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Language of Description: German
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  1. Lindemann family and friends

    CU, woman, outdoors on city street (probably during Christmas 1934). She approaches the camera with a man and girl; each with a metal medallion affixed to their jacket lapel. The couple kisses; their daughter kisses her parents. Baby Oda sits on Ethel’s lap shaking a rattle and eating (probably on February 7, 1935). People sled down a hill. Oda bundled in the carriage. Ethel takes her for a stroll through the snow-covered park.

  2. Sección Khurbn un Vidershtand

    Consists of a mixed provenance collection of documentation donated to Fundacion IWO in Buenos Aires, Argentina by survivors starting in the immediate post-war years until the 1970s. Includes documents, photographs, manuscripts and other records.

  3. Agnes B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Agnes B., a Romani, one of nine children. She recalls her brother's deportation from Königsberg (Kaliningrad) in 1938; being sent with her husband and many family members to Hohenbruch; forced labor; a severe beating after attempting to escape; relatives and friends being beaten to death; liberation by Soviet troops; her child's birth; learning her husband had been sterilized after her child was conceived; and moving to Berlin, Schwerin, Celle, and then Munich. Mrs. B. notes she could not endure those conditions again (she would kill herself rather than try to surviv...

  4. Rudolph H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rudolph H., who was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Dr. H. recounts attending a Jewish and a German public school, then medical school; passing his state exams, but being unable to obtain his degree due to antisemitic regulations; obtaining his medical degree in Bern, Switzerland; encountering a friend there who later assassinated a Swiss Nazi leader; working in a German hospital; one sister's emigration to Paris; following her in 1937; emigration to the United States in July 1938; trying to obtain emigration documents for his parents and sister who remained in Fr...

  5. Tony K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Tony K., a professor of history at University of Southampton, who was born in Manchester in 1960. Mr. K. recalls involvement in the anti-racist movement; attending University of Sheffield; interest in the Holocaust resulting from Jewish student politics and faculty mentors; studying in the United States in the early 1980s; his doctoral dissertation at Sheffield on antisemitism in Britain during World War II which resulted in his first book; Bill Williams influencing him in oral history; a one-year position at the Manchester Jewish Museum resulting in rescuing archival...

  6. Letters and personal documents of the Jewish Soviet soldier David Khoraz from the Front

    Contains from the Solomon Golbrikh collection of the Judaica Institute in Kiev letters and personal documents of David Khoraz. During his military service, David Khoraz maintained an active correspondence with his family (parents and siblings) evacuated from Kiev to Central Asia. In his patriotic letters, David Khoraz describes his daily service and activities, including theatrical performances, lectures, news from the front line, etc.

  7. Ena L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ena L., who was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, in 1934. She tells of her life in Belgrade before and during the war and of her flight to northern Italy with her mother, sister, and other relatives. She explains how her family was able to live openly as Jews in a small village near Vittorio Veneto, aided, as were other Jewish refugees, by the Italian government. She describes her life in Amandola where her family fled after Mussolini's fall and where they remained, "passing" as Catholics, for about two years until just before liberation, when they hid in the mountains. ...

  8. Ministry of Interior-Transport cards of Jews Ministerstvo vnútra. Transportné karty Židov

    45,826 registration cards of deported Slovak Jews, 1942. Each card pertains to one deported person. Each card measures 10,5 x 7, 5 cm. The cards are arranged by last name in alphabetical order. Cards contain the following information: surname, first name, year of birth, place of birth, last domicile in Slovakia, date of deportation/transport, place from which the transport departed, number of the transport, and notes.

  9. FDR's death; Nordhausen concentration camp

    (LIB 5407) Roosevelt's Death, London, England, April 13, 1945. CUs, three US soldiers in Grosvenor Square read headlines announcing the death of Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt. MCUs, flags flying at half mast over US Embassy. CUs, US soldiers and British civilians reading papers in Leicester Square. VS, two soldiers look at paper enclosed in glass showing photo of Pres. Roosevelt and VP Harry S. Truman. LS, US and British flags at half-mast on other buildings of city. EXT shots, soldiers and civilians enter and leave Westminster Abbey. (LIB 5568) Concentration Camp, Nordhausen, Germany, April ...

  10. David C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David C., who was drafted into the United States Army in January 1942. He describes entering Buchenwald in April 1945; many corpses; taking pictures; the reactions of Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradley; entering barracks and the crematorium; and crying when he saw human ashes. Mr. C. notes he did not discuss this experience when he returned to the United States, but it left him scarred. He shows pictures he took in Buchenwald, and discusses his volunteer work with a fellow veteren visiting schools to describe entering concentration camps in 1945.

  11. Invading Soviet Villages

    Libau in flames. Nazi officer with (moving) camera. Infantry moving into Schaulen. Lots of soldiers on shiny horseback prancing into town. Civilians hand flowers to soldiers. Soldiers given propaganda newspapers "Die Front" as they go by. Nazi soldier lying on ground. LS sunlight filtering through smoke. German soldiers arresting POWs in wheat field. Sparkly light. A few (Russian) POWs limping towards German soldiers. One is clearly injured, shirtless. Sign: "Jonava." LS rubble, church in BG. INT and EXT of synagogue. The narration indicates that this is the only building left undisturbed b...

