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  1. Warsaw Surrenders

    Surrender and occupation of Warsaw in 1939. German in trench behind wire observing, Hitler w/binoculars. LS Howitzer fires at train, burning. Howitzer fires, LS of city, plume of smoke, mortar fire. Plane takes off, aerial shot of columns of smoke. AV craters, bombed domes. Surrender, Polish officer goes into railcar. Trucks of German troops enter city and soldiers on foot. "Komend Miasta Warszawa" sign on building, pan down to Polish officers, long column of Polish POWs shot from above, horses and carts. Bomb damage, wrecked train cars. Civilians digging through rubble, and with POWs makin...

  2. Helen Goldberg photograph collection

    The collection consists of 33 black-and-white photographs depicting the German invasion, persecution, and destruction of Poland, circa 1939-1943. Captions in Polish are handwritten on the bottom of the photographs.

  3. Exhumation at hospital

    Sign: Maros Utca 16 (address). Sign: X-ray. Exhumation by hospital. VO: Infamous hospital where the Arrow Cross committed murders. Mass graves exhumed in hospital garden. They killed helpless patients in their beds along with doctors and nurses. Former Arrow Cross members (waiting for trials) watch exhumation. CUs intercut with exhumation shots.

  4. Leszek Grzywaczewski photographs

    The collection consists of photographs depicting the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943 including burning buildings, Polish firefighters, German SS officers, and captured Jews being marched down Nowolipie Street prior to deportation. Also included is one post-war photograph depicting Hungarian troops preparing to execute Lajos Remenyi-Schneller, who was tried and convicted in 1946 of collaborating with the Nazis. All the Warsaw photographs were taken by Leszek Grzywaczewski, a Polish firefighter whose unit was called to the fire, but not allowed to intervene with buildings inside the ghetto.

  5. Street scenes in ghetto

    Street scene in ghetto. Corner storefront, many pedestrians, carts, truck. Pan up building. Jewish policeman. CUs of street vendors, children. Tilt up storefront. Horse drawn wagon full of people in Warsaw Ghetto (could be new inhabitants moving into ghetto?).

  6. Ann Hershkowitz papers

    The papers consist of an identification card issued to Hanka Schudmak (later Ann Hershkowitz) and stating that she was a prisoner at Bergen-Belsen, two photographs of Hanka standing near the grave of her younger sister, Itka Schudmak, at the International Cemetery at Bergen-Belsen, and a photograph of the gravestone of Itka Schudmak. Itka Schudmak, Ann Hershkowitz's younger sister, died of typhus on May 27, 1945, after liberation at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

  7. German Campaign in Russia

    Destroyed Russian position, prisoner. Germans salute at grave of comrade. CU and MS tanks and vehicles roll over bridge and road. Entry into city (Lvov?) 01:12:37 Artillery supported troops and motorized units bypass Minsk and enter Baranovichi. 01:17:24 Anti-sniper squads restore order in city, long column of POWs march to rear. Women on streets of town. 01:18:34 Build bridge then enter Lusk or Lemberg (Lvov). City street scenes, evidence of damage. Tanks advance, destroyed Russian tanks.

  8. Hans Frank in Poland

    UFA #688: Hans Frank, Governor General of Poland, visits Pilsudski Tomb and dines at castle. MS of elaborate scrollwork on entryway to tomb, group of Nazi officials enters, shots of tomb and overhead of people in room. Outdoors in courtyard of castle, Frank and aide are introduced to various people, CU as he shakes hands while in BG Nazi officers stand around. LS of people seated outdoors at table. Good MCU of Frank without his cap, shot of castle exterior.

  9. Ghetto prison

    Ghetto prison. Boys driven out of doorway by Jewish police, run in street (L to R on screen). Boys standing in prison yard. Group of men and boys in prison yard, one man shivering, shirtless. 14:35:56 Single shot of crowd of people running, driven through street, crowded, chaotic (related to separate scene in Story 2547 b). Women driven out of doorway by Jewish women police, hurried, one falls. Women standing in prison yard. Close shot of several with cropped and thin hair.

