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  1. FDR's first inaugural

    Universal Newsreel Vol. 5, No. 125, Part 1. Release date, 03/04/1933. Presidential inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt (32nd president of the US) [first sound pictures ever shown of a presidential inauguration]. Shots include Roosevelt and Hoover riding, with congressional escort, down Pennsylvania Avenue; Mr. Roosevelt reciting the Oath of Office at the Capitol; the stirring inaugural address; the inaugural parade down Pennsylvania Avenue. Inaugural parade: Several scenes along Pennsylvania Ave. made from the street. Crowds; women and children sitting on curb; people on the roofs of hous...

  2. Five Cities

    Yiddish titles. English title, "A Day in Warsaw" Pan, overview of city of Warsaw, street scenes, pedestrians, important modern multistoried buildings, cars, city square with pedestrians. Contrasted with old market square, narrow streets, Jewish quarter, including Zamenhof Street and the commercial Nalewki Steet where 400,000 Jews lived before WWII, and Jewish institutions, such as the community council, hospitals, schools and synagogues. Scenes of the modern parts of the city with large buildings, autos, and trucks meet with horse-drawn carriages, crowds, pushcarts, and porters in the bustl...

  3. Execution of war criminals, Landsberg, Germany

    (Paris 369) Execution of War Criminals, Landsberg, Germany, November 19, 1945. LS, prison buildings. MS, two civilian executioners stand beneath scaffold looking at man who was just hung. LS, civilian executioners set up rope on scaffold. Roped-off area "official witnesses." Man lead up by priest, soldiers, military, police. LS, criminal drops thru trap door of scaffold. MS, rope is adjusted around condemned man's neck and trap is sprung. HS, looking thru trap door at corpse swinging from rope. Note: Three German nationals were hanged by the US military authorities for murdering US aviators...

  4. Vern Ecklund photograph collection

    The collection consists of photographs and negatives depicting the massacre at Gardelegen, Germany, in April 1945. All photographs were taken by Vern Ecklund.

  5. Articles and clippings relating to the war crimes trial of Klaus Barbie trial

    Consists of articles and clippings (some copies and some originals) from French and English periodicals relating to Klaus Barbie and his trial in Lyon, France. Among the topics discusses are the allegations against Barbie, the testimony of Barbie's victims, the children of Izieu, France, and the lawyers and judges involved in the case. Also included are materials relating to the courtroom art created during the trial by David Rose.

  6. Street entertainer and onlookers in ghetto

    Street entertainer dancing to camera, amid crowd of smiling people (mostly children). One woman in the crowd is lying on ground.

  7. Letter from Janusz Schwieger to Leopold Infeld

    The collection consists of a 15 August 1945 letter from Janusz Schwieger in France to Leopold Infeld. The letter regards persecution, deportation, and conditions of Polish Jews and their families (Infeld, Schwieger, and others) in 1943 at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp and to transports being sent to Auschwitz from Bergen-Belsen.

  8. Nazi conquest of Czechoslovakia: children

    A documentary about the conquest of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis just prior to World War II. Solidarity Kids camp.

  9. 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 1: 05:14:33 Damaged church and defaced i...

  10. Pacific Islands Campaign

    Part 4: Japanese planes attack ships off Saipan. US troops land on islands off New Guinea. Troops fight and supplies are dropped on Guam. Women and children are fed and treated at field hospitals.

  11. John Coulston papers

    Includes materials collected by U.S. Army Capt. John Coulston concerning the liberation of Ohrdruf and the activities of 602nd U.S. Tank Destroyer Battalion members after World War II. Also included are materials relating to reviews of Holocaust literature, survivors from Auschwitz, the life and work of Henri Abraham, and children who were survivors.

