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  1. Celebrating May Day in Vienna

    May 1 (or the day before). Maypoles at Schwarzenbergplatz. Hotel Imperial. Shell Motor Oil Company headquarters on Schubertring (Schwarzenbergplatz #16). 01:04:40 Heinrichshof building on Opernring (opposite Opera House). 01:04:44 Flagship store "Backhausen & Soehne". 01:04:48 The Museum of Art History on Museumsstrasse. 01:04:54 Heldentor (Burgring) dressed with Nazi insignia and "Ehrt die Opfer der Arbeit". 01:04:59 Austrians, three women on bench, congregate at decorated Heldenplatz. SA erecting maypole. Unknown man (probably same as man in Prater garden with boy at 01:03:56) talking...

  2. Sidney Moskowitz collection

    Contains correspondence between Luba Lewin (donor's mother) in Vienna, Austria, and Samuel Moskowitz (donor's father) in New York and Washington, DC. Includes photographic portraits of Luba Lewin and Samuel Moskowitz, dated 1945-1946. Luba was born in Krasnik, Poland and survived the Holocaust on false papers as Regina Wisniewska. Samuel was an American soldier serving in Vienna, and the two fell in love. Luba awaited her immigration permit in Vienna and the two corresponded extensively until she arrived in the US in November 1946. Luba and Samuel married and built their family in Washingto...

  3. Debora Korolchuk Brenner papers

    The Debora Korolchuk Brenner papers include photographs taken in the Föhrenwald displaced persons camp depicting Debora, her parents, family friends, and school groups, and an autograph book with signatures, notes, drawings, and pressed flowers collected by Debora Korolchuk while living the Föhrenwald DP camp.

  4. Robert Guttman transcript

    Consists of one interview transcript, 97 pages, entitled "Recollections and Reminiscences" with Robert Guttman, originally of Germany. In the transcript (compiled by Lisa Greaves and based on interviews conducted in 2005 by Hannah Neuschwander) Mr. Guttmann, whose parents divorced when he was a child, immigrated with his father and sister to England in 1934. He describes returning to Germany to visit his mother in the 1930s, his father's internment in the Isle of Man, and his family's immigration to the United States in 1940. The transcript also includes information about his schooling, exp...

  5. Lwòw branch office of administration for emigration Ekspozytura Urzedu Emigracyjnego we Lwowie (Fond 422, opis 1)

    Consists of various reports, statistical information, records related to organization and administration emigration and repatriation, finance and transportation. It also includes correspondence with shipping companies.The bulk of this collection relates to the administration of emigration and is arranged in alphabetical order (Ukrainian) according to designated countries of emigration, e.g. Australia, Austria, etc.

  6. Dorpmueller speaks; antisemitic float in Fasching parade

    Title on screen: Die Reichsbahn frei von Versailles [The Reichsbahn is free from the terms of the Versailles Treaty]. Julius Dorpmueller, newly named head of the Reich Ministry of Transport, announces that his new program is to protect, develop, and improve all modes of transportation. He says that all sectors of the transportation industry must be employed in the service of the welfare of the people. Railway workers on parade (20,000 of them, according to the narrator) in celebration of the return of the Reichsbahn to the authority of the state. Men march with flags and salute Hitler, who ...

  7. Jews in Vilna

    Sound is a bit scratchy at certain points. Crowds of people at the annual Kaziukas craft fair in Vilna. Horses stand on muddy ground. Vendors sell round pretzel-like bread (Kaziukas bread?). A woman with a fur collared coat buys strands of the round bread from a smiling vendor. CUs of nicely decorated cookies and sugar hearts. Visitors to the fair look at paintings, caged birds, rocking horses, and other items for sale. View of giant crosses on a hilltop and aerial views of the city. Picturesque shots of alleys, cobblestone streets, and archways, while the narrator describes the city as a "...

  8. Gabryela Bromberg collection

    The Gabryela Bromberg collection consists of seven pre-war family photographs of the Bromberg family in Lublin, Poland and Berlin, Germany, and the testimony of Regina Jabłońska who hid Gabryela Bromberg from October 1942 until their liberation in July 1944.

  9. Children play

    A town, pan to a massive stack of cut wood. The children walk about. It is summertime. With the help of Ella, they create a teeter-totter with a wooden beam. The children pose for the camera after playing a bit. Grandfather Sperber (older man with beard) with a horse and cart. CUs, another older man wearing a unique cap, holding a kitten.

