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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Polish

  1. The Jewish Religious Community in Prague under the occupation

    The preserved official agenda makes it possible to become familiar with the administrative breakdown of the community, and also contains circulars and regulations, official memoranda and all manner of summaries and statistics and correspondence with rural communities. The most valuable material is the reports on the activities of the JRC (Judenrat) and Treuhandstelle. Only fragments have been preserved from the activity of most departments, in many cases only individual files. From the years 1945–1947 the organisational circulars of the National Administration dealing with the activity of t...

  2. Selected records from the Romanian National Archives

    Contains reports, lists, memoranda, and other documents relating to the surveillance of Jewish communities in the Romanian provinces, Also contains records of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers dealing with the "Jewish problem."

  3. Prosecutors and defendants at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 112) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, April 12, 1946. MSs, MHSs, Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe questions an unidentified witness, possibly Ribbentrop. MSs, Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, and Wilhelm Keitel seated in prisoners' dock. HASs, defense counselor Dr. Kurt Kaufman at stand interrupts a US military member of the prosecution and addresses the Tribunal. HASs, judges on bench as Chief Justice Geoffrey Lawrence speaks to Dr. Kaufman and reprimands him for delaying the trial. MLSs, Maxwell-Fyfe seated at prosecution table. MSs, Kaltenbrunner looking over lawyer...

  4. Sutin family footage

    DP walking in street of DP camp Neu-Freimann. Piles of logs. VAR scenes with the Sutin family. CUs of Rochelle Sutin and daughter Cecilia. On Lulligerstr., Jack Sutin and his father Julius smoking pipes. Rochelle inside house, cooking. More shots of the Sutin family and friends.

  5. Family heirlooms; visiting mountains

    Family photographs. Men gather for picture/filming at log cabin in mountains [Caucusus?], EXT. Julien Bryan gives the men instructions and backs out of frame.

  6. Morris K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Morris K., who was born in Po?aniec, Poland in 1917. He recalls escaping with two friends from a forced evacuation of the town in October 1942; being hidden in a cave by farmers (they had been his father's customers), who also hid a Jewish girl in their home; liberation by Soviet troops in 1944; working for the Soviets; fleeing to ?o?dz? after Jews were killed by soldiers of the Polish underground; marriage to a concentration camp survivor; and emigration to Cuba in 1947, then to the United States in 1961. Mr. K. sings a song from the Warsaw ghetto.

  7. Italy surrenders

    Italians in New York City celebrate Italy's surrender. U.S. troops land in North Africa. President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet at Casablanca. Allied planes bomb islands off Italy. Sicily is invaded by Allied troops. Messina is occupied. The 7th Army and Britain's 8th Army land on Italy's mainland behind a naval bombardment. Italian warships speed to allied ports and are surrendered. President Roosevelt announces Italy's surrender. Other personages: Gen. Eisenhower, Gen. Clark, Mussolini, Adm. Cunningham.

  8. "Hidden in broad daylight"

    Describes the author's life in Kraków, Poland; her hiding inside and liquidation of the ghetto in Tarnów, Poland; her separation from family members; how she passed as a Gentile and found employment; her attempts to communicate with her sisters who were concentration camp inmates; her move to and war-time employment in Austria; the end of World War II; her meeting with members of the Jewish Brigade; and her illegal emigration to Palestine. The memoir also includes a poem about a young Jewish boy whose fate during the Holocaust is unknown and another describing the author's feelings for th...

  9. Paul Plaut family papers

  10. District Authority of Vsetín Okresní úřad Vsetín

    Administrative records of Vsetín, a town in the Zlín region. Features records pertaining to cultural and school affairs, including anti-Jewish measures and the expropriation of Jewish properties and assets.

  11. Bracha R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bracha R., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1927. She recounts her parents had emigrated from Poland; German invasion; fleeing to Toulouse; attending school; her father's return to Brussels; rejoining him with her mother a few months later; her father bringing her to the home of non-Jews to hide, then to another home a few days later; remaining for about eighteen months; being placed with another family under a false name for the rest of the war; reunion with her parents; marriage; and the births of a son and daughter.

