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  1. Paul Touvier trial transcripts

    Contains the 1994 French trial transcripts for the proceedings against Paul Touvier, convicted of crimes against humanity.

  2. Josef Grotte photograph collection

    The photographs consist of images of Josef Grotte and his family before and during the Holocaust.

  3. Kaufbeuren Institution

    "Agfa 1941" leader. The film shows the various types of work performed by the patients. A man butchers a large animal (a cow or pig?) hanging from a hook and grinds up the meat in a grinder. Both women and men are shown doing ironing and sewing. Women in a kitchen prepare a meal for a large number of people - it's an institutional kitchen with large vats for cooking. Other activities include: bread baking, weaving, furniture upholstering, shoemaking, woodworking, laundry, bookbinding, A brief shot of what appears to be a nurse and a doctor shepherd a couple of patients out of a room where a...

  4. French stateless identity card

    The collection consists of one small identity card from the Republic of France issued on Dec 30, 1934 to Chaya Gerszenfisz, b 1897 in Razdan, Poland. A black-and-white photograph of a woman in her late thirties is on the first interior page, and opposite this is a black-and-white photograph of three children: two girls, with a boy in the middle. The children seem to be arranged left to right by age, with the youngest girl on the left. On the third page, four children are listed as also being covered by this identity card: Zipporah, Simone, Samuel, and Joseph. The card, which proclaims on th...

  5. German and woman at cafe

    Another outdoor café scene showing a German and a woman sitting at a table (woman seen before in Story 4410 on Film ID 2720), smiling at the camera. Man's metal arm braces leaning against fence post. Same woman and another sitting at a table drinking tea, perhaps in a yard, greenery. A different woman is shown exiting a restaurant and crossing the street toward the camera. A moment later, a German is shown exiting. He waves his hand in front of his face, perhaps indicating that the camera should be turned off.

  6. Building the International Exposition in Paris

    International Exposition in Paris: river, buildings and pavilions under construction for opening in May 1937 (date of this footage unknown, possibly 1935 as follows shots of Barbusse's death in Moscow in 1935). Sign: "Exposition Internationale de 1937 section de la -nce d'outremer" Sign: "Exposition Internationale de 1937 Pavillon des Stats du Levant enterprise generale Les charpentiers de Paris 24 Rue Larouste" Crowds in winter clothing. Pan of pavilions under construction, scaffolding, structures, statues, cranes. 01:10:38 CU, flag with hammer and sickle, workers building the Russian pavi...

  7. Nazi Germany trims: HJ, wreath laying

    Sign "Unser gruss ist 'Heil Hitler'". Peasant and cart. Marching band in city square. Nazi (Leipzig?). Man leaning against railing over river. Books in shop window. HJ motorbike. Spectators. Wreath laying. Parade, marching band. Goosestepping. Military review. Soldier guards memorial, CU boots.

  8. Staged (comic) sequence in a central Polish village

    Man in a furry bear costume, feigning an attack on a young peasant girl walking along the road, repeated from earlier in this reel.

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

    01:03:45 Men digging in the aftermath of the German military air raids on Warsaw. Several refugees with bundles walk down the street, past where the ditches are being dug. Polish soldiers stand guard; civilians come up to them and question them. Scenes of the chaos in the streets after the German air attack. Two young men are recruited by a Polish soldier to help with the digging. They are all in suits and ties, some in trench coats and hats, and they keep digging. 01:04:18 Railway underpass, a train stuck on the tracks that are now covered with debris, women and men climb out of the railca...

  10. Rotszyld family collection

    Consists of eight post-war certificates for Roman Rotszyld at the Feldafing displaced persons camp, including his identity card, certification from the Obschestvo Remeslenovo i. zemledelcheskovo Trouda (ORT) as an electrician, and certificate of incarceration. It also includes an International Refugee Organization (IRO) certification for Nechama Rotszyld as a dressmaker-helper.

  11. Prison in Prague, 1946

    A very brief sequence in an unidentified prison in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1946. MS, from low angle. An inmate cleans a tile floor on his hands and knees with a wet rag and a bucket of water as a guard watches over him. The guard is in the foreground of the shot, and is seen mainly from the waist down, as a coat and a pair of boots in shadow. The inmate is in the background, and his figure is well lit.

