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  1. Anti-Bolshevik rally; stereotypical Jews in the world; damaged cathedral; Speer speaks to munitions factory

    05:34:05 20,000 Czech farmers at anti-Bolshevik rally in Czechoslovakia. Demonstration on market place, listening to speaker. Hugo Toscani. (no original sound or narration) 05:34:07 "Jews throughout the World" Classic antisemitic Nazi propaganda of stereotype of Jews around the world: in Moscow, during a distribution of prizes; in USA as street traders, black man tap dancing, Lower East Side, shots of stock market, Mayor LaGuardia, etc. (no commentary, jazz music in BG) 05:36:16 In Rouen, France, the gothic cathedral damaged by fire. Smoke, firefighters, destroyed houses, ruined roads. 05:3...

  2. Anne Marie Yellin collection

    Collection containing 4 photographs of Anne Marie Yellin posing outdoors with groups of girls; in some images, girls are dressed in white robes and posing with Catholic nuns. Anne Marie Yellin survived the Holocaust by hiding in convents in Belgium.

  3. Hitler Protest in NYC

    "Gigantic Hitler Protest, New York" Ground shot of parade, flag bearers. Rabbi Wise is at the extreme right. Maj. Gen. O'Ryan, Commander of the 27th Division, leads the parade. Crowd shot. CUs, Jewish onlookers. CUs, placards. Shot of crowds at Battery Park. LS, Gen. O'Ryan speaking to crowds at microphone: "The principle that all citizens of a state stand equal before the law in relation to their persons and property has long since come to be recognized as a test of civilized government."

  4. Dorothy Isaacsohn papers

    The Dorothy Isaacsohn papers consist of photographs of Dorothy Isaacsohn while she was living as a displaced person in Germany and of her parents and their Isaacsohn and Koh relatives before and during the war as well as six pre-printed blank dress forms. One photograph depicts Dorit Isaacsohn four days before her immigration to the United Sates wearing the white blouse her mother handmade for her. Two others show Isaacsohn with a group of men and women outside a castle in the Berlin suburbs. The dress form depicts a drawn image of a woman facing forwards and backwards wearing a long dress ...

  5. Putnam County Defense Council poster

  6. Verdoner family in their garden

    Francisca and Yoka Verdoner playing at home and in the garden with a large metal spinning top toy. VS, of the children playing with several family members- identified in original documentation that accompanied films as Grandma and Grandpa Vinkeles (Hilde's parents). More scenes in the garden with unidentified family members, sitting and talking. Yoka and Francisca continue to play in the BG, and FG. VS, MCU, CU, MS Yoka and Francisca picking mushrooms in the garden with their mother, Yoka eats one of the mushrooms.

  7. 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 3: Pusch testifying. Defense attorneys addressing Commission. Pusch testifying; Strasser listening; Reichl testifying; defense listening. Commissioners, including Judge Col. Raymond E. Zickel sitting the second from the right at 01:22:39 an...

  8. German airforce bomber attacks

    VS, German bomber airplane on an airstrip, with Nazi insignia and other markings of the German airforce. VS, mechanics and crew loading bombs onto plane. MS, a military official demonstrates plan of attack to crew using a map. Low angle shot of the belly of the plane closing once ammunition and supplies are on board. CU, night time, propellers of the airplanes, moves out to MLS, plane visible on the runway, preparing for flight. MS, crew members board plane, they shake hands with man who remains on the ground. LS, airplane takes flight. VS, from POV of crew members inside the plane, clouds,...

  9. 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 4: Strasser testifying; spectators; Commissioners. Back view, Strasser, Sessler, Halperin before Commission for sentencing. Reich, Pusch, Strasser testifying; attorneys questioning.

  10. Verdoner family sledding

    Winter time in Hilversum, Holland, 1940. Yoka and Francisca Verdoner playing out in their yard in the snow. LS, children sledding down a snow covered, tree-lined street. A large, wood frame house is visible in the distance. MCU, two young boys, seated on a sled, laughing and travelling down the snow covered street. VS, Yoka being dragged along on a sled by the young bespectacled man (possibly an uncle or a cousin) who appears often in this collection of family films. VS, Yoka pulling Francisca on the sled.

