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  2. Loewy, Kohorn, and Messinger families papers

    Collection of documents and photographs that regarding the experiences of the Loewy, Kohorn, and Messinger families in Europe before and during the Holocaust; includes pre-war photographs and writings, and post-war documents and correspondence, identification papers, and materials relating to immigration and naturalization.

  3. Lola Teitel collection

    Two slips, one worn by Lola Teitel, and the other by her sister Pearl Libatter, during hiding in the forests of Chodorow, Poland, for approximately one and a half years up until 1944-1945.

  4. US Army weapons tested

    Staff Film Report, no. 65; Combat Bulletin, no. 65 Reel 2: Shows details in transporting, emplacing, manipulating, and firing the "Little David," the Army's 914mm mortar. 09:04:50 "Activities on Okinawa" US soldier is reunited with parts of his native family on Okinawa. On Okinawa, coral is dug, crushed by machines, hauled in trucks, and used to repair Kadena airstrip. Motors from wrecked trucks are steam cleaned and repaired. An M-4 tank is rigged with antipersonnel mines; General Hodges watches tests of the apparatus. Shows scenes during and after an ammunition dump fire; General F.C. Wal...

  5. Warsaw Ghetto scenes; Civilians drag a Jew in the street in Riga

    Wartime, Warsaw Ghetto: Tracking shots of streets in the ghetto. Crowded sidewalk, alleyway. Pedestrian traffic. Bridge over an "Aryan" street. Warsaw scenes end at 01:07:47. Germans in uniform smashing a wood fence, location unknown. Riga, Latvia: Local civilians drag a (Jewish) man through the street, watched by uniformed Germans.

  6. Daily life in Russia, children at play

    Children playing in the snow in Russia, exact location needs to be verified. Great shots of the children with their sleds, some on ice skates, etc. 01:02:15 MCU of 10+ children on sleds, getting ready to go down a hill in tandem, they start the line up and just keep going, very playful shots. CUs of young girl smiling at 01:02:33, then boy, then group of children.

  7. Ostarbeiter games; Parade of SS Galicia in Kolomja; Estonian Waffen SS battalion

    Several shots of different groups of people on a field, each with a sign indicating their nationality: Protektorat, Kroaten, Franzosen, Belgier, Hollander, Ostarbeiter, Italiener, Bulgaren, Ostarbeiter. The narration indicates that these are work teams living and working in Germany. They go on to engage in athletic competitions, including tug of war, a track race, and a soccer game (France vs. Protektorat, France wins). Military ceremony for the SS Waffen Division Galicia in Kolymyja, Ukraine. Men stand on a wooden platform in a field, surrounded by a crowd. They carry flags and military st...

  8. Joyce and William Becker collection

    The collection consists of Nazi Party artifacts: an armband, a badge, a banner, and a belt buckle relating to the experiences of a United States soldier in Europe near the end of World War II.

  9. Jewish Lads Brigade Camp, Walmar

    MLS of spectators at Walmar camp. MS boys in uniform in line inspected by Field Marshall William Birdwood. MLS of boys marching in rank, 1400 boys in camp. MS of marching wearing caps and white diagonal buckle, eyes right, tents in BG. MS Field Marshall on review stand. (camp been in operation since 1894). MLS reverse angle as boys go by. Birdwood speaking, then boys raise caps in salute as seen from behind speaker at podium. Narrator ends piece "Shalom Alechem" humor?

  10. Felice Rubinstein Korn collection

    Photographs, documents, poetry, audio recordings illustrating Felice Rubinstein Korn's experiences in pre war Poland and post war Munich, Germany. Included are materials illustrating Felice's education in Munich, post-war, displace persons identification cards, and diploma or certificate that Felice has completed education and qualifies as a pharmacist. Felice, born in Radom, in 1924, was interned in the Radom Ghetto, then deported to Majdanek and Plaszow concentration camps in Poland.

  11. Franka Kampinski collection

    Collection of photographs and a membership card documenting the experiences of Franka Kampinski (donor's mother) during the Holocaust. Photos document friends and family in pre-war and post-war Łódź, as well as in Lenger-Ugol, Kazakhstan during the war; Maccabi Sports Club membership card issued to Franka Kempinski, November 28, 1946, Łódź, Poland.

