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  1. Former French officials; Jewish services; German soldiers returned

    01:13:46 (LIB 6421) Former French Officials, Augsburg, Germany, May 7, 1945. EXTs, Lt Gen Alexander M. Patch, Commander of US Seventh Army, talks with French officials liberated by unit. INT, CUs, Gen Maxime Weygand, Gen Maurice Gamelin, Paul Reynaud, Edouard Daladier, Madame Caillan, sister of Gen De Gaulle. 01:14:58 (LIB 6516) Jewish Services, Dachau, Germany, May 7, 1945. VS, US Army Jewish chaplains conduct services in concentration camp. CUs, various individuals (unidentified) attending services. (Some are weeping.) 01:17:17 (LIB 6517) German Soldiers Being Returned to Russians, Griebe...

  2. Medical kit

  3. German campaign in Poland: Polish POWs; Warsaw; German military

    Summary: The German viewpoint of events prior to and during the Polish campaign. Reel 7: shows masses of abandoned equipment and Polish POWs. German and Russian units meet. Hitler poses in front of besieged Warsaw. German armor and infantry enter the city after its capitulation.

  4. Schiffmann and Fischer families collection

    This collection includes a letter written by Max and Bernhard Schiffmann in the Dachau concentration camp to Olga Schiffmann (Max's wife), in German, on camp letterhead; Document for the release of Max Schiffmann from Buchenwald, dated February 22, 1939; two letters from Chaim Sharfstein in Staten Island to his cousin Max Schiffmann, September and November 1939, in Yiddish; Four photographs depicting Ewa Fischer (donor's late mother-in-law) who left Vienna on the Kindertransport; negative showing the department store of brothers Schiffmann in Vienna before the war; Olga Schiffmann (b. Septe...

  5. Ribbentrop visits Italy; Hungarian takeover of East Slovakia

    Reel 1. VS of German and Italian soldiers. Reviewing troops, parade, etc. Official visit of Joachim von Ribbentrop to Italy. Ciano, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, is also present. He and Ribbentrop converse inside a place. People cheering and waving in the streets, carrying large letters that spell out "DUCE". 00:57:00 Hungarian takeover of East Slovakia. Hungarian troops enter easternmost town of East Slovakia (closest to Ukrainian border). Troops march through streets, welcomed by crowds of civilians with flowers, banners, etc. CU of older man, a decorated war veteran with many meda...

  6. Gauleiter speaks; parade for NSDAP convention in Bad Zwischenahn

    Title, "Vorbeimarsch vor dem Gauleiter". A parade on June 4 at 3:30pm marches past Carl Röver, the Gauleiter of Weser-Ems from 1929 until his death in 1942. He is standing in a blue Mercedes. The Nazi District Administration headquarters building is behind the Gauleiter and adorned with Nazi flags and eagle insignias. 00:03:42 A street sign points toward "Fährhaus." The parade includes World War One veterans, the Hitler Youth, mounted cavalry and soldiers from various military branches, the Deutsche Arbeitsfront, and the SS. 00:07:47 Title, "Der Gauleiter spricht". Gauleiter Carl Röver spea...

  7. Troops meet at Torgau; Buchenwald, German civilians; German planes destroyed; rations

    Aerial shots. 08:03:21 Torgau, Germany. High military personnel, generals. Soviet and American soldiers seated outside at banquet, chatting, talking, dancing with each other (accordion player). Soviet flag. Big group of men. Three soldiers in front of "East Meets West" sign. CU, three soldiers. Street scene, red and white banner in Russian and English "Long Live The Victory of...." Alliance with America, British, and Soviet flag. Pan of soldiers. CU, soldiers in street with two women, chatting and flirting. Soldiers milling around field. Shell. MS, LS river, soldiers rowing boats. "East Mee...

  8. Choir practice in the New Synagogue in Berlin on the night before Yom Kippur, 1932

    LS of Cantor Leo Gollanin as he sings the Kol Nidre in front of a choir on the evening before Yom Kippur in 1932 in Berlin's New Synagogue. Closer views of Gollanin and the female choir behind him.

