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  1. Newsreels featuring warships in the Atlantic

    TIME weekly newsmagazine: "Crisis in the Atlantic", 1941. The March of Time, "The Atlantic 1941" LS, three warships in convoy. One sends blinker signal. INTs, captain and two attendants in ship's cabin. Aircraft carriers, battleships and destroyers in Atlantic Ocean. Full screen view, US fighter planes depart. LSs, MSs, Navy Dept building in Washington DC, as civilian workers enter. Sec of Navy, Frank Knox exits from car. Knox at naval dedication ceremony. Animation: comparative shipping tonnage of US, British, and Axis powers. US operators in code room send messages. CU, newspaper clipping...

  2. Trial of Buchenwald personnel; Nuremberg Trial: Milch case

    World in Film. Issue no. 117 (1947) 03:23:14 "Buchenwald Trial, The Sentence." Title: "Prozess Buchenwald: Das Urteil." Entrance to the courthouse at Dachau where the trial is being held. INTs, courtroom showing judges and spectators. Former General of the Waffen SS, Josiah Prinze zu Waldeck, is the first to hear his sentence. All 31 defendants were found guilty. Ilse Koch, the only woman defendant, is sentenced to life imprisonment. CU, Ilse Koch. Herman Pister is sentenced to death by hanging. 03:24:49 "Sun Observatory, Wendelstein, Bavarian Alps," Wendelstein, Germany: LS, the observator...

  3. Morris Hillquit

    Morris Hillquit nominating Socialist Norman Thomas for President.

  4. Yugoslavia: theatre performance

    Reel 5: Dancers performing on stage at National Opera Theater for the production of "Prince Igor."

  5. Green knapsack used by a Hungarian Jewish man in forced labor

    Large, two pocket rucksack used by Elek Brust while a forced laborer from 1941 and 1943-1944 in Hungary. He then used it while living in hiding with his family during the German occupation through February 1945. Elek was a manufacturer and prominent member of the Jewish community in Budapest where he lived with his wife Lilly and young daughter Eva. In 1941, Jewish males were required to do forced labor service and Elek was sent to a labor camp. Lilly obtained his release a few months later with black market papers. In 1943, Elek was again drafted, and not released until March 1944. On Marc...

  6. German educational film: rice farming practices in Southeast Asia

    This German educational film focuses on rice farmers in an unidentified country in Southeast Asia (most likely Indonesia). The film features men and women working in the rice fields, several majestic shots of the stepped land and perfectly manicured rice paddies. Oxen are used by the men to tend to the paddies. VS of collecting the rice, men and women back in the village sorting the day's harvest. MCU of an altar with flowers and various other items. INT, MS of women separating the grains from the stalk using large sticks. CU of a young boy eating the spare grains of rice that fall to the f...

  7. Zofia Glazer and Irena Zawadzka collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Rachel Zonszajn (later Rachel Benshaul) and her mother Cypora Zonszajn, originally of Siedlce, Poland, including Rachel’s survival as a hidden child with the efforts of Cypora’s childhood friends Zofia Glazer and Irena Zawadzka. The collection consists of three photographs of Rachel Zonszajn with her mother, father and her maternal grandmother in the Siedlce ghetto, dated Spring 1942; a photograph of Rachel with her rescuers, Zofia Glazer, Sabina Zawadzka, and Krystyna Zawadzka with her son, Stefanek, dated 1945, location, Siedlce, P...

  8. Ingrid Sacks collection

    Consists of photographs; a 1945 Aufbau newspaper article; letters written in Gurs; a school notebook; six original photos of the donor, including one portrait and one at Ecole de Filles; and six copy photos of the donor prior to her deportation to Gurs, in Gurs, in hiding with a rescuer, and in an OSE home prior to leaving for the United States.

  9. Antisemitic propaganda of Jews in the Warsaw ghetto

    Warsaw ghetto [many scenes same as Library of Congress footage on Film ID 2257]. German Jews arriving in Warsaw Ghetto. "Aufnahme Lager" [Intake point] Exteriors and interiors. Close views of individuals. Tracking shot inside. Jewish Council building, visitors. Inside the Chairman Adam Czerniakov's office. Meeting with Czerniakov at his desk, with candelabra. Street scenes, peddlars, children, shopfronts. Women, with armbands, shopping from carts. Cobblestone streets. Scenes of Jewish police menacing people with truncheons, moving them through the street. Scenes "directed" for Nazi propagan...

