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  1. Displaced persons board ship in Bremerhaven, Germany to relocate to the United States

    Bremerhaven, Germany at the port of embarkation. US military personnel mill about, arranging signs, helping DPs with luggage, guiding the refugees through this stage of the emigration process. They are on their way to the United States, a large painted banner on the docks reads: "Welcome to the first DP Emigrants to the US, Bremerhaven Port of Embarkation" Refugees board the ship (the General Wm. M. Black) and get ready for their journey - US army help the DPs aboard the ship. Everyone seems very happy, even the children, some have looks of bewilderment on their faces. All are in overcoats,...

  2. M19 two-sided silk escape map of Western Europe

    British made, double sided, color topographical silk escape map, Sheet 43C and D, showing areas of the Netherlands, Belgium, France, and Germany, with an ancillary map of the new frontier, Belgium and Germany. The maps were produced by Branch M19, which was created in December 1939 to facilitate escape and evasion strategies for soldiers and prisoners-of-war by helping them find their way to safety from behind enemy lines. Silk was used because it was durable, easy to conceal, and made no noise. Maps were issued to RAF pilots, Special Forces, and other troops. M19 developed ways to smuggle ...

  3. Buchenwald report

    Contains one two-page newsletter, published September 2, 1938, for Yedioth Hayom in Tel Aviv, with an anonymous report about the conditions in the Buchenwald concentration camp. The information in the article was gleaned from a former prisoner of the camp and gives the location, makeup, and atmosphere of the camp.

  4. Polish YMCA: classroom, orchestra, swim team

    Women exit a building. CU sign "Polska YMCA". People file through a hallway looking at posters, checking their coats. Boys stand in front of a doorway. Doors open to reveal a classroom of teenagers learning the English language. Man conducts an orchestra. CUs, the listening audience. Coach instructs swim team how to dive properly. Boys swim and play around, file into a locker room.

  5. Animated map and graphics of Poland for the film "Poland - the Country and the People"

    Animated map of Poland showing the industrial region of Silesia and its factories. The map serves as a transition from this region of southern Poland to the northwestern region of Poland and the port city of Gdynia. This map was created by Philip Stapp. From Julien Bryan's film "Poland the Country and the People" released in 1948, shot 1936-1937.

  6. Prelude to war in Poland; Polish army; Smigly-Rydz

    HAS, Polish army parading through the streets of Warsaw, the cannons are drawn by horses, tanks roll by, men sweeping debris, motorcycle troops: this is a sign/prelude to war. Massive crowds line the parade route. LS, a large number of civilians walking around on a field, there are Polish military regiments lined up along the field, buildings are visible in the distance. All the regiments were rounded up on the field and then marched from the field through Warsaw. MS of dignitaries at the reviewing stand, everyone is wearing top hats, including President Moscicki. HAS, military parade. The ...

  7. Denise Hans photographs

    Contains nine photographs pertaining to the experiences of Denise Hans, her siblings, and cousins in hiding in a Sister of Zion convent in the Netherlands.

  8. Concentration camp for Polish juveniles in Łódź

    Film about the detention camp for children in Łódź at Przemysłowa street, where Polish children and young people were used as forced laborers. Includes contemporary oral histories.

  9. Heinrich Himmler photograph collection

    The collection consists of four photograph albums including family photographs of Heinrich Himmler, Reichsführer-SS and head of the Gestapo and the Waffen-SS; his wife, Marga; and their daughter, Gudrun. Also included are photographs of Nazi officials and gatherings.

  10. Archiv der KZ-Gedenkstätte Mauthausen / Sammlung Maršálek

    Contains archival material from Mauthausen and its subcamps, such as Ebensee, Gusen, Gunskirchen, Wien-Saurerwerke (Vienna), Melk, St. Aegyd am Neuwalde, Wiener Neudorf, Steyr, St. Lambrecht, Wiener Neustadt, and Schwechat. Documents include death books and prisoner lists, original maps and plans, miscellaneous correspondence, drawings and artwork, and written reports and statistical compilations. Also contains documents pertaining to the brothel in Mauthausen, sick bay reports, correspondence pertaining to medical experimentation on prisoners, and numerous transcripts of interviews with su...

  11. By the Dar Pomorza Yacht to Stockholm

    Sailors on board ship, hoisting sails, very busy. The Dar Pomorza at sea. Life on board, including exercise and interacting with the ship's mascot, which looks to be a lemur or similar animal. Ship at anchor, sailors in dress uniforms stand at attention. Civilians on board inspecting the ship.

  12. Touring Europe; mountains

    Tourist photography of mountains, family in the FG posing next to their car. Hikers prepare for trip in snow-topped mountains. More shots of mountains, landscape, hiking. Farmers.

