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  2. Eichmann Trial -- Sessions 21 and 22 -- Testimonies of H. Pachter, Y. Gurfein, N. Zabludowicz, L. Wells

    Sessions 21 and 22. Court is not in session. Court officials interact; Adolf Eichmann enters his booth; Attorney General Gideon Hausner and Defense Attorney Dr. Robert Servatius converse; and Servatius exchanges information with Eichmann. The Judges enter the courtroom and there is a blip at 00:04.52. Witness Hirsch (Zvi) Pachter discusses Nazi treatment in Hrubieszow, a town near Chelm: "They took hold of a man... they hit [him] on the head with their rifle butts... They kept on asking each other: 'How many did you manage to kill by shooting...'" Blip at 00:08:19. Witness Ya'Akov Gurfein d...

  3. Collection of Hungarian political and military records

    Contains Hungarian political records (correspondence, reports, minutes of meetings, diplomatic notes, drafts of laws and decrees, directives, studies, texts of speeches and manuscripts, memoranda, circulars, maps, orders, pamphlets, brochures, leaflets, lists, and name files) relating to the Hungarian Nazi Party, known as the Arrow-Cross Party (Nyilaskeresztes Pát), under the leadership of Ferenc Szalasi, who became Regent and Premiere of Hungary late in 1944. The records relate to the Party's affairs and its relations with the earlier Hungarian Government as well as with the later period ...

  4. Selected records from the archives of the kingdom of Belgium

    Contains records created and collected by the central and regional groups of the Association of Jews in Belgium (Association des juifs de Belgique), formed on November 25, 1941, at the order of the German occupation authorities, to serve as a national Judenrat. The materials consist mostly of registration forms containing personal data completed by all Jews in Belgium and registration forms containing data about Jewish-owned businesses and other properties. Additionally, there are files of change of address forms, organizations offering aid to refugees, immigration applications and processe...

  5. Selected records of the General Inspectorate of the Gendarmerie in the Romanian National Archives

    Collections contains police, gendarmerie, and intelligence reports, name lists, and correspondence. Documents relate to the situation of Polish refugees in Romania (e.g. Colonel Joseph Beck and other Polish dignitaries), also relate to the Zionists, members of ethnic minorities, and to the internal situation in various counties in Romania, in Northern Bukovina, and in Bessarabia under Soviet occupation. Records include name list of "anti-Romanian" persons, name list of 1610 persons who requested repartitions to the Soviet Union in 1941, diverse correspondence from gendarmerie in Soroca, Bes...

  6. Registration cards of Freemasons in France from Archives du Grand Orient de France

    The collection consists of the registration cards for French Freemasons during the occupation.

  7. Central Jewish Committee in Poland, Education Department Centralny Komitet Żydów Polskich (CKŻP). Wydział Oświaty (Sygn.303/IX)

    Contains files of the Central Committee's Education Department, including correspondence, reports, inspection reports, minutes of meetings, statistics, I.Q. tests, school programs, text books, song lyrics, programs for community centers, school certifications, index cards of surviving Jewish children, indexes of found and hidden children in Germany and other European countries, adoption documents, index cards of children in orphanages, and financial statements. Accretion of 2018 includes documentation of several departments: Organizational files (1717-1756): Lists of childcare facilities, i...

  8. Josef Fišera Archive Archiv Josef Fišera

    The collection primarily consists of documents related to Josef Fišera, a Czech national, and his involvement as a volunteer in the Spanish Civil War and with the French Resistance during the Second World War.

  9. Elvin Smith collection

    Contains two sound cassettes entitled, "Corrie ten Boom telling of saving lives of Jews, Rose Price concentration camp survivor" and "Diet Eman: saving Jewish lives during World War II."

  10. Central State Archive Selected records from the Archivio Centrale dello Stato

    This collection includes documents, correspondence, lists, permits, and reports relating to concentration camps, arrested individuals, visits to prisoners, the help committee for German Jews in Italy, Jewish refugees, Jewish property, racial laws, communists, anti-Fascists, the Italian police, the Ministry of the Interior, interned foreigners, people applying for decisions about their racial origin, and the Direzione Generale Demografia e Razza.

  11. Eichmann Trial -- Session 109 -- Slawik affidavit and related questioning

    Session 109. Shots of Eichmann's empty booth. He enters. 00:06:35 Judges enter the courtroom. They begin the 109th Session of the trial. The Slawik affidavit is read for the Defense. The witness, Alfred Josef Slawik, was a servant of Eichmann's in Budapest. He says that he never heard of any cases where a Jew was mistreated. He discusses numerous things that Eichmann has been accused of doing in his time at the villa, and says that all of them are false. 00:19:51 Hausner points out that Slawik says he was employed by Eichmann for only a few months in a single place. 00:20:48 Dr. Servatius s...

  12. Israel Joe Sachs photograph collection

    The collection consists of 28 photographs showing pre-World War II Jewish life in Poland and displaced persons camps in Germany after the war.

  13. Escort magazine

    Publication entitled "Escort: Occupation Edition," from "Inter Education Office," 357th Fighter Group, U.S. Army Air Force, Summer 1945.

  14. collection of trading cards and a photograph

    The collection consists of two trading cards with black and white photographs of athletes from the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany, and one black and white photograph with the caption on verso: "Nazi Troops in an Eastern Europe Village Early 1940's."

  15. Jesef Herzel photographs

    Five large format negatives; nine photographs depicting Jewish cemetery in Poland after the war; one photograph showing inspection of Auschwitz after liberation; two photographs showing activists in the Jewish Community in Krakow; four photographs of elderly Jewish men; envelope pre-printed name and address of photographer.

  16. Eichmann Trial -- Session 75 -- Eichmann's testimony

    The footage begins in the middle of Session 75 with the defense's submission of documents. The first document concerns Eichmann's dismissal from the Austrian Vacuum Oil Company. The defense attempts to show that he was released not because of his membership in the NSDAP but because of his marital status. Eichmann is questioned by defense attorney Dr. Robert Servatius about another document recognizing him as a "specialist." Eichmann states that this designation referred to his experience in the field of emigration (00:06:16). The footage cuts out from 00:06:46 to 00:06:57 then resumes with ...

  17. Singer family papers

    The papers consist of four photographs of Estera Singer [donor], her father, Friedrich, and her sister, Sandra, in the Esslingen, Wasseralfingen, and Feldafing displaced persons samps in Germany as well as two identification cards issued to Friedrich and Estera Singer in Wasseralfingen DP Camp and one affidavit issued on behalf of Friedrich Singer.

  18. Berish and Paula Gurtman photographs

    The collection consists of six photographs depicting Berish and Paula Gurtman and other refugees in Kibbutz Hatikvah in Hofgeismar, Germany, and in a displaced persons camp in Badgastein, Austria, after World War II.

  19. Photograph of Tripartite Pact

    Black and white photograph of the signing of the Tripartite Pact between Germany, Italy, and Japan in Berlin, Germany, on September 27, 1940. Hitler is seated at the table in the middle of the group.

  20. Fundraising newsreel for postwar rehabilitation in the Netherlands

    Volkshertsel Amsterdam, 1945. Dutch newsreel containing retrospective footage from throughout WWII, aimed at inciting the Dutch public to give money to support government postwar rehabilitation programs. Narration of the misery of war, accompanied by scenes of people pushing their belongings in the street, soldiers scrambling, burned out buildings, and blindfolded corpses. A train arriving, followed by men walking out of the station under a Dutch flag, changes the tone to the present, and scenes outline various government programs ("Joodische Ontvangst Commissie"-- "Jewish Reception Committ...