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  1. Estonian Youths Recruited for German Army

    Estonian youths receive physical exams, peasants surrender their horses to German army and estonian youths get close order drill instruction. 2:22:49 CU Dr. Mie? National Director of Estonia. Men read posted recruitment notice. CU Men coming through door; pan down to man checking papers against list. Men at table entering names. 2:23:05 Doctor with stethescope checks barechested man. Man pointing to figures on an eye chart. Profile of man holding hand over one eye. Group of volunteers stand together talking. 2:23:14 MLS Cluster of peasants or farmers with their horses in the snow. CU of var...

  2. Kommandeur der Gendarmerie Lublin records (Sygn.104)

    Contains reports, decrees, radiograms, orders, and various other documents relating to resistance activities in the Lublin area; establishment and administration of aerial patrols; police activities; and escapes of and searches for prisoners of war and prisoners of forced labor.

  3. Archival Section of the Administration of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Odessa Region, City of Odessa

    The fond includes forty-three inventories, in which documents are systematized chronologically and, for personal files in op. 11, 39, and 40L, alphabetically. Documents in the fond include (op. 2, 24) correspondence with the Main Archival Administration of the Ukrainian SSR, subsections of the NKVD and Ministry of Internal Affairs, and local organs of executive power on ascertaining and investigating crimes of the German-Romanian invaders in the Odessa region; chronologies of the occupation of population centers in the Odessa region, including information on instances of mass terror perpetr...

  4. Writing Lives Memoir Project collection

    Collection is comprised of records accumulated as a result of the participation of the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre in a project entitled Writing Lives: The Holocaust Survivor Memoir Project. Writing Lives was a partnership between Langara College’s English and History departments, the Azrieli Foundation and the VHEC. For the project, students at Langara College worked closely with Vancouver-based Holocaust survivors to produce their written memoirs over the course of two semesters. In the first semester, students learned the history of the Holocaust. In the second semester, student...

  5. Bequest Margarethe Weber

    Margarethe, also known as Martha, Weber was born in Leverkusen-Wiesdorf on September 11, 1900. She graduated from the Volksschule on March 31, 1914. Starting in 1939, she worked as a commercial clerk for the I.G. Farben Industry at the plant in Leverkusen. The bequest Margarethe Weber covers personal documents of Margarethe and her family — especially of her younger sister Ilse Weber who also worked for the I.G. Farben. The holding covers numerous documents regarding the I.G. Farben since apart from Margarethe and Ilse Weber other family members also worked there. The bequest Margarethe Web...

  6. Hitler visits Latvia in July 1941

    Title with names of cameramen/journalists (some off screen): "Breselow, Burckhardt, Elsigan, Empter, Epkens, Helmut Fischer, Frentz, Frickhoeffer, Geer, Gerhard Haller, Heere, Iffland, Jansen, Jonak, Jung, Kester, Klicks, Langner, Leske, Loesche, Loos, Lusteck, Nischwitz, Noak, Onasch, V. Pebal, Peters, Petrusch, Proszkowski, Pruefer, Ramhorst, Sakeus, Hans Schmid, Schneider, Werner Scholz, Selbach, Selle, Tann, Thomassen, Weil, Wild, Wilke, Zumpe" 01:00:40 Hitler visiting troops in the East at Malnava in Latvia at HQ of Army, Group North on July 21, 1941. He is lands and gets into a car. H...

  7. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 50 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  8. Israel "Sol" Sokolik papers

    The collection consists of handwritten testimony of the wartime experiences of Israel "Sol" Sokolik, who survived the Holocaust in Slonim (Belarus) in the ghetto and as a partisan. The testimony was used at the 1973 trial of Gerhardt Erren and Lothar Schultz for war crimes committed in Slonim. Also included are two doucments in Polish and Russian.

  9. Herbert S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Herbert S., who was born in Hagen, Germany in 1923. He recalls his childhood; the lack of conspicuous antisemitism until 1933; and encounters with antisemitism in gymnasium. He recalls wartime forced labor in a factory; anti-Jewish restrictions; and being exempted from deportation twice before he and his parents went voluntarily to Terezi?n in 1942. He recounts friction between Jews of various nationalities in the camp; his transport to Auschwitz in 1944; and his observations there. He tells of his transfer to Buchenwald later in 1944; his work in a munitions factory ...

  10. Radios privées

    • Private radio stations

    Private radio stations since 1945 Several fonds from various private radio and programme companies acquired by the Ina (Institut National de l’Audiovisuel) or transferred as part of deposits and donations: La Voix de l'Amérique (1947–1975): this fonds includes programmes broadcast by the Parisian station of "La Voix de L' Amérique", a programme company broadcasting from North America. Gaston l'Herbier Fonds: selection of programmes broadcast mainly on Radio Luxembourg / RTL between 1947 and 1980. The fonds was created by radio technician Gaston L'Herbier during his professional career a...

