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  1. POW camp; destroyed railyards; the Alps; US military discover Dachau death trains; destroyed Munich

    (black and white) LS of a POW (?) camp surrounded by wire fencing, inmates moving about, a watch tower is visible in FG. Camp is located in a large open field with mountains in BG. Planes fly overhead. On nearby road, two women in civilian dress walk along carrying luggage. Notice the camp's proximity to the main road. Two US soldiers along road get out of a "HQ1" vehicle and look at destroyed railway carriages, there are many of them. 01:01:42 Road with destroyed buildings and cars, tanks and turned over military vehicles. MS of soldier, possibly Col. Dockum. 01:03:10 Sign, "Liege 56K, Hou...

  2. Ruined Italian town; Italian civilians; US soldiers

    American Troops Shell and Occupy San Pietro, Italy, December 18, 1943. American engineers enter the ruined town. American soldiers round up German prisoners; MP soldier guards prisoners. MCU, CU, German prisoners. American paratrooper escorts German prisoner through field to POW enclosure. VS, Italian civilians return to their ruined homes in San Pietro; civilians leave caves and air raid shelters. MCU, American soldiers speak to Italian civilians. MCU, Italian women and children stand at doorway of ruined home. The woman motions that they are hungry. MCU, CU, Italian children. MS, MCU, hys...

  3. Selected records from Rivne State Regional Archives (Ukraine)

    Contains captured records of the German occupation administration, records of the local Ukrainian administration under Nazi occupation, records of the Ukrainian Nationalist Organization (OUN), and prewar records of Jewish communities of the region. Includes correspondence, reports, diaries, notebooks, regulations, orders, name lists of property owners, list of Jews in Town Zdolbunov including list of doctors, census of the Jewish population in Berezno, Ukraine, the Ukrainian newspaper: "Volyn," 1941-1943, statistical information, and the following Jewish communities' records: Berezno, Deraz...

  4. Ellen Nebel collection

    Contains eleven documents from Emmanuel Weinberg's employers proving employment and from the Hamburg police proving his residence in the city; twenty-five documents and one photocopy of a photographic print regarding the Weinberg family's store, J.P. Neumark; four photographic prints depicting the Weinberg family's pre-war experiences; two postcards sent to Ellen Nebel's father from Ellen Nebel's mother; three cards congratulating the Weinberg family on Ellen Nebel's birth; Ellen Nebel's report cards from the Volksschule in Hannover; and a letter from the Turkish consulate to Frau Neumark, ...

  5. Helen Keller and violinist

    Helen Keller thrilled by the playing of Jascha Heifetz, famous violinist. Semi close shot of Heifitz playng violin, while Keller holds her hand on violin. CU, Heifitz playing violin. CU, Keller facing camera. NOTE: Footage of fishing scenes follows this story, from 01:02:59 - 01:03:42.

  6. Yugoslavia: soldiers resting and singing; wounded soldiers; accordion

    Reel 6: Soldiers washing, resting, writing letters, reading, singing, playing accordion. Wounded soldiers carried, placed in hospital trucks; soldiers on straw-covered hospital floor. Nurses and doctors operating on wounded. Gens walking along path. Soldiers dancing the "Kola and Kozark" in streets of Vinkovci, accordion player in FG.

  7. DP children in American homes in Germany

    DP children in American Homes, Heidelberg, Germany, August 20, 1948. INT, four DP children, two boys and two girls, coming down steps in Protestant chaplain Anderson's home. The children seat themselves at the dining table. Cut-ins, children saying grace. MS, Anderson and Heide (a child) looking at magazine. One of the boys joins them. Mrs. Anderson playing piano as child sings. In the home of Lt. Col H A Buck: five children playing cards. Two children playing in the yard of Maj G L Campbell. Mrs. Campbell and two girls walking out of yard and getting into car. Mrs. Campbell and two childre...

  8. Pesticide, extermination of insects, Zyklon B

    Title: "Volksgut in Gefahr!" Airplane, insects/pests, farming, ships, rats, scientists, insects, statues. Woman sweeping house. Insects. Delousing, gas, factory. CU, Zyklon B gas, pellets in cans. Workers entering factory, production, extermination. Alert as pellets are exposed to air; "Gas! Gas!" Sign on door, "Poisonous gas: Entering the room is dangerous to life!" Ships, pellets in cans, in homes, greenhouse, moving furniture in home, farm/countryside.

  9. American POWs; DPs in Germany

    (LIB 5032) 2200 American POWs Liberated from Stalag 9-B, Bad Orb, Germany, April 4, 1945 [originally identified by NARA as Breslau, Germany, taken on April 6, 1945]. SEQ: Released prisoners are addressed by American officer in camp area. Soldier with tin can standing in line. American POW, Pfc. James M. Osman, with chunk of bread. MCUs, released prisoners receiving coffee. Medics carry men out of building on litters. Soldiers receiving cigarettes and rations. Soldier with burned face. The commanding officer of the liberating force was Col. Walter D. Fetterly. 01:16:13 (LIB 4907) Displaced P...

  10. Kan family at the airport and beach

    Betsy and Robert exit the house carrying small shovels. The children exit a car and walk towards the camera. Two boys (Robert is on the right) run towards the camera. Betsy waves from a balcony. EXT large house. Pan down to a woman walking down a hill. 01:00:42 Several children and two adults in a field. The children pick things up from the ground. Children sit on a balcony ledge. Robert waves his arms around. Frits enters the screen and stands behind the children, swings Robert back and forth. 01:01:16 Adults sit around a table playing cards and looking at the camera. Pan across the group,...

