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  1. Joseph Starkman collection

    Contains two certificates issued to Sonia Starkman and to Josef Starkman testifying that each served in a Belorussian Partisan unit from June 18, 1942 until July 20, 1944; two temporary certificates issued to Sonia Starkman and to Josef Starkman awarding them medals for fighting as partisans against Germany during the “Patriotic War,” dated: June 22, 1944, in Russian; a “Deutsche Kennkarte” issued to Joseph and Sonja Starkmann, issued in Passau, Germany, dated October 2, 1951; two identity cards issued by Civilian Services attached to Polish Forces entering U.K. issued to Jozef and Zofia Gr...

  2. Displaced persons at Zeilsheim camp around 1947

    Quick pan of men with a flag at the Zeilsheim Displaced Persons camp in Germany. A young child eats an apple and stares at the camera. Posters tacked to tree trunks showing photographs of men and writing in Hebrew. 00:00:38 Outdoors, an archway decorated with a menorah, a star of David, and Hebrew/English inscriptions, including "Jewish Scout Camp". A large number of scouts -- teenaged boys and girls in uniform -- stand in rows while a white flag bearing a star of David is raised. Children and adults march behind the flag bearers. In Wiesbaden (?). A woman, possibly Lorna Adelman, with a wo...

  4. Private German films

    1938: Christmas, family, tram scenes. Fairground, railroad. 06:00 child plays with a shop, various children's toys, "carousel". 09:00 "Löffmgen", summer vacation, carriage rides. 11:03 Railway, Easter, train ride, Waldshut, boat trip. 14:40 A pig is slaughtered. Apprentice wears HJ shirt. 16:50 fire, fire department, deployment fire department, old fire engines. 19:50 1939: Freiburg: fire station, fire brigade routine, exercises. 30:00 Old electric locomotives, fairground, Linnep Castle, private. 36:30 "Beautiful home": Ratingen, Berg. 10:38:45 - 10:46:25 Refer to M 3757 41:23 Getting to kn...

  5. Olympic train

    Olympiazug. Train advertising measures in advance of the 1936 Olympic Games.

  6. Filmed diary of a fighter squadron

    Filmed diary of a fighter squadron, “Green heart”-Squadron West / East. Aerial combat. Messerschmitt Me 323 Gigant. 00:42:35 Knight cross holder General Alfred Keller, chief of Air Fleet 1 and commander East with oak leaf bearer Reinhard Seiler, commander III. JG 54. 00:42:52 General Alfred Keller. 00:42:59 Knight cross holder Reinhard Seiler. 00:45:47 Front reporter with camera. 00:55:00 Brilliant bearer Adolf Galland, Hannes Trautloff (Kommodore JG 54), oak leaf bearer Dietrich Hraback (Kommandeut // JG 54). Galland visiting JG 54. 00:55:44 Hrabak, Heinrich Krafft, Galland and Seiler (fro...

  7. Oral history interview with Herbert Meyer

  8. de Jong family testimonies

    Photocopies of two declarations made by the donor’s parents, Joseph and Celina de Jong, originally of Amsterdam, at the Rijksinstitut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie (present-day NIOD), describing their experiences during the German occupation of the Netherlands during World War II, and their arrest and deportation to concentration camps, including Auschwitz-Birkenau. Donation includes English translations of the Dutch texts, created by the donor.

  9. Dr. Josef Kiefer scrapbooks

    The Dr. Josef Kiefer scrapbooks consist of two albums created by a Wehrmacht medical officer documenting his World War II medical service between August 1939 and May 1940 in the areas of Saarbrucken, Oberstein, and Bad Homburg in Germany and the Moselle region in France. The scrapbooks include photographs of Kiefer, medical examinations, and military life, equipment, and installations, as well as clippings, maps, and Kiefer’s labels and commentary.