  12. Georgia, Caucasus Mountains, circa 1933

    Horseback riding in mountains, a group of men and women together at a table on a terrace, eating. LS of country home, nurses seated at a table on the terrace, examining the woman, they ask her questions, write down her responses, etc. They seem to be bourgeoisie on vacation in the mountains. ** This reel has an incorrect title, because the can for this reel was mislabeled; this is actually footage from the early 1930s, shot in Georgia, in the Caucasus Mountains.

  13. Dino A. Brugioni collection

    The collection documents C.I.A. photograph interpreter Dino A. Brugioni’s work on the research and analysis of aerial photographs taken of Auschwitz II (Birkenau) by reconnaissance planes in 1944-1945, as well as other Holocaust-related locations. The collection includes prints and negatives of the aerial photographs, correspondence, writings, articles and publications, clippings, and scrapbooks. Series 1. Photographs includes prints and negatives depicting aerial reconnaissance photographs taken by the Mediterranean Allied Air Force of Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II, Auschwitz III, I.G. Farben ...

  14. Folk dancing in southern Poland

    Men and women folk dancing in full, traditional central Polish folk dress. The sequence plays in slow motion.

  15. Deutsch family papers

    Contains correspondence between Alexander Hoffmann and his sister Roszi Hoffmann Deutsch. Roszi Hoffmann immigrated to the United States in 1921 and married Eugene Deutsch, while Alexander Hoffmann remained in Cluj, Romania (which became Kolozsvar, Hungary in 1940). Letters include references to Alexander's experiences on the "Kasztner Train" from Budapest to Bergen-Belsen, then to Switzerland; requests from immigration assistance to the United States from Montreaux; and mentions meeting Reszo Kastner in Switzerland.

  16. Polish refugees in Persia

    Title: Polens Heer ersteht neu in Persien. [Poland's multitudes rise again in Persia]. Long line of people (look like refugees) moving across a desert landscape. They carry bundles. Some are barefoot. A group sitting, resting. A woman rocks her baby in her arms. Brief fade-out then title: Poland 1939. Refugees on the road on foot and by horse-drawn cart. Food distribution. Bedraggled woman waiting in line with a bowl. Map showing Europe and the Soviet Union. Line drawn from Poland toward USSR south around the Caspian Sea, in direction of Persia (Iran). Group of refugees in desert reach shel...

  17. Farming in central Poland

    Farmers harvest crops in central Poland. They fill their baskets. Country road and horse drawn carriage carrying bundles of hay. More scenes of country life. LS on the thatched roof country home along the river/canal. Trees line the road where a horse drawn carriage passes by.

  18. Deportation of Polish Jews

    Poor houses, exteriors. Interiors: Close views of jumbled belongings, straw, household objects, bedding, stove. 00:53:20 Close views of individuals in Poland - buildings in BG suggesting large town. Deportation. German trucks. Carts. Jewish people moving in lines, wearing light armbands (issued in General Government - eastern Poland), with sacks and bread. Uniformed Germans threaten individual Jews, including an elderly woman with a whip. Extensive views of deportation actions in towns in Poland; many different shots. 00:57:58 Jews sitting on ground, suitcase of currency; German seems to be...

  19. Warsaw ghetto

    A Polish documentary about the creation and destruction of the Warsaw ghetto, 1939-1943, made for the 20th anniversary of the liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto. Incorporates archival footage, including Nazi newsreels and propaganda footage, with English narration and titles. Shows building a memorial to victims.

  20. Lola Kaufman papers

    The papers consist of a passport issued to Etie Stempler, the late wife of Lola Kaufman's maternal uncle, Gedalia Aschkenase, who immigrated to the United States in 1930 as well as a newspaper clipping from the New York Post, dated June 26, 1962, referring to Heinrich Peckmann, an SS sergeant in Chortkiv (Czortków), Ukraine, who was acquitted by a German court in Saarbrücken, Germany. Peckmann murdered Lola Kaufman's mother, Dwojre Rein, in 1942.