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  1. Polish underground press Polska prasa konspiracyjna

    Collection comprises approximately 500 publication titles.

  2. March of Time -- outtakes -- Cemetery in Łódź; dead honored

    October 18, 1947: Polish authorities at funeral of American soldiers in a Catholic Polish church. Clergy, US military, people on pews in church. 03:01:17 Coffin with American flag over it. Religious ceremony, including American Ambassador Stanton Griffis, Mr. and Mrs. Crocker, and Edward Raymond, Agricultural Attache at the Embassy. 03:02:14 American soldiers salute. Polish soldiers and Polish flag. Wreaths carried out. Clergy leave. 03:03:19 Putting wreaths in hearse. Polish officers shaking hands with American officers. 03:04:16 Military procession, coffin on road in Warsaw. 03:05:15 Nove...

  3. Provincial Administration in Wrocław Urząd Wojewódzki we Wrocławiu (Sygn. 331)

    These files derive from three sections of the Administration's Department of Social and Political Matters: Social and Political, Religious, and Productivity of the Jewish People in the Wrocław Province. They include reports on the Jewish population, Jewish institutions, and Jewish congregations, including conflicts within the Jewish community. Most of the files are from the Provincial Commissioner for the Productivity of the Jewish People in the Wrocław Province, whose objectives were to employ Jews in industry; establish, finance, and supply cooperatives and farms; find housing for Jews; t...

  4. Henry Schimmel collection

    The Henry Schimmel collection consists of documents, affidavits, and correspondence related to Henry Schimmel's post-war assistance with the emigration efforts of his relatives who had survived the Holocaust. Mr. Schimmel, who immigrated from Uzhorod, Czechoslovakia in the 1920s, contacted various relief organizations and government officials to intervene and assist with the immigration of his sister, Jolan Rozenbaum, her children Andy, Ella, and Katherine, and his nephew, David Silberstein, all of whom had survived the Holocaust.

  5. Collection of documents of Anti-Jewish Laws and Decrees of Hungary

    This collection consists of the texts of Hungary's anti-Jewish laws and decrees from 1938 to 1944 that appeared in official serial publications. Records are derived from five periodicals: Magyar Törvenytár, Magyaroszági Rendeletek Tára, Budapesti Közlöny, and Csendörségi.

  6. Cooperative Bank of Industrialists and Merchants in Częstochowa Bank Spółdzielczy Przemysłowców i Kupców w Częstochowie (Sygn. 1419)

    Financial records of one of the Jewish banks in Częstochowa, included are: the records of the opening balance during liquidation of 1941, and other liquidation files of the bank.

  7. Козелецька районна управа, смт. Козелець Козелецького району Чернігівської області

    • Kozelets district board, town of Kozelets, Kozelets district of Chernihiv oblast
    • Kozeletska raionna uprava, s.m.t. Kozelets Kozeletskoho raionu Chernihivskoi oblasti

    Local administration documentation can contain information connected to the Holocaust. Titles and sizes of the selected files potentially related to the subject: File 13. Orders by Kozelets ortskommandantur to submit lists of ethnic Germans. Lists of ethnic Germans registered in Kozelets district board, number of pages not available. File 14. Orders by Kozelets ortskommandantur to compile lists of persons who have arrived from another locations, to prohibit prisoners of war from marrying, and to register prisoners of war, 31 pages. File 24. Decree by Kozelets ortskommandantur to allocate la...

  8. Family car and women knitting in prewar Vienna

    The family car (new?), which was later confiscated by the Nazis, along with a revolver and some gold coins. Peter rides a toy car and plays ball. Sign reads "19. Hannplatz." CUs, women knit.

  9. Kiev during first days of war

    First weeks of war in Kiev. Wartime in countryside, building defense lines. Stalin, Krushchev, and other Soviet officials and politicians are seen clapping, supposedly celebrating the unification of Ukraine. Cut to the countryside (probably just outside of Kiev), where people dressed in traditional Ukrainian folk costumes celebrate, marching on the streets. They appear to enter Kiev, though this may be a different group entirely. The marchers carry banners, including a picture of Stalin. Khruschev waves at the crowd. Girls appear to wave back. Others hold up flowers and five-point stars. Fa...

  10. Ursula Nelson collection

    Photographs (two albums, two loose photographs) and certificate from the Deutscher Makkabikreise, 1938, both related to Ursula Kantorowicz (later Nelson), documenting her childhood in Germany and young-adult years as an emigre in England. Photograph albums include images of Nelson's parents and relatives in Germany, childhood friends, her life in Britain after emigration, including her friends and work, and her first husband, Leslie Smith.

