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Language of Description: English
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  1. Sally F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sally F., who was born in a small, Polish town in 1921. She recalls that her family moved to ?o?dz? when she was nine months old; German invasion; ghettoization; her father's death of dysentery and starvation in 1942; deportation with her mother to Auschwitz in 1944; her mother's later selection; transfer six weeks later to a camp in Czechoslovakia; abusive treatment by SS women; pervasive hunger; one SS supervisor assisting the prisoners in avoiding return to Auschwitz; a French prisoner sharing food with her; and liberation by Soviet troops in May 1945. Mrs. F. desc...

  2. Romanian oil fields; Roma/Sinti in the area

    Consists mostly of views of social and economic conditions in Italy, Hungary, and Rumania. With English intertitles. Part 3 shows activities at the Romanian oil fields at Ploesti and Moreni. Vendors of drinks/fruit: MS of men and women seated on slabs with posts all about them. Next to them are baskets of fruit and pails. Wagon with log on it passes in front of them. MCU of same group as woman walks by with basket. MS, 2 men with pole that has basket at each end are selling to a third man. One man has pole on shoulder, other has pole on ground. Man buying fruit having his bag weighed. 11:44...

  3. BDM; woodshop

    Sequence of four trims: 01:14:40 BDM girls running. 01:14:52 Woodshop. 01:14:55 BDM girls. 01:14:56 Woodshop.

  5. Danzig and Warsaw city scenes

    There are burn-in time codes on the intermediate Betacam SP (Protection) video. There is no way to order a clean copy. City scenes, traffic, pedestrians, shop fronts, kiosks with posters, gliders, horse-drawn wagons. LS town square. Pan, building. VS, MCUs, pedestrians. CU, signs in Polish. Policeman directing automobile traffic. Buses, bicycles, peddlers. Rain. People at storefront. Policemen conversing.

  6. Gabriel Chaim Zvi Pappenheim papers

    The Gabriel Chaim Zvi Pappenheim papers include correspondence, forms, name lists of immigration candidates, and notes documenting Pappenheim’s work with Agudat Israel to obtain immigration permits to Palestine for the Jews in Europe during the Holocaust. Correspondence includes letters from Jacob Griffel (representative of the Rescue Committee in Turkey) and Julius Steinfeld (representative of the Rescue Committee of the Association of Rabbis in the United States) among others and document efforts undertaken in Jerusalem, Istanbul, Ankara, New York, and Switzerland. Forms consist of Jewish...

  7. March of Time -- outtakes -- Allied liberation of France; Eisenhower and Bradley aboard ship

    American infantrymen in France. Soldiers sheltering in an overgrown field, then speaking to French civilians, including two children. A goup of American soldiers holding a German flag and smiling at the camera. Destroyed houses. A British warship at sea. Generals Dwight Eisenhower and Bernard Montgomery are aboard the ship. Montgomery is assisted down a ladder. Eisenhower and Bradley stand together facing the camera. This may be footage taken aboard the HMS Apollo on the way to Normandy. American soldiers question German POWs in France. Wide shot of a large group of Canadian (or British?) s...

  8. Records of Hungarian Finance Minister Reményi-Schneller (MOL K 280)

    Contains files of the Hungarian Finance Minister Reményi-Schneller, most of the documents are semi-official: letters requesting patronage, jobs, benefits, tax write-off , etc.; the letter from John Sebastian, 1939, proposing to collect and publish regulations and restrictions for Jews; newspaper clippings; miscellaneous records on the "Jewish questions."

  9. March of Time -- outtakes -- Benes of Czechoslovakia; Raczkiewicz and Sikorski of Poland; ceremony at Paris synagogue

    War preparations in Paris. Sandbag fortifications around the Arc de Triomphe and the Tomb of the Unkown Soldier. Edvard Benes, exiled president of Czechoslovakia, is received by Czechs living in Paris. The dope sheet states that the meeting took place at the same house on the Rue Bonaparte where Benes and Tomas Masaryk founded the Czech Republic after World War I. A group of men rises and claps as Benes enters in the company of Stefan Osusky, the Czech ambassador. A man identified as Stransky welcomes Benes. Benes speaks. Scenes inside the Polish embassy showing Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, the P...

