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  1. Ernst Kallmes passport

    The passport (Reisepass) was issued to Ernst Israel Kallmes by the chief of police of Hamburg, Germany. Includes a "Single Journey Only" visa for the United Kingdom issued in Hamburg and an immigration visa for the United States of America issued in London, England.

  2. Łódź becomes Litzmannstadt, reels 1 and 3

    Germans build new planned city for German Volk. Łódź before and after being "rebuilt." Stroll through town, labor camps, city street. Reel 1: LS panorama of city. Animap highlights darkened area "Wandalen" (early history of Vandals and Germanic occupation of area). CU stone surrounding circular metal object, pull out to reveal museum (archeological?) cases of vases. "Das Gefaess Aus Biala..." label on one of the vases. Swastika carved into urn. CU of ornamental crosses and other objects, spearheads, helmets. Map of Sudetenland and Warthegau, extreme Eastern edge, points to Litzmannstadt (Łó...

  3. Vichy recruits for German Army

    Good HA establishing shot of Place des Invalides in Paris as (Secretary of State of Vichy government) Joseph Darnand administers oath of allegiance to French recruits of the German Army. Quick shot of Darnand. Recruits in uniforms and berets kneel on pavement. VS onlookers in courtyard and pairs of women looking down from above. CU tricolor banner that says "Francaise" and has an unidentified symbol at center. CU men kneeling; they salute. LS men at attention in courtyard. Shot of banner again. LS March out through iron-grill gate to Arc de Triomphe. Several shots of tomb of France's unknow...

  4. Gomel Oblast Archive records

    Consists of microfilmed documents relating to the activities of various oblast government offices in the vicinity of Gomel. Included is information concerning reprisal actions by Germans against partisan activity, the liquidation of the ghetto at Monastyrek, the confiscation of Jewish property and livestock, and arrests of Roma.

  5. SS Totenkopf (Death’s head) ring taken from an SS officer by a liberator and later given to a Holocaust survivor

    SS Ehrenring [honor ring] given to Benjamin Meed on October 24, 1992, by a liberator, who removed it from the finger of an SS officer in Germany in 1945. The rings, also called Totenkopfrings [Death’s head rings], were engraved with Himmler's name and were a highly prized award for SS officers. The SS (Schutztaffel; Protection Squadron) controlled the police forces and the concentration camp system for the Nazi Reich. In 1939, they created the Final Solution to eliminate the Jewish problem. Benjamin and his wife Vladka were Jewish resistance members in Warsaw, where they lived in the Ghetto...

  6. Children are caught smuggling food

    Five youths are caught smuggling and forced by German (uniformed) police to empty the food from sacks under their clothes. Potatoes, carrots, etc. fall at their feet.

  7. Leopold Levy family papers

    The Levy family papers include correspondence, immigration documentation, property lists, and photographs relating to the Levy family’s prewar life in Germany and preparation for immigration to the United States through London in 1940. Included are letters to the American Consulate in Geneva, Switzerland, correspondence and documentation relating to efforts to bring Erica Levy from Belgium to England and to obtain visas to the United States, and family correspondence describing the fate of other Levy family members unable to flee Germany.

  8. Funeral of Iron Guard Leader

    01:34:42 LS funeral cortege coming out of church. 01:34:48 CU of General Antonescu and Nazi official Baldur von Schirach leading group down steps. Crowds in street along route saluting and holding banners. 01:35:04 Casket being carried by many bareheaded men in dark uniforms. 01:35:11 Overhead of street procession. German soldiers carry funeral wreath. LS of formation in shape of crossed arrow. Women in black. Men carrying iron cross symbols. Man crying. 01:35:41 Arrival at cemetery with casket. Huge banners with men's portraits on them. CU of officials saluting. LS large crowd there saluti...

  9. Rauter Trial, Westerbork

    "Neerlands Nieuws / Polygoon Profilti" "Het Proces Rauter Opens with the trial of Hanns Rauter, an Austrian who was the highest SS official in Nazi-occupied Holland and who was tasked with setting up Westerbork and Vught 02:19:44 The judge's voice, presumably reading the indictment, over footage of well dressed civilians wearing stars either arriving at Westerbork or boarding for deportation to Auschwitz or Belsen. Men, women, and children. Good shots of Dutch military police on duty. Back to Rauter sitting at the trial. 02:20:12 Men wearing wooden clogs getting off train at Westerbork lini...

