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  1. Wallenfels family papers

    The collection documents the experiences of György Wallenfels, his wife Illona, and their children Miklos and Eva of Budapest, Hungary during the Holocaust. Included are identification papers, death certificates, correspondence, genealogy research, and a small amount of photographs that document the György’s conscription into the Hungarian army and his death from typhus in 1945; Illona’s deportation to the Ravensbrück and Buchenwald concentration camps in 1944; and Miklos and Eva’s deportation to the ghetto in Budapest; as well as pre-war family history. Also documented is the experiences o...

  3. Nazis marching; Himmler

    Filmed by the local photography shop owner. Slowed down film of men marching through the streets. Young boys wear armbands and carry a Nazi flag. Soldiers march through. Nazi flags hang from the buildings to the right and left. Swastika armband. Nazi flag hangs from the “Hotel Post.” 10:23:16 A building at the center of town with German eagle. Nazi flags. Nazi officers in Sturmabteilung (SA) uniforms climb out of a car and greet people. 10:23:26 Franz Hofer, Gauleiter of Gau Tirol Vorarlberg, is second from left. They salute, one appears to drink a shot of something. The parade continues. A...

  4. Island East Prussia; The Elk’s East Prussian shelter

    Elks, the Marienburg Grobtes Monument, the Munsterwalder bridge, train travel over the Baltic Sea, Cherry County, Bishop of Ermland, fishing village, snow and cold in East Prussia

  5. UNRRA selected records AG-018-008 : European Regional Office (ERO). Registry Files

    Selected records of the UNRRA European Regional Office (ERO), Registry Files relating to: legal matters affecting UNRRA Missions, assistance to displaced persons and prisoners of war, relations with allied governments (Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, Yugoslavia, Middle East, Egypt, Ethiopia, Brazil, China, Iran, Austria); mission reports from particular countries, Relief Services Conferences, Londin,1946; allegations against UNRRA administration; UNRRA Program of Op...

  6. Day of the Wehrmacht

    (from the Bundesarchiv)

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

    REEL 5. The centennial performance of the Passion Play in Oberammergau. Villagers wear costumes and act out the story of Jesus’ Passion. EXT, crucifix on the playhouse, Nazi banner. Man pulls a cart with luggage. Schurz group takes tourist photos of the town and visit Ettal Abbey (a Benedictine Monastery). The tour continues by bus and train, the guests read, chat and nap, including Professor Schreiber, Professor Wannamaker, Mr. Gonsa, Professor Hickmann, President Schanz, Mrs. Tillman, Mrs. Wells, Professor Cargoshaw, Mrs. Fuller, Professor Marriot, Professor Washka, Dr. Betten, Professor ...

  8. Activities of the 257th German Infantry

    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. Solciers and their activities.

  9. Hans Frank's newborn son

    Brigitte Frank (age 44) lays in bed at a hospital in Munich with a newly born son, Niklas, born in March 1939. Dark interior shots, flowers in the room. 02:01:09 Brief shot of grandmother Magdalena Frank. 02:01:31 Brigitte stands outside of the Frank family's vacation home in the snowy mountains, pan of the landscape. A man and the nanny Hilde play with a still photograph camera. Train passes by.

  10. German tanks in Budapest, Russian Federation train (partly in color), Kampfpause/Westpreussen (partly in color)

    Military Training, Holy Spirit Church, German tanks, Russian Campaign

  11. Selected records from the State Archives of the Dodecanese Islands, Greece Carabinieri collection

    Records of the Central Special Bureau of the Italian Carabinieri in Rhodes (today Greece, between 1912 and 1946 a part Italy) and the card index of the surveillance files. Archives of the Italian Carabinieri include information on individuals, businesses, citizenship, ethnic groups, spies, important events and political personalities. A high number of these 100,000 files concern the local Jewish community in Rhodes, following the creation of the central governing body of the Italian Jewish communities in 1931, to the deportation of July 1944. The Carabinieri recorded information on their li...

  12. Louis Bernard Katz photograph album

    Loose photograph album of wartime photographs taken by Louis Bernard Katz, a field surgeon with the United States Army. The album includes photographs of the Ebensee subcamp of the Mauthausan concentration camp, Austria shortly after liberation; refugees in Waldenberg, Germany; and German prisoners-of-war in Simbach am Inn, Germany. Other cities documented include Mühlhausen, Germany; Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, Germany, Lauf, Germany; Attnang, Austria; and Vöcklabruck, Austria. The album is annotated.

