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  1. Munich putsch commemoration, 1938

    Commemoration of the 15th anniversary of the Munich putsch (beer hall putsch), which occurred on November 9, 1923. Footage of Hitler in Austria after the annexation as an illustration of the realization of the dream of Greater Germany before the narrator hearkens back to the memory of those Nazis who died in service to the movement. Close ups of parts of the Feldhernnhalle memorial and the entrance to the Buergerbraukeller, the beer hall where the putsch was launched. Julius Streicher leads a parade of uniformed men down a street. Hermann Goering and Adolf Hitler are also present. Close-ups...

  2. Nazi Party organizes; "Voelkischer Beobachter" office; newspapers; leading officials

    Offices of the Voelkischer Beobachter. Franz Pfeffer von Salomon works in his office as Philipp Bouhler and Franz Xaver Schwarz, Nazi Party treasurer, join him. Seated at a table, they review and edit papers, presumably copy for the newspaper. Exterior of the office of the Voelkischer Beobachter, people carry stacks of newspapers into the building. People reading a copy of the newspaper posted on the side of a building. SA men pick up stacks of the paper from the counter. The interior of the sales office of the paper. Several female typists at work; people bustling about the office.

  3. Jüdische Soziale Selbsthilfe Jewish Social Mutual Assistance Zespoł Żydowska Samopomoc Społeczna (Sygn. 211)

    Contains correspondence between the head office in Kraków and the local branches in the General Government relating to the organization’s activities and relations with the German and Polish authorities. Records include financial and organizational materials, personal files of the staff, correspondence, post war copies. The index of names and places is included in finding aid.

  4. Alicia Altmueller collection

    The Alicia Altmueller collection consists of three letters written in August 1947 by three survivors requesting assistance (warm clothing, shoes, physical support) from Mr. J. Garfinkel, Kiever Independent Unterstuzung Verein (KIUV). The three survivors wrote KIUV on behalf of themselves, family and friends from Campo Adriatico IRO, Milan DP. The IRO supported camp was also referred to as Transit Camp Bari, located in Apulia. Names in the letters are as follows: Miriam Kegen along with unnamed husband and daughter, Aron Bakalchuk and Lucy Bakalchuk, Girsch Goberman and Sonia Goberman (née T...

  5. Peretz M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Peretz M., who was born in Brooklyn, New York. He recounts his Yiddish background; marriage in 1938; serving in the United States army beginning in 1943; landing in Europe in August 1944; encountering concentration camp survivors near Remse, Germany in April 1945; providing food for them; speaking to them in Yiddish; compiling a list of their names; sending the list to his wife who had it published several places in New York (there was a tremendous response to it); receiving small gifts from the former prisoners; visiting his relatives in Brussels and Paris; visiting ...

  6. Phillip Maisel Testimonies Project

    • Melbourne Holocaust Museum
    • Phillip_Maisel_Testimonies_Project
    • English
    • 1980-2019
    • The JHC has over 1300 video testimonies as well as over 200 audio testimonies in its collection.

    The JHC video testimonies and audio testimonies provide eyewitness accounts of the horrors of the Holocaust, as well as glimpses into the vibrancy of pre-war Jewish life in Europe. The collection is widely used by researchers and students of oral history, the Holocaust and a variety of other disciplines. The testimonies’ project began in the 1980s as the Melbourne Oral History Project, established by Sandra Cowan and Jenny Wajsenberg and later co-ordinated by the late Anne Bernhaut. They conducted over 200 audio recordings of Holocaust survivors. In the early 1990s, with the purchase of a v...

  7. Abraham Getman photographs

    A collection of 83 photographs relating to the experiences of Abraham (Avram) Getman and his family during the period immediately following the Holocaust. The collection includes images of refugee camps in St. Marein and Admont in Austria and images of the donor's emigration from Austria to Israel in 1948.

  8. Selected records from the archives of the Military Historical Institute General Staff of the Armed Forces of Serbia related to the German Occupation of the former Yugoslavia

    Selected records from the archives of the Military Historical Institute of General Staff of the Armed Forces of Serbia related to the German Zone of occupation of the former Yugoslavia. This collection includes correspondence of the German occupation authorities regarding arrests, persecution and reprisals against Jews, Roma, members of partisan and antifascist movements, communists and the civilian population. The documents refer mainly to occupied Serbia, but also include parts of Croatia. The collection includes a complete copy of Nuremberg Trial VII.

  9. Zbirka gradiva za povijest Židova

    • Collection of material related to the history of Jews

    The (somewhat modest in size) collection includes (random) documents about few Jewish individuals from Croatia. Part of the material consists of documents related to the work of Jewish societies and unions in Varazdin and Zagreb, and their correspondence with the Union of Jewish Communities in Belgrade, as well as the minutes from meetings of the Alliance of Belgrade. Also, the collecton includes a book'Israelite charity in Varazdin, 1926-1941'with information about donating and donors for engagements, weddings, wedding anniversaries, promotions, etc. A list of books has been preserved - ti...