  12. Selected records of the Departmental Archives of the Aisne

    Documents from the following prefectures: Préfecture régionale, Préfecture de l'Aisne, Sous-préfecture de Soissons, and Sous-préfecture de Château-Thierry. Contents include: repressive measures against Jews and Jewish companies; name lists of Jews by citizenship; list of Jewish companies; reports of the Prefect; deportations of non-French Jews; lists of Jews who could not be located; German orders and their implementation; secret societies; war crimes and war criminals; German atrocities; police reports; the concentration camp of Rotallieu; application of the October 1940 law; economi...

  13. Nazi soldiers; rally; Hitler Youth; military parade

    Soldiers march over a bridge. Farm scenes. Soldiers regulate crowds. Nazi rally. CUs of Hitler Youth eating, uniforms. Fighter planes fly in the sky and tanks drive through the stadium. Nuremberg is decorated for a parade. Nazi soldiers parade through town.

  14. Peter A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Peter A., who was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1931. He recalls his father's prewar death; attending synagogue with his grandfather; expulsion from public school; attending the Philanthropin Jewish school; witnessing stormtrooper parades; his mother's reluctance to leave Germany because of the family business; being chased by Hitler Youth on Kristallnacht; and his mother selling the family business for one German mark after swastikas were painted on the windows. Mr. A. recounts difficulties obtaining visas for emigration; his brother joining relatives in England in A...

  15. Zentralarbeitsgemeinschaft der industriellen und gewerblichen Arbeitgeber und Arbeitnehmer Deutschlands

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Im November 1918 in Berlin gegründete freie Organisation der Spitzenverbände von Arbeitgebern und Arbeitnehmern, um gemeinsame Fragen zu beraten, den Aufbau der Wirtschaft durch Selbsthilfe und Selbstverwaltung zu fördern und die Demobilmachung durchzuführen. Interessengegensätze führten schon früh zu Austritten einzelner Verbände; bei Streiks versagte die Organisation. 1924 schließlich verblieben nur noch die christlichen Gewerkschaften in der Zentralarbeitsgemeinschaft, die praktisch bedeutungslos war. Als Präsentationskörperschaft für die Ernennung von Tei...

  16. Uri Hirschmann papers

    The Uri Hirschmann papers include a photo album, travel pass, and Palestinian naturalization certificate documenting Hirschmann’s family in Frankfurt am Main before the war and his relocation to Palestine. Photographs depict Hirschmann’s family, their home, bar mitzvah and Purim celebrations, and Hirschmann at a Hachschara camp in Germany, and a Youth Aliyah camp and a kibbutz in Palestine.

  17. March of Time -- outtakes -- Petain trial

    Exterior shots of the Palace of Justice, where the trial of Marshal Henri Phillipe Petain is taking place. Several shots of a police van arriving at the palace while French police watch. A policeman patrols the roof of the palace of justice; interior and exterior shots of Petain's barred windows. Judge Mongibeaux speaks with another man outside the palace. Spectators show their credentials to the police at the gate. Interior shots of the building; a man holds a movie camera. Lawyers or judges in robes enter; Petain watches as Attorney General Morney walks past him (we see Petain entering th...

  18. Aftermath of Reichstag Fire

    Day after Reichstag fire. Title: "Das Fanal der Schande. Kommunistische Brandstifter legten im deutschen Reichstagsgebaeude etwa fuenfzig Brandherde an. Die gesamte Berliner Feuerwehr war eingesetzt, sie rettete das Gebaeude in merhstuendiger aufopfernder Arbeit: Der Plenarsitzungssaal ist vernichtet, das Reichstagsgebaeude ist auf Monate unbenutzbar." Night photographs of the Reichstag dome with fire. Title: "Das Bild der Verwuestung am naechsten Morgen" Fire-brigade. Remainders of small fire. Panes of glass in rooftop are shattered. CU of rooms. Detailed photographs of the burned-out plen...

  19. Nazi propaganda decorations in Vienna

    March (or early April) 1938. A column with a swastika is being raised. A tramway announcement for Hitler's speech at the Nordwestbahnhalle on April 9. A ruined building. A truck bearing the sign "HJ ZUG Ein Fuehrer - ein Reich - eine Jugend" [Hitler Youth Train One Leader - One Empire - One Youth]. Opera house being decorated. 01:01:38 Museumsstrasse (the square in between the state museums). Shopping window with a Hitler portrait, filmmaker's reflection is partly visible. SS men, informal posture, probably waiting for parade to commence (very likely March 14 or 15), on Schwarzenbergplatz i...

  20. Resort in mountains; Family poses

    Pan of a spa town in the mountains, cafes. Views of the mountains and a stream. The village is likely Bad Gastein in Austria. 02:17 Views of a busy street. More views of the mountains and the town. A group of well-dressed people pose for the camera outside a building, one smokes a cigar. 03:36 An assembly of people in the street, likely Budapest, Gellért tér (square) 4:00 Two men sit at a table smoking on board a ship, a man in uniform (perhaps the captain) climbs the stairs and waves to the camera.) Views of the deck of the ship, people walk towards the camera. 4:46 Three young girls exit ...