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  1. Jewish quarter of Nasielsk

    In the Jewish quarter, a tracking LS follows a boy with a cocked hat who makes an effort to stay on camera. Dark silhouetted interior (of a restaurant, probably Owsianka), faces cannot be deciphered. Bright exterior CU of group of children in the street. Excited to be on camera, they wave and move together as the camera rotates. 01:03:06 Fourteen year old Maurice Chandler [nee Moszek Tuchendler] wearing a dark cap. Sign indicating "Spozywczy", a grocery storefront. Several shots of crowded streets. Many exit the synagogue together, walking down the set of stairs. Some people have been ident...

  2. Regina Vogel Berk photograph

    Consists of one photograph, taken in 1935 in Cernauti, Romania. The photograph shows two girls posing with a bicycle and a soccer ball; on the left is Regina Vogel.

  3. Star of David badge with a yellow star on a black circle worn by a Jewish Romanian woman

    Circular cloth Star of David patch that 21 year old Angela Weissmann was forced to wear in Piatra Neamt, Romania, ca. 1941-1945. In November 1940, the fascist government of General Antonescu joined the Axis Alliance. They immediately put in place policies to persecute Jews, such as the requirement that Jews wear a Jewish star badge on their clothing at all times. The antisemitic regime also supported increasingly violent attacks and pogroms against the Jewish population.

  4. Schermeister family in prewar Denmark

    Schermeister family in Denmark before WWII, walking in and out of the door to their small wooden vacation home in Snekkersten. A mezuzah is affixed to the doorway. The donor's great-grandmother, Franzisca Josies Cohen, wearing a large striped scarf. Her daughter Ida, a professional violinist, plays the violin. The other woman in a trenchcoat in front of the house is Asta Cohen, another daughter. [Another daughter not seen here is Edith, the donor's grandmother.] The donor's great-grandfather, Leopold Cohen, pretends to shoot Ida with a shotgun while she plays the violin. Leopold and his wif...

  5. Belgian collaborator forced to polish boots

    A crowd of Belgians, many of them children, watch as an accused collaborator named Frederick Abiehausen is forced to clean the shoes of a uniformed member of the Belgian resistance group L'Armee Blanche, in front of a building that the group has seized as their headquarters. According to the Imperial War Museum catalog record, Abiehausen was arrested for betraying three Allied airman who were in hiding from the Germans. CUs of Abiehausen polishing the boots of the man, who smokes a pipe. The crowd of children jeers and laughs.

  6. Selected collections and records from Central State Archive of the Highest Organs of Government and Administration related to the history of the Jewish communities of Ukraine

    Contains a variety of archival records as well as complete archival collections related to the history of the Jewish communities of Ukraine. Includes the following parts: 1. Ministry of Jewish Affairs of the Ukrainian People’s Republic; 2. Ministry for Jewish Affairs of the Ukrainian State; 3.Central Jewish Committee on Aid to Victims of Pogroms; 4.All-Ukrainian Jewish Committee on Aid to Victims of Pogroms of the Ukrainian People’s Republic; 5.Central Jewish Bureau for Soviet National Minorities at the People’s Commissariat for Education of Ukrainian SSR; 6.Temporary Commissariat for Jewis...

  7. Occupation of Paris

    German troops in France discover a civil internment camp for Germans citizens. A German vehicle drives up to the camp, past barbed wire. The civilians wave happily at the troops and shake hands with officers. The narrator says that they will soon be sent back to Germany. French POWs marching down the street and at a POW camp. Shots of French colonial troops while the narrator says, "Again and again the same picture. White, brown, black, all races of the world. These wild hordes were called up to put all of Germany under the yoke." POWs dance in a staged "African" manner. More sarcastic and ...

  8. Inspection of euthanasia facility Meseritz-Obrawalde

    Doctors examine and care for very sick, emaciated children and youth. Panning shot of a medication (barbiturate) called Evipan Natrium, made by Bayer, and other medications (used for euthanasia?). Interior of a cell with a blanket labeled "Anstalt Obrawalde" (Obrawalde Institution, located in Obrawalde, Germany, now Obrzyce, Poland). A medic and another man inspect the cell. Views of the crematorium and the graveyard, with graves marked with small, numbered stones. CU of one of the stones, numbered 1632. A hand withdraws the stone from the ground and shows the camera that there is another n...

  9. Family relaxes in a park in prewar Olomouc while Hanna plays

    Hanna with a baby carriage is on camera briefly. Benedikt, Ella, and other adults (Ella's relatives) walk down a path. They are all sitting on park benches. Hanna runs about as the adults talk. CUs, adults. Shots of all of the people there. Hanna puts things into a garbage can.

  10. Dutch Nazis swear oath of allegiance

    Dutch Nazis, members of the SS Landstorm Nederland (34th Waffen Grenadier), swear an oath of allegiance to Hitler. Shots of the SS men standing at attention and officers standing in front of a backdrop featuring a swastika and the symbol of the Nationaal-Socialistische Beweging (NSB, Dutch Nazi party). Obergruppenführer Hanns Rauter, Generalkommissar for Security Matters in the Netherlands, speaks at a podium. Young boys in uniform hold a banner of the Jeugdstorm, the Dutch equivalent of the Hitler Youth. Soldiers touch a sword as they take the oath. Good CU of Rauter, death's head visible ...

