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Language of Description: English
Country: United States

  1. Andrej K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Andrej K., who was born in Botoșani, Romania in 1922, the oldest of three children. He recounts growing up in Iași; cordial relations with non-Jews; completing high school; being taken with his father and brother in a round-up; being beaten and shot; deportation in cattle cars; being told he was removed from the train in Roman, and a non-Jewish woman (she was recognized by Yad Vashem) and the Jewish community in Călărași caring for him (he does not remember this); returning to Iași; living in his family home with their former maid; working for the Jewish communi...

  2. Family vacations at the beach in prewar Austria

    Summer scenes near the lake on a beach (the same vacation resort in Gmunden, Austria?). A teenage girl swings, older men swim, a motorboat passes by, a woman (their mother?) does gymnastics, and the children Eva and Peter play in the sand with a ball, beach chairs, and fishing rods.

  3. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Katarina B., a Catholic Romani, who was born in Kúty, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1928. She recalls a teacher who encouraged Romani children to attend school; learning to read; formation of the Slovak Republic resulting in persecution of Romanies and Jews, particularly by Hlinka guards and the police; hearing of the deportation of the three Jewish families from her village; frequent beatings and extreme poverty; hiding in the forest and with her future husband in Brodské; liberation by Soviet troops; former Hlinka guards receiving no punishment and living...

  4. My story

    Contains information about the life of Rosa Taubman Budick in Poland before the Holocaust, the antisemitism she experienced from Poles, the ghetto in Kraków, Poland, her experiences while working for the SS in a prison, the Jewish police in the Kraków ghetto, living under an assumed identity, and liberation by the Red Army. Also included is a photograph of Taubman family members in Kraków circa 1940 and a brief biography of Rosa T. Budick written by the Ruth Taubman Glosser [donor].

  5. Selected records of the City Pruszków Akta miasta Pruszkowa (Sygn. 87)

    This collection includes register books of identification cards issued in 1936, and a register of deaths in 1939 and 1940; files of properties in Pruszków, 1941-1944, and a book of the permanent inhabitants of Pruszków, 1837-1927.

  6. Cornelia S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Cornelia S., who was born in Gyo?nk, Hungary in 1915. The information in this testimony is included in Cornelia S., HVT-1949. She also discusses sharing her experiences with her children. Mrs. S. shows photographs which she was able to save throughout her camp experience.

  7. Foreign Press Conference; power of propaganda

    "April 1933, The Foreign Press Conference." Goebbels and Hitler speak. LS, hall where conference is held. MCU, Hitler. MCU of Goebbels behind a podium, indoors speaking about the Nazis coming to power as a revolution, to save Germany from economic troubles. He sounds calm, reading a speech from notes. Hitler at same podium, speaking seriously, in measured tones - re Nazi party coming to power. MLS crowd in FG, murals on wall behind. CU of Hitler.

  8. Selected records from the State Archives of the Novgorod Region, Russian Federation

    Contains selected records relating to German occupation in the Novgorod region from August 1941 to January 1944. Includes records relating to the extermination of Jews, Roma, Soviet civilians, and prisoners of war; records of evacuation, and lists of population. Also contains pre-war records on liquidation of synagogues and their transformation into medical facilities.

  9. Winnie S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Winnie S., a non-Jew, who was born in the Netherlands in 1925. She recalls the German invasion; animosity toward women who dated German soldiers; confiscation of Jewish stores; round-ups of Jews, who were deported, and of Dutch men for forced labor in Germany; participating in resistance activities with her fiance; giving her identity papers to a Jewish girl, then obtaining new ones for herself; her job in city hall which provided the opportunity to take blank documents, which her fiance provided to the underground, and to remove files so people "no longer existed;" a...

  10. First free vote in Berlin; salvaging remains from the Cap Arcona; mushrooms; furniture donation to needy Germans

    Welt im Film. Issue no. 75 Title: Der Wahltag in Berlin [Voting day in Berlin]. People pass out election literature in the run-up to the first free vote in Germany in 14 years. Election posters and signs (Wahlpropaganda) for the SPD and the SED on buildings, including on the Reich Chancellery. Sign reading: You are Leaving the American Sector. People stand in line to vote and inside a polling place. The vote is observed by Allied military representatives. Voting in a hospital. Shots of the candidates voting. The ballots are counted and the results displayed on a large board. 02:27:52 Title:...

