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  1. State Attorney Hamburg Staatsanwaltschaft Landgericht (213-12)

    Court proceedings relating to post-war Nazi court cases after 1945. Files mostly contain documents concerning preliminary research, state attorney, court proceedings, and sentences. The collections contains 3,451 procedures, 1946-1995 and 320 charges against 598 persons.

  2. Pre-war holiday in Tyrol

    color film. Vacation in the Tyrol District.

  3. Graf Zeppelin; Leipzig fair; 35th birthday

    AGFA. Title “W.L. Film 1” with silhouette of Walther Lenger’s face. “Leipziger Allerlei!” “Leipziger Fahresschau” “W L 1934, Ein Bild-Bericht von Walther Lenger” “Camera…. Bearbeitung Walther Lenger Projektor….” Lenger works with film reels. “1930” with Walter Lenger film logo. “April 1930: Gelehriger Affe Im Waldrafe.” A small monkey with a chain around its neck eats food. A man in Lederhosen leads it around by the chain. 10:01:53 “5. Oktober 1930: Graf Zeppelin besught Leipzig.” A zeppelin flies over Leipzig. Multiple shots of the Zeppelin in the air. Crowds of people below watch as it la...

  4. Selected records of the commune Radoszyce Akta gminy Radoszyce (Sygn. 532)

    Registers, statistics, census related to the Jewish dwellers of Radoszyce dating from the early 30s, including are: register books, records of inhabitants, lists of births, marriages and deaths, and German ordinances regarding dead penalty to all Polish people who are helping Jews, etc. Includes books of permanent residents (until 1932) containing information on emigration, passport numbers, and decisions on withdrawal of citizenship.

  5. Anti-Hitler propaganda flyer

    Contains a flyer or broadside with Yiddish poem against Hitler, wishing and praying for his downfall. Privately published by a I. Green matrimonial agent (traditional shadchan), 146 Norfolk Street NY; Stamp on verso dated March 19, 1939.

  6. Felix Rosenthal papers

    The collection includes typescript memoirs and essays written by Felix Rosenthal describing his childhood in Germany, his emigration from Germany in 1933, his stay in Italy and eventual immigration to the United States, and his service in the United States Army as a “Ritchie Boy” during World War II. The collection also contains other essays and reflections from Felix’s experiences in the Army, including during his time serving with occupation forces in Germany from 1945-1947.

  7. Leipzig Zoo; Autobahn; Berlin Olympics

    Intertitle: “WL Film 37,” “Walther Lenger zeight: Leipziger Fahresschau 1936.” “April 1936: Die Kleinmesse am neuen Platz (Cottarueg).” The fair ride “Roll Lauf” in a town square in Leipzig. View from a wooden rollercoaster. People smile, sitting in gondolas on a zeppelin-style ride. “Juli 1936: Ein Besuch im Leipziger Zoo.” Flamingos, Ostriches, Giraffes, lions, elephants, bears, hippos, seals and other animals in the Leipzig zoo. Intertitle: “Oktober 1936 Erste Fahrt auf der Reichs-Autobahn.” A man and woman step into the back of a car. The driver takes off down the road. A man runs at th...

  8. Presentation by Hilda Montelmacher

  9. Fanny Freund collection

    Collection of documents and certificates documenting the experiences of Fanny Freund (b. 1923 in Tarnopol), before during and after the Holocaust. Collection includes a certificate stating that Fanny Freund was liberated by the British Army from the Belsen concentration camp, dated December 14, 1948; an IRO processing card issued to Fanny Freund, November 1949, with photo of bearer attached; blank registration card; Arbeitskarte (work card) issued for "Maria Chrestschenko" (Fanny Freund's false identity), photo of bearer attached, issued January 27, 1944; a deposition stating that Fanny Fre...

  10. Manski family papers

    The collection documents the pre-war and wartime experiences of Samuil Manski and his family in Lida, Poland (modern day Lida, Belarus). The collection primarily contains pre-war photographs of Samuil, his extended family, and friends. Also included is Samuil’s visa obtained through Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese consul in Kaunas, Lithuania; postcards from Japan; and Samuil’s report cards.

  11. Rothstern family papers

    Correspondence, identification and citizenship documents, school report cards, letters of reference, photographs, and other items, that primarily document the lives of Irma Rothstern and her son Heinz, of Hamburg, Germany, during the 1910s to 1930s, and then following their forced emigration due to Nazi persecution, in Shanghai, China from 1939 to 1955. Included is a document about the citizenship of Irma's husband, Isidor; and of Heinz's wife, Julia, as well as unidentified family photographs from approximately the 1910s. The bulk of the documents in this collection were used to establish ...

