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  1. Anti-Jewish sign; churchgoers, market in Bavaria

    CU of sign with swastika: "Juden sind hier unerwuenscht" (Jews not wanted here). Funeral at small church. Selling sausages, meat. Scenes at church yard. Poster for food production in Bavaria; Reichsnaehrstand (Nazi Peasant Organization). ["Blut und Boden" ("blood and soil") motto and symbol top left]. People exiting church: men, women, young boys.

  2. Oral history interview with Freda Koren

  3. Deportation of Jews

    Deportation of Polish Jews. Scenes of men, women, and children walking quickly towards train, and along a train platform with bundles, entering trains, views from inside railcars as people are loaded in. Doors are closed by uniformed German SS, Reichsbahn officials, and Polish Blue policemen. Many shots of women and children. People are wearing armbands. Close view of bar on closed railcar door, close pan along wooden car. NOTE: From 01:09:21 to 01:10:03 is black and white footage shot in 1955 at Auschwitz and Majdanek for the film "Night and Fog." The scenes shown in the film are in color.

  4. German civilians tour Buchenwald; US artillery, tanks in action

    At Buchenwald, survivors sit crouched around a fire, looking at the camera. German civilians file past after being taken through barracks. A flatbed of naked corpses situated in front of a building. MS, pile of bodies alongside building as civilians walk past. Women walk by with their heads buried and their hands covering their mouths. Crowds of people with white flags line the road; Germans sit against a fence. Overturned carts on the road with items scattered everywhere; horses eat from the abandoned carts. U.S. infantry run from a tank that is firing into the forest. LS of a building beh...

  5. Donald Carroll negatives

    Consists of 18 copy negatives of photographs Donald Carroll received from Annette Fry and others while researching the work of Varian Fry and the Emergency Rescue Committee's work in Vichy France. Includes images of Miriam Davenport, Bill Spira, and others, as well as Villa Air Bel and the U.S. Consulate in Marseille.

  6. SA marches through Nuremberg

    Hitler reviews SA through streets of Nuremberg. This is the same footage as that found in Story 3786. A good shot of a young-looking Hitler. A title quotes a daily newspaper from 24 August: "The jubilation of the population is simply indescribable." Scenes of the crowd waving and saluting from the sidewalk. A line of SA men, hands clasped, lines the street in front of the crowd to separate them from the marchers. More shots of marching SA and jubilant crowds, waving handkercheifs, throwing flowers, saluting. A man conducts a band playing on the side of ths street. More shots of Hitler and o...

  7. Jews protest; anti-Hitler demonstration

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 5, No. 144, Part 3. Release date, 05/10/1933. Jews in giant protest parade seen from above, marching in New York City. Organized units/groups and scattered people. Ticker tape. Well-dressed men march towards and past camera. From above LS, mostly men marching (fills screen), closer, standing still. Horse and rider from above. Full parade in wide street. Sidewalk jammed, marchers in lines, street level, American flag. Other parts of the newsreel include: 01:32:10 Washington, DC "Vanguard of 2nd B.E.F. reaches the capital. Will live in tent city" 01:33:07 Chicago, IL ...

  8. Nazi children/soldiers

    Workers Party Day. Montage of CUs, headshots of Workcorps, HJ, BDM, and Wehrmacht. Admiring faces in the crowd. All look Aryan. All EXT shots.

  9. Judge Royce S. Weisenberger collection

    The Judge Royce S. Weisenberger collection consists of photographs of men, women, and children being loaded into a train at Buchenwald concentration camp, June 1945; newspaper clippings regarding liberation and the arrest of Dr. Robert Karl Neuman; and a three-page testimony written by Major Royce S. Weisenberger on the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp and its conditions.

  10. 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.

  11. Freyer and Lichtenstein families papers

    The collection consists of biographical material, immigration paperwork, correspondence, and photographs documenting the pre-war lives of Leo and Eva Freyer (née Lichtenstein) and their children Marion and Ursula in Berlin, their emigration from Germany to the United States in 1939, and wartime correspondence with family members and friends still in Germany. There is a small amount of material related to the Lichtenstein family of Königsberg, East Prussia (now Kaliningrad, Russia). Biographical material includes birth certificates, German identification cards and passports, marriage papers,...

  12. Refugees arrive at Fort Ontario

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 17, No. 319, Part 5. Release date, 08/06/1944. Refugees arriving at Fort Ontario, Oswego, NY. CU, families; people mingling. LS from above, two story barracks; train arrival. MLS, people waiting alongside tracks. CU, train slowly going by, with young people waving. "982 refugees...housed at Fort Ontario 'Til War's End." View up from ground to windows, bottle of juice passed up. CU, curly-haired girl and father look out window. 02:28:35 At next train window, mother and son, Regina and Albert Gal, and three others smile for the camera. Refugees helped off train. Woman...

  13. Wachttruppen (guard troops) take oath

    Guard regiment troops swear allegiance to Hitler at the Tannenberg Memorial in Berlin. Groups of soldiers line the courtyard of Kaserne, hands held up in "Sieg Heil" salute. Single voice leads oath, troops repeat. VAR LS pans of scene; sound is clear.

  14. Berlin street scenes: park bench marked for Jews only

    Street in Berlin: uniformed Nazis salute guard at door. Edge of park at Olivaerplatz, wooden benches below stone columns & arbors, child. CU of signs: Top: Citizens are asked to keep their dogs on leash. Bottom: "Die gelben Baenke sind fuer Jueden." [The yellow benches are for Jews.] (One shot of the sign "for Jews" is upsidedown in the original film.) Various people sit on other benches in the small park. Different camera angles of park, none showing the actual sign in context. Note: J.Bryan's film lecture "Germany 1937" identifies this location as "Oliviaplatz" which is, in fact, Oliv...

  15. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 20 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 20 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. Star of David button used to identify a Bulgarian Jew

  17. Planes on airfield; "Deutsche Lufthansa"

    VS, Tempelhof Airport and airstrip. Sign on building: "Deutsche Lufthansa." Airfield; fuel truck marked "Stanavo." Several small propeller planes taxiing on runway; various views. Swastikas visible on the tails of most of the planes. One plane with name written on side "Vogelsberg." MCUs, maintenance crew, fueling plane. One mechanic on wing of aircraft, working on plane that is parked on airstrip.

  18. Airship hangars in countryside

    Airship hangars in the German countryside.

  19. Fighting in Warsaw

    Soldiers walking through rubble. Tossing hand grenades. Searching house-to-house. Mostly MS and MLS. Town is deserted. Flamethrowers. The last image is of a German eagle and Swastika, indicating the triumph of the Nazis. Footage and narration seem to indicate that this shows the German response to the Warsaw uprising (Polish revolt) which began on August 1, 1944 and lasted for two months. During and after the rebellion, the Germans razed the entire city of Warsaw.