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  1. Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs records

    Contains correspondence, reports, notices, diplomatic memoranda, personal indexes, and other documents relating to the situation of the Jewish population in Europe between 1943 and 1946. The collection pertains to the activities of the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs during the Holocaust and after World War II. Records include the following subjects: Jewish emigration matters; political and economic situation of the Jewish war refugees; International Red Cross, World Jewish Congress, American Jewish Distribution Committee and United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration activ...

  2. William M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of William M., an African-American who enlisted in the United States Army in May 1942. He recalls placement in the segregated 761st tank battalion; local prejudice during basic training in the south; being shipped to England in 1944; his unit's assignment to Patton's Third Army; participation in campaigns, including the Battle of the Bulge; plunging into Dachau by chance in spring 1945; eliminating German resistance; observing prisoners who were "walking skeletons"; the horrible stench; prisoners holding up their hands in gratitude; being warned not to feed them; and lea...

  3. Kurt and Trude S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Kurt S., who was born in 1904 in Oelde, Westphalia, and his wife Trude S., who was born in Wiesbaden. Mr. S. recalls that his family was the only Jewish one in the neighborhood; antisemitism during high school; passing his law exams in 1928-1929; the boycott of Jewish businesses; losing his job as a result of the Nuremberg laws; and taking a new job in Wiesbaden where he then met Mrs. S. Mrs. S. speaks of her childhood memories and religious observance; nationalist protest in 1930; and anti-Jewish actions in 1934. Mr S. describes his arrest during Kristallnacht and th...

  4. Yiddish Intermediate School in Skuodas Skuodo žydų vidurinė mokykla (Fond 796)

    Records of the Jewish Intermediate School in Skuodas. The collection contains minutes of meetings of the teachers’ council, records of the entrance examinations; requests from parents to admit their children to school; graduation certificates that include photos of students, class journals, etc.

  5. Oral history interview with Suzi Smeed

  6. Frieders on vacation, horseback riding, playing

    People play and relax on the beach, probably in Hawaii. Morris Frieder and his girls wearing flowered leis aboard a boat. 00:00:47 Pan of a large garden in the Philippines, probably in Baguio City (see Film ID 2957 at 00:02:56 for film of the same location when the girls are younger). Peggy and a younger girl (likely her sister Sue - b. 1934) pose for the camera. Jane practices swinging a golf club. Catherine O'Connor, the governess from Indiana, helps the girls pick flowers from the garden, and Jane picks up Sue. 00:02:17 A plane lands on a dirt runway. Morris gets out and kisses Sue. The ...

  7. Jewish religious community in Lwów, Poland records (Fond 701)

    Records of the Jewish community of Lwów in the interwar period (1917-1939) related to the religious, cultural, educational and charitable activities of the Jewish community of Lwów and Eastern Galicia.The collection includes minutes of the meetings of the board of the Lwów Jewish community, correspondence of the officials of the Jewish community with the local authorities, financial and budget reports of the Jewish communities of Eastern Galicia, inventories of the property of the local synagogues, bylaws of the local Jewish public organizations and charitable foundations, lists and appl...

  8. Albert C. Kornblum papers

    The Albert C. Kornblum papers consists of a certificate signed by Adolf Hitler, a certificate signed by Heinrich Himmler, a photograph of Nuremberg Stadium, a letter to Kornblum from US Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, and a map documenting the advance of the 15th Corps of the First, Third, and Seventh Armies from July 1944 to May 1945. The certificate signed by Hitler awards the first stage of the Honor Cross for German Mothers to Franziska Seefeldner. The certificate signed by Himmler awards the Death’s Head Ring of the SS to SS Obersturmführer Oskar Röntgen. The stadium photograp...

  9. Memoirs of Lyubov Tartakover about her husband Shulem-Yankel Leibovich, Holocaust survivor

    The collection contains the memoir "Gray Shaking Shadows", hand-written by Solomon Mavritsovich Lebovich's wife, Lubov Tartakover. The memoir covers Solomon Mavritsovich Lebovich's time in a series of camps from 1944 to1945, deportation to Birkenau -Auschwitz, his experiences in Buchenwald, Gross-Rosen and other concentration camps, liberation and repatriation. Also includes one photograph and three drawings.

  10. Alex Finder papers

    The Alex Finder papers include a handbill advertising a ceremony held on May 5, 1946 at Ebensee cemetery in Austria to commemorate the first anniversary of liberation. Hundreds of survivors from displaced person camps attended the ceremony. The event was organized by Alex Finder and presided over by an American army chaplain. Also included are a memoir entitled “Helen and Alex Finder: Two Stories of Survival,” 1996, and five newspaper articles written by Alex Finder while billeted in the post-war displaced persons camp at Bad Ischl, Austria. The titles of the articles are: “Czytelnicy pisza...

