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  1. FDR speaking at NY World's Fair & in Washington, DC

    "Freedom - President Urges Tolerance in US" President Roosevelt speaking in Washington urges tolerance. On the site of the New York World's Fair, speaking before National Education Association, Roosevelt speaks out against censorship. 01:46:53 "Washington" In Washington, FDR argues that his policies are legitimate under the Constitution.

  2. Royalty, politicians, statesmen, authors highlighted

    REEL 1: In the 1930s. Opening scene is of an orchestra playing with big poster of Hitler on wall behind them, they are playing to a full hall of all men who appear to be prisoners. Close shots of the Duke of Windsor seated in the front row with non-prisoner VIPs. Various European royalty. 01:33:35 Politicians and statesmen. League of Nations. 01:38:11 Closeup of book by H.G. Wells, "The Shape of Things to Come". H.G. Wells is asked about "the terrible state of the world today." Lady Astor prophetically says that we can lead the Russians out of communism by trading with them. Great George Be...

  3. Association of Bulgarian Dentists (Fond 356)

    Contains correspondence and list of members of the Association of Bulgarian Dentists. Includes correspondence relating to the confiscation of telephones from Jewish offices and prohibition of dental practices by Jews.

  4. Leon Trotsky

    EXT, day. Various scenes of review/parade of Red Army soldiers. MLS, Leon Trotsky taking salute from reviewing stand. MLS, pan, Trotsky, with staff, marching past camera.

  5. Soviet Revolt feted

    Universal Newsreel Vol. 6, No. 310, Part 3. Release date, 12/12/1934. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: Other Big News Pictures Include: Moscow turning out in a monster celebration of the Soviet Revolution. Sound of Soviet marching hymn, Stalin and officials watch parade. Parade with banner of Stalin. CU, Stalin and Voroshilov. Paraders carrying Lenin's banner. Cut-in spectators. More parades/banners. Stalin and Voroshilov. Parade. Overhead with Stalin banner. Shooting across water showing buildings, Kremlin. Overhead shot works releasing balloon.

  6. German regulations announcements

    Collection of three German announcements titled: "Verordnungsblatt für das Generalgouvernement," Nr. 94; "Verordnungsblatt für das Generalgouvernement," Nr. 98; "Mitteilungen des Stadthauptmanns der Stadt Krakau," Nr. 15.

  7. May Day at DP camp

    (LIB 6186) Russian DP May Day Celebration, Kaiserslautern, Germany, May 1, 1945. Large group of Russian DPs marching past American and Russian officers. Individuals listening to speeches and applauding. Russians passing reviewing stand with black draped picture of FDR and inscription in Russian and English: "Long Live the 1st May." MCUs, Russian children passing review stand. Russian women presenting wreaths and flowers to American officers. MSs, American officers giving presents to Russian children. Russian DPs listening to speakers. (Slates indicate date as May 20 and 30, 1945)

  8. Women: Nazi propaganda on the Aryan ideal

    Statues. CUs, women, some with swimming caps. Women playing with girls, gymnastics, all blond/Aryan. Gymnastics class. Playing with ball. Exercising, running, stretching in swim suits. Race with hurdles. Tennis. Rings. Playing at beach. Kayaking, canoeing. Walking in line, in unison. Practicing dancing and exercises. Jumping (some scenes in slow motion). Balancing ball, throwing ball. Discus (some scenes in slow motion). Shot-put. Archery. Javelin on the beach. Women running into water.

  9. Stimson; Patterson; Churchill; Japanese children; German troops; French refugees; US soldiers; Tunisian front

    04:28:30 (NR-38) Sec of War Henry L Stimson Arrives in North Africa. Arrives at airfield. Stimson gets off plane and is greeted 04:29:34 Under Sec of War Robert Patterson, Adm William Leahy and Elmer Davis in a broadcasting studio. 04:29:45 Winston Churchill Speaks to Congress, standing on dais before many microphones addressing US Congress. At conclusion, entire Congress rises and applauds. Henry A Wallace and Alben W Barkley can be seen in BG. 04:31:11 Japanese Children in Mass "Kendo" Drill. Japanese school children in Tokyo performing skull-testing contest. Two groups charge each other ...

  10. Concentration camps: Collection of documents Obozy koncentracyjne-Zbiór akt (Sygn.1333 )

    Contains correspondence, lists of prisoners, and memoirs concerning different ghettos, concentration camps, and death camps in Poland.

