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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Dutch

  1. Germany Awake!

    Summary of film: Recounts Germany's wartime experience and encourages German citizens to help effect a successful peace. Reel 3: German civilians are shown bodies in Nordhausen and Belsen concentration camps. People, body parts and objects from the Hadamar Institute are shown briefly. Brief shots of gold earings, teeth, etc. being sorted at Majdanek. American POWs shown. Female survivors being treated by Red Cross workers. Belsen- fields of decaying bodies, German civilians and soldiers placing bodies in trucks to be transported for proper burial. VS of high ranking Nazi officials. 08:14:00...

  2. Inventaris van het archief van het geslacht Heldring en aanverwante geslachten, 1650-1980

    • Nationaal archief
    • 2.21.085
    • Dutch
    • 1650-1980
    • 11.10 meter; 582 inventarisnummers

    De twee meest bekende personen uit de Heldring familie zijn dominee Ottho Gerhard Heldring, oprichter van de Heldring gestichten te Zetten en het opvoedingtehuis te Hoenderloo, en belangrijkste figuur in het Réveil, en Ernst Heldring, onder andere bekend als directeur van de Koninklijke Nederlandsche Stoomboot-Maatschappij en later de Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij. Verder was hij commissaris voor de Nederlandsche Bank en de Koninklijke Nederlandse Hoogovens en Staalfabrieken, en voorzitter van de Amsterdamse kamer van koophandel en fabrieken. Het grootste deel van het archief bestaat ui...

  3. Lilo Goldstone papers

    The Lilo Goldstone papers consist of five photographs of the Heldenmuth family. The photographs were taken at their home in Plettenberg, Germany; aboard the MS St. Louis; and after their arrival in England. There is also a piece of scrip issued to Alfred Heldenmuth at an English refugee center, and an obituary concerning the death of Solomon Heldenmuth in Germany.

  4. Sketching defendants documents, map at Nuremberg Trial

    22:25:18 (Paris 386) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, November 27, 1945. CU, cartoonist sketches Walther Funk and Wilhelm Frick. MLS of prisoners' dock, visible are: Albert Speer, Constantin Neurath, Hans Fritzsche, Franz von Papen, Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel, Alfred Rosenberg. MLS, MS, Erich Raeder's counsel makes plea to Tribunal, complaining about receiving documents presented by the prosecution too late. The list of documents the defense uses, which had been handed out the previous day, were partly incomplete, and therefore made the defens...

  5. Consulaat-generaal Vichy (Frankrijk), 1940-1945

    • Nationaal archief
    • 2.05.101
    • Dutch
    • 1940-1945
    • 1,7 meter;143 inventarisnummers

    Het archief van het Consulaat-Generaal Vichy bevat voor de periode 1940-1945 correspondentie en stukken m.b.t. de organisatie. Vichy behoorde tot het door de Duitsers bezette deel van Frankrijk. Verder zijn er stukken over de belangenbehartiging van individuele Nederlanders en de opvang van Nederlandse vluchtelingen, zoals die door verschillende organisaties werd gepleegd. Daarnaast zijn er stukken over de evacuering en repatriëring van Nederlandse vluchtelingen. 6 Bron: 'De vertegenwoordiging van Nederland in het buitenland. Het beleid ten aanzien van Nederlanders, die ten gevolge van de o...

  6. Államvédelmi Központ Elnöki iratok, 1942–1944

    • Centre of State Security Presidential Records, 1942–1944

    The survived records of the Centre of State Security mostly contain investigative files, including the cases of corruption, bribery, embezzlement, fraud, falsification of documents, black marketeering, trafficking and other violations of economic laws. A significant part of the suspects of these cases were Jews trying to circumvent the regulations of the anti-Jewish laws, or to escape internment, ghettoization and deportation in 1944, as well as non-Jews who helped or cooperated with them. The Presidential Records also include letters of denunciation against Communists and Jews, including b...

  7. Volunteers from Nazi-occupied countries

    Volunteers from Nazi-occupied or collaborator countries sent to help Germany in the fight against the Soviets. A column of Dutch Nazis marching down the streets, giving the fascist salute. The narrator describes them as the first transport of Dutch volunteers to travel to Germany, where they will join the army and fight against the Soviet Union. Crowds of well-wishers on a train platform wave goodbye to the volunteers. A close-up of a Dutch volunteer kissing his wife or girlfriend before boarding the train. The train pulls out of the station. Scene switches to Croatia, where Marshal Slavko ...

  8. Jüdische Gemeinde Köln collection

    Contains records from the Jewish communities in Köln. Includes undated deportation lists; death registers at the Israelisches Asylum 1932-1942; Gestapo card files and name lists, 1939 and 1943; records relating to the refugee camp on Blankheimer Str.,1945-1946; postwar letters and reports about persecutions of Jews, 1946-1960; postwar reports about many subjects including restitution, name lists, confiscation of property; and family document collections.

  9. Eva Sekules papers

    School report cards, correspondence, ration books, embarkation papers, identification card, travel permits, and related documents, documenting Sekules' schooling in Vienna from 1932-1938, her subsequent life in Great Britain from 1940 onward, and in particular, her service in the British military during and following World War II. Also includes ration books for food and other goods in postwar Britain, and travel permits issued by the Allied occupation forces in Austria, permitting her to enter that country on several occasions between 1949 and 1954.

