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  1. Sightseeing in Paris; women modeling new dresses

    Another day, showing monument/great building, two women with another German officer. Focus on one (not the same woman as shown previously), who is smiling and laughing. She tips her hat to the camera. 01:05:18 in a park. Two women from the previous scene are laughing and swinging on a swing set, standing up. An older woman speaks to them, appearing to chastise them (perhaps for standing or for swinging too high, or she wants the children to get a turn). Children in BG. Two women and the officer at a food stall of some kind. One of the women (in dark coat) feeds something to the German offic...

  2. Literary archives of Natan Ilyich Zabara

    Contains novels, plays, and letters by Natan Ilyich Zabara.

  3. Get to know your Grandpa

    Contains a narrative about Yochanan Dreifuss that concerns the efforts of a German high office who asssisted the author's parents escape from Vienna and his father's release from the Buchenwald concentration camp.

  4. Kindergarten - Pestalozzi Froebel Haus

    Berlin - Kindergarten scenes at the famous and historic Pestalozzi Froebel Haus, part of the Pestalozzi educational movement. Girl with baby doll, kids playing indoors with blocks, stomping down wooden slide. Nurses change babies, toddlers, beds, eating, washing dishes, cutting apples.

  5. SS headquarters for race and settlement Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt-SS (NS 2)

    Contains selected records from Bundesarchiv, NS 2, the SS headquarters for race and settlement, involving implementation of racial and resettlement policies by the SS in Germany and German-occupied territories. The documents concern coordination with other German agencies, SS orders, commands, directives, regulations, investigations regarding race relations, and correspondence and reports sent between various SS offices. Also includes reports on the Jewish situation in various cities or countries, inspection reports of concentration camps, records concerning contact with foreigners during t...

  6. Farming life in rural Poland

    MS, four horses pulling a machine dispersing seed, the horses are guided by a farmer as they make their way across a patch of plowed field.

  7. Breuner-Ekerling collection

    Consists of 19 pre-war photographs of the Breuner family of Vienna, including Alice and Bertel Breuner, the donor's mother and aunt. Also consists of photographs taken 1938-1941, immediately after the emigration of Sam Ekerling and Alice Breuner Ekerling to the United States.

  8. Burnt Polish villages; Polish government signing agreement

    Burnt Polish villages in 1944. Destroyed homes, children gathering firewood and water in the snow. Destroyed bridge, train tracks; large columns of refugees. New Polish government signing agreement in 1945.

  9. Bleiweis family papers

    Contains correspondence, documents and photographs related to the family of Hermann (Juda-Hersz) and Nesie (born Schwalb) Bleiweis, who lived in Gladbeck, Germany, in the 1920s and 1930s. The family emigrated to Palestine in 1937 and from there, to the United States. Includes pre-war photographs and documents of life in Gladbeck, as well as Schwalb family correspondence sent from Rozhnyatov, Poland, to the Bleiweis family in the United States from 1938-1941. Included in the correspondence is testimony of the events surrounding the expulsion of Polish-born Jews living in Germany back to Poland.

  10. German siege of Warsaw, Poland 1939

    INT, hospital scenes- a pregnant woman lies in a hospital ward- these are scenes from the Catholic hospital that was destroyed in Warsaw during the German air attacks in September of 1939. Lying next to the pregnant woman is a wounded man. VS of the wounded being cared for by nurses in the hospital. 01:08:19:18 The inhabitants of the maternity ward are now lining corridors, several nurses, mothers and their newborn babies are seated on the tile floors of the hospital corridors. VS, CUs of mothers with their infants, some with a doctor as well: this is all mentioned in Julien Bryan's book "S...

  11. Catholic church in Warsaw postwar

    EXT, Warsaw in ruins in winter 1946/1947 on a bright sunny day. Damaged buildings. Good close shots of Poles entering and exiting a Catholic church. The doorway is marked in Polish with "Wejscie do Kosciola"[the entrance to the church]. Some men in Polish military uniforms. Longer shot of the same area showing the church steeple, patrons, ruined buildings, electronic rail lines above the streets.

