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  1. Nazi propaganda: anti-Soviet

    Images of the Dnieper River and a forest, excavations of corpses in advanced degrees of decay with visible bullet wounds. Swedish narration claims that the victims shown are Polish officers murdered by the Soviet secret police GPU in the forest of Katyn. The corpses are examined by an European commission including the former minister president of Poland Prof. Koslowski and coroners said to be from Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Switzerland, and Bulgaria. Piles of dead bodies are pictured, most of them hardly identifiable. Remnants of the Polish Gen. Smorawinski are shown. Relatives try to identi...

  2. Nazi propaganda: history of Germany

    This historical feature film begins in 1862 with King Wilhelm I appointing Otto von Bismarck as head of the Prussian government. Since Germany was divided into 35 different political entities and transferred to various principalities, the nation is portrayed as desperately longing for national unity. Bismarck's first political action of dissolving the Prussian parliament because the opposition leader Virchow refused to finance a military reform and rearmament plan is followed by tough censorship of the press. From 1866 to 1870, Bismarck wages wars against Denmark, Austria, and France accord...

  3. Belgian newspaper articles relating to antisemitism

    News clippings (original) from Belgian newspapers (primarily Le Soir), 1940, about actions being taken against Jews.

  4. German occupation of Poland

    MCU, Polish war posters. CU, Polish officers leaving building. HAS, captured Polish soldiers. HAS, German soldiers marching through streets of Poland, Polish citizens in BG. MS, German color guards and German band. MCU, Hitler. MS, German color guard goose-stepping. MS, massed troops marching down the street, being reviewed by Hitler. HA, MLS, troops as they pass the reviewing stand. CU, Hitler saluting Sieg Heil. MCU, bell ringing.

  5. Testimony relating to medical experiments and other atrocities at Dachau concentration camp

    Testimony, 3 pages, typescript, authored by Stanislaw Kamecnik, describing conditions at the medical infirmary of Dachau. Document obtained by Saul Myers, of St. Petersburg, FL, who explained in an accompanying letter of 1995 his own connection to a group of Jewish DPs in France after the war, from whom he obtained this report.

  6. Yaffa Margules Shnitzer and family papers

    Consists of photocopies of correspondence related to writing and attempts at publishing a memoir entitled "I Survived Belzec Crematories," by Jaffa Margulies Shnitzer (alternate: Schnitzer), dated from the 1970s through the 1990s.

  7. Russell Kowalyshyn papers

    The Russell Kowalyshyn papers document Kowalyshyn’s army service in Germany following World War II. The collection primarily consists of German and American printed materials documenting Nazi Germany, the Allied victory, Dachau concentration camp, and the war crimes trials in Nuremberg. The collection also includes Kowalyshyn’s Dachau pass and obituary, blank letterhead from the Mayor of Dachau and an unknown coat of arms, signed letters from Adolf Hitler and Paul von Hindenburg thanking the Mayor of Dachau for making them honorary citizens, a Hitler Youth sports award signed by Hitler, a s...

  8. Proof of Ancestry Pass

    The collection consists of a proof of ancestry pass (Ahnenpass). The proof of ancestry pass was used to prove "Aryan" ancestry, as required by German law after 1933. The pass included explanations about the National Socialist racial ideology and a genealogical chart, which summarized the holder's ancestry for previous five generations.

  9. Maps and graphics. Banned books and music

    Maps and graphics. Map of France, Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Prussia, Soviet, Ukraine, Rumania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and Italy. Graphics showing radio broadcast signals, the press, local Nazi parties, and trade pressure. CUs, Germany, Ukraine, "The Partition of Czechoslovakia". CUs of forbidden books, including Schnitzler, Kant, Wassermann, Einstein, Napolean, Zweig, and Remarque. CU, Mendelsohn's Wedding March music. [Apparently outtakes similar to footage used in March of Time issue, Inside Nazi Germany.)

