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  1. Events in Germany in the 1920s

    Onscreen title reads "Generalstreik. Buergerkrieg [General strike. Civil war]" (perhaps refering to the so-called Sparticist uprising in January 1919?) Nice shots of a communist demonstration. People marching down the street, many carrying dark colored flags. Lots of children in the parade. Title at 01:10:51 reads "1920. Innere Kaempfe [1920. Inner struggle]." Huge crowd in the Lustgarten in Berlin. Dark colored (red?) flags and banners. The camera pans across the crowd. Shots of a dormant factory and soldiers in trucks. 01:11:25 title: "Kapp-Putsch." Crowds on Unter den Linden in Berlin du...

  2. Poster of an Orthodox Jew balancing Stalin and $ 1 billion on a scale

    1. Serbian antisemitic poster collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn40053
    • English
    • 1941
    • pictorial area: Height: 18.625 inches (47.308 cm) | Width: 27.750 inches (70.485 cm) overall: Height: 21.625 inches (54.928 cm) | Width: 30.750 inches (78.105 cm)

    Anti-Jewish poster issued in German occupied Serbia in the fall of 1941 for the Grand Anti-Masonic Exhibition in Belgrade from October 22, 1941, to January 19, 1942. It portrays a large, stereotypical Orthodox Jewish man holding a small scale balancing Joseph Stalin against a stack of US dollars and British pounds. The exhibit focused on the alleged Jewish-Communist-Masonic conspiracy to achieve world domination. Jews were portrayed as the source of all evil, which had to be destroyed, along with Jewish controlled countries, such as the Soviet Union and the US, and any outsider groups that ...

  3. Ukrainian Waffen SS Galicia Division

    Men in civilian clothing carry swastika and SS banners. These are Ukrainian volunteers for the Galician Division of the SS. Swastikas, religious blessing of units. The SS group - stills, published photos, and art work. Parade, men carrying large signs and banners with the symbol of the SS Galiciana unit. Railroad car with SS chalked on the side, close scene, men in the rail car. Translation of Ukrainian narration: SS... Entire classes of students from the theological seminary* and academy were sent here. The Soviet army totally smashed these warriors near Brody. They moved no further than 1...

  4. Liberation of Buchenwald

    US Army and Lowell Thomas at Buchenwald camp just after liberation, torture devices simulated, corpses stacked in truck, pile of ashes, captured German POWs. Filmed by Dick Ham. Landing at Eschwege airfield, two oxen-pulling carts as Red Cross jeep passes on the road. CU of "Berlin" and "Dresden" road marker. MS civilians at city street corner, American jeep goes by. Column of German townspeople walking along road on way to view Buchenwald. Main camp gate. GIs clustered around as civilians enter. Various torture devices demonstrated. Thomas observes and is surrounded by many camp inmates. I...

  5. Allies clear debris; children sent to England to recuperate

    The Allies commissioned this four part documentary from Maurits Schaap after liberation. Titles: "Zeeuwsch Vlaanderen", "Documentaire Film der Verwoesting", "Bulldozers aan den arbeid". An Allied bulldozer clears debris. Cranes and other tractors push, pull, lift and haul destroyed materials. Title, "Afscheid Kol. J.V. Leeuwen. Gezagsoverdracht aan Maj. F. Koch" Military and civilian personnel sit together at a large banquet table, enjoying a meal before the departure of Colonel. J.V. Leeuwen. Titles: "Nieuwe Mil. Commissaris van Z. Vlaanderen Majoor", "F.P.O.M. Koch". Koch works at a desk,...

  6. Officers oversee training and exercises at a Hitler Youth camp

    In Groedig, Austria, the Hitler Youth camp's site manager gives commands to the organized troop. He has a death's head emblem on his cap. A HJ member with SS patch practices giving orders. The troops run drills. A senior Hitler Youth officer with glasses reviews the men and gives orders. He wears a Hitler Youth uniform, with the rank of Obergebietsfuehrer, as well as an infantry assault badge and the ribbon for the Iron Cross, Second Class. 01:01:07 SS Oberscharfuehrer at left. The officer, second from left (shorter man), is an army Unteroffizier (roughly a corporal). He wears a buttonhole ...

  7. Government Code and Cypher School: German Police Section: Decrypts of German Police Communications during Second World War (HW 16)

    German language decrypted messages and English-language analytical summaries of German police radio communications from the late 1930s until 1945. Contains information relating to concentration camps such as Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Dachau and on the Russian Front. The series also contains details of the results of allied bombing raids and allied aircraft losses, prisoners of war (both captured and escaped) and German police operations against allied agents and partisans. Also included are verbatim German police messages for the years 1942-1945. These are contained in 27 volumes as pieces ...