  12. Cart used by forced labor prisoners at Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp

    Two wheeled wooden handcart used by inmates while working as forced laborers at the Small Fortress in Theresienstadt (Terezín) ghetto-labor camp northwest of Prague, Czechoslovakia. Carts like this were used to transport food and other heavy loads. Special workers also used them to transport bodies of ghetto residents who had died of starvation and disease. After the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, the town of Terezín was renamed Theresienstadt and a ghetto and camp were established in November 1941.The camp served as a transit center for Jews en route to killing centers in the east,...

  13. Removal to Krakow Ghetto

    Jews moving into the Krakow ghetto in winter. Carts/wagons piled with belongings. Jewish people with Star of David armbands, carrying belongings. Tram passes in BG. Busy street scenes. Men, women, and children walking across a bridge, moving into the Krakow ghetto. Bicycles, street activity. A man takes a photograph. Moving furniture, CUs, some Jews pose for the camera, snowy streets. Young girls walk in a line with chairs above their heads. More street views of people with belongings and moving about in the streets of the ghetto, furniture/paintings, trucks, the bridge, people walking, and...

  14. Invitation

    The document invites the recipient to a fundraiser for Keren Hayesod, the financial branch of the World Zionist Organization, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

  15. Workers and townspeople in Katowice, Poland 1936

    TRIMS feature a range of MCUs and CUs of locals in Katowice, Poland (Silesian region) in 1936. The first two CUs are of a worker from the zinc mine, on break, drinking water from a metal cup. The next few trims feature a farmer in the region churning a grain threshing machine, with CUs of the mechanism at work. The rest of the trims feature older men of the town, wearing traditional dress (heavy coats with fur collars and some embroidered details), they stand around smoking and talking to each often staring intently at the camera.

  17. An American girl describes her visit to Poland

    Film summary from International Film Foundation promotional materials: Mary, an American elementary school girl, describes to her class her experiences in visiting her grandparents in Poland. In her own language she takes her class into a Polish school, into Polish homes, and into the fields where agricultural activities are seen. She shows them the beautiful costumes and colorful dances of the Polish people and gives her class an insight into the cities of Lowicz, Krakow, Zakopane, and Gdynia. Music by Gene Forrell, Devised by Eugene Cenkalski Film ID 3073 = 35mm black and white nitrate po...

  18. Reproduction of a spoon and box smuggled out of Warsaw ghetto with an infant

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn512972
    • English
    • 2002
    • a: Height: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm) | Width: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) b: Height: 6.000 inches (15.24 cm) | Width: 2.375 inches (6.032 cm) | Depth: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm)

    Reproduction of a silver spoon smuggled out of the Warsaw ghetto with 5 month old Elżbieta Kopel (later Ficowska) in a wooden box hidden under bricks piled in a wagon in May 1942. It was given to her by her Jewish parents, Izrael and Henia Rochman Kopel, and is engraved with her nickname, Elżunia, and her birthdate, January 5, 1942. The spoon and case were presented to the Museum on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of Zegota's formation because Elżbieta's escape from the ghetto was handled by Irena Sendlerowa and members of that underground organization, which assisted Jewish people in ...

  19. Merecki family collection

    Contains documents and photographs relating to the pre-war experiences of the Merecki family, who emigrated to the United States from Austria in December 1938.

  20. Antisemitic propaganda of Jews in the Warsaw ghetto

    *The film was transferred backwards. Refer to the same film properly transferred on Film ID 2257. Street, Warsaw ghetto inhabitants, men with armbands. Pan up to "Fotografia" facade. CU, police officer with Ordnungspolizei armband, directing traffic, smiling (seems staged). Group, woman with tickets, wicker basket. Pan up, EXT of tram building. Open doors. Group of ghetto inhabitants on open cart, awaiting transport. CU, old man with crutch, boy. CU, Star of David armband. INT, shop with piles of garbage/hay, empty bottles, jam, man purchases laboratory tube at counter. Two children s...