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  1. 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.

  2. 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...

  3. Five Cities

    Yiddish titles. English title, "Jewish Life in Bialystok." Pan, overview of city of Bialystok. Street scenes illustrating city as an industrial and cultural center with buildings, shops, and pedestrians. Images of downtown shops and buses, market day with peasants and horses. 03:04:10 Scenes of the Jewish community, children, elderly, street scenes, schools and synagogues. 03:05:31 Tile-roofed home of Dr. Zamenhof, creator of Esperanto. Sholem Aleichem Library, signs in Yiddish. INTs, factory, smokestacks, power looms and textile workers. Nursery. TOZ sanatorium. 03:08:40 Community-run summ...

  4. Handmade Star of David pendant given to an American liberator by a Polish Jewish slave laborer

    Handmade, beaded, Star of David pendant given to US Private First Class Marvin Dorf by a young Polish woman, who he helped free from a forced labor transport near Munich, Germany, in April 1945. Marvin grew up in New York City, the son of Jewish immigrants. After Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and Germany’s subsequent declaration of war on the United States, Marvin enlisted in the United States Army in October 1942, where he was assigned to Troop E of the 92nd Cavalry Reconnaissance Squad (Mechanized), 12th Armored Division. In April 1945, He arrived in Europe in the fa...

  5. Nazi conquest of Czechoslovakia: Henlein

    A documentary about the conquest of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis just prior to World War II. SPD Party; Henlein.

  6. Manfred Loeb photograph album

    Contains a photograph album with approximately 44 black and white photographs and postcards, compiled by Manfred Loeb of his school, family and travel, in Brussels, Belgium.

  7. Exodus Protest

    HA group protesting. VAR shots of signs, speakers. CU shot with banner:"Bevin! We will out live your reactionary policies!" Clapping audience. General shot of protest. Protesters parade. Banner: "Exodus in Hamburg a mark of cain for England." More good banners (English and Hebrew/Yiddish). Crowd waves fists, good banners visible. More close shots and speakers (Marc Jarblum speaks, Josef Rosensaft next to him).

  8. Corpse; children begging; roundup/beating (Aktion?)

    Bodies in street. Man walks along pavement, begging. Two men struggle to put body into wooden casket, then place casket onto cart with black box. Two girls huddled in the street, crying or begging. 14:37:37 Jewish police beating and driving people through streets; people running. Mix of men, women, children. (related to single shot in Story 2546 b)

  9. The Poison Mushroom Book

    Antisemitic children's book, Der Giftpilz (The Poisonous Mushroom), found by Arthur Lampner, a Corporal with the United States Army Signal Corps., 129th Sig. R.I. Co., while stationed in a manor house, Falkanhof, in Bensheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany, in May 1945. The book was published by Der Stuermer Verlag, a division of the viciously anti-Jewish newspaper, Der Stuermer, published by Julius Streicher from 1923-1945. The illustrations are by Fips (Phillip Rupprecht), the paper's well known antisemitic cartoonist. Both men were arrested by the US Army in May 1945. Rupprecht was tried by ...

  10. German anti-American propaganda film

    Statue of Liberty shots, FDR speaks, troops and mounted police battle strikers in various locations, wounded are picked up, rioters arrested. Workers smash windows in Detroit, coal strike in Pittsburgh and farmers dump milk during milk strike. Another large protest rally then CU of stills of American "Jews" including Major Rothschild, Untermeyer, Schiff, Frankfurter, Lehman, and (?)La Guardia. FDR speaking, footage from film "Grapes of Wrath," camps for refugees of Dust Bowl, shots of slums, footage of gangster Dillinger, other criminals, and Eleanor Roosevelt as fashion model.

  11. 1939 Day of German Art; Hitler and high Nazi officials

    Archival footage in color from 01:10:19 to 01:27:32 shows amateur 16mm film footage of the Day of German Art filmed by Hans Feierabend in Munich in 1939. Includes scenes of Philipp Bouhler (in glasses) seated among Nazi dignitaries for viewing parade from 01:23:59 - 01:24:02 and 01:24:09 - 01:24:12, Albert Speer appears at 01:24:03, and Himmler and Goebbels.

  12. 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...

  13. 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.

  14. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 50 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. Small child dancing in ghetto

    Small child in rags dances in the street, bagel in hand, surrounded by onlookers.

  16. Photographic negative of corpses at Buchenwald

    The photographic negative depicts American soldiers looking at a mound of corpses in front of an incinerator building at Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation.

  17. Myer Glick photograph collection

    The Myer Glick photograph collection consists of photographs of Myer Glick at age eighteen shortly after he was liberated by the American Army on May 8, 1945, in Styria, Austria; and photographs of his two brothers, Chaskiel Gatek and Yankiel, in Warsaw, Poland, in 1939.

  18. Rudolf Höss statement

    The papers consist of a statement regarding the Jews killed at Auschwitz concentration camp signed by Rudolf Höss at Nuremberg, Germany, on May 15,1946.

  19. Morris Edelman photograph collection

    The collection consists of eight photographs of corpses and burial pits at Ohrdruf concentration camp at the time of liberation in 1945.

  20. Warren Brinley papers

    The papers consist of a daily report on activities in Theresienstadt ghetto on June 15, 1943 and an announcement dated June 22, 1943, concerning application information for a position in the Office of Ghetto Watch.