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  1. Αρχείο Επιχείρησης Χ. Κοντού και Ε. Μοδιάνο

    • C. Kontou and E. Modiano Business Archive
    • Archio Epicheirisis C. Kontou kai E. Modiano

    3 books, 21 folders with title deeds, 25 folders with documents of the import-export agency of C. Kontou and E. Modiano. The business imports and exports mainly iron and ores from shipwrecks and various other products. There are also 17 folders containing lawsuits, commercial correspondence, invoices, and documents on tax matters of the business of Henri Modiano and Charalambous Kontou.

  2. Αρχείο Α.Ε. Αντιπροσωπειών Ισαάκ Μ. Ασσέο

    • Archive of the Representation Company S.A Isaac Asseo
    • Archeio A.E. Antiprosopeion Isaak M. Asseo

    Commercial correspondence of Isaac M. Asseo Representation Company.

  3. Απονομή τίτλου ιπποσύνης στον Elia Modiano

    • Award of Knighthood to Elia Modiano
    • Aponomi titlou ipposinis ston Elia Modiano

    Document awarding the title of knighthood "Cavaliere del Suo Ordine della Corona d' Italia" to Elia Modiano by the King Victor-Emmanuel of Italy

  4. Αρχείο Ασφαλιστικής Εταιρείας "La Nationale"

    • Archive of Insurance Company "La Nationale"
    • Archeio Asfalistikis Etairias "La Nationale"

    7 folders containing insurance contracts, accounting tables, receipts, circulars, correspondence. 3 folders containing 51 proposals concerning Jewish people. 84 payment documents and payment receipts. About 200 letters and various company documents.

  5. Κοµµουνιστικό Κόµµα Ελλάδας (ΚΚΕ)

    • Greek Communist Party (KKE)
    • Kommounistiko Komma Elladas (KKE)

    • Congresses, conferences and plenary sessions of the KKE Central Committee (1945- 1968). • Secret shorthand minutes of plenary sessions of the Central Committee. • Decisions and proclamations of the Politburo (1944-1968). • Correspondence of the Central Committee with illegal party organizations in Greece and KKE organizations in Eastern European countries. Central contact mechanisms in Western Europe (1946-1968); Relations of the KKE with the communist movements of the Eastern countries (in particular: USSR, Yugoslavia, Albania) during the years of the Civil War in Greece; Party organizat...

  6. Αρχείο Ιδιωτικού Σχολείου Αγλαΐας Σχινά

    • Archive of Aglaia Schina's Private School
    • Archeio Idiotikou Scholeiou Aglaias Schina

    Student records containing names of Jewish pupils and other administrative records.

  7. Αρχείο Ιδιωτικού Σχολείου "Άγιος Βικέντιος"

    • Archive of the Private School " Saint Vincent"
    • Archeio Idiotikou Scholeiou "Agios Vikentios"

    Student records containing names of Jewish pupils and other administrative records.

  8. Αρχείο Ιωάννη Σταθάκη

    • Ioannis Stathakis Archive
    • Archeio Ioanni Stathaki

    230 folders with judicial cases of the lawyer Ioannis Stathakis containing also his personal and professional correspondence.

  9. Σφαέλλος, Δημήτριος

    • Sfaellos, Dimitrios

    The archive contains articles and speeches of D. Sfaellos, as well as correspondence from his period of activity in the National Student Association, organizational documents and correspondence of the National Union of Greece (known as EEE) branch of Athens, notices, invitations and various documents related to the 1946 elections, correspondence from the period 1945-1948, correspondence related to the charities he did, family correspondence and personal documents. It also contains a folder related to the yarn and textile industry "O Vambax" (The Cotton).

  10. Αρχείο Τμήματος Δημοτικής Κατάστασης Δήμου Καβάλας

    • Archive of the Municipal Registry of the Municipality of Kavala
    • Archeio Tmimatos Dimotikis Katastasis Dimou Kavalas

    Municipal registers of Kavala, registers of males, correspondence protocol books, register books of births - baptisms, marriages. Contains information about Jewish residents of Kavala

  11. Αρχείο Ανωτάτης Διευθύνσεως Δημοσίας Εκπαιδεύσεως της Προσωρινής Κυβέρνησης Θεσσαλονίκης

    • Archive of the Supreme Directorate of Public Education of the Provisional Government of Thessaloniki

    The archive is part of the archives of the Provisional Government of Thessaloniki (1916-1917). It is a source of information on important social and political issues of the New Countries (Macedonia & Thrace) in the face of the WWI and the National Schism (Ethnikos Dichasmos) in Greece. In the archive there is evidence concerning the actions of the Entente forces in Macedonia. It includes the correspondence of the adviser of Public Education with officials of the services of the Army of the Orient (Armée d' Orient), on matters of food supply, movement control, the release of detainees an...

