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  1. Poster celebrating America's diversity

    Poster illustrated by Emma Bourne for the The Council Against Intolerance in America.

  2. Nazi Germany 1937: Hitler Youth girls on a country road; BDM; farming

    Sequence of outtakes. BDM girls place flag in ground, write letters. Landscape with ploughed fields, oxen and cart. Road with BDM girls, marching and singing with banner. CUs faces, braids, white blouses. While resting at roadside two girls perform a singing act for the camera, flirtatious, very animated. Others seated, write in diaries, then march on. Ages range from 8 to 12, most in braids or bobbed hair. BDM girls eating, with group leader, CU BDM flag, reading magazine, resting. Antiquated shaking threshing machine. CUs hay. Farmers working. Note: J.Bryan's film lecture, "Germany 1937,"...

  3. Walter Gumpert family collection

    The collection consists of an attache case, prayer book, and correspondence relating to the experiences of Walter and Erna Gumpert and their family before and during the Holocaust in Germany and Uruguay, where Walter and Erna immigrated in 1936.

  4. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 100 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 100 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  5. Bernard Solonche collection

    Contains three photographic prints documenting corpses in one of the open railcars of the Dachau death train, taken immediately following liberation; handwritten caption written on verso of one print; dated April-May 1945. Includes a photographic print of large field of corpses; caption on verso identifies the bodies as those of American soldiers killed during the Battle of Bulge in the Ardennes in Belgium; dated 1945. These photos were sent home by US Army medic Bernard Solonche (donor’s brother), who served with the 45th Infantry Division during WWII

  6. Hohner Imperial IIA accordion and case carried by Hilde Anker on a Kindertransport

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn521020
    • English
    • 1938-1939
    • a: Height: 6.500 inches (16.51 cm) | Width: 10.750 inches (27.305 cm) | Depth: 10.500 inches (26.67 cm) b: Height: 7.500 inches (19.05 cm) | Width: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm) | Depth: 11.625 inches (29.528 cm)

    Imperial IIA small piano accordion and case belonging to Hilde Anker, 13, who took it with her on a Kindertransport from Berlin to Great Britain on June 12-14, 1939. Hilde's sisters, Eva, 17, and Dodi, 15, were also sent away by their parents, Georg and Gertrud, on the same Children's Transport. In 1933, Hitler's Nazi regime implemented policies to persecute the Jewish population. After the Kristallnacht pogrom in early November 1938, Georg decided the family must leave. The girls applied for spots on the Kindertransport and George's brother Leo in England agreed to look after them. Eva was...

  7. Illich family activities in 1939

    Family activities in the year 1939. Introduced with German titles throughout, some are comical. Frame line of the opening scenes are off. The three Illich boys pull their cousin Hanni and their grandfather in a sled on the snow on New Year's morning in 1939. In the Third Poetz Revue, one of the twins plays the guitar and sings for the camera (the first revue after Marion Stein's family fled Austria). Play-acting in costume. 02:37:54 (B/W) People walking through a garden in early spring, flowering trees. Children take photographs. 02:38:51 Fritz, Ellen (Maexie), and the three boys singing ou...

  8. March of Time -- outtakes -- Jerusalem, 1945

    In front of the Palestinian Police Headquarters in Jerusalem with guards, arrival of car of Gen. Inspector Rymer-Jones. Rymer-Jones exits car. Rymer-Jones at desk in his office, makes a telephone call. Group of men looking at a map of Palestine. 06:12:05 Horses with flags, car, military officers, soldiers lined up for inspection, camels. Marching in military procession, military vehicles, soldiers begin marching. Sign at far right reads "Palestine Police...and Training School."

  9. GIs firing mortars; German prisoners and weapons

    Sign reads: "Berlin 137 kms, Duben 3 kms" on right. Pan left to another sign that reads: "Leipzig 32 kms" on left. GIs firing mortars, situation clearly genuine action. They are in a field behind some houses. LS of what apparently is the target in the distance. VS through an aperture of some sort viewing across a green field. More shots of GIs firing mortars. Another angle of mortar firing. CUs, three American GIs. GIs sweeping up shells in street next to armored vehicle. Group of GIs by tank. Pan of men walking across a narrow pontoon bridge over a river, continues pan to reveal German sol...

