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  1. The Leader's Struggle in the East 2 Miniature "button book" issued for charitable contributions by the Winter-hilfswerk des Deutschen Volkes

    Miniature "button book" printed by the Nazi German government and given as a token gift to those who had donated to the Winter-hilfswerk des Deutschen Volkes. The booklet could be worn on coat buttons as a sign that the wearer had donated to the charity.

  2. Magdolna Volgyesi papers

    Contains information about Magdolna Volgyesi's Holocaust experiences.

  3. FDR at the polls

    "New Deal Dominates America" Hyde Park, NY; New York City, NY; Pennsylvania. Cartoon (from the library) of Uncle Sam at the crossroads. Good shots of FDR at the polls, giving his name to the registrar. CUs, Mrs. James Roosevelt, his mother. Casting their votes for Gov. Lehman. Shot of citizens lined up at the polls. CU, electioneering sign. Map showing how FDR carried all but the six shaded states in 1932, whereas today, other states have swung toward the New Deal. CU, Senator David A. Reed, Republican spokesman, and CU of New Dealer Joseph A. Guffey who defeated him. This was a blow to con...

  4. Labor, POWs

    Various shots of labor. Group of soldiers, one delivering paperwork, pan left. A guard observes the soldiers (captured?) running to gather their belongings piled against building. Truck with POWs. Men with shovels and armbands, walking toward and past camera. POWs (Chinese?) shoveling dirt into wheelbarrow. Under guard of one armed soldier, young, strong French POWs working (shoveling, wheelbarrows, massive pit). POWs farming, guard on horse. Hauling supplies and bundles into and out of railroad cars. INT, stockroom with cardboard boxes piled on top of one another, POWs moving supplies onto...

  5. Verdoner family holiday and houseboat

    EXT, MCU, a man in a small house boat, docked. According to documentation that accompanied original films, the man's name is Leo Wijnbergin Punter. Gerrit Verdoner comes out on deck, putting on his shirt, and takes one of the eggs from the table, puts it in his mouth and begins to ham it up for the camera before ducking back inside the cabin. MS, EXT of the houseboat, the sea, and the window of a building, there is a sign on the building that reads: "STALLING-R'JWIELEN". Camera continues to pan building and surrounding farmland. VCU to MS of two young women standing in the doorway of the ho...

  6. Book

    The Seventh Cross, a novel by Anna Seghers (#Q-33) 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

  7. Album of 26 black and white linocuts of scenes from a detention camp in Cyprus

    Album of 26 black and white linocuts of scenes from a detention camp in Cyprus, and with a list of linocuts in Hebrew; black ink inscription in English captioning each interior linocut. This album was drawn, printed, and bound in 120 copies by pupils of the art-class of the Rutenberg Seminar in the Detention Camps of Cypress."

  8. Postwar war crimes trials related to the Holocaust

    Contains materials from trials conducted in the Ukrainian SSR (Soviet Socialist Republic) during and after World War II. The material includes documents from pre-trial investigations by the Ukrainian NKVD (Narodnyĭ komissariat vnutrennikh del), as well as interrogation protocols, indictments, verdicts and sentences, and post-sentencing histories. For each trial, the case number, the regional office, and principal defendant are listed. The collection also contains investigation and trial records of refugees from East and Central Europe who were arrested and interrogated by the Soviet State ...

  9. Einstein

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 2, No. 100, Part 7. Release date, 12/11/1930. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: News Paragraphs, New York, NY. "Einstein arrives!" German scientist here for lectures tour and scientific research. CU, Einstein. Arm in arm with fellows across ship's deck. LS, Einstein surrounded by reporters and cameramen. CU, Mrs. Einstein and her husband. Other parts of the newsreel include: 01:18:54 1: Diegel wins first open match play golf championship. 01:20:08 2: Villages combat flood ravages as high water recedes. 01:21:31 3: Male chorines shine in dress rehearsa...