  11. Liberation of Ozarichi and Minsk

    Wounded people, mostly children, are taken off a train that was intercepted on its way to Ozarichi, a concentration camp in Belarus. They are placed on a cart by Soviet soldiers. Soviet investigators inspect corpses lying in the snow. They perform an outdoor autopsy of sorts on a dead child. Shots of survivors at the camp. Liberated people struggle down the road. Interior scenes of the sick being treated in a hospital. Barbed wire around camp (still Ozarichi?). Scenes of German-occupied Minsk. Germans regulate traffic and check papers of civilians in cars. German soldiers break into a house...

  12. Anschel and Fela Warschau papers

    Photocopied documents related to the experiences of the Warschau family at the Feldafing DP camp from 1949-1950, including the birth certificate (original) of daughter Martl, 1949.

  13. Removal to Krakow Ghetto

    Jews moving into the Krakow ghetto in winter. Carts/wagons piled with belongings. Jewish people with Star of David armbands, carrying belongings. Tram passes in BG. Busy street scenes. Men, women, and children walking across a bridge, moving into the Krakow ghetto. Bicycles, street activity. A man takes a photograph. Moving furniture, CUs, some Jews pose for the camera, snowy streets. Young girls walk in a line with chairs above their heads. More street views of people with belongings and moving about in the streets of the ghetto, furniture/paintings, trucks, the bridge, people walking, and...

  14. Goering interrogated by Soviet prosecutor, Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 68) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, March 21-22, 1946. Courtroom scene before session begins. (Rebecca West? talking to man, left of screen) Gen. Rudenko, Chief Russian prosecutor, cross-examines Goering on the authenticity of certain documents. 01:47:46 Goering says clearly, and with disdain, in response to Rudenko's question: "Jawohl. Dafuer war er der Fuehrer." [Of course. That's why he was the Fuehrer.] 01:48:20 Very good character CU, reply by Goering - methodical, slow, clear, "Das war versheiden..." 01:50 He makes reference to Bodenschatz. Goering is asked if he subscr...

  15. Jewish Philanthropic Association : Membership Card Index Asociación Filantropica Israelita : Indice

    Contains membership card index of the Asociación Filantrópica Israelita (AFI), with approximately 20,000 names of Jewish refugees, mostly from Nazi Germany (including Nazi annexed Austria), who emigrated to Argentina between the years 1933 to 1939. Also includes the names and biographical data of a few Jewish refugees from Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Latvia, Poland, Romania, and other countries in Europe. The card index was periodically updated through the 1970s.

  16. Josef Mueller: war crimes trial copy papers

    This collection of material came about as a result of research into the events that took place in Plaszow concentration camp, in particular the crimes and testimony of Josef Mueller, one of the former commandants. The papers consist of the trial judgement, a transcript of his interrogation and various statements in the case against Mueller. There are also numerous statements from Mueller, acting as a witness in the trials of other defendants. Also included is correspondence between the depositor and the Wiener Library.

  17. Corpse; children begging; roundup/beating (Aktion?)

    Bodies in street. Man walks along pavement, begging. Two men struggle to put body into wooden casket, then place casket onto cart with black box. Two girls huddled in the street, crying or begging. 14:37:37 Jewish police beating and driving people through streets; people running. Mix of men, women, children. (related to single shot in Story 2546 b)

  18. Farming and schoolyard in central Poland

    In the fields of central Poland, CU of woman harvesting crops. Then a quick succession of shots seen earlier: two girls in traditional folk dress who do not want to be photographed without their mother, girls playing dodge ball in the school yard.

  19. Portfolio

    Portfolio of prints of drawings by Violette Rougier-Lecoq depicting life in Ravensbrück concentration camp.

  20. Dr. Gilbert R. DiLoreto collection

    Zamecnik report: Three page testimony written by Stanislav Zamecnik and translated into English, probably in April-May 1945 on site of the liberated Dachau concentration camp. Mr. Zamecnik described the practices of the infirmary in the camp which included "medical" experiments and other tortures. Signal Corps photographs: annotated by Gilbert R. DiLoreto, who served as surgical technician in the Medical Corps of the 116th Evacuation Hospital. He was part of the first medical team to enter the Dachau concentration camp after liberation on April 29, 1945. He was discharged from the Army in 1...