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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Multiple
Language of Description: Ukrainian

  1. Warsaw ghetto and Stutthof liberated

    Warsaw ghetto, women walk and stand about on a street, some with armbands. Children play a game. LS of Stutthof concentration camp liberated by the Soviets. VS of camp: barracks, piles of hair, pan, clothing, a man and woman standing upon a mountain of shoes, Zyklon B (poison gas) canisters, ovens. More scenes of the camp, road, barbed wire, etc., ends on CU of stone tablet/memorial plaque, engraved on wall, that reads: "Bojownikom O Wolnosc Pomordowanym W Sztutowie W latach 1939-1945 [To all who fought for freedom and were tortured at Stutthof in 1939-1945.] Translation of voiceover narrat...

  2. Marguerite M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marguerite M., a Christian rescuer, who was born in Groningen, Netherlands in 1921. She recalls German occupation in 1940; moving to Haren with her parents and brothers; hiding a Jewish convert to Catholicism, who had escaped from Amsterdam; the family's experiences hiding fifteen other Jews; a train trip with a hidden child who inadvertently revealed she was Jewish and the other passengers promising not to report them; working as a courier for the Dutch underground; one brother being shot by Germans for breaking curfew; and the death of her youngest brother, who was ...

  3. Bernhard Storch photographs

    Consists of pre-war, wartime, and post-war family photographs from Bernhard Storch. Includes photographs of the Krause family of Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Poland, many of whom perished in Treblinka. Includes several photographs of Ruth Krause, who survived the war in Siberia, including a photograph which her husband, Bernhard Storch, carried with him as a member of the First Polish Infantry Division, as well as wartime and post-war copyprints of Mr. Storch in uniform. The photographs had been sent to overseas family members, which is how they survived the war.

  4. Trudi R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Trudi R., who was born in Munich, Germany in 1929. She recounts being raised as a Catholic (her father was Jewish and her mother Catholic); her perceived absence of antisemitism prior to the war, which she attributes to the influence of the Catholic clergy; her father's flight from Germany in June 1939; participating in a Catholic youth group; memories of the group leader, a priest who was later implicated in an assassination attempt against Hitler; Nazi pressure on her mother to obtain a divorce; exclusion from the female Hitler youth group; expulsion from high schoo...

  5. Jewish family in Chechinov and Belzec, Poland before WWII

    Probably in Chechinov, Poland where the Furman family lived. Men, women and children walk towards the camera. Horses pull a wagon. A group of men and women walk in the street and look at the camera. More townspeople. The footage of townspeople repeats, flipped right to left. Men, women and children are fascinated by the camera and keep trying to be filmed. The women smile. Men with long beards approach the camera. More women walk up. The footage again repeats, up to the shot of the bearded men. Dark shots of people in a townsquare with a market in the BG. A man picks up a basket. A bearded ...

  6. Israel and Ben Gurion

    Notes taken from NCJF documentation: MS of a man. Negev, barracks, people eating. Ben Gurion and a man. Stills of young Ben Gurion. Interview with Ben Gurion. Plowing with horse, VS tilling, sowing, reaping, working the land. Rowboats, people on shore. Laying pipe with crane. More of interview with Ben Gurion. Camp footage, interview continues. Ben Gurion proclaims state (no sync-voiceover). Cheering crowd, children circle with flags, tank plows through building, digging trenches. Ben Gurion inspecting troops, Navy marching, Army marching, women soldiers marching. Graves. Gates of Israel op...

  7. Archiv obce Tršice

    • Archive of the Municipality of Tršice / NAD 595

    The fonds contains relatively comprehensive documents of the self-government of the municipality of Tršice. The files of the fonds contains anti-Jewish decrees and regulations and lists of Jews deported in June 1942 to Terezín, all from 1941–1943.

  8. Documentation of the Generalkommissariat Weissruthenien (Belorussian District Government) in Minsk, 1941-1944

    Documentation of the Generalkommissariat Weissruthenien (Belorussian District Government) in Minsk, 1941-1944 Generalkommissariat Weissruthenien (Generalbezirk Weißruthenien) is one of the territorial-administrative units in the (Reichskommissariat Ostland) Eastern District of the Reich. This administration existed between 01 September 1941-03 July 1944. The Collection contains instructions and orders of the District Governor situated in Minsk, an order from General Schenkendorff, German Army Home Front Commander, documentation regarding the establishment of an auxiliary police force in Bel...

  9. Karolyn F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Karolyn F., who was born in Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Austria) in 1909. She recounts attending public school; cordial relations with non-Jews; the Anschluss; observing a speech by Hitler; assistance from their non-Jewish building superintendent; joining a group emigrating to Palestine; their failed attempt to enter Italy, then a difficult ship journey to Palestine; reunion with a brother on one of the ships; living on a kibbutz; difficult relations with the British; attacks by Arabs; the births of two sons; and emigration to the United States to joi...

  10. Siegfried Wilhelm Rosenfeld: Personal papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of Siegried Rosenfeld who had a successful career as a lawyer and politician before the Nazis came to power in Germany.Personal papers including correspondence with NSDAP District Management of Laufen-Berchtesgaden-Altoetting (Bavaria) regarding the borders of the district to ensure Siegfried Rosenfeld did not resettle within the district as well as his curriculum vitae.German

  11. U.S. soldiers at Berchtesgaden; marching in Munich; boarding trains with locals to go home

    Driving in the countryside around Munich (1945), now in the area around Berchtesgaden. Beautiful shot of the Alps mountains while driving over a river. Soldiers stop alongside the road and enjoy a moment in the sun. A convoy pulls up to the wreckage of Hitler's headquarters at Berchtesgaden. The camera looks down from the mountainside onto a large group of military vehicles gathered in the valley below. Mountain scenes taken from the Eagle's nest. 01:31:03 Soldiers hike in the mountains, then have a picnic on the hood of a jeep (1945). Views of the Isaar River in Munich. CU, archway with in...