  10. Arthur Fishman collection

    Photographs, photograph album pages, and a letter documenting Arthur Fishman’s experiences as a soldier in the United States Army visiting the Dachau concentration camp shortly after its liberation in April 1945. The photographs include depictions of corpses in the camp and the Dachau death train, survivors, German prisoners, and camp architecture. There are also photographs of a 3rd anniversary celebration of the 2829 Engineers “C” in Flintsbach, Germany, and of Arthur Fishman in uniform. The Dachau photographs include original photographs in the album pages and loose contemporary copy pri...

  11. Hetty E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hetty E., who was born in England in 1913. She recalls moving to Paris with her mother in 1920; their orthodox observance; her mother's death; German invasion; visiting a cousin in Reims; interrogation by a German soldier because she was a British citizen; returning to Paris; hiding in her apartment with assistance from the concierge; arrest as a British citizen rather than as a Jew; deportation to Drancy in January 1944; forced labor and deportations; transfer to Vittel as a British citizen; living with other British citizens in hotels surrounded by barbed wire; libe...

  12. Salomon and Fried Hess: personal papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of Salomon and Frieda Hess who emigrated to South Africa in 1939 whilst their disabled son Alfred Hess stayed behind at a psychiatric hospital until he was deported in 1942.Personal papers Including correspondence with the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland (Reich's Association of Jews in Germany) regarding legal guardianship and payment of maintenance costs for Alfred Hess as well as the management of their financial assets in preparations for emigration. Also included are papers relating to a restitution claim by Salomon and Frieda Hess.

  13. BARNETT, Maj Benjamin George (b 1912)

    Papers relating to his military service, 1944-1945, principally comprising war diary including maps and photographs, Sep 1944-Jul 1945; copy of report on the liberation of Belsen written for the Director of Military Government by Lt Col R I G Taylor, Officer Commanding, 63 Anti Tank Regt, [1945]; orders relating to the occupation and administration of Belsen, from Brig General Staff of 8 Corps, British Liberation Army, April 1945; report on Belsen by Capt Barker, Royal Army Medical Corps, 63 Anti Tank Regt, Jun 1945; letter to British officers from a group of Czech women prisoners describin...

  15. Zohn M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zohn M., who was drafted into the United States Army and served in the 103rd Infantry Division, 409th Regiment in World War II. He recounts liberating slave labor camps in Bavaria; entering Landsberg concentration camp; stacks of corpses; encountering a group of camp prisoners being evacuated; describing them as walking skeletons; entering Dachau after its liberation; a former prisoner guiding him through the camp; and screening refugees moving into displaced persons camp. He shows photographs and items from the camps, a book about his regiment, and reads from a lette...

  16. Сосницька районна поліція, смт. Сосниця Сосницького району Чернігівської області

    • Sosnytsia district police, town of Sosnytsia, Sosnytsia district of Chernihiv oblast
    • Sosnytska raionna politsiia, s.m.t. Sosnytsia Sosnytskoho raionu Chernihivskoi oblasti

    Local auxiliary police documentation can contain information related to the Holocaust. Titles and sizes of the selected files: File 2. Minutes of interrogation, 115 pages. File 6. Personal information of the police staff (orders, registers, lists, reports), 133 pages. File 7. Signed statements by village dwellers, lists of district police agents, 100 pages. File 11. Lists of policemen to obtain allowance, registers for food distribution, 16 pages. File 13. Lists of arrested persons, 23 pages. File 14. Registration book of arrested persons, 21 pages. File 15. Registration book of the operati...

  17. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 100 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 100 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  18. Gertrude Heller Fischbach collection

    The Gertrude Heller Fischbach collection consists of six photographs relating to the family of Gertrude Fischbach (née Heller). Pictured in the photographs are the parents of Gertrude Fischbach Moritz Heller (b. December 30, 1876) and Friede Heller (b. May 25, 1880), and her parents-in-law Jonas Fischbach (b. October 17, 1885) and Amalie Fischbach (née Dull, b. September 29, 1884). The photographs were taken in Klagenfurt, Austria in 1938; London, England, circa 1939; and 1943-1944 after their arrival in the United States. All pictured were passengers on the MS St. Louis and eventually immi...

  19. Archief van de Dienst voor Emigratie.

    Het bestand van de Dienst voor Emigratie bevat een aantal nummers die betrekking hebben op de emigratie van Joden, zoals de emigratie van Poolse en Russische Joden naar Amerika in de jaren 1920, en Joodse vluchtelingen in de jaren 1930. Nr. 35 bevat briefwisseling met het Antwerpse Komiteit voor Joodsche Vluchtelingen, uit de periode 1939-1940. Verder is ook nog een dossier bewaard inzake overtredingen op de wet en het reglement van het vervoer van emigranten, dat betrekking heeft op de Centrale de Bienfaisance Juive (1946) (nr. 123), en een dossier in verband met het verlenen van een visum...

  20. City Committee of the Communist Party of Croatia Gradski Komitet Saveza Komunista Hrvatske

    This collection contains data on Jews murdered on the territory of what, on November 29, 1945, became the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia. The data are arranged alphabetically by victim name.