  11. George Waldbaum collection

    Consists of a certificat d'hebergement, or lodging certificate, issued to Gerszon Waldbaum on 7 July 1942 in Pithiviers, France, transit camp; a military identification card issued on 7 November 1941, to Gerszon Waldbaum; and an Extrait de la feuile de demobilization or extract of demobilization of Gerszon Waldbaum from the French Foreign Legion, copy issued in Pithiviers,France, dated 13 September 1941.

  12. Zinaida Elkind collection

    Consists of a photograph, dated Summer 1944, of the donor at age twelve, with Anna Kosokovski, granddaughter of Vavara and Vladimir Kosokovski, her rescuers, outside the home in Berezino, USSR, where she lived in hiding for three years,.

  13. Zdenko Bergl collection

    Consists of two false documents issued to Zdenko Bergl and his mother in Mirabella Eclano, Italy, in September 1943; four documents issued to Zdenko Bergl in the Cinecitta displaced persons camp near Rome, Italy, in 1946 and 1947; a photocopy of a certificate issued to Zdenko Bergl's father in 1940 in his hometown of St. Ivan Zabno in Croatia; a photograph of Zdenko Bergl and two friends in the Cinecitta DP camp in 1947; and a circa 1932 photograph of a brick factory, which belonged to Zdenko Bergl's father.

  14. War crimes trials of Ustasa

    Opening Text: Dokumuntarni film o procesu protiv grupe ustasko macekovsko cetnickhi koljaca spljuna I terorista u ovom filmu uvrstene su dokumentarne snimke iz ustaske filmske arhive. [Documentary film about the process against a group of Ustasa, followers of Macek, and Cetnik killers, spies, and terrorists. This film incorporates archival footage from the film archives of the Ustasa.] Narrated in Croatian. Judges enter courtroom. EXT; military guards accompany the war criminals into the courtroom. Each person to be tried is flanked by two guards. INT- crowd of civilians in the courtroom st...

  15. Kan family in US postwar: at the beach

    Silver Point Beach in Rockaway, NY. Betsy on a beach blanket with several young men, including her fiancé closest to the camera. People at the beach. 01:03:17 A young man wearing glasses (Robert?) walks with a girl in a bathing suit. 01:03:24 Betsy's fiancé holds her hand to the camera and points to a ring on her finger. The two of them with Frits, walking down the boardwalk with Jeanne. Betsy walks with Frits.

  16. Justice Department (Fond 88)

    Contains correspondence related to property in Yugoslavian and Greek territories; testimonies from Bulgarian soldiers taking part in the execution of Thomas Markham, an American pilot, as well as English Major Thompson and others; correspondence with the Central Committee of National Liberation (Jewish Section) regarding Jews in jail; report regarding the property of Jews who emigrated to Palestine and a letter from the Association of Bulgarian Jews in Tel Aviv regarding this question; and other records related to the confiscation of properties during and after World War II.

  17. Jasenovac Camp

    Opening scene: color footage of visitors to the Jasenovac Memorial Area. Image switches to black and white footage of CU pan of a sculpture of a human form lying on the ground on top of smooth white stones. Ceremony: Military giving out badges and medals. An unidentified high ranking officer pins a male soldier as the soldier salutes him; MCU of women who have been awarded medals, standing in a row. MS of train tracks that are overgrown with weeds. 01:01:32 Countryside, pan of grounds. Slate reads: "Jasenovac Est./ Dan. 54A/1" The camera continues to pan overgrown train tracks and the surro...

  18. 16th Soviet Congress

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 2, No. 88, Part 1. Release date, 11/05/1930. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: "16th Soviet Congress Pledges Intensive 5-Year-Plan Support." Moscow, USSR. Stalin, Litvinoff and other chiefs of the New Russia perfect program for great agricultural and industrial drive, involving millions of workers, which is intended to put nation on a par with rest of world in production of raw material, foodstuff and manufactured goods. CU, young Stalin with Molotov, followed by lots of workers strolling around. Stalin chats with army officer, Kalinin in group. Stali...

  19. Jean Montgomery collection

    Sheet music, "Men of the Ozark," song created for the 102 Infantry Division of the United States Army, music composed by C.W.O. F.E. Ford and lyrics written by Sgt. E.A. Grama and Cpl. E.G. Valcourt; Matchbook, cover only, printed against blue background is emblem of 102 Infantry Division and printed against yellow background is advertisement for chapel service; Photographs, black and white images of US military personel and liberation scenes, taken by LeRoy Gustafson, member of 102nd Infantry Division in Germany at Gardelegen; dated 1945.

  20. US battalion lays cable; DPs interrogated

    (LIB 4607) Co "C" 93rd Signal Bn Lays Communication Cable, Nierstein, Germany, March 24, 1945. SEQ: Cable on reel is let out from boat to men on shore who tie it to trees along bank of Rhine River. Engineers dig trench along river and lay cable in it. Telephone terminals are set up on shoreline. Lt. Gen George S Patton Jr and Maj Gen Manton S Eddy speak with engineer personnel. MSs, CU, approximately 18 displaced persons gather on the east side of Rhine River who are French, Italian, and Polish (formerly of the slave labor battalions used by the Germans) are interrogated by 5th Inf Div sold...