  9. Naomi Handelman collection

    Album pages containing photographs and documents collected by Naomi Handelman, a Hebrew University student, who arrived in Palestine in 1947. Includes imags of Jerusalem, Haifa, Kibbutz Mishmarot, Kiryat Anavim and other locations.

  11. Photographic print, entrance to the historic court of Rabbi Gedaliah

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn613747
    • English
    • overall: Height: 10.880 inches (27.635 cm) | Width: 13.880 inches (35.255 cm) pictorial area: Height: 10.500 inches (26.67 cm) | Width: 13.500 inches (34.29 cm)

    Gelatin silver print of the entrance to the historic court of Rabbi Gedaliah in the Jewish district of Lublin, ca. 1935-38.

  12. Landsberg camp and burials

    (LIB 6198) Stalag #4 Concentration Camp, Landsberg, Germany, April 29, 1945. US soldiers of the 103rd Division, VI Corps, Seventh US Army, round up civilian work detail and load men with picks and shovels into trucks. MS, CUs German civilians bury bodies of Jewish political prisoners. INT underground barracks used to house the prisoners. CUs emaciated bodies of dead Jews in the camp. CUs and long pan, double barbed wire fence surrounding camp. CU partially burned bodies are removed from buliding. MS, CUs several of the living inmates.

  13. Zehava Bendor papers

    Collection of photographs, identification cards, correspondence, and other documents relating to the experiences of the Dars and Bernstein families during the Holocaust.

  14. March of Time -- outtakes -- American soldiers fighting in St. Malo, France

    Fighting in an around St. Malo, France. A horse-drawn cart with several women in it rides past a street sign that has arrows pointing in the directions of Rennes and St. Malo. The scene switches to show a plane in the air over the countryside. Smoke rises from the ground. Back on the ground, an American soldier surveys the scene through binoculars. Two soldiers aim a 75mm gun at the town of St. Malo. Landscape of destroyed buildings with a plane flying overhead. More shots of the soldiers loading and firing big guns. A French civilian consults with two GIs. Views of shooting across a body o...

  15. Arthur Kannenberg & Bechtler collection footage

    Edited compilation of amateur footage from the Bechtler collection documenting Arthur Kannenberg (Hitler's house manager) and other Nazi officials. Notable figures include: - Luftwaffe ace Adolf Galland and Martin Mutschmann, Gauleiter of Saxony, enjoying fishing from a bridge - Hans Baur, Hitler's personal pilot - Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring with other Luftwaffe and military figures, including Galland, at what appeared to be the Wolfsschanze, Hitler's Führer Headquarters in Rastenberg - Reichsleiter Martin Bormann and Josef Grohé, Gauleiter of Cologne-Aachen, at the Wolfsschanze - Luftw...

  16. 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.

  17. Clips from an anti-Jewish Nazi propaganda film, Jud Süß

    At the same ball as in the previous scene Suess wins a hand of cards and receives some coins. A masked man begins to insult him. The scene cuts off here.

  18. Rubenstein Family Papers

    Contains correspondence sent to Estera Binstock Rubenstein (donors' mother) in the United States from her immediate family in Wachok, Poland between 1939 and 1942. Also included are newspapers, in Yiddish, dated 1946 and 1949.

  19. Josef Zorski photograph collection

    The collection consists of original photographs and copy print from 1917 to 1941 depicting the Zorski family in Poland. Three photographs were taken in Sosnowiec, Poland and three copy prints depict a Hachshara outing in Krakow, Poland, sponsored by B'nei Akiba, a religious Zionist youth organization.

  20. I.B. Bunn photograph collection

    Collection includes a photograph of two survivors from Holland and a photograph of American soldiers near Lake Attersee. The photographs were taken by I.B. Bunn, a member of Company B, 305th Medical Battalion, 80th Infantry Division, immediately following the liberation of Ebensee concentration camp in Austria.