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  1. Oral history interviews of the Grünfeld/Heimann Family collection

    Oral history interviews with members of the Grünfeld/Heimann family who discuss their escape from Nazi Germany and experiences as refugees in Shanghai, China.

  2. Gusen [War Crimes Commission: Mauthausen Concentration Camp]

    "Mauthausen Concentration Camp" [Title incorrectly identifies this camp as Mauthausen. The footage actually shows Gusen concentration camp.] High pan of concentration camp for slave laborers. Pan of buildings. Gallows with 2-3 men standing alongside it, courtyard wall behind. Soldiers provide "tour." American POW talking about experience at Mauthausen [filmed at Mauthausen], "fortunately my turn hadn't come," talks of two American soldiers/officers killed, talks about his uniform. Survivors. Pile of corpses. Inmates help each other through the camp, one washes another at trough. German civi...

  3. Nazi feature film on espionage, British agents, German rearmament

    Plot Summary: In this feature film set in 1936, Mr. Morris operates a British espionage ring based in Berlin that is eager to receive information about secret German rearmament plans. He is successful when he bribes a broke engineer involved in the construction of a new artillery cannon and places an agent in a military airport testing a new type of bomber. However, when Morris deliberately makes the acquaintance with the girlfriend of Hans Klemm, a soldier running in new tanks, he encounters trouble. He initially makes some progress by utilizing the soldier's friendliness and naiveté, but ...

  4. Western front

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 18, No. 371. Soldiers. Civilians with luggage. Headlines, "Vive la France". Aerial views of bomb damage.

  5. Oral history interview with Tania Lefman

  6. Carl Lutz with his wife Gertrud in America

    Carl Lutz with his wife Gertrud and parents, possibly in Cincinnati, unknown date. They sit on the steps of a fountain and talk. Carl pulls out a camera, which Gertrud looks at. Gertrud sits by a pond looking at and touching flowers. Carl's mother stands with her arm around Gertrud, next to Carl's father. They all look at and touch the different flowers. Carl joins them. The parents and wife walk in this garden, continuing to look at and touch the flowers. More shots of Gertrud amongst the flowers. Carl joins her. She picks a flower and pins it to his lapel. They both stop and smile at the ...

  7. Refugees

    Iran: Group of women, children, few men, walking in sun, sand. Mountains in BG. CUs of faces, bare feet, hands, luggage and bundles. Arrival at refugee camp. Other refugees greet them, they embrace. CU of people exchanging kisses, particularly women and children, and greetings. Registration. VS, tents, washing, getting clothes, eating.

  8. Theatrical revue staged by Illich family and friends

    Introduced with German titles throughout, some are comical. Several elaborate revue scenes. Ivan performs for the camera. Micha and Sascha sing and dance together. 02:19:29 One dresses as the Mayor of Split. Marion Stein (daughter of Erwin Stein, a very important colleague of Mahler, Bartok, Weber) dances for the camera. Several scenes of the children, including Marion, performing with an accordion.

  9. DPs; newborn children; DPs celebrate a special occiasion

    Displaced persons climb into a truck [same men in march in Film ID 4154?]. Babies in a crib. Brief shots of a newborn. A group celebrates, gathers around a table before a decorated sign in Hebrew.

  10. IBM-DEHOMAG tabulating machine collection

    The collection consists of a three part Dehomag [Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen] tabulating system: a Dehomag D11 tabulating machine, sorter, and puncher, four punch card facsimiles, and three user manuals of the type used by the Nazi regime in Germany to tabulate census data.

  12. UNRRA selected records AG-018-012 : Washington DC Headquarters

    Selected files of the UNRRA Washington DC Headquarters: files on the European Mission, the Displaced Persons Division, the Welfare Division and Branches, history of the UNRRA; files of personnel recruitment, status, regulations, trainings, salary and causalities, decorations and awards, staff visits to Europe, China and Middle East; files on the UNESCO Staffing and Fellowship Programs, the voluntary agencies, economic recovery and educational rehabilitation, finance and administration, clothing and food collection, minutes of meetings of various Committees and UNRRA Council sessions, report...

  13. Nazi Germany; evacuation of German children from urban areas; sports; Hitler

    With German titles. Various cuts. 1944. Christmas 1941. Food stamps. Evacuation of German children from urban areas. Saar status referendum, 1935. Relay race. Rudolf Hess. Adolf Hitler

  14. Russian campaign; burning villages

    Russia. Mud. Smolensk. Winter Russia. German soldiers. Fires. Attacks. March 1943. Civilians. Simferopol. Romania 1944. Entertainers. 01:09:36 Seven hanged Jews (two women, five men) wearing yellow stars, near Minsk in November 1941. WS, MS, MC, CUs. With a printed sign: "Diese Juden haben gegen die deutsche Wehrmacht gehetzt!" (see RG-60.1281). Brief views of Roma camp in Tiraspol.

  15. German officer & von Manstein questioned at Nuremberg Trial

    01:14:31 (Munich 339) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, August 10, 1946. Unidentified German officer is interrogated by Chief Justice Geoffrey Lawrence (latter is not seen). 01:16:13 (Munich 343) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, no date. Former Field Marshal von Manstein is cross-examined by US prosecutor Brig. Gen. Telford Taylor. Von Manstein is specifically questioned about the Einsatzgruppen in his area of operation, he testifies that he was not directly concerned with them and did not know what they were doing.

  16. Verdoner child plays in the yard

    Yoka Verdoner, playing in her yard, alone, then in the company of her mother, another woman, father and grandfather.

  17. Book

    Book banned in the Third Reich.

  18. Prague, 1946

    EXT shots of the YMCA building in Prague (called YMKA in Polish). VS: reconstruction of buildings in Prague. INT: VS: young adults/university age students; a reading room; CU of books on the bookshelves (Polish titles); MS: a group of young men socialize in a dormitory room, pictures of dignitaries and a poster of Prague hang on the walls; CU of a professor's classroom door. Inside the classroom, English lessons in progress, female teacher. VS: CUs of the students in class and at a social gathering.

  19. Aberbach family collection

    The collection consists of papers, documents, identity cards, passports, a photograph and newspapers relating to Adolf and Anna Aberbach's emmigration from Germany aboard the MS St. Louis.

  20. Allied air attacks on Germany; Rhine offensive

    Staff Film Report no. 46; Combat Bulletin, no. 46. (with intertitles) Reel 1: "E.T.O. - Allied Air Attacks on Germany" AVs of bomber planes, bombs dropping, bombs exploding, many scenes shot at night or at dusk. 13 February: RAF Lancasters and German Scarecrow bombs exploding in mid-air. Pathfinder flares and incendiaries mark immediate targets. AAF Flying Fortresses bombing German communication centers and freight yards. Attacks on Dresden; destruction. 22 February: RAF planes over enemy territory, "a typical day of all-out bombing." RAF bombs highways and viaducts, onslaught on German tra...