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  1. Oral history interview with Dina Abelson

  2. Hinzert camp; convoy

    Collection du Film Scolaire no. 100101 Hinzert. Includes French titles. Soldiers gather for repatriation of Luxembourgers who died in Hinzert. Official ceremony takes place on March 9, 1946. Military trucks. INTs chapel, ceremony for those who died, coffins, men in striped uniforms. 00:01:40 "Grand Duche de Luxembourg Education Nationale Film Scolaire" title. "Les ceremonies qui ont eu lieu lors du transfert de nos heros vers le sol natal les 9 et 10 Mars 1946" "Dans la brume du 9 Mars 1946, a 8 heures, un convoi compose de 12 camions part pour Hinzert" Snowy, windy field. Sign: "Hinzert 2....

  3. Kriegsberichterstattung: Judenherrschaft in Sovj. Russland

    War coverage in French addressing the Jew in the Soviet Union to illustrate that the war is about the Jews or was fomented by Jews. Bertrand Nicole, the war reporter/correspondent, speaking in French with a German accent, talks to a Russian woman who escaped the Soviet Union with her daughter with just the clothes on their backs, finding refuge in a camp run by the Waffen-SS. The Russian woman barely speaks any French (the interviewer finishes her sentences). The conversation is meant to demonstrate that the Jews are responsible for all of the ills that befall Russian citizens. For example,...

  4. Destruction; German prisoners of war

    Scenes of destruction in Volkmarsen, Germany. Murray stands in front of the river. A castle on a hill. Street scenes in Kassel, Germany. The soldiers cross another river. German prisoners at Heiligenstadt. Panoramic views of the countryside. Former German army barracks in Naumberg, Germany, with slogan in German. It is now April of 1945.

  5. Oral history interview with Benedetto Amat

  6. War destruction in Belgium

    Jeep Toluca struggling through muddy road. Shots of vapor trails in the sky. A low contrast scene, seems to be corpses, there is a sign that reads: "Bastogne, Houffalize, N23, N27, information." Bombed out building in BG, Stevens in winter coat and helmet.

  7. SS Sonderlager Hinzert in 1946

    Collection du Film Scolaire no. 204 SS Sonderlager Hinsert Sign: "SS-Sonderlager-Hinzert." LS camp, barbed wire, snowy grounds, destroyed camp buildings, debris. Some dark shots and interior shots of graffiti on walls. Gravesite 164 in forest, pan. 00:02:58 Cart with corpses. Int, barracks with bodies.

  8. Riding ferry to Russian harbor

    People aboard ferry, VAR shots, sailors, signs in Russian, pan. Shots of city at riverside seen from the boat as it travels.

  9. Silent film star marries in synagogue

    Magyar Híradó 62. Gitta Alpár and her fiancee stand in front of a synagogue, with crowds of people to the right and left. Gitta clutches a white coat around her and dons a crown-like headpiece. They walk down the stairs, and Gitta shakes a few people’s hands. Her husband tips his hat. Behind them is a young flower girl, carrying a bouquet. A man to Gitta’s right hands her a bouquet of flowers. CU of the newly married couple. Gita in a carriage, smiling. Her husband joins her, and the carriage pulls away. Another man and woman dressed in furs and sitting in a carriage, likely members of the ...

  10. Terezin recital

    "Terezin Recital" EP. Supraphon. In German and Czech. Side A: C2306. Ilse Weber (comp); Ich Wandere durch Theresienstadt; Wiegenlied. Side B: C2307. Pavel Hass (sic), Song to Old Chinese Text; Gideon Klein, Sonata for Piano Solo; Joseph Chaloupka, Bread.

  11. Kriegsberichterstattung: Tiger nach vorn Teil I

    Decelith Folie D. War report by Joachim Manzinoki, SS Standarte Kurt Eggers, 3. Kriegsberichter-Kompagnie. "Tigers to the Front" Part 1. Report on the drum and a short radio extract.

