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  2. Belsen Concentration Camp: burial; hairwashing; Red Cross

    MLS, two chaplains, Rev. P.T. Stretch and Rev. Cuthbert, standing by pit performing burial service before open mass grave. VAR shots, scarf with cross visible. MCU Jewish priest, Rev. L. H. Hordman shovels dirt into open grave. Bulldozing earth into pit. SS men help to fill in grave with shovels. Survivors sitting under pitched roof on heap. CU of various male survivors, sitting cooking together before entrance to tent. CU man leaning against hut wall, talking, emaciated. CU, women talking and nodding to cameraman's assistant at frame left. MLS, two French women in open ground, one washes t...

  3. Propaganda footage of Soviet POWs

    Propaganda footage of Soviet POWs leaving bunkers, marching two-by-two to work in quarries, load bins, dig. Mostly MLS and LS. Cranes, workers. A couple of close-ups of individual laborers.

  4. Case files from the Gestapo in Düsseldorf

    Consists of case files individual Poles, both Christians and Jews, who were working in Germany and accused of crimes against the Third Reich in and near Düsseldorf, Germany. Includes information about arrests and imprisonment; movement of transient labor between Germany and Poland; alleged criminal acts; confiscation of Jewish property; and persecution of Poles and communists.

  5. War Crimes Trials: Medical Case, judgement and sentencing

    (Munich 619) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. Sentencing of defendants in the Nuremberg "Medical Trial." Most are sentenced to death by hanging or life imprisonment. Slate reads: "Army Pictorial Division. War Crimes Trials. Sentencing. 20 Aug. Last 700. Case #1. CAM 369, MAG 522. Nuremberg War Crimes Trials: "Medical Case" " MHSs, defendants individually step into prisoners' dock to hear sentencing (expressionless faces). Camera remains on defendants as voice of presiding judge is heard sentencing each one. Sentences are handed dow...

  7. Jack and Sonia Rubin papers

    The papers consist of an immunization certificate, certificate of identity, D.P. identification card, two D.P. passes, two passenger tickets to the United States for the United States Lines Company, and two embarkment cards for Sonia Rubin and Zawel Rubinstein [donor's first husband]; six photographs from a proofsheet of scenes from the boat on which Sonia Rubin's brother emigrated to the United States; one photograph of children playing in Bremenhaven, Germany; and six pre-World War II photographs of Jack Rubin and his family.

  8. Jews (Refugees? Deportees?) moving along a city street with belongings

    Wartime. Large group of Jews being moved along a city street with bundles, children, scarves, etc. Busy, a lot of activity. Medium close view of 2 or 3 people in a closed space, presumably refugees or deportees. People moving along a train platform, German military man in foreground.

  9. Berlin scenes: Kranzler Cafe, shops, streets

    Quiet street scene, brick building is the Froebelhaus Kindergarten. Woman walking dog, and another. VAR shots of outdoor cafe "Kranzler" with seated customers, some reading newspapers and waitress serving drinks. Also with Nazi banners in BG. Swastika. Street activity including double decker buses, trolleys, EXT of Woolworth store. CU poster of Hitler and Mussolini.

  10. Torah scroll fragment found in the Siedlce ghetto

    Torah fragment found in the street in the Siedlce Ghetto, Poland, in 1942.

  11. Festive scene in Berlin nightclub ("Casanova")

    Title on screen: "Festive Season in a Berlin Nightclub - The "Casanova" attracts a bright clientele in new city of gaiety." Crowds dancing, holding balloons that say "Casanova" Probably New Year's Eve. Camera pans up to mirrored ceiling, that reflects the scene below. The music ends and the dancers return to their seats. The scene switches to two dancers, a man and a woman, who perform a seductive (Spanish/Gyspy) dance, which includes some tap dancing.

  13. Students of private Jewish school (Goldschmidt School), Berlin

    Berlin, Germany. Brief glimpse of Goldschmidt Jewish Private School classroom interior, female students, including a very short view of Trudi Goldschmidt (profile, blond), daughter of the school's founder, Dr. Leonore Goldschmidt. Outside the school during a break. Students relaxing, moving around yard. Students entering school. Close side views of many faces of adolescent age students, looking at the camera as they pass by. Classroom interiors, girls seated at desks. Girl in plaid dress stands to approach blackboard (we have identified her current name as Margot Segall). Jüdische Privatsch...

  14. Belsen Concentration Camp: burial and Red Cross

    Four SS men drag two corpses by the legs, pass another pair of men with a corpse, British gentry stands at frame right with bayonet. Pit of corpses, MCU of two SS men standing with the dead in the grave, shifting the bodies and preparing for burial. MS across mass grave in process of being deepened by Hungarian troops with shovels, British officer in foreground watching. MCU of Martin Wilson talking with Czech Jewish woman (interpreter) who is a former prisoner. MCU as Red Cross load stretcher cases into back of ambulance, sending to delouse and cleanse. Men wearing full decontamination sui...

  15. Wenceslas J. Wagner papers

    Contains photocopies of personal notes, essays, and newspaper articles written by Wenceslas J. Wagner concerning experiences as a resistance fighter in underground movements in Poland, and as a political prisoner in several Nazi concentration camps during World War II.

  16. Wilhelm Coenraad Laros papers

    Consists of copies of a testimony and other materials relating to Wilhelm C. Laros and Jehovah's Witnesses during the Holocaust. Among the topics mentioned are concentration camps, death marches, and activities of Jehovah's Witnesses in Europe before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  17. Family poses for the camera

    Reel 1. Multiple sequences showing the entire family (including the visiting Louis and Harry Sommer, Hermann Klein, and Jacob Grossman) posing for the camera, probably in Humenne, Slovakia. Family members (well-dressed) take turns walking towards the camera in a street/alley. Dark shots in a field. Man holds up his pocketwatch. More posed shots around an automobile. 00:03:50 The children play near a home. 00:04:52 Family at the farm, landscape, herding sheep. More portraits. Children blow kisses, wave, and try to feed the animals. The family continue to take turns for posed shots.

  19. Hitler postcards on display; Hitler Youth

    Shop windows and people on sidewalk, looking at display. CUs of Hitler postcards in a shop window and on a postcard rack inside the shop. Three young Hitler Youth in uniform look at the cards. Brief shots of cranes, industry. Note: J.Bryan's film lecture, "Germany 1937," says several hundred Hitler Youth were in Friedrichshafen, returning from the Nuremberg Party Congress, here seen buying postcards.

  20. Mobile Bath Unit at Belsen

    MS of soldier at valve controls of water heater for Mobile Bath Unit. He is member of Airborne Forces. Puts hose in water. MLS departing ambulances with pile of hoses in foreground, survivors, mostly women, milling about camp, with watchtower in background. Women collect water from communal faucets. CU, woman filling a basin with tap water.