  12. Estonian Youths Recruited for German Army

    Estonian youths receive physical exams, peasants surrender their horses to German army and estonian youths get close order drill instruction. 2:22:49 CU Dr. Mie? National Director of Estonia. Men read posted recruitment notice. CU Men coming through door; pan down to man checking papers against list. Men at table entering names. 2:23:05 Doctor with stethescope checks barechested man. Man pointing to figures on an eye chart. Profile of man holding hand over one eye. Group of volunteers stand together talking. 2:23:14 MLS Cluster of peasants or farmers with their horses in the snow. CU of var...

  13. Oil fields; Romani people

    With intertitles in English. Part 2. Oil fields in Europe with short segment on Roma. Trains in the town of Ploesti, a large town near the oil fields. Oil wells in Moreni. Roma (?) carrying goods with bullock-drawn wagons. Intertitle re: vendors of drinks, fruit, etc. MS of Roma men and women seated on slabs with posts all about them. Next to them are baskets of fruit and a pail. Wagon with log on it passes in front of them. MCU of same group as woman walks by with basket. MS two men with pole that has basket at each end are selling to a third man. One man has pole on shoulder, other has po...

  14. War Crimes Trial: The Belsen Case

    Part 5: Courtroom scenes of the trial by a British military tribunal at Lueneberg, Germany, of Nazis who served at the Belsen prison camp. Includes scenes of atrocities at Belsen. According to UN contents sheet: "To a British military tribunal at Luneburg [sic] is brought a sordid assortment of Nazi war criminals...headed by the notorious Josef Kramer, charged with responsibility for torture and mass murder of 50,000 prisoners, at the German death camp at Belsen. Belsen's women -- as savage as any of the men. Kramer's chief assistant -- 21 years old and a veteran of five years of atrocities...

  15. Roosevelt declares war on Japan

    Crowd lined up outside Capitol. 01:23:48 LS Joint session of Congress, President Roosevelt declares war on Japan after attack on Pearl Harbor, shot of audience. 01:24:23 MLS of FDR giving speech. 01:25:37 LS of large crowd outside listening, MS of men listening to car radio as speech is given. 01:25:43 MLS, different angle of FDR giving speech. 01:26:43 LS At finish, shot of audience applauding. Additional unrelated footage (mute): 01:26:51 to 01:27:43, VS of Benito Mussolini speaking from balcony to crowds, at parades, reviewing soldiers, on horseback, standing alongside statue of Caesar. ...

  16. Miriam Mordecai memoir

    Consists of a photocopy of a typescript memoir, which describes how Miriam Mordecai and her family, Greek Jews, survived the Holocaust. She gives credit to gentiles in Greece who helped save members of her family. Also included is information about World War II in Italy and Albania and the deportation of several of Mordecai's relatives to Auschwitz.

  17. Refugees in Transylvania

    200,000 refugees from Ukraine entering Transylvania, fleeing "Red Hordes." Everybody brings livestock. Large open field, with many people of different regions with wagons and livestock.

  18. Homeless in exile : days of persecution in fall and winter 1938-39

    Consists of a copy of a typed manuscript entitled "Homeless in exile: days of persecution in fall and winter 1938-39." It is an English translation, prepared by Peter Loewenberg, of the original, handwritten in German by his father Harry Richard Loewenberg. The narrative begins in 1930 and includes descriptions of the Nazi rise to power in 1933, persecution of German Jews, the aftermath of Kristallnacht in which the writer went into hiding under protection of members of the Confessing Church, and the writer's flight to Britain. The original "Homeless in exile: .." was handwritten by Harry R...

  19. Samuel Gerstenfeld memoir

    Consist of a copy of a handwritten memoir by Samuel Gerstenfeld. The memoir describes his experiences of antisemitism in pre-World War II Poland, discrimination against Jews in business and education, his life in the Kielce ghetto, and his escape from the Blizyn camp. The memoir also contains detailed information concerning the Gerstenfeld family genealogy.

  20. "Let my people go" Some practical proposals for dealing with Hitler's massacre of the Jews and an appeal to the British public

    Consists of a pamphlet entitled "'Let my people go': Some practical proposals for dealing with Hitler's massacre of the Jews and an appeal to the British public," published in London by Victor Gollancz LTD.