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  1. March of Time -- outtakes -- Recruiting posters and drives in US

    A group of people, many of them teenagers. A woman in a W.A.A.C. uniform sits behind a desk outside a van labelled "U. S. Army Recruitment Mobile Station" and speaks with a group of women. The scene shifts to soldiers in a parade down a street, then recruitment posters and a chart illustrating the number of people who have enlisted in Muncie during the month. Men walk into the recruitment offices. Interior of recruiting office where young men talk to a recruiter, who sits behind a desk. Close-ups of the boys and of recruiter. Outside, draftees (not enlisted men) board a bus while another ma...

  2. Ruth Weyl collection

    Consists of photographs of the Weyl family and other German Jewish refugees in Kisumu and Nairobi, Kenya, where they spent the war. Also contains one memoir, 11 pages, entitled "My Memories from Africa," written by Ruth Weyl, documenting her experiences in Africa from 1937-1948, as well as an advertisement card for the Weyl's boarding house in Nairobi, letters of recommendation, and correspondence from their lives in Africa.

  3. March of Time -- outtakes -- British citizens listening to Neville Chamberlain on the radio

    Interior shots of people listening to Neville Chamberlain's September 27, 1938 speech about the Sudeten crisis. No sound. The setting appears to be the interior of a British home, with women and men listening intently to the radio. Close-up of the radio being turned on. Presumably the footage was actually shot in England, because the same cameramen shot the mid-September rally in London (Story 4061). 01:01:37 A man sells Evening Standard newspapers outside Victoria station in London. He wears a placard that reads, "What Hitler Said." Male and female members of the British Union of Fascists ...

  4. George L. Scott memoir

    Contains memoir, poetry, and prose written by George L. Scott, a survivor of the concentration camps of Savar, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Kaufering, Landsberg, and Dachau. His memoir "Life, Reach for it!" (formerly titled "The Way it Happened!") centers around his memories and descriptions of Birkenau. He now spends much of his time talking to students about his experiences at the Toronto Holocaust Centre.

  5. Prolsdorfer Kramer family papers

    Contains documents, correspondence, and picture postcards pertaining to the Prolsdorfer Kramer family's lives in Gerolzholfen, Germany, and their emigration to the United States.

  7. Quilted wall hanging made postwar by a survivor to honor family members killed in Chelmno

    Quilted, mixed media wall hanging created by Minia Wasilkowska Moszenberg in 2002 in tribute to her family who was murdered at Chelmno killing center. It represents the separation of the family in the Ozorkow ghetto in Poland in April 1942. It depicts her parents, Jonah and Pesa, and two young siblings, Cela, 9, and Josef, 5; a skull in a helmet with a swastika floats above their heads. To their right stands a skeletal guard with a gun, then a girl, Minia, 16, walking away to the right. Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany in September 1939. The family home was bombed and they moved around fr...

  8. Morris Rosen family photographs

    Consists of three photographs of students and teachers at the "Yavne" religious elementary school for boys in Be̜dzin, Poland; photograph of Maks Bilauer, the donor's future brother-in-law; photograph of Pola Frochcwajg Rozen, the donor's father's first wife.

  9. Paul Levie papers

    The papers consist of an identification card (Carte D'Identité) issued under the false name of Paul Rudefleuve, a birth certificate under the same false name issued in the Departement du Haut-Rhin, and a photograph of Paul Levie in a children's home in Aspet, France.

  10. Dena Romero photograph collection

    The collection consists of three black-and-white pre-World War II family photographs from Guntersblum, Germany, 23 glass negatives taken by Emil Rueb [donor's father] in Guntersblum, and seven negatives.

  11. Selected records from the Reichsnährstand/Reichsbauernführer (R 16 I)

    Contains records of the Reichsnährstand/Reichsbauernführer, which was the agricultural regulatory agency of Nazi Germany. Records relate primarily to Jewish agricultural interests and the disenfranchisement of Jews from the agrarian economy.

  12. Statement delivered at postwar reburial service for Wöbbelin concentration camp victims

    Published statement delivered at a memorial burial service in Hagenow, Germany on 8 May 1945 for 144 dead uncovered at Wöbbelin concentration camp. James M. Stoner (donor) served in the 8th Infantry Division, and was a member of the honor guard during the ceremony.

