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  1. German invasion eastwards; Soviet POWs

    Soundtrack starts with fanfare for Eastern Front reports on Deutsche Wochenshau issues. Map, narrator: “gegen die Barbarei”. Attack, night and day. "Zollamt" Border barrier removed. Tearing down high wooden fencing. 01:02:15 KAUNUS Advance toward Kovno. 01:02:20 LIETOVOS RESPUBLIKA “Litauische Grenze” [Lithuanian border] Sharpshooters defending. House to house fighting. Flamethrowers. Burning building. German soldiers with flamethrower. Medics carry stretcher. First prisoners. Dazed men taken from building. 01:04:01 “Gefangene Bolschewisten” [Bolshevik prisoners] Crossing pontoon bridge. Bi...

  2. 7 video progams about the Holocaust: Terezin, bookburning, the camp system, safety, Einsatzgruppen, invasion of the Soviet Union, and resistance

    Audiovisual monitors shown in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Permanent Exhibition called "The Holocaust" (according to exhibition number). 1. Third floor (3.06) - Theresienstadt 2. Fourth floor (4.12) - Bookburning 3. Third floor (3.28) - The Camp System 4. Fourth floor (4.29a) - To Safety 5. Third floor (3.15) - Einsatzgruppen (see revised program on Film ID HMM142) 6. Third floor (3.14) - Invasion of the Soviet Union 7. Second floor (2.05) - Resistance

  3. Oral history interview with Harry Burger

  4. Leaflets of the White Rose Facsimile of the second White Rose leaflet

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn14333
    • English
    • a: Height: 11.750 inches (29.845 cm) | Width: 8.250 inches (20.955 cm) b: Height: 11.750 inches (29.845 cm) | Width: 8.250 inches (20.955 cm)

    Facsimile of the second White Rose leaflet, distributed by members of the White Rose, a German anti-Nazi group formed in Munich in 1942. Hans Scholl and Alexander Schmorell wrote the first four leaflets, possibly with contributions by Sophie Scholl and Christoph Probst. The second leaflet calls Nazism a cancer on German society, states that the murder of Polish Jews by the Germans is a crime against humanity, and urges the citizens of Germany to resist the Nazi rule. The group was founded by students from the University of Munich in the late spring of 1942, and members consisted of Hans, Al...

  5. "Hidden in broad daylight"

    Describes the author's life in Kraków, Poland; her hiding inside and liquidation of the ghetto in Tarnów, Poland; her separation from family members; how she passed as a Gentile and found employment; her attempts to communicate with her sisters who were concentration camp inmates; her move to and war-time employment in Austria; the end of World War II; her meeting with members of the Jewish Brigade; and her illegal emigration to Palestine. The memoir also includes a poem about a young Jewish boy whose fate during the Holocaust is unknown and another describing the author's feelings for th...

  6. Dachau at liberation; Stevens

    Jeep in front of what appears to be a garage building with a swastika over it, sign reads: "Quarantine Typhus, This concentration camp is off limits to all civilian and military personnel by order of General Patch, C.G. 7th Army." The jeep Toluca in front of a yellow sign that reads: "Dachau." A building is marked: "Burger Brau-Keller." Stevens on bridge, opening a pack of cigarettes.

  7. Jewish farmers in the Carpathian mountains

    Scenes of Jewish farmers, carpenters, lumbering in the remote Carpathian village of Vysni Apsa. INT of cheder. CUs of people. Basket making. Various pople pose/work in fields. CUs of orthodox men. Interiors of girls in school. Exteriors of houses. Crossing river. Cattle. Scenes are scattered. Chaim Simcha Mechlowitz, an Orthodox Jewish farmer, tanner, and father of eleven children appears from 12:33:50 to 12:34:11 and 12:35:54 to 12:36:00. He was killed at Auschwitz in 1944. In 1938, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC) commissioned Roman Vishniac to make three films of t...

  8. Records relating to Jews and Roma in Berlin "Ostarbeiter" file from the Oberfinanzdirektion

    Includes information about various "Ostarbeiter" (forced laborers from the East) and their property.

