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  1. Wehrmacht in France; French POWs

    German soldiers in field. Sign "Achtung Minen Lebensgefahr" warning about mines. Various views of men on the front, fences. Minefields. Cemetery. Ruins. Soldiers shave, cook, rest. 10:19:19 Pak at street. Local French town in ruins. Germans pass on horseback, tanks. Roadside gravesites. Monument. 10: 21:13 French bunker. More graves of German soldiers who died on June 15, 1940). Destroyed village, downed French plane. 10:22:10 Pak at the coast. Troops advance. 10:22:14 Brief shot of French civilians en route. German troops on road. "RAON L'ETAPE (Vosges)" 10:23:13 French prisoners of war ma...

  2. Maria-Anita Menkes Gol Papers

    Documents and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Maria-Anita Menkes (donor's mother) who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1919 and lived in Lvov, Poland [present day Ukraine]. Included are documents issued to Helena Babijczuk and used by Maria to obtain false documents in the name of Helena Babijczuk Keck, allowing her to pass as a Roman Catholic. Also included is post-war documentation illustrating her chronology during the war in Piaseczno and Lvov, Poland; her experiences and those of her mother, Stella Menkes, who was killed in the Katyn massacre in Poland in 1940; and the exp...

  3. Parade

    Spectators, Optik shop. Man on stilts distributes papers to crowd. HAS, parading on cobbled street. Floats. Sign: "Nachbarschaft. Zur alten Poft". More floats. Crowds line the parade route. Legion Condor airplane. Motorcycle. HAS, local Nazi official salutes in open car with "1000 jaehrige Reich" banner.

  4. Olympic train

    Olympiazug. Train advertising measures in advance of the 1936 Olympic Games.

  5. Training film for the German Army

    German army training film, 1943. Armored personnel fighters of the Bundeswehr are trained on armored non-combat weapons.

  6. Fire brigade exercise with beautiful shots of ancient fire engines

    Brown house in Munich, fireman with trumpet, runs and blows the trumpet "fire alarm" Text panel: "The Rabenstein fire brigade, from the good old days! Here is a test alarm: the dying noon is burning!" (In Chemnitz-Rabenstein.) Firefighter sprays foam on the wall of a factory building,

  7. Regina Bader family correspondence

    Two albums, containing reproductions of correspondence to the donor’s aunt, Regina Bader, and her mother and other family members, 1942-1943. The letters that are copied in this album were sent to Bader while she was interned during World War II in the Bernsdorf forced labor camp, a sub-camp of Gross-Rosen, and her family were mostly living in a ghetto in Sosnowiec, German-occupied Poland. Translations of each letter and postcard are included with the copied documents. The letters, which begin in May 1942, consist mostly of updates from Bader's mother about other family members, some of who...

  8. County Command of the State Police in Kielce Komenda Powiatowa Policji Państwowej w Kielcach (Sygn.112)

    Police orders, circulars, various reports and investigative protocols, registers of the political organizations, social and sporting events. Included are records related to Jewish organizations, Jewish trade unions, and situation of the political and criminal prisoners.

  9. Headquarters; exercises of Nazi workers

    Private films with German intertitles. Group headquarters in Hilchenbach and Siegen. Exercises. Mess hall. Gauleiter Wagner. Dr. Decker.... Continues in next reels.

  10. German military power on display at Nuremberg stadium

    Parteitag 1936 (Nazi Party Congress) in Nuremberg in September 1936. Nazi soldiers with armbands march up a narrow street. Crowd gathers for the events, numerous large Nazi banners, marching band, WWI vet with still camera. Street views. SS soldiers run beside stadium decorated with swastika flags. Hitler youth, crowds and military fill the stadium. Hitler, Goebbels, other Nazi officials converse on the podium. Hitler is introduced, and begins his speech to the troops in neat rows on the field. 05:34 CUs, Nazi officials in the stands. Pan of stadium grounds with spectators, grandstand, Nazi...

