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Item type: Archival Descriptions

  1. Collection of 3831 photographs made by members of the Peasant Movement Zbiór 3831 zdjęć wykonanych przez członków Ruchu Ludowego

    Consists of catalog cards with the photo collection from a grup of records: K4-BCH Lwów-Rawa Mazowiecka. Each card contains the photograph and its description along with the date (not always). Photographs relate to World War II: military actions, Polish Armed Forces in the West (Polskie Siły Zbrojne na Zachodzie, PSZ), prisoners of war, occupant policy, terror, Peasant Battalions (Bataliony Chłopskie, BCH)-Main Headquarters and armed units (partisans), and commemoration events after WWII.

  2. Nationalistic " I am for America First" Pin-back button

    1. Jim Robinson collection

    America First pin encouraging the public to support American isolation regarding United States’ participation in World War II. After World War I (1914-1918), the public felt that the United States should stay out of future foreign wars. The government agreed, taking a new isolationist stance regarding national polices by reducing military forces, restricting immigration, and outlawing aggressive war. After the outbreak of World War II in September 1939, most Americans favored isolation over intervention. However, pro-Allies governmental policies and growing anti-fascist public sentiment beg...

  3. Waffen-SS Mountain Troop patch acquired by a US soldier

    1. Henry Morgenthau family collection

    Waffen-SS Mountain Troop edelweiss badge acquired by Henry Morgenthau III, an officer in the United States Army, Second Cavalry, ca. 1941-1945. He served in combat in the European theater and was awarded a Bronze Star for meritorious service.

  4. Majdanek liberated

    Opening credit: "Das Blut der Opfer Schreit zum Himmel!" Pan of survivors behind barbed wire. CUs, survivors and their tattooed numbers. Various shots of the electrically charged barbed wire, ruins, various signs, guard towers, aerial views, etc. Russian soldiers examine camp officials. Men dig up graves for evidence. CU, women weeping as bodies are uncovered. CUs, decomposed bodies and pile of skulls. Officials of the camp are questioned. Gas chambers. CU, can of chemicals used for gas. INTs, camp, disinfection chamber, etc. More officials are interrogated by Russians. Survivors tell their...

  5. Weit Draussen im Sonnenglanz Over Yonder in the Sunshine

    1. "Music of the Holocaust" web exhibition

    From the operetta Stradella in Venedig. Born in 1908 in Lemberg, Austria-Hungary (currently L’viv, Ukraine), Joseph Beer studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna. After graduating, he remained in the Austrian capital to conduct a ballet troupe, but soon found his calling in the field of music theater. With the popular success of his first comic operas, Der Prinz Von Schiras (The Prince of Shiraz) and Polnische Hochzeit (The Polish Wedding), Beer, not yet 30, rated among Vienna’s most sought-after composers. This promising career, however, was cut short by the German-Austrian Anschluss ...

  6. German Administrative and Juridical Organs in the Occupied Territories Verwaltungs- und Justizeinrichtungen in den besetzten Gebieten (Fond 1447)

    Miscellaneous records of the German administrative and judicial agencies in the occupied territories of Poland and Soviet Union as well as edicts and orders of the occupied authorities on the structure of administrative services and degrees of jurisdiction, on economic and food issues, on establishing local institutions, on operating railroads, setting price controls, it also includes minutes of court sessions and investigative files. Consists of circular letters on evacuating Poles and Jews from the eastern territories of Germany and relocate them to the General Government, reports on exec...

  7. Daily life in Russia

    INT, shots through a window of a window washer. EXT, city scenes from a moving tram. EXT, men digging up a road. Cows pass a barn. Young boys put potatoes in a bucket. CU, trams drive by, a busy town square. People board and exit a tram. Men read newspaper board. Various shots of little children. Man meticulously shines a woman's shoes. Street scenes. CU, fish in a tank. Storefront. Rowboat on a river. Men buy beer from a stand in the square. CU, statue of a rearing horse and a man holding the lead. Postmen deliver mail. Peasants/farmers shovel and load hay. Storefront of a housewares store...

  8. Robert F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Robert F., who was born in Orşova, Romania in 1914, the younger of two brothers. He recounts his family's secularism; his father's career in a mineral oil factory; home-schooling until he was thirteen, including tutoring by a rabbi; attending high school in Timișoara; the family's move to Bucharest; completing high school; working in his father's factory; attending university in Vienna with his brother; antisemitic violence; completing university in Prague; moving with his family to Podbrezová in 1936, then to Dubova, where his father managed an oil refinery; milit...

  9. Chaim H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chaim H., who was born in Radziwillow, Poland (presently Radyvyliv, Ukraine) in 1927, one of three children. He recounts attending Jewish and public schools; his family's move to Brody in 1939; Soviet occupation; attending a Russian school; German invasion in 1941; fleeing east; returning home; his father's round-up by Ukrainian SS; observing a mass shooting of Jewish men, including his father; his grandfather's death resulting from being beaten by a German; escaping into the fields during a round-up; hiding with his family; forced labor for Organisation Todt building...

  10. Michèle G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Michèle G., who was born in Domfront, France in 1939, the youngest of three children. She recounts that her family lived in Paris; her father's military draft prior to her birth; her family traveling to Domfront, thinking war was imminent, thus her birth there; their return to Paris; learning her father was a prisoner of war; his return in 1941; evacuation with her siblings by the Croix-Rouge française in March 1942; staying with family friends, then placement with a Catholic family with seven children in Isserpent; her brother's placement elsewhere that summer; ful...