  10. Burial for Dollfuss in Vienna

    Various scenes of the burial for Engelbert Dollfuss on July 28, 1934 in Vienna. Parade was filmed at the corner of Kärntner Strasse and Kärntner Ring/Opernring in between the Opera house and Hotel Bristol. Wreath-covered vehicles. Crowds line the streets. Regiments of uniformed Austrian men march in unison. Cars drive slowly in the parade, including one with the top down. A decorated officer on horseback motions forward aggressively with a sword. A few quick shots of onlookers.

  11. Vienna

    Title: “Neue Nachrichten No. 3” with WH logo. “Salzburg zur Festspielzeit” “Die Wasserspiele in Hellbrunn” “Mitglied des Klubs der Kino-Amateure Österreichs” CU of a young woman leaning over a railing (this shot was also used in Jonnys Gang film). “Pilger aus dem Burgenland” People standing by the doorway “Glaspalast” (possibly the Franz-Josef-Bahnhof terminus railway station in Vienna). Camera follows a man walking out of the door, passing chairs lining the building exterior. Film ends. Note: This is a roll of trims by Walter Hausner; the handmade titles do not seem to be related to the im...

  12. Dora Apsan collection

    The diary was written by Dora Apsan immediately following her liberation from Weisswasser, an I.G. Farben forced labor factory. In the diary, Dora recounts her family's final days in the ghetto in Sighet (Sighetu Marmației), Romania; their deportation and arrival in Auschwitz; and her liberation.

  13. Selected records from National Archives in Prague. Ministry of Finance of the Czechoslovakian Government-in-Exile in London (JAF 819)

    This collection contains records generated by German occupational institutions (Reichsprotektorat Böhmen und Mähren) and Czech auxiliary agencies dealing with matters of internal security and racial policy, especially anti-Jewish measures. Contains records related to deportation of Jews to Terezin, and Poland. Also contains appeals for evacuation, 1942-1945.

  14. Shoe Factory in Radom Radomskie Zaklady Obuwia (Sygn. 344)

    Contains all files of 841 Jewish workers of the Shoe factory in Radom. Each file makes an original carton envelope, which was a personal form at the same time. The information on an envelope contain: the family name, name/names, date of birth, place of birth, address in Radom, marital status, and profession. In most files there are photographs of the workers. Some other information is included on an envelope back as “dismissal”, with dates that correspond with the dates of liquidation of the Radom ghettos in Gliwice district and downtown (particularly the information like “After the Gliwice...

  15. תיעוד של בית משפט השלום (Amtsgericht) ב-Warendorf (ווסטפליה)

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 12421296
    • English, Hebrew
    • Legal documentation Official documentation Personal documents Record of deportees Record of murdered persons Record of persecuted persons Record of survivors

    Bestand: Amtsgericht (district court) Warendorf In the Collection are files including applications to Courts of Law in Westphalia for the recognition of death of local Jews who were deported to the East by the Nazis, and for whom no official Declaration of Death had been given. These applications (requests) were submitted in most part by the relatives of those who had perished, [and] who requested to receive claims for compensation from Germany. The files include the applications including details regarding those who perished and their deportation; correspondence with German authorities, in...

  16. Oral history interview with Daniel Hassan

  17. Archives of the Council of Christians and Jews

    Executive committee minute books, 1941-78; correspondence files for the executive committee, annual general meetings, the Standing Conference of Local Councils of the Council of Christians and Jews, local associations of the Council of Christians and Jews, as well as subject files, with papers on Aid to Christian Lebanon, 1976-80; the Association of Nazi Camp Survivors, 1960-7; a meeting with the Dalai Lama in 1973; and Rainbow Group material for 1978-80. Minute books for the board of management of the Christian Council of Refugees, 1940-51, and the minutes of the Christian Council of Refug...

  18. Oral history interview with Tania Lefman

  19. Final pleas of Raeder & von Schirach at Nuremberg Trial and good candid shots

    22:36:05 (Munich 305) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, July 16, 1946 (German). MS, Capt. Otto Kranzbuehler, lawyer for Doenitz, reading his client's plea. LS, visitors in the press section. MLS, spectators, including Edwin W. Pauley. Walter Siemers speaking for his client Raeder. HAS, Goering in dock. HAS, Raeder sitting between Doenitz and von Schirach. 22:43:47 (Munich 310) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, July 17, 1946 (silent). H, MS, Fritz Sauter, lawyer for von Schirach, reading plea for his client. MS, von Schirach and Sauckel in dock as Sauter reads plea. MS, Goering, He...

  20. March of Time -- outtakes -- Hitler at christening; Munich Pact; Autobahn

    667 SS: (02:20:12-02:20:59) (with music) Adolf Hitler at Goering's child's christening. Hitler and Mrs. Goering and child. Hitler playing with baby, holding hand. Goering sitting next to Mrs. Goering. Brief shots of religious ceremony with muffled voices. 667 TT: (02:21:00-02:22:09) (silent) Munich Pact. Generals entering Reichstag from automobiles, saluting. INT, Hitler, Goering, Mussolini, Chamberlain, etc. Looking at documents, signing, talking. CUs, document. Shaking hands. 667 VV: (02:22:11-02:23:10) (silent) Opening of Autobahn in Bavarian mountains. Sign: "SA baut Alpenstrasse." View...