  11. Rolnik family photograph collection

    The collection documents the pre-war and post war lives of the Lorber Rolnik and Rolnik families of Poland. The collection includes pre-war family photographs in Włodawa and Chełm, Poland; post-war family photographs in the Tempelhof displaced persons camp, Brazil, and Israel; and theatre productions featuring Pinchas Rolnik in Włodawa and the Tempelhof displaced persons camp.

  12. Factory of iron goods "Korenblum" in Końskie Fabryka Wyrobów Żeliwnych "Kronnenblum" w Końskich (Sygn. 615)

    Financial records and payroll of the S. Kronenblum factory in Końskie. Included are financial balances, inventory books, payrolls, lists of the factory assets compiled after the invasion of the Red Army on December 31, 1944, and a detailed situation plan of the “Kronenblum” facility in 1:000 scale.

  13. Photograph

    Photographic print: black and white image depicting man sewing large Star of David badge on to clothing; another man seated in the background also appears to be wearing a large Star of David badge on his jacket; Mogilev, Belarus, USSR; not dated.

  14. Records of the Istanbul Office of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1937-1949

    Records include: correspondence with Jewish communities throughout Turkey, Romania, and Palestine; extensive documentation regarding shipments of food packages and other supplies to concentration camps such as Theresienstadt and Bergen-Belsen (including a postcard sent by Rabbi Leo Baeck, the renowned German scholar, from Theresienstadt acknowledging receipt of a AJJDC care package); cables and news releases; lists of survivors, including thousands of files from the Central Location Index; wartime testimonies; and correspondence regarding Joel Brand’s and Rudolf Kasztner’s negotiations in 1...

  15. Military maneuvers

    Parade in Berlin, Polish Campaign, French Campaign

  16. Paris Worlds Fair 1937; Travel Films; Saw mill in East Prussia

    Private films. 10:00:00 - 10:17:38 also M 2857. Color: World Exhibition in Paris 1937, at night, street scenes, trip to the Seine, site of the world exhibition.10:05:03 Exhibition center in color and black and white. 10:12:07 Pavilion, at night and inside. 10:17:31 - 10:44:28 also M 3082. Color: Travelogue with title cards in German. Versailles. Autobahn. Heidelberg. Trip on the Rhine. Alpine trip in 1938. Innsbruck. Hohenschwans. 10:44:57 Black and white: East Prussia: timber loading, Treideln, sawmill. 10:50:42 Haffausflug. 10:52:30 Masuria. 10:56:49 Allenstein and voting memorial. 10:57:...

  17. Occupied Paris in color, North African campaign in color, Greece, The country and people of Russia

    Airforce, transport aircraft, Meditteranean Sea, water tap, soldiers writing and smoking, shelter, hospital ship, wounded people, peasant women

  18. Labor Service in Occupied France

    Drill. Rifle shooting, march through French village, shoemaker, mail delivery

  19. Buchenwald negatives

    Contains thirteen original negatives documenting the liberation of Buchenwald.

  20. Leather suitcase used by a German Jewish boy while on a refugee transport

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn549447
    • English
    • a: Height: 4.250 inches (10.795 cm) | Width: 19.500 inches (49.53 cm) | Depth: 11.750 inches (29.845 cm) b: Height: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) | Width: 20.500 inches (52.07 cm) | Depth: 12.250 inches (31.115 cm) c: Height: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) | Width: 6.125 inches (15.558 cm) | Depth: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm)

    Small brown leather suitcase used by Fritz (later Fred) Strauss while part of a refugee transport of children from Germany between 1939 and 1941. In response to the 1935 Nuremberg Laws and growing anti-Semitism in their small town, Fritz’s mother sent him, in 1936, to Frankfurt to attend school at a large Jewish orphanage. Within three years, anti-Semitism in Frankfurt had grown, and on March 8, 1939, Fritz was sent on a transport to Paris, France, with ten other children. Fritz and the other Orthodox children moved to new towns multiple times in the area around Paris, but managed to contin...