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  1. March of Time -- outtakes -- Liberation of Paris

    Fall of Paris. American GIs marching on road in Etamps (outside Paris), holding pictures of Hitler and Goering on bayonettes. Road sign, "Paris 50." People waving at passing Americans. GIs in jeep unfurling American flag, crowd cheers. US tanks enter Paris, pass Eiffel Tower. Civilians building sandbag barricade. Tanks firing at snipers in Paris outskirts. Street fighting in Paris outskirts. Jeepload of prisoners, crowd tries to mob them.

  2. Blue and white vertical striped shirt worn in a displaced persons camp

    Shirt made from white cotton fabric with blue and white vertical stripe and 5 white buttons, short-sleeved. The shirt was given to and worn by Tonia Rotkopf in Landsberg Displaced Persons Camp, Germany.

  3. Deportation lists from Breslau to Theresienstadt, IX/1-IX/8

    Photocopies of lists of Jewish transports from Breslau, Germany, to Theresienstadt between 1942 and 1944. Originals are held at the Bundesarchiv and at Yad Vashem.

  4. SS Economic Administration Main Office SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt (NS 3)

    Contains records relating to the organizational structure and activities of the agency including the establishment and administration of the concentration camps.

  5. Placing grave markers at Lidice, postwar

    Amateur footage. Opening shot, LS from high angle to green valley below, many Czech flags, on tall flagpoles waving in the valley below. People gathered in the valley, milling about. MCU, women, children and a nurse, with their backs to the camera standing outside of what appears to be a rescue or ambulance vehicle, the vehicle is bright red with a blue stripe, lettering on the truck is illegible due to poor image quality. MCU, a man and two women seated on a horse drawn carriage, they are all wearing shawls, their heads are covered and they look away from the camera. VS, men, women and chi...

  6. Mihaly Klein letters

    Contains two letters written in 1946 and 1947 by Mihaly Klein, the only member of the Klein family of Kaszony, Hungary (Kosyno, in present-day Ukraine), who survived the deportation in 1944. The addressee of the letters was Mihaly's cousin, Ilon Klein, sister of Herman Klein.

  7. Handwritten copies of original Nuremberg documents

    Contains a custom-made wooden box containing seven oversized copies of original handwritten Nuremberg documents and two oversized OSS R&A report pages.

  8. Village festival; Communists; UNRRA; La Guardia in Czechoslovakia

    EXT, green, hilly countryside. CUs and LSs of people attending a fair or festival. Countryside as seen from car, snow-capped mountains. Graffiti mocking Hitler, includes caricature of Hitler with large puffy cheeks. Women washing rugs at a river. Train moving along tracks through town as people pass by. People going to a house of worship (not certain whether a church or a synagogue). People in horse drawn wagon. LS, house of worship. Woman and girl laying flowers at memorial with American flag (several takes). LS, field. Building "OBCHODNI DUM". Children in red shirts, some of the boys are ...

  9. March of Time -- outtakes -- harbor, Elbe River; mines; Karlovy Vary (Karlsbad)

    Reel 47. 100 feet. Quays in Usti bay, passing barge marked N.D.B.E. Magdeburg]. Dissel tug marked Tabor Praha, sailing on the Elbe, countryside. Brensko, the Elbe frontier station between Czechoslovakia and Germany. Passengers from ferry coming up steps and showing passport to Czech customs officials. Reel 48. 100 feet. VS, Tabor steaming up the Elbe, also typical Sudeten village on the other side of the river with mountains in BG. Large barge used for exports being towed by the Tabor. Sign reads: O.B.S.L. Praha. Reel 44. 100 feet. Port of Usti on the Elbe river, the main port for exports t...

  10. Esfira Kizhner photograph

    Black and white photograph of a man wearing round glasses and plaid shirt beneath pinstripe jacket; dated 1945.

  11. Medal

  12. Imre Patai diaries and albums

    The collection includes 27 diaries written from 1934-1949 by Imre Patai, a Jewish Hungarian physicist, inventor, and factory owner. In his diaries Imre writes about the daily events of his life in Hungary, events of the war, the siege of Budapest, experiences in an international ghetto, Jewish homes under Swedish protection, and the struggles of living in a country occupied by the Red Army. The collection also includes albums of family photographs, mainly from the 1920s and 1930s, depicting the travels of Imre and his wife, Ági Jámbor, and Imre’s work in his factory producing electric instr...

  13. Dr. Morton S. Webber photographs

    Consists of thirteen black and white photographs taken by Dr. Morton S. Webber, a surgeon in the 32nd Evacuation Hospital, 106th Portable Surgical Hospital, during his tour of duty in the liberated Mauthausen concentration camp, May 1945. The photographs primarily depict survivors and camp architecture.

  14. Betty Gold collection

    Group of 23 black and white photographs of displaced persons taken in Linz-Bindermichl displaced persons camp, Austria.

  15. "Aufs Neue Beginnen"

    Testimony, typescript (249 pp.) of Heinz Umrath, titled "Aufs Neue Beginnen," about childhood, wartime years, and emigration from Germany. One section has credit ("typed and produced by") the Archive of Social Democracy at the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung in Bonn, Germany.

  16. The Eternal Jew Der ewige Jude [Book]

    One book, titled "Der Ewige Jude" (The Eternal Jew), containing Nazi anti-Semitic propaganda; dated 1938. The pages are loose and the paper is yellowed.

  17. Pithiviers and Beaune la Rolande index file Fichiers des Camps de Pithiviers et de Beaune-la-Rolande (F 9)

    This collection contains biographical card files from the camps at Pithiviers and Beaune-la-Rolande.

  18. Slonim Jews' Association memorial bronze medal

  19. Rakowski family papers

    Contains legal documents and photographs pertaining to the Holocaust experiences of Zofia, Josef, and Samuel Rakowski's Holocaust experiences.

  20. Book