Col. Alexander Zabin, MD Collection
- Collection Summary
- Film footage in black and white and color created and collected by Alexander Zabin, a US Army surgeon who carried his own camera with him into the field, filming his company and mash unit, performing field surgery, and liberating death camps in the European theater of war. The donation also includes four hours of Nazi scientific/cultural/educational films as well as objects and documents.
- Credit
- US Holocaust Memorial Museum, gift of Steven Zabin
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1944-1945
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1917
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1930-1931
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1930-1931
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August 1-16, 1936
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1930-1931
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1945 May
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1944-1945
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February 6-16, 1936
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1945
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1944-1945
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1944-1945
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Record last modified: 2019-12-04 15:03:04
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Browse 35 Items In This Collection
US Army medical unit conducts target practice and eats
Film | Accession Number: 2002.189.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3642 | Film ID: 2581
German educational film: marriage customs in Upper Silesia
Film | Accession Number: 2002.189.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3643 | Film ID: 2582
German airforce bomber attacks
Film | Accession Number: 2002.189.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3644 | Film ID: 2583
Germany Navy; World War I
Film | Accession Number: 2002.189.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3645 | Film ID: 2584
German educational film: daily life in Lapland
Film | Accession Number: 2002.189.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3646 | Film ID: 2585
German educational film: Alfred Wegener and The Greenland Expedition
Film | Accession Number: 2002.189.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3647 | Film ID: 2587
German educational film: Scenes of nature and daily life in Spreewald, Germany
Film | Accession Number: 2002.189.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3648 | Film ID: 2588
German educational film: swimming techniques
Film | Accession Number: 2002.189.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3649 | Film ID: 2590
German educational film: Alfred Wegener and The Greenland Expedition
Film | Accession Number: 2002.189.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3650 | Film ID: 2591
German educational film: fishermen in the North Sea
Film | Accession Number: 2002.189.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3651 | Film ID: 2592
German educational film: Children of East Africa
Film | Accession Number: 2002.189.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3652 | Film ID: 2594
German educational film: rice farming practices in Southeast Asia
Film | Accession Number: 2002.189.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3653 | Film ID: 2595
German educational film: instructional film on boxing techniques
Film | Accession Number: 2002.189.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3654 | Film ID: 2596
German educational film: African apes
Film | Accession Number: 2002.189.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3655 | Film ID: 2597
German educational film: domesticating the African elephant
Film | Accession Number: 2002.189.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3656 | Film ID: 2598
German educational film: birds and their habitats
Film | Accession Number: 2002.189.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3657 | Film ID: 2599
German educational film: soldiers build an igloo
Film | Accession Number: 2002.189.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3658 | Film ID: 2600
German educational film: 1936 Olympics, Berlin
Film | Accession Number: 2002.189.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3659 | Film ID: 2601
German educational film: Alfred Wegener and The Greenland Expedition
Film | Accession Number: 2002.189.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3660 | Film ID: 2602
German educational film: daily life and activity in a mill town
Film | Accession Number: 2002.189.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3661 | Film ID: 2603
German educational film: Geysers in Iceland
Film | Accession Number: 2002.189.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3662 | Film ID: 2604
German educational film: birds: egg laying and hatching
Film | Accession Number: 2002.189.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3663 | Film ID: 2605
German educational film: birds and their natural habitats
Film | Accession Number: 2002.189.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3664 | Film ID: 2606
German educational film: the codfish industry in Iceland
Film | Accession Number: 2002.189.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3665 | Film ID: 2607
Liberation of Dachau; Folk Festival in Czechoslovakia
Film | Accession Number: 2002.189.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3672 | Film ID: 2460
US Army medics, trauma surgery
Film | Accession Number: 2002.189.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3673 | Film ID: 2461
Sonia Henie and Cecilia Colledge iceskate at Winter Olympic games in Berlin
Film | Accession Number: 2002.189.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4286 | Film ID: 2579A
Fritz and Fratz cartoon of the North country
Film | Accession Number: 2002.189.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4287 | Film ID: 2579A
Hitler and Nazi elite on airplane, greeting SA
Film | Accession Number: 2002.189.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4288 | Film ID: 2586
Liberation: Germany; Czechoslovakia: Soviet and American Armies
Film | Accession Number: 2002.312.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3666 | Film ID: 2608
Prague; field surgery; London; German submarines
Film | Accession Number: 2002.312.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3667 | Film ID: 2609
Celebration in Luxembourg; Nice, Monaco coastline; returning to New York
Film | Accession Number: 2002.312.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3668 | Film ID: 2610
U.S. Army soldiers; surgery; hospital; Gen. Patton; liberated villagers
Film | Accession Number: 2002.312.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3669 | Film ID: 2611
US Army soldiers on Omaha Beach, France
Film | Accession Number: 2002.312.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3670 | Film ID: 2612
Liberation: Luxembourg, Cologne; US Army soldiers; wounded men; field hospital
Film | Accession Number: 2002.312.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3671 | Film ID: 2613
Also in Colonel Alexander Zabin, MD collection
Collection of newsletters, newspaper clippings, black and white negatives and photographs, documents, glass slides, magazine, Star of David patch, postcards, calling card and 16 mm film reels. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.
Yellow Star of David badge
Object
Army airbase identification pin
Object
36th St. Army Airbase (Miami, Florida) identification pin with a photograph of A. Zabin.
carrying case for slides
Object
metal container with handle and slots for slides. Contains a handwritten list of the contents. The contents are stored separately.
carrying case for slides
Object
metal container with handle and slots for slides. Contains a handwritten list of the contents. The contents are stored separately.
Colonel Alexander Zabin, MD collection
Document
Collection of newsletters, newspaper clippings, black and white negatives and photographs, documents, glass slides, magazine, postcards, calling card and 16 mm film reels. Col. Alexander Zabin was a US Army surgeon and carried his own camera with him into the field, filming his company and mash unit, performing field surgery, and liberating death camps in the European theater of war. Also includes four hours of Nazi scientific/cultural/educational films.
Colonel Alexander Zabin, MD papers
Document
Collection of black and white photographs, documents, slides, a pamphlet, photo album and 16 mm film reels.