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  1. 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.

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

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

  3. 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...

  4. 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.

  5. 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...

  6. 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...

  7. 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.

  8. 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...

  9. 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 ...

  10. 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 ...

  12. 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...

  13. Cookbook

  14. Kuehne and Mehl families photo album

    Contains a photograph album that belonged to Oskar and Adele Kuehne and their daughter Herta (later Harriet Mehl-Rottenberg), and Michael and Esther Mehl and their children Isadore and Walter, who all fled Nazi-occupied Vienna, Austria. Herta and Isadore married in the United States.

  15. Goering visits small towns in Austria

    Marketplace of Tamsweg in Lungau, Austria. Göring walks through rows of proud women saluting him. He smiles at them and nods his head. Standing amongst the crowd is a mascot in traditional German costume with a very large head, wearing a dirndl - Goliath. Nazi flags. Göring chatting with people, in front of a banner that reads “Hermann Göring-Straße.” Crowds stand in a square in front of a building decorated with garlands and long Nazi banners. The building has two large initials on its façade as well, “H.G.” People watch as a very tall doll-like German figure spins in circles in the square...

  16. Nazi parade in Berlin

    Nazi party flags hanging from the side of a building along the Pariser Platz in Berlin. Crowd. People lineup, awaiting the parade. More Nazi flags. Pan up to sky and back to more flags and spectators standing. A colonnade has been erected in the middle of the street. This is Unter den Linden, a boulevard in Berlin. Swastikas top the first two columns. 10:01:42 The Brandenburg Gate, with people lining up in preparation for the parade. Huge crowds move through the square. Cars drive through the gate, spectators wave. CU of the car passengers. Luftwaffe planes fly in formation overhead. More p...

  17. French Campaign

    Battle of France, Count Edmund von Rothkirch

  19. Shulamit Klebanov papers

    Correspondence received by Shulamit Klebanov, while she was working on behalf of the Jewish Agency, providing assistance to Holocaust survivors in displaced persons camps in Europe following World War II. Most of the letters are from fellow aid workers, describing their work with Holocaust survivors and vocational courses offered to them by ORT.

  20. Dr. John D. Singer correspondence

    The Dr. John D. Singer correspondence consists of letters sent from John D. Singer, M.D., during the period when he served in Europe with the United States Army, Third Army, 773rd Tank Destroyer Battalion, as a surgeon and commanding medical officer, 1944-1945. The letters, addressed to his wife Genise in Illinois, describe various experiences, including the first post-liberation Jewish new year's celebration at a synagogue in Nancy, France, in September 1944; and his experiences visiting and working as a doctor at the newly-liberated camp of Buchenwald in April 1945. Collection also contai...