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  1. VE Day celebrations; Dutch DPs; US troops

    01:43:40 (B-1185) V-E Day Celebrations, Hanover-Hameln, Germany, May 9, 1945. LSs, British, French, and US flags flying above church entrance. LSs, truckloads of Dutch DPs moving to and away from camera. Dutch DPs gathered in open field. Young child waves Dutch flag. MSs, 2nd Bn, 137th Inf Regt, parading through streets of Hameln. MSs, CUs, Dutch displaced persons load aboard freight trains. SEQ: Detachments of Yugoslav, Polish, Czech, Russian, and Italian troops honoring US soldiers during review and retreat ceremony. 01:48:10 (LIB 6297) Gen. Simpsons Visits 83rd Div, Calbe, Germany, May 5...

  2. Deutsch-Popper family papers

    Contains documents related to members of the Deutsch and Popper families. The pre-Holocaust documents are certificates of birth, marriage (or ketuba), residency, citizenship, report cards, workers' identification cards. Includes letters and postcards sent to members of the families serving in forced labor battalions, and cards sent by them to their loved ones; a forced laborer ID; a Spanish schutzpass; genealogical notes; ration book (titled Shopping Book); and an affidavit about the indispensability of a Jewish employee. Postwar documents include certificates of immunization; tax documents...

  3. Morris Hillquit

    New York State Assembly. Assemblymen elected by the Socialist Party are prevented from taking "seat" and the lawyers who defend them. Morris Hillquit at his desk. William E. Karlin in group. Pan, group.

  4. Hitler-Jugend/Reichsjugendführung selected records (NS 28)

    The collection features official correspondence and reports about the Hitler Youth movement, such as the ideological indoctrination and instruction of its members, the elimination of Jews from the national economy; the participation of Hitler Youth in the relocation of ethnic Germans in Poland; and the use of forced labor.

  5. Blasting IG Farben plant

    Blastin the I.G. Farben War Plant, November 12, 1945. MS, Gen Lucian K Truscott speaks with Col S Y Giffert of the Industry Branch of the Military Government. CU, Gen Truscott. HS, the general pushes the handle of the magnetic exploder. MSs, MCUs, officers connected with the project. CU, sign, "Schwaben Control Office". CU, sign, "Enemy Ammo Collecting Point". VS, results of the blasting. Officers and men inspect the damage. Pan, VS, destroyed trees, ammunition bunkers, and building structures. (These buildings were camouflaged). Note: The actual explosion was not photographed.

  6. Diaries, chronicles, memoirs Dzienniki, kroniki, pamiętniki (Sygn.1349)

    Contains diaries, chronicles, and memoirs pertaining to World War II and the Holocaust. Includes a diary written by Ludwik Landau, distinguished economist and social researcher. His manuscript contains notes written over approximately 1600 days from 1939 to 1944. The notes relate to the political and economic situation of Poles and Jews in Poland under Nazi occupation as well as comments about the German press.

  7. New York World-Telegramt (New York, New York) [Newspaper]

    A newspaper article titled "Orphans of the World Storm: Nazi Forces Germany's 'Best Minds' to Scatter Over the World" with image of Albert Einstein.

  8. Klein family papers

    Consists of two postcards sent by Mrs. Nandor Klein in Hungary to Charles Klein in a Hungarian labor camp in May 1944; and a one-Kröner denomination scrip from theTheresienstadt (Terezin) Ghetto.

  9. Persecution of Jews; isolating, labeling, deporting, murdering Jews

    Pre-title sequence: Bookburning in Berlin, Joseph Goebbels speaking. View of bodies stacked with wood for burning, and Heinrich Heine quote. Film title: DER GELBE STERN: Ein Film ueber die Judenverfolgung 1933 - 1945. Events of January 30, 1933, when Adolf Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany. NSDAP (Nazi Party) organization, new members, SA marching in streets. S.A. Heim [Sturmabteilung headquarters]. Joseph Goebbels speaks at Sportpalast in Berlin, against the lying Jewish press etc. This preceded Hitler's first speech as Chancellor, February 10. Still of burned Reichstag building, and a...

  10. Wanda Rotbart papers

    The Wanda Rotbart papers concern Wanda Rotbart, a Holocaust survivor from Warsaw, Poland. The collection contains a single blank form, issued to Wanda sometime between 1944 and 1945 while she was a slave laborer in the HASAG slave labor camp in Leipzig, Germany. The form, issued each day to record the amount each person produced in their respective section, is inscribed on the reverse with a handwritten poem for freedom.

  11. US Army vehicles; Army-Navy Game

    US military supply vehicles travelling down dirt road, arrive at Army barracks. 01:01:19 (black and white) Army vehicles, labeled 104 HQ1. "HQ 1st BN 104th F.A. Message Center" sign. Soldiers sending telegrams. Map. 01:03:25 Camouflaged weapons. 01:05:16 (color) soldiers with map, dead fox. "104th Battalion" title. Play fighting. 01:08:15 Building, CU military car, vehicles lined up in building, military equipment lined up. 01:11:30 "Philadelphia 1939 Army vs. Navy" title. Tickets. Stadium, woman waving flag for Navy, band on pitch. 01:14:10 "This is the Navy field Goal" title. "Match" 01:1...

  12. Albert and Theresia Schwager papers

    The Albert and Theresia Schwager papers contain telegrams and correspondence relating to Albert and Theresia Schwager’s attempt to emigrate from Germany aboard the MS St. Louis. The telegrams and correspondence detail their experiences aboard the MS St. Louis and arrangements for their eventual arrival in England. The collection also contains Cuban immigration documents, identification cards, and a quota number document issued by the United States consulate in Stuttgart, Germany, August 19, 1938.

  13. Hygiene promotion

    Jolly hygiene guidelines. Includes animation with photography. German intertitles.

  14. Norman Winestine correspondence

    Contains correspondence pertaining to Norman Winestine's role in helping Jacob Hess and family leave Germany for the United States in 1939.

  15. War Crimes Trial: Franz Strasser

    Summary: Austrian Franz Strasser is tried for the murder of Lt E Warren Woodruff and an unknown airman. His testimony is in German. Cpl. Henry Halperin is the interpreter for all witnesses; Sgt. Sessler interprets for Franz Strasser.The six-officer Army Military Commission included Capt. Victor Miles, Lt. Harvey Szanger, and Col. Raymond E. Zickel. Reel 2: Defense attorneys questioning, listening. Pan, Commissioners to Pusch testifying. Back view: Reichl, Halperin. Prosecutor in BG. Pan. Strasser sitting with his attorneys; being sworn in; at table as his attorneys speak to others; attorney...

  16. Theresienstadt currency

    Contains seven bills of various denominations, issued in Theresienstadt in January 1943.

  17. American Memoir [Book]

    Hard cover copy of the book, American Memoir, by Henry Seidel Canby published 1947. Henry Seidel Canby, the American delegate to the P.E.N. congress, recalled in his American Memoir the atmosphere surrounding the confrontation. Canby was involved with the book-battles of the twenties and thirties between antagonistic literary ideologies and against the censorship stranglers.

  18. German educational film: fishermen in the North Sea

    Scenes of daily life and activities of fishermen and their families in the North Sea region. VS of life on the sea and at home. Scenes of cleaning and sorting the catch of the day, maintaining their fishing boats, farming, etc.

  19. Malmedy scrapbook

    Contains a scrapbook that belonged to Raph Shumacher, a prosecutor in the Malmedy Trial.

  20. Erika Bassist Freier collection

    Consists of two identification cards issued in Shanghai, China.