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  1. Nazi conquest of Czechoslovakia: anti-Nazi rally

    A documentary about the conquest of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis just prior to World War II. Hospital; anti-Nazi rally.

  2. VE Day in US

    United News. Crowds in Times Square celebrate news of VE Day and people pray in churches.

  3. Corpses on sidewalks, passers-by, loading coffins

    Jewish-mortality chart. Shots of people walking by corpse on the sidewalk; some are running. Coffin wagon in street stops, men carry out plain coffin and drag body into it. Group of men carries and then loads coffin into wagon and walk it away. Two emaciated corpses laid out on sidewalk, people pass by. Men bring cart to bodies and begin to load them.

  4. Soviets defeat Germans at Vitebsk in summer 1944

    Title on screen: Battle of Vitebsk. Map showing Vitebsk (50 miles due west of Moscow), narrator explains the strategic importance of the city and the military situation as it was by June 1944. Soviet army begins assault. German soldiers advance toward city, come across camp of Soviet civilians. LS Russian T34 tanks move to front silhouetted by sunrise, MLS of column of men marching, SU100s, tanks, jeeps, trucks, Katusha rocket launchers, camouflaged armored vehicles move to front through woods and fields. Map of closing Russian circle, insert CU Generals Czernickhowski and Bagramian in midd...

  5. Cairo Conference

    "UN Leaders Meet in Middle East" President Roosevelt meets with Churchill and Chiang Kai-Shek in Cairo. Shows Madame Chiang. According to UN contents sheet: "The leaders of China, Great Britain and the United States...meet face to face for the first time...The High Commands of the United Nations powers mapping the blows that will strip Japan of the vast empire gained through fifty years of terror and aggression. Three great Allies pledged to a common cause: The unconditional surrender of Japan."

  6. Warsaw Uprising 1944

    LS of destroyed rubble and smoke rising in BG. German troops combing through rubble in Praga, suburb of Warsaw. MS Soldier carries basket of long handled explosives, troops ducking and dodging firing weapons amidst debris. MS Firing through hole in wall, German in cap fires rifle, howitzer fires. LS of street, buildings and smoke, aircraft fly overhead. Single file line along trench, fierce fighting, mortar attacks after looking through slit in wall. Howitzer fires across street. Use of flamethrowers outside bulidngs and in interiors.

  7. Concentration camp inmate uniform jacket

    Jacket issued as a uniform to an inmate in a concentration camp.

  8. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 100 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 100 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.

  9. Roma/Sinti in Berlin

    Romani group in Berlin filmed by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy in 1932. 00:00:40 Horse grazing near camp. Overhead shots of wagons, horses near by. Child in courtyard. 00:01:11 Woman washes child in wagon doorway. Children comb hair. CUs children. 00:01:42 Children play with banners. 00:02:04 Shots of wagons and horses, men with horse, slap hands. Men into wagons. 00:02:36 CU of woman. Wagon along road. Men drive off in cart. POV cart, leaving camp. 00:03:02 Berlin street, wagon. 00:03:18 Horse market. 00:04:01 Girl in wagon at market, CU. More horse market. 00:04:36 CU man, profile, boy with horse. 0...

  10. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 10 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 10 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.

  11. Train in England

    "Arrival of train and departure of the Victoria and Albert." Different views of a train moving on elevated tracks above water into a city, people watch and wave hats.

  12. Nazi flag acquired at Dachau by a US soldier

    Nazi flag taken from Dachau concentration camp by Lt. Col. Irving Dilliard of the United States Military government in 1945.

  14. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 5 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 5 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.

  15. Deportation of Jews from Thrace

    The deportation of the Jewish communities of Kavala, Seres, and Drama from Thrace, an area under Bulgarian military administration (now Northern Greece), carried out by the Bulgarians in spring 1943. Nearly seven minutes of film footage recorded by cameramen from Bulgarska delo document this deportation consisting of approximately 3,000 Jews. It was not possible to shoot without some official permission, for example at the request of the Bulgarian commissar of Jewish Affairs, but no records about it have been found. The film material was not used in a newsreel, nor in any film at the time. ...

  16. Louis Oppenheimer papers

    The Louis Oppenheimer papers include a memoir written in 1939 by Louis Oppenheimer recounting his four-week internment in Buchenwald concentration camp as well as a transcription of a questionnaire answered by Eleanor Oppenheimer, Louis' daughter, relating to her family history.

  17. 45th Division News [Newspaper]

    Given by an American soldier to Abe Speisman after his liberation, May 1945, Germany.

  18. Ukrainian bishops and Nazi governor in Warsaw

    Bishops of Ukrainian Orthodox Church present plaque to Ludwig Fischer, Nazi governor of Warsaw district, and protest Russian oppression in Ukraine. 3:40:30 Bishops walking across courtyard (very poor visual quality) then MS in ceremonial room, VS of Fischer shaking hands with prelates. One of them reads declaration, Fischer's back to camera. CU senior church official, CU Fischer. LS, MS of them together.

  19. Hungarian Roma Life

    Romani community at work: walking around outside, doing chores. MLS from above of central open area surrounded by cabins. Children and adults pose for camera. Dancing and music ("Czardas," the national dance).

  20. Forced labor construction of giant submarine pen

    French POWs, Jewish concentration camp inmates, Polish and Soviet POWs from Neuengamme subcamp Bremen-Farge - forced labor at U-Boat construction site "Valentin" in Bremen. 00:09:50 Concentration camp inmates and POWs coming down several flights of wooden walkway next to high wall, CU of same, some appear to have patches of some sort on their jackets. MS of men walking through construction area next to railroad track. 00:10:40 Roll call of camp inmates. Soviet and Polish POWs eating in construction area, others walking, sitting, and large group clustered eating next to barracks. One funnels...