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  1. Doll hat

    Julia Schor played with the doll hat while in hiding during the Holocaust.

  2. John Davis collection

    Contains photographs taken after the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp. Images show corpses of concentration camp inmates piled on the ground and in open trucks. Also pictured are bodies of German soldiers, possibly camp guards.

  3. Officials review Reichsarbeitsdienst workers

    Private film by Herbert Apfelthaler. Title card reads: “Schnitt, Kamera: Herbert Apfelthaler.” Rows of Nazi Reichsarbeitsdienst (RAD) march with shovels on their shoulders. A small group of other soldiers, perhaps higher ranking, shake hands and give the Nazi salute. They inspect the lines of Nazi RAD, who stand at attention with their shovels. They march down a path through fields. Shots of them in formation with their shovels in a field, then running into formation. Marching. More maneuvering and inspections. They do exercises in unison in shorts. They perform gymnastics on wooden logs an...

  4. Belsen Concentration Camp: survivors and burial

    Low pile of naked corpses. In BG, survivors busy, smoke, trees. SS men march through the frame. More captured Germans enter gate. LS German soldiers unloading trucks (out of focus). From above, large crowd of female survivors, some smile at the camera for group portrait. MS of women sitting in compound, behind them is pile of boots and shoes, one woman takes some from the pile. VAR MLS of women hanging around, eating. More shots of corpses, mangled face, eye sockets; VCU, face of female, hollowed, glassy eyed. LS, wall, edge of pit, 10 feet down, shadows into pit. People looking down into i...

  5. German and Italian diplomats and German propagandists expelled from the US; Senators Robert Taft and Henrik Shipstead, America First Committee supporters

    Expelled German diplomats arriving at LaGuardia airport prior to their departure from the United States. Close-up shots of the former German consul general in San Francisco, Captain Fritz Wiedemann, and Dr. Johannes Bacher, former German consul general in New York. The men smile and talk to the press [need to verify identities]. Dark shot of a crowd of journalists on the tarmac; baggage being unloaded from the plane. 01:40:34 Pier 61 in New York City. A. V. Yanelli, who was the Italian consul general at Johnstown, PA for thirty years, as he is expelled from the country. Crowds surround an o...

  6. Bulgarian funeral photograph album

    Photograph album consisting of six large photographs documenting a Jewish funeral procession in Sofia, Bulgaria circa 1942. The album depicts images of two men with Star of David armbands on their coats walking along the procession, the coffin draped with cloth with Star of David, women and children carrying wreaths at the head of the procession, and Chief Rabbis of Sofia Rabbi Asher Yitzchak Chananel and Rabbi Daniel Zion.The cover has "Album hand printed across it and features a circular portrait of a man presumed to be the deceased in the upper left corner.

  7. Marokus family collection

    The papers consist of photographs related to the Marokus family, Leon, Lajcia, Henryka, and Pola. Leon Marokus, who immigrated to the United States in 1938 from Poland, worked to bring over his wife and daughters. Also included is a leaflet picked up by Leon while in the military during WWII.

  8. German troops in Belgium; civilian refugees flee

    Reel 1: 00:49.32 German troops on bicycles, through town (somewhere in Belgium). Streets and shops. Casino signs. Locals and German troops. Policeman. Belgium prisoners repairing a bridge, as civilians cross. German vehicles with WH markings, moving through a city street. Civilians with belongings piled on wagons, walking, along cobbled street. Horses. Men pushing a car loaded with belongings, small girl's face visible through car window. Elderly people and dog on top of cart. Children. Nuns. A group of civilians rest and watch the cameraman film them.

  9. Jean B. Rosensaft photograph collection

    The collection consists of photographs depictiong the Wiesbaden displaced persons camp and the Buchenwald concentration camp shortly after liberation.

  10. UN formed at San Francisco conference

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 18, No. 394. Release date, 04/30/1945. Representatives of 46 nations at San Francisco Conference. Delegates arriving at conference, surrounded by crowds and journalists. Anthony Eden, Jan Smuts of South Africa (old man in uniform). Mackenzie King heads Canada's delegation. Molotov arrives; "[he] will play an important role in the proceedings." Narrator states that the charter is based on the Dumbarton Oaks formula. French and then Saudi delegations arrive. Senator Tom Connally of Texas, Commander Harold Stassin. Interior of conference location, delegates registering...

