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  1. Invasion of Oesel and Moon Islands, Estonia.

    "Ufa" logo; "Nr. 57" appear on screen. The narrator says, "Die Inseln Oesel und Moon in deutscher Hand." [The islands of Oesel and Moon in German hands]. Map showing Oesel (Saaremaa) and Moon islands, located between Latvia and Estonia. Luftwaffe planes in the air over the islands. German ships in the ocean; mines detonating in the water. Soldiers on board ship receiving orders. Cannons firing from the ship at Soviet positions. Germans in small motorboats race toward the island while planes overhead cover them and fire at a lighthouse/watchtower on the island. Planes bomb the island. German...

  2. Eliezer Löwi photographs

    The photographs depict Eliezer Löwi's experiences after World War II in Belgium and Israel. The images consist of mostly portrait photographs of Eliezer Löwi as a young boy, at his Bar Mitzvah, and as a member of the Israeli Navy. Also included are a photograph of Mr. Löwi and his mother in Israel and a class portrait of schoolchildren in Antwerp, Belgium.

  3. Survey of attitudes among Romanian students regarding the Holocaust

    Consists of a sociological survey of the attitudes of contemporary Romanian grade school students to the Holocaust along with pedagogical responses.

  4. Selected records of the Slovak Armed Forces during World War II

    Contains selected documents relating to labor projects for Jews and Romanies; correspondence and press clippings relating to Alexander Mach, Jozef Tiso, Tuka, the Slovak National Uprising, war crimes trials, and cooperation between the Slovak and German armies; announcements, government ordinances regarding Jews and Romanies including files on Jewish property, partisans, anti-partisan activities, and various Jewish labor camps (Liptovský Svätý Peter, Novǎky, and Topol̕čany).

  5. Clara and Wilhelm Dreyfuss letters

    Contains letters written between December 1940 and September 1942 by Clara and Wilhelm Dreyfuss in concentration camps in France, addressed to Clara's sister and her husband, Recha and Wilhelm Reutlinger, in New York City. The letters contain information about the conditions in the camps; the Dreyfuss's experiences in Gurs, Les Milles, and Rivesaltes; and their unsuccessful quest to leave Europe. Each handwritten letter is accompanied by a German transcription and an English translation.

  6. Ingrid Geber Willing memoir

    Contains a memoir about Ingrid Geber Willing's Holocaust experiences.

  7. Finland

    Map showing Norway, Sweden, and Finland. German soldiers loading munitions, animals, vehicles and supplies onto a ship bound for the Finnish front. Views of the soldiers boarding the ship: they are shot from below as they climb steep steps up to the deck of the ship. Life of the troops on board the ship as it speeds toward Finland, including cleaning boots, shaving, eating, playing cards. The Soviet Union attacked Finland in November 1939, launching the so-called Winter War, which lasted until March 1940. The Finns managed to inflict quite a bit of damage on the Soviets, but they nonetheles...

  8. Scenes from the port city of Gdynia

    Workmen hauling lumber around a lumber yard. Furniture, bundles of wooden café style chairs loaded into crates. A women in a fur coat counts some packages or bundles on the ground. Man in uniform observes them. Crane with the bundle of chairs. Back to the lumberyard, several workmen moving and hauling wood around the yard. Crane comes down from the deck of a ship.

  9. Home movies of Fuchs family at the beach and in Czech village

    Family in garden, men playing cards (game called Marias). 01:00:41 Friends of Hana's parents -- Oskar Fuchs and Rosa (Krasa) Fuchs -- (one identified as Dr. Spousta) walking down street, car in BG. 01:01:59 Children, playing at beach, father. 01:02:39 Children walking to beach. 01:03:00 Father with girl, playing in sand. 01:03:59 (brief) Fuchs family at restaurant. 01:04:04 CU, blond girl. Hana and tennis racket. 01:05:04 Hana and friends walking down street, Hana in pants, kicking ball. 01:06:05 Long jump, rings. 01:06:47 Hana's mother (Rosa (Krasa) Fuchs), her friend Mrs. Prochazka, and H...

