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  1. Brown leather trifold wallet used by a Jewish medical officer, 2nd Polish Corps

    Leather trifold wallet with three pockets used by Dr. Edmund Lusthaus to store documents and photographs while serving as a medical officer in the 2nd Polish Corps, British Army. When Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Lusthaus was drafted into the Polish Army. Seventeen days later, the Soviet army invaded from the east. Lusthaus was captured and taken to a camp for Polish prisoners of war in Novosibirsk, Siberia, where he served as a physician. When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, the Soviet government released Polish POWs to join the fighting. Lusthaus joined the volun...

  2. Folk dancing in southern Poland

    Folk dancers in Zakopane, the southern Polish region near the Carpathian/Tatras mountain ranges. They dance in a circle around a cross. VS dancing. Several shots are in slow motion. 01:13:54 Quick shot of three male dancers playing with their hats and horsing around, taking a break from dancing. Sequence of folk dancing continues, the camera captures the dancers at various angles.

  3. Postwar steel wire factory

    INTs wire factory (ECA slates throughout), workers, and equipment.

  4. Anti-Jewish Nazi and collaborationist leaflets and announcements

    Contains Nazi and collaborationist anti-Jewish leaflets and announcements made and posted during the Nazi occupation of Ukraine (1941-1943).

  5. Goldschmidt School

    Goldschmidt School. Hebrew on chalkboard. Teacher and Jewish girl. Girls in class at desk. Packing book bags.

  6. Shlomo Adler papers

    The Shlomo Adler papers include documents and photographs relating to Shlomo Adler's family in Bolechow, Poland (now Bolekhiv, Ukraine) before, during, and after World War II. Photographs include pre-war images of Shlomo, his parents Dolek and Sara, and his sister Musia in Poland and at the Tarbut school in Bolechow, wartime photographs depict the Bolechow ghetto, and post-war images depict Zionist youth groups such as Gordonyah (Gordonia) in Bielsko-Biała, Poland and Noàr ha-Tsiyoni (Hanoar Hatzioní). Also pictured in pre-war photographs are Salim, Pepcia, and Alta Diamand and Jozik Adle...

  7. Trade fair; German factory; sports racing; doctors; Mussolini

    Reel 1. Part 1: Trade and industrial fair held at Konigsberg, East Prussia, Germany. 01:23:47 Part 2: Pencil factory in Germany. 01:25:30 Part 3: Bicycle race held in Germany. 01:26:25 Part 4: Swimming race and fancy diving in Prague, Czechoslovakia. 01:27:20 Part 5: Man fishing with his bare hands in Italy. 01:27:58 Part 6: Medical doctors in German hospital demonstrate modern equipment to visiting foreign physicians. 01:28:42 Part 7: Train bound for Copenhagen leaves German railroad station. 01:29:39 Part 8: Benito Mussolini acclaimed by Roman crowd.

  8. Farming and schoolyard in central Poland

    In the fields of central Poland, CU of woman harvesting crops. Then a quick succession of shots seen earlier: two girls in traditional folk dress who do not want to be photographed without their mother, girls playing dodge ball in the school yard.

  9. Linz, Austria, 1948

    Austrian footage, c. 1948 in Linz, a factory town where several DPs were put to work and began rehabilitation postwar. Scene of men leaving the factory on bikes, some women, some children, and several Austrians (non DPs) are in the group as well. Another group of men walking from the factory, at the gate, exiting the factory grounds, there is a guard who checks them as they exit. Truckloads of workers also exit the factory- they are all seated in open military style supply trucks.VS, EXTs the factory in Linz, smoke stacks, etc. INT of the factory: men at work, VS. A rail car pulls up to the...

  10. German capture of Vinnitsa, Ukraine

    Map showing Vinnitsa, Ukraine. Ukrainian citizens and German soldiers work to repair roads destroyed by the Soviets. German military vehicles attempting to drive down muddy roads; a large van slides along the road and must be pushed by a number of German soldiers. More street repair and muddy roads. The narrator announces the fight for Vinnitsa. German soldiers in a field; sound of gunshots. Destroyed bridges and vehicles, with some corpses visible. Germans marching through Vinnitsa after capturing the city. German soldiers greeted by a Hungarian officer.

