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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Polish

  1. War Crimes Trials: Malmedy, sentencing

    (Munich 298) Malmedy War Crimes Trials, Sentencing of Accused, Dachau, Germany, July 16, 1946. LS, spectators in courtroom. 1st Lt. Friedrich Crist sentenced to death by hanging. Maj Diefenthal receiving sentence of hanging. Gen. Sepp Dietrich receiving sentence of life imprisonment. PFC George Fleps sentenced to death. MS, defendants in dock as court president is heard sentencing Willi Heinz Hendel to death. PFC Joachim Hofman sentenced to death. PFC Friedel Kies sentenced to death. Mjaor Knittel sentenced to life imprisonment. Fritz Kraemer, Chief of Staff of the 6th SS Panzer, receiving ...

  2. Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland: Records

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.Original and mimeographed documents of the Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland. Also included within 602/8 is a file of transcribed correspondence regarding Gross-Breesen, a non-zionist training camp set up by the Reichsvertretung to prepare young people for life abroad (not Palestine).The papers include committee minutes, reports, memoranda, circulars and correspondence detailing all aspects of the organisations activities.

  3. Records of the Trieste Court of Appeals

    This collection contains various records concerning the legal discrimination against and expulsion of Jews from various professions in Trieste and the Adriatic coast during the war. It also contains postwar court records concerning the restitution of expropriated Jewish property.

  4. Hilde Sanderson: family papers

    This collection of papers documents in part the lives of a German Jewish family, persecuted by the Nazis, and the processes involved in the subsequent claim for restitution from the German government. The following is a list of the family members whose names occur in the collections.\ Stanley Tash (Sally Tachauer), Hilde Sanderson (née Tachauer) and Gisela (Ella) Feuchtwanger (previously Plaut, née Tachauer) are all siblings.\ Hedwig, Rosa and Alfred Seelig are all siblings, the aunts and uncle of the above.\ Ilse Seelig, (later Warner) was a cousin of Regina Tachauer (née Tachauer), Stanly...

  5. Verdoner family out in Hilversum

    Yoka Verdoner out for a stroll with her mother Hilde Verdoner and her baby sister Francisca Verdoner (in baby carriage). Yoka wheels along a baby doll in a play stroller. VS, of the family on their outing through the streets in their home town of Hilversum, Holland.

  6. Jenny Eisenstein collection

    The collection relates to members of Jenny Eisenstein's family, containing numerous photographs of people Jenny sang for, either at weddings or bar mitzvahs. The collection includes: miscellaneous photographs of Jews (some are annotated) collected by Jenny from Jewish refugees living in Canada which contain Yiddish or Hebrew, Polish, and English annotations (circa 1920-1935, circa 1946-); miscellaneous correspondence, identification papers, passport (Polish), etc., relating to the immigration of Herz Mordcha Kohn to Canada (circa 1927-1930); a Canadian passport issued to Morris Ricer (circa...

  7. Oral history interview with Lou Dunst

  8. Von Ribbentrop interrogated at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 79) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, April 2, 1946. LSs, Dr. Alfred Seidl, Hess's lawyer, questions Joachim von Ribbentrop on details of the Russian-German treaty. CUs, von Ribbentrop responds. MSs, Justices Lawrence, Birkett, and Biddle. MSs, Chief Justice Lawrence questions von Ribbentrop. LSs, MSs, CUs, Chief British Prosecutor Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe questions von Ribbentrop about Hitler's policy toward the Sudetenland and Czechoslovakia and about a meeting he attended that described Hitler's desire to wipe Czechoslovakia from the map of the world. CUs, von Ribbentrop. LSs,...

  9. Selected records of the Central Committee for Social Welfare in Warsaw Centralny Komitet Opieki Społecznej w Warszawie (Sygn. 164/0)

    Questionnaires of children who were abroad (in Denmark and Norway), correspondence and name lists on the persons returned to Poland after the Second World War. Includes documents related to financial assistance for children and lists of former KL Auschwitz-Birkenau prisoners who survived the camp.

  10. Živnostenské spoločenstvo v Košiciach

    • Tradesmen Association of Košice

    The collection preserves the documentation of one of the largest local associations of Košice in the period between 1872 - 1952. As far as Holocaust research is concerned, the collection contains detailed information regarding the situation of Jewish industrialists and tradesmen from the period between 1939 and 1944. One might find here various archival materials documenting the anti-Semitism of the population of contemporary Košice (for example in the form of complaints against Jewish industrialists), as well as archival files about the Aryanization of the property of Jewish tradesmen. The...

