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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Polish

  1. March of Time -- outtakes -- Orchestra; art gallery; press conference in Tel Aviv

    Men and women going to see "The Palestine Orchestra." CU, poster with date January 25, 1945. 05:40:01 Woman at piano, talking to man. CU pianist, her hands. 05:41:56 People arriving outside Katz Art Gallery. CU, poster advertising sculpture exhibition by S.C. Stutzer. Busts in the gallery. 05:43:14 Men in workshop, printing. Newspaper printing machine. Men in office. EXT, press building, vendors leaving with newspapers on their bicycles. 05:46:50 Conference of Arab-Jewish press in Tel Aviv. Jewish and Arab journalists of Tel Aviv and Arab journalists from Jaffa meet with Dr. W.M. Clyde, adv...

  2. Souvenir coin with a swastika and Star of David

    Promotional coin issued by the nationalist German newspaper, Der Angriff. The coin was struck in 1934 to memorialize the journey of Baron von Mildenstein, a Nazi party member, to Palestine. The trip resulted in a pro-Zionist report encouraging Jewish emigration to Palestine and elsewhere, published in Der Angriff. It is embossed with the text, Ein Nazi fahrt nach Palastina, [A Nazi goes to Palestine] which is also the title of a book published by the Nazi Party in 1934.

  3. Applications of the Jewish residents on the Stanisławów County of Poland (now Ivano-Frankivsk Region of Ukraine) for obtaining passports (Fond 6, Opis 3)

    The collection contains applications for obtaining passports enabling travel abroad for business, medical treatment, or pleasure. Applications were submitted for review and approval to the Stanisławów County Executive Office (Stanisławów powiatowe starostwo) during the years 1918 to 1938. A typical file contains correspondence with foreign embassies and consulates, original passports, correspondence with Polish government officials justifying travel abroad, various copies of the official documents and certificates.

  4. Selected records from the State Historical archives of the Chuvash Republic related to evacuation of civilians during WWII

    Contains records of evacuations to Chuvashia during World War II, including information on resettlement, employment, food supply, and medical assistance provided by the local authorities. The collection also includes various lists of evacuees and members of their families.

  5. The three lives of Gizel Berman

    The memoir describes Gizel Berman's childhood in Uz︠h︡horod, Ukraine, and Sobrance, Czechoslovakia, her schooling in Brussels, Belgium, the imprisonment and torture of Berman's boyfriend, Nick, her reunion with Nick and their marriage, their deportation to Auschwitz, Berman's transfer and life in Stutthof and her physical separation from her husband, her liberation and return to Uz︠h︡horod, her reunion with her husband, their immigration and assimilation into American culture, and their daughter's experiences with antisemitism.

  6. Jack Neufeld papers

    Consists of correspondence, restitution and naturalization documentation, pertaining to the experiences of Jack (Jurek) Neufeld, born 1922 in Wolbrom, Poland. The correspondence includes letters from families Schwinghammer and Preis of Eggenfelden, Germany, who Jack knew well from his time living as a displaced person in the community.

  7. Oscar F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Oscar F., who was born in Zawalo?w, Poland to a family of seven children. He recounts Soviet occupation at the outbreak of war; German invasion in 1941; his oldest brother's draft into the Soviet army (they never saw him again); hiding with his brother to avoid round-ups; escaping to the woods with his brother after his family was taken into the ghetto; joining a group of Jews; digging bunkers in various locations; avoiding Ukrainian partisans who killed the Jews in hiding; liberation by Soviet troops in March 1944; traveling with Soviet troops to Buchach; fleeing wit...

  8. Wolfgang Salinger collection

    This collection contains original correspondence from members and friends of the Salinger family to Wolfgang Salinger who fled Germany for England in 1939; personal papers, such as certificates, postcards and a family tree; and photographs.

  9. Estate of Ilse von Twardowski-Conrat, in the Archive of the City of Munich, 1898-1942

    Estate of Ilse von Twardowski-Conrat, in the Archive of the City of Munich, 1898-1942 Painter Ilse Beate von Twardowski was born in Vienna on 20/01/1880. Her parents, who converted to Christianity in 1852, had her baptized to Christianity (Evangelist) when she was a baby. She received her art training in Brussels. She married Ernst von Twardowski in 1910 and moved in his footsteps from Rome to Munich in 1914. During the Nazi regime, she was forbidden to work in her profession due to her Jewish origin, and in 1936 she was expelled from the Reichskammer für bildende Künste. She committed suic...

  10. Бердичівська міська управа, м. Бердичів Житомирської області

    • Berdychiv city administration
    • Berdychivska miska uprava

    File 2 contains: Order of gebietskommissar in Berdychiv to chairmen of Berdychiv city administration and district administrations of Berdichiv, Andrushivka and Yanushpil from November 27, 1941, on taxation of the Jewish population. Order of gebietskommissar in Berdychiv to chairmen of Berdychiv city administration and district administrations of Berdichiv, Andrushivka and Yanushpil, dated January 20, 1942, on wearing identification marks by the Jews. Order of the city administration of Berdychiv on January 21, 1942 about the same. Order of gebietskommissar in Berdychiv to chairmen of Berdyc...

