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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Dutch
  1. Documentation of the Committee for the History of the Great Patriotic War, affiliated with the TsK KP (b) in Belorussia, 1942-1946

    Documentation of the Committee for the History of the Great Patriotic War, affiliated with the TsK KP (b) in Belorussia, 1942-1946 Included in the collection, among other material: - German posters against Jews and Communists in Belorussia; - Documentation regarding Nazi war criminals in Belorussia; - Testimonies of partisans in eastern Belorussia, regarding the activities in Sobibor extermination camp; - Testimony of the Burgermeister, Skuratovskiy; - Documentation regarding the Glebokie Ghetto uprising and the mass murder of the Jews in the Glebokie Ghetto on 19/08/1943; - Information reg...

  2. German airforce bomber attacks

    VS, German bomber airplane on an airstrip, with Nazi insignia and other markings of the German airforce. VS, mechanics and crew loading bombs onto plane. MS, a military official demonstrates plan of attack to crew using a map. Low angle shot of the belly of the plane closing once ammunition and supplies are on board. CU, night time, propellers of the airplanes, moves out to MLS, plane visible on the runway, preparing for flight. MS, crew members board plane, they shake hands with man who remains on the ground. LS, airplane takes flight. VS, from POV of crew members inside the plane, clouds,...

  3. District Authority Velké Meziříčí Okresní úřad Velké Meziříčí

    Administrative records of Velké Meziříčí, a town in the Vysočina region, including anti-Jewish measures and decrees and the aryanization and expropriation of Jewish properties and assets. Records pertaining to the emigration of Jews. Post-war records pertaining to the restitution and confiscation of expropriated Jewish properties.

  4. Selected records of the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs

    Contains records relating to repatriation of prisoners of war, aid to refugees including materials regarding the High Commissioner of the League of Nations, the Nansen Office, and Nansen refugee passports; proceedings and reports of the Intergovernmental Refugee Committee and of the Evian Conference; help to refugees from various countries; post-war refugee help; Swedish police reports on Danish Jews in Malmö, Hälsingbor, and other towns; Swedish diplomatic correspondence on refugee questions; and press clippings of the Ossietzky affair from 1936 to 1937.

  5. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Aube

    This collection contains documents from the Special Police Commissariat. It includes lists of refugees by nationality, materials on internment facilities, and documents of the Bureau of Liaison with the German authorities and of the Renseignements généraux (the police agency watching foreigners). Also included are documents on the persecution of Jews in the communes of Isle-Aumont and Ramerupt, and materials of the post-liberation Historical Commission on the Second World .

  6. Hilda R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hilda R., who was born deaf in Vienna, Austria in 1904. She recalls her family; starting work at age sixteen as a seamstress; her marriage to a deaf man; her two daughters; her husband's neglect of the children because they were deaf (he had hoped for hearing children); their divorce; emigration to the United States in 1940 with assistance from a brother already there; having to remain at Ellis Island because they were deaf; and assistance received from the New York Society for the Deaf. Mrs. R. discusses her strong faith in God; gratitude to the United States; visiti...

  7. P.19 Collection of Carl Lutz, Swiss Diplomat and Righteous Among the Nations, 1935-1970

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 4019608
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1935-1970
    • Album Letter List of names Newspaper clippings Official documentation Passport Personal documents Photograph Research article Survey report

    P.19 Collection of Carl Lutz, Swiss Diplomat and Righteous Among the Nations, 1935-1970 Carl Lutz (1895-1975) was the Swiss Vice Consul in Jaffa, Eretz Israel, 1935-1941, and in Budapest, Hungary, 1942-1945. Following the German occupation of Hungary, 1944, he was extremely active in rescuing Jews with United States, British, Romanian, El Salvadorian and other citizenships, as well as on behalf of those with certificates to make aliya to Eretz Israel. - The collection was submitted to Yad Vashem in 1981, through the generosity of Agnes Hirschi, Lutz's adopted daughter; - The collection is c...

  8. March of Time -- outtakes -- Popes Pius XI and XII

    Compilation of footage from the tenure of Pope Pius XI (Pius XII's predecessor) on the occasion of his death. Title onscreen: "Universal Newsreel Vatican City Impressive Scenes Mark the Passing of Beloved Pontiff." Crowds outside the Vatican. Priests and others attend to Pope Pius XI as he lies in his bed. Pius XI visits the king and queen of Italy. 02:01:23 Pope Pius XI on the balcony at the church of St. John Lateran. Pius XI blessing the Alpine Chausseur (French mountain troops), followed by footage of Pius XI being crowned pope. 02:01:58 Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli (Pope Pius XII) walks to...

  9. Eva Kaul: personal papers

    This collection contains the family papers of Eva Kaul, a Jewish woman from Berlin who fled Nazi oppression.Personal papers, most of which  relate to Eva Kaul's parents, grandparents and other relatives. They include birth, death and marriage certificates, and last wills and testaments. Also includes Kurt Lisser's Landsturmschein; Eva and Fedor Kaul's qualifications, naturalisation and marriage certificates, and papers and correspondence relating to her parents' death and inheritance.German, English, Dutch

  10. Nazi officials at the Große Deutsche Kunstausstellung (color)

    AGFA 1940. Officials gather outside the Haus der Deutschen Kunst in Munich for the Große Deutsche Kunstausstellung [Great German Art Exhibition] which took place from July 16 to October 15, 1939. 00:02:06 Otto Nippold, NSDAP Gauleiter in München-Oberbayern, smiling, before other officials in uniform. Gauleiter Adolf Wagner (in brown uniform at 00:02:16) gestures and speaks with other officials, woman in flowered dress and hat. Spectators gather for the occasion. Nippold walks on red carpet. 00:02:40 Nippold with NSKK-Obergruppenfuehrer Helmuth Oldenbourg (in brown uniform), Fuehrer of Motor...

