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  1. SA membership files, Varel (Germany)

    Consists of 43 separate personnel files on members of the Sturmbabteilung (SA) of the Nazi party, from the town of Varel (Friesland), Germany. The files, called "Stammrolle," contain information about a persons membership in the SA, in the Nazi party, their vital statistics, profession, prior military or paramilitary service, and the dates on which they received various ranks in the SA. The files were numbered in sequential and chronological order, based on the date when this form was completed, which could have been at the same time as a person's entry into the SA, or at a much later date....

  2. Records of the Geneva Office of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1945-1954

    Records of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC), Geneva Office, relating to global overseas operations in the immediate post-World War II (WWII) period: global rescue and relief efforts, primarily focused on resettling Jewish refugees and Holocaust survivors around the world; facilitating the renewal of Jewish life in Europe; rebuilding Jewish communal institutions; and providing sustaining aid to the remnants of Jewish communities worldwide. This collection include: correspondence; committee and board meeting minutes; field reports from worldwide staff; budgets; income a...

  3. Henry Krystal papers

    Case files of Dr. Henry Krystal, a psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor based in Southfield, Michigan, who treated other Holocaust survivors who lived in the Detroit region, circa 1960s to 1990s. The files, arranged alphabetically by patient name, contain evaluations, descriptions of patients' ailments, and the descriptions of their experiences during the Holocaust. Includes reports filed by Krystal in support of patients' restitution claims with the West German government.

  4. Goering's train in Ostmark

    Intertitle: “Ostmarkreise.” In Austria, Goering's train. Goering in white jacket in conversation with Nazi Party member. He walks along the rails, Arthur Seyss-Inquart is next to him. Civilians with “Heil” greetings, party members in white shirts and arm bands block off a crowd.View out traveling train at men greeting the train from the platform. Horse-drawn carriage moving through the woods, shot from the carriage. Men walk through the woods. White horses pull carriages. Goering in hunting costume with binoculars, accompanied by hunters, climbs in carriage with two white horses, travels in...

  5. Star of David badge printed with Jude

    Star of David badge; yellow textile with black outline of Star of David and "Jude" printed in center.

  6. Records of the registry office of the Jewish community in Wolbórz Akta urządu stanu cywilnego gminy żydowskiej w Woliborzu (Sygn.1734)

    Books of the registry office in Wolbórz, Poland. Selected records contain registry books with data of marriages, births and deaths of inhabitants in Wolbórz as well as bound copies of annexes.

  7. Konig and Bressler families collection

    Contains letters, photographs, and other documents related to the König and Bressler family from Pasieczna and Nadwórna, Poland; includes two letters, one written by Chana, searching for her brother Max and the other recommendation letter from US officer, dated June 24, 1946. Also includes documents and photographs; related to Chaim Nieswiecki (donor’s step-father), who was born in Baranowicze, Poland (now Baranavichy, Belarus) on March 23, 1911, including letters written by the Koenigl family in Pasieczna and Nadworna to their son and brother Max in the USA 1933-1938; false documents issue...

  8. Selected records from the Library of the United Nations Office at Geneva

    Selected documents from two major record groups in the holdings of the Library of the United Nations Office at Geneva: the High Commissioner for German Refugees, Autonomous Period (1933-1936) and the Intergovernmental Committee Conference at Evian (1938-1939). These records relate to the Evian Conference as well as to Jewish refugees seeking to flee from Nazi persecution. Includes records pertaining to the British Mandate of Palestine, situation reports on various countries in Europe, and correspondence with Jewish communities in Europe and refugee organizations worldwide such as the Jewish...

  9. Selected records of the commune Daleszyce Akta gminy Daleszyce (Sygn.129)

    Selected records of the Municipal Office of Daleszyce for the supervision of the municipal economy and population, related to trade, industry and books of population. Records reflect the lives of the 276 Jews who lived in the Daleszyce commune between 1919-1924.

  10. Goring tours Italy by ship

    Three tiers of people stand next to a dock, looking out towards the boat. The camera operator films from a boat. A small boat on the side of the dock. People on the side wave and salute to the people on the boats. A huge German steamer ship with two funnels. Seagulls fly. A Nazi flag waves at the back of the boat. The wake of the boat. 10:34:14 Carin II boat in transit [Carin was Goering’s first wife and he named a lot of things after her]. In the BG, steep coast, various views of the ship, Göring at the wheel. Two women on the sundeck. Captain at the wheel, views from the traveling ship of...

  11. Itzkovitz and Moldovan families collection

    Collection of family photographs of Ester Irén Ickovics (donor’s mother), b. January 13, 1922, and her family in Berehovo, Czechoslovakia (later Beregszasz, Hungary), who was deported together with her whole family to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in May 1944 and a few weeks later, together with her sister Sari Charlotte, b. Sept. 26, 1919, deported to Gelskirchen, a sub-camp of Buchenwald. In September 1944 they were deported to Sommerda slave labor camp, where they worked in ammunition factory; Ester married Emerich Israel Moldovan, b. September 20, 1914, who was mobilized into a forc...