  12. Selected records of the District Court in Kielce Sąd Okręgowy w Kielcach (Sygn. 1040)

    Files of civil and criminal trials with indexes. After World War II, Jewish survivors tried to regain their property in Kielce and certify the deaths of their relatives before the court. Selected archival units contain copies of birth, marriage and death certificates which are attached to the trial files.

  13. Trial and hanging of German war criminals; US Army returns home

    Home movies of trial and hanging of a German war criminal (Alfons Klein?) convicted in October 1945 by U.S. Army court of the Hadamar euthanasia murders sent to the gallows in March 1946 and footage of the embarkation and return home to New York of Army troops filmed by war correspondent Murray Young of the Overseas Press Club. "At the trial of the Hadamar ‘injection’ murderers.” Men sit in the courtroom. Dark shots of people in the courtroom. “RETRIBUTION!,” “The hanging of five German murderers of six downed American airmen” “Bruchsal Prison, south of Heidelberg” Guards set up the gallows...

  14. Koenigstein fortress in spring, summer, and fall

    Intertitles read, “Lavabildungen im äusseren Krater des Vesuvs,” “ Palermo: 8000 Leichen in den unterirdischen Gängen des Kapuziner-Klosters bieten -unbestattet-einen schaurigen Anblick,” “Oktober Zirkus Krone hält seinen Einzug in Leipzig.” Another intertitle: “W.L. Film 63.” The words “Kriegsjahre auf der Festung Königstein” over a photo of Walter Lenger in Königstein. Intertitle: “2. Teil.” Walter, in his uniform, with a small camera up to his eye. He steps into a car. He opens the car door and waves as the car drives away. Walter in a convertible driving through the countryside. A dog r...

  15. 257th Infantry Division moves through Poland

    With German intertitles. Scenes filmed by Lieutenant Edgar Forsberg of the 257 German Infantry following the collapse of the Polish army on October 6, 1939. “Mit dem Stab der 257. Inf. Div. im Krieg (ein forbfilm)” “Ausbildungsbilder in Döberitz.” Soldiers ride in on horse drawn wagons, bringing in weaponry. Soldiers crawl through a field. More soldiers in wagons bringing in supplies. 10:00:42 “Lübbenau” “Gesprengte Grenzbrucke bei Myslowitz.” A wooden bridge over a small river. A collapsed bridge. Man rides a bike in town. “Im Schloßpark Krzeszowice.” Landscape. Soldiers walk along a road....

  16. Oral testimonies of Lilly Malnik and Nesse Godin

  17. Photograph

    Photographic print: black and white image depicting man sewing large Star of David badge on to clothing; another man seated in the background also appears to be wearing a large Star of David badge on his jacket; Mogilev, Belarus, USSR; not dated.

  18. Carl Schurz Tour of American professors and students through Germany in summer 1934

    REEL 3. Arrival in Dresden, cathedral, Zwinger Palace with many classical sculptures. Boat on the Elbe. The train moves alongside the Saale River and enters Thuringia. The ruins of the Rudelsberg Castle on a hill. In Weimar, funeral wreaths with ribbons bearing swastikas at the base of the Goethe-Schiller monument with two bronze statues of the poets. The Schiller House. The students walk with a professor through the park in Weimar. The Nietzsche Archive with Nietzche’s sister on the steps to welcome the group of American students. They visit the Goethe House, where Goethe worked, lived and...

  19. Blankenese and Elbe river tour; New Year's Eve

    Agfa 8 1939. Tour. Some title cards in German. 10:11:22 (color) Blankenese, Elbe trip, goats on the dam, BDM and HJ 10:15:02 Hamburg port, child in hammock, Zoo Hagenbeck / Elefantentor, 10:19:21 Punch and Judy show, doll, Russian, then idyll with animals, Elbe trip, picnic 10:28:32 (color) flowers, lighthouse, coast, pier, beach life, same bw 10:37:45 house music, New Year's Eve 10:42:50 Riding excursion, older women 10:47:00 Kurstadt, "main source", Bad Pyrmont Hbf

  20. Boxing

    Brief shots on board a ship: a large crowd observes a boxing match. A man’s hands in the foreground fumble with a matchbook. CU of the two boxers, one throws a punch.