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  1. Personal files of Jewish students who studied in Warsaw University before World War II Teczki osobowe studentów Żydów studiujących przed II wojną światową na Uniwersytecie Warszawskim

    Students’ personal files related to the admission to studies (application, resume, matura (A level) certificate, other documents, e.g. an excerpt of a population book, birth certificate), a course of studies (applications, a student’s book, marks, official letters, documents concerning granted scholarship, reminders of payment), as well as the completion of studies (diplomas, certificates). Most of the files contain photos for identity or membership documents of the given person. Personal files contain personal data of a given individual, most of the Jewish students of the Warsaw University...

  2. Palestine in the 1920s

    Bethlehem. Birthplace of Christ: Pan across the city, Church of the Nativity: Arab population. View of the church, street scenes, Jerusalem. The Holy Land: View through an archway to the city, The Jaffa Gate: Arab population, horse drovers, riders on donkeys The Church of the Holy Sepulcher above the grave of Jesus: In front of the small gate a guard in uniform, The Wailing Wall: View from above, many people on the wall, including women

  3. Frank's headquarters at Wawel castle

    Wawel Castle where Hans Frank set up residence after being named Governor General of the German-occupied (General Government) Polish territories in October 1939. LS and CU of Nazi flag waving from the castle. Pans of Wawel's open courtyard. View of courtyard of Jagellonian University's Collegium Maius, and a memorial statue of Nicolaus Copernicus. 01:04:32 Pan down stone sign for the Institut für Deutsche Ostarbeit (established at Krakow on April 20, 1940 as a German-dominated scientific and historical arm of the General Government of Poland to investigate race and nationality in Poland. It...

  4. Selected records of the Court of the First Instance in Kielce Sąd Grodzki w Kielcach (Sygn. 1159)

    Court files of civil and criminal cases from 1939-1944 as well as indexes to the cases. Many cases refer to evictions and cases against Jewish inhabitants of Kielce by the Social National Insurance for outstanding payments.

  5. Selected records from the State Archives of the Western-Kazakhstan Region in Uralsk

    Records related to the evacuation of civilians.

  6. Wehrmacht in France; French POWs

    German soldiers in field. Sign "Achtung Minen Lebensgefahr" warning about mines. Various views of men on the front, fences. Minefields. Cemetery. Ruins. Soldiers shave, cook, rest. 10:19:19 Pak at street. Local French town in ruins. Germans pass on horseback, tanks. Roadside gravesites. Monument. 10: 21:13 French bunker. More graves of German soldiers who died on June 15, 1940). Destroyed village, downed French plane. 10:22:10 Pak at the coast. Troops advance. 10:22:14 Brief shot of French civilians en route. German troops on road. "RAON L'ETAPE (Vosges)" 10:23:13 French prisoners of war ma...

  7. Pomerania and Baltic Sea beaches

    Home movies. 10:01:36 - 10:05:46 Pomerania, beach life, island of Wolin on the Baltic coast, probably Misdroy [Międzyzdroje], a town and a seaside resort in northwestern Poland, cruisers in the background. 10:06:19 - 10:06:51 Misdroy, beach life

  8. UNRRA selected records AG-018-021 : France Office

    Selected records of the UNRRA Offices in France: correspondence between London and Paris, 1944-49, subject files, reports, and medical office files, 1944-48, monthly mission reports, daily bulletins, displaced persons reports, organizational charts, field operations, statistical reports of emigrants including unaccompanied children.

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  10. Selected records of the Brus Commune Akta Gminy Brus (Sygn. 224)

    Ordinances of the German occupation authorities, various statistics related to the population, agricultural and industrial production, various data about the commune, registers of residents of the commune, along with indexes, registration books, and records relating to culture and education in the commune, public health, sanitary and order matters, as well as inspections of trade companies. The File No 185 of the collection contains the number of Jews in the Brus commune.

  11. North African campaign, Erwin Rommel

    Company Appeal of the 3rd Company, Arab with flock of sheep by the sea, close-up of luggage vehicle, car ride, soldiers with locals, photos with Knight's Cross bearer, turtle with swastika and palm, man with donkey, troop entertainment, horses, camels, soldiers disguised as Arabs and Indians

  13. Oral history interview with Hanna Green

  14. Krieger and Frankel families photograph collection

    The collection contains 13 prewar, wartime, and postwar photographs of the Krieger and Frankel families of Łódź, Poland. Included is a prewar childhood photograph of Ben Zion, Kaila, and Shifra Krieger; wartime photographs of the Łódź ghetto, 1941; postwar photographs of Nacha Frankel Krieger, her brother Shlomo Frankel, Yuma Krieger, Yuma Krieger's wife at the Feldafing displaced persons camp; and a camp liberation photograph that is likely a copy.

