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  1. Nordhausen and Buchenwald liberation photographs

    Six photographs are taken of the situation at Buchenwald and Nordhausen camps upon liberation--photographs of barracks, of lines of corpses, of piles of bone, and of an inmate showing his tattoo. Two of the photographs have the words "Buchenwald Concentration Camp--not for publication" and "Nordhausen" written on them. One photograph is of what appears to be Jewish-American soldiers being led in prayer with Nazi flags flanking them. On the back of this photograph is written "Germany."

  2. German wounded

    "The victory is achieved" announces the narrator, as a wounded German soldier is loaded onto a truck to receive medical care. He is given a cigarette to smoke and a pat on the head as he lies on the table, waiting for treatment. More wounded on stretchers transported from ambulances in the field to trains that will take them home. They smile out of the train window and sit up in their beds inside the train. Heroic music plays.

  3. Folk dancing in Zakopane, Poland 1936

    Folk dancing in Zakopane, Poland, 1936. A group of male and female folk dancers perform a series of circle dances in full costume in an open field. It seems to be an exhibition, staged for a small local audience or perhaps simply for Julien Bryan and his camera crew. Bryan did film several circle dances throughout his travels, as a sort of comparative study of folk dances throughout the world.

  4. Levy-Saltiel family papers

    The papers consist of documents; identification cards; newspaper clippings; a CD of memoirs, family photographs, and a family tree related to the Levy family of Thessaloniki (Salonika), Greece. The documents relate to life under the German occupation, forced labor as Jews, and life in the Salonika ghetto. After being warned of upcoming deportations, the Levys went into hiding in Athens, where they spent the remainder of the war. The collection also relates to Salomon Saltiel, who was a member of the Greek military and spent the war in Italian and German POW camps. He and Dora Levy married i...

  5. Selected records from the former archive of the city of Westerbork

    Contains registers, together with death certificates, of deported and arrested persons in the vicinity of Westerbork, Netherlands.

  6. Industry in Poland, mining in Upper Silesia

    LS of a zinc mine/refinery, labeled in Julien Bryan's original notes as "Catowicz, Silesia - Giesche Zinc Mine." MS, workers in uniform, wearing caps, masks around their necks, on break outside the refinery. VS of the mine and refinery, the machinery in operation inside the refinery: ovens, molten metals, the workers stoking the furnaces, etc. VS, of women sorting pieces of zinc on a conveyor belt before processing. Good shots of quick, nimble fingers at work, several CUs of their hands.

  7. German siege of Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 1939

    01:04:12:20 CU, shot from low angle of signs on a large contemporary, concrete block apartment building- the address and other information are visible - written in Polish, identifies construction company, etc. located in Warsaw, Poland. Camera then pans the building, which looks deserted, although the bombing has not damaged it. 01:04:23:17 MLS of a destroyed area of Warsaw; it seems to be a bridge over one portion of the river and an entrance into the city from an outlying suburb. Polish soldiers on horseback patrol the bridge, some people are walking along the bridge, one cyclist passes b...

  8. Chateau La Hille album

    The collection consists of one bound photographic album, full of black and white photographs of children playing and of the landscape surrounding the Chateau La Hille. Each photograph has a caption written in small white print, in German. The title of the book reads" Chateau de la Hille: 1 September 1943- 23 Oktober 1944." Some pages have protective onion paper between them to preserve the photographs.

  9. Sztejnsznajd family collection

    Documents regarding the Sztejnsznajd family of Lutsk, Poland. Collection contains postcards, articles, forms, and documents relating to the family's life in Lutsk and also of their attempts to emigrate to the United States. The family left Poland and arrived in the United States in 1939, though many of the extended family perished in the Holocaust. The collection also contains 31 volumes in Hebrew and Polish of the children's periodical "Hakatan" from the newpaper "Olameinu" from 1936-1938 and 9 volumes of the newspaper "Olameinu" from 1938-1939 in Hebrew. Includes also one cardboard bound ...

  10. Paul Touvier trial transcripts

    Contains the 1994 French trial transcripts for the proceedings against Paul Touvier, convicted of crimes against humanity.

