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  1. Exhumation of Labor Battalion

    Exhumation in field, officials look and take photos. Narration: "A barbaric Nazi act in Hungary on October 18, 1944. The German SS took 25 labor battalion members to Cinkota, promising them after completing work they will be released. They had them dig trenches, they were shot, and thrown into the trenches." Exhumation and identification of the victims. One of the labor battalion members escaped and [after liberation] brought the authorities to the massacre site.

  2. Street scenes; Jewish police; traffic

    High overhead shot of busy street scene, with tilt-up to get very long view of the street. Ground-level shot of Jewish policeman (watching camera) letting horse-drawn carriages pass through gate on a city street. Line of bicycle-rickshaws moving alongside a wall, carrying well-dressed men, a family. Some men remove hats as they pass by.

  3. 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.

  4. Ghetto conditions; soup kitchen; eating in street

    Various ghetto scenes: people, including children, eating in muddy and garbage-infested building courtyard. People line up for food at soup kitchen. Woman washes clothes in small tub. Woman sells food from stall heated by charcoal. Child takes food from wired street vendor box.

  5. Oral history interview with Arline Kuznetz

  6. 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.

  7. 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...

  8. Prison camp, slave labor, atrocities

    Slave labor, workshops, atrocities and leaders of camp are highlighted during war and at liberation. 01:01:09 Scrolling text, camp/place names superimposed over shots of atrocities, titles and credits. 01:03:49 AV Town and camp of Jasenovac, ruins of town. More scrolling text, HAS of photographer Steiner, (survivor/witness?) 01:06:33 MS of rounded up men being brought into labor camp by both German and Ustasa, archway of labor camp.

  9. Nazis visit Krupp firm

    "Nazi officials visiting the Krupp Firm" Soldiers marching, holding flags with swastikas, delivering speech, distributing Hitler's book, "Mein Kampf."

  10. March of Time -- outtakes -- Jewish boys on English farm

    Flint Hall Farm maintained by YMCA agreed to take 50 Jewish boys. Boys lead harnessed work horses from farm stables. Out in field they are taught to plough as instructor (in suit and hat) watches. Good CUs. Boy throws out feed for cattle from back of cart. Boy being given instruction on milking of cow.

  11. Oral history interview with Ruth Jacobsen

  12. Nazi conquest of Czechoslovakia: comedians

    A documentary about the conquest of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis just prior to World War II. Map; comedians (Jiří Voskovec and Jan Werich).

  13. Flemish Hitler Youth

    Flanders Hitler Youth present flags to Eastern front volunteers. Buglers on battlements, shots of fortress, MLS pan down to Flanders Hitler Youth parading out of doorway carrying swastika flags. Flag up flagpole. AV ranks of Flanders Hitler Youth (men and women) standing in semicircle in courtyard. CU symbols hanging from wall, stylized lion and pan up wall to black eagle with swastika. LS castle and banners. Pan down from flag to column of Hitler Youth, those in black are Flemish those in military helmets with banners. German officers observing. LS ceremony, then CU as German officer trans...

  14. Nazi Gdańsk Proclamation

    Consists of a photocopy of the Nazi Danzig Proclamation of September 1, 1939. It is the announcement by the Nazi party that Gdańsk is again a part of Germany.

  15. Program booklet and map relating to Reichsparteitage

    Includes information about the Reichsparteitage observances in Nuremberg, Germany, for 1929 and 1938.

  16. Children play games with teacher in ghetto

    Healthy, well-dressed children in a school or children's home merrily play games, led by their teacher (her Star of David armband is visible throughout).

  17. Prisoner of War identification tag issued by the Red Cross to an inmate of Stalag 10B during an inspection

    Prisoner of War identification bracelet issued to Lewis Lax by the International Red Cross in 1944. Law was interned by the Germans in Stalag 10B from fall 1944 until liberation in spring 1945.

  18. 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.

  19. "Dancing through the minefields"

    Consists of a copy of "Dancing through the minefields," a typescript memoir by Fred Schiller and Janice Blumberg. The memoir describes Schiller's early life in Yugoslavia, his career as a jazz musician, his flight from Yugoslavia after the establishment of the Nazi-Ustashi (Ustaša) government, his experiences as a refugee on various Yugoslav islands in the Adriatic Sea, his service with the United States Army, and his immigration to the United States in 1948.

  20. A life of survival

    The testimony describes John P. Kartal's early life in Hungary, his experiences as a laborer during World War II, his hiding during the deportation of Hungarian Jews, his life under Hungary's post-war communist government, and his immigration to the United States.