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  1. Louis Bernard Katz photograph album

    Loose photograph album of wartime photographs taken by Louis Bernard Katz, a field surgeon with the United States Army. The album includes photographs of the Ebensee subcamp of the Mauthausan concentration camp, Austria shortly after liberation; refugees in Waldenberg, Germany; and German prisoners-of-war in Simbach am Inn, Germany. Other cities documented include Mühlhausen, Germany; Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, Germany, Lauf, Germany; Attnang, Austria; and Vöcklabruck, Austria. The album is annotated.

  2. Ernst and Vera Velden: personal papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of Ernst and Vera Velden who emigrated separately as Jewish refugees to England in 1939 and later got married.Included are emigration papers such as birth certificates, school certificates, Heimatschein; and application and certificates of naturalisation. Also includes a photograph; correspondence from family and friends relating to news about the lives of relatives, support for Jewish relief funds, Ernst's search for employment and application for an American visa; and papers relating to war compensation claims for both Ernst and Vera Velden.

  3. Coenraad Rood collection

    Consists of photographs taken in the Staphorst Rouveen labor camp, in the Netherlands in the summer of 1942; also contains photographs of Elisabeth Rood-Kooperberf and Coenraad Rood, including a wedding photograph from their marriage in 1940; also includes postcards written in 1942 from Coenraad Rood to Elisabeth Rood letting her know his whereabouts.

  4. Stanley Kowalski papers

    Includes two typescripts written by Stanley Kowalski concerning the town of Jazłowiec, Poland. The first typescript (in English) is a copy of pages 158 through 180 of a larger manuscript entitled "Jazlowiec, the Town Lost in History." The second typescript (35 pages) is in Polish. Both typescripts describe events in the vicinity of Jazłowiec, Poland, during World War II.

  5. Liberation of Auschwitz

    "Filmdokumente" on the German concentration camps, made under Soviet auspices with narration in Russian. This film was taken by a Soviet military film crew upon liberating Auschwitz in January 1945. People in camp in winter with snow on the ground. CUs, prisoners behind wire (women and children). LSs, AVs, the camp covered with snow. Map of Auschwitz, plans for the crematorium. INT, women in rows of bunks. "Arbeit Macht Frei" gate. Barbed wire. INT, gas chamber. CUs women in the bunks. CUs albums of photographs (showing different nationalities). VS groups of survivors behind wires, worn fac...

  6. Westerbork Arrival

    Arrivals at Westerbork transit camp. Workers and guards at train station. Train pulls in. People get off trains with bundles; chaotic feeling. Freight train pulls in, Jewish prisoners from Vught concentration camp wearing clogs and work clothes, get off, line up. They have been sent to Westerbork for punishment. Brief INT of registration (out of focus).

  7. Hilert family collection

    The Hilert family collection consists of documents, correspondence, and identification cards pertaining to the Hilert family and their postwar time experience in the Stuttgart West displaced persons camp (DP camp) in Germany and their immigration to the United States. The collection contains an affidavit from Avrom Hiller and Senator Harry Byrd and smallpox vaccination certificates. The documents pertain to Rabbi Samuel Hilert, Rose (Rosa, Raizel) Gutkind Hilert, and their son, Moses Baruch Hilert (Michael, Mike).

  8. Documentation from a trial conducted against Ernst Lerch and other Austrian war criminals from the SSPF headquarters in Lublin, who participated in "Aktion Reinhardt"

    Documentation from a trial conducted against Austrian war criminals, most of whom participated in "Aktion Reinhardt" - Investigation against Hermann Hoefle started in Landesgericht Linz (the Linz District Court) in 1947 (Vg8 6771/47); - Main part of the investigation conducted by Landesgericht Salzburg (the Salzburg District Court) from 1956 (11a Vr 1382/56) and Landesgericht Wien (the Vienna District Court) from 1962 (27c Vr 852/62); - Final investigation conducted by Landesgericht Klagenfurt (the Klagenfurt District Court), 1962-1971 (25 Vr 3123/71); - Transfer of the files to the various...

  9. Хронологічні довідки про тимчасову окупацію німецько-фашистськими загарбниками населених пунктів Вінницької області

    • Chronological references about temporary occupation by the German-Fascist occupiers of Vinnytsia region

    Some files contain information about the persecution and murder of the Jewish population: Inventory 1, file 15. Komsomolsky district: p. 6 contains information on the shooting of the Jewish population of Komsomolsk. Inventory 1, file 18. Lypovets district: pp. 6-7 contain information about the persecution and murder of the Jews of Lypovets. Inventory 1, file 22. Murovanokurilovetsky district: p. 16 contains information on the shooting of the Jewish population of Murovany Kurylivtsi; p. 19 contains information about the death of the Jewish population in the village Bakhtyn of Mur-Kurilovets ...

