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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Polish

  1. Hinzert camp in 1946; repatriation of victims' bodies to Luxembourg city

    Includes original French intertitles. Musical accompaniment and end titles added by Centre national de l'audiovisual Luxembourg in 2003. On March 9, 1946, the bodies of Luxembourgers who died at SS-Sonderlager Hinzert in 1942 were repatriated to Luxembourg city. Amateur filmmaker Alphonse Wirion accompanied the convoy to Hinzert and filmed the camp at length (what was left of it), including barracks, barbed wire fences, watchtowers, debris. Then he searched the woods around the camp, exhumed the bones and the bodies that were lined up in an empty shack. The filmmaker then follows the trucks...

  2. Jewish children return home

    "Going Home", Weimar, Germany, June 5, 1945. MSs, CUs, Jewish orphans boarding train and some saying goodbye; train pulls out as children wave from windows. LSs, MSs, CUs, Jewish flag hanging from train window. CU, signs on side of train. "Going Home", Buchenwald, Germany, June 5, 1945. LSs, MSs, Polish, Hungarian, Czechoslovakian and Jewish orphans board train with their belongings. CUs, of individual children. MCUs, children looking out of window of train. Jewish flag hangs beneath window. LSs, MSs, signs hanging from train: "Vive Truman, Stalin, Churchill"; and in French: "Our beginning ...

  3. Reichstag elections, June 1920: election leaflets and advertisements

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This microfilm collection of election leaflets and advertisements also contains some antisemitic material. The Deutsche Nationalpartei and the Deutsche Demokratische Partei are most often represented, although there is also material from the National Versammlung.Reichstag election, June 1920, election leaflets and advertisements. The location of specifically antisemitic material follows.MF Doc 54/ Reel 10, Frames 115-118; 136-139; 142-143; 199; 225-226

  4. Bulletin of the Jewish Press Agency Żydowska Agencja Prasowa. Biuletyn (Sygn. 354)

    Contains selected issues of the Bulletin of the Żydowska Agencja Prasowa (Jewish Press Agency), published from Nov.1944 to Dec.1949. Bulletin covers mainly political aspects of Jewish life. The Bulletin was published on bad quality paper, using duplicate typescript; some issues are almost completely illegible.

  5. "Transylvanian Youth" Erdélyi Fiatalok [Newspapers]

    A "Erdélyi Fiatalok" [Transylvanian Youth] was a journal of the new Hungarian generation in Romania, It contains liberal reviews on political views of young national-liberal Transylvanian politicians during the interwar period. 1930-1940

  6. Obersitzker family papers

    Documents and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Siegfried Obersitzker (a Polish born German Jew) and his wife Charlotte Reuter Obersitzker (a German born non-Jew) who fled from Berlin with their son Horst in December 1938 to Havana, Cuba where they remained until ultimately immigrating to the United States in 1941. Included are affidavits of support for the Obersitzkers, German passports, landing permits for Havana, as well as immigration correspondence for Charlotte's mother Franziska Reuter who emigrated from Berlin to the United States in 1947.

  7. War Crimes Trial: Bergen-Belsen guards

    "Belsen Death Camp Leaders Meet Justice." Four British soldiers guarding door. CU, SS camp guards arriving for trial and climbing out of a truck. VCU, Josef Kramer. Crowds behind barriers in street. SS woman, including Irma Grese (the "bitch of Bergen-Belsen") and Juana Bormann, climbing out of truck. Filing into courtroom. Numbers hanging on defendants. Soldiers/military seated, Fritz Klein. Hundreds of corpses laid out in rows on ground. Newsreel footage also includes the following parts: 01:32:31 "Sailing Ship 'Danmark' Goes Home Again" 01:33:44 "14 Marines and Sailors Win Highest Award"...

  8. Refugees fleeing Belgium and France; destruction

    [Refugies sur le bord d'une route - Nord de la France, Mai 1940] Refugees fleeing villages between Belgium and France. Planes in air, cut in. "Evacuation" sign on bus. Children, elderly, others onto truck/bus, sleeping child in arms. Air attack. Fierce scenes just after fall, flames. Storefront, "Bazar Parisien." Big fires, houses along square, church tower, burnt and falling, broken sculpture, INT. "Femmes Medecin" ruins. "Medecin Maternite" smoldering cots. Wounded nun. Tracking shot of street, low buildings, destruction. Planes in sky. Civilians hide under brush lining road, in courtyard...

  9. Jan Istvan memoir

    The Jan Istvan memoir consists of information about the experiences of Roma Holocaust survivor Jan Istvan in various concentration camps, such as Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Dora, and his personal philosophy about racism.

  10. P.51 - Personal Archive of Rabbi Shaul Veingert, who helped many Jews in occupied Europe and refugees in Switzerland, 1941-1948

    P.51 - Personal Archive of Rabbi Shaul Veingert, who helped many Jews in occupied Europe and refugees in Switzerland, 1941-1948 The Veingert family transferred the archives to Bar Ilan University. Mr. Adler, a worker at the University, wanted to prepare comprehensive research regarding Rabbi Veingert and his activities, and he began by arranging the principal material of the Collection, the letters which were in numbered envelopes. Additionally, he began to catalog the basic information in each letter according to the order of the envelopes (This catalogue is located in File Number 1of the ...

