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  1. March of Time -- outtakes -- Head shaving of French women accused of collaboration with the Germans

    Scenes of retaliation against accused collaborators in Cherbourg (first scenes), Rennes, and perhaps elsewhere in France. A group of women with shaved heads, who collaborated or consorted with the Germans, sit in the back of an open truck. The truck is surrounded by male onlookers. Two men hold a paper sign above the heads of the women. The women start moving down the street, and a man lifts and then drops a pile of hair. Shots of men cutting the hair of two women. The women hide their faces while a man cuts off their hair with scissors. Close-up of the sign, which reads, "Le Char des Colla...

  2. Bronia Landau papers

    The collection consists of two copies (one each in English and Hebrew), of "My Lost Childhood", a memoir by Bronia Bratt Landau, originally of Kromołów, Poland, which details her experiences between 1942-1945 in the Stalag Luft III prisoner-of-war camp in Sagan, Germany (now Żagań, Poland), the Grünberg subcamp of Gross-Rosen concentration camp, and the Helmbrechts subcamp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp. The memoir also discusses her escape from a death march in German-occupied Czechoslovakia in 1945. Also included are two copies of a photograph of the Bratt family from 1941. Both c...

  3. Polish newsreel footage of the trial of Hans Biebow

    Polish newsreel footage from 1946 to 1947 of the trial of Hans Biebow, including scenes of the courtroom, atrocity footage, testimony, judges, and spectators at the trial.

  4. Hitler speaking about Memel

    Session of the Reichstag in Nuremberg on 9/15/35. Hitler speaks from a podium about the situation in Memel. He speaks of the mistreatment of the ethnic Germans and that their only crime is being German and wanting to remain German. Memel was annexed to Lithuania in 1923. Hitler wanted Memel and its ethnic German population to be reincorporated into the Reich. The ethnic Germans, headed by Dr. Ernst Neumann, became dominant in local politics and most of the Lithuanian and Jewish population fled the territory. Memel was annexed to Germany in March 1939.

  5. Selected records of the Archives départementales du Tarn

    Contains records pertaining to the administration and functioning of the Saint-Suplice, Tarn, and Bren internment camps together with documents related to prisoner transfers to and between Gurs, Graulhet, Noé, Récébédou, Eysses, Septfonds, Nexon, and Le Vernet internment camps. Also includes documents pertaining to French Freemasons, Nomades (i.e. Roma-Sinti), and refugees in Tarn.

  6. Selected records related to Bessarabia and Bukovina from the Romanian National Archives

    Contains records of surveillance of Jews and expropriation of their property in Bessarabia and Bukovina, as well as surveillance and intimidation of other minorities such as Protestants.

  7. Malach and Feder family photographs

    Consists of 48 photographs of the Malach and Feder families of Be̜dzin and Da̜browa, Poland. Includes photographs taken in the Da̜browa Górnicza ghetto.

  8. Papers regarding refugees to Cuba

    Consists of photocopies of correspondence,1967-1968, between Fulgencio Batista, former President of Cuba, and Lawrence Berenson, a lawyer who had represented several Jewish organizations in Cuba including the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, regarding an article published in "Look" magazine about the MS St. Louis. Also includes clippings, two copies of photographs, an essay, "The Problem of Jewish Refugees During Batista's Administration, 1940-44," by Margalit Bejarano, 2002, and notes taken on various scholarly works on Cuba during the Holocaust.

  9. Bermann family papers

    The papers consist of documents and photographs documenting the Bermann family, originally of Olomouc, Czechoslovakia (Olomouc, Czech Republic), before World War II and their experiences emigrating from Olomouc to Cuba in 1941.

  10. Warburg children's home photographs

    Consists of 59 post-war photographs taken at the Warburg children's home in Blankenese, Germany. Most are pictures of children living in the home; some are identified by Ann Bicky [donor].

  11. Book Eine darlegung wahrnehmbarer tatsachen in erfüllung der offenbarung die Gott Jesus Christus gab, um sie seinen knechten kundzuttun

    The collection consists of five books written by Jehovah's Witnesses that were among the titles of books burned by the Nazis in 1933

  12. Abram Zelig papers

    Collection consists of three photographs of Abram Zelig's family before World War II in Łódź, circa 1937; 14 photographs of Jewish youth in the Łódź ghetto, circa 1940-1943; eight photographs of Jewish youth in the "Kibbutz" in Łódź, circa 1946; and one identification card issued to Abram Zelig in 1946.

