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  1. Hungarian conscripts forced to perform labor in Budapest, 1944

    Hungarista Híradó 2. A long row of forced laborers in a field use pick-axes to dig away at the earth. Men in a deep trench dig, throwing the dirt up above, where other men shovel it away. Brief shot of two men in uniform surveying the activity. One looks through binoculars. The laboring men continue to hack away at the earth, with shovels and pick-axes. They sit by tables and pots, prepping food. CU of a bowl of onions and peppers. Men cut away at onions over a bowl and stir soup in large pots in the ground. A man serves others waiting in line for the soup. The Jewish forced laborers lounge...

  2. Selected Records from the Departmental Archives of the Alpes-Maritimes. 1933-1972

    Contains records directly linked to the war: internments for administrative or “political” reasons; purges; surveillance of political parties; freemasons (“Sociétés Secrètes) and the press; food distribution and rationing; non-Jewish laborers requisitioned to work in Germany (“STO”); military affairs; prisoners; refugees; supervision of real estate transactions; sequestered property; affairs related to German or Italian occupation; war damages; veterans’ affairs; judicial matters and lawsuits; as well as the Armistice Commission. Also contains material indirectly related to the war: public ...

  3. Medal commemorating the October 1, 1938, annexation of the Sudetenland by Nazi Germany

    1. Emily Heyser collection

    Commemorative medal awarded to soldiers of the Third Reich who participated in the October 1, 1938, annexation of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia by Germany. It was designed by Richard Klein and features two male figures representing the Sudetenland being freed from its shackles by Nazi Germany. The Sudetenland was a region of Czechoslovakia on the border with Germany where the majority of the population were ethnic Germans. In 1938, Hitler threatened to go to war unless the territory was ceded to Germany. At a conference in Munich on September 29-30, attended by Great Britain, France, It...

  4. Press Conference; Hadamar Murder Trial

    Welt im Film. Issue no. 93 01:07:14 General McNarney's Press Conference. Gen. Joseph T. McNarney holds press conference in Berlin at which German journalists participate for the first time. Cut-ins, German newspapermen taking notes. 01:08:08 Hadamar Mass Murder Trial. INTs, Frankfurt Provincial Court. 27 doctors, nurses, and attendants who participated in the mass killings of 70,000 people are on trial. MCUs many of those on trial. Prosecutor explains method by which disappearance of victims was accomplished. Cut-ins prisoners and others in courtroom.

  7. Concentration camps in Norway; Spanish photographer imprisoned in Mauthausen testifies re. Nazi leaders who visited camp at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 531) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 29, 1946. Hans Cappenlen, Norwegian, testifying in English (a court interpreter sits beside him). Cappenlen tells about concentration camps in Norway. 08:20:00 He testifies of Roma sent to Struthof concentration camp. 08:22:00 Cappenlen mentions that Gross Rosen was a "bad camp" and that the worst was the evacuation of Gross Rosen in February. French prosecutor Dubost calls this witness. Justice Lawrence asks the defense counselors if they are able to question the witness. Friedrich Bergold, defense counselor, claims he is not prepa...

  8. Belsen Concentration Camp: burial; hairwashing; Red Cross

    MLS, two chaplains, Rev. P.T. Stretch and Rev. Cuthbert, standing by pit performing burial service before open mass grave. VAR shots, scarf with cross visible. MCU Jewish priest, Rev. L. H. Hordman shovels dirt into open grave. Bulldozing earth into pit. SS men help to fill in grave with shovels. Survivors sitting under pitched roof on heap. CU of various male survivors, sitting cooking together before entrance to tent. CU man leaning against hut wall, talking, emaciated. CU, women talking and nodding to cameraman's assistant at frame left. MLS, two French women in open ground, one washes t...

  9. Waffen-SS Muslim red fez found by a US soldier at Ohrdruf concentration camp

    Red fez with a swastika and Death's head found by James Howard Edwards, a US army soldier, in Ohrdruf concentration camp, following the liberation of the camp by the United States Army on April 29, 1945. He found the fez in the commandant’s barracks. The red fez was part of the dress uniform of a Waffen-SS military detachment composed of Muslims from Bosnia, Croatia, and Herzegovina in occupied Yugoslavia. There was a field gray one for combat. The creation of this unit was authorized by Hitler in 1943. The original purpose was to combat Tito’s partisans. Through recruitment and conscriptio...

  11. Ferencz lecture: Wiesenthal Holocaust Center

    Ferencz lecture. Wiesenthal Holocaust Center, Los Angeles, CA. Second in five part series on Nazi war crimes trials. Ferencz discusses how the Nuremberg proceedings informed his life, his involvement in major restitution programs, and his understanding of "Never Again" through developing international law, an international criminal court, and defining aggression. He explains the legal precedents established at Nuremberg, including a) crime of aggression; b) crimes against humanity; c) trying heads of state; and d) guaranteeing rights to every prisoner (innocent until proven guilty in a cour...

  12. Records of the commune Regnów, County of Rawa Mazowiecka Akta gminy Regnów powiatu Rawskiego (Sygn.1105)

    The collection contains vital records of the commune Regnów, County of Rawa Mazowiecka. Includes reports, police announcements and orders regulating registration of people who had migrated to that region, name lists of firemen, correspondence relating to military cemeteries, and government support of Jewish families after World War II.

  13. Sterilization; marriage health law

    Propaganda for sterilization (15m10s); "Kampf ums Dasein" [struggle for life] (2m12s); enactment of the marriage health law (4m30s); positive Nazi goals (1m50s). Nazi racial propaganda film about mentally and physically disabled people and the danger and drain they are on the Aryan nation. This film (like "Erbkrank") shows footage of men, women and children who have been placed in hospitals, asylums, etc. There are CUs of sad, destroyed people. Footage of their behavior (i.e., a man standing in a field of daisies "whipping" the air with an imaginary whip, another man angrily beats his hand ...

