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  1. Soviet Camp for Romani Kids

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 2, No. 104, Part 4. Release date, 12/24/1930. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: News Paragraphs: Moscow, USSR "Establish first junior Soviet!" New Roma community controlled and run by children. A Soviet camp (genuine summer camp) for Roma children. MS, children playing, eating. CU, faces. Little boys, shirtless, running out of cabin with shovels. CU, eating outside at benches/tables from enormous bowls/spoons. Boy washing his cup. CU smiling boy, bashful. Little boy dancing inside circle of seated, clapping. MCU woman with turban in white dress with t...

  2. Licco Haim and friend ski and climb mountains

    AGFA 8 1939. Handwritten title "Winter 1940." Title over with the date 25 February 1940 over a still image of the group with their names. Two men tie skis to the roof of a car. CUs, of women as they walk on a city sidewalk to join the ski trip to the winter resort at Borovets. Good MS of the group skiing on the slopes. 01:03:46 Title with date 21 April 1940, "On the South Side of Black Peak" at Vitosha Mountain. Mountaineering and skiing. 01:07:25 Title with 21 April 1940 date, "Anny and Licco on the Wall", a skiing track on the south side of Black Peak. Zinka, Kiro, Anny, and Licco (the ba...

  3. Copy correspondence from girl re life in Vienna

    They are mirror image typescript mimeographed transcriptions, the majority of which are copy letters from Leni, the 12 year old girl. In addition to the above there is an (apparently unrelated) unidentified mirror image mimeographed manuscript memo re tax allowances.

  4. Selected records of the County Office in Jędrzejów Starostwo Powiatowe Jędrzejowskie (Sygn. 1653)

    Records related to Jewish minorities in Jędrzejów after the World War II (seven Holocaust survivors are listed), war losses, displacements and resettlements of the population during the war, change of names from Jewish to Polish, war crimes, and Jewish property.

  5. Papers of Dr B.Homa

    Papers of Dr Bernard Homa including: (i) Papers relating to the Board of Deputies: constitution, as amended in 1945, together with the constitution as amended April 1949 with the report of the special meeting of the Board. Report of the committee on the constitution and bye-laws, Dec 1948. (ii) Correspondence and papers relating to Jewish marriages, 1935-51 (iii) Papers relating to the Jewish War Services Committee and Jewish Committee for H.M. Forces, 1947 (iv) Assorted correspondence, c.1884-1954, including letters from Rabbi A.A.Werner, 1901 and 1903; a letter from the Chief Rabbi's Reli...

  6. Vichy-French newsreel about destruction caused by Allied bombing campaigns

    A newsreel illustrating the damage and suffering caused by allied bombing raids in France. Title onscreen, superimposed over a statue of a woman: "France Meurtrie" [France ravaged]. The camera pans down from the top of a church to show pallbearers removing coffins from the church while crowds of mourners watch. Women weep as the coffins are loaded onto the back of a truck. The cortege passes a square crowded with mourners. A speaker addresses the crowd. His speech is heard over shots of individuals in the crowd, workmen excavating the still-smoldering ruins of a building, various other shot...

  7. Crowds at "Jewish" market

    Large group of Russians/Ukrainians gathered in front of church, tram filled with people, crowds. Closer shots of the crowd, walking over tram tracks with bundles. MS, men looking at gramophone for sale, flowers, jacket, boots at the "Jewish" market.

  8. Leon Weinberg papers

    The papers consist of an identification card for Fajwel Weinberg [donor's father] issued by the Arbeitsamt-Getto [Ghetto Labor Organization] in Łódź (Litzmannstadt), Poland, as well as two greeting cards for the New Year with photographs of the Weinberg family [Fajwel, Golda Kajla, Malka, Ester Hadasa, and Leon].

  9. Okresní soud Skuteč

    • District Court of Skuteč / NAD 855

    The fonds contains documents of the court administration of the Skuteč district. Jewish affairs can be found in the following documents: estate files marked A, D, IV), index of estates, registers of estates. Also relevant are the files relating to the declarations of death (file M) 1945-1950, guardianship files and registers (files E, P).