  10. Nuremberg; Streicher

    Carnival parade in Nuremberg. 10:07:24 Julius Streicher, panel framed with green: "On August 14, 1937, in the presence of Mr. Gauleiter Julius Streicher, the spade was broken for the Siemens-Schuckert swimming pool". Hitler and Streicher on the Party Rally Grounds

  11. De Kadt family life

    Sonja de Kadt feeds a bottle to the baby laying across her lap, while a dog looks on; the woman holds Willie's arm up to wave to the camera, shows her various toys, and puts her finger in her mouth to show off the first teeth; 01:01:25 Willie walks with her mother's help, and is fed; 01:04:51 an older woman, probaby best friend Kees van Wyck's wife, holding her baby daughter; mother Sonja de Kadt holds Willie in winter 1940-1941; 01:07:35 mother Sonja pushes Willie outdoors in a stroller in front of the family's home in Schoorl, Netherlands; 01:12:02 Father Louis de Kadt walks slowly toward...

  12. Nightfighter unit 2

    Captain Hissbach, JU 88 in flames, fire-fighting operations, pilot’s every day life

  13. Glass slides of photographs from unidentified concentration camp, post-liberation.

    Glass slides (8), containing photographic images of scenes in a liberated concentration camp, depicting liberated prisoners in barracks, United States military personnel, and corpses of victims. One image shows a former prisoner with a United States soldier, pointing toward an oven, and another shows an American soldier addressing a group of civilians, presumably German, standing in front of a crematorium. The provenance of these images is unknown.

  14. Iasi, Romania Photographic Collection

    Photographs of the destruction of Iasi, Romania and of German soldiers in Romania.

  15. Zoo; baths in Budapest, parade in Vienna or Budapest

    Views of animals at a zoo including deer, a seal, lions. 01:27 People dancing on a small stage giving some sort of performance. 02:03 A horse race, the men riding them wield swords. 02:47 Views of a chic outdoor café, waiters wearing tuxedos stand by. 03:17 Views of a crowded outdoor pool and of the bathers lounging beside it. A woman in a bathing suit poses for the camera, walks towards it. This is possibly Gellert Bath in Budapest, Hungary. 4:09 Views of a large, possibly religious, procession of people in the street, a large crowd observes. CUs of the people in the procession as they wal...

  16. Castle Film newsreel: Russia Strikes Back

    Eastern front in Russia. US war against Japan.

  17. Albert Perlin letter

    Contains a letter written by Albert Perlin (donor's maternal grandfather) during WWII to his daughter, Rosalie Perling Podol, and her husband Elliott (donor's parents).

  18. Collection of photographs Zbiór fotografii (Sygn. 1125)

    Selected photographs documenting life in Kielce: The Association of Former Political Prisoners Branch of Kielce, Hotel European, 1928; the strike in Końskie, 1935; studio portraits of a German soldiers; a small number of photographs portraying local Jews, the synagogues of Kielce and Sandomierz, a group of Jewish women and men from Kielce Ghetto on their way to forced labor in 1942. The photographs are mainly unidentified (place and date) scenes of the time of German occupation.

  19. Provincial Command of the State Police in Kielce Komenda Wojewódzka Policji Państwowej w Kielcach (Sygn. 111)

    Orders, ordinances, reports, registers, correspondence, questionnaires and minutes of the Provincial Chief Officer of the State Police in Kielce. Included are registers of crimes, police reports, opinions and instructions, photos of criminals from the register of the State Police, reports of the chief officers of Major Security Organizations in Poland, personnel lists of the State Police in Kielce and subordinate police stations, personal questionnaires, personnel matters of the State Police officers, reports and information concerning police informers, information on the national movements...

  20. Collection of documents from the period of World War II Zbiór dokumentów z okresu II wojny światowej (Sygn.1978)

    Selected records with a diverse provenance relating to Jewish inhabitants in various regions of Poland during World War II. The most significant records (card file No 14) are lists of inhabitants of individual towns and villages of the county of Hrubieszów, the district of Lublin, as well as applications of Jews to return to Międzyrzecz Podlaski in 1940 (some with photos), and a list of Jewish inhabitants of the town of Płock. Also included is private correspondence, in Polish and German, and orders of the occupier’s authorities.