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Language of Description: Ukrainian

  1. Fritz Gross: Unpublished writings

    The papers in this collection are evidence of the eclectic interests and significant output of the Austrian emigré writer, Fritz Gross. These volumes of original typescript writings include numerous short dramas; anthologies of poetry; essays on a wide variety of subjects and biographical sketches of famous people.

  2. Municipal Office in Wroclaw Zarząd Miejski Miasta Wrocławia (Sygn.334)

    Contains records relating to social, political and cultural life of the Polish Jews in the Lower Silesia and in Wroclaw. It includes information about the German Jews and Jewish religious congregations. Also contains a list of marriages concluded in 1946, and a deportation list of German Jews from Wroclaw in 1945.

  3. During my childhood Gouache created postwar by a former inmate of a people in a transit camp being loaded on a truck

    Multi-colored gouache created by Maurice Rosen based upon his experiences as a prisoner in Pithiviers transit camp in France.The painting depicts men and women standing on the flatbed of a truck located in front of a barbed-wire fence with soldiers standing nearby.

  4. Emigration Fund for Bohemia and Moravia, Office in Brno Auswanderungfonds für Böhmen und Mähren (B 392)

    Consists of records pertaining to expropriated and liquidated Jewish businesses and real estate, includes individual cases, 1939-1942. The collection also features documentation about the deportation and transports to concentration camps of Czech Jews.

  5. Postwar wedding of a German soldier and American POW

    EXT, couples with flowers walk towards camera to celebrate the wedding of Theo's eldest son Gerald, a soldier for Germany and POW of the Americans. INTs, celebration, gifts, and the couple dancing. Family gathers around the bride and groom for portraits. Woman (bride?) in sequined jacket and top-hat dances with balloons labeled "Ratskeller Steglitz" in the Berlin area. Others dancing drunkenly. Little girl turns and dances and uses potty. Family continues to celebrate. Girl plays outdoors.

  6. Henryk Nirensztejn papers

    The papers consist of photographs and documents regarding Henryk Nirensztejn (born Chaim Goworczyk) and his family before and during the Holocaust in Poland.

  7. Херсонська міська надзвичайна комісія по розслідуванню злочинів німецько-фашистських загарбників на території м. Херсона, Херсонської області

    • Kherson City Extraordinary Commission to Investigate the Crimes of the German-Fascist Invaders in the Territory of the City of Kherson, Kherson Region

    File 2. Materials about the atrocities committed by the German-fascist invaders. Acts on the persons shot. 1944. 197 pages. File 4. Lists of Soviet citizens who were forcibly deported to Germany. 1944. 64 pages. File 5. Lists of citizens who were shot and taken to Germany (according to personal testimonies). 1944. 131 pages. File 6. Lists of partisans and peaceful citizens killed during the occupation. 1945. 9 pages. File 7. Act on the damage caused by the German-fascist invaders to Kherson and information on accounting the damage. List of citizens of Kherson shot by the German-fascist inva...

  8. Bavarian village; Hitler Youth; Autobahn

    Home in Bavaria. The visiting Americans (the Major Family) and locals dine outdoors. CUs of individuals in the garden. "The Fire Department of Munich rescues a cat" Many specators watch a fireman climbing firetruck ladder to rescue a cat in a tree. 01:14:17 "In the Bavarian Tyrol" (color) EXT, buildings in Bavarian village. Men in traditional Bavarian dress. Decorated maypole for a folk ceremony with swastika symbols at the top. Street scenes, local shops. Hotel Alte Post (Anton Preisinger guest house) in Oberammergau. Bicycles. (changes back to black and white) Group of Hitler Youth with b...

  9. Selected records from the Perguia Regional State Archive

    Contains records from the Prefettura and Questura di Perugia, 1938-46 relating to the racial laws of 1938 and their implementation in Perugia, the deportation of the Jews of Perugia and their efforts after 1945 to reclaim their property and rebuild their community. Also included are 200 files containing personal materials on individuals. The collection also contains records from the province of Perugia and include records from smaller cities, such as Assisi documenting their reaction to the racial laws.

  10. Harry C. Saunders collection

    Contains photocopies of miscellaneous correspondence, publications and photographs which relate to the 1st Platoon, Troop D, 41st Cavalry Recon Squadron Mech., 11th Army Armored Division, liberating Mauthausen, and Harry C. Saunders' recollections of Mauthausen.

  11. Herman F. Reissig memorandum

    The Herman F. Reissig memorandum, dated May 15, 1941, describes the SS Alsina’s departure from Marseille in January 1941 carrying more than 500 refugees en route to the United States and Latin America, its detention in Dakar by the Vichy government, Reissig’s unsuccessful efforts to work with the Vichy, British, and American governments to find a solution for the refugees, and cables received from refugees aboard the Alsina describing their confusion and anxiety.