  11. Akta miasta Otwocka

    • Files of the town of Otwock

    The collection contains i.a. regulations and general orders concerning matters such as forced labour and resettlement of the Jews, taxes, materials connected with the expropriation of Jewish real estate in the “Aryan” quarter by a special administrative office, and many documents related to statistics, population records and control, lists of real properties, a personnel list of the Getto-Polizei and instructions for it, and a range of official letters and correspondence on matters concerning the Jews of Otwock. The body of material is relatively extensive and thus sufficient to reconstruct...

  12. Hadamar Murder Mills; Atrocities at Ohrdruf

    20:00:41 (LIB 5168-LIB 5170) Hadamar Murder Mills, Hadamar, Germany, April 7, 1945. LSs building of insane asylum where interrogation is taking place. INT, Dr. Adolf Wahlmann, Karl Willig, and Adolph Merkle being interrogated by War Crimes Investigation team. MSs, CUs, political prisoners leaving building and entering car. Car driving off. 20:05:45 (LIB 5211) Atrocities at Ohrdruf, near Gotha, Germany, April 10, 1945. SEQ: Leading German citizens and German officers are brought out to labor camp to view results of the mass slayings. They view stacks of dead bodies and look at outdoor cremat...

  13. Anniversary of Manfred von Richthofen's death

    Ceremony commemorating the 15th anniversary of the death of Manfred von Richthofen. Opens on a portrait of von Richthofen, then a shot of his gravestone with a rose laid across it. Large crowds at the cemetery; pastor speaks a brief part of eulogy, people salute as music plays. Civilians and military in crowd. Photographers visible.

  14. Landrat (District Councillor) of Kraslice

    The fonds includes incomplete archival materials of the political administration of the district of Kraslice from the period of the German occupation, mainly a construction agenda and files relating to businesses, control of the self-government, education and social care. Sources to the history of Jews can be found mainly in documents relating to abolishing businesses in 1938-1939 (inv. No. 36) and the exclusion from citizenship from 1938-1945 (inv. No. 63). There are also preserved materials from the 1939 census of persons and businesses.

  15. Sarah Froiman letter

    Sarah Froiman, a Polish Jewish woman who was imprisoned by the Nazis during the Holocaust, wrote this letter shortly before being killed when the Germans shot to death all of the Jewish slave laborers from the Rudzki factory in Mińsk Mazowiecki. She describes hiding among Christians, the horror of her situation, and her fear that she would soon be killed, and she begs for help.

  16. Institut für die Geschichte der Deutschen Juden in Hamburg collection

    Contains protocols, correspondence, writings of M. Plaut, personal papers of Epstein, who was chairman of the Jewish community, including poems and writings from Theresienstadt concentration camp (1942), restitution matters, postcards of Lotte Cahn from Theresienstadt and Łódź, Poland, and letters from Hamburg, Germany (1935-1937).

  17. Frima Laub papers

    The Frima Laub papers consist of photographs of Frima Gleiser (later Frima Laub) taken in 1945 and 1947. Four of the photographs were taken at the Schlüpfing displaced persons camp in Bavaria, Germany and shows Frima with an unidentified friend. Also included is a poster featuring a photograph of Frima and announcing a performance sponsored by the Association of Jewish Women in Havana, Cuba, in 1949.

  18. Betty Weissberger Lauer papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Betty Lauer (born Berta Weissberger), originally of Hindenburg (Zabrze, Poland). Consists of an identity card (kennkarte) issued to Krystyna Zotkos, the false identity Betty used in the Generalgouvernement in September 1942. Also included is a document, dated October 5, 1937, confiscating the property of Oskar Weissberger, Betty's father, who was able to immigrate to the United States, and a good conduct certificate for Berta Weissberger dated January 4, 1939. Also includes a story entitled "Friends 1940-1942" written by Betty Lauer in 1...

  19. Overseas visits of UJA Women's Commission

    Featuring Barry Sullivan and Myrtle Kemp. Film intends to tell the story of the work of the UJA through the experiences of American women who went abroad as UJA representatives. Notes taken from NCJF documentation: Barry and Myrtle meet on the studio lot, go to the projection room to view footage and talk. CU, 6 women in Myrtle's group that went abroad representing the Women's Commission of the UJA. Eiffel Tower, scenes at orphanage, eating, drinking, playing. North Africa, clinic in the Mellah. Trachoma and ringworm treatments, school, hot meal in soup kitchen, kindergarten in Casablanca, ...

  20. Yugoslavia: farming; villagers; military vehicles; railroad yards

    Reel 8: Farmer plowing field, women sowing seed; sheep grazing. Man sitting on bench reading newspaper, soldier on crutches, woman resting on steps, street car motorman, woman with child in park. Belgrade Hospital, entrance gates. Man smoking cigar, man with beard, partisan boy soldier saluting, Serbian girl and Roma beggar sitting on walk. Military vehicles, troops and civilians boarding ferry, crossing Danube River and departing ferry. Pan, across destroyed German tanks and guns, destroyed Sava Bridge, railroad yards and town. Railroad yards in Belgrade, locomotives moving down tracks.