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  1. Dora Hass papers

    Contains sixteen original certificates including a false Aryan identification card, birth and police registrations, displaced persons papers, INS green cards, one copy of daughter's birth certificate, eighty-one black and white photographs of pre-war and wartime life and of the Lampertheim Displaced Persons camp, and three pieces of Displaced Persons camp scrip.

  2. Staged scenes of domestic life and folk dancing in the region of Katowice

    Staged scenes inside a peasant couple's home. Women cooking apples, cutting bread, men eating. All are wearing traditional Polish peasant dress. VS of men and women performing folk dances, mainly circle dances. These shots are alternately over and under cranked, making the actions of the dancers exaggeratedly slow or fast. From Julien Bryan's film "Poland the Country and the People" released in 1948, shot 1936-1937.

  3. Liberation in Warsaw

    Majdanek after liberation. Sign acknowledging the L. Rechkemmer firm of Warsaw for providing the heating and plumbing facilities at the camp. Human skulls in the grass. Eyeglasses, shoes, hairbrushes, other personal belongings. Soviets inspecting the camp, walking across a huge pile of shoes. Crowds line the streets, greeting returning Polish army. Man standing on a tank speaks to crowd.

  4. Krakow Jewish quarter

    VS, Street scenes in the Jewish quarter of Krakow, Poland. Man selling balloons. Young girl on the street asking for directions from Orthodox Jewish men. Older Jewish couple posing outside of their shop-M. Finkelstein is the name on the placard above their shop door. Good CUs of the couple. CUs of young, religious Jewish boys laughing and talking, conscious of the camera. Young children playing in a courtyard, moving large twigs around the street as an elderly woman watches them, preparing for the harvest festival of Sukkot beneath the archway made famous in an iconic Roman Vishniac photogr...

  5. Prelude to war and scenes of destruction inflicted by the invading German army in Warsaw

    Sequence of outtakes begins with German planes flying overhead in 1939 during the German invasion of Poland. The Germans surround Poland from the south and the north, eventually reaching Warsaw and destroying the city. CU at 01:18:19 that shows an eagle insignia, in the hands of a soldier, who is marching along the street, air attack over Warsaw, scenes of Warsaw and posters that were on the streets. They are all in Polish, they are propaganda posters featuring swastikas and soldiers. Warsaw burning [most likely stock news footage] at 01:18:32, followed by shots of Poles taking to the stree...

  6. Leonore Gumpert correspondence

    The Leonore Gumpert correspondence consists of letters and postcards dated 1938-1942 to Leonore in America from her mother, Clara Joseph, in Kassel and Darmstadt and from her sister, Inge, in Kassel, Darmstadt, Brussels, Seyre, and Chateau de la Hille. Some correspondence from Germany includes messages from Leonore's aunt Martha and grandmother Josephine. There are also a few letters and postcards from Leonore's father, Julius, and from relatives in New York. Most of the letters and postcards describe daily life in Germany, Belgium, and France and relate efforts to immigrate. One October 19...

  7. YMCA in Poland, 1948

    Young boys at the YMCA playing ping pong and boxing.

  8. German activity at the Westwall and the French border

    Title on screen: Ozaphan 12/39 Monatschau; Die Wacht am Westwall [The watch on the West wall]. The West wall was a German defense line along the western German border. Two German soldiers sit on a hilltop overlooking a river. One looks through binoculars and points into the distance. German soldiers march down into a concrete bunker (part of the West wall) with a relief of a soldier carved around the doorway. Soldiers running around a structure that appears to be camouflaged with tree limbs. A cannon, camouflaged with tree branches, rises up out of the woods. Germans fire cannons, presumabl...

  9. A. Fokker films: von Richthofen's "Flying Circus", WWI aces

    Various locations and dates, probably N. France and Belgium, between Autumn 1916 to September 1918. Contains activities of Jagdgeschwader 1 (the Red Baron's "Flying Circus"), comprising Jagdstaffel (Jasta) 4, 6, 10, 11, which was commanded by Manfred von Richthofen (MvR) until his death April 21, 1918 in a Fokker Dr.1. Hermann Goering became CO of Jagdgeschwader Freiherr von Richthofen No.1 on July 7, 1918. Film title at head: "RICHTHOFEN FILM aufgenommen von AHG FOKKER, 2. Teil" September 1917 Pilots, observers on wooden platform with dog, looking through range finders, field glasses. Town...

  10. Grace Miller photographs

    The images are of U.S. troops with the 415th Infantry Regiment, 104th Infantry Division supervising German civilians who were forced to clear corpses from the ruins of the "Boelke Kaserne" at Nordhausen concentration camp.

  11. Morris Shuster document

    Contains donor's Hakoach membership card.

  12. Selected records of the Shanghai Municipal Archives

    Contains records from the Shanghai Municipal Government, International Settlement, Education Department, Finance Department, Public Works Department, Public Health Department, and French Concession. Topics include: Jewish schools, Jewish journal, school fees, grants to schools for foreign children, the Jewish refugee kitchen, health facilities, the Jewish cemetery, registration of Jewish aid organizations, and annual reports of aid organizations. Also contains documents relating to Polish, Czechoslovak, and other European refugees.

