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  1. Morton Adell collection

    Photos and documents of Morton Adell, Regional Director of Northern Greece for the American Joint Distribution Committee in the years immediately after World War II. Includes photographs of the desecration of the Salonika Jewish cemetery; images of a postwar children's Chanukah party; letters; and a JDC report entited "Jewish Education in Greece," by Alfred Cohen, dated October 1946.

  2. Young people train for jobs in the US military work program

    Short film produced by the National Youth Administration in 1941 about the United States military work program which prepared young people for future jobs in the defense industry. Depicts NYA youth at work with machinery, airplane assembly, welding, tool and dye making, grinding and milling, etc. NYA provided young people with practical experience and training for jobs in the war industry. Some of the 400,000 NYA youth (men, women, African Americans) who went into private employment since 1940 are shown at work in a large aircraft plant. Melvyn Douglas provides the commentary.

  3. Selected records from the State District Archive in Blansko

    Records of the District National Committee of Boskovice, District Court of Boskovice, District Office of Boskovice, Boskovice Municipal National Committee, Municipal Archives of Boskovice and Lomnice, pertaining to laws and regulations against Jews, Jewish residency applications and emigration, the expropriation of Jewish property, and anti-Jewish and anti-Roma measures. Records feature name lists of Jews, passport applications by Jews, residency permit applications by Jewish refugees from Nazi-annexed Austria, work permit applications by Jews, evictions of Jewish tenants, expropriation lis...

  4. Selected records, Obóz Koncentracyjny Sachsenhausen Konzentrationslager Sachsenhausen (GK 137)

    Files and waybills to KL Sachsenhausen from various camps and places, personal files of prisoners, periodic reports, 1941-1942 regarding camp crew: ceremonies, training and others matters.

  5. Alexander Bachnár papers, Bratislava component collection

    Copies of documents on the Holocaust in Slovakia collected by Alexander Bachnár during his research in various archives, as well as the study of press and testimonies, original versions of his personal archives, correspondence, his own and other author's works. The documents include Anti-Jewish regulations, decisions, regulations of the Ministry of Interior, the State Council and Jewish Center; the Jewish Census from before the concentration of Jews and transports in 1942; the Census of Jewish Property (and documents relating to Aryanization, lists of persons imprisoned in labor and concent...

  6. Służba Specjalna Batalion Zastępczy w Lublinie Sonderdienst Ersatz-Bataillon Lublin (GK 689)

    Personal files of SS-Sturmbannführer Anton Binner along with his private correspondence. administrative files: correspondence, service assignments, promotions, lists of members of the SS Substitute Battalion of the Special Services in Lublin, orders, reports on business travel, and financial settlements. Includes a protocol on the dissolution of Sonderdienst E-Bataillon, February 22, 1941, and photographs of the 1th company.

  7. Selected records of the District Court in Piotrków Trybunalski Sąd Okręgowy w Piotrkowie Trybunalskim (Sygn. 893)

    Records of court criminal cases investigated by the District Court in Piotrków Trybunalski. Includes documents on hiding a stolen cow, appropriation of money, theft, robbery, rape, and others.

  8. Oral history interview with Moshe Leshem

  9. Eckstein family in Summer 1939

    August 1939. Nannies swing Michaela and Antonin in a sheet in the garden of the family home in Brno, filmed probably from the balcony of the home. Pan of the grand outdoor space. 01:01:04 A woman practices somersaults beside the pools for the children; Antonin and a nanny playfully slap her and she laughs. The children play outdoors. 01:01:34 Father Michael joins them. 01:02:06 Children snack outdoors at the table with other unknown children and their female caretakers. They chase each other in the grass beside the family home and occasionally pose for a portrait. Michael follows the kids i...

  10. Oral history interview with Carla "Carol" Holtz

  12. Selected records of the Prison in Busko Więzienie w Busku (Sygn. 695)

    Court and prison correspondence, protocols and personal files of individual Jewish prisoners. Includes personal data of prisoners, and short sentences for common crimes such as theft.

