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Language of Description: Romanian

  1. Oral history interview with Angele Maranian

  2. Verdoner family at home

    Yoka Verdoner and her mother Hilde, petting a horse that is pulling a green grocer's cart through the streets of Hilversum, Holland. Hilde purchases produce. EXT, clothing hanging on a clothesline. INT, VS, Francisca Verdoner being potty trained. VS, Francisca learning to walk with help from sister Yoka and father Gerrit Verdoner. VS, Yoka and Francisca bathing, blowing kisses to the camera, etc. EXT, VS, Francisca taking her first tentative steps alone, and then with the help of Yoka and Hilde.

  3. Selected records of the commune Złota Akta Gminy Złota (Sygn. 2322)

    Commercial and industrial records from 1933; lists of voters for the Sejm (Polish Parliament) and Senate from 1922 and 1927; books of permanent population with an alphabetical index.

  4. Susan Camis papers

    The papers consist of three photographs, two letters, a telegram, and two certificates documenting the Kollmann family during the Holocaust. Includes a letter and photograph sent to Susan Camis from Anna and Ernst Kollmann, Susan Camis's great aunt and uncle, who fled to Shanghai, China, from Vienna, Austria, in 1939; a telegram from Anna and Ernst Kollmann prior to their immigration to the United States in 1949; a photograph of Herta Kollmann, Susan's great aunt, with her mother; a photograph of her with her husband, Walter, Susan's maternal grandmother's brother; a birth certificate issue...

  5. Israel F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Israel F., who was born in the United States in 1913. He recounts his experiences as a United States soldier trained as a bacteriologist in the medical corps. He shares his recollections of liberated Weimar; the odor of the boxcars containing prisoners who had been bound for Buchenwald; the history of the camp; and the prisoners' self-liberation. He describes the condition and activities of the liberated prisoners, including some children, when he arrived three days later; and the denial of local citizens who were forced to visit Buchenwald. Mr. F. tells of the nation...

  6. Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg selected records (NS 30)

    Contains selected records from the group NS 30.

  7. Verdoner children bathing

    CU, Francisca Verdoner in the bath tub, being bathed by her mother Hilde. Hilde washes her hair, makes a shampoo "mohawk", etc. CU, Yoka in the bathroom, making faces for the camera, sticking her tongue out at the camera as Francisca's bath continues. ECU, Francisca crying when she gets soap in her eyes. CU, Francisca sitting calmly, shrowded in a towel after her bath. CU, Yoka undresses and gets into the bath. VS, CUs, Yoka wetting her head, lathering with soap, then the mother takes over and finishes washing her.

  8. M.62 - Documentation from the Regional Archives of the Russian Federation, 1934-1946

    M.62 - Documentation from Regional Archives of the Russian Federation, 1934-1946 In the collection there are files selected from the Regional Archives of the Russian Federation: the State Archives in the Tver, Kaluga, Pskov, Orel, Smolensk, Novgorod and Bryansk regions, the State Archives of the Republics of Kalmykia and Mordovia and the State Archive for Records of Contemporary History in the Kaluga, Smolensk and Tver Regions. Description of the collection The collection includes documentation from the local committees of the Communist Party in various regions of Russia, 1917-1929, documen...

  9. Renee C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Renee C., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1927. She recounts having no memories prior to being sent to London on a train when she was four; living in an orthodox Jewish orphanage; evacuation to small towns after war began in 1939; a visit from her brother (he was thirteen years older than she); living in several foster homes of non-Jews; hearing stories of Jewish persecution in Europe from other orphans; completing high school; living in a Sephardic community in Manchester; no one telling her anything about her family, although they seemed to know something; lear...

  10. Robert S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Robert S., who was born in Vilna in 1935. He discusses family life before the war; the Russian occupation in 1939; and his father's refusal to accept Soviet citizenship, for which the family was exiled to Siberia. He relates the journey to Siberia and his family's internment in an exclusively Jewish camp within the Gulag system. He tells of his transfer to Kotlas, then Arkhangel?sk and of his family's flight from there to a small village near Kirov where they stayed until the liberation. Returning to Poland after the war, they were taken to a displaced persons camp in...

  11. Solomon Klug photograph collection

    The collection consists of four individual and family portraits of Solomon Klug's family. Included are Solomon, Hershel (brother), Nathan (brother), Jacob (father), Gittel (mother), Paula (sister), and Chaskel Klug (brother). Hershel and Nathan Klug were killed during World War II.

