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Language of Description: Polish

  1. Tela Zasloff research collection related to Pastor Pierre-Charles Toureille

    Consists of notes, photocopies, photographs, interview transcripts, book excerpts, and other research material created and collected by Tela Zasloff for the preparation of her book, "A Rescuer's Story: Pastor Pierre-Charles Toureille in Vichy France." Includes correspondence and interviews with those who knew Toureille; copies of documents from the World Council of Churches in Geneva; photographs of the places he lived and worked; copies of his articles and sermons; minutes of the Committee of Nimes; and correspondence regarding his recognition as Righteous Among the Nations.

  2. Harry Boonin collection

    Contains the photocopies of six depositions and relating to mass killings of Soviet civilian Jews and Soviet Jewish prisoners of war from Starokosti︠a︡ntyniv, Vinnyt︠s︡i︠a︡ Gaysin, and Uman in Ukraine. The killings took place in Kirovohrad, Ukraine, around September 1941, and were carried out by Police Battalion 304. The depositions were used by the German Democratic Republic as prosecution evidence in war crimes trials held in Halle, circa 1970 to 1988.

  3. Alter and Dora Edelman Skwarny Collection

    The collection consists of photogrpahs depicting the Skwarny and Edelman families and documents regarding Alter and Dwora Skwarny's immigration to Canada in 1948.

  4. Henry Flatow papers

    The papers consist of an envelope censored in France sent by Henry Flatow's father Hans Flatow in Italy in March 1945 and two airgraphs (one with envelope) sent to and from Hans and Henry Flatow in Italy and England in May and June 1945.

  5. Photographic archives

    The photographic archives consist essentially of the collections of the Sipho agency which distributed a large element of the Belgian as well as the international press photographs from 1930 until 1944. In 1946, the Sipho responsibles were brought to trial and its collections were confiscated. In 1970 they were transferred to the Centre. This important collection (some 300,000 photographs) consists of a Belgian and an international section. It has been regularly supplemented with new acquisitions such as the collections of Otto Kropf (relating to daily life in occupied Belgium), of Raphaël ...

  6. Warsaw uprising in 1944

    Part 1. Warsaw uprising of 1944, which began on August 1 and lasted for 63 days. Film opens with poor quality still photos and names of uprising fighters. Credits and music play. Footage of the people of Warsaw preparing for the uprising. They prepare bandages, guns, bullets. People create barricades and lay communications cable. Fighting in the streets. Men swimming and shaving in a river. Interior shots of men and women of the Home Army forces printing partisan newspapers. Young boys run out of a building carrying the papers for delivery. Polish Home Army movements in the streets. 00:09:3...

  7. Typed report into the fate of Rabbi Dr. E. Steckelmacher and his wife

    Typed report into the fate of Rabbi Dr. E. Steckelmacher and his wife during the Nazi era including an account of their experiences in their home town of Dürkheim, Württemberg, in 1933, when the Nazis came to power; 1934 at the time of the boycott of Jewish shops and businesses; Kristallnacht; conditions in Gurs Concentration Camp, Pyrenees, France; conditions in Camp du Recebedon, near Toulouse and a slave labour camp in Villemur, FranceGerman 15 pages 

  8. Warsaw in ruins

    CUs, men pointing to architectural drawing of building with damaged structure in BG. Men standing in ruins. WS, Warsaw in ruins. Horses/cart in FG. Men digging. Snow-covered rubble.

  9. Clips from the propaganda film about the 1934 Reich Party Day

    01:04:00 to 01:05:27 Clips of party leaders giving speeches. There are a few different clips but they are cataloged here as one clip. The name of the party leader appears on the screen, followed by an excerpt from each man's speech. The following leaders speak: Fritz Reinhardt, Robert Ley, Joseph Goebbels, Konstantin Hierl. 01:05:30 to 01:05:44 Brief CUs of men from the Reichsarbeitsdienst (Reich Labor Service) who are lined up in formation in front of Hitler at the Nuremberg rally grounds. This clip cuts off the first part of the scene, in which one of the RAD men asks another, "Woher stam...

  10. Einwandererzentralstelle Litzmannstadt (R 69)

    Contains general files including activity and situation reports, statistics, and guidelines and standards for bestowing citizenship on Volksdeutsche being transferred from eastern and southern Europe. The collection is partially digitized.

