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  1. Goering's train in Ostmark

    Intertitle: “Ostmarkreise.” In Austria, Goering's train. Goering in white jacket in conversation with Nazi Party member. He walks along the rails, Arthur Seyss-Inquart is next to him. Civilians with “Heil” greetings, party members in white shirts and arm bands block off a crowd.View out traveling train at men greeting the train from the platform. Horse-drawn carriage moving through the woods, shot from the carriage. Men walk through the woods. White horses pull carriages. Goering in hunting costume with binoculars, accompanied by hunters, climbs in carriage with two white horses, travels in...

  2. Red Cross center in Geneva

    The scene opens on a big Red Cross flag in a cavernous room. The narrator says that this is the Red Cross center in Geneva. The camera pans down to show rows and rows of filing cabinets, where volunteers work with index cards in the file drawers. Signs indicate the departments for various countries. Workers in the correspondence section, where letters to and from prisoners and their relatives are routed. CU of a woman attaching a photograph of a man to a letter with a paperclip. Another view of the filing cabinets. 01:02:35 A few seconds of another part of this newsreel (Not ordered by USHMM)

  3. Nazi propaganda film about people with disabilities: children and women with severe disabilities

    Reel 5 of 8: Children in beds; sounds of crying, though many are very still. CU of child who appears mildly retarded. VAR close views. 00:24:24 360-degree turning shot, close, child with very enlarged skull and bulging eyes, nurse holding. Room of severely handicapped children; extreme and more dramatic than previously. 00:26:02 Man in restraint, school desk-like, with mittens. Close views of deformed feet; individuals with erratic movements. Children with twisted limbs. Boy in bed, with legs in X shape. 00:28:17 Women at wooden benches and tables. Quite severe forms of disabilities and beh...

  4. Brussels garrison

    CU of map, finger demonstrating route, which is inserted from earlier footage shot by Stevens and crew. Sign says "HQ Brussels Garrison." Men in winter uniforms.

  5. Milice meeting in Paris

    Meeting of Milice at the Velodrome d'Hiver in Paris, 1944. WS, Palais de Sports. Crowd, banners, placards, including: "Gardes Patriotique de la Sauf" ; "Garde Patriotique Salmson" HAS, INT stadium, crowd seated. Louis Saillon (sp?) speaking. Slow pan, spectators. CUs, signs: "Garde Patriotique section de St. Denis" ; "Garde Patriotique Cinema Francaise...Servir" ; "Presse" ; "Garde Patriotiques du Theatre," spectators.

  6. Clips from WETA filming of the USHMM in 1993

    Compilation of footage from WETA's filming of the USHMM for their one-hour documentary "For the Living." The clips were prepared for the AV production of the Memorial Tribute to Harvey "Bud" Meyerhoff (HMM250).

  7. Photographs and documents from unidentified refugees, Bavaria

    Contains 22 photographs showing unidentified displaced persons in various locations in southern Germany, includes wedding photographs, New Year's greeting photographs, funerals, and pictures of individuals and groups. Most photographs contain inscriptions on verso in Polish or Yiddish. Also includes a driver's license issued to Moses Kolin in Eichstaett, June 1948; a delegate's pass to the second national convetion of Brit Ha Zhoar, Munich, December 1947; and a program for a musical recital in Bucharest, Romania, on behalf of HaOved HaZioni, with the Orchestra Fratii Honigsberg, November 1947.

  8. YMCA; music recital; rehabilitation of youth, Prague, 1946

    EXT, VS of Prague, large municipal building, trolley car passing through frame, etc. Prague prison guillotine shadow sequence; CU of a prisoner who scrubs the floor; recital hall in Prague, young men and women are gathered for a performance and social. VS of young boys and girls lining up for tickets, then VS, CUs of them inside a theater, laughing and smiling, watching a film? Stage show? VS, CUs of the children lauging and enjoying themselves during the performance. INT, VS, young men at a large cafeterias style table, eating,drinking and horsing around. Very lively, footage. Women settin...

  9. Refugees/POWs; VE Day in London; postwar Nuremberg

    Railroad. Entrance to bunkers. Piles of ammunition near Leipzig (wired to blow all the ammunition when captured by the Americans). Sign: "Munitionsabhol = kommandos hier melden." CU of German eagle with swastika. Tanks. Liberated Russian POWs waving at camera. German POWs guarded by US soldiers. Repatriated English soldiers. French refugees walking down road. German prisoners enter POW cage, march across shallow river. 01:22:13 Sir Winston Churchill in his office. Saluting crowd from car. LS of Big Ben. Crowd on streets of London, running towards passing car, waving flags. British soldier (...

