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  1. 1948 documentary short on Poland (reel 2)

    Reel 2. Street scenes, buses, people on sidewalks. Trolley with sign reading “DWORSKA”. Inside a trolley full of passengers. View out the trolley windshield at street, people waiting to board and a policeman standing on a median. Sidewalk scenes, two men walking by with boots over their shoulders, women looking at a cart displaying wares. Boy runs by with newspapers under his arm. People stand on the sidewalk reading papers in front of a large poster with “IRENA DUNNE” headline. Newspaper stand. Funeral parade and hearse led by people carrying wreaths. Horse and cart passing on street in fr...

  2. Waffen SS red fez acquired by a US soldier

    Red fez that was part of the dress uniform of a Waffen-SS military detachment composed of Muslims from Bosnia, Croatia, and Herzegovina in occupied Yugoslavia, woth one divison from Albania. There was a field gray fez for the combat uniform. The creation of this unit was authorized by Hitler in 1943. The original purpose was to combat Tito’s partisans. Through recruitment and conscription, the unit had 26,000 soldiers within a few months. The group was commanded by German or ethnic German officers, and the uniforms were designed to reflect the religion/ethnicity of the recruits.

  3. Animated maps and titles for the film "Poland - the Country and the People"

    An animated map of Poland, designed by Philip Stapp. Features the outline of the country of Poland, a drawing of a King with a sceptor, an indication of the location of Krakow with an accompanying image of the city, and a coat of arms-style sign in the middle of the map of Poland that reads: Union of Poland-Lithuania and Ruthenia. From Julien Bryan's film "Poland the Country and the People" released in 1948, shot 1936-1937.

  4. German siege of Warsaw, Poland 1939

    CUs of belongings amid rubble. These belongings are all that remain for the Poles featured here who have been displaced from their homes by the German air attacks. MS, camera pans another destroyed interior- this time it is a church (discussed in the book "Siege" (1940)) The priest is inside taking things out of the sacristy, trying to salvage the relics, etc, several people mill about outside. CU of a young girl with a dog in her arms, this is the same girl that was seen in Story 3982 on this tape - USHMM Film ID 3003. 01:15:41 VS of destruction to a cemetery, CU of another corpse. CU of a...

  5. Buchenwald Standort-Kantine concentration camp scrip, 1 Reichsmark

    1 Reichsmark coupon of the type issued at Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. Buchenwald opened on July 19, 1937, and issued undated notes in 0.5, 1, 2, and 3 mark denominations. The simply designed notes were printed on coarse paper. There were two types of coupons: canteen scrip and exchange scrip issued to members of outside labor brigades [Aussenkommandos.] In early April 1945, as US forces approached Buchenwald concentration camp, the German guards began to evacuate the camp. On April 11, the prisoners revolted and seized control of the camp. Later that day, soldiers from the Six...

  6. Henry C. Senger collection

    Contains a four-page memoir titled "The capture of SS Colonel Commandant Martin Gottfried Weiss the last commandant of Dachau," created in 2003 on the 58th anniversary of the liberation of Dachau. Henry C. Senger describes how he captured the SS Colonel Martin Gottfried Weiss, last commandant of Dachau. Also contains an interview with Mr. Senger published on June 12, 2003, in the "Local" section of a newspaper titled "The Record."

  7. Funeral for Henri Barbusse in Moscow

    Titles in French: "Le grand ecrivain et apotre de la pais e Asnieres en 1873 est mort a Moscou le 30 Aout 1935 au Kremlin" Amateur-looking footage - family poses in lobby for photography, child in center, camera on tripod at left. Family leaves building, walks down stairs, departs in automobile. Sign in Cyrillic letters. Title: "Le 9 Septembre Moscou fait au champion de la lutte cont a guerre et le facis des obseques grandioses" Top of flag posts with bronze hammer and sickle. Title: "L'hommage du Comite Central Executif des Soviets e l'URSS" CU, wreath sash with name in Cyrillic, next to g...

  8. Daily life in southeastern, northeastern, and central Poland, 1936

    TRIMS depicting a variety of activities in daily life throughout Poland in 1936. The first two trims are MSs of a street corner in Warsaw, a police officer conducts traffic between streetcars, motorcycles, automobiles and horse-drawn wagons. The street is busy with people. The third trim is a low angle MCU of a religious procession in Lowicz, Poland, featured are clergy and townspeople. This is followed by two trims of a building under construction in Warsaw, workmen construct wood frame, cart materials around the site in wheel barrows, as a foreman barks orders. The remaining trims feature...