  11. Justice Ministry : Files of the Chief State Public Prosecutor's Office Vienna-until 1938 ; 1938-1945. Justizministerium : Akten der Oberstaatsanwaltschaft Wien-bis 1938; 1938-1945

    Administrative files of the Chief State Public Prosecutor's Office Vienna, such as personnel matters, arrest reports, and miscellaneous criminal cases for Vienna, Lower Austria and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Also features administrative records pertaining to the attempted Nazi putsch of July 1934.

  12. March of Time -- outtakes -- Sweden

    1021 E (04:00:40): View of Swedish Foreign Office in Stockholm. Christian Gunther, Swedish Foreign Minister, in his office at the Swedish Foreign Office, smoking, looking at papers. Various shots, CUs. VS Por Ablin Anson, Prime Minister, in his private office in the Kanslihuset (slightly underexposed). Looking at papers on desk, CU, Anson. Cabinet meeting in Kanslihuset, Stockholm. Members of the Swedish cabinet with the Prime Minister as president. CU, Swedish Foreign Minister (Gunther) on the immediate right of the Prime Minister (Anson). LS and CU of the cabinet, ministers in council. 10...

  13. Friends and family in prewar Germany

    Friends walk past the camera outdoors. Children pose for the camera and play. Baby cries. The girl smiles and waves. Ethel Lindemann (?) holds the toddler and waves. More shots of the group walking in a park, well-dressed, laughing, man with hat and cane carries a camera. 01:01:21 Pan, family home with parked car, the family exits their home, smiling and waving and smoking. CUs, girl plays, some snow on the ground. Adults and toddler take a walk.

  14. Schifre Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Schifre Z., who was born in Dolhinow, near Vilna, Poland, in 1929. Using vivid and poetic language, and taking care to name the Polish non-Jews who helped her and her family, Mrs. Z. describes her prewar childhood; the German occupation of her town; forced labor; the suffering of her brother at the hands of the Nazis; the liquidation and burning of her town while she hid in a nearby village, and what she saw when she returned; and hiding with her family, first in the attics of the house and barn of sympathetic non-Jews, and later, when this became unsafe, in the fores...

  15. Selected records of state security investigations of Hungarian war criminals (ABTL)

    Contains records of interrogations of suspected war criminals by the investigative branch of the Hungarian Ministry of Internal Affairs, Hungarian Police State Protection Department (Magyar Államrendőrség Államvédelmi Osztálya, ÁVO), and later by the independent Agency for State Security State Protection Authority, (Államvédelmi Hatóság, ÁVH), primarily confessions and witness testimonies.

  16. Lea-Lily S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lea-Lily S., who was born in Larisa, Greece in 1903. She recalls her five brothers; attending teacher's college in Thessalonike?; marriage; her daughter's birth; divorce; her immediate family escaping to Palestine, via Turkey after German invasion; not leaving with them due to her illness; obtaining false papers; her brother's friend hiding her and her daughter in a nearby village; leaving because she feared exposing her rescuers; traveling by boat to Skopelos Island in June, 1943; teaching in the local school; detention by German troops; a German releasing her with a...

  17. Second Global Structures Convocation lecture by Ferencz

    Lecture, "Creating Global Structures for Agenda 21." Second Global Structures Convocation, Washington, DC. February 6-9, 1992. ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT (tape 10 in conference series) Introduction by Robert Livingston, president of Positions for Social Responsibility. Second introduction by Catherine Porter, executive director of US Citizens Network. Ferencz discusses new structures needed to create a more peaceful planet. Broad frameworks include a world community that is environmentally healthy, free from war, and economically sound. He argues for coordinated action on an international ...

  18. Jacqueline L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacqueline L., who was born in Paris in 1932. She recounts her family was not religious, although she knew she was Jewish; awareness of "bad feelings" beginning in 1940; not answering the door when French police came for them on September 24, 1942; a non-Jewish neighbor telling them to go away (she knew they were home); being placed in hiding with the non-Jewish wife of a relative; knowing her parents and older sister were hiding in southern France; her "aunt" tutoring her (she could not attend school) and trying to convert her to Christianity; having a ration card (s...

  19. Institut d'etude des questions juives (GR 28 P 15)

    Contains records documenting the conception and construction of the famous 1941-1942 exhibition at the Palais Berlitz, "Le Juif et la France," including media coverage and the speech given by the IEQJ’s Secretary General Paul Sézille; documentation produced by the IEQJ; studies of Jewish influence in various domains and professions; records documenting the activities of the IEQJ; in-coming and out-going mail; denunciations of Jewish business owners and employees, and offers to buy their confiscated belongings; foreign press; and publicity.

  20. State Court Graz: Nazi-related court cases Landesgericht Graz : NS-Verfahren

    Postwar court and investigative records of Nazi-related cases in Styria, Austria for the years 1954 to 1992. The collection includes court case against Franz Murer, the deputy of the SS commandant of the Vilna (Vilnius) ghetto ("Stellvertreter und/oder Adjutant des Gebietskommissars der Stadt Wilna und Referent für Jüdische Angelegenheiten"); includes both cases that did and did not reach verdicts.