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  1. Nazi Rallies in Vienna

    The streets are packed with marchers and spectators. Nazi rally with horns, statue. A large group of women in white uniforms marches down the street. Signs: “Sudentenland” Speech. Nazi flags flying. “Deutschland” sign. Crowd raises arms in “Heil Hitler” stance following speaker. Traffic jam, honking horns. Crowd gathers, smiling, singing, saluting Hitler. A man is visibly shoved by German for not raising his arm to salute Hitler. Germans march in the street, smiling, rowdy crowd. Nazi rally in stadium with flag ceremony, marching band, speech in German, huge crowd. Streets filled with Nazi ...

  2. Austrian newsreel excerpts, March 25, 1938

    Excerpts from reel 1 of Ostmark-Wochenschau Nr. 13/1938 (25. März 1938), from frames 02107 to 05331. German narration. Title card: “Eintreffen motorisierter deutscher Truppen-Abteilungen in Wien und Graz” Night motorcade with motorcycles, cars, and tanks through city streets. Nazi officials wave and smile from platform before the Heinrichhof Cafe in Vienna. CUs. Crowds watch and cheer from balcony. Salute. (01:26) Daytime motorcade in Graz. Crowds line cobbled streets, swastika flags. Sign for: "Grand Hotel Steirerhof". Cars and tanks pass. Excerpts from reel 2 of Ostmark-Wochenschau Nr. 13...

  4. Wehrmacht in Russia

    Everyday Wehrmacht life in (most likely) the DULAG 372 camp near Pskov (Pleskau), Russia, in the winter of 1941/42. Includes graphic depiction of mass graves, and the beating of Soviet POWs, as well as the hanging of a Soviet civilian by a Wehrmacht squad.

  6. Family films, 1938

  7. Springtime in Vienna

  10. Prewar family films

    INTs, office. Well-dressed couple on city street. Woman in bathing suit, she showers. Church. Women in outdoor park, walking along a path, eating tea cakes. The women walk small dogs in the city.

  11. Aharon Sandel photograph

    Consists of one photograph of two young children in Bogdan, Czechoslovakia. The children and their mother were deported to Auschwitz in 1944 and perished, while their father, Aharon Sandel, escaped from a labor camp and joined a partisan group. After the war, he emigrated to Israel and remarried.

  12. Elkhanan Elkes collection

    Consists of pre-war and post-war family photographs, correspondence, and documents related to Dr. Elkhanan Elkes, his wife Miriam, and children Joel and Sarah. The collection includes Sarah Elkes' handwritten diary, in German, from 1935-1937. Sarah’s entries describe her schooling, school friends, family, summers, and Hebrew studies. The collection also contains correspondence between the members of the family, with Avraham and Pnina Golub (later Tory), pre-war power of attorney document, a letter regarding the health of one of Dr. Elke’s patients, and photographs and a letter regarding the...

  13. Selected records from the collection of the police of Ploieşti in the Prahova Branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Contains records from the Police of Ploieşti, including documents related to various religious groups.

  14. Walter Absil collection

    Consists of one DVD entitled "A Witness to History: A message of tolerance and respect from Holocaust survivor Walter Absil" and a folder of copies of wartime documents related to Mr. Absil's Holocaust experiences. On the DVD, Mr. Absil, who was born Walter Bondy, describes his life in pre-war Vienna, his family's immigration to Belgium after the Anschluss, and their attempts to gain Belgian citizenship (including attempts to marry Walter's teenage sister to a Belgian citizen and Walter's adoption into the Belgian Absil family). The family went into hiding and were later separated; Walter's...

  15. Buchenwald and Natzweiler photographs

    Consists of fourteen photographs from the collection of Basil Peter Malamis, a member of the United States Army during World War II. Consists of twelve graphic photographs of corpses used for medical experimentation which were discovered at the Natzweiler concentration camp and two photographs, presumably taken by Mr. Malamis, of the crematorium at Buchenwald; these photographs are captioned.

  16. Cardboard backed Star of David badge worn by a Jewish Romanian forced laborer

    Yellow cloth Star of David badge worn by Ancsel Feuerwerker (later Arthur Feuer) while serving in a Hungarian forced labor battalion in Szaszregen (Reghin), Romania, from October 1942 to September 1944. Ancsel, his parents, 7 siblings, and many relatives lived in Craciunesti, Romania, an area of northern Transylvania ceded to Hungary, a German ally, in August 1940, as part of the second Vienna Award. In October 1942, Ancsel was conscripted into a labor battalion based in Szaszregen (Reghin), Romania. Ancsel’s battalion put-up tar-covered telephone poles for 8 or 9 months, and was then moved...

  17. Brenner and Levenstein family collection

    Consists of 36 photographs taken of the Brenner family, originally of Riga, Latvia, between 1920-1940. Includes photographs of trips, weddings, and family gatherings. Also includes two letters, one written by Arthur Levenstein, undated in English, regarding immigration issues, and one letter written by Bella Levenstein to her aunt "Lienka," probably when Bella was about 10 years old. Also includes a drawing of three women and a house, drawn by Libin Levenstein. Also includes photocopies of correspondence and official documents in Latvian, Hebrew, and Yiddish. The entire Levenstein family pe...

  18. Joseph Bishop collection

    Consists of four photographs taken after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Includes photographs of corpses, a cart carrying bodies, and barracks.

  19. Theresa Duello collection

    Contains copies and translations of eight doctoral dissertations on eugenics and sterilization by candidates from German universities; the originals are archived at the University of Wisconsin. Includes translations into English completed by donor: Dissertations include: "Bericht über 210 weibliche Sterilisationen," by Erich Bacher, Pforzheim 1940; "Über Tubensterilität und die Erfolge ihrer operativen Behandlung," by Werner Kilthau, Mannheim 1940; "Das Erlebnis der Unfruchtbarmachung bei weiblichen Erbkranken," by Gertrud Koch, Freiburg 1937; "Bericht über 480 weitere eugenische Tubensteri...

  20. Portfolio

    Print from a set of 24 published rotogravures of drawings by Jerzy Zielezinski depicting scenes he witnessed from 1943-1945 while a political prisoner in Auschwitz and Flossenbürg concentration camps.