  9. Rommel at El Alamein

    Graphic of a map, labeled "Afrika". The narrator states: "On the Egyptian front." Panning shot of desert, showing a soldier on watch at the Qattara Depression, near El Alamein. Rommel giving orders to another officer, surrounded by soldiers. They peer through binoculars and consult a map. The narrator states that the defense of El Alamein is being discussed in detail. Italian and German paratroopers are shown carrying equipment across the desert. They are shown setting up and shooting guns and skirmishing with British troops, some of whom are captured in their trenches. German tanks during ...

  10. Selected records from the Archives départementales de l'Isère

    Selected records from the préfecture, sous-préfecture, and police department in Isère, France. Includes materials related to the "Jewish question," law, general correspondence, Aryanization, Jews who were "objects of police inquiry," name lists and photos of Jews, deportee statistics, postwar memorial to victims of opression (1945 reports), Jewish organizations, the law of 3 October 1941, resistance, foreign workers, labor units, foreign Jews interned in camps, refugee directives, and the papers of Jean Batailh.

  11. Ruth Templehof Szorecki manuscript

    Untitled World War II and post-war memoir of Ruth Templehof Szorecki, born in Łódź, Poland. The memoir tells the story of the family from 1939 to 1962. The Szorecki family worked in the Warsaw ghetto, escaping selections by hiding, until the family managed to escape to the non-Jewish sector of Warsaw, Poland, in 1942. They posed as non-Jews for the remainder of the war and in 1949 emigrated to the United States.

  12. Bronka Krygier papers

    Contains photographs, documents, and postcards pertaining to Bronka Kyrgier's Holocaust experiences as she pretended to be a gentile in order to survive in Poland.

  13. Greta Braude Heiman photographs

    The Greta Braude Heiman photographs consists of photographs and copy prints of Greta Braude Heiman and her Meyer and Michel relatives and friends in Hamm an der Sieg, Germany before the Holocaust and in Milwaukee following their immigration to the United States. Photographs depict Greta, her parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, aunts, and uncles, and Thea and Fritz David. Copy prints depict Ilse David, Jewish children in Hamm an der Sieg, landmarks in Hamm an der Sieg, and a death announcement for Henrietta Meyer.

  14. Quincy-sous-Senart photographs

    Collection consists of three photographs of children at the chateau at Quincy-sous-Senart, France (owned by Count Hubert de Monbrison).

  15. Confiscation of Jewish property in Milan

    Contains a variety of official forms related to the confiscation and liquidation of property belonging to Milan’s Jews.

  16. Paul Schlisser photograph collection

    Collection of three photographs of Paul Schlisser and his sister, Ilona, with children at Bilinget Sweden, an orphanage near Malmo, Sweden. The children were brought there from Bergen Belsen by the Swedish Red Cross.

  17. Holocaust remembrance speech regarding Bulgaria

    One speech, 20 pages, presented to the Federal Interagency Program on Holocaust Remembrance on May 1, 2003. Mr. Borouchoff discusses the Holocaust in Bulgaria and his own Holocaust experiences as a Bulgarian survivor.

  18. Daily life in south central Poland, circa 1936

    EXT, VS depicting daily life in south central Poland, near the town of Katowice. Young children, women and men in traditional central Polish dress with large hoop skirts, head scarves, and woven blankets/shawls. The women walk down a dirt road in the village past rows of small houses. The men gather together, talk, and smoke, etc. The men harness their horses to a cart, an old woman gets in the cart, and it drives away. VS, several CUs of the faces of the villagers. Lfe in this farming community, young children playing, men getting water from the central well, a young girl riding a bicycle,...

  19. Photograph of Leon Felhendler

    The copy print is from an original photograph created in 1933 and depicts Leon Felhendler, Nicholas N. Kittrie's uncle.

  20. Teich-Kutner family collection

    The collection consists of a letter written by Berish Teich donor's uncle from Opoczno, Poland, to Jacob and Salomea Teich Kutner [donor's parents] in Jamaica; a photograph of Berish Teich and his wife; and a newspaper clipping of the funeral announcement for Jacob Kutner.