  13. March of Time -- outtakes -- Annexation of Austria

    Hitler returns to Berlin from Vienna after the annexation of Austria. Shots of his plane touching down, with Nazi flags flying and a crowd waiting to greet him. Uniformed members of the League of German Girls and Hitler Youth await Hitler's arrival. Shots of his motorcade driving through the crowds. Aerial shots of Hitler and Hermann Goering walking into the Chancellery, then waving from the balcony. Aerial pans across the huge crowd. More scenes from Austria: Austrians waving Nazi flags; civilians marching down the streets giving the Nazi salute; Arthur Seyss-Inquart saluting. German soldi...

  14. March of Time -- outtakes -- Trial of French spies in Cherbourg; Capture of collaborators, hair shorn

    Two unnamed men on trial for spying. Smiling policemen stand outside the court building. The accused arrive at the court, shackled together at the wrists. Interiors of the courtroom (dark and out of focus). The two men stand before a panel of judges, then sit between two policemen. They cover their faces. The two are led outside. One covers his face but the other does not. Civilians look on as they are led away. 01:44:07 Close-ups of American soldiers settting mines in a road. A street sign reading "Chartres." Americans and French civilians sheltering from German fire. Americans running, sh...

  15. Sol Rubinstein papers

    Contains correspondence addressed to and from Sol Rubinstein, Cleveland, OH, to family members of Łapy and Łódź, Poland, describing actions being taken against the Jewish populations. Other letters include those written by Sol Rubinstein addressed to a friend in Sokoli, Poland, as well as letters from family members in Haifa and from Nathan Zahavi about attempts to save his Aunt Fradl. Also contains two manuscripts, "Rubinstein-Stolarsky Family History, 1984" and "The Rescue of our Family Survivors." "The Rescue of our Family Survivors" includes translations of much of the family wartime ...

  16. Costa Rican Yiddish theatre collection

    Consists of photographs of refugees and survivors who emigrated to Costa Rica; includes photographs of productions of the Yiddish theatre, which they established as well as a large group portrait of survivors from Zelechów, Poland. Collection also contains one flyer for the National Yiddish Theatre's production of "Dzeikele Blofer," 7 January 1950.

  17. Katy Torres McCormack photograph collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Katy Torres McCormack and her family in Thessaloniki, Greece. Includes depictions of her parents Moise (Maurice) and Marie Yaguel Torres, her sister Dolly Torres, and children celebrating Purim in a Jewish orphanage in Greece in 1946.

  18. "One Day This Will be a Film"

    Consists of one memoir, approximately 60 pages, entitled "One Day This Will be a Film: Childhood Memories of a Girl from the Lvov Ghetto," by Nava Ruda (originally Sheindel-Charlotte (Lunia) Kohn). Nava and her parents survived with the help of her childhood nanny, Jula Jurek, a Polish woman. This memoir is an English language translation of the the original Hebrew.

  19. Frances Maisel collection

    Consists of documentation regarding attempts by Samuel Friedman and Moses Goldberg (both of New York City) in 1941, to obtain a visa for Szolim Ejcer of Plunge, Lithuania. Mr. Ejcer was the twenty-three-year-old nephew of both Mr. Friedman and Mr. Goldberg. The paperwork includes affidavits of support, a photograph of Mr. Goldberg, and a 1942 envelope which returned from Lithuania stating that Mr. Ejcer's whereabouts were unknown.

  20. Selected records of postwar East German investigative court cases and trials to Nazi war crimes Records ZUV

    Prosecutions in the Soviet-Occupied Zone of Germany (subsequently German Democratic Republic) against perpetrators of Nazi-era crimes. Victims were Jews, the mentally ill, prisoners of war, and other groups in ghettos, partisan areas, camps, and killing centers. Perpetrators were in the SS, the Einsatzgruppen, police battalions and regiments, the euthanasia program, the court system, ghetto and camp administrations, the Wehrmacht, and the latter's Field Police (Feldgendarmerie) and Secret Field Police (Geheime Feldpolizei).