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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Polish

  1. Bălţi County Tribunal

    • Tribunal judeţean Bălţi
    • Бельцкий уездный трибунал
    • Bel'tskiy uyezdnyy tribunal

    Extracts from the sentences of persons convicted of various crimes; statistics on persons brought to trial by the court

  2. Regional organization of the Communist Party, Sofia (Fond 18)

    Contains mainly appeals against fascism, antisemitism, and persecution of the Jews in Bulgaria. Includes an appeal from a group of Jews in Sofia, Bulgaria, to destroy fascism, to establish a government of the Fatherland Front, and to welcome the Red Army along with the Bulgarian people.

  3. Papers of Peter Gabe (Fond 137)

    Contains manuscripts, notebooks, letters and newspaper clippings relating to the Jewish question, Jewish language, resettlement of Jewish families in Bulgaria, and migration of Russian Jews to agricultural colonies in Palestine.

  4. Contribution to the history of Slovakia The so-called "Jewish question"

    Contains a memoir entitled "Contribution to the History of Slovakia (The So-called 'Jewish Question' - Partial Autobiography)" relating to the experiences in Slovakia from 1925 to 1947. In the memoir Georg Keleti discusses childhood in Slovakia, local antisemitiesm, the history of the Hlinka Guard, and the Free Slovak Republic. The memoir was written in or after 1991and ends with a note about the author's 1991 visit in Slovakia.

  5. Appenzeller family collection

    Collection of documents, correspondence and photographs relating to Adam Emmanuel Appenzeller (donor's father), b. November 20, 1889 in Krakow and Josefa Peppi Appenzeller (donor's mother) b. March 16, 1902 in Jurcoutz, Bukovina.

  6. Тростянецька районна управа (періоду німецько-фашистської окупації), с. Ладижин Тростянецького району

    • Trostianets district administration
    • Trostianetska raionna uprava

    Documents on the organizational and economic activities of Jewish communities in the ghetto: permission for shoemaking, tailoring and pottery workshops, opening of barbershops, sofas, bakeries, buffets and grocery stores, production of sausage wares, fur trade, small-scale trade [inventory 1, files 84, 88, 104, 110, 130-131; inventory 3, files 17, 20, 36]. An order for the isolation of those sick on typhus in the ghetto [inventory 3, file 1, p. 150; inventory 1, file 11, p. 17]. Orders for the establishment of a Jewish ghetto and a special regime for the detention of prisoners, prohibition ...

  7. US Army liberation of concentration camps

    A film produced by the US Information Agency, Paris, France and the US Army. It tells the story of American soldiers and the liberation of Europe's concentration camps through compilations of footage shot by the US Army upon liberation of the camps. Narration from POV of an American soldier.

  8. Documentation of the Commissioner for the Four Year Plan (Beauftragter fuer den Vierjahresplan), Germany, 1933-1945

    Documentation of the Commissioner for the Four Year Plan (Beauftragter fuer den Vierjahresplan), Germany, 1933-1945 The Four Year Plan is an economic plan, that began in 1936, and that was meant to prepare Germany for war. Hermann Goering was appointed to head the program. The monitoring of the economy in the Third Reich before the war was not absolute and the objectives of the program were only partially achieved, due to, among others, lack of coordination between the supervisors in the various fields. At the beginning of the war, the German economy became more centralized and the responsi...

  9. Buchenwald Standort-Kantine concentration camp scrip, 2 Reichsmark

    2 Reichsmark coupon issued at Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. Buchenwald opened on July 19, 1937, and issued undated notes in 0.5, 1, 2, and 3 mark denominations. The simply designed notes were printed on coarse paper. There were two types of coupons: canteen scrip and exchange scrip issued to members of outside labor brigades [Aussenkommandos.] In early April 1945, as US forces approached Buchenwald concentration camp, the German guards began to evacuate the camp. On April 11, the prisoners revolted and seized control of the camp. Later that day, soldiers from the Sixth Army Armo...

  10. Kan family: daily life; picnic

    House (the same shown at the beginning of Film ID 2473 - in Amsterdam?). Betsy walks down the stairs dressed in a coat and hat, carrying a briefcase. Robert walks out of the house towards the camera. He takes off his hat and bows. Jeanne exits the house along with Betsy who closes the door. The three stand together. 01:13:24 EXT, family picnic. VAR shots of children playing, people eating, and laying around. 01:14:24 Scenic woods. Family sits and waves to camera. Ice-cream vendor's cart, children gathered around.