  10. Martha Shemtov papers

    Contains 11 photographs, five legal documents, and one memoir pertaining to Martha Shemtov's experiences in hiding in Poland during the Holocaust.

  11. Krakow's Jewish quarter: shops, merchants

    MCU, street corner of the Jewish quarter in Krakow, a women in contemporary dress and three Jewish men peek out from behind the shoulder of a man with his back to the camera. Sign across the street for a merchant's shop: "SALOMON DIAMANT". Several shots of Jewish men in orthodox garb, with beards, standing on street corners talking and suspiciously watching the camera, one covers his face, and they move along.

  12. Gdansk and Krakow scenes, daily life in Poland

    Street scenes in Gdansk (Danzig) on ulica Dluga (German: Lange Straße) [see the city hall in BG]. Traffic cop directs traffic in busy town square. Women gaze through shop windows, reflection from outside in. Scenes of a castle and the Dembnicki bridge in Krakow. Some scenes seem to be in the Kazimierz section (Jewish quarter) of Krakow. 01:02:52 CU of the sign on the front of a merchant's shop: "Depot de Vin T. Fukier Fonde en 1610." Town square, a man is wheeling a young boy across the cobblestone plaza in a wooden cart, a few darkly clad figures and a police officer in the BG. 01:03:01 MC...

  13. Ruth Fiedler papers

    Contains documents and photographs pertaining to Ruth Fielder's attempts to obtain visas for her parents, Fedor Zernik and Hedwig Tichauer Zernik, her own escape from Germany to England on a Kindertransport (1939), and leaving England for Australia (February 1939).

  14. Raya Karschon photograph collection

    Contains a photograph album with 19 images documenting Raya Karshon's experiences in Switzerland while at a sanatorium recovering from tuberculosis, and her time in Belgium after World War II. Rectangular form; light brown embossed paper cover with edge lacing and fabric lining; black and white photographs mounted on black paper pages that are tied into the album; inscription in ink on first page.

  15. Street scenes in Warsaw, 1936

    MS, traveling from a streetcar in Warsaw. Traffic officer on a pedestal in the middle of the street. Tree- lined streets. Sequence of modern shop windows in the city, including a fabric store, a clothing store, a food market, and a hair salon. 01:11:12 More street scenes of Warsaw, showing a kiosk full of advertisements and a flower vendor. There is a prominent announcement for a Chaplin film screening on the kiosk, and later, a sign in the distance for American actress Irene Dunne. People fill the sidewalks.

  16. BDM; woodshop

    Sequence of four trims: 01:14:40 BDM girls running. 01:14:52 Woodshop. 01:14:55 BDM girls. 01:14:56 Woodshop.

  17. Passover postcard

    The postcard depicts six children sitting and standing at a table during Passover in Rīga, Latvia, in 1939. The two boys in the picture names unknown and Lea Lemchen, age 7, [2nd row on the right] were killed in the Rīga ghetto in 1941. Bluma Sandler, age 4, [donor's cousin / seated on the right] Sara Cherfas, age 3 1/2, [donor / seated in the center] and Ester Wishnevskaya, age 7 [donor's father's cousin / standing in the center] survived by escaping from Latvia to Russia with their parents.

  18. Marie Cuttler collection

    Consists of pre-war photographs of Marie Cuttler and her parents, Felicia Grodzicka and Władysław Watnicki, both of whom perished in the Holocaust, as well as post-war photographs of Marie at the Munich Hospital. Also includes one small composition book in which Marie practiced English and one handkerchief embroidered with flowers and the words "Bad Aibling, IRO, Children's Village."

  19. KdF performance in occupied Paris

    A dance or circus performance of some kind, on a stage, including acrobatics, juggling, ice skating, and a comic routine with man dressed as a cowboy riding a bucking "horse". This was most likely a Kraft durch Freude (KdF) variety performance to exhibit German artists.

  20. Creation of Kutno ghetto; construction; moving in

    People moving belongings. Bundles, carts, people everywhere. Dwarf. Children. Ends with barbed wire gate at ghetto entrance; policeman.