  8. German Army in Poland and Silesia

    Map of Poland and Silesia region. VS on snowy streets, Polish civilian refugees on horsecart and truck are led from city. MCU Polish soldiers and Russian prisoners marching through town street. Volkssturm build barricades. VS refugees board train. VS People are given ID papers and fed meals prepared by German Red Cross. CU Men with fur caps and "Deutscher Volkssturm Wehrmacht" armbands being issued equipment and weapons and march off. MCU Artillery shells & guns are unloaded from truck and then moved off in donkey carts. Column of German tanks and then trucks move forward. MCU Sign: "Ka...

  9. Vacationing in Belgium and England

    Titles, "VACANTIE 1939", "HORS D'OEUVRE AAN DE BELGISCHE KUST". Beach on the coast of Belgium. Young boys play in the sand, adults enjoy the sunshine. Artist painting on an easel, Grand Place, EXT of l'Hotel de Ville. HAS of city and buildings. Travel along a waterway, likely Canal du Centre, by boat. Bep and Maurits Schaap on boat. 04:05:46 Flag on top of building. Restaurant. Family sits down for a meal at the coast. 04:06:51 Title over map of England: "Met de Citroen naar Engeland". Road trip in 1939 with Simon Lo through parts of England. Automobiles at a port where a crane lowers cars ...

  10. Pogrom in Zloczow, July 1941

    Brief panning shot of water and the shore. The next scenes show the Zloczow pogrom, which took place from July 1 - 4, 1941. Before the Soviets retreated from Zloczow, the NKVD murdered several hundred civilians at Zamek prison. Many of those killed were Ukrainian nationalists, but some Jews and Poles were also murdered. The bodies were buried in four mass graves. After the Germans occupied Zloczow, the Jews were blamed for the murders and a pogrom ensued. Corpses litter a muddy, grassy area. These are most likely the bodies of those murdered by the NKVD. A crowd of bystanders, including bot...

  11. Painted metal plaque memorializing Romanian Jews killed in the Holocaust

    1. Jewish Community in Iasi collection

    Painted plaque dedicated to the memory of Sura Galpert and Ghidale Aron, who were likely murdered in the June 29, 1941 pogrom in Iași, Romania, the regional capital of Moldavia. It was created postwar, and donated to a synagogue in Iași by Estera Aron, the daughter of Sura and wife of Ghidale. In September 1940, Romania fell under the rule of a radical military coalition led by General Antonescu and the Iron Guard, a fascist, anti-Semitic military group that collaborated with the Nazis. In November, Romania joined the Axis Alliance and began passing many anti-Semitic laws similar to Germa...

  12. Memoirs of Fedor Fedorovich Khudiakov describing his life before World War II and under the Nazi occupation in Kiev

    Contains photocopies of 143 pages of memoirs of Fedor Fedorovich Khudiakov. The author describes his family life in Kyiv during the famine in Ukraine, apartment problem of that time in Kyiv, difficulties with the food supply, persuasion by NKVD “enemies of people”. In the beginning of the war Khudyakov served in the military unit located near Kyiv. Author depicts different military operations of his division in Kyiv oblast at the beginning of the war. In the September 1941 Khudyakov was taken as a prisoner of war and placed in the Soviet POW camps in Yagotin and Sulimovka in Kyiv region.The...

  13. Documents from the war period attesting that Maria Belenkaya is the wife of Red Army soldier Gedaliy Belenkiy, and that she and her two daughters stayed in Stalingrad and in Tobolsk during the evacuation, 1941-1944

    1. O.32 - Documentation regarding the Jews of the Soviet Union from the Holocaust period

    Documents from the war period attesting that Maria Belenkaya is the wife of Red Army soldier Gedaliy Belenkiy, and that she and her two daughters stayed in Stalingrad and in Tobolsk during the evacuation, 1941-1944 - Certificate given to Maria Belenkaya by the military commissar in Stalingrad, 08 December 1941, attesting that she is the wife of Red Army soldier Gedaliy Belenkiy; - Certificate issued in Stalingrad, 06 August 1942, regarding the evacuation of Maria Belenkaya and her family members from the front line to Kuybyshev; - Certificate given to Maria Belenkaya in Stalingrad, 31 July ...

  14. Documentation regarding the Red Army service of Mikhail Burman from Kherson, 1941-1944, and concerning the evacuation of his family to the Chkalov region, 13 August 1941

    1. O.32 - Documentation regarding the Jews of the Soviet Union from the Holocaust period

    Documentation regarding the Red Army service of Mikhail Burman from Kherson, 1941-1944, and concerning the evacuation of his family to the Chkalov region, 13 August 1941 Personal file of Mikhail Burman, born in Tomashpol, Ukraine, February 1912. In the file: - Personnel registration questionnaire completed by Mikhail Burman containing details regarding places where he worked before and during the war, 18 June 1945 ; - Directive given to Mikhail Burman by the Moscow District Headquarters regarding his starting work as the treasurer of the Military Headquarters, 25 June 1945; - Certificate fr...

