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  1. Nobel prize winners

    "Nobel Prizes Presented in Sweden" - newsreel fanfare. In Stockholm, Sweden, amid traditional regal pageantry, the Nobel Prizes are awarded by King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden. Brief shots of Max Born, German professor, receiving Nobel Physics Prize. Five Americans are Nobel Prize recipients: Dr. Linus Pauling of the California Institute of Technology in the field of chemistry; Drs. John F. Enders of the Harvard University Medical School, Frederick C. Robbins of Cleveland's Western Reserve Medical School and Thomas H. Weller of the Harvard School of Public Heath in Medicine-Physiology. Famed ...

  2. Hand sewn navy blue skirt with a pleated front made by a German Jewish woman

    Handmade skirt designed and created by Gertrud Koh Isaacsohn, a Jewish dressmaker in prewar Berlin, Germany. This skirt appears to be part of a suit that pairs with a belted jacket (2002.474.2 a&b) created by Gertrud. In 1938, Gertrud and her husband Julius, a coat and suit designer with his own garment making business, had lost their livelihood because of the anti-Semitic policies of the Nazi regime. They sent their daughter Dorit, age 6, to Brussels, Belgium, in early 1939, to stay with Gertrud’s sister Anna Kaufman. Germany invaded Belgium in May 1940, and Gertrud and Julius had Dori...

  3. Book burning

    Paramount News Issue 84. University students collect and burn "un-German" books. Various INT CUs as black-listed works are gathered. CU, books to be destroyed. 01:02:08 Night scenes showing torchlight procession and books being thrown into bonfire (familiar scenes). Various shots. At night, crowd gathered outside building. Lights directed at building, parade, crowd heiling.

  4. Ruins of Berlin; German POWs; Private Snafu cartoon

    Reel 2 shows the ruins of Berlin, German POWs, wreckage of the I.G. Farben plant, and close-ups of Pres. Truman, V. Molotov, Stalin, and Churchill. Narrator refers to "race hatred" and "intolerance." Question marks on screen. "How can we be sure Germany won't try it again?" Footage of German civilians burning Nazi books and papers, with a brief shot of Hitler's image. Germans look at posters showing corpses from a concentration camp. The narrator says, "It is not our intention to enslave the German people, but to reeducate them toward a democratic way of life." newspaper headlines of the Ru...

  5. Selected records of the Ministry of Finance, Bulgaria

    Contains correspondence and other documents relating to expenses and consequences of the establishment of anti-Jewish laws and regarding ownership of real estate and houses of Jewish origin. Incudes applications for payment of compensation for the currency confiscated by the banks, 1920-1921, letters of expropriation of shares of persons of Jewish origin 1941-1943, minutes of the Council of Ministers with attached files on the basis of Article 9 of the Law Against Speculation with real estate, owned by persons of Jewish origin, 1942, 1943, orders of the Council of Ministers, and registers o...

  6. Upton Sinclair

    Upton Sinclair delivers campaign speech. MS, Sinclair speaking about New Deal Economic Policy in California. States that California supports President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

  7. Theresa Cahn-Tober papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Theresa Cahn-Tober (born Theresa Licht) and her parents Stephen Lighton (previously Szymon Licht) and Elizabeth Lighton (previously Esther Licht), all of whom survived the war in Warsaw under false-identities and lived in the München Neu Freimann displaced persons camp after liberation. Included are false-identity documents, identification papers, and a report card. Post-war documents stating the Licht family were former prisoners of Mauthausen are also false certificates used to get into the displaced persons camp.

  8. Wahle Altschul family papers

    Contains original correspondence exchanged between Rudolf and Olga Wahle and Trude Wahle Altschul in Prague, and their daughter in Bolovia, dated March-September 1941; a copy of a letter from Francisco Wahle; copies of ITS certificates of incarceration; and copies of photographs of Olga and Rudolf Wahle.

  9. March of Time -- outtakes -- Franz Werfel; Thomas Mann; Aldous Huxley

    1104 Y (01:47:13-01:48:42) 1104 Z (01:48:42-01:54:52) Beverly Hills, CA. LS, CU Franz Werfel (author) working at his desk. LS, MS, CU Thomas Mann (German expatriate author) reading in his library. Hollywood, CA. MS, CU Aldous Huxley (philosopher and author) reading to his wife. CU, Mrs. Huxley. LS, MS Igor Stravinsky (musician and composer) with his wife and Mme. Nadia Boulanger (teacher of music composition) having tea in garden. CU, Igor Stravinsky. CU, cut-away Mme. Nadia Boulanger.

