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  2. Black Sea, fighting in southern sector on Eastern Front

    Reel 1: 00:17:03 Melting snows, streams, water over land. German soldiers drive cross a river in a horse-drawn cart. Military vehicles ford a river/water logged road. Soldiers work on a wooden bridge. Observation post on the Black Sea. A soldier raises an alarm, other soldiers come running. Different shots of lookouts using binoculars/rabbit-eared telescopes. City on the Black Sea. Coastal gun installations; soldiers load and operate artillery. German soldiers come running out of a destroyed building. CUs of artillery. Different shots of defense preparations along the coastline. German sold...

  3. Kozienice, Poland, photographs

    Consists of five pre-war photographs taken in Kozienice, Poland, of posed groups. Includes photographs of yeshiva classes in pre-war Kozienice.

  4. Celebrating the opening of the new Reichstag; parades in Potsdam

    Celebrating the opening of the new Reichstag in Potsdam's Garrison Church on March 21, 1933 (film begins on Film ID 2775). Shows overpowering National Socialist propaganda. Goebbels staged this day as a device to win support from conservatives and to reassure Germans that the new Reich's Chancellor Hitler could be trusted. German intertitles (in quotation marks). "Der Tag von Potsdam 1933 II. Teil" "Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler und Vizekauzler von Papen" "Gott mitt uns" banner hanging across the street. Officials marching, including Hitler and von Papen. Hitler salutes at 01:00:35. More offic...

  5. "Sefer Maasim Tovim" photograph

    Consists of one photograph of two girls holding a "Sefer Maasim Tovim" in Be̜drin, Poland, in the 1930s. On the right is Ester Krel and Libele Rubinsztajn is on the left.

  6. Agro-Joint activity in Russia, Morris Troper's 1936 trip

    Morris Troper arrives in Simpferopol and enters a building with a sign reading "American Jewish Joint, Agricultural Corporation." Mr. Zaichek, the chief agronom, shows Troper the route he will travel on a map. He leaves for Jonkoi in a car. MS, Mr. Zaichek's son. MS, cow. 01:02:19 Pervomaysk colony. Pan, LS village with little white houses, farming. MCU, man with white beard and glasses. Man exits house, chickens, walking towards camera. CU, man. LS Modern school in Kalininsk. 01:04:27 Maxim Gorky colony. Pan, bare-chested boys, smiling for camera. LS, women bake bread in an outdoor oven. H...

  7. Larry Rosenbach papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Larry Rosenbach (born Eliezer Lajziu Rosenbach) and his family, originally of Leżajsk, Poland. The bulk of the collection consists of photographs depicting the Föhrenwald and Zeilsheim displaced persons camps in Germany, the Bielski partisans, and passengers on board the "Champollion" en route to Palestine. Also included are three postcards from Larry’s mother, Ewa Rosenbach, written in Zaklikov (Zaklików), Poland to cousins in Przemyśl, Poland describing the first deportation that occurred in her town and begging her cousins to t...

  8. Celebrating the opening of the new Reichstag; parades in Potsdam

    Celebrating the opening of the new Reichstag in Potsdam's Garrison Church on March 21, 1933 (film continues on Film ID 2682). Shows overpowering National Socialist propaganda. Goebbels staged this day as a device to win support from conservatives and to reassure Germans that the new Reich's Chancellor Hitler could be trusted. German intertitles (in quotation marks). "Der Tag von Potsdam 1933" "Ein Kinagfafilm aufgenommen mit der Agfa Movex auf Agfa Umkehrfilm 16mm" Bridge with Nazi decorations, sign reading "Wir grussen das neue Deutschland". German soldiers on the street. "Letzte Vorberitu...

  9. March of Time -- outtakes -- Father Coughlin

    Shots of Father Charles Coughlin's parish church, the National Shrine of the Little Flower in Royal Oak Michigan. Father Coughlin was instrumental in constructing the church in the late 1930's. He raised much of the funds on his radio show. Close-ups of the church, including shots of some of the tiles that bear the names and state flowers of various states. Close-ups of various other features of the church's exterior. Reverend Coughlin's name appears engraved into the stone in one of the shots. Parishioners leave or enter the church, dressed in Sunday clothes. 01:33:53 Father Coughlin stand...

