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  1. Postwar: Verdoner children emigrate on the Gripsholm; walk around NYC

    Color part of "November 1946 Gripsholm" reel. CU, Yoka and Francisca Verdoner on the deck of a ship SS Gripsholm bound for the USA. This footage was shot post war, the Verdoner children were hidden children. Their mother Hilde was deported to Auschwitz and perished during the war. CU, all three Verdoner children arm in arm on deck- Francisca, Yoka and Otto. MCU, Otto on deck, he is playing with what looks like a piece of 35mm film(?). There are some instances of overexposure on this reel of film. Yoka moving about on deck. Panning shot of the ship's mast and various displaced persons on dec...

  2. Sentencing Frank, Frick, Streicher, Funk, Schacht, Doenitz at Nuremberg Trial

    Sentencing of Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany, October 1946. MLS, and MS, prisoners as verdict against Hans Frank is read. Frank is guilty under counts three and four [screen goes black for a few seconds]. There is a dispute with Himmler mentioned about the type of legal system in Germany. Shots of defendants as French Justice speaks about Wilhelm Frick (in French). Frick is guilty under counts two, three, and four, providing the political history, then saying that he knew about the systematic murder of old, weak, sick people, but did not take action to stop it. Justice Geoffr...

  3. Joanna Raplewska collection

    Consists of an autograph album kept by Joanna Raplewska from circa 1941 to 1943 in the ghetto in Łódź, Poland; a tag, given to the donor’s maternal aunt, Bronka Zawadzka, by German authorities in the Łódź ghetto, September 1944, authorizing her to stay in the ghetto after its liquidation; photographs depicting the donor, her father, and her paternal uncle before the war and during the war in the Łódź ghetto; and a postcard and a letter written to Bronka Zawadzka in the Łódź ghetto.

  4. Kan family at the zoo

    Ouwehand Zoo in Rhenen. Two children looking at various animals. EXT shots of the pavilion buildings at the zoo; animals in the exhibits; crowd watching seals. Children feed pigeons and hold a goat.

  5. Magdalena Moskowitz papers

    Consists of documents, correspondence, and photographs related to the Holocaust-era experiences of Magdalena Eisler Moskowitz, who immigrated to the United States in 1937, and her family in Mukacevo, Hungary (Mukachevo, Ukraine). Includes documents, family photographs, and correspondence between Magdalena and her family in Mukacevo. Also included in the collection are two large albums with pasted parchment from tefillin and mezuzot scrolls.

  6. Verdoner family at the beach in Zandvoort

    Verdoner family on summer holdiay in Zandvoort, Holland, a beach resort town near Haarlem. VS, Yoka and Francisca digging in the sand with their mother and father. Playing in the sand with other children, also older children.

  7. Einstein

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 3, No. 3, Part 3. Release date, 01/05/1931. According to UN Offical Motion Picture Release: "Throngs Acclaim Einstein's Arrival at Pacific Coast" San Diego, CA. Mount Wilson's Observatory helps to prove scientist's theory of relativity. Many of world's eminent astronomers join in making noted German's visit one of keen interest. CU, ship SS Blegenland, girls in middy blouses wave plumes for him. Einstein down gangplank, poses. (Most views of AE are out of focus.) ECU face, outdoor amphitheater. Einstein's wife is also in the picture. Other parts of the newsreel incl...

  8. Verdoner family on summer holiday

    VS, Verdoner family on summer holiday in the beach resort town of Zandvoort, near Haarlem in the Netherlands.

  9. Bulgarian Section of the League of Nations (Fond 487)

    Contains records related to antisemitism in Germany.

  10. Smoliarka and Bronna-Gura forest photograph collection

    The collection consists of three photographs take in forests near Bereza Kartuska, Poland (Biaroza, Belarus). The photographs depict the Smoliarka forest, located 7-8 kilometers from Bereza Kartuska, that was the site of an execution of 1800-2000 Jews in 15-16 October 1942, and a house and trees near Bronna Góra, where at least 50,000 Jews were murdered in 1942.

  11. Yugoslavia: partisan soldiers; marching; dancing; villagers

    Reel 4: Partisan soldiers firing guns. Col. Jagos looking through glasses. Men placing artillery guns in position, horses, men marching. Partisan soldiers resting on roadside, sleeping, writing letters. Solders in trenches; dead German soldier. Soldiers eating lunch. Marching through Sotin; peasants watching as convoy of artillery guns and soldiers march through village. Villagers watching haystack and home burning. Soldier playing the accordion and singing, eating lunch, listening to music; people resting. Dead German soldiers. Soldiers dancing the "Kola" as accordionist plays. Group of pe...

  12. Central Office of DAF Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF). Zentralbüero (NS 5 IV)

    Records of NS-5 IV. Correspondence and reports related to the aryanization of Jewish property; cases of individual Jews; denunciation of Jews, homosexuals, and political dissidents; and antisemitic public announcements.

  13. Rosa Cook papers

    Contains an identification card, ration card, cigarette pack, a cookie package wrapper, one memoir, eleven black and white photographs, and one photocopy of a picture of Rosa Cook's childhood home.

  14. Expressionistic lithograph by Richard Grune depicting concentration camp inmates begging a guard for food

    Lithograph created by Richard Grune for a 1947 series of works based upon his experiences as an inmate in German concentration camps and prisons from 1934-1945. Grune was a Bauhaus trained artist who moved to Berlin in February 1933, as the Nazis were consolidating their control of the government. In December 1934, he was denounced and arrested. Under interrogation, Grune admitted to being homosexual. He was held in protective custody for five months, then returned to Flensburg, his childhood home, to stand trial for violating Article 6, §175 of the penal code which punished indecent acts b...

  15. Postwar: Christmas in the US

    EXT, MS, two unidentified women walking away from camera, their backs eventually face the camera. Cut to MS, man and young girl walking along a street, they pass several parked cars, before getting into a car, there is an unidentified woman there as well- she waves to the camera. MS, young girl dressed in a red snowsuit, runs out of a large house and toward the camera. She runs back into the house and a young boy comes out, without a coat, indicates that he is cold and goes back inside the house with the young girl. MS, girl in the red snow suit walking through the streets of an unidentifie...

  16. Fall of Metz: fighting; German prisoners; military officers

    LS, across field to view of Metz under artillery fire; see rising smoke columns. MS, GIs riding down streets of Metz in jeeps. MS, from ground to 3-story window of building to GIs, and civilians. CU, GI with flower standing with other GIs and French woman. MS, large group of German prisoners. MS, German prisoners exiting building and marched away. LS, line of German prisoners. LS, tank destroyer crew in action. MS, loading tank. CU, phone picked up by GI. MS, group officer greeted by Gen. Ward. MS officers inspecting Mobile Air Support unit. Group of officers talking. Cemetery. LS, across f...

  17. Winifred Lever papers

    Contains documents and photographs pertaining to Winifred Levin's role as secretary of the World Jewish Congress in London during World War II. Includes information about efforts to assist Jews affected by the Holocaust.

  18. Aussenstelle Dahlwitz-Hoppegarten records: ZR

    Records compiled by former East German state security service (Stasi). Contains records relating to Nazi atrocities, mostly files with material used in the war crimes investigation.

  19. Brochure

    Consists of issue no. 18 (33) of the serial publication "TAGAR - STRUGGLE," published in Shanghai, China, by the United Zionist-Revisionsts and Brit Trumpeldor in the Far East.

  20. Employment references

    Two documents that served as references for a maid. One is typewritten on company letterhead from Elektro-Reparatur-Werke; dated January 31,1926 and the other is a handwritten note dated 1925.