  12. Συντονιστικό Γραφείο Μειονοτικών Σχολείων (πρώην Επιθεώρηση Θρησκευμάτων, Τεχνικών, Ξένων και Μειονοτικών Σχολείων Γενικής Διοικήσεως Μακεδονίας)

    • Coordinating Office of Minority Schools

    Archive of the Directorate of Religious Affairs, Foreign and Minority Schools of the General Administration of Macedonia: Reports, memoranda, caralogues, etc. regarding Occupation and civil war, 1941-1949; Inspection Archive: Circulars and Orders, reports and memos about foreign and minority schools (Armenian, Jewish, Catholic, Muslim, etc.), foreign monasteries, foreign clergy, etc., 1941-1955; Foreign private schools: Tables of enrolled students by nationality, religion, language,1947-1948; Incoming documents from the General Administration of Macedonia and the German Authorities: Reports...

  13. Jewish farmers in the Carpathian mountains

    Scenes of Jewish farmers, carpenters, lumbering in the remote Carpathian village of Vysni Apsa. Interior of cheder. CUs of people. Basket making. Various pople pose/work in fields. CUs of orthodox men. Interiors of girls in school. Exteriors of houses. Crossing river. Cattle. Scenes are scattered. Chaim Simcha Mechlowitz, an Orthodox Jewish farmer, tanner, and father of eleven children appears from 12:33:50 to 12:34:11 and 12:35:54 to 12:36:00. He was killed at Auschwitz in 1944. In 1938, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC) commissioned Roman Vishniac to make three films...

  14. 5 video programs about the Holocaust: prewar Jewish life

    Audiovisual monitors shown in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Permanent Exhibition called "The Holocaust" (according to exhibition number). Fourth floor (4.07) - Life Before the Holocaust (all) 01:02:00 - 01:04:47 North Africa 01:04:52 - 01:07:03 Southeastern Europe 01:07:08 - 01:10:18 Soviet Union 01:10:21 - 01:20:04 Eastern Europe 01:20:09 - 01:27:12 Western & Central Europe

  15. POWs and German advance in Ukraine

    A German soldier is decorated with the Balkenkreuz. 00:15:55 German soldiers oversee POWs in the countryside. A massive line of (Soviet?) POWs march up hill. LS, the POWs rest at a campsite. 00:16:21 Large body of water, bridge, maritime vehicles docked. 00:16:38 Two German planes in an open field. A soldier talks to the cameraman from inside the plane. 00:16:56 Aerial shots of the river and a city from aboard the plane. AGFA 1941 logo.

  16. German Army South moves into Lvov; roundup and beating of Jews; victims of NKVD massacre

    Tank leaves tire tracks in field. Brief shot of a caravan of vehicles on road, poles torn down, and tank overturned. LS, farm and fields. 00:04:34 Dark shots of troops marching along city road, silhouette of a gate and a village. A soldier knocks down the star from the gate. CU fallen star. 00:04:53 Troops march towards camera. Troops march into Lemberg. Good shots of civilians watching and cheering. The crowd parts for a military car (with camera on dashboard). 00:05:38 Various shots of the city of Lemberg, homes and buildings. 00:06:31 CU of a German officer smoking and talking to soldier...

  17. American Responses to the Holocaust interactive monitors

    Interactive audiovisual monitors shown on the fourth and second floors in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Permanent Exhibition called "The Holocaust". This version is clean, with no titles and no menu button. 4.35a&b - American Responses 1933-1939 01:00:21 Persecution Begins (1933-1939) 01:06:58 Bookburnings 01:10:27 1936 Olympics 01:15:41 November Pogroms: "Kristallnacht" 01:21:31 Search for Refuge 2.16 - American Responses 1939-1945 01:29:41 First News of Extermination 01:35:36 War Against the Jews 01:41:47 American Jewish Responses 01:47:28 Attempts at Rescue 01:53:01 E...

  18. Interviews regarding Sobibor Uprising

    Compilation of oral histories with survivors involved with the Sobibor uprising.

  19. Oral history interview with Sioma Zubicky

  20. American volunteer recruitment on Vermont farms

    Promotional film for Volunteer Land Corp recruitment which follows the experiences of Dick Shaw, a young adult who learns to work on a Vermont farm as part of his contribution to the war effort. Summertime Barnard resident Dorothy Thompson wrote the story. This is a production of the United States Department of Agriculture and State Land Grant Colleges.