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  1. Jewish Extremists in Haifa; deported to Cyprus

    LS Haifa harbor. British soldiers guard court building. Extremists accused of blowing up railroad brought to trial; out of truck, handcuffed, men and women. Illegal immigrants arrive in Haifa on the "Henrietta Szold" ship. Ship into dock. Women and children helped off boat. Barbed wire enclosure. Man kisses ground, put on ship to Cyprus.

  2. Spanish General; Spanish Street Scene

    00:04:05 - 00:04:50 MCU General Weyler, Spanish General, who fought against the Americans in War of 1898. 00:04:53 - 00:05:49 Horsedrawn carriages with women in fancy traditional costume (mantilla, etc.). A few people sell flowers from pots balanced on their head.

  3. Lisa Kouchelevitz Rosenblum letter

    Consists of a letter in Yiddish (one page with text on both sides), written by Lisa Kouchelevitz Rosenblum during her deportation from Drancy to Auschwitz on convoy number 61 in October 1943.

  4. German invasion of Poland

    Reel 2: Footage of Polish military parade and maneuvers. Burning villages "Polish outrages." Danzig: fighting in street, tank through streets, burning buildings. Professor Burkhart. Swastikas hanging from buildings in Danzig. German troops enter city. Graphic of "Polish attack" and German counter attack. German motorized troops mass. Tanks, then cavalry along road. Long line of troops march past trucks. More motorized troops mass. CUS of armored vehicles on the move. Tilt up to long line of tanks along road. MSs of tanks. Cavalry across field. Pov motorcycle along road. Side view - motorcyc...

  5. French fascist Jacques Doriot

    French fascist Jacques Doriot addresses "Legion of French Volunteers" in Velodrome d'Hiver in Paris. Huge audience inside velodrome including German officers and CU of Vichy officers. MS officer at podium giving Nazi salute. Doriot speaking in French at podium in profile. Talks of difficult combat of winter of 1941 and 1942. MS German officers in front row. People in crowd give fascist salute. Additional unrelated footage: 3:44:39 to 3:47:40 Map showing Shitomir, Kirowograd, and Nikopol. German and Hungarian troops near Stanislavov, USSR, relaxing sleeping, being reviewed, marching, fightin...

  6. Danzig and Warsaw city scenes

    There are burn-in time codes on the intermediate Betacam SP (Protection) video. There is no way to order a clean copy. City scenes, traffic, pedestrians, shop fronts, kiosks with posters, gliders, horse-drawn wagons. LS town square. Pan, building. VS, MCUs, pedestrians. CU, signs in Polish. Policeman directing automobile traffic. Buses, bicycles, peddlers. Rain. People at storefront. Policemen conversing.

  7. Warsaw scenes

    Intertitles appear in Yiddish and English. Aerial view of city, including church, streets, square, street activity, traffic, pedestrians. Tram passes in front of large building. VAR shots of elaborate buildings, monuments, statues. Large domed building, street in front with pedestrians and traffic. CU, two peasant men with beard and caps talking in street. Children parade through park. Man in uniform, seated in chair, watches children passing by. Brief shots, view of harbor with boats. Cut back to parade sequence, MCU, children with white flags. "In the quietude of night" House in village. ...

  8. German invasion of Poland; start of WWII

    Reel 5: German troops attack fortifications, running, explosions. Shelling Gydnia harbor. "Soldiers in civilian clothing" rounded up. Triumphal entry of troops into city. Banner over road "Gelenhafe", POV from car - tanks and motor cycles across bridge. Crowds of troops surround Hitler. Hitler at field camp. Interiors of headquarters, Goering looking over plans, Hitler seated in headquarters. Radio operators. Hitler looking at battle plans. Graphic showing troop movements towards Vistula. Polish troops along road, German soldiers disarming them. CUs of captured Polish equipment.

  9. Oral history interview with James Barnett

  10. Buchenwald Aussenkommando scrip for SS Ko. Rottleberode, -.50 Reichsmark

    .50 Reichsmark Buchenwald Aussenkommando [Outside Command] coupon for SS Ko. Rottleberode concentration camp in Germany. Buchenwald opened on July 19, 1937, and issued undated notes in 0.5, 1, 2, and 3 mark denominations. The simply designed notes were printed on coarse paper. There were two types of coupons: canteen scrip and exchange scrip issued to members of outside labor brigades [Aussenkommandos.] In early April 1945, as US forces approached Buchenwald concentration camp, the German guards began to evacuate the camp. On April 11, the prisoners revolted and seized control of the camp. ...

  11. Nazi conquest of Czechoslovakia: Munich Pact

    A documentary about the conquest of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis just prior to World War II. Munich and after.

  12. Nazi banner captured by an American soldier from a flag factory

  13. "True friends"

    Consists of a copy of "True friends" by Klaus Driessen. The manuscript describes how the writer's mother, Mati Driessen, a German costume designer, rescued her friend and business partner, Lilli Wolff, a German Jew, from Nazi persecution.

  14. 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 12: 06:34:15 MS Local women on planks pa...

  15. Signatures of eyewitnesses to the Gardelegen massacre

    Consists of a certified copy of a list of signatures headed "Gardelegen-April 13, 1945 U.S. Army--102nd Infantry Division in Germany." The document includes two photographs of the barn where the Gardelegen massacre occurred, one of which shows burned bodies. It is signed by a number of U.S. veterans who were eyewitnesses to the aftermath of the atrocity.

  16. SA Marschiert

    Torchlight parade through and past Brandenburg Gate. Stahlhelm and SA units march with banners.

  17. Articles concerning remembrance of the Jewish community of Ostrowiec, Poland

    Consists of three articles from the "Forward" newspaper (New York), circa 1947, written by Sam Streitman. The articles relate to the fifth anniversary of the destruction of the Jewish community in "Ostrowce," Poland (apparently a reference to Ostrowiec). Also included is a photograph (black-and-white with partial coloring added) of Chawa and Frieda Borensztein, sisters of the donor's father. Both women perished at Treblinka, as did other members of the donor's family. On the reverse side of the photo is the annotation "1913."

  18. Jewish men; market scenes in Warsaw

    Intertitles appear in Yiddish and English. "A Rabbinical Type." CU, Jewish man with beard smoking pipe stands adjacent to a fence. Group of children. Pan, outdoor market scene. Crowds, vendors.

  19. Records relating to children's art from Terezin at the University of Oregon Museum of Art

    Contains information about Thomas Ballinger's involvement in arranging for exhibit of childrens art from Terezin with the State Jewish Museum in Prague at the University of Oregon and various other institutions in the United States in 1969 and 1970.

  20. March of Time -- outtakes -- Jewish Relief Committees

    Woburn House, Bloomsbury, London. Headquarters of the Jewish Relief Committees. Interior, dark, big busy room, older men sitting at tables, women too waiting to be seen, people asking questions. Stock shots of Orientation signs in German on doorways. Refugees in line at desk to receive immediate dispensation of funds from Mr. Nathan (according to MoT card) for needy including women with infants. MS and CU of those waiting and of money and coins on table. 02:33:23 MS Mr. I.B. Davidson of Jewish Aid Committee speaks of enormous cost of helping refugees, thanks non-Jewish friends who have cont...