  12. Members of the Israel Bond Planning Commission visit Israel to see projects funded by Israel bonds.

    Main title reads "A Visit to Israel by the Israel Bond Planning Commission." Members of the commission pose in front of a passenger jet. Henry Montor appears on the far left as you look at the screen. A banner reading "Shalom International Bond Leaders" adorns the entryway to the airport. Title card: "Tel Aviv, Israel's largest city and center of many industries." An Israel Bond Planning Commission bus passes by beach, factory, and residential property. The streets are thronging with cars, pedestrians and bicyclists. Members of the commission exit the bus and tour the Amcor appliance (?) fa...

  13. German scientists and V-2

    German Scientists and V-2. November 21, 1946. LS of rocket in testing derrick. MS of men around rocket in derrick. Group of German scientists who are working on the V-2. CU of Jurt Linder and Mr Heuter, testing derrick. MS Mr Zeiler, famous mountain climber, looking at the Organ Mountains in BG. LS rocket being fired. Rocket leaving the ground going through the air. LS of hangar where rockets are assembled. Col Turner with some of the scientists. Dr Wernher von Braun, inventor of the V-2, leads members of the press past one of the rockets. CU of von Braun. Von Braun and his assistant examin...

  14. "The story of two sisters"

    Describes the experiences of the author's twin sisters, Hela and Rela Markovitz, before World War II; the German invasion of Poland; the confiscation of Jewish property; the establishment of the ghetto in Kraków, Poland; the death of the author's parents; the twins' deportation to and experiences in the ghetto in Tarnów, Poland, and the camps of Płaszów, Skarżysko-Kamienna, and Hasag-Leipzig; Aktionen; the sanitary conditions and distribution of food; sexual favors being sold by female inmates for food; the twins' survival of a death march; their liberation and reunion with surviving fa...

  15. Resele | Ayara Boeret

    Yiddish recordings. Words and melody (both sides) by Mordecai Gebirtig. Hebrew translations by Levinson. Performers: Sara Yaari (voice); Shmuel Fershko (piano). Tslil 262, 265. Recorded late 1940s. Side A - Resele. Side B - Ayara Boeret - the Hebrew version of "Undzer shtetl brent" also known as "Es brent".

  16. Levy family on SS Rotterdam returning to US

    "SS Rotterdam" ship at sea. The travelers took this boat back to New York (July 20-29, 1927). The family boards the boat. Emilie Jane in her father's arms. Robert and Sally, August and Hartman, and Robert and Carl play shuffleboard. Emilie Jane plays with a small sandbox on the ship deck. Robert, August, and Dora Hartman lounge in deck chairs. Emilie plays. Robert plays shuffleboard. Clara Levy reads a book. August converses with another passenger. Robert hugs his little sister, Emilie. Lou and Dora Hartman. CU, Sally Hartman reading. Passengers on deck. Emilie Jane poses inside the life pr...

  17. Kim Fellner Collection

    Photographs and documents related to donor's parents, Rudi Fellner and Anita Heufeld Fellner. Includes photographs of the SS Pentcho, and documents related to the Fellner family in Ferramonti internment camp and Windemere children's home.

  18. Funeral; Rabbis; Jewish Cemetery

    Magyar Híradó 473. An intertitle reads, “A Magyar úszósport nagy vesztesége. Általános részvét kisér-te utolsó útjára a magyar úszósport vilásikereinek leeks megteremtójét, Komjádi Bélát. M.F.J.” The funeral crowd outside a large building with two dead trees in front. Men in black carry the coffin amongst a sea of other funeral attendees. Photographers stand on the side. Two men carry pillows presenting the medals of the deceased. A man speaks to the crowd above the place where the coffin has been laid down. Includes shots of rabbis and the Jewish cemetery.

  19. Driving tour of Berlin, Frankfurt, and Wiesbaden in ruins

    Road framed by trees. Berlin in ruins. The damaged Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church with a large empty circle that was once the rose window. Buildings to the left and right of the church have also been badly damaged in the air raids. Side of a building: “Burgfeller.” Only the exterior walls of these buildings remain. People walk along the sidewalk. Repeat shots of the church and the surrounding buildings. 01:04:29 Two women and a man by a statue in a garden. The blonde woman and man in front of a large estate, calm lake. They look at a statue and climb to the palace entrance. Shot of trees fr...

  20. Oral history interviews by Vivian Tucker