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  1. Second Global Structures Convocation lecture by Ferencz

    Lecture, "Creating Global Structures for Agenda 21." Second Global Structures Convocation, Washington, DC. February 6-9, 1992. ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT (tape 10 in conference series) Introduction by Robert Livingston, president of Positions for Social Responsibility. Second introduction by Catherine Porter, executive director of US Citizens Network. Ferencz discusses new structures needed to create a more peaceful planet. Broad frameworks include a world community that is environmentally healthy, free from war, and economically sound. He argues for coordinated action on an international ...

  2. Seymour M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Seymour M., who was born in Mukacheve, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1926, the youngest of four children. He recounts a happy childhood in Bistrița, Romania; attending yeshiva; Hungarian occupation in 1940, resulting in antisemitic violence; his brother's military draft; German invasion in May 1944; ghettoization; deportation with his family to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation with his father from the women; his father convincing him to eat the soup; their transfer weeks later to Mauthausen, then days later to Melk; slave labor excavating tunnels; transfer to E...

  3. Leo K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leo K., who was born in Aschaffenburg, Germany in 1922, the older of two sons. He recounts his father was a cantor and synagogue teacher; moving to Nuremberg when he was three; attending Jewish schools, including high school in Fu?rth with Henry Kissinger; attending an orthodox youth group convention in Hamburg; his father obtaining a cantor's position in St. John's, Newfoundland; their emigration in March 1938 to escape Nazism; their move to the United States in March 1941; military draft in May 1943; intelligence training; participating in campaigns with the 2nd Arm...

  4. Philip P. and Sofia P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Philip P., who was born in Kamʹia︠n︡e Pole (Kamenka), Ukraine in 1925. He recalls observing Jewish holidays and attending synagogue; a large, extended family; joining Komsomol; his father's draft in August 1941; German occupation; hiding with his mother, with assistance from non-Jewish neighbors, when most Jews were slaughtered; fleeing to a nearby village; returning with his mother and sister to Kamenka; anti-Jewish restrictions; forced labor in a forest; assistance from a German officer; transfer to forced labor outside Kamenka; escaping with his mother and sister w...

  5. Zundel G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zundel G., who was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1929, the youngest of five siblings. He recalls attending a Jewish school; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; Soviet occupation in 1940; participating in Komsomol; visiting relatives in Alytus; German invasion; returning to Kaunas; fleeing with his family to Ukmergė, then Jonava; arrest; bribing a policeman to release them; returning home; their Lithuanian neighbor saving them from a round-up; ghettoization; one brother fleeing to Soviet territory; transfer to a labor camp; working in a munitions factory; brief hospital...

  6. Norman T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Norman T., who enlisted in the British military in early 1940. He discusses training; landing in Europe in June 1944; arriving in Celle, Germany on April 14, 1945; learning Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was nearby; arrival there on April 15; being overwhelmed with piles of rotting corpses and the condition of the prisoners; encountering Josef Kramer, the Kommandant; providing food for the prisoners, not realizing it would kill them; a large number of deaths; interrogating Kramer and others; wanting to shoot him and other guards but restraining himself based on his ...

  7. Victor Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Victor Z., who was born in Paris, France in 1926. He recounts his parents' eastern European origins; his father's communist activities; participation in a communist youth group; antisemitic harassment in school; his sister's birth in 1938; leaving school at thirteen to work; his father's military draft in 1939; German invasion; evacuation to Saint-Saturnin in June 1940; joining relatives in Les Sièges; returning home; his father's return; joining a communist resistance group; organizing demonstrations; his father's arrest and internment in Drancy on August 20, 1941; ...

  8. Markus K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Markus K., who was born in Tarno?w, Poland in 1909, one of six children. He recalls attending Polish gymnasium; antisemitic harassment; attending pharmaceutical school in Czechoslovakia; his brother's death in 1931; working in Warsaw; his father's death in 1935; military draft in 1939; German invasion in September; discharge in Tyszowce; traveling with his brother-in-law to Li?u?boml?, Sokolya, and L?viv in the Soviet-occupied area; working in a pharmacy; trying to smuggle himself to rejoin his family in February 1940; arrest in Jaros?aw; a German releasing him at the...

  9. Operation Annie - January 24, 1945

    1. Operation Annie broadcasts

    0:14: Trojan Horse theme. 1:15: Radio 1212, daily from 2-6, every hour on the hour, with news for the Rheinland and reports from the Front and the homeland for the people of the Rhein District and the Saar Palatinate. 1:43: The battle rages in the Eifel [Westpfalz, southern Belgium]. In Alsace, German gunners are receiving a strong rebuttal from Allied forces, specifically in Mulhausen and Colmar. Eyewitness accounts follow on battlefronts. Between Blankenheim and Tondorf [Germany], eighteen American forces were overtaken. More reports of explosions and artillery numbers. 5:57: In St. Vith ...

  10. Selected records from the Smolensk State Oblast Archives

    Records from the Extraordinary Commission (Fond 1630), and the Planning Commission (Fond 2434) of the Committee of the Smolensk Oblast Council. Contains commissions' depositions pertaining to Nazi atrocities during the occupation (1941-1943) of the Smolensk and Velizhsk Oblasts; lists detailing destruction of houses; reports on summary executions; ill-treatment of wounded POWs by the Nazis; reports on the execution of children with connections to the partisans; reports on the torture of local residents; lists of displaced persons; lists of civilian victims of Nazi crimes; reports on organiz...