  11. Akta miasta Węgrowa

    • Files of the town of Węgrów

    The collection contains i.a. general information on the situation of the Jews during the occupation, orders and circulars, tribute payment collection ledgers for the years 1940-1941 (in which the address is recorded alongside the name) and 1941-1942 (in this section there is an alphabetical list of the Jews of Węgrów).

  12. Reichskunstwart (R 32)

    This collection contains material relating to the office of the Reichskunstwart, which was created in 1920 and was dissolved by the Nazis in favor of the Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda. The purpose of the office was to ensure a consistent treatment of laws and administrative measures regarding the arts. The collection provides information about state festivals, graphics, stamps, coins, architecture, painting, literature, theater, music, dance, film, the press, memorials, and Volkskunst.

  13. Ferencz interviewed by Richard Hudson

    Interview with Benjamin Ferencz. Host: Richard Hudson, executive director of the Center for War/Peace Studies. Sponsored by the Center for War/Peace Studies. Series discusses ways of enabling the United Nations to seek a world of peace with justice. Interview focuses on the Center's proposal of a binding triad system for global decision-making (included in Ferencz's book, "A Common Sense Guide to World Peace," 1985). Ferencz describes two defining elements of his book: a) the bridge to peace involves three interlocking components: law, courts, and enforcement; b) if people are better inform...

  14. Ministry of the State Treasury, Office for Nationalized Property. Registers of confiscated properties Ministarstvo Državne Riznice, Ured za Podržavljeni imetak. Imenici i registri dosjea konfiscirane mase

    Records relate to the Aryanization and disposition of Jewish property. Collection contains registers or lists of Jewish businesses and/or self-employed Jews in various towns, cities and districts of the Independent State of Croatia. They were presumably compiled by the State Directorate for Renewal in 1941, or in 1942 by its successor, the Office for Nationalized Property of the State Treasury.

  15. Pluton Żandarmerii w Tarnowie Gendarmeriezug Tarnów (GK 693)

    Circular letters, reports, correspondence on the Home Army (Armia Krajowa)-Polish resistance movement.

  16. M.68 - Documentation regarding the Holocaust from archives in the Netherlands, 1930-1950

    M.68 - Documentation regarding the Holocaust from archives in the Netherlands, 1930-1950 The documentation gathered in the archives in the Netherlands is mainly from the National Institute for War Documentation (NIOD) and the Amsterdam Municipal Archives, as well as Het Nationaal Archief (the National Archives) and smaller archives throughout the Netherlands. The documentation deals with persecution of the Jews of the Netherlands, anti-Jewish orders and directives, the German authorities in the Netherlands during the war, Jews in camps in the Netherlands and the East, the Joodse Raad (Jewis...

  17. Hemingway and Mencken with troops; Hong Kong scenes

    "Hong Kong - Fortress!" Paramount News presents first and exclusive pictures of the new Hong Kong, a city armed for defense. Paramount News fanfare over opening titles. CU, Arthur Menken (Paramount News staff cameraman) introducing footage. General view of Hong Kong harbor. CU, waterfront skyscrapers. Street scene in Hong Kong. Signs (Chinese) on side of buildings. Street scene. Pulling rickshaw thru streets. Soldiers thru streets. General view of Hong Kong shipyard. Name: Hong Kong Dock Co. People working. Ship under construction. Men working on deck of ship. Large ships, sampans. Chinese ...

  18. J. Herbert Nagler papers

    The J. Herbert Nagler papers consist primarily of letters Nagler wrote to his parents in Philadelphia while he was studying medicine in Berlin, Germany and in Basel and Fribourg, Switzerland. His letters include his impressions of the last years of the Weimar Republic, the Nazi party and Hitler’s assumption of power, the situation of Jews in Germany, and the April 1, 1933 anti-Jewish boycott. The collection also includes an electronic typescript of Nagler’s letters and a digital image of Nagler.

  19. Food conservation leaders in US

    Part 3: US will eat less to feed Germany. Shows food conservation leaders: Hoover, Truman, Herbert Lehman, Henry Wallace, Eric Johnston, and Henry Luvce. Sec. Anderson asks America to help. Unrelated footage: Part 1: Shanghai Hails Chiang Kai-shek: Chiang deplanes, is greeted by Gen. Wedemeyer, and cheered in the city; Part 2: Gen. Homma Sentenced to Die: Japanese Gen. Homma is tried and sentenced to death by the US Military Commission in Manila; Part 4: US Soldiers go Skiing in Japan: Soldiers ski at the 8th Army Enlisted Men's Rest Center on Honshu Island (Japan); Part 5: Giant Machine Bu...

  20. Hitahadut Olej Germania: reports and papers

    These reports and papers document in part the activities of the Socialist Zionist organisation Hitahadut Olej Germania.