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  1. American journalist interviewed re: propaganda

    Interview with the "well-known radio reporter" Doug Brinkley about "atrocity propaganda" (reaction against the Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses) in the United States. Doug Brinkley traveled extensively in Germany from 1932-1934 and wrote a pro-Nazi book titled "An American Sees the New Germany." The interview takes place outside. The interviewer asks his questions in German and Brinkley responds in English. Brinkley proclaims his admiration for Hitler and the new Germany, and states that although the first reports of atrocities caused demonstrations in the US, Americans now realize that su...

  2. March of Time -- outtakes -- Rotterdam - Spring 1939

    703 J: April 20 and 21, 1939. German boats with Nazi flag on the River Maas at Rotterdam, railway bridge in BG. Other boats. 05:43:48 Canal between Dutch houses. Barges at River Maas and liner "Statendam" in BG. Church. 05:44:27 View of Colingselstraat in Rotterdam, the main shopping street. Handing out flyers. Barges in Lloyd harbor with factory and ship in BG (used for taking merchandise from Dutch colonies to small towns). Docks. 05:45:16 Cargo and sacks, unloading boxes. Produce of Dutch East Indies on bale, bamboo canes. 703 O: 05:46:04 Dutch Army in North Brabant, May 1, 1939 statione...

  3. Elliot L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elliot L., who was born in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1925. He recalls moving to Paris with his family in 1928; returning to Sofia in 1937; enactment of anti-Jewish laws; expulsion of Jews from Sofia; relocating with his family to Ki?u?stendil; continuing to attend school; preparing for deportation which never occurred; and liberation by Soviet troops in September 1944. Mr. L. recounts studying engineering in Sofia; affiliation with Zionist organizations; an illegal attempt to emigrate to Palestine in 1947; incarceration in Cyprus when the ship was intercepted by the British;...

  4. Central Committee of the Jews in Poland. Department of Emigration Centralny Komitet Żydow Polskich (CKŻP). Wydzial Emigracji (Sygn.303/XIV)

    Circulars, communiqués, and other publications; correspondence with American and Polish Jewish organizations and Polish governmental agencies; name lists of persons applying for passports, registration certificates, and records of financial assistance to emigrés; personal letters regarding emigration to Palestine/Israel; photographs and various miscellanea.

  5. Red Cross treats victims of Penig concentration camp

    Jewish Concentration Camp, Penig, Germany, April 17, 1945. German uniformed medics carry female survivors from concentration camp in Penig into hospital from Red Cross ambulances. VAR MSs and CUs, females on litters waiting to be carried. Survivors smile widely. Hospital sign, "Zum Luftschutz-Sanitaetsraum." 01:01:16 Ambulances traveling on road. LS, medics take survivors on litters out of ambulance and line cots on the grass. Medic talks to a survivor, helps another walk into the hospital. Red Cross nurses. INT, American doctors consult surviviors in their hospital beds, treat wounds. Aeri...

  6. War Crimes Trials: film used as evidence in Ministries' Case (#11)

    Case XI, Ministries-Keppler, "German Entry into Austria." "The Return to Berlin." Crowds in Berlin await return of Hitler from Austria. Banners fly and flags are thrown to the crowd. Hitler's plane arrives. He gets out, shakes hands with Goebbels. His car rides in state through crowded streets, people saluting and waving flags. A child gives Hitler a flower. He marches by lines of soldiers. One hundred thousand people gather in square. Hitler appears on a balcony with Goering. Police try to hold back hysterical crowds. Amassed close together, the crowd sways singing a song. Hitler appears a...

  7. Belsen Concentration Camp at liberation

    Tank moving across field. LS, pan, inmates women standing around moat/reservoir, women fishing out tin buckets for washing; two boys sharing soup, stand huddled together, intent on soup. Low to ground, MLS, several clothed corpses, lots of inmates walk by corpse, possibly a murdered Nazi in civilian clothes (original shot sheet captions do not suggest or confirm this). CU corpse. WS of camp with many inmates. Emaciated man, "practically a skeleton", with a cap crouches, holding a piece of clothing. LS, bodies all over (clothed), survivors at edges in BG; LS, barracks, road outside, views of...

  8. Erich and Margot Leyser photograph collection

    The collection consists of two studio portraits of Erich and Margot Leyser, who were passengers aboard the MS St. Louis. Both photographs have inscriptions written by Margot Leyser. One photograph is inscribed with "Zum Abscheid aus Deutschland 4-Mai-1939" and the other photograph is inscribed "10.Juli 1946" and is stamped .".Optica Ariel..Montevideo" Uruguay.

  9. Joseph Borkin papers

    Consists of correspondence and research material (photocopied and original) related to the research, writing, and publication of the book "The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben" by Joseph Borkin. Among the research materials are court documents from various legal cases against successor companies to I.G. Farben, which were tried in United States courts during the 1950s and 1960s, as well as subject files of copied primary and secondary source materials about individuals, organizations, and products related to I.G. Farben. These latter materials range information about the pre-World War I ...

