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  1. Simon Makon collection

    Consists of one audiocassette containing Yiddish folk songs, sung by Simon Makon, a survivor of the Warsaw ghetto. Also includes a copy of Mr. Makon's memoirs, "Life in the Ghetto: The 'Resettlement' to the Crematoriums," translated by Donna Gallers. The memoirs appear to have been written in verse. A list of the songs is provided. Also includes a copy of the original Yiddish version of Mr. Makon's memoir.

  2. Trims Nazi Germany 1937: Goldschmidt school brochure; Bryan's passport; Nazi propaganda

    Sequence of outtakes. VS, CUs of a brochure for the Goldschmidt Jewish School in Berlin, Germany. CU of a piece of zinc ore in someone's hand as they demonstrate the contours of the rock. CU of a propaganda poster with Hitler and past German leaders. CU of Julien Bryan's passport from his travels through Europe. He flips through page by page. CU of someone holding the newspaper DER STUERMER, featuring Anti-Semitic propaganda and caricatures of Jews on the front page. Several CUs of various pages of the paper, one showing caricatures of the Soviets, the Brits, etc. Ends on a CU of a caricatu...

  3. Oral history interview with Rita Joa

  4. Street scenes, Danzig, Poland 1936

    MCU of two women, seen from behind viewing the merchandise in the window of a corset shop. All signage is in German. Two young girls look at an umbrella display in a shop window; shots from inside the women's clothing store to the street and people outside reflected in the windows. VS, along the water, views of the banks along the Baltic Sea; MS, traffic cops, men loading large bags onto ships. More street scenes in Danzig, men's clothing store with men doing some window shopping. High angle shot of newspaper boys on a busy street. Good scenes of daily activity.

  5. Ephraim-Carlebach-Stiftung, Leipzig collection

    Contains records concerning Nazi crimes against Jews, and correspondence, including the personal papers of Kurt Sabatzky.

  6. Establishing shots of village life in Katowice

    Peasants and farm families going about their daily activities in the region of Katowice, Poland. Several shots of men, women, and children harvesting wheat, herding cattle, and talking to each other and to the camera. From Julien Bryan's film "Poland the Country and the People" released in 1948, shot 1936-1937.

  7. Liberating Soviet soldier

    Voice over in Russian. Tank driving up the street as people on either side wave. Soviet soldier with bouquet of flowers gives woman a kiss. She pours from a bottle into the mug of a Soviet soldier. CU soldier drinking. CU of man in uniform smoking.

  8. Touring Paris

    Family footage of the Herz family vacation in Europe in 1937. Footage shows images of Jewish-American life before World War II with its European roots. LS, Versailles. Plaza, park in Paris, horse and buggy. Woman running towards the camera. Paris street scenes and shots of the Arc de Triomphe and the Eiffel Tower. Crowds.

  9. German munitions

    Panning shot of German heavy and light weapons for use on the front. Emphasis on the numbers and might of the tanks and weaponry. Close-up of tanks wheels rolling past as the narrator reports that the Soviets are being decisively defeated on all parts of the front, and that neither "General mud nor General winter" can stop the German advance. Vehicles of all types rolling along the road. Low aerial shot of the convoy along the road with triumphant music.

  11. Ewa Karpinska papers

    The papers consist of a portrait photograph of the Szotland family and a 7-page, typewritten biography which is probably a transcript of an interview conducted on August 16, 1995, with two letters to Minna Wosk, subject of the interview. These letters are from Dr. Thomas Lange, are written on "Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt" letterhead, and are dated September 12, 1997, and January 26, 1998.

  12. Sightseeing in Paris; German officers

    More tourist-y views of Paris streets, including Eiffel Tower and the obelisk in the Place de la Concorde. The camera sometimes focuses on individuals, such as the woman seen before, the elderly man, and the German officer leading the map meeting with the glasses (in Story 4414). 01:09:55 SEQ: German with dark-rimmed glasses with three French women (not seen before). Street scenes, signs, buses, pedestrians and German soldier, cars, "Café de la Paix" restaurant on corner. Policeman looks directly into camera briefly. Man with glasses in previous map scene walks across the city streets with ...

  13. Michael Glück papers

    The papers relate to Michael Glück, a professional soccer player in Hungary who was a prisoner in Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen during the Holocaust. The papers consist of a naturalization certificate giving United States citizenship to Michael Glück, a passport, and three documents.

  14. Cemetery and church in postwar Warsaw

    Reel 3A Cemetery, tombstones. Women placing flowers and candles at graves. MS, cemetery with men, women, and children. Wooden crosses flanked with miniature Polish flags and flowers. Official military burial with flag-draped coffins, Polish soldiers, wooden crosses/wreaths, and a priest. Cut to Catholic church in the ruins of Warsaw. Poles exit and enter through an underground entrance marked in Polish with "Wejscie do Kosciola"[the entrance to the church] (Photo Archives W/S 46323). MS, Warsaw street scenes in ruins.

  15. Exhumation of bodies massacred in the Katyn Forest

    Exhumations of bodies of 12,000 Polish army officers massacred by Soviets. The Katyn massacre took place in 1940. The bodies were exhumed by the Nazis in 1943.

  16. Selected records related to forced labor camps in Slovakia during World War II

    Contains lists of names of internees in Slovak forced labor camps during World War II, approximately 3000 names, mainly of Jewish doctors, medical staff, and other Jewish intelligentsia from the Trnava region in Slovakia.

  17. Nazi Party Rally in Nuremberg

    Crowd at Nazi party rally in stadium. Military review. Flag performance (fast motion). Formations on field, eagle/swastika. Night.

  18. Norman Salsitz papers

    The collection consists of two notebooks containing songs and poems hand copied by Norman Salsitz around 1935 and hundreds of photographs of Norman Salsitz and his family taken before, during, and after World War II in and around Kolbuszowa, Poland, and including the Kolbuszowa and Rzeszów ghettos. Most of the photographs date from the 1930s and 1940s and were hidden by Salsitz when the Jewish population of the Kolbuszowa ghetto was deported to Belzec. The collection also includes photographs of educational, religious, and social groups before the war; compulsory prewar labor brigades (“sza...

  19. Kaufbeuren Institution

    Men at various tasks outside the Kaufbeuren Institution. Landscape and livestock shots; fruit on trees. The season is spring or summer. An airplane flies over the building. A man in a white coat enters the frame, picks up a tree limb and hands it to a patient, who poses with the limb for the camera. Scenes inside the building, including patients in beds. They appear to be very ill and one of the men is naked.

  20. Selected records of the Swedish Red Cross

    Contains selected records from the Swedish Red Cross concerning the "White Buses." In 1945 "White Buses" were sent by Sweden to Germany to bring liberated camp prisoners from Sachsenhausen, Dachau, Ravensbrück, and other camps as refugees to Sweden. Collection contains a transport list of 875 prisoners, diaries of transport personnel, reports and correspondence regarding White Buses' operations, lists of French, Danish, and Norwegian liberated prisoners, and the private collection of Major Sven Frykman (Chief of Swedish Red Cross Operation). Some records relate to the food supplies to Hung...