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Language of Description: Danish
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  1. American propaganda film to educate US soldiers going to France

    An American propaganda film produced by the U.S. Office of War Information to educate US soldiers before going to France. Some scenes are staged. Reel 3: French peasants hide their parachutes and a French priest (actor) hides the fliers and tells them of the French defeat. The fliers are secreted back across the English Channel. French soldiers retreat as the Germans advance. Gen. Petain calls for collaboration with Germany. General de Gaulle broadcasts a call for continued French resistance and speaks to French officers on a warship. Petain visits Hitler. Germans execute French hostages an...

  2. Italian Ministry of Defense Selected records of the Stato Maggiore dell'Esercito

    Contains a census, questionnaires, documents, circulars, and correspondence relating to Jews, racial policy, military institutions, Yugoslavia, France, and Greece. Includes reports on the activities of the Ustashi against Jews in Yugoslavia; reports of Jews moving into newly occupied territories; translation of an article from "Der Spiegel" on the conduct of the Italian military in protecting Jews in occupied territories; the role of the Catholic Church in persecuting Jews in Rome; lists of military officers who aided Jews in Greece, France and Croatia; bibliography from the book on Italian...

  3. Basel family collection

    Contains two passports for Ruwen Basel, three identification cards for Fela Liebgold and Ruwen Basel, correspondence pertaining to reparation payments, and Ruwen Basel's work for United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) as a camp supply officer.

  4. Genia T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Genia T., who is from Chrzanów, Poland. She speaks of her life under German occupation, working as a forced laborer making buttons. She recounts the round-up, while she was away at work, of her husband, father, and siblings for deportation from the Chrzanów ghetto. Only her husband survived. Mrs. T. describes her transfer to a slave labor camp in Bernsdorf, Czechoslovakia, and details conditions there, where she remained as a worker in a mattress factory until her liberation by the Russians. She also mentions her return home after the war; her reunion with her husba...

  5. Criminal Police of the Protectorate Protektorátní kriminální policie

    Records of the Criminal Police of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, featuring alphabetically arranged registration cards of prisoners; alphabetically arranged cases of prisoners accused of so-called economic crimes; reports of suicide attempts and injuries; cases of so-called protective custody (Schutzhaft); daily reports; reports of deaths; lists of persons deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp; transport lists from the Kounicova dormitories in Brno-Žabovřesky which were used as a prison and execution site.

  6. Hitler and Hindenburg in open car

    Fox Movietone News. Aerial shots of crowds at the Lustgarten on May Day. A car carrying Hitler and von Hindenburg drives through; they wave to the crowds of schoolchildren (identified by narrator -- children not especially visible). The view switches to Hitler speaking briefly at the microphone, then shows von Hindenburg at microphone. They both solicit cheers from the crowd.

  7. Eichmann Trial -- Session 89 -- Decision of the court to cancel session

    Session 89. Empty chairs of the Defense and Prosecution. People milling about the courtroom. 00:19:51 The Judges still haven't entered, and everyone is seated. Attorney General Hausner and Dr. Servatius are pulled and walk out of the courtroom. 00:31:06 Judges enter. They open the 89th session of the trial. The President of Court says that the Defense requests this session be cancelled because the medical condition of Eichmann prevents him from being cross examined in both the morning and afternoon. They cancel the morning session, and adjourn. Shots of people leaving.

  8. Friedrich Falk collection

    This collection contains the personal papers (photocopies) of Friedrich Falk, a Jewish lawyer from Dusseldorf who emigrated on the Kitchener camp scheme to England intending to move to Palestine to escape Nazi persecutions.Personal papers of Friedrich Falk including his qualifications and work references, various police certificates confirming his places of residence as well as correspondence with the Jewish Agency for Palestine Berlin regarding his application for emigration. Also included is correspondence regarding his inheritance and genealogical research.

  9. Refugee children

    This story contains the last minute of an 11 minute documentary piece. Children listening to radio (staged), narration in English. Scenes from Julien Bryan's "Siege of Warsaw". Malnourished children, Russian children.

  10. Exhumation of corpses of Soviet civilians by German POWs

    Exhumation of corpses of the Soviet civilians by German POWs. Woman, stands to the side of the pit, hands clasped, watching as they take out a body, and crying (possibly her husband or son). VS of soldiers digging up graves. The woman who was crying before appears again, in a different shot, MCU, she is being interviewed by someone behind the camera, and, with her hands clasped she explains her story to the camera and continues to sob. Soldiers look on, standing behind this woman. Pan, scores of bodies laid out, quick cut to another elderly woman speaking, she remains on screen for a fracti...

