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  1. Propaganda film about the Reich Party Day 1936 and 1937

    Three short clips from the propaganda film Festliches Nuernberg, filmed at the Reich Party Days in 1936 and 1937. 01:00:00 to 01:00:05 Exuberant crowds cheer and give the Nazi salute, presumably to a passing motorcade (5 seconds). 01:00:09 to 01:00:17 SS men carrying "Deutschland Erwache" standards march down an aisle in a hall, surrounded by saluting Nazis in uniform. A legend on the wall of the room says, "A strong government is the bulwark of peace." 01:00:20 to 01:00:32 Shots representing Germany's booming industry and economy: the launch of a huge ship, smokestacks with smoke rising fr...

  2. Atrocities; liberation of concentration camps

    Propaganda compilation of graphic newsreel and documentary materials showing concentration camps as Allied cameramen entered between 1945 and 1946. Opening credits: "An AF Film Release" (Actualites Francais Films); "Sterling Films" ; "Camps of the Dead / They need no explanation, no titles. Just look and be glad you live in America." "Langestein [sic]" Langenstein: Corpses in open area, pits, doctors and other civilians, exhumation, lining bodies on soil. "Ohrdrus [sic]" Nordhausen: Corpses, pits, VAR CUs. Two male survivors. "Dachau" Soldiers at gate with eagle. CU sign, "Zentral Bauleitun...

  3. Aluminum cooking pot used by a Greek Jewish family

    Cooking pot used by Claire Elhai when she lived in hiding with her family in the Greek countryside from 1943-1944. Nazi Germany and the Axis powers occupied Greece in 1941. Claire, her husband, Jacob, and their infant daughter Elvira lived in Athens which was in the German zone. In September 1943, Italy, an Axis partner, surrendered to the Allies. Jacob decided it was no longer safe for Jews in Athens and went to the Greek police station and explained that he needed false identity cards as Christians for his family. The police supplied them. With the help of friends, Jacob traveled to the P...

  4. Memoirs and testimonies of Jewish Holocaust Survivors

    Contains first and third person biographies and testimonies of Jewish survivors about their life stories during WWII in Ukraine and Russia under Nazi occupation.

  5. Nazi propaganda decorations in Vienna

    March (or early April) 1938. A column with a swastika is being raised. A tramway announcement for Hitler's speech at the Nordwestbahnhalle on April 9. A ruined building. A truck bearing the sign "HJ ZUG Ein Fuehrer - ein Reich - eine Jugend" [Hitler Youth Train One Leader - One Empire - One Youth]. Opera house being decorated. 01:01:38 Museumsstrasse (the square in between the state museums). Shopping window with a Hitler portrait, filmmaker's reflection is partly visible. SS men, informal posture, probably waiting for parade to commence (very likely March 14 or 15), on Schwarzenbergplatz i...

  6. Records of the World Jewish Congress in Romania

    Contains sixteen-page family questionnaires distributed by the World Jewish Congress in Arad, Birlad, Botoşani, Brăila, Bucharest, Burdujeni, Carei, Cluj, Constanţa, Galaţi, Iasį, Oradea, Rădăuţi, Roman, Timişoara, and Vaslui. Forms include name, address, date and place of birth, occupation/profession, education, and details of persecution under the Antonescu regime (as well as deportations from Transylvania to German-occupied Poland).

  7. Ushomirsky family letters

    Contains the photocopied official documents, personal letters, postcards, and handwritten poems of the Ushomirsky family. The letters span the 1940s through the 1950s, while the official documents are primarily from before the Second World War.

  8. Clip from the propaganda film about the 1934 Reich Party Day

    An aerial shot of the Luitpold Arena shows three men walking between rows and rows of men standing in formation. They are walking in the direction of the Hall of Honor. A slow panning shot from behind the columns at the front shows a band playing and reveals the three men to be Hitler, Himmler, and Viktor Lutze, who took over as top SA man after the murder of Ernst Roehm. They stop before a huge wreath in front of the memorial, which served the Nazis as a memorial to those Nazis who died in the Beer Hall Putsch.

  9. "Boats in the Night"

  10. Tulman family collection

    Contains a photographic postcard with an image of a drawing created in Gurs internment camp of Hella Bacmeister and Victor David Tulman (donor's parents), circa 1942-1943.