  10. Black Legion; Award Ceremony

    Black Legion members receiving medals at ceremony. 01:24:07 Officer giving awards to a line of soldiers at attention. Large crowd of civilians watching. Village nestled against foot of mountain in BG. MCU of men receiving medals and saluting. Max Lubovitch (commandent of Jasenovac) in attendance. Rows of black-shirted recipients. 01:26:18 March past Nazi officer. Nazi reviews troops, local civilians watch. Banners. CU, civilians delivering speech to assembled people. MS monument, shots of soldiers strolling thru town.

  11. Amintiri din Lagarele Vapniarca si Grosolova, 16 Sept. 1942 - 4 Aprille 1944

    Contains a copy of a handwritten manuscript entitled "Amintiri din Lagarele Vapniarca si Grosolova, 16 September 1942 - 4 Aprille 1944," written by Zalman Broder. The manuscript includes information about the experiences of Mr. Broder and his wife while incarcerated in Vapniarca and Grosulovo concentration camps in Romania from September 16, 1942 to April 4, 1944. These camps were designated for Jewish and non-Jewish communists.

  12. German antisemitic/anti-American propaganda newsreel

    Part 1, Jewish American woman receives award contrasted to those who live in "ghetto," shots of Jewish neighborhoods, people in store picking out material, Jewish merchant behind counter, Hebrew signs, shots of frenzied activity of Stock Exchange, CU of money being counted. LaGuardia gesturing at man at desk, going up ladder, CU as he makes speech. Background music throughout is jazz swing.

  13. General Antonescu meets with Hitler

    Romanian General Antonescu with Hitler. 05:00:03 MS high contrast Antonescu arrives in car to visit Hitler. INT shot as Hitler rushes across room to greet him. MS, group of 4 men talking including Hitler and Antonescu. Camera follows as they walk over and sit at sofa around table. 05:00:34 Antonescu enters conference room; Hitler at door, they salute, walk to large map on table with other officers including Keitel and von Ribbentrop.

  14. Jewish police

    Jewish Police sequence: CU of commander; double line of police at attention (all turn their heads, German military style). CUs of several policemen. Police march by camera, pan down to boots. VAR policeman at check point, checking papers, chasing children. See Emanuel Ringelblum's diary, May 7, 1942

  15. Lʹviv Oblast Archive records

    Contains information about the German occupation of Lemberg (a.k.a. Lʹviv, Lwow, or Lʹvov), Poland, the establishment of the Lʹviv ghetto, and Jews involved in public work programs and industry.

  16. Ghetto street scenes

    VAR pedestrians walking toward camera on crowded sidewalk in the ghetto, incl many young boys in rags. Well-dressed women sit in rickshaw, then very poor thin woman walks alongside. All look uncomfortably into camera. Vertical pan of poorer woman swathed in rags. Bearded old man carrying a bundle passes camera. HA of tram through busy ghetto street. (Tram car is identified with large Star of David.) MLS woman lying on sidewalk, ignored by many pedestrians passing by. Shot through window grate bars, view of street vendor and his cart. HA horse-drawn trolley, tram, and other traffic on street...

  17. Self portrait by Josef Nassy

    Self portrait by Josef Nassy. This is the only known portrait of the artist. It was made while Nassy was incarcerated in Nazi Germany. The painting was presented to Tony Clark by Mrs. Nassy in appreciation for his efforts to preserve Nassy's collection of paintings and drawings known as The Holocaust Suite.

  18. M. Henri Azéma collection

    Contains one photograph of Mayor Vincent Azema of Banyuls, France, and two newspapers from the 1980s. The copy of the newspaper "El Punt" features an article about Walter Benjamin's death while fleeing the Nazis in 1940; "Le journal independant" has a half-page interview with Lisa Fittko about her memoirs of the network that helped Jews escape across the Spanish border at Banyuls.

  19. Gijsbertus Nicholaas Van der Bijl papers

    The Gijsbertus Nicholaas Van der Bijl papers consists of a permission card for bathing, 1944; a displaced persons identification card issued by the Allied Expeditionary Force for "Nich. V.D. Byl." [Gijsbertus Nicholaas Van der Bijl], undated; a photograph of Gijsbertus Van der Bijl at age 24, 1938; and two studio portraits of Van der Bijl as a child, August 2, 1926 and 1932.

  20. 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.