  12. Copy witness statements re Auschwitz war criminals

    Most of these copy statements re the activities of former SS officers at Auschwitz by former inmates were collected by the International Auschwitz Komitee. The witnesses submitted their statements to the IAK in response to notices published in Polish and German newspapers, asking for evidence against former SS officers at Auschwitz. Many of the statements make reference to this fact. Many also end with a declaration that the witness is ready to repeat the statement under oath. Most of the statements are 1 or 2 pages long except that of Dr. Eduard Wirth, former doctor at Auschwitz, who descr...

  13. Selig Hecht: correspondence

    This collection consists of 2 letters written by Selig Hecht, a German born American scientist, on a visit to Europe. The first, a letter to a colleague back home, outlines the problems facing Jewish academics in Nazi Germany, and introduces the second which is a much more detailed picture of the privations suffered by Jewish academics and also the indifference of the non-Jewish population, and the culmination of a latent antisemitism in the profession that had long pre-dated the Nazi seizure of power. The latter is addressed to Alfred Cohen. Others mentioned include Willstaetter, Fajans, a...

  14. Family home movies of Germany; election poster; boat ride

    1936-1938. Handwritten intertitles. “Der neue Mantel fuer….” Women exit clothing shop with a shopping bag. “Hoppegarten” Horses race around track. Woman with glasses with an umbrella. “beim Da X.” Women with still picture camera. Woman with fur looks on the water with binoculars. Women sit at table on a balcony, CUs. Garden walkway. Sailboats and rowers. Hitler Youth on waterfront. Group of three walks along path, eat. Slow motion of a young man hopping over a wheelbarrow. INT, CUs, man eating. INT, chocolate shop. Pet bird in a cage. Nazi soldier stands next to election poster of Adolf Hit...

  15. Childhood memoirs of World War II

    The memoirs describe how Eva Edmands emigrated with her parents from Austria to France after the Anschluss and how they lived in hiding until France's liberation.

  16. Frances S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frances S., who was born in Horocho?w, Poland in 1910. She describes her prewar family and religious life; her marriage in Yugoslavia in 1938; her studies at the University of Belgrade; and her arrest in 1938 before her stay was legalized. She recalls registering for emigration for fear of the Nazis; her flight, once she obtained her visa; her journey to Bombay via Greece, Iraq, and Karachi; and her forty-day trip to the United States, where she arrived in March 1941. She tells of her life here; her impressions of America's inertia with regard to receiving immigrants;...

  17. Ursula D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ursula D., a non-Jew, who was born in Cologne, Germany in 1938. She recounts her parents' anti-Nazi sympathies; her father listening to Allied radio broadcasts; Allied bombing; constant fear; arrival of United States troops; postwar hardships, including rationing; an influx of refugees; her sense that Germans refused to admit culpability for the war and considered themselves "victims"; visiting relatives in Belgium, where she first learned about the Holocaust; confronting her parents; their unwillingness to discuss it; moving to Israel in the early 1960s; marriage to ...

  18. Kielce County II Starostwo Powiatowe Kieleckie II (Sygn. 308) : Wybrane materialy

    Files on national minorities, statistics and registers of population in Kielce region. Includes lists of cemeteries and industrial plants for nationalization

  19. Posterunek Żandarmerii w Żyrardowie Gendarmerie Posten Żyrardów (GK 657)

    Reports, correspondence, interrogation’s protocols regarding work and events with the intervention of the gendarmerie. Includes personal files of the gendarmes.

  20. Starosta Powiatu Zawierciańskiego

    • Der Landrat des Kreises Warthenau
    • Zawiercie County Governor’s Office

    Sprawy budżetowe i finansowe: budżety, zapomogi, wsparcia z lat 1939-1944, sygn. 1-6. Sprawy osadnictwa i przesiedleń z lat 1940-1944, sygn. 7-11. Policja polityczna: sprawy przepustek i dowodów osobistych z lat 1939-1944, sygn. 12-14. Policja porządkowa: ruch uliczny, sprawy cen, statystyka kryminalna z lat 1939-1944, sygn. 15-19. Policja przemysłowa: wykaz przedsiębiorstw przemysłowych i handlowych z lat 1940-1944, sygn. 20. Żandarmeria: szkolenie, obsada stanowisk z lat 1942-1944, sygn. 21-22. Sprawy przynależności państwowej: zarządzenia, sprawy listy narodowościowej z lat 1939-1944, sy...