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  1. Camp in Czestochowa Obóz w Częstochowie (Sygn.1041)

    This collection contains a register of Jews prisoners employed in the Camp of Częstochowa during April 10-12,1943. The register contains 23 cards.

  2. War Crimes Trials: Medical Case; Tiergarten; Mauthausen Trials

    Welt im Film, issue no. 79. December 9, 1946 "Beginning of Trials against German Doctors" Courtroom personnel stand as tribunal files in. Pan, courtroom. An American officer calls out names of chief defendants as camera pans the defendants in dock, including Karl Brandt, Siegfried Handloser, Paul Rostock, Schroeder, etc. Telford Taylor addressing court (no sound). HS, tribunal. 09:36:54 Karl Brandt standing, pleads not guilty. Handloser and Herta Oberhauser also plead not guilty. Welt im Film, issue no. 52. "Tiergarten Plowed Up, Berlin" Pan of Tiergarten. British tractors help cultivate so...

  3. Refugees

    Magyar Híradó 950. Intertitle reads “LENGYEL MENEKÜLTEK érkeztek a Kárpátok hágóin Magyarországra. M.F.I- HORVÁTH.” The Hungarian landscape from a moving train. Two soldiers ride bikes along the road, and the second one waves. The train moves quickly past buildings. In the yards are various soldiers and multiple horses attached to carts. A large number of horse drawn carts all together on the side of the road. A man sits in a cart pulled by two horses, multiple others trailing behind him. A man in uniform sits on top a pile of items in a horse-drawn cart, looking at the camera as he rolls p...

  4. March of Time -- outtakes -- Refugees; Jewish shelter; London, England

    Jewish shelter on Mansell Street, Whitechapel, London, England. Permanent institution for helping poor Jews, housing approximately 120 refugees (mostly Austrian). Dining hall, crowded, free meals. Adolph and Sarah Michaelson, the Superintendant and Matron of the shelter from about 1912 until 1940, appear in this sequence (Adolph is the gentleman with the mustache standing at 06:01:13 and at right at 06:01:35. Sarah wears a lace collar in the doorway at 06:02:40. Their daughter, Esther (known as Elsie, b. 1915), is the third serving person in a white coat who comes into the dining room at 06...

  5. German occupation of France and Holland

    Surrendered German soldiers are issued PG coats; PG is painted on by a French officer. CU, statue of Joan of Arc, German troops marching in front. German troops marching down street; dead horses and ruined carts cover street. German troops marching, on carts and motor vehicles. Civilians welcoming German troops, shaking hands with German officers. POWs marching down street. German prison camp. CU, various nationalities of POWs, some African, some Russian. Two POWs eating food from bowl, dancing, faces are tattooed, from North Africa. German troops marching into a town. Horse-drawn vehicles ...

  6. Oral history interview with Edit Lipkovits

  8. Rabbi Eliezer Silver letter

    One handwritten letter, in Hebrew, from Rabbi Eliezer Silver, writing in his capacity as president of Va'ad Hatzalah, to Chief Rabbi Isaac Herzog, in Palestine, in spring 1946. In his letter, he describes news he has received about the destitute condition of many of the newly arrived Jewish refugees in Palestine, and proposes various actions in order to provide humanitarian aid for them, including the sending of funds to support such work. He also discusses negative rumors that had been spread about Va'ad Hatzalah's work there, and asks Herzog to intervene on their behalf.

  9. Human skin used as evidence; Milch questioned at Nuremberg Trial

    05:09:56 (Munich 26) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, February 1946. Pieces of human skin processed as leather are displayed on an easel in the courtroom while Russian prosecutor L N Smirnov addresses the Tribunal concerning this evidence. NOTE: Skin was reportedly removed from prisoners of a concentration camp in Koenigsberg, East Prussia. 05:14:07 (Munich 42) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, March 11, 1946. HAS, Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson interrogating Erhard Milch about officers' knowledge of Germany's preparedness for war. Milch keeps repeating that the officers had no kno...

  10. Harriet Bixler scrapbook

    Consists of one scrapbook, labeled "1944-46," containing clippings, photos, letters, receipts, tickets, and assorted memorabilia collected by Harriet Bixler (Mary Harriet Bixler Naughton), while working for the War Refugee Board and the Office of War Information in Turkey, 1944-1946.

  11. Selected records of the Amtsgericht Zichanau Sąd Obwodowy w Ciechanowie (Sygn. 653) : Wybrane materialy

    Two criminal cases of Poles and Jews accused of illegal trade. They were sentenced to fines and prison.

