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  1. Yugoslavia: railroad yard; bank; villagers; Ustashi prisoners marched through streets; scenes in Belgrade

    Reel 9: Railroad yards in Belgrade, locomotives. Kalemegdon Park, French Military Museum in BG. Pan across old fortified area overlooking mouth of Sava River; Danube River on right. People lined up in front of various banks to exchange old dinars for new dinars. Sign on bank telling people to exchange money. People leaving bank, guard standing by door. Yugoslavians looking at displays of new dinar money. Street scenes showing damages to residential section and hospital. CUs, faces of townspeople. Group of Ustashi prisoners marching under guard to concentration camp; Serbians beating prisone...

  2. Records of Lyubimir Lyuchev, personal advisor to Tsar Boris III (Fond 950)

    Contains a diary, correspondence, articles, photographs, and other records of Lyubimir Lyuchev, a personal advisor to Tsar Boris III.

  3. Edith Kaufler letters

    Contains letters from Edith Kaufler who escaped from a concentration camp and settled in Prague, Czechoslovakia.

  4. Rafal Malec collection

    The collection consists of photographs documenting the pre-war lives of Rafal Malec and his family in Grodno, Poland (Hrodna, Belarus).

  5. Verdoner children playing in the garden

    CU, Otto Verdoner standing in his crib, smiling happily for the camera. ECU, Otto's face. VS, Otto playing with wooden toys in his crib. MCU, Francisca seated in a chair next to Otto's crib, she talks to her brother, and amuses herself. EXT, several children, including Yoka and Francisca Verdoner in the Verdoners' garden. ECU, Otto in the arms of his mother Hilde, passing the camera to go outside with the other children. VS, children running around playing ball, the father of the other young children (3) is present. There are two boys and one girl. Yoka and the boys chase each other around ...

  6. VE day in Paris; Latvian children in Germany; US soldiers; German surrender in small town

    01:34:36 (LIB 6426+6428) Paris Lights up on VE Day, France, May 8, 1945. Night shots, lights are on at Trocadero fountain, Arc de Triomphe, Place de la Concorde. Crowds milling about. Day shots, American and British soldiers dancing with civilians in the streets, celebrating VE day. 01:38:54 (LIB 6429) Latvian Children, Hahnenklee, Germany, May 4, 1945. INT, MSs, CUs, several small children, sick and undernourished, lying in beds. LS, MS, house in resort town which shelters Latvian and Polish children. MS, CU, sign at entrance to town: "Resort for Mothers and Children." 01:40:58 (LIB 6430) ...

  7. Crayon drawing of a green leaved wreath with purple flowers made by a young girl while living in hiding

    Crayon drawing made by Betty Julia Ensel while she was living in hiding in the Netherlands. It depicts a wreath of green leaves and purple flowers. When Germany occupied the Netherlands in May 1940, three year old Julia lived in Amsterdam with her parents, Rose Marie Schink, who was not Jewish, and Guy Weinberg, who was Jewish. Rose Marie hid twelve Jews in the attic of her house in Blaricum and was in contact with the Dutch resistance movement. Julia attended school under her mother's maiden name in order to avoid suspicion about her Jewish ancestry. Julia, her mother, and all of the Jews ...

  8. VE Day in Greece

    Pictures from Greece, 1944? Shows activities in and around Athens from the end of the German occupation of Greece to the arrival of and occupation by British troops. Shows scenes of death and destruction caused by German invasion and occupation. Bands of guerrillas fight retreating Nazis. Shows bodies of Germans captured by Greeks. Citizens cheer their freedom from Germans and the arrival of British troops.

  9. Doll purse

    Julia Schor played with the doll purse while in hiding during the Netherlands.

  10. Łódź becomes Litzmannstadt, reel 2

    Germans build new planned city for German Volk. Łódź being "rebuilt." Reel 2: School. Man painting. Poles in factory. Germans in dining area. Slow pan, eating/smoking in dining area. Sign: Staedtliches Krankenhaus Mitt. Hospital. Nurses caring for bed-ridden. Medical examinations, X-rays. Hitler Youth, drums. Stadium, sports, calisthenics. Track race, soccer, long jump, swimming, women's track race. Women doing calisthenics. Drums. Book: Das Wappen vom Litzmannstadt. CUs, swastika. Unveiling new city seal with Greiser.