  14. Gau Wien of the National Socialist Party (NSDAP, Vienna): Applications to the NSDAP with requests for amnesty from legislation and regulations relating to Jews, 1939-1941

    1. R.2 - National Socialist Party documentation from the Gau Wien (Vienna District), 1938-1945

    Gau Wien of the National Socialist Party (NSDAP, Vienna): Applications to the NSDAP with requests for amnesty from legislation and regulations relating to Jews, 1939-1941 The file includes personal applications to the NSDAP, in particular to Buerkl in his position as Gauleiter, to receive amnesty (Gnadengesuche) from legislation and regulations relating to Jews; some of the applications request exemptions, including being identified as a Jew, due to reasons related to the applicant's origins; transfer of these requests to the Kanzlei des Fuehrers (Office of the Fuehrer); other applications ...

  15. Clippings from the Austrian and German press, 1922-1946, and an excerpt from the "Reconstuction-Aufbau" newspaper published in New York, 1942

    1. O.30 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Austria, mainly during the Holocaust period

    Clippings from the Austrian and German press, 1922-1946, and an excerpt from the "Reconstuction-Aufbau" newspaper published in New York, 1942 - Article that appeared in the New York newspaper, "Aufbau", regarding renewal of deportation of large numbers of Jews from Vienna to Eastern Europe; report regarding suicides in hospitals and shelters for the blind; announcement regarding deportation of the Jews of the Netherlands on Radio Amsterdam, 17 July 1942; - Reaction to the report issued by the Prussian War Office regarding the active military service of the Jews of Germany in World War I, 03...

  16. Testimony of L. Unger, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1915, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto and in Skarzysko, Buchenwald, Schlieben and Theresienstadt camps

    1. O.39 - Collection of memoirs written by survivors as part of a competition held by Yad Vashem, 1957
    • אוטוביוגרפיה - איבערלעבונג אין היטלערקריג

    Testimony of L. Unger, born in Warsaw, Poland, 1915, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto and in Skarzysko, Buchenwald, Schlieben and Theresienstadt camps Hasidic family; his father was a merchant; completion of high school studies in Lodz; work in the family business representing the "Asher Cohen" company in Lodz; Outbreak of the war; escape of his father with his sister and two brothers to Warsaw, to their father Mordechai Mendel Unger; the witness remains with his mother in Lodz; establishment of the Lodz Ghetto; death of his mother in ghetto due to starvation, 1942; death of his...

  17. Two certificates from 1943 and 1945 regarding the fact that Zhan Albert Kazes from Plovdiv contracted malaria during the war while serving in a Jewish labor battalion, and regarding assistance given to partisans

    1. O.13 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Bulgaria, mainly from the Holocaust period

    Two certificates from 1943 and 1945 regarding the fact that Zhan Albert Kazes from Plovdiv contracted malaria during the war while serving in a Jewish labor battalion, and regarding assistance given to partisans - Certificate issued in Belitsa regarding the service of Zhan Albert Kazes in a Jewish labor battalion in 1943, and his contracting malaria during his service, 15 November 1943; - Certificate issued in Plovdiv regarding assistance given by Zhan Albert Kazes from Plovdiv to partisans during the war and concerning the deportation of family members to Poland where they were murdered in...

  18. Testimony of Fritz Beer, born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, 1911, regarding his experiences in Poland, with a Czechoslovakian Army unit in France and England, and in combat in Dunkirk

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

    Testimony of Fritz Beer, born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, 1911, regarding his experiences in Poland, with a Czechoslovakian Army unit in France and England, and in combat in Dunkirk Born in Czechoslovakia; activities of Jewish Communists in Brno and Prague, 1930-1939. Organizing escapes to Poland, 1939; formation of the Writers and Journalists Aid Committee in Krakow; cooperation with Herman Field, the British Refugee Committee representative; struggle to obtain refugee visas to England; Communist infiltration of liberal refugee organizations in London; Communist influence over liberal refugee...

  19. Testimony of Moshe Dubsky, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1919, regarding his experiences as a Beitar and Zionist movement activist before the war, aliya to Eretz Israel, 1940, service in the Czechoslovakian Army in the Middle East and Britain and servic

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

    Testimony of Moshe Dubsky, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1919, regarding his experiences as a Beitar and Zionist movement activist before the war, aliya to Eretz Israel, 1940, service in the Czechoslovakian Army in the Middle East and Britain and service in the US Army in Plzen Born in Prague; Zionist and Beitar activities in Prague, 1935-1939 Sending of transports of illegal immigrants to Eretz Israel, 1940; arrival in Eretz Israel on the ship, "Sakariya", 1940; mobilization, and enlistment in Czechoslovakian units in the Middle East and the Czechoslovakian battalion in Tobruk; transfer ...

  20. Testimony of Zvi Faerber, born in Chust, Czechoslovakia, 1916, regarding his experiences in the Soviet Union, forced labor camps and as a soldier in the Czechoslovakian Army in Sadagura

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

    Testimony of Zvi Faerber, born in Chust, Czechoslovakia, 1916, regarding his experiences in the Soviet Union, forced labor camps and as a soldier in the Czechoslovakian Army in Sadagura Born in Czechoslovakia. Escape to the Soviet Union via Torun during the Hungarian occupation of Carpathian Ruthenia, 1939; detention in the Soviet Union; interrogation by the NKVD; deportation to a forced labor camp in the Kandalaksha region, 1940; presence of fellow Jews in the camp; work and living conditions in the camp; unsuccessful attempts to escape; evacuation of the inmates to a camp in Vorkuta follo...