  12. German invasion of Crete

    This is an excerpt from the six reel film about the German invasion of Crete from 21-27 May 1941, the first mainly airborne invasion in history. This clip is from reel 2 of 6. German soldiers in battle. Sound of bombing and shooting, Stukas drop bombs, sinking ship. British POWs raising their hands, marching past a harbor. Pile of seized weapons. Cheerful music over POWs sitting in a group. The narrator alludes to the British and their traitorous helpers. POWs in a gated compound. A pair of hands pages through a folder marked “Secret.” POWs receive rations out of the back of a truck while t...

  13. Decisions regarding the Todeserklaerungen (Declaration of Death) of Jewish victims, given in Amtsgericht Altena (Westphalia)

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 12421535
    • English, Hebrew
    • Legal documentation Official documentation Personal documents Record of deportees Record of murdered persons Record of persecuted persons Record of survivors

    Decisions regarding the Todeserklaerungen (Declaration of Death) of Jewish victims, given in Amtsgericht Altena (Westphalia) Bestand: Amtsgericht Altena In the Collection are files including applications to Courts of Law in Westphalia for the recognition of death of local Jews who were deported to the East by the Nazis, and for whom no official Declaration of Death had been given. These applications (requests) were submitted in most part by the relatives of those who had perished, [and] who requested to receive claims for compensation from Germany. The files include the applications includi...

  14. Helen Koch Elder: personal papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of Helen Koch Elder, who emigrated to the United States in the 1930s to escape Nazi persecution.Included are photocopy of birth certificate, school certificates, curriculum vitae, certificate of Christian baptism in the United States, affidavit regarding the change of her name, photographs and press cuttings.

  16. Tobias G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Tobias G., who was born in Tukums, Latvia in 1922. He recalls growing up in a large, religious family; the outbreak of war; Soviet occupation; anti-Jewish regulations after German invasion; deportation to Dachau in October 1942; separation from his father and brothers when the train stopped in Auschwitz (he never saw them again); cleaning streets and buildings in Munich after Allied bombings; frequent prisoner injuries from unexploded bombs; a guard cutting his finger off to obtain a ring; medical assistance from an Austrian soldier; extreme hunger and weakness in Apr...

  17. Shary K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shary K., who was born in Travnik, Yugoslavia in 1918. She tells of her marriage on April 6, 1941, the day of the German invasion; living in Tuzla; leaving her mother behind (she never saw her again) to escape, dressed as a Muslim, to Mostar to join her husband; working as a nurse for the partisans; fleeing to Bari, Italy; emigration to the United States; life at Fort Ontario; and their return trip to Yugoslavia in 1991.

  18. Documentation of the Reich Food Producers Organization (Reichsnaehrstand) and of the leader of the Reich Farmers, Germany, 1933-1945

    Documentation of the Reich Food Producers Organization (Reichsnaehrstand) and of the leader of the Reich Farmers, Germany, 1933-1945 Reich Food Producers Organization was the umbrella organization of the farmers and vendors of agricultural produce in Germany, established after the rise of the Nazis to power, 1933, and united within it a number of umbrella organizations that preceded it. The organization had a hierarchical structure and was headed by Richard Walther Darre, who received the title of Reich Farmers' Leader (Reichsbauernfuehrer). Under Darre's leadership, the organization was th...

  19. Kriegsverbrecherreferat (War Criminals'Section), Legal Department at the Central Committee of Liberated Jews, Munich

    • Personal files regarding Nazi war criminals and Ukrainian, Latvian and Lithuanian collaborators (Subsection M.21.1); - Personal files regarding Jews suspected of collaboration (Subsection M.21.2);- Files containing much documentation regarding criminals according to the places where they were active in camps and ghettos (Subsection M.21.3); - Correspondence regarding war criminals;- Photographs of war criminals; - Newspaper clippings.

  20. ENSV ORKA erifondide osakonna Saksa okupatsiooni dokumentide uurijatele kasutamiseks väljaantud koopiate kollektsioon

    • Collection of copies, including documents about the German occupation, preserved in the special collections department of the Central State Archives of the October Revolution (ORKA) of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic intended for investigators and researchers

    This collection of copies includes various relevant copied documents, including: - The testimonies of the Klooga camp survivors. - Materials of the ESSR Extraordinary Commission. - Acts and interrogations (1944-1945) concerning crimes in Estonia during the German occupation. The finding aid to this collection is available [online](http://ais.ra.ee/index.php?module=202&op=4&tyyp=2&otsing_id=20140404100401624199&sess_id=bd7fcfa717d638e1c7b9b7b07fb26ee0&pealkiri=&naita_ridu=10&sort=&active=1&viitekood=&leidandmed=ERA.4215.1.1&tasand=0&kokku=1&amp...