  12. Yetta G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yetta G., who was born in Poland in 1924, the youngest of ten children. She recounts her father and one brother were butchers; attending cheder; German invasion; hiding with a sister and two brothers in a hole they dug under the floor; her parents being taken (she never saw them again); escaping to the forest; hiding for over three years with a Polish farmer who knew her brother and father; occasionally hiding in the forest when Germans were near; liberation by Soviet troops; her brothers' draft into the Soviet military; marriage; traveling to Che?m, then ?o?dz?; lear...

  13. Documentation from the Stadtarchiv Ludwigsburg (Ludwigsburg Municipal Archives)

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 11054802
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1890-2011
    • Financial accounts food card Legal documentation Letter List of Jewish residents Newspaper clippings Official documentation Orders Photograph Protocol Questionnaire Record of persecuted persons

    Documentation from the Stadtarchiv Ludwigsburg (Ludwigsburg Municipal Archives) The collection includes varied and detailed documentation regarding the persecution of the Jews of Ludwigsburg during the Nazi regime, from various angles. The material includes: protocols of municipality departments, orders published against Jews, Jewish businesses and their closure, the confiscation of Jewish property including estimations of the value of many plots of land, tax files, files of local organizations, files regarding construction, photographs, a collection of a local historian who corresponded wi...

  14. Lauksaimniecības ģenerāldirekcijas Pārtikas nodrošināšanas departaments

    • Directorate General for Agriculture – Department of Food Provision
    • Generaldirektorium für Landwirtschaft. Departement für Lebensmittelbeschaffung

    Instructions about provisioning of food, clothing, alcohol, forage, food for children; lists of inhabitants of towns, lists of workers who received food cards, etc. 1941-1944. Also contains food rations for prisoners and inmates of concentration camps and for Jewish craftsmen 1941-1943.

  15. Verdoner children playing

    Yoka, Francisca and Otto Verdoner playing on the floor of their home in Hilversum, Holland. Yoka and Francisca play with baby Otto as if he were a life-sized doll. Their mother Hilde picks up Otto to rescue him from his sisters' affections. CU, Hilde and Otto. CUs, Otto attempting to crawl, holding his torso up, etc. Yoka and Francisca try to help Otto. Brief shot of Francisca sitting at a table eating.

  16. Ilse L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ilse L., who was born in Vienna in 1925. She recalls with fondness her childhood in Vienna; the change in the situation of the Jews beginning in the spring of 1938; being sent to Holland in November, 1938, by her parents, who later perished; her placement in two different foster families; the arrival of her brother in Holland at the end of 1938; and going into hiding in 1942 with the help of a cousin and his non-Jewish girlfriend. She describes living as a Dutch non-Jew by means of false papers; aid from non-Jews, including the Dutch police; and the day to day difficu...

  17. Track and field events at DP camp

    Track and field events at DP camp: javelin, high jump, track races, shotput.

  18. Selected records from the Ministry of Interior of Bulgaria

    Contains selected files from the following collections: Ministry of the Interior and Public Health; Administration of Police; Sofia Police; Regional Ministry of the Interior Offices in Burgas, Pleven, Plovdiv, and Sofia; Police administration in Belo More; and general staff of the Ministry of Defense. Topics include Jews in Bulgaria, Thrace, and Macedonia; reports on Jewish groups and Communist groups; KL Krestopole, St. Nicholas, and Gondavoda; reports on the situation in various regions of Bulgaria; resettlement of Jews; and postwar documents including correspondence with the Allied Milit...

  19. Goebbels speaks about the antisemitic Swedish film Petersson and Bendel

    Shots of huge numbers of people gathered at the Essen airfield. Joseph Goebbels speaks at the 10th Gauparteitag in Essen. Goebbels speaks, from 01:28:02. Celebrating the 10th year... 01:28:18 "Wie unrecht haben jene..." 01:28:26 "Judentum es wagte in der Reichshauptstadt gegen einen antisemitischen Film offen zu protestieren . Da allerdings ist der Augenblick gekommen wo wir sagen, 'Bis hierher und nicht weiter!' Nicht die Auslandspresse sondern wir regieren Deutschland. Und wir sind nicht dem Ausland sondern wir sind nur unserem eigenen Volkes dafuer verantwortlich. Fuehrer befiehl, wir fo...

  20. Archives of the service for war victims Archives du service des victims de la guerre : Series A

    Contains records relating to the fate of Jewish and non-Jewish Belgians throughout Europe during the period of 1939 to 1950. Includes name lists from a wide variety of sources such as concentration and prisoner of war camps, relief and charity organizations, hospitals, prisons, and similar institutions. See also Part Mi, Part P, and Part R (Rg-65.001M; Rg-65.003M; Rg-65.004M).