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  1. British fascist John Amery

    British Nazi John Amery speaks to Union Des Forces Revolutionnaires on Allied "terror bombing" in French. Front of Gaumont Palace, MS interior 2 guards in uniform, LS of Amery at podium with banner above him and first few rows of audience. MS of Amery at podium speaking [sync sound begins] alternating shots of speaker and audience including CU low angle of guy in uniform with peculiar armband. [Portuguese narration takes over] Amery gives fascist salute. LS of audience applauding. Additional unrelated footage at 03:51:07 to 03:51:58, Men of Feldherrnhalle Division invited aboard submarine.

  2. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 50 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.

  3. March of Time -- outtakes -- Berlin in the 20s

    Scenes of a day in Berlin

  4. Albert Rapp postcard

    The postcard was written by Albert Rapp in Buchenwald concentration camp to his wife, Matilde Rapp, in Frankfurt, Germany. In the postcard, he asks his wife not to worry and assures her that he is fine. He asks her to send him a package containing stockings, handkerchiefs, an undershirt, a jacket, a piece of soap, a toothbrush, and various other supplies for himself and his brother, Arthur, who was also incarcerated. Last, he asks for information regarding their dealings with the United States consulate in Stuttgart, Germany.

  5. Inauguration of Synagogue in Munich

    "Muenchen: Einweihung der Synagoge" Opening of rebuilt synagogue. U.S. General Lucius Clay is present and speaks. A tablet is unveiled in commemoration of Jews who died in Holocaust. LS of rabbi at podium, ark behind him, music playing. MLS from back of room, large audience. CU of General Clay. MS Clay goes to podium. CU of three men in top hats in pew. MS shot of religious officials. LS Clay speaks, "Men of many nations and of many faiths have gathered here today to pay tribute to you and be with you in the opening of your new synagogue." MS of audience. Clay leaves podium and returns to h...

  6. World Congress of "Agudas Jisroel"

    Nicely dressed men, delegates from a "new organization of Orthodox Jews," gather outside the Congress Building, chatting, posing, smoking. Names of rabbis and community leaders are listed on card catalogue, but difficult to determine correspondence to footage.

  7. David Ulyanitsky papers

    Contains photocopies of photographs and a personal memoir by David Ulyanitsky relating to atrocities committed against Jews in Ukraine during the first half of the 20th century.

  8. Germans in Occupied Ukraine

    Footage shot by a German cameraman during Germany's occupation of Ukraine in World War II. Footage with German photographers traveling through the Ukraine photographing cities, villages, and collective farms. The most extensive footage is taken with a female photographer from her trip to Ukraine in the summer of 1943. She traveled by plane and car from southern Ukraine (the Melitopol region) just north of Crimea, then along the Dnepr River northward over Dnepropetrovsk to Kiev and then due west to Rovno and then the border of General Government. Reel 5: 05:47:35 Ostriches and photographer. ...

  9. James Baker photograph collection

    The collection consists of photographs depicting Nordhausen concentration camp at liberation in 1945. Handwritten captions in English are on verso.

  10. Street scenes; ghetto inhabitants

    VAR pedestrian street scene, nicely-dressed crowd walking by shop fronts. Two men converse, smilingly, in doorway. Street vendors and beggars at crowded doorway. Beside, poor children huddled and lying on sidewalk, a man sells hats from chair. Woman and crying child. Woman begs on street, a man laying beside them. All face camera: young boys hop on a tram, smiling; two shots, man in rags then woman in rags on street. Camera follows well-dressed couple across street, then along crowded sidewalk. Brief CU of girl. Well dressed woman by poor one. Shots of very poor children on street. Boy, rag...

  11. Five Cities

    Yiddish titles. English title: "Jewish Life in Krakow" Pan of city of Krakow, buildings, tram, street scenes, statues, city square with pigeons. Streetcars share tree-lined streets with horse-drawn carriages. People conduct business under umbrella-covered markets and arcaded market halls. Jewish children, impoverished housing in Jewish quarter. Scenes of the famous Remu Synagogue and the Alte Shul, an orphanage, a hospital, and the Jewish Community Council. Street scenes with Jews showing the vitality of the community. Several schools. Parks and schoolyards host sports, games and animated d...

  12. Rudolf Steinbach papers

    The papers consists of a German passport (Reisepass) issued to Rudolf Steinbach in October 1937 by the police in Breslau, Germany, (now Wrocław, Poland) and a document intended to be kept inside the holder's passport stating the compulsory registration of German citizens in a foreign country.

  13. Burials, trial of perpetrators, protest

    Brief segment on memorial burial and trial of perpetrators. Newspaper headlines, tearful spectators attend burial of victims. CU men accused of crimes at town and camp at Jasenovac. MS as they stand in line in courtroom. AV of citizens marching in protest against atrocities of Jasenovac.

  14. Gathering, sorting, burning books

    Two men go through stacks of books. Piles, books scattered all over room. CU, pan of books as they are sorted through. EXT, young men (probably university students) throw books onto truck. One man with SS armband. CU, books loaded onto truck. LS, Hitler Youth girls (BDM) marching by fire with banners, tossing books. Marchers throw torches into main fire. Goebbels speaks with animated gestures. Crowd throws books into fire. Elevated wide shots. Strong impression of books flying through the air in arcs into the fire. CU, bookthrowing.

  15. Nazi conquest of Czechoslovakia: fascists

    A documentary about the conquest of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis just prior to World War II. Fascist activities; rally.

  16. Helen Goldberg papers

    Relates to persecution, ghettoization, and killing of Polish Jews (including members of Bernard Infield and Leopold Infeld's family) and non-Jews in Poland. Of special interest are the photographs of part of the ghetto in Warsaw, Poland, and persons being hanged in Poland. Also included is an obituary of Leopold Infeld.

  17. Sender Wajsman papers

    Contains a copyprint of a photograph of a wedding gathering in Vilna, Lithuania, in 1936; a brief testimony by Sender Wajsman dated 1991 describing the massacre if Jews in Ponary in September 1941 at the hands of non-Jewish Lithuanians under the direction of the Gestapo; and a photocopy of a photograph depicting the memorial to the dead in Ponary.

  18. Hermann Zutraun papers

    The collection documents the wartime experiences of Hermann Zutraum and his family, who survived the Holocaust in Ankara, Turkey. Included is a Red Cross inquiry from Hilde Strassburger to Martha Pick, Hermann’s wife Alice Murzynski’s aunt; a postcard sent to Martin Gabrielski in Berlin, Germany, from Hermann Zutraun in Ankara; and an envelope sent to Hermann’s aunt Else Zutraun in Berlin from Ankara.

  19. Program for the dedication service of Bad Nauheim Synagogue

    Includes a of a copy of the program for the dedication service of the synagogue in Bad Nauheim, Germany, on 24 Jun. 1945. Also includes an insert page, added by the donor, with photocopies of photographs taken at the dedication service.

  20. Prayer book

    Prayer book for the first and second say of Sukkoth from the library of Isaac Ossowski, a prominent member of the Jewish community in Berlin, Germany, who emigrated in 1938 to avoid the increasing persecution of Jews by the government of Nazi Germany. It is a narrative of the culture, history, and traditions of the Hasidic movement. Rabbi Ossowski was head shochet [ritual slaughterer], mohel [practitioner of ritual circumcision], sofer [scribe], and hazan [cantor, musical prayer leader] at the Alte Shul [Old Synagogue]. After Hitler was appointed Chancellor in 1933, increasingly severe sanc...