  13. Zinc refinery in Katowice, Poland, circa 1936

    Scenes from the Giesche Zinc mine and refinery in Katowice, Poland, circa 1936. VS, INT near the furnaces, women sorting ore before it is smelted, the conveyor belt from the mine shaft, the molten ore being poured into molds. 01:02:06 Workers' jackets hanging from the ceiling of the factory near the light fixtures. EXT, LS, workers exiting the factory, some get on their bicycles others leave on foot. Many workers are young, and smile for the camera. INT, workers filling the molds used for the molten zinc ore. EXT, LS of the countryside in south central Poland. VS of the rural village and th...

  14. Selected records of Jewish communities in Romania from Asociatia Culturala Mondiala a Evreilor Originari din Romania (ACMEOR)

    Contains records of the following Jewish communities in Romania: Botosani, Alba Julia, Bacău, Bucharest, Cernauti (Chernivt︠s︡i), Dorohoi, Falticeni, Galați, Iași, Piatra Neamț, Craiova, Constanța, Ploiești, Suceava (Suchava, Succava) and others. Also contains information about the ships Struma and Mefkure, antisemitism, Aserei Zion (arrested for Zionism), aliyah (going to Israel), parachutists, and files on the indivisuals Zissu, Filderman, and Safran.

  15. Relocation of displaced persons from Yugoslavia

    INT, A Yugoslavian family is seen in their own quarters at the DP camp (staged). The extended family is gathered around a woodburning stove in their makeshift home, UNRRA crates serve as their coffee table, and a tapestry hangs on the wall in the BG above the metal frame cot. One of the young men packs his suitcase as all the family gathers round to view their newly created identity papers and make plans for the future. One of the women is making coffee on the stove. VS, mostly MCUs of the family members passing around the documents to have a closer look. CU of one of their passports from Y...

  16. Warsaw and Danzig, Poland, destruction and rebuilding circa 1946

    Bombed out multi-story YMCA building in Warsaw, Poland. Several workers chip away at the concrete structure, others collect and stack bricks from the rubble. Another worker examines window frames for damage. (This footage likely dates to 1946 - see notes section for further information). MS, low angle, a man and a woman walk down a bombed out street in Warsaw, toward the camera, snow covers the ground. VS of the destruction in the city, civilians mill about the streets, with torn, threadbare clothing, there are some Polish military personnel in these shots as well. Poles board a street car,...

  17. Home movies: Hitler's major domo swimming; swans; rowboat

    Amateur films of "Hausintendant" Arthur (a.k.a. Willy) Kannenberg, major domo/house manager to Adolf Hitler. Lily pond, swans, rowboat, swimming (possibly a male relative of Kannenberg; similar facial structure). Teasing and feeding swans from end of rowboat. 01:04:20 Kannenberg swimming and frolicking with a blond woman, probably his wife Freda, from the rowboat. Surface dives. Both climb into boat. 01:08:55 Swans among the lily pads, filmed from rowboat. 01:11:25 The blond woman and Kannenberg in hats, in the boat. Two swans at water's edge.

  18. Anschluss: Annexation of Austria

    Newsreel footage of events surrounding the German invasion of Austria. Intertitles read as follows: Austrian Chancellor Kurt Von Schuschnigg who failed to satisy Hitler's demands. Hitler's answer to Austria: INVASION! The modern Caesar triumphantly re-enters the land of his birth. Nazi troops give "Heil salute" casually, individually, to crowds as they pass in jeeps, armored vehicles. Some shop signs seen in background: Kastner, Wagons-Lits/ Cook, Mercedes. Hitler exits car to walk in street. From the balcony of the Imperial Palace he screamed, "75,000,000 people in one nation- - No force o...

  19. Star of David pendant with a prisoner number made by a former concentration camp inmate

    Star of David pendant made postwar by Paul Rosenberg and given for safekeeping to Josef Fischman, a fellow former concentration camp survivor in 1947. It is engraved with Paul’s initials and his prisoner number, 194446, from Auschwitz. At an unknown date, Paul was sent to Auschwitz from Krakow, Poland, which was occupied by Germany in September 1939. He was transferred to Gross-Rosen concentration camp, where he met Josef Fischman, a Romanian born Jew from Sighet Maramures, then part of Hungary and invaded by Germany in March 1944. In May, Josef was deported to Auschwitz, and sent to Gross-...

  20. Country life in Zakopane, Poland 1936

    Scenes of country life in Zakopane, Poland, staged for the camera. Peasants cutting bread and vegetables, interior of a house, woman cooking, weaving, man enters the house and makes the sign of the cross, all are in traditional folk dress. VS, inside a church, CUs of icons. The subject shifts to a different scene: MLS, following a man in the woods, out to hunt birds with his rifle over his shoulder, camera pans up to bird's nest. A woman meets him under the tree- the man talks to her about a gun as they sit on a bench under a tree, there is a religious icon hanging on the tree. The couple f...