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  1. Anschel and Fela Warschau papers

    Photocopied documents related to the experiences of the Warschau family at the Feldafing DP camp from 1949-1950, including the birth certificate (original) of daughter Martl, 1949.

  2. Removal to Krakow Ghetto

    Jews moving into the Krakow ghetto in winter. Carts/wagons piled with belongings. Jewish people with Star of David armbands, carrying belongings. Tram passes in BG. Busy street scenes. Men, women, and children walking across a bridge, moving into the Krakow ghetto. Bicycles, street activity. A man takes a photograph. Moving furniture, CUs, some Jews pose for the camera, snowy streets. Young girls walk in a line with chairs above their heads. More street views of people with belongings and moving about in the streets of the ghetto, furniture/paintings, trucks, the bridge, people walking, and...

  3. Goering interrogated by Soviet prosecutor, Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 68) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, March 21-22, 1946. Courtroom scene before session begins. (Rebecca West? talking to man, left of screen) Gen. Rudenko, Chief Russian prosecutor, cross-examines Goering on the authenticity of certain documents. 01:47:46 Goering says clearly, and with disdain, in response to Rudenko's question: "Jawohl. Dafuer war er der Fuehrer." [Of course. That's why he was the Fuehrer.] 01:48:20 Very good character CU, reply by Goering - methodical, slow, clear, "Das war versheiden..." 01:50 He makes reference to Bodenschatz. Goering is asked if he subscr...

  4. Jewish Philanthropic Association : Membership Card Index Asociación Filantropica Israelita : Indice

    Contains membership card index of the Asociación Filantrópica Israelita (AFI), with approximately 20,000 names of Jewish refugees, mostly from Nazi Germany (including Nazi annexed Austria), who emigrated to Argentina between the years 1933 to 1939. Also includes the names and biographical data of a few Jewish refugees from Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Latvia, Poland, Romania, and other countries in Europe. The card index was periodically updated through the 1970s.

  5. Josef Mueller: war crimes trial copy papers

    This collection of material came about as a result of research into the events that took place in Plaszow concentration camp, in particular the crimes and testimony of Josef Mueller, one of the former commandants. The papers consist of the trial judgement, a transcript of his interrogation and various statements in the case against Mueller. There are also numerous statements from Mueller, acting as a witness in the trials of other defendants. Also included is correspondence between the depositor and the Wiener Library.

  6. Corpse; children begging; roundup/beating (Aktion?)

    Bodies in street. Man walks along pavement, begging. Two men struggle to put body into wooden casket, then place casket onto cart with black box. Two girls huddled in the street, crying or begging. 14:37:37 Jewish police beating and driving people through streets; people running. Mix of men, women, children. (related to single shot in Story 2546 b)

  7. Farming and schoolyard in central Poland

    In the fields of central Poland, CU of woman harvesting crops. Then a quick succession of shots seen earlier: two girls in traditional folk dress who do not want to be photographed without their mother, girls playing dodge ball in the school yard.

  8. Portfolio

    Portfolio of prints of drawings by Violette Rougier-Lecoq depicting life in Ravensbrück concentration camp.

  9. Dr. Gilbert R. DiLoreto collection

    Zamecnik report: Three page testimony written by Stanislav Zamecnik and translated into English, probably in April-May 1945 on site of the liberated Dachau concentration camp. Mr. Zamecnik described the practices of the infirmary in the camp which included "medical" experiments and other tortures. Signal Corps photographs: annotated by Gilbert R. DiLoreto, who served as surgical technician in the Medical Corps of the 116th Evacuation Hospital. He was part of the first medical team to enter the Dachau concentration camp after liberation on April 29, 1945. He was discharged from the Army in 1...

  10. Rene?e G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rene?e G., who was born in ?osice, Poland, in 1932. She describes the German occupation of ?osice, its ghettoization, and the liquidation of the ghetto; her arrest along with her older brother; and their transfer to the "small ghetto", where she worked as a forced laborer. She also describes her escape from the ghetto with the assistance of a non-Jewish friend of her father; and life in hiding, first in the home of the Polish policeman who had arrested her and her brother, and later in the barn of a Polish farm family. Here, she and her family hid in a pit under a man...

  11. Mountain views and street scenes in Zakopane

    Pan of a landscape-fog rising above the mountains; snow is visible on the mountains. Shot from a plane, or some sort of funicular down to the valley below. Quick cut to peasant women walking along the street in full traditional dress.