  9. RAF; steel production; bombed railways in Belgium; troops weather storms

    Combat Bulletin No. 30. Reel 1, E.T.O Activities in European Theatre of Operations "R.A.F. Sinks “Tirpitz”" "Front Line Steel Production" "Bombed Belgium Rail Networks" "Allied Armies Face Rain and Snow"

  10. 2 video programs about the Holocaust: Nuremberg and other war crimes trials

    Audiovisual monitors shown in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Permanent Exhibition called "The Holocaust" (according to exhibition number). Second floor (2.08b) - The Killers: Nuremberg Trials #2 Second floor (2.08c) - Other Trials

  11. German newsreel excerpts: German munitions trains; American POWs; V-1 bombs

    Reel 2, Part 1, camouflaged German munitions trains move up near Caen after the Normandy invasion. German antiaircraft fires at Allied planes over Caen. Devastation in the city. German troops assist civilians. Tanks, motorcycles, infantry, and artillery move up. Antitank guns cripple U.S. Sherman tanks. U.S. POWs are marched to the rear. Part 2, Hamburg, Germany, in flames after an Allied air raid. Searchers probe into debris; dead and wounded are removed. Corpses are laid out in a huge hall. V-1 bombs are launched.

  13. Private Sofia Gurewicz Yiddish Gymnasium in Vilnius Gimnazjum Żydowskie Zofja Gurewicz w Wilnie (Fond 198)

    The collection contains administrative documents, minutes of the meetings of the pedagogical council, records of the examination commission, teacher’s reports correspondence related to admission of students, personal files of students, lists of admitted students, registration books of graduation certificates, student’s behavioral conduct and progress report cards, statistical information about students and other related documentation. Copies of graduation certificate files and students' personal files are listed according to the surnames of individuals in alphabetical order.

  14. Records relating to Jews and Roma in Berlin Transport lists of Jews to Auschwitz

    Consists of a copy of a transport list containing the names and addresses of Jews and Roma deported from Berlin to Auschwitz on 05 May 1943.

  15. Belsen: corpses

    LS bodies, limbs, ribs, male corpse in pit.

  16. Oral history interview with Michel de Bouard

  17. US military inspecting weapons

    Sequence: VS of men in uniform around jeep in clearing inspecting some kind of artillery shells. Men working on their artillery weapons on trailers. A lake or a river in the BG. Men in uniform cleaning up and clearing off of field, packing up gear to move camp.

  18. Americans visit Europe in 1938

    Ralph Voigt recorded his family's travel to Europe in 1938, likely in celebration of Ralph's graduation from high school, Title- EUROPE 1938. Couple, probably Elmer and Nellie Voigt, at desk with pamphlet ‘How to See Europe’. The Americans are well-dressed and packing nice clothes. 1:02 Moving train. Ship smokestacks. Map of Europe with the travel itinerary: Havre, Paris, Versailles, Basel, Lucerne, Berne, Zurich, Como, Florence, Siena, Rome, Naples, Venice, Budapest, Vienna, Salzburg, Munich, Mittenwald, Nuremberg, Dresden, Leipzig, Berlin, Kolberg, London, and Bath. 2:07 Title- FRANCE and...

  19. German rockets

    Preparation for the firing of German A-4 rockets by German soldiers, shot in Germany sometime during World War II. Date unknown. Produced by AKS Film Coverage, The Directorate of Army Kinematography. Reel 1: German rocket being launched. Sign: ""Den Hoag, Centrum, Rotterdam 25, Hague Signal"". People on bicycles moving along a street. A deserted street. A black cross on a tree. Several rockets on dollies. Firing ramps being assembled by German soldiers. German trucks moving along a road, pulling trailers. Tanks containing rocket fuel. Diagram of a rocket. Rocket engine. Reel 2: Fuel tanks f...

  20. William Perl papers a statistical analysis of Soviet atrocity charges

    Report by the Soviet State Extraordinary Commission for Ascertaining and Investigating the Crimes Committed by the German-fascist Invaders and Their Accomplices. The 4 July 1944 report includes information about executions of Russian citizens in rural areas, executions of Russian Jews, and Jewish populations statistics for several Russian cities.