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Language of Description: German
Language of Description: English

  1. Gdynia; loading coal onto barges

    Train moving (towards the camera). "Gdynia" sign at rail station. Woman stacks sod. City scenes, buildings, bus, Polish soldiers, nun. Barges in the water. Loading coal on ships, one with "HEL GDYNIA" painted on the side. A man unloads huge sacks off a truck.

  2. Germany before and after Hitler

    Montage showing in contrast the peaceful life in Germany before and life in Germany during Hitler. Two barefooted, weary men sleeping in park. Woman walking through alley looking in garbage cans. Children in slum street. Boys training in the Nazi Farm Corps. LS, fountain in park. CU, plow breaking ground. 01:12:30 Night scenes: Nazis on the march; burning of books. 1 shot of fires inside synagogue (authentic?). Jews being beaten in streets. HS, German troops, Wehrmacht, on parade. (Good) Montage: Activity in German factory; Montage, German Luftwaffe and Panzer attack. Tanks superimposed ove...

  3. Gusta K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gusta K., who was born in Ra?da?ut?ii, Romania in 1932, one of two sisters. Ms. K. recounts deportation with her family by Romanians to Podil?s?kyi? when she was eight; confiscation of all their valuables, including clothing; transfer to the Bershad ghetto; selling candy to support her family; liberation by Soviet troops; returning home; traveling to Bulgaria; boarding a ship for Palestine with her sister; interdiction by the British; incarceration on Cyprus for three months; arrival in Palestine; marriage in 1950; her son's birth in 1953; emigration to the United Sta...

  4. Animated maps and titles for the film "Poland - the Country and the People"

    An animated map of Poland, designed by Philip Stapp. Features the outline of the country of Poland, a drawing of a King with a sceptor, an indication of the location of Krakow with an accompanying image of the city, and a coat of arms-style sign in the middle of the map of Poland that reads: Union of Poland-Lithuania and Ruthenia. From Julien Bryan's film "Poland the Country and the People" released in 1948, shot 1936-1937.

  5. TR. 15 - Protocols and historical documentation from the Demjanjuk Trial, 1986-1988

    TR. 15 - Protocols and historical documentation from the Demjanjuk Trial, 1986-1988 In 1987, Ivan Demjanjuk was placed on trial in Jerusalem in accordance with the Nazi and Nazi Collaborators (Punishment) Law. Demjanjuk, a Ukrainian who immigrated to the United States and was extradited to Israel, was accused of serving as a guard in the Treblinka extermination camp during the war. The inmates of the camp referred to him as "Ivan the Terrible". The Jerusalem District Court, in session with the special panel of Judges Dov Levin, Tzvi Tal and Dalia Dorner, found Demjanjuk guilty and sentenced...

  6. Invasion of Oesel and Moon Islands, Estonia.

    "Ufa" logo; "Nr. 57" appear on screen. The narrator says, "Die Inseln Oesel und Moon in deutscher Hand." [The islands of Oesel and Moon in German hands]. Map showing Oesel (Saaremaa) and Moon islands, located between Latvia and Estonia. Luftwaffe planes in the air over the islands. German ships in the ocean; mines detonating in the water. Soldiers on board ship receiving orders. Cannons firing from the ship at Soviet positions. Germans in small motorboats race toward the island while planes overhead cover them and fire at a lighthouse/watchtower on the island. Planes bomb the island. German...

  7. Oelschlegel, Vera.- Bildbestand

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners geb. 5. Juli 1938 in Leipzig, lebt in Berlin, Schauspielerin und Sängerin, Intendantin des Theaters im Palast der Republik 1956-1959 Studium an der Deutschen Hochschule für Filmkunst, Potsdam-Babelsberg, Fachrichtung Schauspiel, Stimmbildung an der Musikhochschule "Hanns Eisler", Berlin, 1959-1961 erstes Engagement im Theater in Putbus/Rügen, 1962-1975 Mitglied des Schauspielerensembles des Deutschen Fernsehfunks (später Fernsehen der DDR), 1966 Mitbegründerin des Ensembles 66 (mit diesem Ensemble als Sängerin internationale Tourneen mit Auftritten in 27 Länd...

  8. Mikhael K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mikhael K., who was born in Rokitnoye, Ukraine in 1925. He recalls Soviet antisemitism prior to the war; evacuating with his family to Kazakhstan after the German bombing of Kiev in June 1941; his brother's service in the Soviet military (he was killed in 1942); starvation conditions while working on a collective farm; entering the Soviet military at the end of 1942; serving at the front; being wounded in March 1944; a six-month recovery; gradually learning of the destruction of Jews; joining his family in Kazakhstan; their return to Rokitnoye in October 1944; enterin...

  9. Reichsbund jüdischer Frontsoldaten: Correspondence and papers

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.Most of the papers in this collection relate to the activities of the Westdeutscher Landessportverband which was affiliated to the Sportbund im Reichsbund jüdischer Frontsoldaten, consisting of correspondence and circulars, detailing the activities of the organisation, and shedding some light on the relationship with other bodies such as the Zionistische Vereinigung für Deutschland and the Deutscher Makkabikreis

  10. Hauptabteilung Innere Verwaltung der Regierung des Generalgouvernements

    Bestandsbeschreibung Neben einigen Unterlagen über Entschädigungen von Kriegssachschäden und über Räumungsvorbereitungen für das Generalgouvernement im Jahre 1944 enthält der Aktenrest einige bemerkenswerte Vorgänge aus der Abteilung IV (Bevölkerungswesen und Fürsorge) über den Haupthilfeausschuss für das Generalgouvernement samt seinen Polnischen und seinen Ukrainischen Hauptausschuss sowie der Jüdischen Sozialen Selbsthilfe. Hinzu kommen Kopien von Berichten über die politische und wirtschaftliche Lage im Generalgouvernement, die teils von Kreis- bzw. Stadthauptleuten, teils von den Gouve...