  11. Charles Rojer photographs

    Consists of pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs from the collection of Charles Rojer, including family photographs and photographs taken at post-war orphanages, including at the Home de La-Bas in Perwez, Brabant, Belgium. Also includes a card written by Rojer's sister, Cecile Rojer Jeruchim, which refers to their wartime separation.

  12. Selected records of the Amtsgericht Schroettersburg Sąd Obwodowy w Płocku (Sygn. 651) : Wybrane materialy

    Criminal cases against Poles and Jews for theft, smuggling, fencing, illegal trade of meat, bread, and helping Jews. The accused were sentenced to very severe punishments: death penalty, concentration camp, a prison camp, and a fine. Most of the convicts did not survive.

  13. Hans and Ethel get married in Philadelphia, 1929

    Open outdoor area. Car with license plate “D617” pulls up and parks. Hans Wolfgang Lindemann and Ethe McGloclin smile and kiss. CUs, Ethel sitting on a concrete planter with bare trees behind her. She smiles as her beau joins. They kiss again. In Philadelphia city, “RITTENHOUSE,” the couple wed in 1929. The newlyweds consult with their wedding party - men have flowers on their suit jacket lapels, and women hold bouquets and wear cloche hats. They meet with the priest, everyone shakes hands, the women joyously throw rice. The couple is getting married. They kiss once again. More hand-shaking...

  14. Irene W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irene S., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1921. She recounts her parents' divorce; attending public school; her close relationship with her grandparents; anti-Jewish restrictions, including expulsion from school; attending a Jewish school; her father's emigration to the Netherlands; his marriage to a non-Jew; attending boarding schools in Belgium and the Netherlands; realizing they had to leave after Kristallnacht; obtaining papers for the United States with assistance from a stranger in Boston who shared their last name; emigration via the Netherlands in July 1939...

  15. Charles S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Charles S., who was born in 1917 and served in the military police of the British army during World War II. He recounts the Normandy landing, moving through Belgium and Holland, and entering Germany; volunteering to enter Bergen-Belsen; observing thousands of bodies and prisoners wandering aimlessly; assisting to organize burial of the dead, whose decomposing bodies could be smelled over a mile away; compelling local Germans to assist; convincing survivors he was Jewish by speaking Yiddish with them; moving everyone to a nearby tank training facility; burning the conc...

  16. Selected Records of the County Starosty in Stopnica Starostwo Powiatowe w Stopnicy (Sygn. 735)

    Files concerning the looting of the property of Żabiec-Muchówka owned by Fiszel Abramowicz, and files relating to Jewish associations and election to the Senate, 1927-1938.

  17. Records relating to crimes against Serbs, Jews, and other Yugoslav peoples during World War II

    Contains information concerning the persecution of Serbs and Yugoslav Jews, atrocities committed by the Ustaša (Ustashi), the forced resettlement of Yugoslavs, and the killing of Orthodox priests.

  18. Bodnar family collection

    Collection of documents, correspondence, and photographs which document the experiences of the Bodnar family of Vienna, Austria, who fled through Switzerland, Italy, and France before arriving in the United States. Includes a recording made by Fani Bodnar (Jacque's mother), and a visa signed by Hiram Bingham IV allowing Jacques to travel to the United States.

  19. Persecution of Jews 1933-1945

    Pre-title sequence: Bookburning in Berlin, Joseph Goebbels speaking. 09:02:58 View of bodies stacked with wood for burning, and Heinrich Heine quote. 09:03:11 Film title: DER GELBE STERN: Ein Film ueber die Judenverfolgung 1933 - 1945. Events of January 30, 1933, when Adolf Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany. NSDAP (Nazi Party) organization, new members, SA marching in streets. S.A. Heim [Sturmabteilung headquarters] 09:05:09 Joseph Goebbels speaks at Sportpalast in Berlin, against the lying Jewish press etc. This preceded Hitler's first speech as Chancellor, February 10. 09:05:53 Still ...

  20. Zyna K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zyna K., the youngest of seven children. She recalls the emigrations of three siblings; her mother's death in 1939, before the war; Soviet occupation; German invasion in 1941; a futile attempt to flee to the Soviet Union; ghettoization; mass killings and burials; and liquidation of the ghetto. Mrs. K. recounts transport to Ri?ga; working in an ammunition factory; transfer after six months by ship with her sister to Stutthof; learning of her father's death; forced labor in Torun?; a death march in 1944; and liberation. She tells of being cared for by a Jewish family in...