  11. Abraham Spiegel collection

    Consists of one pre-war and wartime file of papers gathered and used by Abraham Spiegel, originally of Munkács, Czechoslovakia, to establish himself as a Hungarian citizen. Includes scrip from both the Theresienstadt and Litzmannstadt ghettos and official documents and paperwork for the Spiegels once they arrived in the United States, including passports. The paperwork focuses on Abraham Spiegel and his wife, Edita Rosenwasser Spiegel.

  12. Julia Schor papers

    The Julia Schor papers consist of biographical materials, clippings, a guest books, a library catalog, and a memoir documenting Schor’s childhood in Amsterdam, the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, being disguised as a Gentile in Blaricum, the work of her mother, Rosemarie Ensel, work for the Dutch Resistance, and the Jewish people her mother hid in their attic. Biographical materials include a poem about Christmas in wartime, a certificate supporting Rosemarie’s efforts to obtain a visa, a receipt for seizure of property, and three records documenting Judah Ensel’s efforts to retrieve je...

  13. Painted wood plaque with an inscription of gratitude

  14. KPD demonstration 1929

    KPD (communist party) demonstration on May 1, 1929. Shots of police running down the street, seen from above through a window down an alley/street. Shot of police marching and running after people. Several shots of police attempting to push and beat people. A horse and cart in street, people rush by.

  15. Elizabeth Walsh collection

    Censored envelopes sent to Victor Gibbs (donor's uncle) from his mother who escaped to England, and other friends and family in Germany; written testimony of Steffi Aghassi (friend of donor's mother) regarding her experiences during the Holocaust; sound recordings of various Yom HaShoah commemorative events, memorial programs, testimonies, and a school presentation by Herman Haller (donor's father)

  16. Levy family on SS France - departure and arrival in France

    Levy family on the SS France ship from May 21-28, 1927. Crowds gathered on the French Line pier in New York to see the SS France depart on May 21, 1927. New York harbor and Statue of Liberty. At leisure on the boat walking toward the camera: Lou Hartman on left with August Levy; Clara Levy with Dora Hartman; Emilie Jane; August with Lou Hartman. 01:18:10 Faceless boy in knickers and knee socks is the cameraman, Carl, better shot of him at 01:18:31. Scenes aboard the ship. Sally Hartman reads on deck. 01:19:12 Boat reaches Southhampton, England where a tender came out to take off the British...

  17. Egon Berg papers

    The Egon Berg papers consist of biographical materials and emigration and immigration papers documenting the marriage of Karl and Rosa Berg, their relocation to Kenya with Egon in 1939, and their immigration to the United States in 1947. Records include a wedding certificate, Rosa Berg’s German identification card and Kenyan certificate of registration, Kenyan customs forms, orders and restrictions to which the Bergs were subject in Kenya, and a letter of recommendation in lieu of passport for the Berg family.

  18. Barbie Trial -- Day 4 -- Drugs and fascist organizations in Bolivia

    16:08 Lawyer Nordmann and witness Gustavo Sanchez discuss the drug problem in Bolivia and the neo-Nazi group "Grooms of Death," as well as Barbie's contacts with various fascist organizations. 16:21 Barbie's impact on repressive methods in Bolivia.

  19. Exhumation at hospital

    Sign: Maros Utca 16 (address). Sign: X-ray. Exhumation by hospital. VO: Infamous hospital where the Arrow Cross committed murders. Mass graves exhumed in hospital garden. They killed helpless patients in their beds along with doctors and nurses. Former Arrow Cross members (waiting for trials) watch exhumation. CUs intercut with exhumation shots.

  20. Minnie and William Fuchs papers

    Contains a copy of a report to be presented to the United States Congress on the investigation and conditions of concentration camps discovered in former Nazi occupied Germany as detailed by Dwight Eisenhower; dated April 20, 1945; in English.