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  1. 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.

  2. 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...

  3. 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."

  4. Nada Weiss papers

    The collection consists of 2 pieces of correspondence: a letter, dated August 1942, sent by Gizela and Dragutin Weiss to their daughter Nada, who was in "Merkur," a hospital in Zagreb, Croatia; a postcard, dated May 15, 1943, sent by Nada Weiss, an inmate in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, to her uncle Stjepan Magdic in Zagreb, Croatia.

  5. Zygfryd Baginski papers

    Collection contains one album of official photographs of Dachau post-liberation, appears to be published by the International Information Office for the Former Concentration Camp Dachau; one photocopied typed manuscript of the Holocaust remembrances of Zygfryd Baginski [donor]; one set of photocopies of passport pages for Military Exit permit, issued Sep. 1948; one concentration camp information form, entitled "Outlet by Death."

  6. Rivista illustrata del popolo d'Italia (Milan, Italy) [Magazine]

    Italian magazine issue featuring Hitler's visit to Italy in 1939.

  7. Daily life in Russia

    INT, shots through a window of a window washer. EXT, city scenes from a moving tram. EXT, men digging up a road. Cows pass a barn. Young boys put potatoes in a bucket. CU, trams drive by, a busy town square. People board and exit a tram. Men read newspaper board. Various shots of little children. Man meticulously shines a woman's shoes. Street scenes. CU, fish in a tank. Storefront. Rowboat on a river. Men buy beer from a stand in the square. CU, statue of a rearing horse and a man holding the lead. Postmen deliver mail. Peasants/farmers shovel and load hay. Storefront of a housewares store...

  8. Herbst family papers

    The papers consist of nine photographs depicting the experiences of the Herbst family in the Ansbach displaced persons camp, two photographs depicting the experiences of the Herbst family before World War II, two identification cards issued to Sabina Herbst [donor's mother] and Ziunia Herbst [donor] in Ansbach, three documents relating to Sabina and Ziunia Herbst's emigration to the United States in 1948, and two letters (with envelopes) written to Sabina Herbst while she was living in New York, N.Y.

  9. Kaufbeuren institution

    Men and women, presumably patients, perform agricultural tasks such as cutting and stacking hay in a field, blacksmithing, gardening, tending to livestock (ducks, pigs, beehives, others). This section opens with landscape scenes and milk being delivered to the institution on a donkey cart. Signs affixed to a tree identify the Birkenried and Kaufbeuren asylums. There are occasional close-ups of the animals.

  10. Marcia Krause photograph collection

    Contains three photographs depicting: a posed group of school girls in Łódź, Poland, in June 1939; a group of women at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in April 1945 catching food thrown by a man on the outside; and Germans publicly humiliating two Jewish men in Grójec, Poland, in 1939 or 1940.

  11. German soldiers advance; Jewish forced labor

    Map showing Minsk, Libau, Riga. The narrator announces that we are about to see the entry of the German army into Riga. German tanks and other vehicles driving through the streets of Riga. Destruction, destroyed Soviet vehicles, dead horses on the road. Good shot of terribly damaged and destroyed buildings and civilians walking in the streets. The narrator blames the destruction on the Soviets. Huge piles of rubble long shots of Jews at forced labor, removing rubble. Brief shot of someone drawing the scene on a sketchpad. Closer view of Jews at forced labor, including an older man wearing g...

  12. Nordhausen and Buchenwald liberation photographs

    Six photographs are taken of the situation at Buchenwald and Nordhausen camps upon liberation--photographs of barracks, of lines of corpses, of piles of bone, and of an inmate showing his tattoo. Two of the photographs have the words "Buchenwald Concentration Camp--not for publication" and "Nordhausen" written on them. One photograph is of what appears to be Jewish-American soldiers being led in prayer with Nazi flags flanking them. On the back of this photograph is written "Germany."

  13. German wounded

    "The victory is achieved" announces the narrator, as a wounded German soldier is loaded onto a truck to receive medical care. He is given a cigarette to smoke and a pat on the head as he lies on the table, waiting for treatment. More wounded on stretchers transported from ambulances in the field to trains that will take them home. They smile out of the train window and sit up in their beds inside the train. Heroic music plays.

  14. Folk dancing in Zakopane, Poland 1936

    Folk dancing in Zakopane, Poland, 1936. A group of male and female folk dancers perform a series of circle dances in full costume in an open field. It seems to be an exhibition, staged for a small local audience or perhaps simply for Julien Bryan and his camera crew. Bryan did film several circle dances throughout his travels, as a sort of comparative study of folk dances throughout the world.

  15. Levy-Saltiel family papers

    The papers consist of documents; identification cards; newspaper clippings; a CD of memoirs, family photographs, and a family tree related to the Levy family of Thessaloniki (Salonika), Greece. The documents relate to life under the German occupation, forced labor as Jews, and life in the Salonika ghetto. After being warned of upcoming deportations, the Levys went into hiding in Athens, where they spent the remainder of the war. The collection also relates to Salomon Saltiel, who was a member of the Greek military and spent the war in Italian and German POW camps. He and Dora Levy married i...

  16. Selected records from the former archive of the city of Westerbork

    Contains registers, together with death certificates, of deported and arrested persons in the vicinity of Westerbork, Netherlands.

  17. Industry in Poland, mining in Upper Silesia

    LS of a zinc mine/refinery, labeled in Julien Bryan's original notes as "Catowicz, Silesia - Giesche Zinc Mine." MS, workers in uniform, wearing caps, masks around their necks, on break outside the refinery. VS of the mine and refinery, the machinery in operation inside the refinery: ovens, molten metals, the workers stoking the furnaces, etc. VS, of women sorting pieces of zinc on a conveyor belt before processing. Good shots of quick, nimble fingers at work, several CUs of their hands.

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

    01:04:12:20 CU, shot from low angle of signs on a large contemporary, concrete block apartment building- the address and other information are visible - written in Polish, identifies construction company, etc. located in Warsaw, Poland. Camera then pans the building, which looks deserted, although the bombing has not damaged it. 01:04:23:17 MLS of a destroyed area of Warsaw; it seems to be a bridge over one portion of the river and an entrance into the city from an outlying suburb. Polish soldiers on horseback patrol the bridge, some people are walking along the bridge, one cyclist passes b...

  19. Chateau La Hille album

    The collection consists of one bound photographic album, full of black and white photographs of children playing and of the landscape surrounding the Chateau La Hille. Each photograph has a caption written in small white print, in German. The title of the book reads" Chateau de la Hille: 1 September 1943- 23 Oktober 1944." Some pages have protective onion paper between them to preserve the photographs.

  20. Sztejnsznajd family collection

    Documents regarding the Sztejnsznajd family of Lutsk, Poland. Collection contains postcards, articles, forms, and documents relating to the family's life in Lutsk and also of their attempts to emigrate to the United States. The family left Poland and arrived in the United States in 1939, though many of the extended family perished in the Holocaust. The collection also contains 31 volumes in Hebrew and Polish of the children's periodical "Hakatan" from the newpaper "Olameinu" from 1936-1938 and 9 volumes of the newspaper "Olameinu" from 1938-1939 in Hebrew. Includes also one cardboard bound ...