  12. Collection of the Buitengewone Raad van Advies - Special Council for Consultation to the Dutch Government in Exile, 1942-1944

    Collection of the Buitengewone Raad van Advies - Special Council for Consultation to the Dutch Government in Exile, 1942-1944 Included in the collection: Reports prepared by the Dutch Government in Exile in London during 1942-1944, including data regarding the persecution of the Jews in the Netherlands during 1940-1943; the reports were prepared by H. Dontz for the Regeerings Commissaris voor Repatrieering in 1944; included in the reports are details of the measures taken against the Jews in the Netherlands by the Germans from July 1940 until September 1943; details regarding the procedures...

  13. Kauno sunkiųjų darbų kalėjimas

    • Zentralgefängnis in Kauen
    • Kaunas Hard-Labour Prison

    This collection contains documents concerning the handing over of Jewish inmates and the mass killing of Jews at the Ninth Fort (the description based on Galina Žirikova (2011), Lietuvos centrinio valstybės archyvo fondai : holokausto Lietuvoje tyrimo šaltinis (The Collections of the State Archive of Lithuania: a Source of Research on the Holocaust in Lithuania), Vilnius: Valstybinis Vilniaus Gaono Žydų Muziejus, p. 12. The fonds consists mostly of personal files of the arrested people. There are also administrative documents of the chief of the prison; lists of Jews who were arrested ...

  14. Jewish Congregations in Pitești and Botoşani, Romania collection

    Contains about 730 documents, letters and other paper items, handwritten and printed, concerning Jewish congregations in the towns of Pitești and Botoşani. Pitești, Botoşani and Bucharest, dated 1910s to 1940s (most are from 1920s-30s). The collection includes some 650 items from Pitești, among them: letter on behalf of the "Union of Jewish Congregations of the Old Kingdom" (Uniunea Comunitatilor Evreesti Din Vechiul Regat) to the congregation of Pitești; some 30 letters and booklets on behalf of "Union of Romanian Jews" (Uniunea Evreilor Pământeni); receipt booklet for charity donations, i...

  15. Irving G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irving G., who was born in 1919 and served with the United States Army in a signal battalion in World War II. He recounts landing at Omaha Beach; moving toward Germany during the Battle of the Bulge; entering a concentration camp after the Germans had left; emaciated inmates who looked like "skeletons"; soldiers giving them their rations; speaking Yiddish with a prisoner; later entering Nordhausen; piles of corpses; the pervasive stench; locals feigning ignorance of the camp; and not sharing his experiences after returning home. Mr. G. discusses nightmares about the c...

  16. Колекція друкованих видань КГБ України

    • Collection of printed publications of KGB of Ukraine

    There are, particularly, copies of memos, reports, reviews, orientations, analytical materials and other documents on the operational situation in Ukraine, emergency events, results of search operations, investigations of individual criminal cases; reference books and bibliographic publications; materials about the shooting of Jews during the Second World War. Of particular significance is file No. 98 "Materials on the killings of Citizens of Jewish Nationality by Nazi Occupiers" (1999-2000, 101 pages), which contains an inquiry (signed on January 22, 1999 by the Deputy Head of the SBU V. P...

  17. Alice Lang Rosen papers

    The collection contains seven copy gelatin silver prints of photographs made in Germany in the 1930s and 1940s. Images are of Alice Lang (b. June 13, 1934); her parents, Ida Baehr Lang and Fritz Lang; her maternal grandparents, Johanna and Heinrich Baehr; and Paula Lang. Contains a French passport, which enabled Frieda Lang donor to return to Germany in April 1946; and a travel clearance document from the Western Base Section, U.S. Forces, European Theatre, issued to Frieda Lang in April 1946.

  18. Jonas Landau memoirs

    Contains Jonas Landau's memoir relating to his childhood in prewar "Stolpce" (Stolbce, Poland, now Stolbëisy, Belarus); the shooting of Jews by the Nazis after they occupied the town in June 1941; his work in the local railroad station; conditions in the ghetto; his escape from the ghetto in 1942; and his experiences from 1942-1944 as a partisan in a predominately Jewish detachment of the Zhukov group in Byelorussia (Belarus). After liberation in July 1944, he returned to Poland where he learned his family had not survived. He decided to emigrate to Palestine, but en route in Germany he me...

  19. Jacob Silvermintz papers

    Documents related to the post-war experiences of Jacob Silvermintz (aka Jakob Silberminz), originally of Szkosin, Poland; issued while he was living as a displaced person in and around Munich, Germany, 1945-1949. Includes identification cards, including those certifying that he had previously been a prisoner at Buchenwald; residence permits; health documents; and letters of reference related to his apprenticeship as an auto mechanic at a number of German companies after 1945, including Robert Bosch, GmbH. Includes his typescript memoir, 71 pages, entitled "I'm Still Here: The Story of Jacob...

  20. Ruins in Germany, probably in spring 1945

    Germany, just inside the border from Belgium, probably in fall 1944 or spring 1945 [1944 Kodak stock]. Sign, "Lammersdorf". German village with civilians and soldiers walking along the road, RR tracks. Sign with arrows for "Kesternich" and "Simmerath". Church in town. Pan of countryside and pyramid tank traps demarcating the Siegfried Line. Abandoned tank on side of road. Cyclists. "Schmidt" sign. Severely destroyed buildings in a village. Filming through military vehicle windshield. More ruins and locals. Pan of ruins in countryside and concrete defenses or factory. 01:04:00 Pan, very larg...