  11. Josef Grotte photograph collection

    The photographs consist of images of Josef Grotte and his family before and during the Holocaust.

  12. Kaufbeuren Institution

    "Agfa 1941" leader. The film shows the various types of work performed by the patients. A man butchers a large animal (a cow or pig?) hanging from a hook and grinds up the meat in a grinder. Both women and men are shown doing ironing and sewing. Women in a kitchen prepare a meal for a large number of people - it's an institutional kitchen with large vats for cooking. Other activities include: bread baking, weaving, furniture upholstering, shoemaking, woodworking, laundry, bookbinding, A brief shot of what appears to be a nurse and a doctor shepherd a couple of patients out of a room where a...

  13. French stateless identity card

    The collection consists of one small identity card from the Republic of France issued on Dec 30, 1934 to Chaya Gerszenfisz, b 1897 in Razdan, Poland. A black-and-white photograph of a woman in her late thirties is on the first interior page, and opposite this is a black-and-white photograph of three children: two girls, with a boy in the middle. The children seem to be arranged left to right by age, with the youngest girl on the left. On the third page, four children are listed as also being covered by this identity card: Zipporah, Simone, Samuel, and Joseph. The card, which proclaims on th...

  14. German and woman at cafe

    Another outdoor café scene showing a German and a woman sitting at a table (woman seen before in Story 4410 on Film ID 2720), smiling at the camera. Man's metal arm braces leaning against fence post. Same woman and another sitting at a table drinking tea, perhaps in a yard, greenery. A different woman is shown exiting a restaurant and crossing the street toward the camera. A moment later, a German is shown exiting. He waves his hand in front of his face, perhaps indicating that the camera should be turned off.

  15. Building the International Exposition in Paris

    International Exposition in Paris: river, buildings and pavilions under construction for opening in May 1937 (date of this footage unknown, possibly 1935 as follows shots of Barbusse's death in Moscow in 1935). Sign: "Exposition Internationale de 1937 section de la -nce d'outremer" Sign: "Exposition Internationale de 1937 Pavillon des Stats du Levant enterprise generale Les charpentiers de Paris 24 Rue Larouste" Crowds in winter clothing. Pan of pavilions under construction, scaffolding, structures, statues, cranes. 01:10:38 CU, flag with hammer and sickle, workers building the Russian pavi...

  16. Nazi Germany trims: HJ, wreath laying

    Sign "Unser gruss ist 'Heil Hitler'". Peasant and cart. Marching band in city square. Nazi (Leipzig?). Man leaning against railing over river. Books in shop window. HJ motorbike. Spectators. Wreath laying. Parade, marching band. Goosestepping. Military review. Soldier guards memorial, CU boots.

  17. Staged (comic) sequence in a central Polish village

    Man in a furry bear costume, feigning an attack on a young peasant girl walking along the road, repeated from earlier in this reel.

  18. German siege of Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 1939

    01:03:45 Men digging in the aftermath of the German military air raids on Warsaw. Several refugees with bundles walk down the street, past where the ditches are being dug. Polish soldiers stand guard; civilians come up to them and question them. Scenes of the chaos in the streets after the German air attack. Two young men are recruited by a Polish soldier to help with the digging. They are all in suits and ties, some in trench coats and hats, and they keep digging. 01:04:18 Railway underpass, a train stuck on the tracks that are now covered with debris, women and men climb out of the railca...

  19. Rotszyld family collection

    Consists of eight post-war certificates for Roman Rotszyld at the Feldafing displaced persons camp, including his identity card, certification from the Obschestvo Remeslenovo i. zemledelcheskovo Trouda (ORT) as an electrician, and certificate of incarceration. It also includes an International Refugee Organization (IRO) certification for Nechama Rotszyld as a dressmaker-helper.

  20. Prison in Prague, 1946

    A very brief sequence in an unidentified prison in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1946. MS, from low angle. An inmate cleans a tile floor on his hands and knees with a wet rag and a bucket of water as a guard watches over him. The guard is in the foreground of the shot, and is seen mainly from the waist down, as a coat and a pair of boots in shadow. The inmate is in the background, and his figure is well lit.