  10. Trust for the economic enterprises of DAF Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF).Treuhandgesellschaft für die wirtschaftlichen Unternehmungen (NS 5 III)

    Records of NS-5 III. Documents and correspondence relating to Jewish life, health and commercial insurance, mostly in Austria; creation of forced labor camps; aryanization of Jewish firms, and the Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF - German Labor Front) press.

  11. Dezsone Bernath collection

    Two postcards sent from labor battalions to Dezsone Bernath (donor's mother) from father, dated September 24, 1942 and October 12, 1942, Budapest , Hungary, in Hungarian and one document handwritten in graphite on paper, not dated, in Hungarian.

  12. I was a slave worker in Siberia

    Contains a memoir about Boleslaw Niederhoffer's Holocaust experiences in Siberia and told to Gerald L'ange.

  13. Verdoner children bathing

    CU, Francisca Verdoner in the bath tub, being bathed by her mother Hilde. Hilde washes her hair, makes a shampoo "mohawk", etc. CU, Yoka in the bathroom, making faces for the camera, sticking her tongue out at the camera as Francisca's bath continues. ECU, Francisca crying when she gets soap in her eyes. CU, Francisca sitting calmly, shrowded in a towel after her bath. CU, Yoka undresses and gets into the bath. VS, CUs, Yoka wetting her head, lathering with soap, then the mother takes over and finishes washing her.

  14. Hedy Tugendhaft Rosen photographs

    The Hedy Tugendhaft Rosen photographs depict Hedy and her parents, Max and Mania Tugendhaft, in Poland (Rudnik, Krakow, and Jaslo) before the war; Mania, Hedy, and Jewish children at the Sacred Heart convent in Przemyśl during the war; Jewish child survivors at a Jewish orphanage in Przemyśl after liberation; and Hedy with other displaced persons in Heidelberg. Additional photographs depict staged scenes at Dachau concentration camp after liberation, a roundup of Jewish deportees in Ukraine, and three nuns at the St. Joseph convent in Przemyśl in 1987.

  15. Bill John Seregi collection

    Photograph album of images taken in Hungary during World War II.

  16. Zinovij Kuschnir collection

    Black and white photograph of young man wearing dark suit jacket and tie with a white shirt with collar. Portrait view of head and upper torso. Print has rounded corners; white border with square corners. "Odessa 1950" written in pencil on reverse bottom. Image is of Israel Srulik Kuschnir [donor].

  17. U.S. Army soldiers; surgery; hospital; Gen. Patton; liberated villagers

    CU of an open wound, the camera pulls back and pans the body, the wound is on a man's inner thigh, it is a large, open wound that penetrates several layers of muscle. The doctor lifts up the man's penis and cleans around the wound, prepping for surgery. The man is covered by a blanket from the waist up. CU of another wounded man with a small bandage on his head. He takes the bandage off and blood begins to stream down his forehead. The top of the man's head is out of frame, he continues to look directly at the camera, he is wearing a torn T-shirt. He reaches to put the bandage back on his h...

  18. Various war news; DC at night; Churchill and FDR

    04:21:19 Red Rally at Stadium, New York 04:22:34 Flat Top: Navy Carrier takes Army Planes to War 04:24:08 Gen. Omar N. Bradley 04:24:20 Eisenhower's Christmas Dinner in Tunisia: Gen. Eisenhower extracts food from ration can and eats. 04:25:22 Capitol at Night: AV, Washington, DC at night. CU, Capitol dome and parts of building with lights on. The Government Printing Office neon sign. 04:27:47 Gen. Carl Spaatz Decorates Airmen: Spaatz decorates wounded sergeant and lieutenant. 04:28:18 Lt. Gen. Joseph H. Stilwell at Home: in his garden with his dog in Carmel, California. 04:29:25 Winston Chu...

  19. Reading judgment at Nuremberg Trial

    Sentencing of Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany, October 1946. Defendants stand and talk to one another (this part is mute). Justice Henri de Vabres (French) reading portion of the judgment. MLS, Chief Prosecutor de Ribes (French) at prosecution table. Pan of other prosecutors. HS, MS, CU, Justice Robert Falco (French) continues with the judgment. Pan of courtroom as people file out. MS, Justice Francis Biddle (US) mentions Stimson's invoking Kellogg Briand Pact, outlawing war as an instrument of policy, etc.

  20. Poster