  10. Reading of judgment at Nuremberg Trial

    Wide shot of defendants, slow wide pan of room. Judgement of Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany, October 1946. French Justice continues reading the judgement about the 1934 Non-aggression Pact between Germany and Poland and events in 1939 (04:23:08 partial simultaneous translation into German - ). Shots of prosecution staff listening, including Shawcross, Dodd, Telford Taylor. 04:24:23 MS showing portion of translators section, to 04:25:30. MS, Wilhelm Keitel, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Alfred Rosenberg, Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Julius Streicher, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Arthur Seyss-...

  11. Bulgarian Pharmaceutical Association (Fond 349)

    Contains correspondence, personal files, declarations, and lists of members of the Bulgarian Pharmaceutical Association. Includes information regarding liquidation of Jewish pharmacies according to the Protection of the Nation Act, and report to the Ministry of Health regarding transfer of pharmacy property from Jewish to non-Jewish owners.

  12. Kovačević family photographs

    The collection consists of two photographs depicting members of the Kovačević family, whom were active partisans in Valpovo, Slavonia, Croatia during World War II, and hid several Jews in their barn on their property. The first photograph depicts Matilda Kovačević (later Matilda Cigic) and one of her sisters. The second is school class photograph and Matilda’s brother Dragutin is in the top row, fifth from the left.

  13. The Saturday Review of Literature [Magazine]

    The Saturday Review of Literature, November 7, 1942 with an article, "The P.E.N. hears a Report from the W.W.B." with four sketches of the meeting. In October 1942, the P.E.N. American Center held a dinner to celebrate "solidarity among intellectuals in times of strife and disorder."

  14. Alina Skibinska collection

    Consists of one black and white photograph bearing an image of three men standing in front of a building and ditch; verso, handwritten in graphite in the upper right corner is "1952-894" and handwritten in ink at the upper center is "Pustkow - Lager/IX.1941/mit 2 Judenrat (tlern)." Photograph is of the Pustków slave labor camp, Poland.

  15. Bulgarian People's Bank, Giumiurdzhine (Fond 1254, Opis 1)

    Contains questionnaires with declarations and information regarding Jewish valuables.

  16. Lace netting baby bonnet worn during bris in prewar Vienna

    Bonnet worn by Herbert Mauthner, during his circumcision in Vienna, Austria. Julia Schor was born Betty Julia Ensel on April 4, 1937,to a non-Jewish German mother, Rose Marie Schink, and a Jewish father, Guy Weinberg, in Amsterdam, Netherlands. During World War II, Rose Marie Schink hid 12 Jews in the attic of her house in Blaricum, Netherlands, 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 hiding in their house were liberated in May 1945.

  17. Joseph Wulf phonograph records

    Two original record discs (LPs) of recordings by Holocaust survivor and historian Joseph Wulf (b. Chemnitz, 1912 - 1974, Berlin). Includes songs composed by Joseph Wulf, accompanied on piano by Friedrich Scholz.

  18. Newsreel clips: Africa; UN condemns Nazi persecution of Jews; Pepper & Willkie; bombing of Italy

    Paramount News Vol. 2, No. 36. 01:36:36 "Africa - Fighting French and American Drive" (Voice of Gregory Abbot) US and Free French troops march in Tunis. Shows the Sultan of Morocco. 01:37:12 "Fighting French Manpower" French prisoners join the free French forces. 01:37:54 "The Yanks Still Come Home" US soldiers disembark. 01:38:30 "Holiday Train Wreck" (Voice of Henry Gladstone) The wreckage of two trains in Dixon, IL. 01:39:05 "United Nations Condemn Nazi Mass Slayings" (Voice of Gregory Abbot) Includes views of German persecution of Jews, book-burning, and concentration camps. 01:39:41 "T...

  19. Verdicts delivered on Speer, von Neurath, Fritzsche, Raeder, Rosenberg at Nuremberg IMT

    Verdicts rendered on Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg IMT, Nuremberg, Germany, 30 September 1946. Russian Justice, Justice Francis Biddle, and Justice Geoffrey Lawrence stating conclusions of the tribunal on Constantin von Neurath and Albert Speer. Speer: Guilty under counts 3, 4 (only the beginning and end of his verdict are audible). Von Neurath (in French) (sound cut off). Fritzsche: Not guilty under the indictments, because he was subordinate to Goebbels and Dietrich. LS, courtroom as Justice Lawrence states that any appeal of the defendants to the Control Council for clemency must be lodged w...

  20. Records relating to the race regulations of the French Gendarmes

    The collection contains documents from fonds 1A276 and 1A277 of the Service Historique de la Gendarmerie Nationale (SHGN) related to the regulations of October 1940, and June 1941, prohibiting service in the French National Gendarmes to persons of Jewish ancestry. Includes personnel files for individuals either attesting to Aryan status or requesting exemptions on the basis of exemplary service, heroism, etc.