  10. Gergette Donnier and Susan Tribbitt papers

    Testimony. Typescript, 15 pages in French, and 13 pages in English translation. Recollections of Gergette Donnier, who was married to a doctor who tried to treat internees at Les Milles, and who helped Tribbitt's grandparents (the Fischbachs) leave Les Milles and ultimately immigrate to the U.S.

  11. A letter to my son

    Testimony, 27 pages, photocopy of typescript, written by Paula Cables, titled "Letter to My Son." Describes childhood and youth in Lithuania (near Kaunas/Kovno), occupation by Soviets and then Germans, life in Kovno (Kaunas) ghetto, deportation to Stutthof.

  12. Memoirs of Jews Pamietniki Żydów (Sygn. 302)

    Record group 302. Consists of memoirs of Jews written during the German occupation of Poland, 1939-1945, and deposited in the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw. In addition to memoirs by Jews, there are some written by Poles who witnessed atrocities. There are 5 DVD-Roms plus 2 duplicate sets of those 5 DVD-Roms, and in addition 1 DVD entitled "A Missing Diary."

  13. Stutthof concentration camp records

    Contains personal files on prisoners of Stutthof concentration camp; personnel files for SS staff at Stutthof; and records relating to the general administration of the camp. Administrative records include files from the camp commanders office, files from the "Political Department" concerning marking of prisoners and prisoner transports, files from the "Camp" relating to daily operations and handling of prisoners, files from the "Economic Administration" relating to financial management of the camp, files from the "Camp Physician" relating to medical services and the crematoria in the camp,...

  14. Oral history interview with Henry Baygelman

  15. "Of Tortoises and other Jews"

    Testimony, printed booklet, 24 pages, titled "Of Tortoises and Other Jews," compiled by Hannah Yakin and dedicated to Jan van Hulst, about wartime experiences in the Netherlands.

  16. Edna McFarland Maloy papers

    Contains photographs and typescripts relating to Edna McFarland Maloy's time in Allied-occupied Germany after World War II and her work with the Office of the Secretary General and the Chief of Defendants' Information Center from October to December 1946. Materials appear to be written during or shortly after Maloy's arrival in Germany, circa 1946. Also included is a biography of Mary Baum and United States Supreme Court Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter.

  17. German industry, Duesseldorf, Berlin. Famous kindergarten. Farming. Cologne

    BP fuel truck on Tempelhof airfield in Berlin. Lufthansa plane "Obersalzburg". Crowd of German civilians. Planes flying above. "Stanavo" fuel truck. Side view of plane named "Eduard Dost..." "Shell" fuel truck. 00:11:09 Scenes driving on Autobahn between Cologne and Dusseldorf, going under bridges, signs reading "Tankstelle" and "Dusseldorf". 00:12:15 Germans at outdoor fair/industrial exhibition in Dusseldorf, crowd. Sign, "Gepaeck-Abgabe." 00:12:41 Street scene in Berlin, tram, well-dressed people. Loeser and Wolff shop on corner. News sellers with "Berlin Illustrierte" late edition: "Jap...

  18. Michael Silberg Holocaust experiences

    Contains a photocopy of a memoir (34 pages) which relates to the Holocaust experience of the donor in Krakow, Poland.

  19. Amusement park in Nazi Germany

    LS, crowds at an outdoor amusement park in Germany, Nazi flags. Carousel of airships, amusement park ride, goes up and around. Rollercoaster and rocket ride to the moon. Spinning ride, MS, CU, blur of faces. MS, Germans at the park, one man in uniform. On roller-coaster, whirl of metal parts, erector-set-like, CUs, children. Autobahn dodgem cars. Filming from another ride, occasional glimpse of sign on big building behind says "Stuttgarter Hofbrau". Chef sells waffles. Artist cuts profile from paper. Watching monkeys do tricks on a tightrope, into bed. MCU of faces, intently watching. Village.

  20. American Jewish Committee documents

    Correspondence and related documents pertaining to the activities of the American Jewish Committee and its members in Portland, Oregon, in the mid-1930s. Contains correspondence from Morris Waldman of the AJC in New York to various individuals (many with names blacked out by donor) in Portland, and news releases about issues related to antisemitism during this period.