  11. March of Time: refugees

    Info from the MOT story card: Even more horrible than the fate of fugitives from war is the lot of the ever increasing army of fugitives from Nazi terror. Not just Jews, but all who do not agree with Nazi doctrines are victims. Those who escape the concentration camp are hounded from land to land by Hitler's machinations. But his very tactics were to unite the democracies in protest, and in affirmation of the doctrines of liberty. Destroying books and music at 12:09:54:09.

  12. Isaac Zubovsky papers

    Contains a letter written by Isaac Zubovsky's uncle from Kiev, Russia (August 1941), a certificate given to Isaac Zubovsky's mother by NKVD station of evacuation in Kiev (July 1941), a certificate given to Isaac Zubovsky's father's military unit (July 1941), a photograph of Isaac Zubovsky's uncle Yasha Zaslavsky (1941), and an article written by Isaac Zubovsky entitled, "One more time how it happened."

  13. Sentencing Fritzsche; Accusing Goering, Ribbentrop, Frank at Nuremberg Trial (SOUND ONLY)

    Sentencing of Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany, October 1946. NOTE: Here, the actual sentences for the defendants are read, but there was a court ruling that no filming and photographs were allowed during the announcement. So the voice of judge is heard, no pictures, white screen, SOUND ONLY. Soviet voice at start, re. Funk. Adjournment for 10 minutes. "Hello, recording. Hello, recording." 02:25:40 Continuation of sentences pronounced by tribunal: 02:25:45 Hans Fritzsche: Not guilty Martin Bormann (fragment) 02:26:30 Resume of Goering's career in the Nazi Party. US Justice Fran...

  14. Yugoslavia: houses; factory; city scenes; market

    Reel 3: Residence of the British Ambassador, Ralph R S Stevenson. Walking to garden; talking. Stevenson; weaving looms in operation; Yugoslavian women working looms. Parliament building; trolley cars passing by in FG; dome. Yugoslavians in Kalenica Guvno marketplace, trading and dealing. Cuetnitrg Market on Sunday morning; basket of eggs, barrels of cheese, onions, chickens and garden vegetables sold at the market; curbside stalls, buyers walking through.

  15. Glacier National Park; military parade

    Mountain shots, road, truck, lake. Pans across river/lake, houses on water front. Sign for park. 01:03:05 road, car. Dark shot - possible bear walking around. Military van passes. 01:04:39 sign for Apgar Cabin Camps. Log cabins, American flag. Sign for Lake McDonald Ranger station. Man walks past camera. 01:08:13 "Tom B Moore. W.M. Wayman" title. 3 women leave house. Then woman, man stands staring at camera. Cherries for sale. Sign for Robbinwood. Man and woman picking cherries. 01:10:35 woman taking picture of man in uniform. House shot, American flag, people outside. 01:12:29 Man in unifo...

  16. Jeanne and Frits Kan as bride and groom

    Dutch intertitles. Home movie of two unknown children reenacting the courtship and wedding of Dutch Jews Frits Kan and Jeanne Bloch. The first section of the film introduces various children with a title and then a shot of that child. "Mei 4, 1924" Boy identified as Frits and a little girl, Jeanne, leaving a car and embarking onto a boat. The two children give each other hugs and kisses. 01:02:34 Frits waves a handkerchief from the rear of the boat and Jeanne from the dock. Boat departs from the dock as Frits continues to wave. 01:05:02 In Singapore Frits on a wagon being pulled by two men....

  17. Nathan Ehrenreich papers

    Consists of concert programs, correspondence and newspaper clippings illustrating the experiences of Nathan Ehrenreich and his serving as director of the choir of the Frankfurt am Main chapter of the Jüdischer Kulturbund. Also included are an affidavit of support for Nathan and a Red Cross letter, addressed to him in New York, containing a message from his sister, Rebekka Steinhaeuser in Würzburg, Germany; also includes an accretion of essays.

  18. Russian News (1944, No. 1)

    Russian troops, tanks, and motorcycles cross the Dvina River on rafts and reach Vitebsk. Artillery fires on the city. Troops march through its ruins. Germans surrender and are marched to the rear. Citizens berate them, and embrace Russian soldiers. Rockets and artillery are fired. Russian planes pass over. Shows German dead, abandoned equipment, and German prisoners. Five German generals are interrogated by Russian troops.

  19. Wooden spoon from Dachau prisoner-of-war camp

  20. Reichspressechef selected records (NS 42)

    Records from the group NS 42. Contains the office files of the "House of the Press," Munich, mostly correspondence with other countries, free subscriptions to the German propaganda periodical "News from Germany", German requests for press items or publications from abroad, publications concerning Jews, news clippings, letters from foreign citizens, and miscellaneous documents.