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Language of Description: French

  1. War Crimes Trials: Malmedy; Welt im Film: trade unions & children learning English

    05:01:12 (Munich 167) Malmedy War Crimes Trials, Dachau, Germany, May 24, 1946. MS, defense counselor talks to the court about the "Bill of Particulars." VS, prosecutor quotes in part Hitler's order to his commanders to disregard Geneva rules as to the treatment of Allied prisoners in the coming "Battle of the Bulge." He goes on to tell how the "German soldiers sang the Sword and Blood song thus releasing them from any regulation as to the treatment of prisoners." 05:05:36 (M-2139) Welt im Film, "Hamburg: Gewerkschaften im Aufbau" [Trade Unions in Hamburg, Germany], July 1946. At outdoor ce...

  2. Comité pour la défense des droits des Israélites en Europe centrale et orientale

    Le Comité pour la défense des Droits des Israélites en Europe centrale et orientale a été créé en juin 1933. Il « a pour but la défense des personnes de religion ou d’origine israélite partout où elles se trouvent atteintes ou menacées dans la jouissance de la plénitude de leurs droits civiques et politiques, ou dans le libre exercice de toute profession légale ». Il agit afin de consolider les rapports politiques, spirituels et économiques entre la France et ses alliés en Europe orientale. Ce comité effectuait des démarches auprès des ministères en vue d’obtenir des droits de séjour, des d...

  3. George Blau collection

    The collection includes Blau's certificate of discharge from Les Milles (dated 18 September 1939); a photograph of Blau taken at an unknown time; a letter from the police of Marseille vouching to Blau's good conduct; a document from the consulate general of Siam granting Blau permission to emigrate to Siam (dated 28 Sep 1940); a document from a Dr. Monteux that stated Blau was medically ineligible for military service; and documents granting Blau permission to emigrate to the Dominican Republic if the United States did not allow him to enter (dated 30 May 1941). The collection also includes...

  4. Reva F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Reva F., who was born in Iwye, Poland (presently Iu?e, Belarus) in 1937. She vaguely recalls German occupation; seeing dead bodies; Germans beating people; escaping with her mother; being hidden alone with a man in a nearby village; her mother coming for her; hiding with her mother in the attic of a non-Jewish woman who shared her food with them; hiding in a forest with her aunt and cousin; the war's end; returning to Iwye; her mother's remarriage; traveling to a displaced persons camp in Ladispoli, Italy; her sister's birth; and emigrating to the United States to joi...

  5. Collection of Kapitän Michael Sommer en Fa. Union, for the purchase of raw materials for the Wehrmacht in the black market in the Netherlands, 1942-1922

    Collection of Kapitän Michael Sommer en Fa. Union, for the purchase of raw materials for the Wehrmacht in the black market in the Netherlands, 1942-1922 Two companies purchased goods by command of Oberst Veltjens, Goering's representative in the Netherlands, 1942-1944; Kapitän Michael Sommer served as the person responsible for the purchase of raw materials for the Wehrmacht in the black market in the Netherlands, which was carried out in the context of the Vierjahresplan of the Blau-Aktion (black market); Included in the collection: Correspondence between Kapitän Michael Sommer and various...

  6. Selected records of the Amtsgericht Mielau Sąd Obwodowy w Mławie (Sygn. 646) : Wybrane materialy

    A criminal case of Poles and Jews accused of illegal trade. They were sentenced to fines and prison.

  7. Unger family bids farewell to relatives in Polish village

    Grainy footage of the Polish Ungers standing by the sitting American Ungers. The little Unger cousins peer at the camera and roam about. Camera pans over the forest in the BG and lumber in the FG. 01:25:47 Monument in the middle of the village of Niebylec. The local constable walks by the camera. A man carrying a sack walks by with a cow; it is Market Day. Kalman Unger walks up a hill towards the camera. Livestock among the townspeople. A woman sells bread out of her wagon. Morris sits among children. A woman stands on the balcony rocking a baby. The Ungers prepare to leave and drive to Cra...

  8. Nuremberg IMT

    2009 restoration by Schulberg Productions with English subtitles. The film "Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today" is the official documentary of the International Military Tribunal held in Nuremberg from November 21, 1945 to October 1, 1946. It is set in the Nuremberg courtroom and recreates the case against the Nazi high command using German documents, photographs, and moving pictures. The film was completed by Stuart Schulberg and his editor, Joseph Zigman, in the spring of 1948, and premiered in Stuttgart in November of that year. For political reasons the film was subsequently suppressed by ...

  9. Selected records related to history of the Jewish community of Luts'k and Sedlishche (Male Siedliszcze)

    Various correspondence, statistics, reports and registers relating to Jewish communities in Luts'k and Male Siedliszcze (Ukraine), included are records of Jewish schools and hospitals, and general administrative records of community affairs.

  10. Joan L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joan L., who was born in Lu?beck, Germany in 1920. She recalls her family moving to Berlin in 1926; increasing anti-Jewish restrictions and activities from 1934 onward; expulsion from school in 1938; destruction of the synagogue across the street on Kristallnacht; a store employee who provided food prior to legal Jewish shopping hours; one sister's emigration to England in 1939; sale of the family property; and receiving emigration papers in 1940. Mrs. L. recounts traveling via Moscow, Manchuria, Korea, and Japan, where she stayed four months; continuing to New York; ...