  10. Report and photographs relating to post-liberation Buchenwald

    Contains information about the experiences of Major Donald Luby and others in a reconnaissance group that visited Buchenwald, including a photocopied report dated Apr. 18, 1945 concerning the post-liberation situation on the camp. Also includes photocopies of photographs, including one showing what appears to be an African-American soldier standing in front of a cart full of corpses. The photographs also contain scenes from Dachau and Ohrdruf camps.

  11. Okresní soud Mladá Vožice

    • District Court of Mladá Vožice / NAD 71

    The fonds contains documents of the Mladá Vožice District Court from (1836) 1850-1949 concerning the civil and criminal agendas, as well as the agenda for the establishment of new land registers. As part of the inheritance agenda (file no. D) there are the inheritance proceedings of Jews who died during World War II, for example in concentration camps, dealt with especially in 1946.

  12. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 20 mark coin

    20 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 killi...

  13. Documentation regarding the investigation of Nazi war crimes in Cherkassy region, dated 1944-1947

    Documentation regarding the investigation of Nazi war crimes in Cherkassy region, dated 1944-1947 Included in the collection is documentation regarding the persecution and murder of Jews in Sukhoy Yar, and the number of people who perished in Uman; documentation regarding the persecution and murder of Jewish and non-Jewish residents in the Zolotonosha district; murder of Jews during 19-22/09/1941 and on 02/11/1941; murder of residents of the Zolotonosha district, 25-31/07/1942, and murder of disabled people, 27/03/1943; lists of people who perished; information regarding the number of peopl...

  14. Robert E. Work collection

    The collection contains 2 letters by Joseph and Magda Goebbels written from the Führerbunker in Berlin, dated April 28, 1945, addressed to Harald Quandt, son of Magda Goebbels (held in a Allied POW camp); and an interrogation report of Hanna Reitsch, Hitler's personal pilot, written by Robert E. Work, Captain, Air Corps Chief Interrogator, dated November 1, 1945. The interrogation report gives background on how Hanna Reitsch received the letters, German transcriptions, English translations, and Reitsch's evaluations of their content. Also included is a copy photograph portrait of Robert E. ...

  15. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 10 mark coin

    10 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 killi...

  16. Bălţi County Tribunal

    • Tribunal judeţean Bălţi
    • Бельцкий уездный трибунал
    • Bel'tskiy uyezdnyy tribunal

    Cases of the notary (1917-1940): cases of approving acts of sale of real estate and land, land for construction, cases of confirming property rights, approving acts of property division, imposing a ban on property for debt, approval of acts on the division of land between the heirs, cases of approval of acts of rent, cases of approval of acts of donation of property, etc.

  17. Heribert Froboese testimony

    Typescript text (37 pages) of the testimony of Father Heribert Froboese, O.F.M., a priest interned at Buchenwald, written shortly after his liberation in 1945; and a photograph of Father Froboese in the clothing of a Franciscan monk, dated August 1945. Father Froboese wrote this testimony with the hope that it could be used in the trial of Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg, and he gave the donor's father, Col. Aloysius McCormick, Jr., of the U.S. Army, a copy of this text after meeting him in 1945. File contains an explanatory note from the donor, dated 1984, and a brief biography of Col. McC...

  18. Susan T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Susan T., who was born in Budapest, Hungary. She describes early edicts against Jews; continuous efforts to obtain American visas for her family; her husband's deportation to a labor camp near the Czech border in 1942, then to one in Russia in 1944; and life in the "open ghetto" in Budapest. She relates the German occupation of Hungary in March 1944; anti-Jewish legislation and increased deportations under Eichmann's supervision; restrictive conditions in German-occupied Budapest; the forced march to a brick factory outside Budapest; and the negotiation of the group's...

  19. Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission active in the Lwow region, 1944-1946

    Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission active in the Lwow region, 1944-1946 Included in the collection: Documentation of the municipal committee of the city of Stanislawow, collected in the context of the work of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission, regarding the murder of Jews in Stanislawow, 03 August 1941-05 May 1943, according to testimonies of Jewish community representatives; documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission, 1944-1946, regarding the Nazi war crimes in Sambor; survey and information transferred by the Communist Party committee in the...

  20. Vilniaus apygardos komisarinis tarėjas

    • Kommissarischer Gebietsrat Wilna-Land
    • Commissar Councillor of the Vilnius Region

    Documents and orders of the German authorities and Lithuanian administration, reports of the chiefs of the districts about situation in the districts, orders and correspondence about nationalized Jewish property, registration of Jewish property; lists of property and equipment of Jewish doctors, registration and information about synagogues in the district and about cultural heritage, lists of Jewish doctors, etc.; register lists of the Auxiliary police, payment lists for local residents for their help with confiscated Jewish property (for example: for sorting of the property, cleaning, tra...