  11. Hungary and Yugoslavia sign treaty

    Hungary and Yugoslavia sign a friendship treaty. Hungarian Foreign Minister Count Csaky arrives by train in Belgrade for the signing of the treaty. The platform is decked with flags and Yugoslav soldiers stand at attention. Csaky is greeted by his Yugoslav counterpart, Aleksandar Cincar-Markovic. The two walk down the platform together. The next scene shows Csaky exiting the Hungarian embassy, presumably after signing the treaty. He stands with a group of people, including several women, and smiles at the camera beside a bouquet of flowers. 01:01:33 A few seconds of the next part of this ne...

  12. Framed oil painting of a country scene created in the Łódź Ghetto

    Painting created by Stefan Krengel in the Łódź ghetto in Poland that was presented to Mr. Regner, the director of the transport division in the ghetto, on his birthday, July 14, 1942. The painting was signed on the back by all the clerks in the transport office and has a caption wishing Mr. Regner a happy birthday. Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, and one week later occupied Łódź. They renamed it Litzmannstadt and in February 1940 relocated all the Jews, roughly 100,000 people, into a sealed ghetto. Prewar Łódź was a thriving industrial city and the ghetto was an important ...

  13. Vosskamp and friends visit Hamburg by boat

    Boat tour on a lake or river bordered by hills and mountains. Scenic views of the towns and homes that line the shore. 01:10:00 Johannes Vosskamp looks into binoculars. Boat name "Derindje". Closer views of people on board the boat, some with life jackets. View of a city from the harbor. HAS of the docks and of a large crowd with a couple embracing in the center. The boat returns to the water, passengers cover their shoulders with blankets. 01:12:21 A couple of SA soldiers walk about on the streets of Hamburg. A child approaches a dwarfed man selling souvenirs. More passengers deboard the b...

  14. Invasion of Poland

    Funeral in Gdansk of Gauleiter Joseph Wessel, who was shot by a "Polish gang," followed by footage of ethnic German refugees fleeing alleged persecution by the Poles. CUs of women and blond children with tear-stained faces. Extreme CU of an older man wearing glasses and an older woman in a head scarf. Burning houses supposedly set on fire by the Poles. The newsreel cuts off abruptly.

  15. The Gans and Schmidek families collection

    Collection of correspondence (including post cards), a certificate issued by the British Red Cross, and family photographs documenting the experiences of the Gans and Schmidek families in Hungary and Palestine before and during the Holocaust

  16. Hanna playing in the yard of her home in prewar Poland

    Hanna places a baby doll in a wagon, taking great care in doing so. She hauls the wagon around, running through the garden in which she stands. She runs about while holding the doll.

  17. Speer, Hitler and others inspect weapons

    R 1 of 3. Fuehrerhauptquartier Rastenburg (East Prussia) May 18, 1942. Albert Speer, Hitler, General Fichtner, Bodenschatz, Porsche, and others inspect some equipment and a map (?). The other men listen while Hitler speaks and gestures animatedly. The next title indicates that the location is now Goering's train and the date is 10 August [1942]. Footage shot from the top of the train as it travels. Men stand lookout on the top of the train. The train comes to a stop. Goering, Speer, Jeschonnek, Bodenshatz, and Milch stand talking beside the train. Title: Inspection of new weapons, 20 March ...

  18. Wanda Schmidt collection

    Consists of nine post-war Serbian and Croatian posters commemorating liberation and depicting propaganda surrounding Josip Broz Tito and wartime military achievements. Also includes six wartime aviation magazines, entitled "Croatian Wings" which contain German and Croatian propaganda, and commemorative Olympic books for the 1932 (Los Angeles) and 1936 (Berlin) Olympics.

  19. Philip W. Porter collection

    Consists of articles and clippings from various newspapers and periodicals, in German, which were discovered at the German Propaganda Ministry in July 1945. The clippings, collected from American and British print sources, have handwritten annotations and were organized alphabetically by subject, generally related to Jewish themes. Also includes one bound book entitled "High Life de Belgique," published in 1937 and consists of names and addresses of the Belgian upper class, with handwritten annotations, seemingly identifying those sympathetic to the German cause. The materials were collecte...

  20. Book

    Children's book, Der Struwwelpeter, read by 11year old Beatrice (Trixie) Westheimer when she was a hidden child in German occupied Belgium. It was originally written in 1945 and is a series of illustrated rhymes that tell fables about the unfortunate consequences that befall ill-behaved children. Trixie and her family fled Germany in 1939, joining relatives in Belgium. In May 1940, Germany occupied Belgium and in July 1942, the family went into hiding. Trixie and her cousin Henri were hidden on a farm and baptized as Catholics. In February1943, her parents Julius and Meta were deported; her...