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  1. Doll slip

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

  2. Cecil Welch collection

    The collection consists of a chessboard and a wooden box.

  3. Boder travels overseas on USS Brazil; French village; displaced persons camp

    MS, group of four at railroad station, including David Boder. “United States Lines Car M.” 01:00:51 VAR views of the deck of a large ship, probably the USS Brazil which Boder sailed to Europe on in late July 1946. Boder with the recorder on his shoulder, walks down the stairs on the ship. A man writes in a journal. A man wearing a yarmulke takes off his glasses. Boder with two men. Woman with her young son. More shots of the ship, American flag. 01:03:07. CU, alternating shots of Boder and a man with still camera. Other ships in the water as they approach a harbor. People on deck. 01:05:20 ...

  4. Reich exhibition; Goering in Athens; German-Americans protest in NYC

    05:07:09 Title: "Die erste grosse Ausstellung des Reichsnaehrstandes. Reichsminister Darre eroeffnet in Erfurt die riesige Schau der deutschen Landvolks." Erfurt, Germany. Reichsnaehrstand-Ausstellung (Reich exhibition and festival on social and moral position of the farmer within the German Volk). Darre speaks. LS fairgrounds and activities. Exhibition sites with machines, animals, breeding cattle and horses. "Blut und Boden" sign. Swastika with two wheat stalks. 05:08:38 Title: "Helden der Wissenschaft. Die deutschen Hoehenforscher Dr. Ing. Schrenck und Viktor Masuch stuerzten mit dem Bal...

  5. Hitler & the revival of the German nation

    "Des Reiches Wiedergeburt" [Rebirth of the nation] Hitler in automobile, crowd, heiling, in large hall. "Volk am Werk" [People at work] Hitler speech. Hitler breaking ground with shovel. Boys with shovels. Factory, walking through mud, shoveling (Hitler speech in background). Hitler speaking behind podium. Shoveling dirt, building buildings, farming. Hitler speech. "Die Ewige Jugend" Girl with flowers, boys, HJ, Hitler, more HJ. Boys marching, gathered in square to hear Hitler speak, flags with swastika. Hitler speech. Boys running, BDM, calisthenics in field (Hitler speaking in background)...

  6. Arnoldsweiler Concentration Camp

    Gate of Anrnoldsweiler is opened by US soldier. Polish and Russian women prisoners are led through the gate. MSs, CUs, smiling faces of the releases women prisoners. Close up of soldier, "Hi Mom." MCU, large group, ex-prisoners speak to US soldiers and walk hand in hand through prison gate. Pan, CU, happy faces, different types of Polish and Russian political prisoners who were liberated by the US First Army. MSs, CU dead German soldier, face down in trench. MSs, CUs, German civilians and soldiers, escorted by US soldier with rifle, marched to POW camp. (Note: This concentration camp housed...

  7. Demonstration by Red Front during election

    Demonstration by Red Front during election campaign. A low aerial shot of people parading down a street, some of whom play instruments. Ground level shots of people marching with signs and banners, including a poster of Lenin, and children with letter signs spelling out "Krieg dem Kriege". A mechanical sign of a Nazi hitting worker on the head, or perhaps a communist hitting a worker on the head (?). Many signs indicate the communists' objection to the building of Panzerkreuzer, or "pocket" battleships. Germany was allowed to build these ships in accordance with the Treaty of Versailles. Th...

  8. Abraham Breski testimony

    Contains six pages of translation (pages 5 and 6 are both numbered 5) of first hand account of Abraham Breski, who was a survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The account documents Breski's experiences being deported from Pruzana, Poland to the Birkenau killing center in Poland in 1943.

  9. Edwin Hinrichs photograph collection

    Collection of photographs captured by Edwin Hinrichs (donor's father) Master Sargeant in the 17th Cavalry Squadron under General Patton, from a German POW, depicting German soldiers during their military operations; c. 1941-1942. Some of the photographs depict concentration camps.

  10. German Field Marshall and Generals confer

    Reel 1: 00:33:13 German transport vehicles lined up and being checked/worked on. Piles of wagon parts, wheels, skis/skids, snowshoes, sleds/sleighs. Horse-drawn cart struggles through a muddy field. Table with a crate of dynamite "Monachit", soldier prepares fuses, explosive devices. Soldiers use explosives to break up ice on a river. Views of destroyed bridges. German Field Marshal (Günther von Kluge?) leaving a building with other Generals, departing by car. 00:41:36 Close side view of handshake. FM flag on car, drives off. Soldiers cross a temporary wooden bridge. German soldiers use pic...

