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  1. Barbie Trial -- Day 2 -- Round-up and arrests of Jews

    15:28 A clerk lists the arrest and deportation of Régine Skorka. 15:29 The round-ups of Jews by the SNCF railway. 15:32 The arrest of Jules Cros. 16:57 Charges may be brought against Klaus Barbie in the case of Mme Bogatto.

  2. Panzer Division in city square and setting up field tents

    Reel 1: 00:00:01 German Panzers (Panzerkampfwagen IV) in a city plaza. Civilians in the street. Destroyed buildings. Tanks traveling through the Russian countryside. Burned out truck/tank. Soldiers waiting in a forest. Russian civilians traveling by horse and wagon, including CU. Team of horses pulling a Howitzer out of a river. Russian POWs running with German guards on horseback. Camouflaged tank and Howitzer. Reel 2: 00:04:32 Soldiers of the 3rd Panzer Division setting up camp. Camouflaging vehicles, setting up tents. Checkpoint sign. Soldiers walking around, typing, playing with dog, re...

  3. U.S. & German soldiers

    MS, American soldiers sitting on wooden benches in an open courtyard. VS, CUs, MCUs, American soldiers. MCU, man walking down a street in an unidentified town wearing a tuxedo an a top hat with a flower in it, he is smiling and waving at the camera. MCU, German soldier with a white armband, walking toward camera. German and American soldier pose together for camera, shake hands, smile. Soldiers leaving in army jeep. VS, from jeep, of countryside, red-roofed homes, farmland, cows, locals with wagons, etc.

  5. Agro-Joint colonies of October and Maifeld

    LS of two-story houses at Kolkhoz (colony) October. Pan of grape vineyards in the Maifeld colony. CU of leaves and grapes. MCU Morris Troper with an older man who works with the grapes. Field of Agro-Joint experimental agricultural station. CU of some workers. LS poorly framed shot of new high school.

  6. Heinz-Egon Glass papers

    The papers consist of three letters written by Susi Cohn (later Susi Cohn Podgurski) in the United Kingdom to Heinz-Egon Glass in Shanghai. The letters describe school, her life in England, and asks Mr. Glass to tell her parents not to worry about her.

  7. Records of the Jewish organization Karen Hayesod (East Galicia - Malopolska branch) (Fond 335, Opis 1)

    The collection includes fundraising appeals, circulatory letters of the Central Bureau of the organization in Jerusalem, annual reports concerning various activities of the organization in the region during the interwar period. The bulk of collection consists of various correspondence files with the local branches of the organization, sister organizations worldwide and membership lists.

  8. Album

    Adolf Hitler - Bilder aus dem Leben des Führers [Adolf Hitler - Pictures of the Life of the Führer), a cigarette card album with 188 b&w and colored colored mounted cards, an encomium by Hermann Goering; text by Joseph Goebbels and others. Cigarette cards were a popular collectible item in Germany beginning about 1920. Large albums with text, but no pictures, were published for each series and the cards were collected to be added as illustrations. The album for this series has text and photo captions that tell the story of Hitler's life from birth in 1899, to his 1933 appointment as Cha...

  9. Barbie Trial -- Day 1 -- Crimes against humanity committed by Barbie

    19:24 A clerk lists various accounts submitted, qualifying as "crimes against humanity" commited by Klaus Barbie.

  10. Margaret Kagan photograph collection

    The collection consists of 25 photographs relating to the experiences of Margaret Kagan and her family before and during World War II. Margarita (Mara) Shtromaite (later Lady Margaret Kagan) was born in Riga, Latvia, and grew up in Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania.

  11. Barbie Trial -- Day 3 -- Barbie's role in the Einsatzgruppen

    13:46 Court proceedings begin. President Cerdini asks for the accused to be introduced. 13:58 Examination of Barbie's activities with the Einsatzkommandos - a cluster of mobile killing units - in Amsterdam, Gex and Lyon.

  12. Hakman family papers

    Consists of documentation regarding the Holocaust experiences of Mieczyslav Hakman and his wife, Helen Wachsberg Hakman. Includes identity cards for Ruchla Akierman and Mieczyslav Hakman, wartime and post-war photographs of Mieczyslav Hakman and postcards to Hela Sara Wachsberg in the Parsznitz work camp.

  13. American GIs at Nuremberg stadium

    Slates throughout give the dates of the footage (April-May 1945). Several American Air Force pilots walk into the Nuremberg stadium. They look around and one throws a rock at a swastika adorning a wall of the stadium. A slate indicates the date is May 9, 1945. Shots of P-51 airplanes overhead, then back to the soldiers in the stadium. They walk around the grounds of the stadium. One holds a camera. One of the pilots gives a Nazi salute and pretends to be Hitler; the others grab him and pretend to throw him off the stadium steps. They examine a Nazi symbol (eagle?) that has fallen to the gro...

  14. Werner and Rosa Sallisohn papers

    The collection documents the wartime experiences of Werner and Rosa Sallisohn, originally of Berlin, Germany, who lived as refugees in Shanghai, China from 1939-1947 before immigrating to the United States. Included are birth certificates, Chinese identification papers, immigration documents, business documents regarding a potential job opportunity in Argentina for Werner, and correspondence. Some of the correspondence is from Werner's half-sister Hildegard, who perished during the Holocaust.

  15. German 50 pfennig scrip

  16. Report

    Official U.S. Army inspection report of Buchenwald concentration camp, docerig the following catagories: History of the Camp, Surviving Population, Character of Surviving Population, Mission of the Camp, The "Little Camp," The "Regular Barracks," The Hospital, Medical Experiment Building, The Body Disposal Plant, and Miscellaneous with sub-catagories of Rations, Attempted Evacuation, and Tattooing.

  17. Barbie Trial -- Day 2 -- Case of Lesevre

    16:57 Charges may be brought against Klaus Barbie in the case of Mme Bogatto, concerning the crimes against humanity commited against her husband M Lesevre.

  18. Barbie Trial -- Day 10 -- A victim testifies

    15:47 Mrs. Ennat Vitte, a civil party, continues to testify regarding her experience in Ravensbrück 15:48 President Cerdini asks the witness to describe the circumstances under which she lost her eyesight in Ravensbrück, and whether her inability to walk is a consequence of her time there; the witness has difficulty answering the questions posed 15:52 Prosecutor Vuillard asks the witness to confirm a particular threat leveled at her by Barbie 15:54 President Cerdini calls forward the next witness, Mrs. Simone Lagrange née Kadosche, a civil party in the suit against Barbie 15:55 Mrs. Langran...

  19. Lev Dumer collection

    Consists of copies of articles from the American newspaper "Kcmamu," which is published in Russian, regarding the Holocaust in the Soviet Union, focusing on the Holocaust in Odessa. Also includes one videocassette, on which Mr. Lev Dumer explains the story of an "Odessan Anne Frank," a girl named Lusya Kaliska, who spent the war in hiding.

  20. Agro-Joint activities in Jankoi

    MS, tractor pulling large diameter pipe as men watch. The director of factory, Mr. Rappaport, shows Morris Troper the working tags of the employees. CU of the guard who stands at the entrance to the factory. Slow pan of the grounds and buildings of the factory. LS of bare-chested men digging a building foundation? LS Jewish worker repairing a well-shaft pipe. MS and CU of Jewish worker as they repair a tractor. MS of two vounteer firemen in white caps with their equipment.