  11. David and Myrna Rymer family papers

    Contains correspondence and documents pertaining to the Holocaust experiences of the family of David and Myrna Rymer who fled Warsaw, Poland, to Lithuania, migrated to Russia, received visas signed by the Japanese diplomat, Chiune Sugihara, and journeyed to Japan. Documentation includes visas and booklets issued to Mirjam and Mojzesz Rymer, correspondence between 1939-1941, and materials related to the family's arrival in Japan in 1941, including tourist postcards, hotel receipts, and a pocket translator.

  12. March of Time -- outtakes -- Trotsky

    Leon Trotsky and his lawyer, Mr. Goldman, in Mexico City, Mexico. Trotsky reads in garden, works at desk, writing, reading the "Internationale", and greets guests on veranda. Mexican police guard entrances to building.

  13. Verdoner child plays in the yard

    Yoka Verdoner, playing in her yard, alone, then in the company of her mother, another woman, father and grandfather.

  14. Joanna Senior Tybora collection

    Consists of photographs and documents regarding Edward and Josefa Josette Senior, originally of Moscow, including postcards and a letter written by Edward Senior from Stalags XX and XI, postcards sent from Josefa to her husband, Edward, in Stalag XX, obituaries for Henryk Senior, a birth certificate for Henryk, and family photographs. The collection also includes a book written by Stanislaw Wyspianski which includes signatures of school-friends of Dora Senior, who evidently attended a private Jewish high school in Warsaw

  15. Papers of Peter Gabe (Fond 137)

    Contains manuscripts, notebooks, letters and newspaper clippings relating to the Jewish question, Jewish language, resettlement of Jewish families in Bulgaria, and migration of Russian Jews to agricultural colonies in Palestine.

  16. Celebration in Luxembourg; Nice, Monaco coastline; returning to New York

    MLS, jumpy scenes of young men running across a field, wearing red shorts and no shirts. Young women in red and blue skirts with white shirts processing around the field where the boys were running (also very jumpy). Girls hold and wave white handkerchiefs. LS, young men perform calisthenics on the field. MS, young women on the field. END VS, Col. Zabin horseback riding and jumping. VS, Col. Zabin waterskiing in Nice and Monaco. VS, high angle views of the beach and coast, people walking along a paved path by the beach. END LS, high angle, hills, coastline, and the water beyond, red-tiled r...

  17. Black leather mid-calf boots worn by a female Jewish concentration camp prisoner

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn520451
    • English
    • a: Height: 13.750 inches (34.925 cm) | Width: 3.875 inches (9.843 cm) | Depth: 9.750 inches (24.765 cm) b: Height: 13.750 inches (34.925 cm) | Width: 3.875 inches (9.843 cm) | Depth: 9.875 inches (25.083 cm)

    Pair of black, leather mid-calf boots worn by Alice (Ala) Brand while she was a prisoner at several concentration camps from December 1944 until April 1945. The boots were purchased for Alice by her husband, Samuel, who was working with a special science unit at Płaszów labor camp in German-occupied Poland. Samuel was escorted to and from work by two guards, and he was able to bribe them into taking him to stores to buy supplies for himself and Alice. Alice was living in Tarnów, Poland with her family when Germany invaded on September 1, 1939. A week later, German forces occupied the city. ...

  18. DPs assemble at train station; supplies/ration; staging area; paratroopers in US

    DP Stateside Bound, Butzbach, Bremen staging area, Germany, October 12, 1948. Several families are oriented by a female official. The Blumenbach, Rogouste, and Homik families stand at windows of train which will take them to Bremen. MS, Army capt, J L Streicher, and IRO movement officer Abolins, speaking at railroad platform. People assembled at railroad station to see relatives and friends off. Bread is unloaded from boxes at the railroad platform. CU, UNRRA written on wooden box. CU, railroad tickets used for bread ration. DPs are issued bread rations. Man taking bread away in box; man pl...

  19. Verdoner family out in Hilversum

    Yoka Verdoner out for a stroll with her mother Hilde Verdoner and her baby sister Francisca Verdoner (in baby carriage). Yoka wheels along a baby doll in a play stroller. VS, of the family on their outing through the streets in their home town of Hilversum, Holland.

  20. VE Day in Paris

    Scenes of massive VE day celebration. French civilians. American soldiers and WACs parading in the streets, riding on military vehicles. Wounded soldiers at the 48th General Hospital, upon hearing the news, dancing with nurses and joining in the parade. Crowds of people around Arc de Triomphe, Rue de la Paix, Place de la Concorde, and Place de l'Opera, where Gen. Charles DeGaulle made the victory announcement. Blind man playing accordion.