  11. Laura S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Laura S., who was raised in Thessalonike?, Greece in an affluent family. She recounts her marriage in 1938; her son's birth in 1939; her husband's military service in Albania in 1940; his return; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; a deportation in 1943; realizing that they would be deported next; smuggling themselves out of the ghetto; obtaining false papers; illegally traveling to Athens; posing as non-Jews; German occupation; escaping to Aleppo, then Palestine; receiving assistance from the Joint and WIZO; their return after the war; her husba...

  12. Visszaemlékezések gyűjteménye (1945-2010)

    • Collection of Testimonies (1945-2010)
    • Holokauszt Emlékközpont
    • Visszaemlékezések gyűjteménye (1945-2010)
    • English
    • 1945-2010
    • ca. 850 files, 4 linear metres

    The collection includes about 850 handwritten or typed testimonies, mostly from the years between the early 1960s and the late 1980s. The size of the testimonies varies between one page to hundreds of pages. Most of them focus on the years of persecution between 1938 and 1945, with special emphasis on the concentration camps and labor service units. However, they also contain valuable information on the pre-war history of the Hungarian Jewish communities and reflections on their post-war fate.

  13. Selected records from the General Files of the Police for Foreigners

    Contains materials related to the observation, registration, and internment of foreigners in Belgium before, during and immediately after the war and to Belgian immigration policies. Also contains information on the control of alien registration and immigration by the Belgian Police for Foreigners.

  14. Global Structures Convocation panel discussion on security council reform

    Panel Discussion: "Security Council Composition Reform Proposals" Global Structures Convocation, Crystal City, VA. February 3-6,1994. (tape 35 in conference series) Panelists include: Sohn (provides an opening background), Scwartzberg (delivers his proposal), Childers (comments on proposal and subject), Ferencz (comments and delivers his proposal). The moderator is Ved Nanda. Ferencz boldly evaluates the present-day Security Council, calling it "tremendously ridiculous." He is outraged at the arrogance involved and the veto power provided. His modification and proposal allows the Security C...

  15. Schaaps visit their rescuers after the war

    Title card with graphic of baby in stroller, text "Onze Baby". Maurits Schaap and his family visit the home of the Naeije family who hid him during the war. INT, family home in Axel near Zeeuws-Vlaanderen in the Netherlands. The Naeije infant is fed from a bottle and plays with multiple people. 00:01:50 CU, Salomon Schaap smoking pipe, reading letter, playing with baby. 00:04:05 Geleijn Naeije shows off a piece of art inside his home. The painting is of a woman seated at a table with her hands clasped as if in prayer. 00:04:44 Sister of Mrs. Naeije in a black embroidered top. 00:04:56 EXT, ...

  16. Anniversary of Munich Putsch

    Anniversary of the 1923 Munich Putsch. Reenactment of the burial of the party members killed in the Putsch, at the Feldherrnhalle in Munich. Horse-drawn hearses carry coffins into the Feldherrnhalle. The event appears to be taking place at night and is lit by torches. Good views of the hall, including two large stone lions flanking a staircase. Flag-draped coffins line a wall; above them are banners bearing the names of the dead. A uniformed man stands behind each coffin. The scene switches to a solemn outdoor parade headed by Julius Streicher. Streicher stops, salutes. A wreath is laid. Hi...

  17. Selected records of the County Office in Jędrzejów Starostwo Powiatowe Jędrzejowskie (Sygn. 726)

    Situation reports relating to communist activity of Jews, actions of the National Party (Stronnictwo Narodowe) against the Jewish minority and reactions of the Jewish community in Jędrzejów region. Includes reports on Jewish reactions on the resolution of ritual slaughter in Poland and antisemitic events in Germany; activity of the Zionist Aid for Workers in Palestine, Mizrachi, and other organizations; elections to the Board of the Jewish Religious Community

  18. Deutscher Kleinempfänger [German small radio] produced in Nazi Germany

    Deutscher Kleinempfänger [German small radio] manufactured by G. Schaub in 1938. The radio was produced to help spread Nazi propaganda. It was made to sell at a low cost, so the majority of people could afford it. It lacked shortwave reception to make it difficult to receive foreign broadcasts. The radio was nicknamed Goebbels’ Schnauze [Snout], referring to the Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, who often addressed the public through radio.

  19. Jewish family life after the war; Altalena ship on fire

    Hannah and baby exit a home (Israel?). Baby pushes a pram. 09:11 MS, crowd of people on the street, palm trees in BG. Menachem (?) plays with a collection of porcelain dolls and rides a carousel [poor VQ]. 10:18 Children play on a balcony (in Israel?). 11:34 MS, a ship on fire [probably the Altalena in June 1948], billowing smoke. 12:16 Child (sister of Menachem?) plays on the balcony, rides a tricycle, and pushes a toy wheelbarrow; the flowerpots contain mini flags of Israel. Some celebration (nursery school graduation?), women carry flowers and children eat an assortment of desserts.

  20. Jewish community in Żychlin Gmina żydowska w Żychlinie (Sygn. 111)

    Records of the Jewish community in Żychlin: lists of advance payments, lists of remittances paid for medical treatments, payment of shares to a communal fund, books of share payers and a list of community members.