  11. Abraham F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham F., who was born in Łomża, Poland in 1919. He recalls his Hasidic family; attending law school in Warsaw; being drafted into the Polish military in 1939; antisemitic incidents; German invasion; imprisonment in a POW camp; returning to Soviet-occupied Łomża; fleeing to L'viv with a Zionist group; their unsuccessful escape attempt; organizing a kibbutz in Vilna in 1940; bringing his brother there; working in a Jewish theater in Kovno; German invasion; an unsuccessful escape attempt; ghettoization; his underground activities; volunteering for a labor camp to jo...

  12. Peter L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Peter L., who was born in Jihlava, Czechoslovakia in 1924, the second of two children. He recounts his assimilated family; attending a German school; his bar mitzvah but not in a synagogue (his father was an atheist); leaving school due to antisemitic harassment; learning to be a machinist; attending a Zionist school in Prague; living in an orphanage, then a Zionist dormitory; his school's closure; joining his family in the Třebíč ghetto; forced labor with his father in a nearby quarry; deportation with his family to Theresienstadt in May 1942; contacts with Fredy ...

  13. Benjamin D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Benjamin D., who was born in Vilna, Poland, in 1914. He tells of studying fine arts; conscription into the Polish army; antisemitism in the military; Soviet occupation; imprisonment by the Soviets; escape; hiding in Dubno; returning to Vilna; marriage in 1939; brief service in the Soviet army; German invasion; an unsuccessful attempt to escape; formation of the Judenrat; the murder of its members; and appointment of another one. Mr. D. describes mass killings in Ponary; hiding with his wife; ghettoization; working as an artist; the killing of his grandfather and other...

  14. Avraham H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Avraham H., who was born in Suceava, Romania in 1923, the youngest of eight children in a Hasidic family. He recounts working on the family farm; attending cheder and public school; one brother's emigration to Palestine in 1933; another brother's death in 1934; antisemitic harassment in school; attending the Vizhnitz yeshiva in summer 1938; Soviet occupation; anti-Jewish violence by Romanian troops in 1940; forced labor building roads; hiding valuables with German neighbors; a round-up of all Jews; train transfer to Ataki; incarceration in a synagogue; transfer to Moh...

  15. Mark N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mark N., who was born in Soymy, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (Czechoslovakia after World War I, presently Ukraine), in 1908, one of eight children. He recounts cordial relations with non-Jews; joining the Czech army in 1928; serving for two years; Zionist agricultural training in Ostrava in 1936; emigrating to Haifa; returning home at his parents' request; military service in 1938; Hungarian occupation; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1940; slave labor at various locations; returning home on leave in 1941; learning that his family had been deported; findi...

  16. Mario B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mario B., who was born in London, England in 1926, the older of two brothers. He recounts his parents were Catholic, Italian emigre?es; he, his mother, and brother visiting his grandmother in Piacenza in May 1939; not being able to return to England after the war started; living in Cadeo; Italian capitulation; German occupation; local hostility to Germans; contacts with partisans; hiding to avoid military draft in 1944; arrest with his brother and uncle when visiting his mother; imprisonment in Piacenza; separation from his relatives when he was transferred to Milan (...

  17. Kariel G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Kariel G., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1921. He recounts growing up in an assimilated family; his mother's death during his birth; attending public school; his bar mitzvah; antisemitic legislation; a menial factory job; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1942; forced labor constructing airports; a medical furlough to Budapest; obtaining false papers; escaping to Budapest; his father convincing him to return; deportation to Bor; slave labor for Organization Todt; obtaining extra food from Serbian peasants; a death march to Zemun; transfer to Ustas...

  18. Itzchak S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Itzchak S., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1915. He recounts his father's military service in World War I; attending public and Jewish schools; bar mitzvah; participating in Jewish and Zionist youth groups; antisemitic harassment; traveling to Amsterdam; his mother joining him; founding a Zionist youth group; returning to Berlin to obtain a certificate to emigrate to Palestine (his mother remained); establishing a Youth Aliyah center in Cologne; improvements during the 1936 Olympics; teaching at a Jewish school in Herrlingen; returning to Berlin; obtaining false p...

  19. Judith N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Judith N., who was born in Gherla (Szamosu?jva?r), Romania in 1930 to a rabbincal family of eight children. She recalls moving to Kolozsva?r (Cluj); attending Tarbut school; her family's return to Gherla after German occupation; her brother's conscription for forced labor in 1944; ghettoization in April; transfer to the Cluj ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz in May; selection with two of her sisters (she never saw her parents or other siblings again); their belief that they would survive; appels and selections; transfer to a labor camp; her sisters dying during a death...

  20. John F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of John F., who was born in Pruz?h?any, Poland (presently Belarus) in 1925. He recalls one brother's military draft in January 1939; brief German invasion in September followed by Soviet occupation; German invasion in 1941; ghettoization; forced labor; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau when the ghetto was liquidated; separation from his family (he never saw them again); slave labor constructing barracks; a privileged position as the kapo's assistant; assistance from a non-Jewish German prisoner; smuggling food with others; building storage rooms; trading with civilian wo...