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Language of Description: Danish
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  1. Rene?e G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rene?e G., who was born in ?osice, Poland, in 1932. She describes the German occupation of ?osice, its ghettoization, and the liquidation of the ghetto; her arrest along with her older brother; and their transfer to the "small ghetto", where she worked as a forced laborer. She also describes her escape from the ghetto with the assistance of a non-Jewish friend of her father; and life in hiding, first in the home of the Polish policeman who had arrested her and her brother, and later in the barn of a Polish farm family. Here, she and her family hid in a pit under a man...

  2. Mountain views and street scenes in Zakopane

    Pan of a landscape-fog rising above the mountains; snow is visible on the mountains. Shot from a plane, or some sort of funicular down to the valley below. Quick cut to peasant women walking along the street in full traditional dress.

  3. Maison de la Miséricorde orphanage, Heverlee. Collection

    Digitised postcards of indoor and outdoor spaces at the House of Mercy (Maison de la Miséricorde/Huis der Barmhartigheid), an orphanage in Heverlee, where over 70 Jewish children were hidden by catholic nuns during the Second World War.

  4. Oral history interview wtih Adam Leczycki

  5. Hitler Youth; dog parade

    “HITLERJUGEND” Hitler Youth march in uniform down the street, the boys at the front play instruments followed by those carrying German and Nazi flags. Women at the end also carry flags. “DOG PARADE” Marching band. Officers with dogs, many are German shepherds. Horse-drawn float with a sign that reads, “Dachshunde.” The float is covered with pine trees, and (what looks like) a toy dachshund. Men and women follow, many walking dachshunds. Car with a Nazi flag draped across the front. Boy with “Foxterriers” sign, followed by folks walking fox-terriers. Procession of “Erdhunde” dogs and their o...

  6. Колекція листівок, закликів та оголошень німецьких установ періоду окупації.

    • Collection of leaflets, appeals, and announcements of the German institutions of the occupation period.
    • Kolektsiia lystivok, zaklykiv ta oholoshen nimetskykh ustanov peroidu okupatsii

    These leaflets, appeals, and announcements were produced by various branches of the military and civil German authorities in the city of Chernihiv and surrounding areas, as well as by local municipalities and rural area administrative bodies. Some of the items in the collection can relate to the Holocaust. File 1. Orders, decrees and instructions of the Chernihiv district board, 20 pages. File 2. Orders, decrees and announcements of the joint-district board and district board of Chernihiv, 15 pages. File 4. Orders of Chernihiv city board, 56 pages. File 5. Announcements of Chernihiv city bo...

  7. Raphael Aronson photograph collection

    The collection consists of a collection of 22 photographs which Raphael Aronson found in an apartment in Linz, Austria, in 1946. The photographs depict Jews in the ghettos in Łod́ź and Warsaw, Poland, as well as pre-World War II photographs of antisemitic graffiti on Jewish establishments.

  8. Lists of prisoners in the Miranda de Ebro Camp

    The collection contains lists of prisoners in the Miranda de Ebro Camp; 1940-1947 Miranda was the central camp in Spain for foreign prisoners. This camp was used for several kinds of prisoners. The three main categories were: international brigadiers (captured during the Civil War); male prisoners who illegally crossed the border (women were not held in military camps, but provincial prisons); and German military personnel and German collaborators interned in the so-called Campo Aleman. Some of the inmates were Jews. The photocopied lists include the name plus nationality of inmates. The el...

  9. ENSV Riikliku Julgeoleku Komitee lõpetamata uurimistoimikute kollektsioon

    • Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic KGB Archive, Collection of files of incomplete investigations
    • Коллекция следственных дел
    • Rahvusarchiiv
    • ERAF.129SM
    • English
    • 1932-1990
    • 13,422 Records, original paper documents, partly digitalized.

    This archive fond includes mostly cases of political repressions of Soviet regime (1940-1941 and after 1944). It contains also as smaller part the interrogation materials of the former guards and officials of the Concentration Camps, police officers and military among Estonian residents, who participated or was accused in participating during the Second World War in Nazi crimes. The basic languages of documents are Russian and Estonian; only a limited number of documents are in German (copied documents from German occupation period) or other languages.

  10. Paternity suit; genetic testing

    Dramatized propaganda film with actors explaining a paternity suit and genetic testing. Reel 1: Titles, credits. Nurse with baby in nursery, various scenes. Toilet training. In doctor's office. Doctor reading papers, calls nurse. Concerning Frau Weber, four years ago she thought her baby was switched with another. Now I've heard from her lawyer. Nurse: "that's crazy!" "Crazy or not..." Court case in Munich: Weber vs. Brugger. 01:09:37 Family enters room, with little boy. Blood test, from mother's ear, boy's ear, father's ear. Measuring mother's head, boy's, father's. Doctor calls out result...