  15. Testimony of Richard Fischl, born in Havlickuv Brod, Czechoslovakia, 1915, regarding his experiences in Poland, Samarkand, as a soldier in the Czechoslovakian Army in Buzuluk, and in combat in Sokolovo, Dukla, Presov and Ostrava

    1. O.59- Erich Kulka Collection: Documentation and testimonies regarding the struggle of the Jews of Czechoslovakia against the Nazis

    Testimony of Richard Fischl, born in Havlickuv Brod, Czechoslovakia, 1915, regarding his experiences in Poland, Samarkand, as a soldier in the Czechoslovakian Army in Buzuluk, and in combat in Sokolovo, Dukla, Presov and Ostrava Born in Czechoslovakia; German occupation; effect of the German occupation on Czechoslovakian Army officers; escape routes to Poland; German-speaking Czechoslovakian Jews in refugee center in Katowice, 1939; Soviet occupation; transfer to Samarkand; life of Jewish refugees in Samarkand, 1940-1942; formation of Czechoslovakian battalion at Buzuluk, 1942; participatio...

  16. Testimony of Vilem Bernard, Dr., born in Nachod, Czechoslovakia, 1912, regarding his experiences in Poland, the Soviet Union and as a soldier in the Czechoslovakia Army in the Soviet Union

    1. O.59- Erich Kulka Collection: Documentation and testimonies regarding the struggle of the Jews of Czechoslovakia against the Nazis

    Testimony of Vilem Bernard, Dr., born in Nachod, Czechoslovakia, 1912, regarding his experiences in Poland, the Soviet Union and as a soldier in the Czechoslovakia Army in the Soviet Union Born in Czechoslovakia; Chairman of the Students' Union in Prague, 1935-1936; leading member of the Czechoslovakian Social Democratic Party. Flies to Poland, 1939; joins Czechoslovakian Resistance Movement abroad, connection with General Lew Prchala; active in H. Field Refugee Committee in Krakow; rejection of Jewish refugees by the Czechoslovakian military camp in Bronowice; flies into the Soviet occupie...

  17. Államvédelmi Központ Bizalmas iratok, 1942–1944

    • Centre of State Security Classified Records, 1942–1944

    The survived records of the Centre of State Security mostly contain investigative files, including the cases of corruption, bribery, embezzlement, fraud, falsification of documents, black marketeering, trafficking and other violations of economic laws. A significant part of the suspects of these cases were Jews trying to circumvent the regulations of the anti-Jewish laws, or were trying to escape internment, ghettoization and deportation in 1944, as well as non-Jews who helped or cooperated with them. The classified (confidential) records of the Center mostly include the investigative files...

  18. Államvédelmi Központ Általános iratok, 1942–1944

    • Centre of State Security General Records, 1942–1944

    The survived records of the Centre of State Security mostly contain investigative files, including the cases of corruption, bribery, embezzlement, fraud, falsification of documents, black marketeering, trafficking and other violations of economic laws. A significant part of the suspects of these cases were Jews trying to circumvent the regulations of the anti-Jewish laws, or were trying to escape internment, ghettoization and deportation in 1944, as well as non-Jews who helped or cooperated with them. Besides, the general records of the Center contain plenty of information about the large s...

  19. Hungarista napló, 1944-1945

    • The Hungarist Journal, 1944-1945

    The collection holds the records of the activities and ideas of Ferenc Szálasi and his Arrow Cross Party from the origins of the movement in the 1930s until October, 1944, when the party assumed power. The material includes the pamphlets, speeches and other writings of Szálasi and other leaders and ideologues of the party, including Gábor Vajna, Emil Kovarcz, Gábor Kemény, Sándor Csia and Jenő Szőllősi, and Vilmos Kőfaragó-Gyelnik, notes on the history of the party, minutes of political meetings, circulars, flyers and other propaganda material, interviews and reports, bibliography and vario...

  20. Henry A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry A., who was born in Salonika, Greece in 1910. He describes his education; working in his father's coffee house; the absence of antisemitism in Salonika; importing auto parts and radios in the 1930s; his arranged marriage; the birth of his son in 1939; and the outbreak of war with Italy in 1940. He recalls military training at Nauplion in 1941; returning to Salonika after the German occupation; refusing to divulge names of customers who bought radios; becoming a textile merchant; being fined for "overcharging" German customers; paying a doctor to certify him an i...