  13. Rząd Generalnego Gubernatorstwa General Government Regierung des Generalgouvernements (Sygn. 111)

    Selected records from the following departments of the Regierung des Generalgouvernements (General Government) in Poland: 1. The Department of Internal Administration (Haubtabteilung Innere Verwaltung), which includes records relating to matters such as the organization of the Sonderdienst and Baudienst; religious denominations and national minorities; registry books of the Jewish population in the districts of Krakow, Radom, Warsaw, and Lublin; and the list of books owned by Jews and transferred to the National Library in Krakow, 1939-1944, (File 422/1-573), 2. The Department of Labor (Hau...

  14. Parade in Vienna - Anschluss

    Aerial view of German planes in formation. Crowds flank the streets of Vienna for the Anschluss parade in March 1938, tanks parade through the streets. A few spectators hold umbrellas. More tanks and military vehicles, packed with troops. Many in the crowd now have umbrellas to protect themselves from the falling rain. An enormous crowd in the Heldenplatz (Heroes’ Square) in Vienna. The Äußere Burgtor, a gateway to the square is on the left. The Austrian Parliament building is visible in the background. The equestrian statue of St. Eugene of Savoy in front of the Neue Burg. Soldiers stand i...

  15. Boy celebrates birthday; bathes; visits park

    1937-1938. Color - INT, family at home, neatly set table. Boy with his mother. Nazi flags hanging from windows. The young boy and his grandmother look down from the open window. Apt. 87. CUs of guests. Boy celebrates his fourth birthday. Gifts, toy train set, box of chocolates. He smiles at the camera. Food. Two men play chess. B/W - boy takes a bath and mother combs hair. The family greets women at the train station. Park. Toy store: “Döring.” Apartment. The boy walks outside eating a banana. He plays in a sandbox.

  16. Selected records of the Końskie Town Akta miasta Końskie (Sygn. 519)

    Minutes, correspondence, statistics, organizational files, lists of war damages, as well as records related to matters of social welfare, insurance, and the like. Files of the City Council, 1918-1939 relate to the election to the City Council, sessions of the council, budget commission, taxes, social welfare, emigration, industry, migration; included are books of permanent inhabitants. Files of the City Board, 1939-1945 refer to matters of property, finances, road and construction works (“Baudienst”) and taxes. Included are also lists of German and Jewish inhabitants who survived, announcem...

  17. Documentary portrait of Karl Hermann Frank

    Ttitles: “STATNI PUJCOVNA, UVADI KRATKY FILM.” “Frank mezi nami” Credits. The city of Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad) after the war. The Mill Colonnade. Teplá River running through the city. Portrait of Karl Hermann Frank's father, Heinrich, a teacher; his wife and children (Ernst, Walter, Karl). A German school certificate for KHF, “K.k. Franz Josef Staats Gymnasium in Karlsbad. Reifezeugnis” showing his grades, classes, and teachers, dated “28. Juni. 1918.” ECU of KHF in the 1920s. Another certificate in Czech regarding his job as a provisional assistant with official stamp and signature. Nazism ...

  18. Selected records related to the history of the Jewish community of Plovdiv

    Records of the Jewish Community in Plovdiv, Bulgaria: files on inspections of the Plovdiv district school; correspondence with the Police Directorate and rural municipal governments in the county; mutual and voluntary exodus of Greeks, Turks, Vlachs and Jews, deserters in the Romanian and Turkish army; annual and monthly reports on the status and activities of the administrative office at the Regional Police Department, Plovdiv in 1941-1944; files of the Jewish companies in Plovdiv; commercial cases for bankruptcy; confidential correspondence with the Council of Ministers-sector "Civil and ...

  20. German home movies; soldiers touring France

    Paris, Merchants on the Seine, church, soldiers for group photo, (thereafter about 90 seconds of commercial film that the filmmaker bought in Paris at the time).10:02:12 soldiers in a cafe, nurse, everyday life. 10:03:34 Haus: "General of the Air Force. Paris “, everyday life. 10:04:11 Paris at night, bars, variety shows, 10:13:04 guest performance Herbert von Karajan / Staatsoper Berlin. 10:14:08 Eiffel Tower, German soldiers, Karajan conducts. 10:16:04 Flight over France, Mont St. Michel, car trip. 10:20:31 color: Mont St. Michel,. 10:23:56 Railway, soldiers in St. Michel. Coffee table. 1...