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Part 2 (repeats some of Reel 7, part 1). Invasion of Czechoslovakia. A faked-looking photo of Stuckart and Globke at a conference relating to the future of the protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Film of a Jewish family of three as they leave their home, presumably to be deported. The narration says that this scene was filmed by an SS troop and discovered in Prague. The suitcases carried by the family ...

Ukraine in Flames (1943). An impassioned account of "how the steppes were sowed with rage," Dovzhenko's film ranges across Ukraine's forests and plains, chronicling the horrors of German invasion and the gathering forces of Ukrainian resistance. In scenes that recall the director's masterpiece Earth, peasants newly delivered from German occupation rebuild their lives, sowing grain across fields freshly ...

Consists of one manuscript, 10 pages, written by Dr. David Goldberger about his wife, Helen Rotenberg Goldberger. In the text, he describes the facts he knows of his wife's early years, though she did not speak often about that period. Originally from Malecz, Poland [now Belarus], she was sent to the ghetto in Pruzhany after the German invasion of eastern Poland in 1941. Helen managed to escape the ...

American soldiers drive tanks through a town on their way to Avranches, in Normandy. A long line of American military vehicles is greeted by a few civilians on the roadside. Scenes of Americans passing columns of German POWs on dusty roads, with destroyed buildings visible. The POWs walk with their hands clasped behind their heads. German prisoners receive medical care (a plasma IV) from American medics. ...

Countless books have been written on the military history of World War II, however astonishingly little information has appeared about the one country that stared the Nazis down and refused to become an accomplice to the horrors of the Third Reich. This book provides an objective, year-by-year account of Switzerland's military role in World War II, including her defensive strategies, details of Nazi ...

Contains a 28 page memoir by Saul M. Bergman. Written in 1997, this memoir relates the author's experiences as an adolescent during the German invasion of his native Belgium, and his subsequent escape with his father to southern France, their eventual arrest and imprisonment at Récébédou and later Casseneuil, his father's deportation from Casseneuil to Drancy and eventually to Auschwitz, and the ...

Collection of Hanns Albin Rauter, the Höhere SS und Polizeiführer, Generalkommissar für das Sicherheitswesen in the Netherlands, 1940-1945
 
 Hanns Albin Rauter was the head of the security system in the Netherlands, the Generalkommissar für das Sicherheitswesen en Höhere SS und Polizeiführer, the HSSPF during 1940-1945; operating beneath him were the SS, the Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei, ...

Contains photographs and passports documenting the experiences if Dyno Lowenstein, who escaped via Marseille with the assistance of the Emergency Rescue Committee. Includes photographs of the donor's parents, Kurt and Mara Lowenstein.