  10. Documentation of the Ehemaligen Heersarchiv (former German Army Archive) from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1939-1945

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 10615844
    • English, Hebrew
    • Administrative documentation Circular Diagram Diary Envelope Financial accounts Letter List of soldiers Lists Maps Newspaper Note Official documentation Photograph Postcard Statistical data Survey report Telegram

    Documentation of the Ehemaligen Heersarchiv (former German Army Archive) from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1939-1945 The collection includes various materials from German Army units, mainly of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (Supreme Command of the Armed Forces-OKW) on various matters, including operational reports, matters of leisure, finances, administration, military justice, personnel, supplies and equipment, weapons, uniforms, medals, logs and letters of fighters (many letters that have been preserved in a number of files) and more. Additionally, it contains editions of the journal, "Na...

  11. Darányi Kálmán miniszterelnök iratai

    • Personal Files of Prime Ministers and other governmental officials: Kálmán Darányi

    Kálmán Darányi (1886-1939) was a politician who served as Minister of Agriculture and later as Prime Minister of Hungary (1936-1938), replacing the deceased Gyula Gömbös. In March 1938, the program of Győr, a massive program of military and infrastructural development, was initiated under his premiership. The program was conceived by Béla Imrédy, Minister of Economic Coordination who was to become his immediate successor. At first pursuing balancing acts, Darányi clearly shifted to the right in the latter parts of his premiership. He was to initiate the First Anti-Jewish Law that was eventu...

  12. Papers of the Bayswater Jewish Schools

    Correspondence files: chronological sequence, 1920-38; alphabetical sequence, 1886, 1924 31. Papers on general school matters; staffing and finance; copies of syllabuses, course and examination papers; papers relating to school journeys and to prize distributions; c.1932-81. Appointments of staff, 1929 31, 1941 4. Financial papers for the building fund and building appeal, 1923 30. School laws, ante 1881-1920s.

  13. Selected records of commune Radzików Akta gminy Radzików (Sygn. 85)

    Consists of correspondence, lists of war graves, cemeteries and abandoned property.

  14. Torah fragment found in the ruins of a desecrated synagogue

    Torah fragment found in the ruins of a desecrated synagogue by Charles Braun, circa 1945, in Jaszbereny, Hungary. On March 19, 1944, Germany invaded Hungary and began to deport all Jews to concentration camps. Charles' wife was deported and he was sent to a labor camp. After the war ended in May 1945, Charles returned to Jaszbereny. His wife had been killed in the the gas chambers.

  15. Peter as a baby

    Peter Schur gets a diaper change. He lies on the bed, plays, is held, fed, and generally loved by the family, including mom Helen, nurse, and dad Max.

  16. The Eternal Jew Der ewige Jude [Book]

    Antisemitic propaganda book, Der ewige Jew [The Eternal Jew] created as promotional material for a Nazi regime sponsored exhibition of the same title in November 1937 in Munich, Germany. A postcard canceled December 18, 1937, has the exhibition information.

  17. Nuremberg trial papers

    This collection comprises mostly copy and draft typescript documents pertaining to 'The High Command' case, No. 12 in the Nuremberg Trial Subsequent Proceedings

  18. Rajniss Ferenc iratai, 1923-1945

    • Ferenc Rajniss papers, 1923-1945

    This collection contains papers and records of Ferenc Rajniss (1893-1946) was an influential Hungarian extreme right-wing politician and journalist, editor of the weekly Új Magyarság and Magyar Futár, and a recognized expert on questions of social policy. Rajniss was elected a member of Parliament in 1935 as part of the governing party then under the leadership of Prime Minister Gyula Gömbös, represented the Nemzeti Front (the National Front), a national socialist formation in 1937, was a member of the Magyar Élet Pártja (the Hungarian Life Party) in 1939 to subsequently join Béla Imrédy's ...

  19. War Criminals Hunt

    (LIB 7228-7229) War Criminals Hunt, Norway, June-July 1945. SEQ: US, British, and Nilorg (Norwegian Underground) troops entering German POW camp in the early morning and routing the prisoners from their sleep. The Germans are lined up outside of barracks and informers pass along the lines in an attempt to identify former Gestapo men. MLSs, MSs, German prisoners rush from their barracks in all manner of dress. In many instances the Norwegian troops boot the prisoners to hurry them along. MSs, informers pass along a line of women who had worked for the German government and are presently inte...

  20. Postwar damage in Poland, UNRRA, YMCA

    Building ruins. Polish children walking on street, woman waving from window. "Falstria" ship, truck with bundles passing in FG. Cranes, crates, laborers. CU, "UNRRA" on wooden crates. EXT, building ruins, pan down. Wooden scaffolding. Man working, pedestrians. Boys entering YMCA. CUs shell damage to building. "Polska YMCA" sign. Children climbing on pile of rubble.