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  1. Dorothy Powell collection

    The collection consists of two training manuals.

  2. March of Time -- outtakes -- Refugees in France and Amsterdam

    667 J (01:00:12): At the "Comite Francais d'Assistance aux Refugees," branch of the American Joint Distribution Committee in Paris. The Committee provides legal and juridicial advice, to help the refugees stay in France and prepare their definitive settlement in some country. LS, relief (money) provided to Austrian refugee. CU, refugee signing receipt. LS, crowd refugees waiting in line. LS, refugees waiting in the lobby of the "Comite d'Assistance," and showing papers to officials of the Committee. MS, table where refugees show their identification papers to employee. Same, another angle. ...

  3. Concentration camp uniform cap worn by a Jewish German man

    Concentration camp uniform cap issued to Werner Sauer while interned in Stutthof concentration camp as a German marine deserter in early 1945. The cap is lined with cloth because German military deserters were treated better than Jewish prisoners. The hats Werner had been issued previously as a Jewish inmate were not lined. Werner saved the cap, and refused to ever have it cleaned, as evidence of his ordeal. On January 27, 1942, Werner and his parents, Leo and Auguste, were deported from Gelsenkirchen, Germany, to Riga, Latvia. Werner, a skilled bricklayer, was eventually transferred to Len...

  4. Lenger at Koenigstein in winter

    “W.L. Film 62,” “ Kriegsjahre auf der Festung Königstein.” Walter Lenger in his uniform filming with his camera, the Elbe river in the background. Intertitle: “Winter.” A model train snakes along a train track. Walter Lenger in a train car. The landscape outside shot from the train window. People on an icy river. A handwritten sign reads “Eisübergang.” Men walk across wooden planks on the frozen body of water. Other views of the landscape. Walter Lenger explores a snowy forest. Men walk single file across the snow and towards the camera. Panoramic view of a winding river. Walter salutes ano...

  5. Isaac Sevi recordings

    Recording of Isaac Sevi singing traditional songs in Ladino and possibly Hebrew. The recording is on an audiocassette.

  6. Deutsche Arbeitsfront booklet

    Consists of one Deutsche Arbeitsfront booklet, which was issued to Karl Röder in Koblenz, Germany, in 1938. The booklet notes his administrative post as Altenkirchen 02. Aside from the identification information and printed text, the booklet is almost entirely blank.

  7. Doctor testifies about Frick at Nuremberg Trial

    War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 11, 1946. Dr. Franz Blaha testifying on stand and being cross examined by several defense attorneys. One defense attorney questions Blaha as to Funk's visit to Dachau: when exactly he had visited. Attorney of Frick says that his defendant claims not to have ever been to Dachau. He asks Blaha from which distance he thinks to have seen Frick there. Blaha responds Frick passed by him with several people. Attorney asks if Blaha recognized Frick himself or was told by other prisoners that this was Frick. Blaha responds he had seen Frick before in se...

  8. Sightseeing in Berlin and German-occupied Paris

    Side street. German officer stands next to a car: “M30 Pf4 4 To.” He kneels beside the car and talks to a mechanic working underneath it. He climbs up to the driver’s seat. River. People ride bikes. The Schlossbrücke bridge in Mitte, Berlin, with the Berliner Dom in the BG. The Pont d'Iéna bridge across the River Seine in Paris, and the Eiffel tower. Large building with a dome. Other Paris buildings. The Luxor Obelisk at the Place de la Concorde, with the L'église de la Madeleine in the BG shot from the Pont de la Concorde. The Arc de Triomphe on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées. Corner of Rue...

  9. Prayer book

  10. Frank Caplan collection

    Contains a typewritten statement given by former political prisoner Rudolf Hess of Bad Cannstatt (Stuttgart), Germany, to Lt. Frank Caplan (donor’s father) at Schwäbisch Hall, Germany, on May 18, 1945. The report documents former Hess’s arrest by Nazi authorities in 1943 and his imprisonment in the Dachau concentration camp, where he was subjected to medical experimentation. Hess was then transported to another concentration camp and, after an eight-day journey, arrived at Neuengamme concentration camp where he was a forced laborer. Hess was transferred to Stuttgart to be interrogated and t...