  11. Leo Young papers

    Includes letters exchanged between the Sam Jung family and J. A. Fox, a non-Jewish prisoner of war, and Fox's sister, E. A. Fox. The letters were written by Fox and his sister in order to inform Jung's family of his well being and whereabouts. Also included is a 1940 postcard from Maurice Jung to his brother Sam Jung; a recent letter from Leo Young to his children, nieces, and nephews telling the story of their uncle Maurice; and a photo of Maurice Jung and his wife with a caption on the back indicating it was taken in 1940. Photocopies of the documents were also donated by Young and are fi...

  12. World War II Selected Records from the French National Archives: 72 AJ Seconde Guerre Mondiale

    The collection includes selected records from the Archives of the Second World War History Committee and private papers. Records include the memoirs of Colonel de Milleret, an organization chart of the German services in France, a lexicon of French resistance, personal narratives, reports, and printed materials. The records document the confiscation of illicit profits, the establishment of German troops in France during the Second World War, and the French resistance. The collection also includes records documenting Professor Duvoir’s participation in the International Commission of Forensi...

  13. Viešosios policijos vadovybė prie SS ir policijos vado Vilniuje Vilniaus miesto SS ir viešosios policijos valdyba

    • Kommando der Schutzpolizei beim SS- und Polizeistandortführer in Wilna
    • Command of City Police with the SS and Police Location Commander in Vilnius

    Documents concerning forced labour for Jews and related correspondence between SS and police Standartenfuehrer about this; instructions issued by SS and police chief concerning use of Jewish labour force in Vilnius city; list of 45 Jews who were working at the police station in the city on January 1942; various permissions and certificates for the SS and police staff; lists of the police officers; documentation concerning the Lithuanian SS legion; other items.

  14. 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.

  15. Ernst and Vera Velden: personal papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of Ernst and Vera Velden who emigrated separately as Jewish refugees to England in 1939 and later got married.Included are emigration papers such as birth certificates, school certificates, Heimatschein; and application and certificates of naturalisation. Also includes a photograph; correspondence from family and friends relating to news about the lives of relatives, support for Jewish relief funds, Ernst's search for employment and application for an American visa; and papers relating to war compensation claims for both Ernst and Vera Velden.

  16. Coenraad Rood collection

    Consists of photographs taken in the Staphorst Rouveen labor camp, in the Netherlands in the summer of 1942; also contains photographs of Elisabeth Rood-Kooperberf and Coenraad Rood, including a wedding photograph from their marriage in 1940; also includes postcards written in 1942 from Coenraad Rood to Elisabeth Rood letting her know his whereabouts.

  17. Stanley Kowalski papers

    Includes two typescripts written by Stanley Kowalski concerning the town of Jazłowiec, Poland. The first typescript (in English) is a copy of pages 158 through 180 of a larger manuscript entitled "Jazlowiec, the Town Lost in History." The second typescript (35 pages) is in Polish. Both typescripts describe events in the vicinity of Jazłowiec, Poland, during World War II.

  18. Liberation of Auschwitz

    "Filmdokumente" on the German concentration camps, made under Soviet auspices with narration in Russian. This film was taken by a Soviet military film crew upon liberating Auschwitz in January 1945. People in camp in winter with snow on the ground. CUs, prisoners behind wire (women and children). LSs, AVs, the camp covered with snow. Map of Auschwitz, plans for the crematorium. INT, women in rows of bunks. "Arbeit Macht Frei" gate. Barbed wire. INT, gas chamber. CUs women in the bunks. CUs albums of photographs (showing different nationalities). VS groups of survivors behind wires, worn fac...

  19. Westerbork Arrival

    Arrivals at Westerbork transit camp. Workers and guards at train station. Train pulls in. People get off trains with bundles; chaotic feeling. Freight train pulls in, Jewish prisoners from Vught concentration camp wearing clogs and work clothes, get off, line up. They have been sent to Westerbork for punishment. Brief INT of registration (out of focus).

  20. Hilert family collection

    The Hilert family collection consists of documents, correspondence, and identification cards pertaining to the Hilert family and their postwar time experience in the Stuttgart West displaced persons camp (DP camp) in Germany and their immigration to the United States. The collection contains an affidavit from Avrom Hiller and Senator Harry Byrd and smallpox vaccination certificates. The documents pertain to Rabbi Samuel Hilert, Rose (Rosa, Raizel) Gutkind Hilert, and their son, Moses Baruch Hilert (Michael, Mike).