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  1. Poster

  2. War Crimes Trials: film used as evidence in Ministries' Case (#11)

    War Crimes Trials, Case 11 (Ministries Case). Footage pertains to Germany's entry into Austria. An old Austrian barracks is burned to the accompaniment of speeches, saluting, etc. Several night shots of the burning and collapsing building are featured. "Gros-Deutschland". Views of Graz, Bavaria: the streets, buildings, etc. Hitler arrives in his car, crowds heil. In a great hall, he stops on the way to the platform to smell a flower, shake hands with people. There are many WW I wounded in the audience. CUs, weeping and ecstatic people, wounded with crutches, etc. Himmler is among those list...

  3. Home Army Armia Krajowa (Sygn.1326)

    Contains various documents of the Polish Underground Army (Home Army), a military organization of the resistance movements during World War II. Established in February 1942 as a successor to the November 13, 1939-established Zwiazek Walki Zbrojnej (Union for Armed Combat), it became a part of Polish Armed Forces under the control of the Polish Government-in-Exile. The Home Army’s long-term aim was to prepare for a general uprising at the moment of Germany’s defeat; its operations culminated in the 63-day Warsaw Uprising in the summer of 1944.

  4. May Day at DP camp

    Russians Celebrate May Day at DP Center, Bonn, Germany, May 1, 1945. MCUs, CUs, Russian musicians and dancers at May Day celebration. CUs, Russian DPs including children carrying banners and flowers in parade. DPs playing soccer. AVs, German soldiers and vehicles crowded on airstrip. AVs, road jammed with German soldiers and vehicles moving toward surrender point.

  5. Germany before and after Hitler

    Montage showing in contrast the peaceful life in Germany before and life in Germany during Hitler. Two barefooted, weary men sleeping in park. Woman walking through alley looking in garbage cans. Children in slum street. Boys training in the Nazi Farm Corps. LS, fountain in park. CU, plow breaking ground. 01:12:30 Night scenes: Nazis on the march; burning of books. 1 shot of fires inside synagogue (authentic?). Jews being beaten in streets. HS, German troops, Wehrmacht, on parade. (Good) Montage: Activity in German factory; Montage, German Luftwaffe and Panzer attack. Tanks superimposed ove...

  6. Esther Z. Stern collection

    Collection of five postcards written by Hirsz Majer Zielinski in the Sosnowiec ghetto to Estera Edzia Zielinska in Graben forced labor camp.

  7. Bulgarian Legation in Bucharest (Fond 327)

    Contains reports and press clippings from the Romanian press regarding underground communist activities in Dobruja and Bessarabia; correspondence between the Bulgarian and Romanian Minister of Foreign Affairs regarding individual persons of Jewish origin and about the sinking of the "Struma" (Sṭrumah); correspondence regarding passport renewals for Jewish volunteers in the Civil War in Spain; and correspondence regarding visas and transit lists for people of non-Jewish origin. Also includes a registry of incoming documents and passports issued.

  8. Elisabeth Bates papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Elisabeth Bates (born Isabela Wolfowicz), originally of Gąbin, Poland. Documents include a false identification document used by Elisabeth to live under the name of Elzbieta Rybiecka in Warsaw, Poland, dated 21 April 1939; and an identification card belonging to Elisabeth’s grandfather, Icek Majer, circa 1939. Photographs consist of a photograph of Elisabeth with her mother, Mania (née Glas) Wolfowicz, circa 1925; and one of her father, Marek Wolfowicz, undated.

  9. DPs; curfew; rations; DP camp; laundry; children

    (LIB 5122-5123) Refugee Story, Gross-Umstadt and Munster, Germany, April 1-5, 1945. MSs, CUs, three US MPs. CU, MP looks at wrist watch. SEQ: MPs examine papers of Russian, French, Polish, Italian, Hungarian DPs who were recently liberated and brought to rear areas. MSs, CUs, liberated prisoners reading proclamations on bulletin board. LSs, CUs, empty streets of city due to curfew. LS, MP directs truck traffic through town. CUs, male refugees enjoying cigarettes as they read curfew notice. CUs, children of various nationalities are issued ration cards for food and given sleeping quarters. M...