  11. Simone G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Simone G., who was born in W?oc?awek, Poland in 1931. She recounts vague memories of her parents and older brother; going to live with an aunt in Paris in 1936 (she never saw her family again); German invasion; her uncle's draft into the French military; his return; her aunt arranging to send her to an orphanage; learning her uncle had been deported; living with a family in central France, posing as a non-Jew; reunion with her aunt and uncle after liberation; living in Septeuil; returning to Paris; their emigration to the United States in 1957; marriage; and her child...

  12. Áldozati nevekkel kapcsolatos gyűjtemény

    • Recording the Names Collection

    The collection consists of two sub-collections: 1. Locality name lists, including the lists of Jews prepared by the Jewish communities and the Hungarian public administration upon the orders of the Nazi authorities and the pro-Nazi Hungarian government in April and May 1944, ghetto name lists prepared in May-June 1944 as well as lists of victims created after the war by survivor organizations, memorial committees and individuals; 1732 files in total 2. Concentration camp name lists, including lists of victims, transport and infirmary lists, registry cards and other personal documents from c...

  13. War Crimes Trials: Medical Case; Welt im Film no. 57

    (Munich 529) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. Courtroom, dock. MS, defendant Oskar Schroeder is interrogated by his defense counsel, Dr. Rudolf Merkel. 09:29:41 Welt im Film no. 57: "Marshal Sir Sholto Douglas in Hamburg, Germany" SEQ: Douglas arrives in Hamburg, Germany to attend a session of the Zones Advisory Board. He greets the members of the Zones Advisory Board and in his speech says that his appointment coincides with the beginning of a new phase of British policy regarding the British Zone. "The Scholl Case." The first ses...

  14. Burger family collection

    Collection of documents, photographs, clippings, correspondence, an English translation of a diary, and other materials documenting the experiences of Solomon Burger from Vienna, Austria and his children: Herman, Alfred, Joseph, and Steffi and their experiences before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  15. Ferencz lecture: Wiesenthal Holocaust Center

    Ferencz lecture. Wiesenthal Holocaust Center, Los Angeles, CA. Second in five part series on Nazi war crimes trials. Ferencz discusses how the Nuremberg proceedings informed his life, his involvement in major restitution programs, and his understanding of "Never Again" through developing international law, an international criminal court, and defining aggression. He explains the legal precedents established at Nuremberg, including a) crime of aggression; b) crimes against humanity; c) trying heads of state; and d) guaranteeing rights to every prisoner (innocent until proven guilty in a cour...

  16. Records on prisoners camps of the Reich Ministry of Justice (Reichsjustizministerium), R 3001 (R 22)

    Contains records of Reichsjustizministerium (Reich Ministry of Justice) on Emsland camps which document the fate of individual prisoners and holds biographical information and detailed reports about the conditions of camp life and slave labor. Files contain personal information; lists of prisoners of the camps; and transport lists, including name, profession, and duration of sentence. Prisoners included criminal prisoners, homosexuals, Jews and political opponents of the National Socialist regime. German soldiers who were sentenced under military laws also were deported to these camps, maki...

  17. Kluizen - Coffres-forts. Collection

    This collection consists of the bank vaults which were not claimed by their original owners post-war. The owners were both Jewish and non-Jewish war victims or refugees who did not return to Belgium. The vaults do not contain any valuables, but documents including securities and personal documents, family photos, and objects such as cutlery, photo cameras and tableware. This collection is not accessible to third parties. Relatives who might be entitled to the content of one of the vaults are requested to contact archives@kazernedossin.eu

  18. Poster

    Poster: multi-color image of two German soldiers in the field with a Nazi ensignia in the top left corner and text in green and red on the bottom, "Die Polizei Im Fronteinsatz Tag Der Deutschen Polizei." The poster is signed on the right edge, "F. Albrecht 1941." The poster has been folded and has tears on the edges

  19. DPs moving in Germany; Inspection of army band/troops

    03:46:41 (Munich 756) Movement of DPs from Berlin to American Zone of Germany, Kassel, Germany, July 24, 1948. DPs line up, getting ready to pull out of Kassel area. CU, Maj A S Hyman speaking to group and Dr. William Haber, adviser to Gen Clay on DP affairs. MCU, woman holding child. CU, blonde girl. Two women sitting next to their belongings. DPs waiting at railroad station platform. CU, girl holding doll. DPs walking to the station. DPs getting aboard trucks Pan, line of trucks filled with DPs at Camp Mattenberg. People getting of trucks at camp. Men getting loaves of bread out of truck....

  20. Heilpern family papers

    Consists of two German passports (Reisepässe): one issued to Felix Heilpern on May 15, 1939, and one, in a leather passport protector, issued to Hans Heilpern on May 5, 1939. Also includes a pre-war copyprint of Hans and Sidonie Heilpern, and a family photograph of the Heilpern family taken before Felix left for the United States as one of the "50 children" with the assistance of the Kraus family. Also includes a copy of Felix's birth certificate, and an original document issued by the commandant of Buchenwald regarding Hans' internment in the camp.