  11. "A Long Road Home: The Life and Times of Grisha Sklovsky, 1915-1995"

    Consists of one manuscript, in print and on CD-ROM, entitled "A Long Road Home: The Life and Times of Grisha Sklovsky, 1915-1995", written by John Nicholson in 2007. Mr. Sklovksy was born in Siberia, but following the Russian Revolution, his family moved to Berlin, where he attended school. In 1934, Mr. Sklovsky moved to France and studied at the University of Lyon. In October 1939, he joined the Czech Brigade and spent the war fighting with the British Army, while his mother, Chaja Sklovsky, was deported from Drancy in 1942 and perished in the Holocaust. In 1947, Mr. Sklovsky immigrated to...

  12. Shmuel Elhanan collection

    Collection of telegrams and family photos sent from Minsk and Kovno, including a Polyfoto of Shmuel Elhanan [donor] and his brothers in Kovno.

  13. Hitler and Hitler Youth in last newsreel

    Excerpt from the last Wochenschau and the last footage of Adolf Hitler. In the garden of the Reich Chancellery, Hitler greets 20 Hitler Youth members who have won the Knight's Cross. Reich Youth Leader Artur Axmann is also present. Two of the Hitler Youth members talk about their actions. Good CUs of the boys wearing their medals.

  14. Elliott S. Mandelman collection

    Contains correspondence written from family members in the Warsaw Ghetto, Sanok, and Przemyśl, Poland to Murray and Rose Sobel Mandelman (donor's parents) who were able to escape to the United State. Also includes one piece of scrip from the Łódź ghetto.

  15. Selected records from the State Regional Archive in Modra, Slovak Republic

    Consists of World War II-era administrative files from the district archives in Modra and the wider Bratislava region. It includes reports, lists, and propaganda leaflets. Topics include Gestapo members and activities in occupied Czechoslovakia, the Hlinka Guard, the Sudetendeutsche Partei, the use of Nazi symbols and greetings, pro-and anti-Communist movements, and the writings of prominent individuals. A large part of the material pertains to antisemitic measures: the confiscation of Jewish property and the distribution of Jewish assets among Hlinka Guard members; prohibitions against Jew...

  16. "The Wisconsin Light"

    Consists of 27 issues of "The Wisconsin Light," a monthly (and later bi-weekly) newspaper that discussed gay and lesbian issues. These issues, dated from September 1988-November 1989, include articles by Dr. Terry Boughner in which he described the experiences of and interviewed homosexual Holocaust survivors.

  17. Germans and Russians meet at Brest-Litovsk

    Polish tanks and other weapons destroyed or captured by the invading Germans. A pile of captured gas mask and a pile of rifles. Panning shot of dead horses and wrecked military vehicles in and near the Vistula River. German and Russian forces meet at Brest-Litovsk. Junior officers of both Armies salute and shake hands, while German soldiers hand out cigarettes to the Soviets. A Sovier officer hands a German officer a document written in Cyrillic. Soviet and German troops line a road and watch formations from both armies drive past. General Heinz Guderian and General Semyon Krivoshein salute...

  18. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Jura

    Contains documents from the Jura, a mountainous, sparsely-populated region on the eastern border of France, once part of the Franche-Comté. The documents concern the anti-Jewish laws put into effect, certain Jews who held government jobs and were given special permission to keep them, the cancellation of Vichy laws allowing lawful pillaging of Jewish property under “Aryanization”, letters that singled out Jews in hiding to the authorities, documents dealing with foreigners who had been given exile in 1939, arrests of Jews by German authorities, and post-war Zionist youth camps.

  19. Forcing Jews to wash the street

    "Reibpartie", a man (Jew?) is forced to wash the street. Victim is in a suit, and looks up at the filmmaker's lens. A second victim, in shirt and vest on his knees, frantically cleaning the street, feet of onlookers are visible to the right and in BG. Cut back to victim 1 with CU of hands. Counter-shot of young woman in a coat being "showcased" to the filmmaker. Behind her a SA man and a civilian hold hands to shut her off from the crowd in the BG. Crowd cheering while SA man grabs her right arm. Woman (Jew?) is made to hold a broom up in her right, makes an embarrassed gesture with her lef...

  20. Personal archives of Pesakh Marek, Jewish public figure, folklorist and historian (Fond 9533, Opis1)

    Consists of personal documents related to the literary and public activities of Pesakh Marek, including correspondence with friends and colleagues, letters received by Pesakh Marek, as well as a small collection of letters of Marek’s acquaintances. Among correspondents are Maxime Vinaver, Saul Ginsburg, Yuliy Gessen, Leon Maze and others. The collection includes drafts of Marek’s research articles, papers, presentations and books and his notebooks and card catalogues. A significant part of Marek’s archives also has information about Jewish education in Russia, along with extensive correspon...