  11. Liberating, providing aid to survivors at Buchenwald

    US Army assisting survivors of Buchenwald and shots of the dead and dying. Ambulance with Red Cross drives through gate into camp compound, past brick building labeled 59, many GIs walking around, can see several other same kind of brick buildings. MCU some kind of entryway past brick wall manned by GIs thru which German civilians are filing into or out of camp. HAS of GI smoking next to wall as civilians pass. MS civilians in line on grounds of camp, a number of GIs pass camera. MCU of corpse covered partially by blanket next to brick wall. CU of head and staring eyes, then back to previou...

  12. Isidor and Liviu Librescu collection

    Collection of documents belonging to Liviu Librescu and his father, Isidor Librescu, relating to their experiences in Romania during the Holocaust.

  13. Background to German invasion of W. Europe

    Reel 1: German troops swear loyalty to Hitler. Shows panormaic views of the countryside, mountains, people harvesting crops, German cities, a cathedral, steel mills and coal mines. Shot of German colonial post and troop reviewing there. German troops advancing in WWI, and Generals Hindenburg and Ludendorff. Maps show powers arrayed against and allied with Germany in WWI, the extent of German advances and the effect of the Versailles Treaty on Germany's borders. Forts are demolished, cannon and hangars destroyed, ships scuttled and planes junked. German communists arouse crowds. Shows commun...

  14. Waffen SS green fez given to a US officer by his soldiers after the liberation of Dachau concentration camp

    Green/field gray fez with a swastika and Death's head given to Byron Lee Schatzley, an officer in the United States Army, in May 1945 by ground troops following the April 29 liberation of Dachau concentration camp in Germany. The green fez was part of the combat uniform of a Waffen-SS military detachment composed of Muslims from Bosnia, Croatia, and Herzegovina in occupied Yugoslavia, with one division from Albania. There was a red fez for the dress uniform. The creation of this unit was authorized by Hitler in 1943. The original purpose was to combat Tito’s partisans. Through recruitment a...

  15. Henry S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry S., who was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1924. He recalls his family's relative affluence; their strong German identity; antisemitic harassment in school; transferring to the Philanthropin, a Jewish school; his family applying to emigrate to the United States in summer 1938; his father's arrest on Kristallnacht and incarceration in Buchenwald; his release five weeks later providing he left the country; his emigration to England; Henry S.'s emigration with his mother and sister to the United States in February 1940 (his father preceded them); assistance ...

  16. Új Kelet [Newspapers] "New East"

    Zionist Jewish newspaper issued weekly (1918-1920), daily (1920-1940; 1948-2000); weekly (2000-2015): published first in Cluj [Kolozsvár], Romania, (1918-1940 and 1948-2015); and rerstablished in Tel Aviv, Israel (1918-1940, 1948, and 2011-2015), The Új Kelet is currently the main Hungarian-language independent newspaper in Israel and is published on a monthly basis.

  17. Selected records of the commune Duraczów Akta gminy Duraczów (Sygn. 524)

    Registers of inhabitants of individual villages, industrial and commercial cards from 1941-1942, name lists and statistics of population from 1939-1943, and documentation regarding Jewish real estate, 1942. Includes the pre-war period records of the spa in Czarnecka Góra, a registration book of spa patients, also correspondence regarding the contribution to the Jewish religious community.

  18. Selected records of the files of the bailiff of District II of the Court of the First Instance in Skierniewice-Czesław Gołębiowski Akta Komornika II Rewiru Sądu Grodzkiego w Skierniewicach-Czesław Gołębiowski (Sygn. 952)

    Protocols and certificates of the bailiff, Czesław Gołębiowski and the court cases of execution of verdicts concerning alimonies, eviction and putting in possession.

  19. Leslie Nichols collection

    Consists of letters, dated August-September 1935, related to the efforts of Leslie Nichols of Cleveland, OH, to assist in the emigration of Dr. Walter Jaffe (who was half Jewish) and his wife, Sylvia Lavalle (who was not Jewish), of Berlin, Germany. Includes instructions on how to proceed, blank visa paperwork, a letter from Leslie Nichols to Judge Maurice Bernon of Cleveland asking for his assistance; and a letter from Leslie Nichols to Sylvia Lavalle informing her of his efforts on her behalf. The couple eventually survived the war in Paris.

  20. Frieda J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frieda J., who was born in Piotrko?w Trybunalski, Poland, in 1937. She relates her early childhood memories of the Nazi entry into her town; hiding in a closet with a false back; and an assembly of people who were about to be deported. She recalls the public hanging of her father in the small town of Lututov; the deportation of her mother and brother to Treblinka; her own return to Pietrokow; and her frequent relocations under the care of several different extended family members. She recounts her experiences in Ravensbru?ck; her transport to Bergen-Belsen with other ...