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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Romanian

  1. Sola B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sola B., who was born in Basel, Switzerland, in 1911 and moved with her family to Berlin, Germany, in 1920. Mrs. B. describes her childhood and family life; her many non-Jewish friends; increasing anti-Semitic behavior and legislation; the deportation of her father, a Polish Jew, in 1938; rescuing her father-in-law from Sachsenhausen; being smuggled, along with her husband, into Antwerp; her life in the United States; and her attempts to educate her children as to the meaning of her experiences. Mrs. B. also discusses her feelings regarding the possibility of a recurr...

  2. Selected records from the Archives départementales de l'Isère

    Selected records from the préfecture, sous-préfecture, and police department in Isère, France. Includes materials related to the "Jewish question," law, general correspondence, Aryanization, Jews who were "objects of police inquiry," name lists and photos of Jews, deportee statistics, postwar memorial to victims of opression (1945 reports), Jewish organizations, the law of 3 October 1941, resistance, foreign workers, labor units, foreign Jews interned in camps, refugee directives, and the papers of Jean Batailh.

  3. Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), Poland Hebrajskie Stowarzyszenie Pomocy Imigrantom (HIAS) (Sygn.351)

    This collection includes postwar files from the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) and its branch offices in Poland. Records include organizational files, Information bulletins, news releases, correspondence abroad and with branch offices, monthly reports on activities, personal files and indices of staff relating to emigration, personal search files, indices, and cards relating to efforts to trace survivors and family members.

  4. Polish Army parade in Warsaw

    Short clip of a large military procession of Polish troops, including cannons, horses, etc. down a main street in Warsaw.

  5. Anniversary of Munich Putsch

    Anniversary of the 1923 Munich Putsch. Reenactment of the burial of the party members killed in the Putsch, at the Feldherrnhalle in Munich. Horse-drawn hearses carry coffins into the Feldherrnhalle. The event appears to be taking place at night and is lit by torches. Good views of the hall, including two large stone lions flanking a staircase. Flag-draped coffins line a wall; above them are banners bearing the names of the dead. A uniformed man stands behind each coffin. The scene switches to a solemn outdoor parade headed by Julius Streicher. Streicher stops, salutes. A wreath is laid. Hi...

  6. Family in Dahlem 1932

    In Dahlem, Germany, the family goes for a walk. CU baby in a pram. Street scenes, automobile traffic. They walk and skate on a frozen pond. A child runs around the yard with a toy. The children ride on scooters. More CUs of the three children with their mother.

  7. Andy F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Andy F., an American Catholic, who was in the 11th Armored Division during World War II. He recalls fighting in the Battle of the Bulge; traveling to Austria; the surrender of Linz; liberating Mauthausen; shock at the stench, the prisoners' condition (walking skeletons), and the pervasive filth; feeding the prisoners which resulted in some immediate deaths; calling for engineers to assist in burying thousands of corpses; and compelling the locals to assist in the burials (they denied knowledge of the camp, an impossibility). Mr. F. discusses losing his faith in God up...

  8. Lǎpuşna commission for checking the files of the public sector employees that remained on the territory of Bessarabia in 1940-1941

    • Comisiunile centrale şi judeţene pentru verificarea dosarelor funcţionarilor rǎmaşi pe teritoriul Basarabiei în 1940-1941. Direcţia Lǎpuşna
    • Уездная комиссия при префектуре Лэпушнянского уезда по проверке служащих, оставшихся в Бессарабии в 1940-1941 гг.
    • Uyezdnaya komissiya pri prefekture Lepushnyanskogo uyezda po proverke sluzhashchikh, ostavshikhsya v Bessarabii v 1940-1941 gg.

    Personal files of officials, church singers, priests, officials of the financial administration, clergymen, railway workers, etc. who remained in the territory of Bessarabia in 1940-1941 (during the Soviet rule)

  9. Warsaw uprising in 1944

    Part 2. Warsaw uprising of 1944, which began on August 1 and lasted for 63 days. Buildings in Warsaw on fire during the uprising. Fighting in the streets; Polish Home Army soldiers lay communications wire. Children watch a puppet show. More destruction; a nurse hands out buckets of water from big wooden casks. People on the move in the streets amid shooting and fires. 00:17:03 Priests remove sacred objects from a church. 00:17:16 A cameraman filiming a burning building. Men bury a casket. A makeshift graveyard. Men load a rifle and shoot at a target. Several uniformed young boys watch. Peop...