  12. Maison de la Miséricorde orphanage, Heverlee. Collection

    Digitised postcards of indoor and outdoor spaces at the House of Mercy (Maison de la Miséricorde/Huis der Barmhartigheid), an orphanage in Heverlee, where over 70 Jewish children were hidden by catholic nuns during the Second World War.

  13. Oral history interview wtih Adam Leczycki

  14. Hitler Youth; dog parade

    “HITLERJUGEND” Hitler Youth march in uniform down the street, the boys at the front play instruments followed by those carrying German and Nazi flags. Women at the end also carry flags. “DOG PARADE” Marching band. Officers with dogs, many are German shepherds. Horse-drawn float with a sign that reads, “Dachshunde.” The float is covered with pine trees, and (what looks like) a toy dachshund. Men and women follow, many walking dachshunds. Car with a Nazi flag draped across the front. Boy with “Foxterriers” sign, followed by folks walking fox-terriers. Procession of “Erdhunde” dogs and their o...

  15. Колекція листівок, закликів та оголошень німецьких установ періоду окупації.

    • Collection of leaflets, appeals, and announcements of the German institutions of the occupation period.
    • Kolektsiia lystivok, zaklykiv ta oholoshen nimetskykh ustanov peroidu okupatsii

    These leaflets, appeals, and announcements were produced by various branches of the military and civil German authorities in the city of Chernihiv and surrounding areas, as well as by local municipalities and rural area administrative bodies. Some of the items in the collection can relate to the Holocaust. File 1. Orders, decrees and instructions of the Chernihiv district board, 20 pages. File 2. Orders, decrees and announcements of the joint-district board and district board of Chernihiv, 15 pages. File 4. Orders of Chernihiv city board, 56 pages. File 5. Announcements of Chernihiv city bo...

  16. Raphael Aronson photograph collection

    The collection consists of a collection of 22 photographs which Raphael Aronson found in an apartment in Linz, Austria, in 1946. The photographs depict Jews in the ghettos in Łod́ź and Warsaw, Poland, as well as pre-World War II photographs of antisemitic graffiti on Jewish establishments.

  17. Lists of prisoners in the Miranda de Ebro Camp

    The collection contains lists of prisoners in the Miranda de Ebro Camp; 1940-1947 Miranda was the central camp in Spain for foreign prisoners. This camp was used for several kinds of prisoners. The three main categories were: international brigadiers (captured during the Civil War); male prisoners who illegally crossed the border (women were not held in military camps, but provincial prisons); and German military personnel and German collaborators interned in the so-called Campo Aleman. Some of the inmates were Jews. The photocopied lists include the name plus nationality of inmates. The el...

  18. ENSV Riikliku Julgeoleku Komitee lõpetamata uurimistoimikute kollektsioon

    • Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic KGB Archive, Collection of files of incomplete investigations
    • Коллекция следственных дел
    • Rahvusarchiiv
    • ERAF.129SM
    • English
    • 1932-1990
    • 13,422 Records, original paper documents, partly digitalized.

    This archive fond includes mostly cases of political repressions of Soviet regime (1940-1941 and after 1944). It contains also as smaller part the interrogation materials of the former guards and officials of the Concentration Camps, police officers and military among Estonian residents, who participated or was accused in participating during the Second World War in Nazi crimes. The basic languages of documents are Russian and Estonian; only a limited number of documents are in German (copied documents from German occupation period) or other languages.

  19. Paternity suit; genetic testing

    Dramatized propaganda film with actors explaining a paternity suit and genetic testing. Reel 1: Titles, credits. Nurse with baby in nursery, various scenes. Toilet training. In doctor's office. Doctor reading papers, calls nurse. Concerning Frau Weber, four years ago she thought her baby was switched with another. Now I've heard from her lawyer. Nurse: "that's crazy!" "Crazy or not..." Court case in Munich: Weber vs. Brugger. 01:09:37 Family enters room, with little boy. Blood test, from mother's ear, boy's ear, father's ear. Measuring mother's head, boy's, father's. Doctor calls out result...

  20. Donald G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Donald G., who was drafted into the United States Army in 1942. He tells of his training in Georgia and Scotland, then his position as a military policeman in Aachen, Germany; entering the Dora concentration camp in Nordhausen; lack of knowledge of what they were going to see; orders to separate the living from the dead; the terribly undernourished and overworked prisoners; the overwhelming stench (a memory which always returns when he remembers this time); taking pictures; not being able to talk about what he witnessed after his return to the United States; and his l...