  10. Polish cavalry on maneuvers, street scenes in Warsaw, scenes in the countryside, 1936

    TRIMS of Poland 1936- not connected by subject matter. Polish cavalry on maneuvers in an open field. Shop window in Warsaw during the arrival of Smigly Rydz. INT, MCU a streetcar full of passengers in Warsaw. Gdynia, ships loading and unloading at the port, pier 23. EXT, MS, streetcar rounding a corner in Warsaw. VS, EXT, MLS, husband and wife in the countryside walking toward their home, MCU entrance to home, etc. MS, EXT, street scenes, busy street in Warsaw. EXT, MLS, new buildings in Warsaw. EXT, MS, miners exiting building in Zakopane, Poland, drinking water. EXT, CU, dockworkers at lu...

  11. Jacob and Nehemiah Robinson collection

    The collection consists of a typewriter, correspondence, documents, identity paperwork, notes, photographs, and published material related to the experiences of Jacob and Nehemiah Robinson and their family before the Holocaust in the Soviet Union and Lithuania and during and after the Holocaust in Lithuania and the United States, where they emigrated in 1940.

  12. War Crimes Trials: Malmedy, sentencing

    (Munich 298) Malmedy War Crimes Trials, Sentencing of Accused, Dachau, Germany, July 16, 1946. LS, spectators in courtroom. 1st Lt. Friedrich Crist sentenced to death by hanging. Maj Diefenthal receiving sentence of hanging. Gen. Sepp Dietrich receiving sentence of life imprisonment. PFC George Fleps sentenced to death. MS, defendants in dock as court president is heard sentencing Willi Heinz Hendel to death. PFC Joachim Hofman sentenced to death. PFC Friedel Kies sentenced to death. Mjaor Knittel sentenced to life imprisonment. Fritz Kraemer, Chief of Staff of the 6th SS Panzer, receiving ...

  13. Archive of the City of Moravské Budějovice Archiv města Moravské Budějovice

    City administrative records, registers of employees, registers of livestock, death books, correspondence; included are decrees against Jews and records of the expropriation and aryanization of Jewish properties in Moravské Budějovice (German: Mährisch Budwitz).

  14. Perel Nagelstein photograph

    Contains a prewar studio photograph of Peryl Nagelstein (née Pinkster), her husband, and three children

  15. Pető prepares a film of the Jewish Labor Company 252/2 in Hungary in fall 1940

    Agfa 8 logo. Hungarian titles throughout. Short prologue film: “Kedves Barátom” (Dear friend,). Text of a letter that Győrgy wrote, ends with his signature. INT doorway, dimly lit, as Győrgy enters through the doorway. CU table, he puts down several items: a box with “E.K. Co. Rochester, NY” (E.K. for Eastman Kodak), two boxes with lightbulbs in them, a box that says “Eumig Klebepresse” on it (Eumig is an Austrian electronics manufacturer, Klebepresse is a splicer), and a camera case. He opens the box with the splicer. He cranks a home movie camera as he leans in to look through it. [Negati...

  16. Women survivors; corpses; execution

    "Crime et Chatiment" [ECPA handwritten notes indicate that these are Jewish women at "Camp Transit d'Allach."] Women survivors. Young, showing numbers on arms, holding pictures of themselves before the war. Sign: "...Dachau" ; "Waffen SS" HAS, camp courtyard with survivors. "X" on back. Cages. Near gas chamber, man in striped uniform showing INT of gas chamber (dark). Pile of corpses. Carrying corpse inside shack. Pile of clothing. Bodies on wagon. American/French? soldiers escort man to his execution. Firing squad.

  17. March of Time -- outtakes -- Meetings in London and Washington, DC

    Meeting of European Advisory Commission at Lancaster House. Chaired by Mons. Fedor Tarasovich Gousev (Russian) Ambassador to UK. Military advisors. Car entering gate at Dumbarton Oaks. State Department Press room, group of reporters, playing chess, receiving releases, typing.

  18. Burial for Dollfuss in Vienna

    Various scenes of the burial for Engelbert Dollfuss on July 28, 1934 in Vienna. Parade was filmed at the corner of Kärntner Strasse and Kärntner Ring/Opernring in between the Opera house and Hotel Bristol. Wreath-covered vehicles. Crowds line the streets. Regiments of uniformed Austrian men march in unison. Cars drive slowly in the parade, including one with the top down. A decorated officer on horseback motions forward aggressively with a sword. A few quick shots of onlookers.

  19. Street scenes; starvation/begging; shops

    VAR crowded pedestrian scene with impoverished people on streets and sidewalks. Begging for food; ragged men, women, and children; kiosks, street vendors. Storekeeper gives food to poor man. Courtyard. Selling goods from bench.

  20. Oral history interview with Suzanne Nozick