  11. Donald G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Donald G., who was drafted into the United States Army in 1942. He tells of his training in Georgia and Scotland, then his position as a military policeman in Aachen, Germany; entering the Dora concentration camp in Nordhausen; lack of knowledge of what they were going to see; orders to separate the living from the dead; the terribly undernourished and overworked prisoners; the overwhelming stench (a memory which always returns when he remembers this time); taking pictures; not being able to talk about what he witnessed after his return to the United States; and his l...

  12. Henri B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henri B., who was born in Paris in 1926. He describes the antisemitism he encountered as an apprentice jockey before the war; his escape to southern, unoccupied France when the Jews of Paris were ordered to assemble for deportation; and his detention in and escape from the internment camp at Rivesaltes. He also tells of his life in hiding on a French farm and his activities in the French underground, where, because of his small size, he was trained and employed to work with explosives. Mr. B. speaks with great emotion about his attempts to remember his Jewishness whil...

  13. Selected records from the Ivano-Frankivsk (Former Stanisławów) State Regional Archives in Ukraine related to the Jewish communities of the region during the interwar period

    The collections consists of the records of various government institutions related to activities of the Jewish communities of the Ivano-Frankivsk (former Stanisławów) województwo during the interwar period. The bulk of the records represents correspondence files regarding Jewish communities (registration, bylaws, elections of the board, membership fees and budget) of the region. The collection also includes correspondence between Jewish public, cultural and Zionist organizations and Polish government agencies regarding opening/closure and various activities of Jewish organizations (bylaws, ...

  14. Yugoslavia: soldiers dancing; officers and prisoners; villagers

    Reel 7: Soldiers dancing in streets of Vinkovci, accordion player. US ambassador Richard C. Patterson and US officers in Dakovo, entering cathedral - pan, steeple to partially damaged church. Patterson, Kusovac Labud, Yugoslavian Propaganda Chief, and Col Charles Thayer looking through field glasses at fighting. Group of officers leaving German prison. Soldiers riding in horse-drawn carts on way to front, Patterson and officers watching from jeep. Officers interrogating prisoners. CUs, men eating. 03:15:23 Partisan General Peko Dapcevic with an American official (Gen Dapcevic became Tito's ...

  15. Criminal prison Warszawa-Mokotów District Wiezienie Karne Warszawa Mokotów (Sygn. 657/III)

    Contains administrative and prisoners' personnel files. The prisoners' files relate to such crimes as: espionage, possession of weapons, contraband, theft, forgery, robberies, rapes, illegal trade, lack of subordination to the authorities, arson, and murders. Particular files contain documents with significant details concerning a reason of for imprisonment, copies of the accusation indictment and verdict, a prisoner's health, certificates of death, correspondence, and the like. Only the Jewish prisoners' files have been microfilmed (1939-1942).

  16. Lily Zelenka biography "Little Lily"

    Contains the remembrances of Lily Zelenka in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, as a victim of deportation, prisoner in several concentration camps, and survivor of the Holocaust. "Little Lily" covers a general span of time from 1900 through the 1950s. "Little Lily" was written by Claire Ramsay as told to her by Lily Zelenka in 1981.

  17. March of Time -- outtakes -- The New School, NYC (University in Exile)

    New School for Social Research, NYC. 03:11:34 CU of sign, EXT: "The New School". 03:12:51 INT, people walking through lobby, information board. 03:13:43 CU, individual names and their subjects. View of faculty members meeting around table in front of mural, with the president of the New School, Alvin Johnson. There are various European exiles, including Leo Strauss, Frieda Wunderlich, Emil Lederer, and Max Wertheimer. (Full list of names is available in March of Time research files). 03:14:07 View of adult students in class. 03:16:52 People at a meeting.

  18. Selected records of the Polish Red Cross from the Łódź Voivodeship Szczątki zespołów akt Polskiego Czerwonego Krzyża z terenu województwa łódzkiego (Sygn. 900)

    Consists of correspondence, lists, questionnaires and protocols from the files of the Polish Red Cross, Information Office in Łódź. Includes a list of deceased civil citizens and fallen soldiers in the Łódź region, personal surveys of fallen and buried people in the Łowicz county, 1939-1942 ("Grób Polski"); exhumations and lists of killed in the Łowicz county; lists and information about the fallen and missing, lists of graves, and list of foreigners residing in the city of Piotrków,1932.

  19. Kaplan family photograph

    Contains a studio portrait of Chaim Aron Kaplan (on left wearing bow tie and glasses) [donor's paternal great uncle], Sarah Kaplan Trobovich [donor's paternal great aunt, half-sister of Chaim and Harry], and Harry Kaplan [donor's paternal grandfather and brother of Chaim]; dated 1921; Brooklyn, NY.

  20. Selected records of the Staatsanwaltschaft Lyck Prokuratura w Ełku (Sygn.1206) : Wybrane materialy

    Prosecutors' files of cases of sabotage, assault with arms and murder of a gendarme.