  11. Selected records of the city Ruda Pabianicka Akta Miasta Ruda Pabianicka (Sygn. 223)

    Minutes, resolutions, regulations, statistics, indexes of inhabitants, correspondence and ordinances of the town of Ruda Pabianicka (today a district of the city Łódź). Contains records of the local slaughter house and artisan guilds related to trade and craft of the 1930s. Majority of records consist of statistics of the town dwellers, books of permanent inhabitants and their properties, indexes and books of control of migration. Extensive lists of Jewish people of 1939-1940 are located in the File 434a.

  12. Medical kit

  13. U.S. soldiers in America

    US soldiers, in Army dress uniforms coming down steps (of barracks?) building. Posing for camera, marching past camera. VS, soldiers about town, in a cafe, eating ice cream on the street in front of a drug store. Pan, Dewey Palace Hotel. Sign reads: "Vic Stolle Drug Co," another sign on shop adjacent to drug store reads: "FW Woolworth & CO". EXT, shots of buildings, unidentified town and buildings.

  14. Overseas visits of UJA Women's Commission

    Featuring Barry Sullivan and Myrtle Kemp. Film intends to tell the story of the work of the UJA through the experiences of American women who went abroad as UJA representatives. Notes taken from NCJF documentation: Barry and Myrtle meet on the studio lot, go to the projection room to view footage and talk. CU, 6 women in Myrtle's group that went abroad representing the Women's Commission of the UJA. Eiffel Tower, scenes at orphanage, eating, drinking, playing. North Africa, clinic in the Mellah. Trachoma and ringworm treatments, school, hot meal in soup kitchen, kindergarten in Casablanca, ...

  15. Nazi rallies in Neuer Platz and Linz

    Men in suits wearing Nazi armbands march in unison. Spectators on the sidewalk give the Nazi salute to a car driving down the street in a processional. Rows of young men in uniform, carrying an enormous Nazi flag and marching in unison. A procession of men in long black coats carrying shovels follow. Planes flying overhead. Panoramic shot of a town in the countryside. Young uniformed men marching and waving Nazi flags down a country road. A processional going through a city street in Linz. Tanks and cars drive down the streets. Pedestrians give the Nazi salute to the passing cars. Lines of ...

  16. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 10 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 10 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.

  17. German troops in Greece

    Reel 2: 00:35:07 German tanks move through a mountainous area. Different shots of German soldiers talking and laughing with civilians, passing around a flask. Jerry cans are loaded onto a truck. German military vehicles parked in a village. Reel 3: 00:36:23 A German tank maneuvers along a mountainous road. A column of tanks passes through a village/vineyard. Reel 4: 00:37:35 Artillery, horses and men are transported across a wide river on pontoon boats. CU of two German officers speaking. A large group of German officers survey a vast rural area. A sequence of an explosion in a field (uncle...

  18. Files of the Rudnik Wielki commune Akta urzedu gminy Rudnik Wielki (Sygn. 124)

    This collection contains selected records of the commune Rudnik Wielki, related to population control of its inhabitant. Included are registration books of the permanent inhabitants of the villages: Cynków, Gniazdów, Rudnik Mały and Siedlce, and the commune Rudnik Wielki, 1923-1930. Contains also many other name indexes, registration books, lists of army recruits and other books of population control. Additionally there is also an identification document with a photo of Chana Sara Grancajger (alias Sommerstein) issued by German authorities on Dec. 15, 1941.

  19. Postwar Germany; refugees; war crimes trials

    Reel 2, Narration refers throughout to "M.G." -- military government. Damaged hospitals, pharmacies. Transportation and communication services are repaired. View of Cologne Cathedral. Refugees receive food and clothing at an American Military Government camp. A monument to Nazi concentration camp victims is unveiled. Shows brief scenes of an American Military Government trial. 01:31... Children burn Nazi flags, emblems, and pictures. (Footage from 111 ADC 4727) 01:32:20 Jews worship in their temples again 01:32:40 Man with Buchenwald armband on jacket 01:36:30 Kids burning flags, etc. Close...

  20. Eichmann Trial -- Session 70 -- Servatius objects to screening of films

    Session 70. This tape begins in the middle of the session. Courtroom, camera being prepared, Eichmann sitting with three guards. 00:04:42 Attorney General introduces the viewing of the film, nine witnesses are present and are identified. They will be available to answer questions about the films after the screenings are completed: Raya Kagan, Yehuda Bakon, Nachum Hoch, Gedalia Ben Zvi, Mordechai Chen, Aviel, Salzberger, Melkman, and Hoter-Yishai. Servatius expresses his reservation to the film screening, and objects to particular segments of the films. Hausner reviews the issues that Servat...