  11. Schema of inmates, soccer, train at Camp Westerbork

    Schema with camps and numbers of inmates. (**This most likely refers to where Jews were deported to from Westerbork. The numbers closely correspond to those in the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, p. 1646): EINGANG 103.376; BERGEN BELS 3029; THERESIENSTADT 2470; NACH DEM OSTEN 91.545; INTERNIERURG 350; LAGER VUGHT 897. 03:02:30 Horse-pulled plowing tool, farm animals, preparing soil for seeding. 03:03:12 Slate: ...ALSO JETZT KOMMT...AH...SCHAUN SIE SICH'S MAL AN! Man and woman carrying large wooden board, unfinished barrack in BG. 03:03:35 Soccer match. [VQ deteriorates: jumpy, unstable "doub...

  12. Oral history interview with Morton Mattel

  13. Records from the Archives of the Jewish Community of Larisa, Greece

    Records of the Jewish Community of Larissa of the postwar period (1946-2014). Records consists mostly of correspondence of the Community Council and materials related to rehabilitation and restitution efforts after the Holocaust. Included are: minutes of the Community Council’s meetings; notes, memoranda, reports, minutes and correspondence with other Greek Jewish Communities, the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece, institutions inside and outside the country (Municipality of Larissa, Bishop of Larissa, Health institutions etc.); financial documents: lists of expenses, invoices, ...

  14. US military; displaced Germans; liberation of camp

    A caravan of United States Army tanks, trucks, and Red Cross vehicles move along a dusty road. Smoking rubble and desolate buildings line the road and landscape. Four German prisoners walk towards camera, followed by a group of liberated French prisoners cheering tankers and walking along the road, opposite direction as the US vehicles, one with a spearhead. Dark shots of prisoner group walking. 01:06:17 Two Americans attend to a wounded German soldier laying near the road. German troops march in surrender on sidewalk, with hands over their heads. White flags hang from civilians’ windows. A...

  15. Star of David badge printed with Jude

    Star of David badge; yellow textile with black outline of Star of David and "Jude" printed in center.

  16. Barbie Trial -- Day 9 -- Witness depositions are read; a civil party testifies

    17:13 The clerk continues reading the deposition of witness Jacqueline Modier, née Rozenfarb; the witness lived in Paris until the Vel d'Hiv raid, when she moved with her family to Lyon; her father was deported to Auschwitz and died there; the witness was present at the UGIF raid, where she unknowingly entered a room and was greeted by a uniformed soldier; the witness recounts the proceedings of the raid; after 9 pm, the witness was released because she had falsified French papers and was younger than 15 17:19 The Attorney General presents two medical certificates pertaining to the next wit...

  17. Rotenberg and Weiss families photograph collection

    The Rotenberg and Weiss families photograph collection consists of photographs of the Rotenberg (later Roth) and Weiss families before and during World War II. The photographs includes images of Jack Roth in his Polish Army uniform before the war, including one of a group photograph of soldiers seated at a table set for a Passover Seder. A studio portrait of the Weiss family in Plonsk, Poland, undated, including Samuel Weiss and Rachel Weiss, and their five children: Sarah Weiss, Regina Weiss, Max Weiss, David Weiss, and Adolph Weiss.

  18. Agro-Joint in Russia

    Includes title of the film and intertitles. From opening credits of the film (Foreword): "American Jews at the outbreak of the World War in 1914, organized the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) to aid the Jewish masses overseas suffering from war, pogroms, famine and pestilence. The following episodes depict the activities in Russia only." Brief shots of Felix Warburg and Julius Rosenwald, to whose memory the film is dedicated. Stills of other JDC officials and footage of the members of the JDC relief unit sailing for Russia. Dr. Rosen, organizer of Agro-Joint. Scenes of th...

  19. Book

    Book banned in the Third Reich.

  20. Handstreich gegen Kowno

    Contains the cover of a German propaganda booklet entitled "Handstreich gegen Kowno" [Coup Against Kovno] about the German invasion of Kovno.