  12. SS training at shooting range at Hebertshausen, near Dachau

    Onscreen title reads: "Das Kleinkaliberschiessen" [small caliber shooting]. Several SS men train at a shooting range, built specially for the SS in 1937, at Hebertshausen, near Dachau. The men confer, shoot at targets, and inspect their weapons. Approximately four thousand Soviet prisoners of war were shot at this location between 1941 and the end of the war.

  13. Goebbels speaks on Jewish press

    Goebbels (in non-military suit) speaks to SA and civilians at an enormous rally at the Berlin Sportpalast, during Hitler's first public appearance since becoming Chancellor. Some LS pans of crowded stadium. Speech warns the anti-Nazi press to watch out, as they now won't be able to avoid the emergency decrees and restrictions, now their "lying Jewish mouths will be silenced. Now the Nazis will show them how propaganda can really work, with a government behind it." Crowd yells "Heil" and rises to its feet.

  14. Sightseeing in France: Paris & Versailles

    Title: "Streets of Paris. Cafes on the Champs-Elysees. Arc de Triomphe. Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Place de la Concorde." Sightseeing in Paris, including street scenes, cafe with red tables and chairs, Arc de Triomphe, Eternal Flame for Unknown Soldier (WWI) with wreath and flowers, French police, Eiffel Tower, Place de la Concorde, statues, cars on Champs d'Elysee, and aerial views from the Eiffel Tower including the Seine. 01:09:36 Title: "Malmaisson. Home of Josephine." LS, palace and grounds with tourists. 01:09:56 Title: "Versailles. Its Beautiful Gardens and Fountains." Tourists vis...

  15. Immigration of the Polish Jews to Palestine

    Polish Jews immigrate to Palestine, locations in Constanza, Romania, and Mediterranean.

  16. Americans meet Russians

    Sign reads: "Nothing in hell can stop the Timber Wolf Division" at Gen. Terry Allen's headquarters at Torgau. He was the leader of the Timber Wolf Division. Shot of troops with American flag and red flag on a jeep and whole series of jeeps driving through town. It is a meeting of Russian and American officers. American two-star General Terry Allen walks up and salutes a Russian officer. They all turn in a three shot and salute a new arrival as the band plays. Sequence of shots of officers listening to band music. American general appears to be pinning a medal on a Russian general. They shak...

  17. Lilienthal and Fraenkel families collection

    The collection consists of a passport case, correspondence, and documents relating to the experiences of Eugen Lilienthal during the Holocaust when he was imprisoned in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp and, after the Holocaust, from Deggendorf displaced persons camp, as well as documents related to the emigration of Max and Margo Fraenkel from Germany to the United States prior to the war. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  18. Marianne and Josef Schömann portrait

    Portrait of Marianne and Josef Schömann, parents of three daughters who immigrated to the United States from Germany before the war. Mr. and Mrs. Schömann managed to reach Holland; on October 30, 1942 they were arrested and taken to the Westerbork transit camp, and deported to the Auschwitz death camp on November 2, 1942.

  19. Helene Mayer fencing for Germany at Olympic games

    Half-Jewish athlete Helene Mayer fencing for Germany. Mayer was the only Jewish athlete who represented Germany, and she was allowed to do so only under the pressure of international opinion. She won a silver medal in the individual foil event and gave the Nazi salute from the podium. After the Olympics she returned to the United States, where she had been living. Schacherer-Elek, who won gold, and Preiss, who won bronze, were also part Jewish. Mayer is the tall blond fencer.

  20. Delousing at Belsen; Red Cross; women at Mobile Bath Unit

    CU, British soldier. Three young women with armbands walk through camp gate (guarded by British). Sign by gate "Dust Spreads Typhus 5 MPH." CU, two soldiers and two women: "One woman has travelled from Osnabruck to enquire after her husband who she believes has been interned in Belsen". MCU as captain uses DDT duster on companion outside "Dusting Room." In FG, two men sleeping by roadside. Ambulances pass. Rear shot of Sgt. Oakes of Army Film Unit talking to two Hungarian Jewish women, sitting by barbed wire and cooking lunch. Same survivors with soldier (now crouched down) with bowls of so...