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  1. Hanna eats, plays with her father, and runs around in prewar Poland

    Hanna lies in bed, clutching a stuffed dog and playing. She is being fed. She stands up, her father Benedikt comes on screen to hug and play with her. She runs around in some coat without a back.

  3. Anton Mussert gives a speech

    A gathering of Nationaal-Socialistische Beweging (NSB) members in the outdoor amphitheater in the Rotspark in Valkenburg. The stands are crowded with men and women. Anton Mussert, leader of the NSB, enters the amphitheater while the whole crowd salutes him. Flags are marched to the front of the amphitheater. Mussert walks to the podium to give a speech. IWM translation of the voiceover narration: Mussert stated that "Europe must remain the cultural centre of the world. We National Socialists do not hang our heads. To fight for fortunate Netherlands in a fortunate Europe remains our duty and...

  4. Hitler and Mussolini meet near Salzburg

    Hitler and Mussolini walk down the halls of the castle Klessheim near Salzburg. Wilhelm Keitel and Otto Meissner also appear in the footage. The next scene shows Mussolini, Rodolfo Graziani and other Germans and Italians reviewing Italian troops. Mussolini and Graziani in conversation. The troops salute as Mussolini's car drives away.

  5. World War I veterans take a trip

    Street scenes with well-dressed civilians and shops (this could be another day-trip taken by Johannes Vosskamp and his contemporaries from Duisburg). Signs show "Schenkwirtschaft Theod. Hünnekens", "Dortmunder...", and "Tivoli Beer". 01:06:15 Johannes Vosskamp, in a dark suit and bowtie, smoking, exits a building with others, including women and a uniformed soldier. Buses line the streets of the unknown city/village with a river. The well-dressed day-trippers (men and women) walk through a park and sit at a long table having refreshments with coffee. The group boards buses, with Vosskamp at...

  6. "We Will Always Remember"

    Consists of one document, six pages, entitled 'We Will Always Remember," commemorating the life of Eddie H. Willner (Hellmutt Willner), a Holocaust survivor from Germany. The tribute describes Mr. Willner's Holocaust experiences and his friendship with Maurits Swaab, a Dutch man who was transported to various camps with him. Mr. Willner and Mr. Swaab managed to escape from a death march from Langenstein and were liberated by the American Army. They were both able to immigrate to the United States, where they joined the American military.

  7. Fighting in Germany

    Ice boats transport wounded across a frozen body of water. Refugees with horse-drawn carts cross the ice. A herd of cows is driven into Germany. Fighting in and around the Marienburg castle.

  8. Selected individual files of children under the care of Œuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE)

    Contains files of people who had been under OSE (Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants) care in France during the occupation, and who in 2003 were living in the United States. Included is documentation on their Holocaust-era biographies, subsequent correspondence on emigration to the U.S., and information on non-Jewish families that hid children.

  9. "Whereabouts Unknown: Living an Artful Life in a Ruthless World"

    Consists of one screenplay, entitled "Whereabouts Unknown: Living an Artful Life in a Ruthless World" by Susan Kaim Talley and Daniel Vovak. The semi-fictional screenplay tells the story of the Kaim family. It begins with the death of Hans Kaim as he was beginning to research the whereabouts of art looted from his uncle, Emil Kaim, in Germany in the late 1930s. After Hans' death, his family carried on his search. Includes copies of documents which support the historical validity of the story.

  10. Hanni Krispin collection

    Collection of materials documenting the experiences of the Kolumbus family (donor's family) before, during, and after the Holocaust. Includes photographs, documents, and letters from the donor's grandmother Ella, who was living in Palestine, addressed to her daughter in Poland, as well as responses from Hanni and her mother in Melmel and Kovno. Also includes letters from them in the Feldafing displaced persons camp.

