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  1. Buchenwald

    Intertitle: "Buchenwald" Human remains in crematoria at Buchenwald. Pile of bones. Survivors and GIs gathered around corpses in courtyard at Buchenwald camp. More shots of the dead, and CUs of the barely living. Doctors inspecting wounds. Intertitle: "Arrogant German citizens are forced to make a tour." German civilians, mostly women, filing into the camp. Intertitle: "Lampshades and pictures made of human skin." MSs, table in the courtyard displaying lampshades, tattoos, shrunken heads. Various shots of the German civilians gathered around the display. Intertitle: "A German officer is forc...

  2. "A Christmas Memoir"

    Consists of one document, 6 pages, entitled "A Christmas Memoir," by Anne L. Knox, which describes her memories of life in a German concentration camp in Belgium (possibly Mecheln/Mechelen) in the winter of 1943. In the testimony, she describes the strange celebration of Christmas in the camp. Also includes eight photographs of Mechelen taken in 1990 on the site of the memorial at the Jewish Museum of Deportation and Resistance (located at the Kazerne Dossin in Mechelen).

  3. Otto and Hilde Egener collection

    Consists of documentation related to the lives of Otto and Hilde Rahmer Egener, German-Jewish refugees who escaped to Shanghai in 1939. Includes Otto Egener's Reisepass, marriage and immunization documentation, and a letter sent to Otto in 1942 from a friend just prior to his deportation to a concentration camp.

  4. State Agency for Economical Renewal, branch office in Sarajevo Državno ravnateljstvo za gospodarsku ponovu-podružnica Sarajevo (Fond DRGP)

    Consists primarily of decrees issued by the State Treasury regarding the confiscation of Jewish property in Sarajevo. Also included are correspondence regarding the confiscation of Jewish property, appeals by local Jews, and inspections of the confiscated property and businesses.

  6. Schwartzman family papers

    Contains photocopies of official documents, personal letters and poems written by various members of the Schwartzman family of Kiev. Some of the documents are pre-1917, while others coincide with World War II.

  7. Propaganda film about Jewish emigres in the British army

    Title on screen: "Into Battle No. 1: Lift Your Head Comrade" British propaganda film. British soldiers march up to a building and are called to attention. Their sergeant attempts to call the roll but stumbles over the foreign names and orders one of the soldiers to do it for him. As the soldier reads the foreign names, the camera pans over to the commanding officer, who explains that this company is almost entirely composed of anti-fascists from Austria and Germany. The officer says that for these men the war started in 1933 when Hitler came to power. Interior of an office. The CO pulls an ...

  8. Oral history interview with Jadwiga Zoszak

  9. Peter as a baby

    Peter Schur gets a diaper change. He lies on the bed, plays, is held, fed, and generally loved by the family, including mom Helen, nurse, and dad Max.

  11. Airfield; Lieberman family gardening; Boys gathered on a bench

    Airfield (probably in Poland - grass under the planes) This could be in February 1939 when the family hired a plane to go to Palestine. Biplanes are everywhere, lined up as far as the camera can see. Some are have their engines started. These are most likely Henkel HE51s, a plane used between the World Wars. They take off en masse. Pans of the airfield follow. Cut to the children and a few adults standing around (Poland or Palestine?). Group sits on a bench. Man and woman exit a house. The picture is rather washed out and it is unclear what is going on.

  12. Ceremony honoring men who murdered Walther Rathenau

    Group of young men and women sitting on a hillside. The scene switches to show women and uniformed men sitting in a beer garden. In both scenes the women wear matching dresses. Uniformed men march down a road. SA men walk toward the camera carrying flower wreaths. The occasion is the dedication of a plaque honoring Erwin Kern and Hermann Fischer for the murder in 1922 of Walther Rathenau, who was the German Foreign Minister during the Weimar Republic and a Jew. SS men stand at attention. One man holds a standard that indicates his unit is from Kassel. CU of the wreath and the grave of Kern ...

  13. German invasion of Denmark

    UFA logo onscreen. The narration says that the German protection of Denmark is now consolidated. Shots of a bridge linking Jutland to Funen, built by German engineers. Panning shot of crowds of people lining the dock as a ship moves past. HAS of crowds of bicyclists and pedestrians in the street. German soldiers and armaments are unloaded from a German ship (Nazi flag visible flying from ship). The dock is crowded with people. King Christian X takes his daily horseback ride, saluted by both Danish civilians and a German soldier. German military commander Generalleutnant Leonhard Kaupisch sp...

  14. German, Japanese and Soviet officers watch military exercises

    A large group of German officers and military attachés from countries including Japan and the USSR watch German army exercises taking place in heavy snow. LS of German soldiers running through the snow with the sound of gunfire. A German officer points out features on a map. Closer views of soldiers in action. (Site is Doeberitz outside Berlin.)

  15. Family takes a walk in prewar Polish town and children play with a wagon

    An older man and a woman walk down a road, with horse carts parked on either side of them. Another man walks with Hanna, who quickly becomes interested in the carts. 01:08:44 The family is on the porch of their home again. Hanna has a toy wheelbarrow and begins playing. Thomas has a wooden wagon, and as soon as he leaves it, Hanna takes it and gets in it as Thomas looks on. Thomas finally begins to pull Hanna around in the wagon.

  16. Children playing with mother

    Peter and Eva Schur chase a ball with their mother.

  17. Baby Hanna with her parents, prewar Poland

    Hanna is in a wicker basket on top of two chairs. She is picked up by her mother Ella and presented to the camera. Benedikt, her father, then holds her for the camera.

  18. Archives of the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki

    Consists of historical records reflecting the history of the Jewish community from 1943 to the 1990s. Included are property and financial assets declarations demanded by the German authorities in 1943, certificates issued to the surviving members of the community reclaiming property of their families, applications for German reparations, copies of German payments from the late 1950s and 1960s, certificates verifying membership in the community and relationship to the murdered, correspondence among Jewish communities and Jewish organizations in Greece and abroad, correspondence with local an...

  19. Evreyskaya tematika v fondakh gosudarstvennogo arkhiva Ivano-Frankovskoy oblasti Selected records from the State Archives of the Ivano-Frankivsʹk Region (formerly Stanislawów) related to the history of the local Jewish community

    Contains records from Jewish private schools in Stanislav, Ukraine; government surveillance information on Jewish political parties and organizations; information regarding the arrest of Jews associated with Zionist organizations; information documenting violence against Jews by Ukrainian nationalists in Stanislav; records of Jewish emigration in the 1920s and 1930s; organizational records of Jewish philanthropic associations; inheritance records; and birth, death, and marriage records from the main synagogue in Stanislav; Jewish records from regional and districts' police office, prison, c...

  20. Dr. Zvi Richter memoir

    Consists of one memoir, referred to in the text as a CV or Vitae, by Dr. Zvi Richter, who was born Budapest, Hungary and raised in Berehovo. In the memoir, Dr. Richter describes life in Berehovo, the Jewish and Zionist community, establishing his own law firm, and his memory of the Hungarian occupation in 1938. He served in the Horthy army for a brief period in 1940, but was recalled after the German invasion of the Soviet Union. As a Jewish soldier, he witnessed the effects of the massacres and deportations of Jews in the areas in which he served until 1943, when he was captured and impris...