  11. American Consulate building in Warsaw

    Cars, buildings, stream of water on pavement. EXT, American Consulate Building in Poland, U.S. flag hangs from window.

  12. Selected records of the commune Odrowąż Akta gminy Odrowąż (Sygn. 530)

    List of owners of buildings in the Commune Odrowąż, 1941-1942 and a register of residents of the village Stąporków Nowy from 1934-1943.

  13. Akta instytucji ochrony prawa i wymiaru sprawiedliwości z lat 1939-1945-zbiór szczątków zespołów

    1. Sąd Specjalny w Toruniu (1939-1943) (1 j.a.; 0,01 m.b.) 2. Prok.Sądu Krajowego w Ciechanowie (1941) (1 j.a.; 0,01 m.b.) 3. Prok. Sądu Krajowego w Toruniu (1940-1945) (30 j.a.; 0,19 m.b.) 4. Sąd Obwodowy w Złotowie (1894-1944) (62 j.a.; 0,49 m.b.) 5. Sąd Obwodowy w Człuchowie (1883-1943) (3 j.a.; 0,05 m.b.) 6. Sąd Obwodowy we Włocławku (1943-1944) (2 j.a.; 0,02 m.b.) 7. Sąd Obwodowy w Lipnie (1943) (1 j.a.; 0,01 m.b.) 8. Sąd Obwodowy w Tczewie (1941-1942) (2 j.a.; 0,01 m.b.) 9. Sąd Obwodowy w Toruniu (1920-1945) (1 j.a.; 0,01 m.b.) 10. Sąd Specjalny w Grudziądzu (1941-1944) (3 j.a.; 0,02 ...

  14. Selected records of the commune Daleszyce Akta gminy Daleszyce (Sygn.129)

    Selected records of the Municipal Office of Daleszyce for the supervision of the municipal economy and population, related to trade, industry and books of population. Records reflect the lives of the 276 Jews who lived in the Daleszyce commune between 1919-1924.

  15. Kaunas SD Prison, Fond R-731/1

    Contains Jewish name lists and case files from the Kaunas hard labor prison.

  16. Iparügyi Minisztérium általános iratai (1935-1948)

    • Records of the Ministry of Industry (1935-1948)

    The Ministry of Industry (Iparügyi Minisztérium) was established in 1935 and partially replaced the Ministry of Trade (Kereskedelemügyi Minisztérium) that had just been abolished. The Ministry of Industry was in operation between August 1, 1935 and April 4, 1945. During the last months of the Second World War and Arrow Cross rule, it no longer functioned on a regular basis. Unfortunately, the actual materials of the Ministry of Industry were destroyed during the battle for Budapest in the winter of 1944-1945. The collection therefore contains papers that were preserved at other ministries o...

  17. Copy papers concerning Karl Wittig

    This collection of copy papers documents the experiences of Karl Wittig in Germany during the Nazi era and in the immediate postwar years. The papers include sworn statements by various witnesses (including Pastor Martin Niemöller) who testify to his incarceration in various concentration camps.

  18. DPs; newborn children; DPs celebrate a special occiasion

    Displaced persons climb into a truck [same men in march in Film ID 4154?]. Babies in a crib. Brief shots of a newborn. A group celebrates, gathers around a table before a decorated sign in Hebrew.

  19. A Holocaust survivor returns to Bergen Belsen 20 years later

    Notes from the NFB/ONF online catalog: A Jewish Holocaust survivor takes a holiday from his glazier's shop to join an emotional pilgrimage to Bergen-Belsen. In traveling through new Germany, this man remembers. Scenes still vivid in his mind are recalled in flashback. The memorandum was Hitler's dealing with the solution to the "Jewish problem."

  20. Teheran Conference

    An American serviceman holds a slate that reads: Scene 140. The camera follows a car with a USA insignia on the back down a street in Teheran and into a courtyard in front of the Soviet embassy, where the Teheran conference was held. Soviet soldiers run and march past the building while American soldiers film and take photographs of them. 01:40:38 Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill come around the corner of the building and walk up the steps. They stop to pose for photographers or perhaps answer questions. 01:41:59 Roosevelt is now with them, sitting in a chair at the top of the steps. The...