  12. Archives de Nuremberg: Rosenberg

    Contains records from the archives of Alfred Rosenberg, a Nazi official and the head of the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR). Included is information about Rosenberg’s activities concerning cultural purification; the confiscation of books, furniture, and works of art; his ideological activities outside Germany; his policies concerning the Soviet Union; his conflicts with Himmler, Bormann, Koch, and Goebbels; and the military mobilization of native ethnic communities against the Soviet Union. The documents that comprise this collection were selected by the source repository, the Cent...

  13. Jewish councils Rady Żydowskie (Sygn. 214, 215, and 220 through 224)

    Contains reports, name lists, correspondence, financial records, and various other records relating to the work of Jewish councils (Judenrat in Miedzyrzec Podlaski, Końskie, Warsaw, Jasło, Falenica, Lochów, Staszów, Włoszczowa, and Pińsk. The majority of the files relate to the work of the Sanitation Commission of the Jewish council in Staszów, Poland.

  14. M.41 - Documentation from Archives in Belorussia, 1920-1995

    M.41 - Documentation from Archives in Belorussia, 1920-1995 The M.41 Record Group includes documentation from the State Archives and the Archives of Public Associations (the Archives of the Former Communist Party) in Belorussia. Most of the documentation relates to the history of the Holocaust and the war in Belorussia during 1941-1945. There is also documentation related to the history of the Jews in Belorussia, from the period before the war and afterwards; The structure of the M.41 Record Group: The M.41 Record Group has 17 individual sub-groups, based on the original archives from which...

  15. Bequest Georg Bürger

    Georg Bürger was born in 1926 and studied law at Frankfurt University. Following his studies, he worked as an attorney and notary and had his own law firm in the east of Frankfurt (Main). He was the assigned counsel to the defendant Bruno Schlage during the "proceedings against Mulka and others (4 Ks 2/63)" ("Verfahren gegen Mulka u.a. (4 Ks 2/63)"), the First Frankfurt Auschwitz trial. At the same time, he was in close contact with Hermann Langbein, a representative of the Comité International des Camps and worked towards receiving compensation payments for forced laborers. His bequest fir...

  16. Raymond Berr Collection

    Papers relating to Miss Winnifred Child, governess, and the family of Raymond Berr, French-Jewish. In shared box. Photographs (N.d./1946); Handwritten letters addressed to Miss Child (N.d./1946); Official correspondence (1940).

  17. American anti-Nazi protests

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 10, No. 720. Release date, 11/15/1938. Contains various Universal Newsreel clips of anti-Nazi protest speeches of prominent US leaders. 01:54:28: "FDR Leads Nation in Protest Against Nazi Persecutions" Denouncing Nazism. FDR at desk, quick flash, ready to speak, waiting (FDR does not actually speak). Street scenes, broken windows (quick) in Czechoslovakia. Bald man giving testimony. 01:54:51: Herbert Hoover at Palo Alto, CA. CBS microphone MCU. "Americans should be indignant at terrible outbreak of Jewish persecution in Germany... brutal intolerance...no parallel; e...

  18. German invasion of Poland, POWs, Hitler in Gdynia

    Fighting at Gdynia. German troops enter Gdynia, prisoners taken. Hitler enters city (only POV from car). German soldiers greet Hitler, surround him. Hitler and officers eating at field kitchen. Headquarter scenes, interior of railroad car. Hitler consults with officers, including Goering, Rommel, Himmler, generals. Graphic - German movement to Vistula up to Radom. German troops on the move, many Polish soldiers surrender arms, equipment. Aerial of captured artillery.

  19. Stanley B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Stanley B., who was born in Os?wie?cim, Poland in 1923. He recounts antisemitic incidents after Hitler came to power in 1933; an apprenticeship as a jeweler in Bielitz; German invasion; his mother's and siblings' unsuccessful attempt to flee; anti-Jewish laws; construction of Auschwitz concentration camp; Himmler's visit to Os?wie?cim; visiting his family in Sosnowiec before they were deported (he never saw them again); transfer to Blechhammer; working as an electrician; doing some jewelry work for camp officials in exchange for food; escaping during evacuation from a...

  20. Press Conference; Hadamar Murder Trial

    Welt im Film. Issue no. 93 01:07:14 General McNarney's Press Conference. Gen. Joseph T. McNarney holds press conference in Berlin at which German journalists participate for the first time. Cut-ins, German newspapermen taking notes. 01:08:08 Hadamar Mass Murder Trial. INTs, Frankfurt Provincial Court. 27 doctors, nurses, and attendants who participated in the mass killings of 70,000 people are on trial. MCUs many of those on trial. Prosecutor explains method by which disappearance of victims was accomplished. Cut-ins prisoners and others in courtroom.