  11. German educational film: daily life and activity in a mill town

    This short film depicts the daily life and activity in a German mill town. Their are VS of horses and a horse drawn wagon, men and boys working with the animals, and sifting grain into sacks. LS, windmill. Man and boy arrive with wagon full of grain at the windmill. Sacks of grain are hoisted up into the windmill. The grain is stored inside. VS, the windmill operator demonstrating how to use the mill. He hands cranks the equipment from the outside to get it started, and then climbs inside to get the main mechanism going. INT shots of the windmill at work, a series of interlocking gears, etc...

  12. Yugoslavia: farming; villagers; military vehicles; railroad yards

    Reel 8: Farmer plowing field, women sowing seed; sheep grazing. Man sitting on bench reading newspaper, soldier on crutches, woman resting on steps, street car motorman, woman with child in park. Belgrade Hospital, entrance gates. Man smoking cigar, man with beard, partisan boy soldier saluting, Serbian girl and Roma beggar sitting on walk. Military vehicles, troops and civilians boarding ferry, crossing Danube River and departing ferry. Pan, across destroyed German tanks and guns, destroyed Sava Bridge, railroad yards and town. Railroad yards in Belgrade, locomotives moving down tracks.

  13. Verdoner family on vacation in the Alps

    Scenes from the Verdoner family's winter vacation, skiing in the Alps in Switzerland. VS of ski slopes and countryside. Hilde and Gerrit Verdoner are identifiable. VS of people lining up on the slopes, cross country skiing, climbing uphill, etc. Shot of ski lift and people getting on lift. VS of ski resort/lodge taken from the lift.

  14. Honorary degrees awarded

    Sorbonne gives honorary degrees. High shot, Sorbonne University officials and Albert Einstein standing while band plays "La Marseillaise," and then are seated. MLS, University rector M. Charlety bestows Albert Einstein with insignia, Einstein bows, audience applauds and is seated again. MLS, rector gives Einstein honorary degree. Rector addresses audience. LS, pan, University officials, audience, band playing.

  15. DC in wartime; various war news; Nazi sub spy trial

    Washington DC in Wartime. The Washington monument, view of official buildings. Street scenes, the Capitol seen from Pennsylvania Avenue. INT, crowded corridor of govt building. INT, Gen. George C. Marshall and Sec of War Henry Stimson confer. People exiting govt buildings. Policeman directly heavy traffic in street. 04:01:49 The Global War: Brazil. 04:02:42 US Army and RAF fly bombers to Britain 04:03:33 Nation Aids Rubber Drive 04:04:27 Trial of German Spies Saboteurs: VS, prison van and armed soldiers enter court building. Panel of unidentified Army officers conduct trial of Nazi spies. C...

  16. Czech treasury bond

    Contains a treasury bond from the Central Bank of the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia in Prague that was purchased on March 16, 1943 by Dr. Hamberger ("Hedwig") and became due March 16, 1963.

  17. Pair of toddler's well used black and white leather lace-up boots worn in Theresienstadt ghetto/labor camp

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn512987
    • English
    • 1943-1945
    • a: Height: 7.635 inches (19.393 cm) | Width: 3.125 inches (7.938 cm) | Depth: 4.375 inches (11.113 cm) b: Height: 7.375 inches (18.733 cm) | Width: 3.125 inches (7.938 cm) | Depth: 4.625 inches (11.747 cm)

    Child's heavily used black patent and white leather ankle boots worn by 3 year old Judis Baehr while she was imprisoned in Theresienstadt ghetto/labor camp from 1943-1945. The already used boots were obtained by Elly Winterstein who adopted Judis at the camp. They were too big at first and had to be stuffed with newspaper and the heels and soles repaired with nails, but Judis wore them until after liberation. The boots are inscribed with the name Georg Weiss. A 7 year old child by that name arrived in the camp in 1942 and was deported to Auschwitz in October 1944. Judis was born in October ...

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

    Headline reads, "Planes Pound Tunisia Without Let-Up As Allied Units Pierce Axis Defenses; Russians Push On In Bitter Battles"

  19. Drawing

    Image of a bearded man, a rabbi, wearing a hat and overcoat in the Kraków ghetto.