  11. Vichy recruits for German Army

    Good HA establishing shot of Place des Invalides in Paris as (Secretary of State of Vichy government) Joseph Darnand administers oath of allegiance to French recruits of the German Army. Quick shot of Darnand. Recruits in uniforms and berets kneel on pavement. VS onlookers in courtyard and pairs of women looking down from above. CU tricolor banner that says "Francaise" and has an unidentified symbol at center. CU men kneeling; they salute. LS men at attention in courtyard. Shot of banner again. LS March out through iron-grill gate to Arc de Triomphe. Several shots of tomb of France's unknow...

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

    Calling card for Lizzy Hirschfeld 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.

  13. Star of David badge with a yellow star on a black circle worn by a Jewish Romanian woman

    Circular cloth Star of David patch that 21 year old Angela Weissmann was forced to wear in Piatra Neamt, Romania, ca. 1941-1945. In November 1940, the fascist government of General Antonescu joined the Axis Alliance. They immediately put in place policies to persecute Jews, such as the requirement that Jews wear a Jewish star badge on their clothing at all times. The antisemitic regime also supported increasingly violent attacks and pogroms against the Jewish population.

  14. Romani children in an orphanage in Germany

    MLS, MS, and MCU of Romani and other children playing on a courtyard under the supervision of a nun (dressed in full habit) in Josefspflege orphanage in Mulfingen, Germany. LS girls in a circle, playing an orderly game with the nun. Boys too. Some stare at camera. Girls in braided pigtails, bows, smocks. Crowding around camera (VQ: a bit softer). Lunchtime outside. Children wearing blue uniforms (color improves). CU of lovely faces, innocent, happy. They clown and compete for the camera. Boys play in courtyard, carry shoes. MCU playing with marble on board. Picking apples up in a tree.

  15. 1000 Year Anniversary Celebration in Eschweiler, Rhineland

    Parade, Catholic parish, festival, marketplace, mass choir, theatre performance

  16. Tracking shot from train

    Tracking shot from train, passing houses, trees, fields.

  17. A family's daily life in Belgium during World War II

    Family home movies documenting the de Brouwer family at their home in St Denis-Westrem, near Ghent, Belgium. A man in a suit poses while sitting on the ground near a gathering of trees. A woman rides her bike and looks at the camera. The man and woman ride together in the countryside. 00:00:34 Denise and Carl de Brouwer and their 5 children ride bikes to Ghent to view the bomb-damaged Bellem church in September 1940. CUs of church spire and niche statues. A crowd gathers. 00:00:59 The de Brouwers' Jersey cows graze in the yard. Carl bought the cows to independently produce milk and surplus ...

  18. City children

    Street kids in Berlin, Playground in Neukölln, Sail on the Havel

  19. Crocodile hunting in Asia

    Somewhere in Asia, possibly Cambodia or Vietnam. At riverside, bird, men on expedition, canoeing, hunting crocodiles with a spear. Larger boat with flag passes in BG. Men feed the crocodiles. LS, landscape, view of men in knee-deep waters herding the crocodiles, slapping wooden sticks in the water, pulling crocodile on muddy ridge.

  20. Louis Lex, Jr. collection

    Contains a black-and-white photographic print of a pile of corpses in the newly-liberated Dachau concentration camp, kept in an envelope from Rays Photo Service, La Crosse, Wisconsin; no inscription on verso. The image was part of a series taken by the Yugoslav Prisoner Committee and widely distributed to American soldiers; dated May 4, 1945. Acquired by Private Louis Lex, Jr. (donor’s father) who served in the US Army during WWII as a member of the 66th Black Panther Division, 264th Regiment, 3rd Battalion, Company L.