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  2. Photograph of Jeanine Fields

    The photograph depicts Jeanine Fields as a child in the displaced persons camp in Selb, Germany, following the Holocaust.

  3. Theodore Fendrich photograph collection

    The collection consists of one photograph of Salomon Klein, his wife, and his daughter, originally of Fulek, Hungary (Filakovo, Slovakia), and one photograph of a couple with two little girls taken in Pilis, Hungary, in 1936.

  4. Activities in New Zealand; Reopening of synagogue in Metz, France

    (LIB 1121) Reopening of Synagogue, Metz, France, December 2, 1944. SEQ: Jewish Army chaplain conducts services in synagogue. [Light is poor, scratches] EXT, soldiers and civilians exit from synagogue. CU sign, "Rededication, Jewish Services". CUs, Jewish chaplain shakes hands with soldiers entering synagogue. Unrelated footage about the Special Project QM Activities in the South Pacific Area, New Zealand (near Auckland) precedes this clip from 01:10:55 to 01:19:02.

  5. General Harpe, 12th Panzer Div. in action in Smolensk, Vitebsk region

    Reel 2: 00:00:00 Brief shot of a German soldier on guard through a wrought iron fence. German soldiers drive down a city street in an open-top car, pull over and consult a map while looking at the various streets. Next shot shows a soldier painting an arrow on a makeshift sign set up in the street (with 12th Panzer Division symbol, Y in a circle). The car full of soldiers continues and pulls in front of a building; soldiers walk in the street amid military vehicles. A house is engulfed in flames at night, dark silhouettes watch. German tanks and trucks wait in a hilly field as the camera pa...

  6. "The Butterfly"

    Consists of one musical score entitled "The Butterfly," by Seymour Sherman. The music and lyrics were inspired by a poem from "I Never Saw Another Butterfly" by Pavel Friedmann. Mr. Sherman composed the score for a 2003 Yom Hashoah service.

  7. German military convoys in destroyed Paris

    Reel 1: 00:21:40 Panning shots of buildings severely destroyed in an air raid in Paris. German soldiers enter the city as civilians watch from the sidewalks. Two French police are seen standing in the street, crowds of locals on the sides, watching as German soldiers on bicycles enter. German soldiers on horseback crossing the bridge in front of Notre Dame. German soldiers stop and inspect a car. German parade into the city, led by a band. Local traffic and military convoys moving through the streets. Views of sandbag barricades in the streets. CUs of Notre Dame, a priest on the sidewalk in...

  8. Records of the Jewish community of Belgrade (Fond 494, Opis 1)

    This collection contains bylaws, programs, circular letters, financial reports, membership lists, and other documents of the Jewish community of Belgrade. The bulk consists of annual reports and correspondence with local and worldwide Jewish communities and organizations.

  9. Wallach family papers

    Contains photographs, documents, and photocopies related to the Holocaust experiences of the Wallach family, originally of Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. Centering on Zwi Hermann Wallach, the collection includes family photographs, post-liberation photographs, and documents and photographs regarding the building of a Holocaust remembrance monument in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia.

  10. Drawing

  11. Mania Schoffer photograph collection

    The collection consists of a photograph depicting a group of twelve men and women posed in front of a sign that reads "Time is money / English lesson / Please do not trouble" at the Schlactensee displaced persons camp in Berlin, Germany, and a photograph depicting members of the Schlactensee camp administration. Captions on the verso are in Yiddish and English.

  12. Ofra Bruno-Hirschenberg photographs

    Contains four pre-war photographs taken in Łódź, Poland.

  13. Barbie Trial -- Day 13 -- Photo album

    The court is in session. Members of the court, the jurors, the defense, and the prosecution examine an album of photos of Klaus Barbie. 18:15:55 The President asks the prosecution and the defense for observations concerning the album. Both parties decline. The President suspends the session.

  14. Dunson family at Christian mission; baptism; baseball; church

    At the Kiamichi Mountain Christian Mission in Nashoba, Oklahoma, where Harold Dunson and his family were sent as missionaries in 1947. MS, man baptizing woman in lake. MS, MCU two pigs on a dirt road, eating grass. MCU, young boy bathing in bucket, goats drinking bath water. MS, panning group portrait, young men and women outside church. MLS, men playing baseball. VS, men, women, children posing for camera. VS, men, women, children exiting church.

  15. Selected Belgian war crimes tribunals and investigation records

    Contains selected records of the Belgian post-war commission of inquiry regarding war crimes, particularly as they relate to the operation of concentration camps.

  17. Dr. David Rosenberg photograph collection

    The collection consists of eight photographs of concentration camp scenes from either Dachau or Buchenwald taken immediately following liberation. Scenes depict victims being exhumed and reburied with German civilians and American soldiers taking part in the work, trucks containing victims, the interior of barracks, and a gallows.

  18. Photograph of prisoners standing next to corpses in a cart

    The photograph depicts concentration camp prisoners wearing striped prisoner uniforms standing next to a cart bearing corpses. The donor's husband was an American soldier and caried the photograph in his wallet until his death. Two additional copies of the photograph are included.

  19. German and Italian diplomats and German propagandists expelled from the US; Senators Robert Taft and Henrik Shipstead, America First Committee supporters

    Expelled German diplomats arriving at LaGuardia airport prior to their departure from the United States. Close-up shots of the former German consul general in San Francisco, Captain Fritz Wiedemann, and Dr. Johannes Bacher, former German consul general in New York. The men smile and talk to the press [need to verify identities]. Dark shot of a crowd of journalists on the tarmac; baggage being unloaded from the plane. 01:40:34 Pier 61 in New York City. A. V. Yanelli, who was the Italian consul general at Johnstown, PA for thirty years, as he is expelled from the country. Crowds surround an o...

  20. Isidore Guttenberg collection

    The notebook was used as an autograph book that contains the signatures of some of the defendants in the International Military Tribunals in Nuremberg, Germany, after World War II. An entry pass for Isidore Guttenberg to the Palce of Justice and a magazine clipping about Nuremberg Prison were added to the collection.