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  1. The destruction of the Salonica Jewry A personal view

    1. Rosa M. Miller collection

    Contains information about the German occupation of Salonica (Thessalonikē), Greece; the establishment of a Jewish quarter in Salonica; and the deportation of nearly 70,000 Greek Jews from Salonica.

  2. Letter of protection issued by the Spanish Embassy in Budapest

    Contains a "Letter of protection" (Védlevél) issued for a Jewish man named Miklós Hreblay on behalf of the Spanish Embassy in Budapest, dated November 1, 1944. The letter indicates that the bearer of the letter is under the protection of Spain. Typewritten on official letterhead of the Spanish Embassy of Hungary, photo of bearer affixed, stamped with ink stamp of Spanish Embassy and ink stamp of Ángel Sanz Briz, who was later recognized as Righteous Among the Nations for his actions assisting Jews in Budapest.

  3. Spanish Civil War; Munich Agreement; Nazi officials; Moscow Pact

    Reel 3 shows fighting and destruction during the Spanish Civil War. Daladier, Chamberlain, Mussolini and Hitler sign the Munich Pact. German troops are greeted in the Sudeten. Troops march into Prague and invade Albania. Hitler, addressing the Reichstag, ridicules Roosevelt's appeal for peace. Hitler confers with Goring, von Ribbentrop meets with Russian diplomats to negotiate the Moscow Pact. Contrasts Poland's military power with that of Germany showing the German pictures of aerial attacks.

  4. Gertrud Oppenheimer collection

    Collection of documents, manuscript, photographs and prayer book relating to Leo and Gertrud Oppenheimer and their families, who were deported in October 1940 from western Germany to Camp de Gurs in southwest France in 1940. Gertrude worked there as a nurse and had access to members of her family. In May 1941 Leo Oppenheimer was transferred to Camp Les Milles, close to Marseille, Gertrude and Leo received permits to move to a transit camp in Marseille. In January 1942 Leo was transferred to a forced labor camp in Augagne, and in July he came to Marseille directly to a hospital. In August 19...

  5. Thomas Cook and Son Ltd: Storage record book

    This storage record book of Thomas Cook's Lisbon depot, is thought to be significant because it apparently contains the names of many Jews who left possessions during the years 1942-1943, much of which remained unclaimed, and was presumably disposed of by Thomas Cook staff in due course. The following notes were supplied by the depositor, who was (in 1977-1978) the Thomas Cook General Manager for Europe and who retrieved the volume from the Lisbon office of Thomas Cook

  6. Otto Ernst Remer: copy report

    Copy manuscript account apparently by Major General Otto Ernst Remer about his activities on the day of the attempted assassination of Hitler on 20 July 1944. The document is dated 2 April 1946. It is possible that the account was written whilst Remer was in custody during the period of de-nazification after the war. A note states that the first two pages were missing and that these had been supplied at a later date by a different depositor (G. Fleming).

  7. Nuremberg Trials - IMT Collection

    The Nuremberg Trials - IMT Collection is a wide-range collection of documents related to the well-known trial against 23 major Nazi war criminals, held by the International Military Tribunal (IMT) in Nuremberg between 1945 and 1946. Nuremberg documentation includes: the trial’s transcripts, the archival series NG (Nazi Government), NO (Nazi Organization), OKW (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, Supreme Command of the Armed Forces), NI (Nazi Institutions), RSHA (Reichssicherheitshauptamt, Reich Security Head Office), SD (Sicherheitsdienst, Security Service), Gestapo (Geheime Staatspolizei, Secret S...

  8. Rhine River tour; Württemberg

    “GERMANY” "THE RHINE” Dark shots from from a boat on the Rhine River of the surrounding area. Castle on the hill. Trees. Smokestacks of boats on the water. The castle wall on the edge of a hill. Waterfront. Smaller castle on a terraced hill. “HALL IN WUERTEMBURG” Schwäbisch Hall, a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Steep stairs lead up to St. Michael’s Church. Houses line the slanted road. Nazi flag. St. Michael’s Church. Young girl approaches the camera, joined by a young boy and mother.