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  1. Beitar Austria collection

    Photos of the Beitar movement in Austria from 1935 - 1937; Copper symbol of the Beitar movement in Austria

  2. Rosh Hashanah card

    Rosh Hashanah card bearing an embossed image of a bird and a basket of flowers shaded purple. The card and envelope were sent from Eishishok, Poland (Ejszyszki, Lithuania), to Rabbi Aaron R. Charney in Bayonne, N.J.

  3. British II Armored Division Advance

    British soldiers. Tanks move through a burning forest into Germany. Forests burned to clear out Germans. One short shot of sign reading "Danger Typhus". Tanks roll down road. At gate of camp; watchtower. Germans march in, past German officers. Another officer walks up and gives a Hitler salute. More views of the German and Hungarian soldiers watching British armor pass by, and the Belsen camp.

  4. Oral history interview with Alexander Fishman

  5. Justices summarize Nazi Party at Nuremberg Trial

    Judgment delivered at Nuremberg IMT, Nuremberg, Germany, 30 September 1946. MHS, British Justice Birkett, British Chief Justice Sir Geoffrey Lawrence, US Justices Francis Biddle and John J Parker reading statement about the formative days of the Nazi Party, including the failure of the first Munich Putsch, etc. CU, Justice Lawrence. MS, Franz von Papen, and Arthur Seyss-Inquart in dock. MS, Justices Biddle and Parker. HS, CU, Birkett reading about the beginning of the NSDAP in Germany.

  6. NSDAP / SA and political activities

    Following "Der Kampf geht weiter!" [The Struggle Goes on!] title, this propaganda documentary depicts the efforts of the NSDAP and SA to organize political activities. Special occasions are indicated by intertitles. 07:01:13 Title cards read: "Hitler's Kampf um Deutschland," "Der Film ist hergestelli von der Landesfilmstelle Hessen, Hessen-Nassau," "An der Camera: Pg. Frank Hensel," "Verleih: Pg. Frank Hensel Frankfurt a. M.," "Erster Teil," "Ein Feiertag in Hessen- Nassau" [Holiday in Hessen-Nassau], "Leitung: Gauleiter Sprenger," and "Vor der Zwingburg des Kapitalismus." 07:02:02 Nazi sol...

  7. Otto Kundert collection

    Identification card issued to Otto R. Kundert (donor's father), War Crimes Duty Officer for the 7708 War Crimes Group of the United States in Germany; two (2) photographic prints - black and white images identified on verso by Otto Kundert as atrocities from Buchenwald used as evidence in war crimes trials in Germany in 1945 and 1946; both images are dated November 8, 1945, Wiesbaden, Germany, inscriptions are in English.

  8. Documentation of the Senatskanzlei - Personalabteilung II (Senate Chamber - Personnel Department II) in Hamburg

    Documentation of the Senatskanzlei - Personalabteilung II (Senate Chamber - Personnel Department II) in Hamburg

  9. Główny Urząd Celny w Płońsku Main Customs Office in Płońsk Hauptzollamt Ploehnen (Sygn.1058/II)

    Reports and correspondence of custom officials on confiscation of foodstuffs of Poles and Jews and investigations against smuggling.

  11. Central Economic Office : aryanization card file Ústredný hospodársky úrad : karty arizátorov

    Aryanization card file of expropriated Jewish properties in Slovakia, arranged alphabetically by name of the non-Jewish Aryanizer (arizátor). Also lists the name(s) of the Jewish owners (maj. žid. podu.) as well as the type of property (druh živnosti) and its location (sidlo živnosti), among other data.

  12. High Court of Justice Haute Cour de justice (3W)

    Consists of speeches, sentences, witness lists, reports, trial proceedings, telegrams, correspondence, interrogations, and a sentence ledger documenting the High Court of Justice, which was specifically created by decree of the French Ministry of Justice of the Provisional Government of the French Republic on November 18, 1944 to try persons who were a part of the government of Vichy from June 1940 to August 1944. Tried persons included the Chief of State, the Prime Minister and his cabinet ministers, Resident Generals in the protectorates, Governor Generals, and High Commissioners. The ori...

  13. Market scenes in Warsaw

    Market scene. BAZAR sign. People, carts, horses. Shops line busy streets. Kiosks with posters. Some signs in Cyrillic.

  14. Romani people in Yugoslavia

    English intertitles. "Metrotone hits the Romany Trail: A Visit to a Camp of Cheerful Gypsies in the Balkan Mountains" Roma children and adults dancing and playing instruments (and seated, watching) outside tents. Some good MCU, mostly MS. Dust, bright sun, haze/smoke? Smiles everywhere. Great CUs of Roma boys singing. Kids swarm around visitor who is giving out "coppers." Romani woman reads fortune of visitor from cards.

  15. US Navy; music

    Reel 2: Bing Crosby sings accompanied by the 11th Naval District Coast Guard band.

  16. Flora Mendelowicz Singer papers

    Documents and photographs illustrating the experiences of Flora Mendelowicz (donor) and her family during the time period surrounding the Holocaust in Belgium; included in the collection are a post-war identification document issued by the Romanian government for "Feige, Flora, Charlotte, and Betty Mendelovitz" as well as pre-war photographs of the Mendelowicz family in Romania on a family holiday and the Mendelowicz girls while in hiding at the Our Lady of Sorrows convent in Ruiselede, Belgium.

  17. Sutin family footage

    Family footage showing CUs of Cecilia, the daughter of Jack Sutin. Brief shot of Julius Sutin, the father of Jack Sutin.

  18. March of Time -- outtakes -- German spies on trial; execution of Nazis

    Spies on Trial. Young German spy led from POW camp to building where his court martial is being held by MPs. Judges sworn in; prosecutors and defense attorney. 01:02:01 MP platoon (firing squad) executing three German spies. 01:07:01 Hanging of Nazis.

  19. Belsen after liberation

    CU, women's bodies in pile. CUs, faces of female corpses (GRAPHIC FOOTAGE). SS women with white armbands leaving building, gather in a group. CU, SS men marching off to work group.

  20. Sanford Vandifer Rogers, Jr. collection

    The collection consists of American Ku Klux Klan pamphlets, medal and hood relating to the experiences of Sanford Vandifer Rogers Jr. in South Carolina during the 1920s.