  10. Nazi propaganda leaflet mimicking a US silver certificate given to a US soldier after the liberation of Paris

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn7086
    • English
    • a: Height: 2.625 inches (6.668 cm) | Width: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm) b: Height: 2.625 inches (6.668 cm) | Width: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm) c: Height: 2.625 inches (6.668 cm) | Width: 6.125 inches (15.557 cm)

    Nazi propaganda leaflet resembling a US dollar bill given to US Army Colonel Lewis H. Weinstein in Paris on the day of liberation, August 25, 1944. His jeep was surrounded by thousands of grateful Parisians near the Montparnasse railroad station. An emaciated man with a Star of David badge pushed his way forward and asked him if he was Jewish. Weinstein said yes and the man blurted out: “ I’m the last of my family. The rest went to Drancy.” He tore off his badge and handed it and an envelope with the leaflet to Weinstein, and disappeared. These leaflets were dropped from planes over Paris i...

  11. "The Relief of Belsen concentration camp: recollections and reflections of a British Army doctor"

    Consists of the typescript of "The Relief of Belsen Concentration Camp: Recollections & Reflections of a British Army Doctor" written by Major General James Alexander Deans Johnston, circa 1970. The typescript includes information on conditions at Bergen-Belsen under Nazi control and during liberation, as well as description of medical measures taken by the British for the benefit of former inmates of the camp. Also included is a photocopy of a photograph of James Johnston and a retype of his obituary from "The Daily Telegraph."

  12. Crimes by Black Legion

    Black Legion of Ustasa on manuevers and searching for partisans. Dancing at town festival. 01:17:20 LS Jeep moves along road, soldiers run across open ground, fire weapons from prone position, advance toward large farm house and maneuver around buildings. 01:18:01 Soldiers walk across road, CU next to jeep, Ustasa men appear to be wearing German uniforms with Ustasa insignia. One puts bird on his shoulder. POV through windshield of vehicle. CU of driver. 01:18:52 Ustasa officer salutes soldiers in street, walks to jeep. Men lift wooden road barrier. People hoe in field. Ustasa oversees civi...

  13. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 1 krone note

    Scrip, valued at 1 krone, 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.

  14. Deposition of Hela Los Jaffe regarding Bergen-Belsen

    Consists of a duplicate copy of a Polish-language deposition by Hela Los Jaffe completed in October 1965. In the deposition, Jaffe describes her experiences of life in the Warsaw ghetto, imprisonment in several concentration camps, including Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, and her involvement in efforts with Hadassah Rosensaft, formerly Ada Bimko, for the organization of a children's home and medical aid for children in Bergen-Belsen.

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

    Scrip, valued at 2 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.

  16. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 1 krone note

    Scrip, valued at 1 krone, 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.

  17. Peasants; small town in Russia

    There are burn-in time codes on the intermediate Betacam SP (Protection) video. There is no way to order a clean copy. Shots of poor Jews in fields. Peasants. Peddlers. Horse-drawn carts. HAS small town with dirt roads, church in BG.

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

    Scrip, valued at 2 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.

  19. German Army in Budapest

    Map of Hungary/Rumania region. VAR views: Germans, armed and on horseback, townspeople in street clothes carry bricks, working together to build roadblocks. VAR views: Germans fire artillery into the city below, incl CU soldiers, LS city, Howitzer is loaded, shot and recoils. MS pan over snowy field dotted with tanks and trucks; ELS view of fields with advancing German infantry. Pan of knocked out Russian tanks and of snowy, rather bleak Budapest (incl one nice MS skyline view). German tanks roll down road toward camera, past smiling and waving civilian workers. German Panzer vehicles masse...

  20. Street scenes; starvation/begging; shops

    VAR crowded pedestrian scene with impoverished people on streets and sidewalks. Begging for food; ragged men, women, and children; kiosks, street vendors. Storekeeper gives food to poor man. Courtyard. Selling goods from bench.