  11. Phillip Timmick photographs

    Consists of four photographs taken after the liberation of an unknown concentration camp. Includes photographs of the burial of bodies, civilians gathered around a train, possibly loading luggage, and a survivor, the photograph taken next to a barbed wire fence. The photographs are from the collection of Phillip Timmick, a member of the United States Army.

  12. Prisoners of War Kriegsgefangene

    The collection Kriegsgefangene consists of several war-time prisoner lists of which two lists were reproduced by the USHMM: 1. Stammlager XVII B Gneixendorf/Sterbebuch/AdR/DWM/08 ("Gfg. Lgr. Gneixendorf, Totenbuch 2.8.43-26.4.45"). This list contains prisoners of war of various nationalities, including Americans, who died in the POW camp Gneixendorf between August 2, 1943 and April 26, 1945. The list of the dead includes Americans, Belgians, French, Italians, Poles, Romanians, Russians, Slovaks, Yugoslavs, and other nationalities. 2.The second list includes more than 2,000 prisoners from va...

  13. Visiting a park, eating indoors, and playing with a dog toy in prewar Olomouc

    The adults (Ella's family) are outside, dressed for colder weather, walking on the edge of a wooded area/park. City of Olomouc. A few seconds later they are indoors again, with the children, first they are eating at the table with Grandma Karolina Ziegler (left), then Hanna is being carried by Terry Tugenhart, playing with dolls. Hanna plays with a toy dog on wheels along with a spoon. Her mother, Ella, comes and sits at her side as Hanna continues to play.

  14. Sunday School outing in 1935

    Title: "Sonntags-Schulausflug 1935" Families gathered outdoors for a Sunday School outing. More soccer and other forms of frolicking.

  15. Resistance activities in Denmark

    Film title on screen: Le DANEMARK LUTTE POUR SA LIBERTÉ 1943-44 (Denmark's Fight for Freedom), followed by two screens of French text. The film depicts events in Denmark during the occupation. Some of the footage was shot clandestinely by the Danish resistance. Brief shot of a church and birds in the sky, followed by scenes of German soldiers and sailors marching through the streets. Different views of a building set on fire by the Danish resistance. A crowd of civilians in the street, many with bicycles, during a general strike. Large crowd of people outdoors at a funeral/memorial service ...

  16. Heinz Isenberg collection

    Consists of letters and photographs related to Heinz (Henry) Isenberg, who came to the United States from Germany on a transport in 1936. Includes letters from Heinz and his host family to his parents and sister in Germany, his naturalization papers, school reports, newspaper clippings, and photographs of Heinz and his family. The family was reunited in the United States in 1939. Also includes a video biography of Heinz Isenberg, on DVD, entitled "My Journey to Paradise," made on the occasion of his 80th birthday.

  17. Mignon Langnas papers

    Contains postcards received by Mignon Langnas (donor's mother), a Jewish nurse in Vienna, from Viennese Jews that had been deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp; the majority of the correspondence consists of inscriptions written on pre-printed postcards stating that the writer received packages sent by Mignon. Mignon remained in Vienna and sent packages to over thirty families interned in Theresienstadt, the majority of whom were ultimately deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp where they are assumed to have perished. Mignon was liberated in Vienna and ultimately immigra...

  18. Franco speaks in Madrid

    Ufa logo onscreen. Franco arrives by car outside the Consejo Nacional building, with Moroccan cavalry guards in the background. Franco enters the building, accompanied by other officials, and makes a speech, some of which is heard in the original Spanish.

  19. Oral history interview with Frank Wallis

  20. Carrol Walsh letter

    The Carrol Walsh letter was written by World War II veteran and liberator Carrol Walsh to Holocaust survivor Stephen Barry on April 10, 2008. Walsh, who liberated Barry from a train on the outskirts of Magdeburg, Germany, on April 13, 1945, writes about their friendship. Walsh also describes how unworthy he feels when survivors express their gratitude to him. He believes that the liberating soldiers were doing what they were morally obligated to do.