  13. Silent animated film

    Titles: Gemeinnutziger Kulturfilm-Vertrieb zeigt" “Der Löwe und die Maus” [Boy in Circus]. An animated short film. Ends 01:05:13

  14. Polish Red Cross Provincial Board in Kielce Polski Czerwony Krzyż Zarząd Wojewódzki w Kielcach (Sygn. 363)

    Selected records of the Polski Czerwony Krzyż (Polish Red Cross) in Kielce. Consists of reports of the Rada Główna Opiekuńcza, RGO (Central Welfare Council), lists of war graves, lists of victims of German crimes and war losses, help of the Polish Red Cross for prisoners of war, information about the fate of the Jewish population. Includes lists of Jewish soldiers who died during World War II and reports of the situation of Jews during World War II.

  15. Selected records of the School Inspectorate Kielce Inspektorat Szkolny Kielecki (Sygn.109)

    Consists of personal files of teachers employed in schools in Kielce region, among them are files of Jewish teachers: Brykman Pesa from Lelów, Bursztyn Nachyma from Suchedniów, Chmielnicki Zelman from Bodzentyn, Ejbuszyc Majlech from Łopuszno, Elwing Zyla Majloch from Małogoszcz, Katz vel Kluger Hadesa from Wodzisław, Wajnsztok Izrael Mendel from Bodzentyn, Wajfelnera Mirla from Włoszczowa, Zylberberg Aron from Kielce and Białogon, Zylbersztajn Mojżesz from Jędrzejów.

  16. Selected records of the County Office in Włoszczowa Starostwo Powiatowe we Włoszczowie (Sygn. 1804)

    A diary of the history of city Włoszczowa, monthly situational reports for 1945 and 1946 of the Starostwo Powiatowe we Włoszczowie (County Office in Włoszczowa), the document of the establishment of the Powiatowy Komitet Żydów Polskich we Włoszczowie (Committee of Polish Jews in Włoszczowa),1946-1949; minutes and reports of the Zarząd Żydowskiego Zrzeszenia Religijnego (Board of the Jewish Religious Association), 1946; and Staroste's ordinances regarding cemeteries, 1948.

  17. Selected records of the District Court in Piotrków Trybunalskim Sąd Okręgowy w Piotrkowie Trybunalskim (Sygn. 892)

    Court records of civil cases of Jewish population in Piotrków Trybunalski. Includes authorizations, protocols, statements, translations from Russian, court judgments, notices, receipts, marriage certificates related to inheritance, rights of possession, notary acts, acknowledgement of purchase-sales, restoration of property, exclusion of rights of possession, appropriation of land, annulment of last wills, bids, returning of money, divorces and annulment of marriages, ratification of marriage acts, alimonies, determining identity, rectification of register act, criminal acts as homicides, r...

  18. Americans tour cities in Europe and Russia before World War II

    Touring Europe before World War II, probably in the year 1930. Home movies by an unknown American cameraperson. Consists of two 14" reels which contain short 16mm rolls spliced together. Includes segments of rare Kodacolor (lenticular) film. The Americans travel by bus, boat, and train across Europe with stops in England, Scotland, Norway, Sweden, Finland to Russia, Belarus, Poland, Austria, Switzerland, and Italy. Reel One begins in Michigan with a ferry trip to Canada where the group of Americans board the SS Athenia ship. Folks play games on the ship. Icebergs. (10:35) Docking at the har...

  19. Oral history interview with Oscar K. Reiss

  20. Selected records of the Commune Council in Radoszyce Gminna Rada Narodowa w Radoszycach (Sygn. 702)

    Plans of reconstruction of the burned settlement of Radoszyce and other villages in the commune of Radoszyce, plans and registers of abandoned Jewish properties; applications for building permits, inheritance claims (Jews in Radoszyce commune); files on marital status, religious matters, death and birth certificates; records on population movement in the commune of Radoszyce; registers of cemeteries of religious associations and tombs, Radoszyce commune, 1953.