  10. Time (New York, New York) [Magazine]

    Time Magazine, October 21, 1940, with a cover illustration of the 1940 Republican presidential candidate, Wendell Willkie. Willkie made a statement about the Nazi book burning

  11. Hemingway and Mencken with troops; Hong Kong scenes

    "Hong Kong - Fortress!" Paramount News presents first and exclusive pictures of the new Hong Kong, a city armed for defense. Paramount News fanfare over opening titles. CU, Arthur Menken (Paramount News staff cameraman) introducing footage. General view of Hong Kong harbor. CU, waterfront skyscrapers. Street scene in Hong Kong. Signs (Chinese) on side of buildings. Street scene. Pulling rickshaw thru streets. Soldiers thru streets. General view of Hong Kong shipyard. Name: Hong Kong Dock Co. People working. Ship under construction. Men working on deck of ship. Large ships, sampans. Chinese ...

  12. Michele Sabatello papers

    The collection consists of false identity cards belonging to Renate Piperno and Fausto Sabatello; letters and notes written by Michele Sabatello in the Fossoli concentration camp; a document excluding a representative of a cheese factory from work; a document from the Archbishop of Florence; a document from Massalombarda SA; an identity pass permit for work along with a photograph for Pietro Ansuinelli (a false identity of Fausto Sabatello); a ration card for bread and soup; and an announcement by Fausto Sabatello, searching for his brother Michele Sabatello.

  13. Bulgarian Legation in Berlin (Fond 316)

    Contains reports, correspondence, reviews of political events, and records relating to fights between Nazis and Communists, the persecution of Jews, the Leipzig trials, Kristallnacht, Nazi Congress, and the beginning of World War II. Also includes coded telegrams to the Minister of Foreign Affairs regarding the opening of the second front, Soviet losses in the war, and congratulatory and condolence correspondence to German officials, including Hitler, Göring, Himmler, and von Ribbentrop.

  14. Upton Sinclair

    State Capitol, Sacramento, California. Democrats back Upton Sinclair for Governor of California. Sinclair, member of the End Poverty in California League. State political convention adopts liberal platform. Temporary chairman George Creel speaking. MS, Sinclair seated at desk. Sinclair mentioning: democratic harmony; support of New Deal economic policies; and Great Depression. Stating, "we are not going merely to end poverty in California, but we are going to show how the whole people can end poverty in civilization." MS, Creel, Sinclair, and Sheridan Downey outlining party platform.

  15. Foreign Office: Confidential correspondence

    The collection consists of correspondence and reports of the British Foreign Office concerning the situation for Jews in the Balkans. Also contains a file concerning the investigation of Nazi medical experiments on human beings.

  16. Theater program (Berlin)

    Consists of a program for the European premiere of the play "Ghetto" by Joshua Sobol, as performed at the Theater der Freien Volksbuehne in West Berlin, 1984. Oversize format, and in addition to photographs of the production and information on the cast, it contains historic photographs, maps and copies of documents related to the story of this play, which appears to have been set in the Vilnius ghetto.

  17. Correspondence regarding the application of Jews and others to emigrate to Australia with the assistance of the Australian Lutheran Church

    Contains correspondence regarding the application of Jews and others to emigrate to Australia with the assistance of the Australian Lutheran Church.

  18. Selected records of Jewish political refugees from the Schweizerisches Arbeiterhilfswerk Archives

    This collection contains materials on Jewish refugees in Switzerland who were helped by the Swiss Labor Assistance. It also contains a 1260-card registry of persons who were in contact with the Swiss Labor Office from 1933 to 1945.

  19. War Crimes Trials: I.G. Farben Case

    (Munich 617) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 6 (I.G. Farben Case), Nuremberg, Germany. Shots of defendants pleading "not guilty" to the indictment. The defendants rise and plead to charges in the following order: Carl Krauch, Hermann Schmidt, Georg von Schnitzler, Fritz Gajewski, Heinrich Hoerlein, August von Knierien, Fritz ter Meer, Ernst Buergin, Paul Haefliger, Max Ilgner, Friedrich Jaehne, Hans Kuehne, Walter Duerrfeld, Heinrich Gottineau. The other defendants standing trial but not answering to pleas are visible in the prisoners' dock: Christian Schneider, Otto ...

  20. The New York Times (New York, New York) [Newspaper]

    The New York Times newspaper, late city edition. The paper contains articles relating to children after the Holocaust, and the Nuremberg Trials.