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  1. Judge Ben Lindsey

    Judge Ben Lindsey making his will public, speaking of importance of probate law. (filmed in studio)

  2. Postwar: Barn in Woodstock, NY

    EXT, MS, Kurt Sluizer wearing a red plaid barn jacket and hat, walking up to pet a horse, pan to a large sheepdog named Toby running in the grass towards Esther Sluizer coming out of the house to their yard in Zena, NY, near the artist colony of Woodstock. Kurt is the brother of Hilde Verdoner-Sluizer and brother-in-law to the cameraman, Gerrit Verdoner. Kurt and Esther left Europe in 1936, thereby escaping the Holocaust. They lived first in Pueblo, Colorado, and then in Zena. Kurt was an oil painter, Esther a nurse and a weaver. Their home dates to colonial times, originally a roadside inn...

  3. Baby Otto Verdoner

    Otto Verdoner, the youngest of the three Verdoner children is seen with a nurse, being taken out of his bassinette. Notes with original film indicate that Otto was 2 days old. VS, CU Otto in the arms of his mother Hilde Verdoner, lying in bed with Hilde. VS, of the nursemaid helping to take care of Otto and his mother. MCU, Yoka arranging the bassinette for her baby brother. CU, Otto crying in crib. VS, CUs, Otto takes a bath and changes diapers with the help of the nursemaid, Yoka and Francisca. Original notes with the film indicate that these images were shot over a period of two months. ...

  4. Property administration of the DAF Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF). Vermoegensverwaltung der DAF GmbH (NS 5 II)

    Records NS-5 II (formerly NS 3498). Contains documents relating to real properties (the sale or rental) in various locations and the erection and administration of forced labor camps including those using POWs.

  5. DPs moving in Germany; Inspection of army band/troops

    03:46:41 (Munich 756) Movement of DPs from Berlin to American Zone of Germany, Kassel, Germany, July 24, 1948. DPs line up, getting ready to pull out of Kassel area. CU, Maj A S Hyman speaking to group and Dr. William Haber, adviser to Gen Clay on DP affairs. MCU, woman holding child. CU, blonde girl. Two women sitting next to their belongings. DPs waiting at railroad station platform. CU, girl holding doll. DPs walking to the station. DPs getting aboard trucks Pan, line of trucks filled with DPs at Camp Mattenberg. People getting of trucks at camp. Men getting loaves of bread out of truck....

  6. Joseph Stalin

    Joseph Stalin reviewing parade in Red Square. EXT, day, various scenes of mass demonstrations/parades in Red Square. Including: army soldiers; navy sailors; cavalry; workers; tanks; Joseph Stalin and others reviewing parades from atop "Lenin's Tomb"; air force planes. Celebrations in honor of the 17th Anniversay of the Revolution.

  7. Children's birthday party

    Children's birthday party. Francisca and Yoka Verdoner are present, there are many other (unidentified) children present as well. Many of the little boys are dressed in sailors uniforms, the word "MARINE" is visible on one of the little boy's hats. The children blow out a candle on a cake. Documentation from original film indicates that this is Yoka's fifth birthday party. MCU, Yoka, playing a harmonica, table of children playing at party in BG.

  8. Goldlust family papers

    Documents, correspondence, and photographs regarding the Holocaust experiences of the Goldlust family of Konstanz, Germany including Manja Goldlust and her children Paula and Leo’s deportations to the Gurs and Rivesaltes internment camps in France, correspondence from the camps with Manja’s husband Bernhard Goldlust in England, and Bernhard’s attempts to help them immigrate to England. Biographical material consists of Bernhard’s Foreigner passport (Fremden Pass), primarily postwar identification documents of Paula (some documents place her birth as 1928), an affidavit and related documents...

  9. Litman family papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of the Litman family of Zalishchyky, including their survival in Tovste and Jarosław, Poland with the use of false identification papers. Included are false identification papers identifying Olga Litman and her daughters Halina and Eva as Catholics with the last name Lityński, a work permit for Olga to work at a German military camp in Jarosław, DP identification cards, post-war British military papers of Ignacy Litman, marriage certificates, documents used for restitution, clippings, and photographs. The photographs consist of pre-war and ...

