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  1. Neusustrum camp in the region of Emsland

    Neusustrum was a detention camp for homosexuals and other political prisoners. Filmed by Willhelm Niemann, teacher and member of the SA. Country fields and barn-like structures in Germany. Three children sit in front of a house with a sloped roof. A young boy swings around a horizontal bar set up in the trees. 10:01:43 “Am Grenzgraben.” People work in a hay field while German officers stand nearby. Two officers in a field look through binoculars. Officers walk out of a property entrance. 10:02:52 CU face of a German officer. A stream. Train tracks through fields and trees. Hayfields. Sheep ...

  2. Frank family at an estate and visiting the Polish countryside

    Large estate near Kressendorf (Krzeszowice, Poland). Three people (including Norman Frank and his best friend Gerd Voigt) walk a dog on the grounds of the estate. They tour the Polish countryside and villages with a horse and carriage. Railroad crossing. Scenes of the countryside from a moving train (this railway line from Krakow to Dresden goes past Auschwitz). 01:10:20 Soft focus shots of Polish children posing for the camera beside a fence, a woman washes in the river. More scenes of the three people on the carriage, then returning to the wooded estate with a guarded gated entrance with ...

  3. Kahan family papers

    Correspondence, documents, certificates, and related materials, concerning the immigration of the family of Eugene (Jenö) Kahan, originally of Munkacs, Hungary (Mukachevo, Ukraine), and his wife, Gizella, and their daughters, to the United States via Paraguay, after World War II. Documents include identification and marriage documents issued in Hungary following the war, documents issued by the consulate of Paraguay in Czechoslovakia, and correspondence between American agencies, including the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and the office of U.S. Senator Theodore Green of Rhode Isl...

  4. Selected reords of the city Przedbórz Akta miasta Przedborza (Sygn. 520)

    Minutes of sessions of the Municipal Council of Przedbórz, budget records, files related to electionS (including lists of voters), diverse lists and statistics, lists of estates and housing matters, records of lands, fees/fares and taxes (including those for the synagogue), construction matters, recruitment to the army, and applications for identification cards, and many other matters. Included are files of the Jewish Community that survived from 1940-1942 (call No 578-582), and a list of estate owners.

  5. Transport squadron, JU 52

    Greek buildings, palm trees, open car in desert camouflage paint, German Afrika Korps, overflight over mountains, aerial photographs: city, industrial plants, large airfield, houses, soldiers in swimwear, woman at the loom, Greek village

  6. Carl Schurz Tour of American professors and students through Germany in summer 1934

    REEL 4. The Schurz group travels by bus through rural landscape. In Rothenburg, they pass under stone archways and by Bavarian shops. Student with two birds. They go to Augsburg. A woman pumps water from a fountain. They drive through Landsberg, where Hitler was once imprisoned after the Beer Hall Putsch. The tour continues in the country. They take a break to swim and lay on the dock. More Bavarian landscape and villages. It rains, but the sunshine returns as they drive into the valley of Oberammergau.

  7. Gerstel family collection

    Contains identity cards issued to the donor's grandparents and father in Belgium; a Bar Mitzvah invitation for Simon Gerstel (donor's father); and copyprints illustrating their flight from Belgium through France, Casablanca, and Cuba.

  8. Jidisze gezelszaft cu farszprojtn kunst Jewish Society to Propagate Fine Art Żydowskie Towarzystwo Krzewienia Sztuk Pięknych (Sygn. 361)

    Minutes, reports, workplans, incoming and outgoing correspondence, lists of art objects collected by the Society, published materials, such as articles, press cuttings, and photographs (collected mainly for the purpose of creating a catalog); personal files of the Board staff, name lists and applications of artists; financial files, such as preliminary budgets, approved budgets and cash reports.

  9. Achduth-Jedność, Fraternal Federation in Warsaw Stowarzyszenie Braterskie "Achduth-Jedność" w Warszawie (Sygn. 117)

    Records of the “Achduth-Jedność” Fraternal Federation in Warsaw: List of members and candidates for membership, minutes and correspondence of 1938, insurance policies, bills, a journal of minutes of general assemblies.