  10. Selected Records from the Departmental Archives of the Charente-Maritime

    Contains a variety of documents pertaining to the wartime experience in the Charente-Maritime including, but not limited to, the preservation of law and order, expropriation of Jewish property and businesses, suppression of Freemasonry, operation and placement of anti-aircraft batteries, operations of internment camps at La Palice and Saintes, German propaganda, resistance activities, refugees, civilian evacuations, war crimes, liberation, and the internment of Spanish, Jewish and Roma.

  11. Oral history interview with Mendel Halberstam

  12. FDR speaks

    "Roosevelt Asks U.S. to Crush Hitler" Labor Day, 1941. Hyde Park, NY. FDR to camera: "American labor now bears a tremendous responsibility in the winning of this most brutal, most terrible of all wars. In our factories and shops and arsenals we are building weapons on a scale great in its magnitude. To all the battlefronts of the world, these weapons are being dispatched by the day and by the night, over the sea and thru the air. And this nation is now devising and developing a new weapon of unprecedented power toward the maintenance of democracy." Roosevelt speaking: "I give solemn warning...

  13. "The Paper Gauze Ballerina"

    Contains information about Sophie Miklos and her experiences of persecution in Romania, deportation from the Oradea (Nagyvárad, Hungary) ghetto, imprisonment at Auschwitz, and liberation by the Red Army.

  14. Collection of the Commissaris voor niet-commerciele Verenigingen en Stichtingen – Committee for the Supervision over Non-Profit Organizations in the Netherlands, 1941-1944

    Collection of the Commissaris voor niet-commerciele Verenigingen en Stichtingen – Committee for the Supervision over Non-Profit Organizations in the Netherlands, 1941-1944 The Reichskommissar started the obligation for all of the non-profit organizations in the Netherlands to register themselves in 1940; VO 41/41 established that the control over the organizations would be by the Germans; the Commissaris voor niet-commerciele Verenigingen en Stichtingen registered all of the organizations' details, including financial matters, and among the 120,000 organizations registered during 1941, the ...

  15. Fondo Aucii dal 1948 (Attività dell'Unione delle Comunità Israelitiche Italiane dal 1948)

    • Attività dell'Unione delle Comunità Israelitiche Italiane dal 1948

    Some files, found in the previous collection of Fondo Aucii dal 1934, were inserted in this Fund, for chronological or content reasons. The Registers contain minutes of Council, junta; payment accounts, heredities, Italian Rabbinical College.

  16. Landrat (District Councillor) of Králíky

    The archival fonds includes documents related to the accounting and social work matters, correspondence, filing cabinets and statistics. There is one inventory number concerning Jewish history directly: an overview of homesteads left by Czech and Jewish refugees.

  17. Military chaplains

    Narration. U.S. War Dept. Misc. 1170. Different houses of worship. People pray, sing. Ministers, priests and rabbis. American soldiers read the Bible. “Battles are won by military power, wars are won by spiritual power.” Military chaplains present communion wafers to soldiers kneeling. Army chaplain provides a group of soldiers with cigarettes, magazines, and letters. They smile and laugh. Chaplain writes and converses with soldiers. Sermon on a massive anti-aircraft weapon. Soldiers read bibles. A chaplain uses broadcasting technology to deliver sermons to men on the battlefront. Locals an...

  18. Concentration camp from Oct. 1941 to May 1945

    The collection consists of a personal narrative written by Elizabeth Reif describing her deportation from Vienna, Austria, to Łódź, Poland; her occupation as a pharmacist in the Łódź ghetto; conditons inside the ghetto; the deportation of her mother to Terezín, Czechoslovakia (a.k.a. Theresienstadt); her deportation to the camps of Auschwitz and Mittelsteine; her liberation and her return to Vienna.

  19. Hitler Youth Flying Club

    EXT, LS, shirtless teenage boys with glider in open field in Trebbin, near Berlin. VS, MSs, MCUs, boys pushing glider into position, pulling glider along for "lift off," glider takes flight. Name on glider "Richthofen 5." A swastika is also visible on the tail of the glider.

  20. Poster protesting Nazi threat to Christianity

    Office of War Information poster 76 titled "This is the Enemy" depicting a Nazi supporter thrusting a sword through a bible.