  13. "My Life Story"

    Consists of one memoir, 7 pages, entitled "My Life Story," by Tsilya Bryson, originally of Minsk, Soviet Union. She describes her childhood, experiences in the Minsk ghetto, escape from the ghetto in August 1943, and life with Jewish partisans until they were liberated by the Soviet Army in 1944.

  14. March of Time -- outtakes -- Benes of Czechoslovakia; Raczkiewicz and Sikorski of Poland; ceremony at Paris synagogue

    War preparations in Paris. Sandbag fortifications around the Arc de Triomphe and the Tomb of the Unkown Soldier. Edvard Benes, exiled president of Czechoslovakia, is received by Czechs living in Paris. The dope sheet states that the meeting took place at the same house on the Rue Bonaparte where Benes and Tomas Masaryk founded the Czech Republic after World War I. A group of men rises and claps as Benes enters in the company of Stefan Osusky, the Czech ambassador. A man identified as Stransky welcomes Benes. Benes speaks. Scenes inside the Polish embassy showing Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, the P...

  15. Edith Schwalb Gelbard collection

    Contains pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs and a photoprint of Edith Schwalb Gelbard and her family. Her father, Chajem Schwalb perished in Auschwitz, but Edith, her sister Konyi, and mother Magdalene survived in hiding in France. Also includes photocopy of a letter written from Chajem to his children in 1942.

  16. War crimes investigation and trial records from the Archives of the Service for National Security of the Republic of Uzbekistan

    This collection contains 64 cases, 85 volumes of documents from the criminal investigation files and trial records mostly of the residents of German colonies in the former Soviet Union. They were accused of wartime crimes. Most of them served in the Schutzstaffel (SS) unit as soldiers, between 1944 and 1945, were captured by the American Army and sent to POW camps, and in 1946, were repatriated to the Soviet Union, where they were convicted of treason for participation in the enemy's military formations against the Soviet Union. Files also contain testimonies of the convicted members of the...

  17. Weimar-era institutions for people with disabilities and the elderly

    The second part in a five part film entitled "Vom Unsichtbaren Koenigreich." This part of the film shows the inhabitants of three institutions in Germany. In addition to those translated below, there are other titles shown on the screen, which describe the patients and their activities. There are also religiously-inspired statements about life and the duty to care for the elderly and disabled. Title on screen: "Die Anstalt fuer bloede und epileptische Frauen in Neuendettelsau in Bayern. [The institution for feeble-minded and epileptic women in Neuendettelsau in Bavaria]." The scenes at Neue...

  18. U.S. vs. Ohlendorf recordings

    Recordings of the Einstatzgruppen trial "U.S. vs. Ohlendorf", specifically the proceedings of September 29, October 8-9 and October 14-15, 1947. Otto Ohlendorf, the commander of Einsatzgruppe D, which participated in the executions of Jews, Roma, and other persecuted groups, was sentenced to death by hanging as a result of this trial and was executed in 1951.

  19. March of Time -- outtakes -- NY at war parade: "Free French" and "Defeat Hitlerism" floats

    An anti-Axis parade in New York City. Boy scouts carry American flags; American soldiers and sailors march by. A contingent of British or Canadian soldiers, followed by women in uniform. Floats include: one with a sign reading, "Holland;" a horse-drawn hearse with a sign that reads: "The Crime of Lidice." Women in evening gowns ride a float with a globe atop it; a decorated float labelled "Bataan and Corregidor." USSR float; one encouraging people to buy war bonds; Norwegian seamen aboard a float designed to look like a merchant ship.

  20. Black canvas shoes given to a US soldier by a recently liberated inmate

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn514419
    • English
    • a: Height: 2.875 inches (7.303 cm) | Width: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Depth: 11.125 inches (28.258 cm) b: Height: 2.875 inches (7.303 cm) | Width: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Depth: 11.125 inches (28.258 cm)

    Pair of black canvas slip-on shoes given to Harvey J. Poppe, a US Army soldier, by an inmate at the recently liberated Dachau concentration camp. On May 1, 1945, former prisoners able to work were given slipper shoes from a large warehouse stockpile. One of the inmates gave a pair to Harvey. Harvey arrived in Dachau on April 28, 1945, with his unit, the 79th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Division, Company B. The camp was liberated the next day. The unit distributed food, clothes, and shoes. Harvey wore the pair given to him around his apartment in the former SS [Schutzstaffel] living qua...