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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Polish

  1. Bert E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bert E., who served in the United States Army in World War II. He recounts serving in a tank battalion of the 4th Armored Division; deployment to Europe in 1944; entering Ohrdruf concentration camp; emaciated prisoners; stacks of corpses; his state of shock; and assignment to occupation forces in Wilseder Berg where they found prisoners bodies in a mass grave, and then organized a proper funeral. He reads excerpts and shows photographs, including his own, from the history of the 4th Armored Division.

  2. Powiatowy Oddział Państwowego Urzędu Repatriacyjnego w Lubartowie

    • State Repatriation Office. Lubartów County Branch

    Zarządzenia Ministerstwa Ziem Odzyskanych, 1947-1948, sygn. 1 Materiały pokontrolne, 1947-1948, sygn. 2 Ewidencja osób przesiedlonych, 1945-1948, sygn. 3-6 Wykazy i opisy mienia osób przesiedlonych, 1945-1946, sygn. 7-9

  3. Ministry of Foreign Affairs : Danish Refugee Administration in Sweden Central Register (Group A-Ø)

    Consits of the alphabetical (phonetic) register of refugees with detailed information about an each refugee, including both Jews and resistance fighters and their families. There are no related files to the register, but the information on the cards is quite unique. This collection contains the most detailed and systematic overview of Danish refugees in Sweden.

  4. Wolfram Sievers: Documents regarding his SS membership

    Readers need to reserve a terminal in the reading room to access a digital version of this archive.Microfilm file of documents on Wolfram Sievers concerning his SS membership, including Lebenslauf, SS muster roll extract; personnel questionnaire; service career; examination certificates 

  5. Okręgowa Komisja Badania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu - Instytut Pamięci Narodowej w Szczecinie

    • akta administracyjne (sprawozdania, konferencje, plany pracy, kontrole) - ankietyzacja miejsc i faktów zbrodni niemieckich - akta dotyczące badań nad zbrodniami niemieckimi (dokumenty dotyczące badań nad obozami niemieckimi, rejestry egzekucji wykonanych w latach 1939-1945) - dane dotyczące robotników przymusowych na terenie Pomorza Zachodniego, zeznania świadków, akta żołnierzy SA i członków NSDAP

  6. Rokiskis district police commander in Uzinth (Fond R-708/1)

    Consists of a name list of policemen who received awards for the performance of various duties.

  7. Halmi z Košíc

    • The Halmi family from Košice

    The collection is based on the legacy of one of the Halmi (Hennefeld) family from Košice in the period between 1867 and 1945. The documents that were preserved in the legacy are connected mainly to the personal files of four brothers, Félix, Jenő, Pál and Béla Halmi, and their sister, Piroska who were active in the political, social and cultural life of Košice. Many of the documents belonging to the family legacy concerns the life and survival strategies of the familiy after the first Vienna Award in 1938 and during the holocaust. Among these materials are also their requests for exceptions...

  8. Powiatowy Oddział Państwowego Urzędu Repatriacyjnego w Puławach

    • State Repatriation Office. Puławy County Branch

    Okólniki, zarządzenia, 1945-1948, sygn. 1 Materiały pokontrolne, 1945-1950, sygn. 2 Ewidencja repatriantów i przesiedlanych, 1945-1946, sygn. 3-6 Wykaz majątków poniemieckich, 1946, sygn. 7 Zaświadczenia repatriacyjne, 1945, sygn. 8

  9. Newsreel clips: Einstein speech; Emigration; Jewish refugees in England and Australia; Palestine

    An assembled reel of news clips from Chronos, including: (1) Albert Einstein speech in English. (2) Arrivals and departures. Jews in the Palastinamt [Palestine Office] in Berlin, applying for emigration (see Photo Archives worksheet 64121 for still of this scene). (3) 01:06:59 HAS, refugees, journey by boat, CUs. (4) 01:07:15 Newsreel "Britain receives more of Hitler's refugees" Children. (5) 01:07:43 "Jewish refugee children" [Movietonews] shows Kindertransport arriving in England. (6) St. Louis ship (7) 01:08:27 "Jewish refugees reach Sydney" [Movietonews] Jews arrive on the ship SS Aoran...

  10. Ribbentrop visits Italy; Hungarian takeover of East Slovakia

    Reel 1. VS of German and Italian soldiers. Reviewing troops, parade, etc. Official visit of Joachim von Ribbentrop to Italy. Ciano, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, is also present. He and Ribbentrop converse inside a place. People cheering and waving in the streets, carrying large letters that spell out "DUCE". 00:57:00 Hungarian takeover of East Slovakia. Hungarian troops enter easternmost town of East Slovakia (closest to Ukrainian border). Troops march through streets, welcomed by crowds of civilians with flowers, banners, etc. CU of older man, a decorated war veteran with many meda...