  15. Traveling on the Autobahn; Russian volunteers; Hitler Youth

    Drive in 1936 via Salzburg to the Black Sea, impressions from the Balkan Reichsautobahnbrücke and Munich border. 00:21:53 Sea, France, soldiers, Paris, Eiffel Tower, Atlantic coast, port. Red Cross column. 00:40:50 Excavator loads railroad cars, motive: Westwallbau, Organization Todt. 00:57:40 rail transport. 00:58:17 Freiburg. 01:08:35 Winter: Postman on skis with packages. 10:14:00 Bridge for Reichsautobahn. 01:16:14 Nuremberg: Nazi Party Rally Grounds. 01:17:44 Target practice with carbines. 01:20:45 Railway, driver's cab, tracks, electric locomotive, other locomotives. 01:25:52 Red Cros...

  16. Selected records from the Sigtuna Foundation in Sweden

    Records from a hospital, set up in Sigtuna, Sweden, in 1945, which cared for about 1200 patients who had been released from the Bergen Belsen concentration camp. The collection includes photographs of patients and nurses, administrative and organizational records, including pages from the Statement of Operations, newspaper clippings, including an article in a college magazine about the hospital, as well as materials from Marthe Rydback, who worked as a nurse at the hospital, including a copy of an emblem of the hospital, a visitor book with signatures of the patients, photographs, Christmas...

  17. Americans visit family in Vienna, 1930

    Pan of well-dressed men and women seated and eating at dining tables on an outdoor patio. View of a city below them. 00:50 Pan of an ornate fountain and swimming pool. People wade in the water, a man slides down a waterslide. 1:27 Views of a large crowd of people in bathing suits. A well-dressed woman in the foreground. People mill about on the beach and in the water. 1:54 Views of a crowded outdoor café. 2:18 Pan of a gated building, perhaps an apartment. Three well-dressed people pose for the camera in front of the gate. The three walk in a garden towards the camera and pose for the camer...

  18. Cohn and Siebenberg families papers

    The collection documents the experiences of the Cohn family from Leipzig, Germany and the Siebenberg family of Offenbach am Main, Germany during the Holocaust. The collection includes biographical material of Heinrich and Klara Siebenberg and the Cohn family; immigration records of Erma and Georg Cohn and Georg’s brother Walter Cohn; wartime correspondence to Georg Cohn from his brothers Gerhard Werner and Walter; letters to Heinrich and Klara Siebenberg from Klara’s sister Ella Liepold, who was imprisoned in the Gurs concentration camp in France; restitution papers regarding Georg Cohn’s f...

  19. Helen and Willie Abraham photograph collection

    The collection documents the post-war experiences of Helen Abraham (born Hencia Wagner) of Dąbrowica Mała, Leżajsk, Poland in the Ainring displaced persons camp and Willie Abraham of Vel'ky Rakovec, Czechoslovakia (present day Velykyi Rakovets, Zakarpat'ska Oblast, Ukraine) in the Bindermichl displaced persons camp. Included are photographs of Helen at Ainring and the munitions factory in Menden, Germany where she worked under a false identity; a letter written to Helen from her brother David Wagner in 1943 while he was in hiding before he was discovered and murdered by the Gestapo; photogr...

  20. Compiled private films of a German soldier

    Film reel threaded through projector. Maneuvering scenes in summer. Moerser, horse cart, MG. 10:10:20 Construction of a pontoon bridge, guns, heavy bunkers, aerial combat, train ride "Dahlem", trains. 10:13:18 Paris shots. 10:16:12 "Soldatenkino" fishing port, French women with fellow countrymen, Germans with hats, posters. 10:22:50 Observation stand on the western front, newspaper "Der Sieg". 10:32:00 Winter, flood, France. 10:38:50 (1937) Archery in Stolpmünde, train ride. Eating, anti-aircraft shooting, guns, rest, loading. 10:55:30 (1938) Invasion of the Sudetenland, "Teichbaude", heavy...