French young woman having her head shaved. Tearing down German posters. Hitler's picture lying among the rubble in the street. Pan of Notre Dame. Men with machine guns.

  18. Classroom lessons, postwar

    Boys seated at desks in a classroom with a teacher. Boys stand up and pack up books. Two boys begin roughhousing, the teacher takes one of them by the arm and leads him away. Teacher talks to the boy while gesturing at a paper. Boy takes paper and leaves. CU, boy’s face. CU boys smiling, looking at the paper. CU boy’s feet swinging under the desk. Shot over the boy's shoulder of drawings of boxers. Teacher sees boys looking at paper during class and takes it away. CU hands holding bucket, tapping with a brush. (04:30) Woman in coat jogs across street and walks through a gate. Door with sign...

  19. Selected records of the Office of the District Starosta in Łódź Starostwo Grodzkie Łódzkie (Sygn. 334) : Wybrane materiały

    Cases and registers of foreigners, and the index of Polish citizenship certificates.

  20. Anthony George Bello photographs

    Contains six post-liberation concentration camp photographs obtained by Anthony George Bello (donor's father), a member of Patton’s Third Army, Eighth Armored Division. Anthony obtained the photographs from an unknown source but also witnessed the atrocities first-hand. Images are large format, news press images of German women burying the dead in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany; images of the dead piled up in Buchenwald concentration camp; the crematoria at an unidentified camp; and Eisenhower viewing the dead in Ohrdruf concentration camp.