  10. Jews in Kazimierz in 1940 before the establishment of the ghetto

    In color, inside Kazimierz (the Jewish neighborhood of Krakow), Jews wear armbands with the Star of David. Men peer at camera from a shop entrance in BG. Pan of public announcement poster in Polish signed by Schmid (Bekanntmachung LXII was published on May 10, 1940). [Schmid served as Stadthauptmann of Krakow from February 21, 1940 to March 31, 1941; the ghetto was formed on March 3, 1941.] Red Cross YMCA poster. Good CUs of children, one barefoot. Tram, bookstore, and other shops show street activity. Horse and buggy. Street scenes with pedestrians and shuttered shops. 01:18:05 A Jewish ma...

  11. Oral history interview with Haya Bluma Newman

  12. Hitler Youth; Autobahn; Nuremberg Party Congress

    Private film reels including Hitler Youth camp in color, Hitler Youth appeal, Reichsautobahn, Rothenburg in color, Nuremberg party conference in color, "Horst Wessel", DAF, Chamberlain.

  13. Goering parades during Anschluss; Goering with Rainer and Grohe; examining artwork

    Boys stand in rows on top of a hill, white shirts, Nazi armbands, shorts, and high socks. Soldiers and members of the SS and SA in formation at base of the hill, waiting on Goering. Filmed from within a car moving in the parade, Goering in lead car. People greet from the side of the road, many in white shirts, swastika flags. CU German policeman on the motorcycle riding behind the escort car. They drive through the German countryside. Sign: Schmittenhöhebahn, Zell am See, (region: south of Berchtesgaden), pictures taken from driving vehicle, snowy mountains, rural surroundings, cows. Nazi o...

  14. Concentration camp correspondence collection

    Contains three letters written by prisoners of the Auschwitz, Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camp.

  15. US Buy War Bonds poster depicting the Statue of Liberty

    American war bond poster printed in 1945, featuring a clenched fist holding war bonds superimposed in front of the Statue of Liberty’s arm and torch. The symbolism of the image implies that purchasing war bonds was a way the public could support and protect American liberty, represented by the Statue of Liberty’s torch, which is also the lone light in the night sky. The United States Government offered the public the opportunity to purchase war bonds, and return them for reimbursement at a later date. Purchasing bonds was considered patriotic and an investment in victory. U.S. posters tende...

  16. German military

    Private films of German military. "Nach Paris 496 km"

  17. Jefferson Patterson travels by car through countryside

    Germany. River boats. Jefferson Patterson and his mother Mrs. Carnell on front steps of a house, garden, American flag. Massive ocean liner moves slowly through a harbor in Bremen. Men and women wave at the ship. Various shots of the city, riverboats in the water. Nazi flag in a square. Dresden Cathedral. Terrassenufer Street, Dresden courthouse. The Carolabrücke Bridge and the Albertbrücke Bridge. Saxon State Chancellery. Konigstein Fortress. Elbe River. Cars in lot. People walking. Views from the Konigstein Fortress, people gathered at lookout, including German and Nazi soldiers. Boats on...

  18. Clarence Juech collection

    Collection of photographs and original negatives taken by Clarence Juech (donor’s father) who was a member of the 704th Tank Destroyer Battalion, 4th Armored Division, US Army that liberated the Ohrdruf concentration camp.

  19. Sudetenland tour

    Private films. Teelnitz at the foot of the Ore Mountains, Karl-Weis-Warte on the Nollendorfer Pass, SA sports festival, train ride via Mariaschein pilgrimage site to Teplitz-Schönau, steamboat ride on the Elbe, 1941: flood in Aussig. From Wannow to the Schreckenstein thermal baths, Erzgebirge ridge, Ebersdorf, ski jump in front of Adolfsgrün, Trip through the protectorate, trip to Prague, Wenceslas Square, Hradschin, Charles Bridge, HJ collecting, Zwickau in Bohemia, winter in the Ore Mountains.

  20. Selected records of the commune Radoszyce Akta gminy Radoszyce (Sygn. 532)

    Registers, statistics, census related to the Jewish dwellers of Radoszyce dating from the early 30s, including are: register books, records of inhabitants, lists of births, marriages and deaths, and German ordinances regarding dead penalty to all Polish people who are helping Jews, etc. Includes books of permanent residents (until 1932) containing information on emigration, passport numbers, and decisions on withdrawal of citizenship.