  13. Rebuilding Warsaw, probably in 1947

    Reel 3A Animated map. Goats grazing in brick ruins. Man approaches a gravesite with flowers. LS, overview of massive destruction in the city of Warsaw - bombed buildings. MS, then CUs of the monument in the former Warsaw ghetto to Jews who died in the 1943 uprising. HAS, construction site, rebuilding Poland, river in BG, crane. VAR views of schoolchildren walking along the sidewalk and playing at school. HAS, policeman directing traffic (pedestrians, automobiles, trams, horse/buggy) with Warsaw in the distance. School. Shop amidst ruins (pile of bricks). CU, shop sign (bookstore). Large bui...

  14. Hohner Imperial IIA accordion and case carried by Hilde Anker on a Kindertransport

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn521020
    • English
    • 1938-1939
    • a: Height: 6.500 inches (16.51 cm) | Width: 10.750 inches (27.305 cm) | Depth: 10.500 inches (26.67 cm) b: Height: 7.500 inches (19.05 cm) | Width: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm) | Depth: 11.625 inches (29.528 cm)

    Imperial IIA small piano accordion and case belonging to Hilde Anker, 13, who took it with her on a Kindertransport from Berlin to Great Britain on June 12-14, 1939. Hilde's sisters, Eva, 17, and Dodi, 15, were also sent away by their parents, Georg and Gertrud, on the same Children's Transport. In 1933, Hitler's Nazi regime implemented policies to persecute the Jewish population. After the Kristallnacht pogrom in early November 1938, Georg decided the family must leave. The girls applied for spots on the Kindertransport and George's brother Leo in England agreed to look after them. Eva was...

  15. Zinc refinery in operation in Katowice

    Scenes from the Giesche zinc mine and refinery in Katowice, circa 1936. VS, inside near the furnaces, men coming out for a break and getting water, women sorting the ore before it is smelted, the conveyor belt from the mine shaft, men drilling inside the mine. 01:14:55 Good shots of the digging in the mine, workers leaving the mine. Scene with the workers collecting their bicycles at the end of the day. Several good CUs of the faces of the workers, the raw zinc ore, machinery, etc. From Julien Bryan's film "Poland the Country and the People" released in 1948, shot 1936-1937.

  16. German siege of Warsaw, Sept. 1939

    The first days of September 1939, Warsaw, Poland under siege: MCU of German soldiers who are prisoners of the Poles, talking, smoking, cutting one cuts another's hair. It is believed that the soldier who is seated in the shot is a German Jewish soldier, according to Julien Bryan's accounts of this footage. This is NOT a confirmed fact. VS of destruction; people climbing over rubble, looking for their belongings that may remain in the wreckage of their homes. A young boy with a pet canary in a cage that survived the bombings. CUs of the dead and wounded. A woman plants a memorial of branches...

  17. Red checked dress with smocking made for a young Jewish girl who escaped Germany on the Kindertransport

    Red checked dress with smocking made for Esther Rosenfeld by her maternal aunt Friederika Lemberger in Aachen, Germany. Esther, age 2, was sent on a June 1939 Kindertransport [Children's Transport] from Germany to Great Britain. Her older sisters, Bertl, Edith, and Ruth, had gone in March. See 2012.451 for two pairs of boots also brought on her journey. Esther was placed with Dorothy and Harry Harrison and their son Alan in Norwich. Hitler's assumption of power in 1933 resulted in increasingly harsh persecution of the Jewish populace in Germany. Esther's extended family got affidavits of su...

  18. Home movies of Fuchs family at the beach

    Boy playing on rings, jungle gym. 01:01:02 Swimming, playing in water. 01:03:11 Hana's brother Jiri on bench eating. Fuchs family dressed well, preparing for departure. Eating at table, garden, playing cards (game called Marias). 01:03:55 Older woman? 01:04:06 at restaurant. 01:05:03 CUs of girls. Hana with tennis racket. 01:06:14 Hana's parents Oskar Fuchs and Rosa (Krasa) Fuchs, in garden. 01:06:27 Playing cards. 01:07:05 At beach, mountains, in water, slide. 01:08:03 In front of house, preparing to leave the beach, with motion picture camera. 01:08:47 Hana, dressed. CUs 01:09:06 At beach...

  19. Classroom lessons, postwar

    Boys seated at desks in a classroom with a teacher. Boys stand up and pack up books. Two boys begin roughhousing, the teacher takes one of them by the arm and leads him away. Teacher talks to the boy while gesturing at a paper. Boy takes paper and leaves. CU, boy’s face. CU boys smiling, looking at the paper. CU boy’s feet swinging under the desk. Shot over the boy's shoulder of drawings of boxers. Teacher sees boys looking at paper during class and takes it away. CU hands holding bucket, tapping with a brush. (04:30) Woman in coat jogs across street and walks through a gate. Door with sign...

  20. Death of Fritz Todt

    List of "Kriegsberichter": Dr. Aletan, Blenck, Buhlmann, Dressler, Elton, Ertl, Frentz, Frickhoeffer, Garms, Gessl, Grund, Hapke, Hardacker, Hornschu, Jacobi, Koenig, Komor, Lehmann, Mahla, Olesko, Onasch, v. Reibnitz, Sakeus, Schmidmeier, Alfred Scholz, Hans Scholz, Schwennicke, Thoemmes, Wenig. Tribute to Dr. Fritz Todt and the works of the Organisation Todt, including construction of the Autobahn and the Westwall. Todt walks with other officials. He hands out shovels to workers, who march with the shovels over their shoulders. The narrator states that construction of the Autobahn began i...