  11. Field Marshal von Paulus testifies at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 552) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, February 13, 1946. Ex-Field Marshal von Paulus takes the stand and is questioned by Dr. Otto Nelte, Keitel's attorney (in German). Von Paulus is questioned about military orders, i.e. who signed them (Hitler, Jodl, Keitel). In particular, they talk about order no. 21, attack on Russia(?). ... He is later questioned about a telegram (letter) to the Soviet government concerning the battle of Stalingrad and the effects on Russian civilian life and prisoners of war. Nelte asks reproachfully why there is no mention of the sacrifices of German so...

  12. Terrence D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Terrence D., a professor at Colgate University who was born in Effingham, Illinois in 1939. He describes his first awareness of the Holocaust as a child; his own childhood experience of loss and displacement; his undergraduate and graduate concern with martyred heroes in literature; his interest in factual accounts of personal experience in extreme situations; and his authorship of The Survivor: An Anatomy of Life in the Death Camps. He discusses the post-Holocaust need for new definitions of conventional terms such as conscience, dignity, and witness and details the ...

  13. Kraft Durch Freude festival, Hamburg: Various material

    This microfilm collection of material documents a festival organised by Kraft durch Freude in Hamburg, 1937, and contains photographs, programmes etc.

  14. Papers re Dr Otto Ernst Schueddekopf of the Hielscher Group

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This microfilm collection consists of affidavits and other statements by former members of the 'Hielscher Group', an anti-Nazi resistance group, in support of another member, Otto-Ernst Schüddekopf, with regard to post-war court proceedings. The statements provide useful information on the workings of the Hielscher group, supplemented by a deposition from Friedrich Hielscher, himself

  15. Rapporto generale della commissione per la ricostruzione delle vicende che hanno caratterizzato in Italia le attività di acquisizione dei beni dei cittadini ebrei da parte di organismi pubblici e privati

    • Anselmi Commission on Jewish Properties - General Report
    • Rapporto Generale della Commissione Anselmi sui Beni Ebraici
    • General report by the commission aiming to study the acquisition of Jewish citizens' goods by private and public bodies in Italy

    The general report, available both in Italian and in English, traces spoliation, confiscation, depredation liquidation and post-war restitution of Jewish citizens' properties. The cooperation by several banks and the Banca d'Italia is described.

  16. Photographs of Armenian genocide from the Armin T. Wegner collection

    The collection consists of 56 copy photographs depicting the results of the Armenian genocide from 1915 to 1923 in the Ottoman Empire. Images are of children and adults in various activities, corpses in ditches, hangings, Armenians as refugees living in tents in the Syrian desert, and piles of skulls and burned bodies.

  17. Tajna Policja Państwowa /Gestapo/, Oddział Policji Państowej w Gdańsku

    Listy płac urzędników, rezerwistów Waffen SS i tajnej policji polowej.

  18. Papers of Selig Brodetsky

    Papers and correspondence, relating to Brodetsky's early scholastic achievements, personal material and the Board of Deputies and Zionist matters, 1900-53, together with newspaper cuttings from 1916 onwards. Papers for 1939-53, when Brodetsky was President of the Board of Deputies, include correspondence with Chief Rabbi Hertz and Ivan Greenberg.

  19. Soviet prosecutor Rudenko questions witness about Katyn Forest Massacre at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 272) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, July 1 and 29, 1946. LS Tribunal. Russian prosecutor Lt. Gen. R A Rudenko questioning witness (not seen). MLS, former colonel of German signal regiment, Ahrens, is questioned by Russian prosecutor. Russian witness Professor Boris Vasiltevich Bazilevsky testifying about the Katyn Forest massacre. MLS, Rudenko interrogating Bazilevsky. Shots of prominent US newspapermen seated in visitors' gallery: (left to right) Arthur Hays Sulzberger, Publishing Editor of N Y Times; Lee Hills, Managing Editor of Miami Florida Herald; John C. Ostreicher, F...

  20. Red Front demonstration

    Men marching down a street, some playing insturments and carrying flags, as part of a Red Front demonstration in Berlin. They raise their fists in a salute at one point. Crowds watching Ernst Thaelmann, the KPD candidate who ran against Hitler in 1932 and was later executed in Buchenwald. Profile shots of him speaking (silent). The crowd salutes. A building with a large "Vote List 5" sign on it. KPD election campaign demonstration. People hand out literature. A poster shows a drawing of a worker slaying a several-headed snake. Signs entreating people to vote for the KPD. Shotes of people ma...