  12. Davidovic and Gottesman families papers

    Photographs and documents related to the family of David and Esther Davidovic, the donor's maternal grandparents, of Dorobratovo, Czechoslovakia (present-day Ukraine), including material related to the visit of their daughter (the donor's aunt), Florence Davidovic, who had immigrated to the United States, and returned to visit her family in Dorobratovo in 1939. Documents include a family photograph taken during the 1939 visit, other pre-war family photographs, Florence Davidovic's U.S. naturalization certificate, her travel documents, and a subsequent letter from the U.S. Department of Stat...

  13. Hitler youth Austria

    Recordings from a HJ / Jungvolkauf march in the Innkreis in Austria. 00:03:50 - 00:04:02 color: Innkreis 1938 00:05:16 - 00:05:21 filming man 00:06:42 - 00:08:18 color: teasing with girls in dirndls; Soccer game 00:08:24 - 00:09:28 boy runs into the camera 00:09:32 - 00:10:22 railroad

  14. Sardine address label

    Label with pre-printed destination address of Lager Barneveld. One of a set of four Lisbon pre-printed sardine address labels from Gremio dos Exportadores de Conservas de Peixe for registered shipping to different concentration camps including Bergen-Belsen, Lager Barneveld, and Birkenau bei Neubrunn.

  15. Herbert Kline papers

    Correspondence, documents, and photographs, related to the work of American documentary filmmaker Herbert Kline, and in particular his work on films documenting political crises in Europe in the late 1930s and early 1940s, in particular the film "Crisis," which treated the subject of Czechoslovakia during the Sudeten crisis of 1938. Includes scripts, correspondence with film companies, letters of reference, news clippings, and other materials related to the production and distribution of "Crisis," as well as material related to a film about the Spanish Civil War, "Heart of Spain" and a subs...

  16. Prague uprising; American soldiers

    Unassembled Czech newsreel material from the May uprising in Prague. A lone tank in the Old Town Square of Prague. Shots fired, smoke. WS, another tank in the square. Both fire. Jan Hus Memorial Monument in the center of the square. German tanks. Czechs use pickaxes to dig away at the stones in the street for use in barricades. Three men emerge from a car, two in uniform. People continue working away at the sidewalk. Crowds of Czechs at Wenceslas Square. Officers, pistols in hand, lead a man out of a building with his hands raised above his head, loaded into a car. People carrying bags of g...

  17. Nazi officials tour Polish countryside

    German military truck with diamond insignia on city street. License plate reads: WH 701975. Women in luxurious coats and Nazi officials tour Poland, maybe the Tatra mountains with its park headquarters in Zakopane. Frank's wife, Brigitte, wears a fur coat and headscarf. Hans Frank and Brigitte sit indoors and listen to someone speak about a natural spring or flame encircled with iron railing. 01:12:34 Pan of the Polish landscape and a spa village. A friend chases a goat. 01:13:17 Group of Nazi officials (men and women, including Hans and Brigitte Frank) tour outdoors. The man in uniform is ...

  18. Wehrmacht soldiers perform drills

    AGFA 8 1939 Title: “Meine Soldatezeit” Intertitle: “Grußubung” German soldiers perform drills. Intertitle: “Fußdienst.” The men do more exercises. Intertitle: “Gewehrubungen.” They perform drills with their guns. Intertitle: “Nachrichten-dienst.” They stand with a sign with the letter F on it. They use a field telephone. The men in a field. They look at a sheet of paper. The men set up wire lines and use the field telephone. Intertitle: “Bedingungs-schießen mit Karabiner.” A soldier hops. Shooting practice with the Karabiner 98k. Soldiers lay on a wooden table and fire the gun. Intertitle: ...

  19. Nazi architecture in Munich and Berlin, Brandenburg Gate

    Memorial, wreaths, snow, Oberpollinger (a well-known department store in Munich), flower-decorated buses

  20. Trial of Rudolf Slánský Ministerstvo národní bezpečnosti (Ministry of National Security)

    Court proceedings, protocols, letters, photographs from the trial of Rudolf Slánský. On 20 November 1952, Rudolf Slánský, General Secretary of the Communist party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ), and 13 other leading party members, 11 of them Jews, were accused of participating in a Trotskyite-Titoite-Zionist conspiracy and convicted: 11 including Slánský were hanged in Prague on December 3, 1952. The state prosecutor at the trial in Prague was Josef Urválek. Among the accused were two Israelis: Mordechai Oren sentenced to 15 years imprisonment and Mordechai Orenstein convicted to life sentence. Ac...