  11. Weiss family papers

    The Weiss family papers include biographical material, correspondence, immigration material, and school and professional material relating to Zygfryd, Stefania, and Ruth Weiss’ life in Poland before fleeing to the Soviet Union in 1939, imprisonment in Yakutsk, and immigration to the United Stated in 1947. The collection also includes a diary kept by Ruth from 1944-1945 while in Uzbekistan. Biographical materials include a military book, Polish ID card, and temporary ID card for Zygfryd as well as a Polish ID card and temporary ID card for Stefania. Emigration and immigration material includ...

  12. Home Army Armia Krajowa (Sygn.1326)

    Contains various documents of the Polish Underground Army (Home Army), a military organization of the resistance movements during World War II. Established in February 1942 as a successor to the November 13, 1939-established Zwiazek Walki Zbrojnej (Union for Armed Combat), it became a part of Polish Armed Forces under the control of the Polish Government-in-Exile. The Home Army’s long-term aim was to prepare for a general uprising at the moment of Germany’s defeat; its operations culminated in the 63-day Warsaw Uprising in the summer of 1944.

  13. Duquesne spy case; enemy agents in the US; Private Snafu cartoon

    Title on screen: Duquesne Case: Secret. The word "Secret" has been crossed out. Grainy footage, shot clandestinely, shows a New York City street and the interior of an office. Hoover's narration tells of Harry Sawyer [pseudonym for William Sebold], a naturalized German citizen who became a double-agent after he was approached by the Gestapo (in reality the Abwehr) in 1939. The footage shows Duquesne entering Sawyer's office. Spies talk with Sawyer and give him money and the blueprints to the ship SS America. Duquesne, "the most cautious of them all," looks around the room before removing di...

  14. Selected records of the Investigation Office of the Capital City of Warsaw Urząd Śledczy M. St. Warszawy (Sygn.1642)

    The collection contains approximately two thousand personal files of Jews suspected or accused of various crimes (e.g. thieves, crooks, forgers, etc.) listed by the Investigation Office in Warsaw. Files contain the dossier of a person, information sheet, which includes the following data: name, alias, date and place of birth, place of residence, marital status, parents' names, personal data spouse, names of children, information about the lovers, people with whom a person maintains contact or collaborate in criminal activities, occupation, religion, military service, description, additional...

  15. Operation Annie - December 8, 1944

    1. Operation Annie broadcasts

    0:00: "Trojan Horse" theme 1212 Sender Announcement: "Radio 1212 is on air every day from 2-6 and reports news for the Rhineland, news from the Front for the population of the Rheinland-Gaue and the Saarpfalz." 2:19: Front reports: US troops advancing at one part of the Westwall; US ships overturned near Dillingen; German defense underway; heavy fighting at the Westwall; German fortress cannons firing at American bridgeheads. 3:09: No major attacks on the industrial cities of Saarlautern, Saargemünd and Fürtlingen; Americans have erected bridgeheads at Saarlautern only; Wehrmacht orders Saa...

  16. Operation Annie - December 12, 1944

    1. Operation Annie broadcasts

    In the past 24 hours a number of villages fell into American hands. In the Düren region: Echtz and Geich, about 5 km Northeast of Düren. In the Rhine-Pfalz: (Limenhausen?,Jeweiler, Herbach, Düringenhof?, Höllenhof?, Wegenei?, Laubach, Eschbach, Winterfels) In the Hagenau region: Soufflenheim, Oberhoffen, Schirrhein, Schirhoffen, Offendorf (South of Bischweiler) 1:25: names of the villages that are under threat: In the Düren region: Pier, Herna, Merode, (Schliess?), (Seil? That is in large part already taken by the Americans), Düren. In the Saar region: The cities Merzig, Willingen, Saarbrüc...

  17. Operation Annie - December 17, 1944

    1. Operation Annie broadcasts

    0:00: music 1:52: news: according to the latest reports, there have been allied counterattacks on the front between the Eiffel and the Luxembourgian border, Waldfront: the American tanks are now standing on a 25km front on German soil, the counterattacks by German tanks weren’t able to stop the invasion. The German troops have now retreated from the Rhine’s west bank. The first Defense hubs of the “Westwall” are now under fire. At the Rhine itself the first row of bunkers have now been flooded, leaving the German forces with no other option but to retreat to back rows. There are ongoing str...

  18. Armed resistance of the Jews in Poland [Book]

    1. Mort Horvitz collection

  19. Funeral for SA men at which Goebbels speaks.

    The cortege and funeral of three SA men: Walter Apel, Robert Gleuel, and Franz Klein, who were purportedly shot and killed by members of the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD) in June 1933. People are shown laying flowers at the location of the murder in Berlin-Köpenick. The funeral cortege leaves the hospital and passes crowds of mourners, who line the street and give a Hitler salute to the passing hearses. The heavy-handed narration is accompanied by mournful music. The coffins are taken to their local SA headquarters for some sort of ceremony, attended by Joseph Goebbels. Low ...

  20. Salm family papers

    The Salm family papers contain biographical materials, correspondence, emigration and immigration records, and restitution papers documenting the Salm family of Cologne, Germany and their immigration to the United States. The papers primarily consist of biographical materials and emigration and immigration records of Kurt and Meta Salm’s immigration to the United States in 1937, and Kurt’s parents David and Anna Salm’s immigration to the United States in 1940. Biographical materials include birth, marriage and death certificates; identification papers; military papers of David Salm, includi...