  11. Krakow street scenes; children; shops

    In Krakow, MCU young boys with caps with the number "21" walking in unison and looking at the camera. Girls in berets and matching coats with fur collars walk along the street by a castle-like building. Most of the girls have their backs to the camera. Some boys in the group also wear berets. Shop windows, no sign is visible in its entirety. LS, more of the schoolchildren on their outing. MCU, three people looking in the window of a bookstore. The people linger before going inside.

  12. Goering, Galland, Luftwaffe senior officers; Goering's train (Sonderzug) at HQ, Eastern Front; Goering's photographer Eitel Lange

    Air-to-ground views from plane, flying over pock-marked countryside. Pilot/officer's face briefly seen in cockpit of Fiesler-Storch at 01:01:00 may be Gen. Wolfram von Richthofen. Front view of propeller spinning after landing. Flying over W. Ukraine? Thatched houses. Landing at airfield under construction; corrugated structures, semi-circular. Man swinging hammer, shirtless in sun. Views of train in woods, presumably Goering's train. 01:03:41 Shooting practice with rifles. Eitel Lange, Goering's still photographer, takes position on his stomach and shoots. Military men, jackets off. 01:04:...

  13. German siege of Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 1939

    A Polish soldier confiscating the remains of the wreckage of a downed German plane. The plane has a large cross in the center of it, CU of the cross, CU of the soldier unscrewing something, camera moves in closer- but the shot is out of focus, as the shot comes into focus the viewer can see that the soldier has taken out the clock from the dashboard of the wrecked plane. He is removing this clock as a trophy. 01:00:58:05: Julien Bryan, along with a reporter and two Polish soldiers, examines the wreckage of this plane. More shots of the soldier standing by a portion of the wing of the plane....

  14. Floral patterned crocheted doily given to a Jewish Hungarian woman by a friend

    White crocheted doily made for Berta Weisz by a friend in her home town, Nyzhni Vorota (in Yiddish, Veretski), Czechoslovakia (now Ukraine), which was annexed by Hungary in May 1939. In August 1941, Berta, 22, her husband Samuel, their infant son Moshe Tomas, and her brother Jonas were expelled because they were Jewish. They were sent to the Kamenez-Podolsk ghetto. They escaped and fled to Budapest. On February 24, 1943, Berta’s husband and brother were shot by the Hungarian Gestapo in Hidegseg, Hungary. Berta, who was pregnant, had false papers as a Christian and returned to her mother Reg...

  15. Meta Sternberg Adler collection

    Contains documents relating to the life of Meta Sternberg-Adler, including her birth certificate, family correspondence, emigration documents, naturalization papers, postcards, newspaper clippings, curriculum vitaes, and family history papers.

  16. Marshall Plan parade

    Dutch flags on buildings. Marshall Plan parade in the Netherlands. Float proclaiming "Thank You Marshall" with girls dressed in white passes the camera. Various MSs, CUs of spectators watching parade and cheering. More floats process. Another view of the Dutch flags. CUs, Dutch spectators.

  17. Fishing in China

    Various scenes of China - children, cleaning wok on small boat, fishing, traveling shots from rowboat, home, scenic landscape views, fishing on river, ducks.

  18. Russian Jewish religious services

    Rebuilding Jewish life after the war in Russia. Two rabbis put away Torah scrolls and pull a curtain with an embroidered Star of David closed. CUs of individual Jewish men praying. A larger group of men in prayer shawls gather for a service, and a cantor sings toward the end of the sequence. The exact location, date, and purpose of the religious service are unknown.

  19. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 5 mark coin, saved by a ghetto resident

    5 mark Łódź Ghetto coin saved by Halina Wolman Orski who was imprisoned there from 1941 until August 30, 1944, when she was sent to Auschwitz and then Stutthof concentration camps. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1939. Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and, in February 1941, the large Jewish population was forcibly relocated into a sealed ghetto. Residents were not allowed to have money and the Germans ordered the Jewish Council to create scrip for use only in the Ghetto. The Germans closed the ghetto in summer 1944 by deporting the residents to concentration camps or killing cent...

  20. Daniel P. Asnes papers

    The Daniel P. Asnes papers consist of a postcard and a document commemorating the anniversary of the liberation of Dachau concentration camp by the United States Army. The postcard depicts the Dachau concentration camp on the right side and the Statue of Liberty framed by a border of thorns or barbed wire. The document is titled "Day of Liberation" and is stamped "Tag der Befreiung Dachau."