  11. Jetse S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jetse S., a Protestant, who was born in the Netherlands in approximately 1926 and raised in Hilversum. He recounts cordial relations with Jews; German invasion in 1940; rationing; his father warning Jewish friends in 1941 not to register; anti-Jewish restrictions; his father serving in a civil defense unit that was a front for the resistance; hiding a Jewish friend in their home for several months; his father obtaining false papers for his friend and arranging a hiding place in Amsterdam; receiving a postcard from him from Westerbork (he did not survive); seeking hidi...

  12. Klagenfurt, Bezirkshauptmannschaft

    • Klagenfurt District Commission

    Der Bestand enthält im wesentlichen Akten und Handschriften des 20. Jahrhunderts bis 1959, Akten zum Schulwesen reichen bis 1997. Die Laufzeit der Protokolle und Register reicht von 1906–1959. Unter den Handschriften befinden sich die Protokolle und Indizes, u.a. auch diverse Personenregister (1933–1939), Strafprotokolle, KFZ-Zulassungen, Schiffsregister (1937–1943), Präsidialprotokoll Gemeinde 1938–1945, aber auch Sonderdisziplinarprotokoll Entnazifizierung (1946ff) und Allgemeine NS-Registrierung (1947–1957) (vgl. StGBl Nr. 18/1945 und BGBl Nr. 25/1947). Unter den Akten finden sich die Ma...

  13. Französische Prozesse in Deutschland

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • ALLPROZ 10
    • German
    • 1946-1955
    • Sammlung 16 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 0,3 laufende Meter

    Bestandsbeschreibung Wie in der britischen, amerikanischen und sowjetischen Besatzungszone Deutschlands nach Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs mußten sich die Verantwortlichen für Verbrechen gegen den Frieden, Kriegsverbrechen und Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit auch in der französischen Besatzungszone vor Militärgerichten verantworten. Diese Aufgabe übernahm am 1. April 1945 das Tribunal Général in Rastatt. In den dreieinhalb Jahren seines Bestehens ermittelte es in mehr als 2.000 Fällen. Insgesamt führte es 235 Prozesse durch. Höchstes Gericht in der französischen Besatzungszone war das Tri...

  14. Mania Birnberg collection about Mary Barys

    Contains photocopies of clippings and other documents relating to the actions of Mary Barys Szul (b. 1928) who was recognized as a Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem in 1982 (Case Number 3233).

  15. Jack R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack R., who was born in Be?dzin, Poland in 1913. In addition to information included in HVT-995, Mr. R. discusses continuing nightmares and health problems resulting from his experiences; the difficulty of conveying the totality of his camp experiences; his lack of belief in basic human goodness; continuing anger toward the German people; and the injustice of their never really having been punished.

  16. Frances Potts papers

    The Frances Potts papers consists of a two page letter with an addressed envelope written by Frances G. Potts (later Frances M. Grubbs Etherington) of the American Red Cross. The letter is addressed to Captain and Mrs. O L. Grubbs, Jr. in Walla Walla, Washington and is written in English and dated May 3, 1945. The letter congratulates the couple on their pregnancy and describes her visits to the Ohrdruf concentration camp and the atrocities committed by the Nazis. The papers also includes a photograph of Frances Potts, a member of the American Red Cross, stationed in Europe in 1944 and 1945.

  17. Selected records from the State Archive of Assisi

    Records concerning the discrimination and persecution of Jews in Italy in the community of Assisi.

  18. Abraham S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham S., who was born in Strîmtura, Romania in 1923, the seventh of ten children in a Hasidic family. He recounts attending cheder and yeshiva; Hungarian occupation in 1940; anti-Jewish restrictions; continuing at yeshiva; deportation to Dragomirești in spring 1944; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from his family; transfer with a cousin to Buchenwald, then Dora; slave labor in tunnels; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; liberation by British troops; hospitalization in Sweden; learning two sisters and a brother had survived; emigration to the United St...

  19. Okresný ľudový súd v Bardejove

    • District People´s Court in Bardejov

    The fonds contains files pertaining the post-WWII prosecution of various crimes including the blackmailing of Jews, participation in deportation of Jews from Bardejov and its vicinity, and the so called Aryanization of Jewish property in Bardejov. Among those who were accused are the former members and dignitaries of local Hlinka Guard in Bardejov and Raslavice. Various files include the testimonies of survivors and important documents.

  20. Nazi Party Chancellery Partei-Kanzlei der NSDAP (NS 6)

    Contains documents pertaining to the activities of the Nazi Party 1933-1945. Topics include general correspondence of the party; mobilization and defense; the Volksturm; Nazi ideology in the armed forces; use of security police and the SD to confront political opposition; the July 20, 1944, attempt on Hitler's life; copies of foreign propaganda; reorganization of the administrative divisions in the Reich; ethnic Germans in other countries; racial policies; statistics on ethnic make-up of European countries; economic data of, and economic relations with various European countries; industrial...