  10. Selected court records from the Military Tribunal of Bucharest territory

    Contains court records, declarations, letters from several ministries, personal files with pictures and finger prints, interrogation files, declarations, and name lists of defendants, reports of national propaganda and files of the special information service. The records pertain to the criminal cases related to the Holocaust.

  11. Teheran Conference

    An American Air Force officer holds a slate with the date and name of the cameraman. Shots of Franklin Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower riding at the head of a caravan of Jeeps and cars. The group appears to be driving through an American military base, with mountains visible in the background. Roosevelt's Jeep passes a line of uniformed men standing at attention, and then stops beside an American flag on a pole. Roosevelt removes his hat and places it over his heart while a band plays. The Jeep continues on past a long line of troops; closer shots of the two men. Roosevelt, his back to the ...

  12. Ety Rosinski-Moncarz photograph collection

    The collection consists of four photographs relating to the experiences of Ety Rosinski-Moncarz during the Holocaust. Several of the photographs depicts Ety and other girls at a convent preparing for their first communion, and one photograph shows Ety walking along a street in Binche, Belgium, with her aunt, Betty Szyper, and her cousin, Albert Szyper.

  13. Awards ceremonies featuring Axmann, Backe, Mutschmann, Funk, Ley

    Nazi officials preside over awards ceremonies for youth and workers. Artur Axmann, who replaced Baldur von Schirach as leader of the Hitler Youth in 1940, speaks to a group of young women and men. Reichsminister Herbert Backe hands out certificates. Gauleiter Martin Mutschmann is also present. Another awards ceremony for workers features Robert Ley speaking at a podium. Reich Economy Minister Walther Funk presents the awards. Close-ups on some of the workers' faces. Nine men who have been named Pioneers of Labor (Pionere der Arbeit) by Hitler are congratulated by Ley.

  14. Records of the Hungarian Ministry of Internal Affairs

    Collection contains Hungarian Ministry of Internal Affairs (Belügyminisztʹerium) records of Jews who were exempted from the anti-Jewish laws. Reel No. 2 also contains Foreign Ministry (Külügyminisztʹerium) records about interdepartmental issues like the cases of Hungarian Jews who wanted to repatriate after living abroad, foreign nationals of Jewish origin living in Hungary, Hungarian government guarantees issued to emigrating Hungarian Jews, and extradition issues involving Hungarian Jews. Reel No. 2 also contains some late 1944 records of the Arrow Cross-controlled Ministry of Religiou...

  15. Cesia Ritter papers

    The papers consist of 53 photographs of Cesia Ritter (née Honig) as a child before World War II and post-war photograph of her rescuers; an employment certificate for her father Naftali Honig in "Deutsche Dachpappenfabrik - Papapol" in Tarnow, Poland, in 1942; and identification card for Cesia Honig issued by ORT in Anvers, Belgium, in 1947; a copy of a letter written to Cesia's uncle in Palestine after the war; and a newspaper article from the New York Post on August 31, 1987.

  16. Drawing

  17. Maccabi athletes in Antwerp

    Jewish athletes at the Maccabi Games in Antwerp, Belgium in July 1930. Title: "In Antwerpen feiert man die Weltausstellung." Street scenes in Antwerp, fountain, "France" building. CUs, civilians in local costume, on small train, joking in front of the camera, on boat, boats on the bay, 4 men kneeling in back seat of automobile driving through city street, tram in BG. Cameraman filiming himself in a mirror. VAR MCUs pedestrians, Maccabi athletes parading on city streets, motorbikes, spectators/crowd being pushed back, marching band, boys with flags parading, spectators, athletes pass by salu...

  18. Bergen-Belsen liberation photographs

    Consists of seven photographs taken upon the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The photographs depict corpses laid out in preparation for burial, as well as one photograph of the camp commandant, Josef Kramer.

  19. Rolf and Hannah Wartenberg collection

    Consists of reports, identification, documents, photographs, and clippings regarding Rolf Wartenberg's experiences during the Nuremberg war crimes trials in which he served as the lead interrogator on the Einsatzgruppen trials. Also includes notes, clippings, and correspondence regarding lectures given by both Rolf and Hannah Wartenberg about their pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences, highlighting their work on the war crimes trials.

  20. Drawing