  10. Municipal nursing facilities of Buch Selected files from the collection: Städtische Heil- und Pflegeanstalt Buch (A. Rep. 003-04-01)

    Contains registration forms and guidelines for registration; correspondence related to ethnic background. Records relate to the shortage of nursing staff; Jewish employees; dismissals related to the Reichs law concerning medical doctors; “racial politics"; transfer of Jewish patients; abolition of health insurance for Jews; and unauthorized renting out of property to Jewish people. Also includes lists of Jewish patients.

  11. Polish Army parade in Warsaw

    Short clip of a large military procession of Polish troops, including cannons, horses, etc. down a main street in Warsaw.

  12. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 5 mark coin

    5 mark coin issued in the Łódź ghetto in Poland in 1943. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1940; Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and annexed to the German Reich. In February, the Germans forcibly relocated the large Jewish population into a sealed ghetto. All currency was confiscated in exchange for Quittungen [receipts] that could be exchanged only in the ghetto. The scrip and tokens were designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] and includes traditional Jewish symbols. The Germans closed the ghetto in the summer of 1944 by deporting the residents to concentration camps or killin...

  13. Autobahn; tobacco picking

    Shots of Autobahn with scarce traffic, including trucks. Bridge over roadway in rural area. Worker with scythe cropping grass in island of road. CU hands picking tobacco leaves from stalk. WS of rest area on Autobahn, automobile approaches roadway.

  14. Hal L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hal L., who was born in Wanne-Eickel, Germany in 1923. He recalls his traditional and strict upbringing; his father's medical practice; non-Jewish friends; anti-Semitic incidents in school; expulsion of Jewish students in 1936; attending Jewish high school in Cologne, where he lived with an aunt; and emigrating alone to the United States in 1937. Mr. L. recounts living with a Jewish family in Washington, D.C.; corresponding with his family; their arrival in 1939; assistance from the Baron de Hirsch Fund to purchase a chicken farm in Woodbine, New Jersey; his father's ...

  15. Selected records from the Archives of the Department of the Calvados

    This collection was created by picking relevant documents from collections deposited at the archives by several local administrative divisions, and from the pre-war “M” series related to foreigners and immigration. The most relevant documents concern lists of Jewish inhabitants, card files made from gathering names and correspondence in relation to this, as well as files concerning the Aryanisation of property and businesses. The Aryanisation files deal almost exclusively with businesses and real estate and not with investments in businesses or shares of stock. The procedure for each file i...

  16. Hitler and Nazi demonstrations re: reparations

    Hitler and Nazi demonstrations regarding reparations. Crowds line the streets as Hitler arrives in an automobile with Ernst "Putzi" Hanfstaengl. A close up shot of Hitler; Hanfstaengel in profile. Hitler reviews SA troops and Hitler Youth as they march down a street.

  17. Harold Gilman photographs

    The Harold Gilman photographs consist of photographs Harold Gilman took at the newly liberated Mauthausen concentration camp and Gusen sub-camp in May 1945. The photographs depict liberated prisoners, former guards, American soldiers, Austrian civilians, and buildings at Gusen and Mauthausen. The photographs show emaciated survivors, corpses, and scenes of summary punishment of former SS guards by their former prisoners and of American soldiers forcing Austrian civilians to dig mass graves for Holocaust victims. Most of the photographs are annotated by Gilman on the verso.

  18. David Boder Collection: Testimonies of survivors in DP camps in Germany

    This record group is a collection of testimonies recorded by David Boder, a Professor of Psychology at the Illinois Institute of Technology, in DP camps in Europe in 1946. The collection is comprised of testimonies of Jews and non-Jews, recorded in various languages and translated into English. The testimonies focus on the events in the lives of the survivors during the war in the ghettos and camps, while serving in the military, in hiding and in children's homes. The testimonies also contain information regarding the rehabilitation of the survivors from immediately after the war until the ...

  19. Farming in central Poland

    Farmers harvest crops in central Poland. They fill their baskets. Country road and horse drawn carriage carrying bundles of hay. More scenes of country life. LS on the thatched roof country home along the river/canal. Trees line the road where a horse drawn carriage passes by.

  20. Jews protest; anti-Hitler demonstration

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 5, No. 144, Part 3. Release date, 05/10/1933. Jews in giant protest parade seen from above, marching in New York City. Organized units/groups and scattered people. Ticker tape. Well-dressed men march towards and past camera. From above LS, mostly men marching (fills screen), closer, standing still. Horse and rider from above. Full parade in wide street. Sidewalk jammed, marchers in lines, street level, American flag. Other parts of the newsreel include: 01:32:10 Washington, DC "Vanguard of 2nd B.E.F. reaches the capital. Will live in tent city" 01:33:07 Chicago, IL ...