  11. Stefan Kowalinski letter

    A letter written by Stefan Kowalinski in Gross Rosen concentration camp is addressed to his wife Marie Kowalinski and their family, dated May 7, 1944. The letter thanks Marie for the package she sent him and inquires about other acquaintances.

  12. German newsreel featuring stories about the United States

    05:42:38 West point cadets at graduation. The ceremony takes place by the Hudson River; many spectators. Cadets on parade. They are shown marching in slow motion at one point. 05:43:21 US government agents raid an illegal moonshine operation. They release alcohol from taps, drain a large basin and confiscate cans of moonshine. They dismantle the still and blow it up. 05:44:03 A large crowd of American boys (students) rush onto a field to play a game while spectators watch. At first there appear to be only boys but later girls are also on the field. The game is very physical. The students th...

  13. Soldiers awarded; soldiers dance; scrapping of downed German airplane

    Titles: "Soviet newsreel / 78 / August 15, 1941"/ "Glory"/ "To brave defenders of the Homeland"/ "Presiding chairman of the Supreme Court of the USSR Comrade Kalinin gives out awards and medals" Several MS of Kalinin shaking hands with and presenting awards to soldiers. Tracking LSs of battleships. CUs naval officer and several soldiers. Titles: 01:12:00 "N Squadron, our brave Falcons"/ Film-reporting from the front lines" LS Soviet plane camouflaged by trees. LS attentive audience of Soviet soldiers. ELS crowd of soldiers gathered around Cossack dancers. Cuts between LS soldier dancing and...

  14. Defendants enter courtroom during Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 426 and 430) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, December 7, 1945. Various angles of defendants entering prisoners' dock prior to the start of the trial, the first six shake hands. Shot of Erich Räder talking with Hess and Goering. MS, Wilhem Keitel and Alfred Jodl speaking to one another in the dock. Repeat entry scene from a second camera angle - head-on. Some close views. Defendants say "Guten Morgen" to each other. Frank enters and smiles, doesn't like the light so puts on shades. 23:34:00 More close views, brief.

  15. Narodowosocjalistyczna Niemiecka Partia Robotnicza. Kierownictwo Okręgu Kraju Warty [Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei. Gauleitung Wartheland]

    • akta osobowe (akta personalne pracowników Wydziału dla Urzędników i Związku Niemieckich Urzędników) - akta administracyjne (pisma okólne kierownictwa okręgowego NSDAP dot. działalności politycznej, gospodarczej, propagandowej i in.; korespondencja w sprawach personalnych członków NSDAP; korespondencja, sprawozdania dot. pracy wydziałów Kierownictwa Okręgu NSDAP; materiały Wydziału dla Wychowawców Narodowosocjalistycznego Związku Nauczycieli; sprawozdania z działalności powiatowych władz partyjnych; opinie polityczne o urzędnikach wymiaru sprawiedliwości, administracji i urzędów samorządow...

  16. Arnold Kronfeld papers

    The papers consist of correspondence, visa applications, affidavits and other materials that belonged to Herbert E. Kronfeld [donor's father] and that document his efforts to assist his maternal aunt, Bertha Dyckhoff, and her daughter, Hildegard Dyckoff, in immigrating from Berlin, Germany, to the United States. Included in the collection is correspondence from Judges Mitchell May and Algeron I. Nova, Senator Robert F. Wagner, Senator James M. Mead, and United States Secretary of State Cordell Hull.

  17. Fascist racial theory and health

    Roll 4: Closeup, head on, to camera. SS on sleeveband [see Protokoll for content]. Ein Symptom...Volk...Gefahr. Wir muessen immer zum Teil in der Grossstadt leben. Ein Lebenstil. Ich habe die groesste Angabe...der Partei...Partei und Stadt wird. Einheit. 01:25:10 VCU to camera [see Protokoll for quote in German, roughly translated]: 'A people (Volk) must be either hammer or anvil. The value of the blood determines the value of the race. The German Volk has demonstrated its worth. It must become the nucleus (kernel) of the Greater German Reich. Then we will succeed in providing the proof tha...

  18. Lithuanian Ambassador to Germany (Skirpa), Fond 1398/1

    Contains correspondence, notes, and other documents relating to the office of the former ambassador of independent Lithuania in Germany, Kazys Skirpa. The material includes letters to the prime minister and other members of the government about Lithuania’s position at the beginning of the war, an unsigned letter entitled “To liberate Lithuania forever from the Jewish yoke,” appeals to the Lithuanian nation, and letters from Reichminister Dr. Lammers.

  19. March of Time -- outtakes -- Germans arrive in Sudentenland; Sudeten refugees

    Big crowd mourning, (German) women in tears, talking. 03:43:18 Nazi speaker heard. 03:43:32 People in courtyard silently heiling. Pan, women cries as she heils. 03:44:23 Sad faces of children and women boarding streetcar. 03:44:41 Men on bicycles rush down street, men with QF ruined room. Border, gate going up, 03:45:06 grinning Nazis on horseback go through. Lots of marching Nazis, heiling (hesitant). 03:45:24 Nazis on carts, peasant women, flowers, heiling on cue, others being taught to heil. CU, elderly woman watches and does nothing. Goering with children. SS feeding people in square. F...

  20. Oral testimonies of Lewis Schloss and Trudy Schloss