  10. Yugoslavia: soldiers dancing; officers and prisoners; villagers

    Reel 7: Soldiers dancing in streets of Vinkovci, accordion player. US ambassador Richard C. Patterson and US officers in Dakovo, entering cathedral - pan, steeple to partially damaged church. Patterson, Kusovac Labud, Yugoslavian Propaganda Chief, and Col Charles Thayer looking through field glasses at fighting. Group of officers leaving German prison. Soldiers riding in horse-drawn carts on way to front, Patterson and officers watching from jeep. Officers interrogating prisoners. CUs, men eating. 03:15:23 Partisan General Peko Dapcevic with an American official (Gen Dapcevic became Tito's ...

  11. Warsaw uprising underground press Prasa konspiracyjna Powstania Warszawskiego

    Contains an underground press collection of 106 titles issued during the Warsaw Uprising in 1944, mostly by resistance organizations. Among other publishers are the Armia Krajowa (Home Army), the Armia Ludowa (People’s Army), the Polska Partia Socjalistyczna (Polish Socialist Party), and the Stronnictwo Narodowe (National Party).

  12. Papers of Ivan Baryanov (Fond 389)

    Contains anonymous letters against the Bulgarian Government Jewish Policy, opinions and speeches regarding discrimination against Jews in Bulgaria. Also includes a letter from the Bulgarian Consulate in Prague regarding instructions about Yugoslavian problems.

  13. Justice Lawrence discusses Nuremberg Charter and trial development at Nuremberg Trial

    Sentencing of Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany, October 1946. (Note: First 200 feet is dark and out of focus.) MS, Tribunal as Justice Geoffrey Lawrence speaks of the formation of the Nuremberg Tribunal for the trying of Nazi war leaders. Pan of courtroom as voice of Justice Lawrence is heard reading the prospectus of the Nuremberg Charter. He then describes how evidence was gathered. MS, Chief US Prosecutor Robert H Jackson, sitting at table.

  14. Mayer Zielinski collection

    Postcard written by Mayer Zielinski, who was in the Srodula Ghetto, on May 3, 1943 to his sisters, Edzia, Mania, and Sala Zielinski, who were in the Graben Labor Camp. The text contains a description of Mayer's life in the ghetto, including the work he was forced to do and his efforts to find food.

  15. Leon Trotsky

    Hollywood, California. Dedication of "Park Row." EXT, day, Fox Studio. LS, William H. Hays and onlookers at "Park Row," new home to Fox writers and directors. LS, unveiling table. LS, Tom Mix speaking. LS, Leon Trotsky? speaking in Russian. LS, Madge Bellamy welcoming writers. Various others congratulating, speaking, crowd milling about "Park Row."

  17. Judgement delivered on Frank, Frick, Streicher, Doenitz, Raeder at Nuremberg Trial

    Sentencing of Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany, 1 October 1946. Justice Francis Biddle (US) reading part of judgement on Hans Frank: "a willing and knowing participant in the use of terrorism in Poland; in the economic exploitation of Poland in a way that led to the deth by starvation of a large number of people; in the deportation to Germany as slave laborers of over a million Poles; and in a program involving the murder of at lest three million Jews. Conclusion: The Tribunal finds that Frank is not guilty on Count One but guilty under Counts Three and Four of the indictment."...

  18. Funeral procession; Autobahn opening; bridges; parade in Rome

    05:37:40 Funeral of Abbey Schachleitner in Munich. "The entire Munich population is there." Long line of people; clear, sunny day. Floral wreaths. Exiting chapel with casket, funeral procession, SS marching. Gauleiter Wagner speaks at the cemetery about how the Abbey was "a believing Catholic and at the same time a fanatic National Socialist." Crowd heiling. Presenting memorial wreath on grave. (sync sound) 05:39:06 Opening of the Autobahn section Dresden-Merane. Rainy day. Hitler with entourage, greeting crowd, heiling, speaking, praises the achievement of the Autobahn and its workers. ".....

  19. Doll hat

    Julia Schor played with the doll hat while in hiding during the Holocaust.

  20. The Saturday Review of Literature [Magazine]

    Saturday Review of Literature, dated May 6, 1943 with a drawing on the cover of a Nazi bayonet stabbing through two books. One of the articles titled, "They Burned Books..." by Stephen Vincent Benet