  10. Crayon drawing of a girl with a basket created 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 girl holding a basket and a list of cities. 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...

  11. Protest parade against Hitler

    "News Flashes!" Hitler Protest, New York City. Shot of protest parade against Hitler's treatment of the Jews in Germany. Shot of Major General O'Ryan, world war Commander of the 27th Div, at the head. Crowd shot, shot of the marchers in Battery Park. Close shot of placards, including: "Hitler / This is not the dark ages." CUs, onlookers.

  12. Post war documentary on lessons to be learned from the Holocaust

    Scene behind open credits is a bustling city square. Still of man hanging from a telegraph pole. Famous photo of young boy and woman with their hands up during the Warsaw ghetto uprising, it is a Stroop Report photo. 01:01:39 Concentration camp. Writing on wall. 01:02:43 CU of letters. 01:03:14 Still photos of individuals. "Poruke". Writing on screen. 01:04:18 Still photos - people about to be shot, inmates on wire, men with signs around their necks stating what they are guilty of. 01:04:45 Stills of many bodies in mass grave. 01:05:20 Still of people hanging, firing squad, bodies. 01:07:08...

  13. Judge Ben Lindsey

    Judge Ben Lindsey on crime and criminals. Lindsey speaks on the need to protect criminals from society's vindictiveness by setting up special courts that examine the root causes of crime. Children must be taught how, and not what, to think. (filmed in NYC studio)

  14. Betty Ventura papers

    Contains one songbook that includes Yiddish songs sung in her hometown of Oshmiena and eleven concentration camps, one copyprint of Betty Ventura [donor], and one embarkation card for Basia Prusak.

  15. Peter Klappert collection

    Group of scrapbooks containing photographs taken and assembled by Herman Emil Klappert (donor's father) during the Nuremberg Trial, as well as photographs used as evidence. Group of stereoscopic slides depicitng Hitler, taken by Heinrich Hoffman and given to Mr. Klappert. Collection also includes IMT indictment and miscellaneous notes and newspaper clippings.

  16. German educational film: Children of East Africa

    This film seems to closely parallel documentation regarding other films that were shot by Dr. Ludwig Kohl Larsen and his research team during the German Africa Expeditions that took place from 1934 to 1936 and again from 1937 to 1939. This expedition went to East Africa to study the hunter gatherer tribe of the region near Lake Eyasi. This tribe was called the Hadzabe, a nomadic tribe from Tanzania. This particular short ethnographic film features mainly children at play. They are young boys, running naked and swimming in the lake, climbing trees, eating coconuts, and fishing in the lake. I...

  17. Book

    The War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells (#1091) published for the Armed Services by a non-profit organization established by the Council on Books in Wartime. It is intended for exclusive distribution to members of the American Armed Forces and is not to be resold or made available to civilians

  18. Alralej-Steruberg postcards

    Consists of 15 postcards to Mosa Alralej from Arnold Steruberg. Postcards are marked Stari Gradiska and Lepoglava, concentration camps in Croatia.

  19. The Saturday Review of Literature [Magazine]

    The Saturday Review of Literature, May 8, 1943 with an article "They Burned the Books..." by Stephen Vincent Benet. There is an illustration on the cover of a Nazi bayonet stabbed through two books

  20. Kan family vacationing in France

    Color. People in a field of yellow flowers. CUs of people (unidentified). Countryside, river with a house. Men and women walk down a dirt road towards the camera, trees in BG. People walk in small groups - three women walk side by side and two men several paces behind them. Scenic shots of the countryside. People walk in the garden. 01:04:38 Group of men and women in a garden. Sundial, large white manor. People sitting in lawn chairs. 01:05:09 Robert on the far left and Betsy on the far right walking with their grandparents (Frits's parents). Grandma tosses a ball to Betsy who then tosses i...