  10. Johannes S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Johannes S., a non-Jew who was born in 's-Gravenzande, Netherlands in 1923. He describes growing up in a predominantly Protestant town with little awareness of the situation of European Jewry; the influx of Jewish refugees to the Netherlands following Crystal Night; the relief efforts organized by his school; the outbreak of war, bombing, and the German victory over the Netherlands in four days; and the German occupation with its anti-Jewish decrees. He recalls acts of active and passive resistance; hiding on a farm in Deurningen to avoid conscription into the army; t...

  11. Selected records of the Cooperative Credit Bank Ltd. in Kielce Bank Kredytowo-Spółdzielczy z o.o. w Kielcach (Sygn. 1547)

    Selected records of the Jewish Cooperative Credit Bank Ltd. in Kielce: minutes of sessions of members of the Supervisory Board, membership declarations, books of register, shares and funds.

  12. Israel Barzilai personal archives (RG-95-15), ישראל ברזילי

    Personal archives of Israel Barzilai (1913-1970) contains letters, personal documents, reports on his mission in France during WWII, council's meetings, lectures, speeches, records related to Israeli government and Knesset elections, papers on operation "Sinai" and afterwards.

  13. Warsaw park and schoolboys

    EXT, LS, in a park in Warsaw. Man in Polish uniform or police walks along the street with a woman in contemporary dress. Woman with a young child and carriage. CU, a group of small boys walk along the street wearing caps with a shiny insignia and the number "21" on them. Some smile, others look at the camera as they pass through the frame.

  15. Germans make their way into Poland; horse-drawn vehicles; General congratulates troops

    Part 3 (Reel 2): Animated map shows battle positions of German Army as it goes deeper into heart of Poland. Hitler stands at side of road as German soldiers march past in their advance into Poland. Hitler examines map of advance. Troops on horse-drawn wagons advance into city. Smoke from burning buildings lies heavy along street as infantrymen make their way forward. Pan, destroyed area as fires rage within dwellings. VS, German troops move forward on horse-drawn vehicles. Soldiers and horses rest along roadway and field. Men clean their equipment and perform personal chores before moving f...

  16. Chaim E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chaim E., who was born in Brudzew, a small town in Poland near the German border in 1916 and moved to ?o?dz? at the age of five. He describes antisemitism in the Polish army; his capture as a POW by the Germans; his release and return home; and his transport, with his father and stepmother, to Sobibo?r in 1942. He recounts conditions and treatment in the camp; his work sorting the possessions of the inmates, which gave him the opportunity for sabotage; and his involvement in the uprising of Sobibo?r, which allowed him to escape with his future wife Selma into the near...

  17. The Peoples' Court in Linz (court cases with a verdict and court cases without a verdict) Volksgericht Linz (Verfahren mit Urteil and Verfahren ohne Urteil)

    Contains 322 post-war trials of defendants accused of Nazi war crimes. The trials took place in the Volksgericht Linz (People's Court in Linz), Austria from 1946 to 1955. These cases mostly relate to Jewish victims. Includes cases from Salzburg over which the Volksgericht Linz also had jurisdiction.

  18. Letter written from Gurs concentration camp

    Consists of a letter from Arthur Adler, who lived in Karlsruhe, Germany prior to the Holocaust, composed in the Gurs internment camp prior to his murder at Auschwitz in 1942. The letter, dated 15 November 1940, was likely sent to his cousin, Justin Adler, who immigrated to the United States in 1938. Also included is an envelope for a letter addressed to Arthur from the United States that could not be delivered because he had already been deported.

  19. Libby F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Libby F., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1934 to Polish parents. She recounts being born a triplet (the other two did not return from the hospital with her and their fates are unknown); her family's orthodoxy and poverty; attending a Jewish school; anti-Jewish restrictions; obtaining papers for emigration from an uncle in the United States; Kristallnacht; her father's deportation to Dachau; her mother forging papers to secure his release; her father's emigration; moving into an uncle's house with her mother and brother; and their emigration to the United States. M...

  20. Igo Krischer papers

    The collection contains correspondence, certificates, booklets, flyers, and photographs, related to the musical career of Igo Krischer (1906-1993), a Polish jazz drummer, singer, and composer, and to his activities during World War II, which he spent in exile in Iran and Palestine. Included is correspondence from his family who remained in occupied Poland; photographs of family, friends, and bandmates, from approximately the 1930s and 1940s, as well as later images of Krischer; identification documents used by Krischer, ranging from his birth certificate to his union membership card; and pr...