  11. German occupation of Jersey and Guernsey

    Scenes from the German occupation of Jersey and Guernsey. The narration does not specify which island is being shown. A Nazi flag flies over the former headquarters of the Royal Air Force on either Jersey or Guernsey. Scenic shots of the town followed by a shot of a car pulling up outside the office of the German commander. An English policeman gets out of the car and opens the door for two German officers, who enter the headquarters building. Street scenes featuring shops and a double-decker bus. German soldiers walk down the street and talk with the English policeman from the earlier scen...

  12. Chişinău District Agricultural Council

    • Consiliul agricol judeţean, judeţul Chişinău
    • Кишиневский уездный сельскохозяйственный совет
    • Kishinevskiy uyezdnyy sel'skokhozyaystvennyy sovet

    Materials on the privatization of (previously) rented land by peasants from Calaras Correspondence with Călăraş agricultural region regarding the inspection of the borders of allotments, rent of expropriated land and other issues; files on the issuing of certificates to the residents of Călăraş for the right to use land as result of long‐term rent; files on the issuing of certificates to the residents Hînceşti, for the right to use land as result of long‐term rent, to transfer the right to other persons; files on the issuing of certificates to the residents Călăraş, for the right to use lan...

  13. Izba Zdrowia w Generalnym Gubernatorstwie Gesundheitskammer in Generalgouvernement (Sygn.1578)

    Contains medical personnel lists, questionnaires of physicians, dentists, nurses and other medical personnel in General Government, dating from 1939-1945.

  14. Russian DPs cross Elbe; German prisoners clean camp courtyard

    (LIB 6898) Russian DPs Cross Elbe, Magdeburg, Germany, May 31, 1945. LSs, train carrying DPs arrive at station. MSs, CU, Russian civilians with their belongings waiting at railroad station. CU, child standing next to trunk, crying. MLSs, British officer directing and counting groups as they pass. MLS, US, British, and Russian officers watch the long column of civilians crossing bridge. LSs, trash in camp courtyard which was recently evacuated by Russians. MSs, INTs, two Russian women carving meat in camp kitchen. HSs, platoon of German prisoners marching toward camera under British guard. S...

  15. Колекція Асоціації Праведників Бабиного Яру

    • “Righteous of Babyn Iar” Association collection
    • "Righteous of Babi Yar" Association collection
    • Коллекция Ассоциации Праведников Бабьего Яра

    Handwritten and typewritten statements and testimonies from the Jews who were given aid during the Holocaust as well as from the Gentiles who rescued the.

  16. Survivors of Buchenwald; Germans view display

    "Resurrection...Meditation" [Narration indicates this is Dachau - to be verified.] Survivors, delousing (re-clothed). Men climbing into truck, driving on road. Released. Some men still wear striped caps. Line of military tanks. Many German civilians walking along road (tracking shots), some hiding faces [USHMM collection contains color still images of this scene]. Great numbers of German civilians in central courtyard at Buchenwald. Shots of survivors behind barbed wire. CUs, wounded feet. Germans viewing display on tables. Pan, lampshade, skin, etc. Fainted women. Mass funeral, prayer at g...

  17. Zarząd Miejski w Nakle, pow. Wyrzysk

    1. Referat Ogólno-Organizacyjny (1945-1950) (43 j.a.): posiedzenia, majątek miasta, grunty, zakłady miejskie, upaństwowienia, kontrole wewnętrzne 2. Referat Finansowo-Budżetowy (1946-1949) (10 j.a.): budżety, plany finansowo-gospodarcze 3. Referat Administracyjno-Społeczny (1945-1950) (19 j.a.): wysiedlanie Niemców, obozy w Nakle, Inowrocławiu, Potulicach, grunty, ludność miasta 4. Referat Ogólno-Administracyjny (1945-1950) (10 j.a): wybory do Sejmu, repatrianci i obcokrajowcy, inwestycje, sprawy karne, pozbawianie obywatelstwa, działalność polityczna w AK 5. Referat Wojskowy (1947-1950) (2...

  18. Hitler Youth in Vienna; Goering's visit

    HJ marching on Ringstrasse (Burgring) in preparation for Goering's visit. Hardly any audience. "Opern Café" in BG. Flags with SS insignia (skull and crossbone). BDM girls marching, then waiting. Cut to April/early May (Hitler's Birthday or May 1 celebrations?) with BDM girls warming-up like cheerleaders. Back to March 26 Goering visit. Parade. Goering passes in car.

  19. "Journal of Hungarian Jews" Magyar Zsidók Lapja [Newspapers]

    A Jewish weekly newspaper "A Magyar Zsidók Lapja" issued in Budapest, Hungary, 1939-1944.

  20. Warsaw Surrenders

    Surrender and occupation of Warsaw in 1939. German in trench behind wire observing, Hitler w/binoculars. LS Howitzer fires at train, burning. Howitzer fires, LS of city, plume of smoke, mortar fire. Plane takes off, aerial shot of columns of smoke. AV craters, bombed domes. Surrender, Polish officer goes into railcar. Trucks of German troops enter city and soldiers on foot. "Komend Miasta Warszawa" sign on building, pan down to Polish officers, long column of Polish POWs shot from above, horses and carts. Bomb damage, wrecked train cars. Civilians digging through rubble, and with POWs makin...