  10. Children play on a teeter-totter

    Hanna with braids on teeter-totter. Hanna, Thomas, and Babeta play on it.

  11. French anti-Bolshevists

    Crowd of people outside an anti-Bolshevist rally. Camera pans across a sign that reads "Le peuple Russe contre le Bolchevisme." Dark interiors in a crowded lecture hall. A representative of the Vlasov army (?) speaks (Gelow?). He speaks from a podium in front of a row of uniformed women standing with arms crossed. The crowd applauds enthusiastically. 01:04:19 French volunteers march down the street singing a song. Shots of their suitcases at the train station and the volunteers boarding the train. The sides of the train feature hand-drawn swastikas. One soldier is embraced by an older woman...

  12. German invasion of Yugoslavia

    German troops struggle through the muddy Serbian countryside in vehicles and on foot. A column of troops crossing a bridge. German troops encounter resistance in a town. Sign in Cyrillic on a building. A Slovenian or Croatian soldier (according to the IWM) smiles as he surrenders his weapon to a German. The German dashes it on the ground and breaks it. Destroyed buildings. A soldier posts a sign that reads Kirsch. Germans search civilians, including a man who, the narration says sarcastically, knew nothing about the revolver that he was carrying. Captured Yugoslav soldiers march down the st...

  13. Agnes Barcela collection

    Collection of photographic prints documenting the experiences of the Fejer and Steiner families in Hungary before, during, and after the Holocaust. Includes portraits taken at the Veres studio.

  14. Jewish soldiers in Palestine perform military exercises

    Palestinian troops wearing helmets and carrying bayonets rush up a hill through an arch in a stone structure (IWM identifies it as an old city castle). LS of troops aiming their rifles from the top of the stone wall. Two soldiers stand sentry beside a Star of David flag atop the stone wall (battlement?). Jewish soldiers, smiling, talking, smoking, one gives the camera a thumbs up. A soldier operates a field phone with a board of international codes hanging on the wall. Soldiers perform various military exercises. Captured German soldiers under guard of the Palestinian troops cross a desert ...

  15. Hanna plays in the garden of her home in prewar Poland

    Hanna stands in a tree and then sits on a wicker chair in the garden in the buff. Her mother Ella comes and talks to her as she walks around the garden with a measuring tape, and then a watering can, drawing water and then watering the grass.

  16. David Rich collection

    Contains an arbeitsbuch (labor book) for foreigners, issued to Johann Kussmenn (Ivan Kuzmenko, b. 1926) in Hannover, Germany, on June 26, 1943. born in 1926. Also includes an arbeitskarte (labor identification card) issued June 12, 1942 to Marie Romanenko (b. 1921) from Chernin, Ukraine and deported for forced labor to Kaltenhof, Germany.

  17. The Theo Oberheitmann collection Sammlung Theo Oberheitmann

    Contains records concerning press politics in the Third Reich: confidential circulars (“Vertrauliche Informationen”, “Sonderinformationen”) to German press from the Reichspropagandaamt Hessen-Nassau.

  18. Children pass time by dancing and digging in the garden

    Incredibly grainy, out of focus, and not steady. Hanna dances, and then Babeta rakes the soil. It is very difficult to distinguish anything beyond that.

  19. Signal Corps photographs

    Consists of 23 enlarged copyprints of images taken by the United States Army Signal Corps. Includes images of the Buchenwald concentration camp, the Nuremberg trials, President Harry Truman in Europe, the ruins of the city of Nuremberg, and the discovery and reburial of corpses found in the snow.

  20. Meir Eldar memoirs

    Consists of two memoirs, entitled "KZ Spaichingen and the march to...liberty" and "The Voyage of the Olim of the 'Biria,'" written by Meir Eldar, originally of Biala-Bielsko, Poland. In the "KZ Spaichingen" memoir, Mr. Eldar describes the forced march from the Spaichingen concentration camp to Steingaden, Germany from 17-27 April 1945. He includes articles and correspondence with historians and with other survivors of this march. In the "Voyage of the Olim" memoir, Mr. Eldar includes maps, photographs, and his memories of his illegal immigration to Palestine and the voyages of the ships Bir...