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  1. Supreme Court of the Moldavian ASSR

    • Curtea Supremă a Republicii Socialiste Sovietice Autonome Moldovenești
    • Верховный суд Молдавской АССР
    • Verkhovnyy sud Moldavskoy ASSR

    Files of the General Department (orders and instructions of the USSR people's commissar of justice, personnel files); files of the the Criminal and Judicial Board (including the decision of the chairman of the Supreme Court of the MASSR on review cases, including the case of I. Gershenzon and E. Braverman on charges of embezzling cooperative valuables and money); files of the Criminal-Judicial Cassation Collegium (including the case of the cassation appeal of Groisman against the decision of the people's court of the Rybnitsa district on charging him of speculation; the same for G. Rabinovi...

  2. Supreme National Tribunal Sprawy organizacyjne Najwyższego Trybunału Narodowego (NTN), (Sygn.196)

    This collection contains selected records relating to the general organization of the Supreme National Tribunal (NTN), including are lists of completed cases, official correspondence of the NTN Secretariat, reports, minutes, and the logbook of correspondence.

  3. Surrender of Belgium

    MCU, LS, German soldiers crossing field, mounting machine gun by fox hole, crossing small pontoon bridge, fighting in streets of city. Buildings burning, wrecked guns and tanks in streets. Pan across destroy city in Belgium as the narrator announces that the Beligan king has capitulated. Various scenes of surrender: German and Belgian high-ranking officers (including Field Marshal von Manstein?) talking. Belgian officer signing document. Automobile carrying large white flag. Camera on car showing columns of soldiers on side of highway. German and Belgian officers on steps of building. Belgi...

  4. Surrender of Count Tadeusz Komorowski

    Narrator speaks in English over the German newsreel narrator. German fighter pilot Helmut Lent's death. Lent shown; then his coffin and funeral. Goering at funeral (October 11). Narrator: "The real importance of this story lies in Goering's reappearance. He had disappeared from publicity shortly after the July 20th putsch.... within that one week in October he made three prominent appearances." CUs of men at funeral include Adolf Galland, Josef Schmidt. Further commentary on changing nature of German propaganda. 01:52:27 Map. English narration over camouflaged tanks on freight trains, ident...

  5. Surrender of General Elster; US infantry in France, Belgium, Maastricht, Netherlands.

    General Major Botho Elster studies a map with a French Lieutenant Colonel. Accompanied by other high-ranking officers, Elster bids farewell to some of his troops in a wooded area. He salutes, speaks to the men, and shakes their hands. On September 16, 1944, on the Loire bridge in Beaugency, France, Elster capitulated and handed over 19,500 men to the French. He did so without permission from his superiors, for which he was sentenced to death in absentia by a Nazi court. 01:01:37 US infantry patrols in France. Soldiers walk along devastated, empty streets. A tank rolls down the street. A med...

  6. Surrender of military and civilians in Engers and Germersheim

    (LIB 4671) American military activities in Engers, Germany. A soldier directs half-track tanks down the center of town. A German civilian wearing a white armband reads a proclamation while standing astride a bicycle. Soldiers and civilians are visible in the background. German soldiers or Hitler Youth surrendering. 01:54:22 Quality improves. Slate indicates that the date is March 25, 1945 and the cameraman is named Urban. American soldiers walk through the streets of Engers. Nice shots of an American soldier searching Germans. A First Lieutenant swears in two enlisted men as Second Lieutena...

  7. The surrender of the Dachau KZ prisoner compound, 29 April 1945: a compilation of documents and photographs

    Donor's purpose "is to provide documents to challenge the Sparks Scenario and to set the record straight." Last part of this collection is research conducted at National Archives by Arthur Lee, Jr., and Sol Feingold. Part B is selected material from BG H. Linden.

  8. Surrendered German soldiers; DPs; Liberation in Prague and Pilsen

    Displaced and surrendered German soldiers camping in a field at the time of liberation in early May 1945. Pan from road, column of surrendered troops resting. DPs washing up in a stream, traffic moving in BG. Pan from clothing to men redressing. CU, German officers. VCU, elderly German officer. MS crowds of German civilians in field -- they were picked up by American troops and are families of Nazi prisoners in Czechoslovakia. CU, crowd standing around. Approaching water truck. MS, standing in line for bread. CU, German woman and baby. CU, elder Germans. MS, American GI frisking Nazi soldie...

  9. Surrendering German troops

    MLS, German prisoners, closer shots. MS, tanks/jeeps moving down road, probably the surrender of the XI Panzer Division (and other German units) on May 4 and the days immediately following. The XI Panzer Division was a Wehrmacht unit. German prisoners stand beside road, start marching. CU, destroyed German weapons. Pan up to column of trucks of surrendering Germans. MS, German civilians standing around. CU sign: "Limit of Advance - All US Troops." CU, German general near tank. German prisoners on trucks pass by, GI directs route of surrender. MS trucks with dead German prisoners pass throug...

  10. Surrendering to the Germans; burying German soldiers

    Reel 2: 00:04:23 Quick CU of a German soldier firing a rifle. German military trucks traveling through a village. Panning shot of locals standing outside village buildings. CU of a three-striped flag atop a flagpole in the middle of a large plaza surrounded by small buildings; German military vehicles enter the plaza. Soviet soldiers approaching the Germans on horseback waving a large white flag; Russians are surrounded by a group of German soldiers. Pan of a wooden bridge; a soldier swings a rifle (cuts out). Reel 3: 00:05:27 (Repeat in RG-60.4262) Shots of buildings on fire in the distanc...

  11. Surveillance of Zionists in Romania

    Contains records relating to the surveillance of Zionists in Romania.

  12. Survey of attitudes among Romanian students regarding the Holocaust

    Consists of a sociological survey of the attitudes of contemporary Romanian grade school students to the Holocaust along with pedagogical responses.

  13. Survival oral history, 1933-1945

  15. Surviving hell by Holocaust survivor Livia Szamosi (aka Lili Pollak/Lili Spielberger)

    Contains her typewritten memoir describing conditions in the ghetto in Budapest, Hungary; her escape from the ghetto first to a Catholic school where priests were sheltering several otherJews in the basement and later to friends' homes; the Soviet occupation of Budapest; and her reunions with family and friends. Lists of relatives and friends who perished during the Holocaust are included.

  16. The survivor as researcher

    Describes how Greenfield learned the fates of her mother and of 1,196 Jewish children and their adult guardians from Białystok, Poland, who were transported from Theresienstadt and gassed in Auschwitz on 7 October 1943. Includes a name list of those on the transport, excerpts of testimonies, photographs, and letters.

  17. Survivor testimonies relating to slave labor

    Contains 42,000 documents, including 25,000 accounts by Holocaust survivors of Jewish slave labor in ghettos and camps.All these survivors have been registered with The Institute of Documentation between 1970-1985 in Haifa,Israel.

  19. Survivors among us

    This edited program contains excerpts from testimonies of survivors living in the Hartford, Connecticut area, organized around the themes of "Early Memories," "The Camps," and "Resistance."

  20. Survivors among us

    Excerpts from testimonies of survivors living in the Boston, Massachusetts area.