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  1. March of Time -- outtakes -- Newspaper Correspondents

    August 13 and 16, 1937. Interior scenes with sound. MS, Westbrook Pegler typing in his office. CU, Pegler. CU, copy being typed. CU, wider angle, copy being typed. MS, Pegler discussing fascist and communist press attitudes (several takes). Interior scenes with sound. MS, Pegler discussing fascist and communist press attitudes. CU, Pegler (several takes). First 280 feet of roll, interior with incidental sound. Last 120 feet of roll, exterior-silent. MCU, Gilbert Seldes working in study of his home (2 takes). CUs, Seldes copy on typewriter (from different angles).

  2. Roza Szarfharc Zederman collection

    The collection consists of pre-war and post-war photographs depicting the Szarfharc family in Lodz, Poland. The photographs depict Dawid Szarfharc, his wife, Tola, and their daughter Rojza Szarfharc, Ewa Szarfharc, Roza, Celina, and Dorota Szarfharc, and Felek Tobiasz.

  3. "Mit dem Führer" photograph album

    Consists of a photograph album with an embossed leather cover "Mit dem/Führer/unterwegs" containing 230 black and white images of Hitler, including his entries into Austria, Italy and Poland. The photographer is purportedly Heinrich Hoffman, and there are hand-lettered captions in German; dated circa 1936-1944. The album was recovered by paratrooper Carl J. Walkup in Berchtesgaden, Germany and was purchased by the donor at auction in 1977.

  4. March of Time -- outtakes -- Sudeten-Deutsche Party; Eger

    Can 22, 100 feet. Scenes taken in the headquarters of the Sudeten-Deutsche party at 4 Hybernska Prague. Deputy Karl Hermann Frank leader of both Parliamentary factions of the S.D.P. and personal representative of Henlein. Signing letters at his desk, talking to his secretary. Can 23. 100 feet. Frank leaving headquarters for the country receiving the salute. Party members arriving at the desk in the entrance, giving and receiving the salute. Member at desk signing form, giving salute and leaving. Banner on wall, in German, reads: "Heimat is Arbeit" in BG. Two takes. Three shots of members ar...

  5. Ida Tenenbaum Yomtov manuscript

    Contains a 187 page manuscript with information about Ida Tenenbaum Yomtov's Holocaust experiences.

  6. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 50 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  7. Leo Cecil photograph collection

    Contains four black and white photographs, of Ohrdruf immediately following liberation and two envelopes which originally housed the photographs. The first was labeled "1945/ W.W.II" and the second labeled "Buchenwald/IIWW."

  8. Jewish Refugees in the US

    UJA and JDC appeal for funding to aid Jewish refugees of WWII. Footage of New York, Germany, Poland, Romania, Hungary, Shanghai, etc. intercut to tell the story of Jewish refugees.

  9. Repatriation of POWS: new arrivals; distribution of clothing; interviews; working; eating; dentist

    Repatriation of Russian POWs in Bari and Florence, Italy. Reel 2: Bari: Russian guard, standing at entrance to company street, wearing helmet with USSR emblem, holding rifle, bayonet, and snapping to attention. CU USSR armband. Trucks loaded with Russians pulling into the camp, forming double line. American officer directing men in sign language and in German. POWs receiving blankets and mess kits. Russians marching down company street breaking off in sixes, entering tents. Russians standing in formation, girl in GI clothing, Mongolian removing hat. Six Russians with belongings entering ten...

  10. DP camps

    Notes taken from NCJF documentation: The film provides a rare look inside DP camps, the crowded living conditions, the lack of activity, the new generation born in the camps, and the attempt at creating some normalcy under difficult conditions. Smiling children eating. Training dentists, lab technicians. People arriving at unidentified DP camp, waiting in line, loading belongings onto truck, truck leaves, people waving. Long lines of people, uniformed man directs traffic. People waiting, some sitting on suitcases, another truck pulls up, people get on with belongings. Buildings in BG. Train...

  11. March of Time -- outtakes -- German prisoners; celebrating liberation

    Link up between American's First and Ninth Armies. American tanks on street at Lippstadt; POWs on the top of the vehicles. German prisoners under guard. Ex-slave laborers taking things from shop windows, embracing, drinking wine, carrying belongings. Released prisoner playing the accordian and singing. US armored vehicles passing through crowds.

  12. Alexandrul Ausch collection

    Photographic postcard with black and white image of group of men wearing armbands, black ink "X" over head of Alexandrul Ausch [donor] standing in last row with inscription on verso: dated January 26, 1943; Targu Mures, Romania; pictured Detachment Camp IV Jewish forced labor brigade. Booklet titled "Cimtara"; printed in brown ink with lists of names and addresses?; dated 1943.

  13. Judith W. Adler collection

    Consists of eighteen photographs, which depict Judith Adler's experiences in Kibbutz Tikva in Aschau am Inn, Germany; after her journey on the Exodus 1947 on board the Ocean Vigour; in Pöppendorf internment camp; and in Emden, Germany.

  14. Harry Schiller collection

    Consists of two report cards from the Prague English Grammar School, issued to Harry Schiller, and three picture postcards depicting Harry Schiller and his brother, Gustav (born 23 October 1923).

  15. Selected records from the HAPAG-Reederei (HAPAG Shipping Company), Hamburg

    Contains records relating to the St. Louis’ voyage from Hamburg to Havana and its return to Europe.

  16. Rose Strauss collection

    Contains two photographs. The first photograph is an image of men and women seated in deck chairs and also standing behind them aboard the MS St. Louis dated May-June 1939. The second photograph is an image of men and women seated in deck chairs aboard the MS St. Louis dated May-June 1939.

  17. March of Time -- outtakes -- Liberation by Russians

    On the Eastern Front. Russian Newsreel. Prison at Posnan. Death chamber with guillotine. Pictures of Nazis who ran the prison. Bodies, women crying. German prisoners, men trying to hit them. Man handing out paper reading "Glos Interpolski" to crowd. Polish flag raised. Soviet soldiers talking on field phone. German General Mattern (with Russian captions). Aerial view of the Vistula River. Polish girls, former slave laborers showing their passports to Russian soldiers. Barracks of slave labor camp. Sign, "Lagerwache."

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  19. Eugenics postcard

    Postcard printed in red, black and white showing a man and a woman seated together and reading a book with the caption, "Eugenics" requires close application." Message and address written in graphite on the verso

  20. Ghetto conditions; soup kitchen; eating in street

    Various ghetto scenes: people, including children, eating in muddy and garbage-infested building courtyard. People line up for food at soup kitchen. Woman washes clothes in small tub. Woman sells food from stall heated by charcoal. Child takes food from wired street vendor box.