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  1. Funeral and procession; ritual slaughter; synagogue

    Elaborate funeral: Body lying in state, many plantings and flowers, guards. Taking up the width of the street, the funeral procession includes Jewish police, rabbis in robes, horse-drawn hearse, mourners with banners. At cemetery, lowering casket, service, shots of mourners (three rabbis chanting, one woman completely draped in black). Microphone can be seen on left side, briefly, held above the mourners and grave markers, 01:59:24. Synagogue service: Worshippers pray. Torah is removed from the ark, men kiss it, then read from it. Shochet: In kosher style, kills chicken while woman watches ...

  2. Werner G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Werner G., who was born in Breslau, Germany (presently Wroc?aw, Poland) in 1920. He recalls antisemitic harassment in school; participating in socialist Jewish youth movements; his father's incarceration in Buchenwald; leaving school to help support his parents; an aborted attempt to escape to Czechoslovakia in 1936; traveling to Amsterdam via Luxembourg with assistance from a Jewish organization; his parents' emigration to Bolivia; his mother obtaining a Bolivian visa for him; emigration to join them; participating in anti-Nazi movements; his career as a publisher an...

  3. Peter Ornstein memoir

    Consists of one memoir, 30 pages, "Peter's Story: Surviving Auschwitz and a Death March," by Dr. Peter Ornstein, originally of Vienna, Austria. In his memoir, he describes wartime Vienna, being entrusted to neighbors as his mother and future stepfather had immigrated to China (with the intention that Peter and his two sisters would follow), and in 1939, to a convent when it became too dangerous. In 1942, they were relocated to a building used to collect potential deportees, but were released because their paternity (and thus degree of Jewishness) was questioned. In February 1944, Peter was ...

  4. Hermann Maas and Paul Rosenzweig: copy correspondence

    This is a collection of post-war copy correspondence between Hermann Maas, a German protestant minister, and two siblings, Jewish 'Mischlinge' emigrés, whom Maas helped to save from the Nazis.

  5. Földművelődésügyi Minisztérium, Általános iratok (1889-1944)

    • General Records of the Ministry of Agriculture (1889-1944)

    Besides the anti-Semitic laws introduced in Hungary in the late 1930s and early 1940s that were of a more general scope, there was also a more specific initiative to reduce the involvement of Jews in the sphere of agriculture with the aim of excluding them from the Hungarian soil. This drive found its major legal expression in law XV. of 1942, also called the fourth Jewish law. The collection titled General Records of the Ministry of Agriculture (1889-1944) contain the papers that were created during the operation of the chief departments of the Ministry of Agriculture. The papers have been...

  6. Партизанские формирования Минской области в годы Великой Отечественной войны 1941-1945гг.

    • Partisanenformationen (Oblast Minsk)

    Приказы и предписания Уполномоченных ЦШПД при Ставке Верховного Главнокомандующего и ЦК КП(б)Б, Уполномоченных БШПД и ЦК КП(б)Б, секретарей подпольных ОК, РК КП(б)Б и партийных межрайцентров, Штаба руководства партизанским движением Минской и Полесской областей, командования бригад и отрядов. Отчеты, донесения, рапорты и докладные записки бригад и отрядов о боевых и хозяйственных операциях и диверсионных действиях, о разведовательной работе, фактах нарушения воинской дисциплины и партизанской присяги, разведсводки и агентурные сведения, дневники боевых действий и журналы учета поощрений и в...

  7. Funeral procession; Autobahn opening; bridges; parade in Rome

    05:37:40 Funeral of Abbey Schachleitner in Munich. "The entire Munich population is there." Long line of people; clear, sunny day. Floral wreaths. Exiting chapel with casket, funeral procession, SS marching. Gauleiter Wagner speaks at the cemetery about how the Abbey was "a believing Catholic and at the same time a fanatic National Socialist." Crowd heiling. Presenting memorial wreath on grave. (sync sound) 05:39:06 Opening of the Autobahn section Dresden-Merane. Rainy day. Hitler with entourage, greeting crowd, heiling, speaking, praises the achievement of the Autobahn and its workers. ".....

  8. Selected records of the Court of the First Instance in Nowe Miaste on Pilica Sąd Grodzki w Nowym Mieście nad Pilicą (Sygn. 1837)

    Court civil cases of the post-war period in Poland. The cases relate to Jews who were inhabitants of Nowe Miasto nad Pilicą and include records of possession, reconstruction of acts of marital status (certificates of birth, marriages and deaths), finding dead persons, and cases of inheritance.

  9. David L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David L., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1920. He speaks of his happy childhood, religious education, and Zionist activities. Noting prewar, wartime, and postwar antisemitism, he describes the German occupation; the ghettoization of Warsaw; and conditions and daily life in the ghetto. He recalls his escape from the railroad station while awaiting deportation; the desperation and fear alternating with resignation that characterized his life in hiding on the Aryan side in Warsaw and its suburbs for the next year and a half; his marriage, while in hiding, in May 1943;...

  10. Selected records from National Archives in Prague. Ministry of Interior, London, MV-L (JAF 828)

    Contains records relating to confiscation of Jewish properties, charges against Nazi leaders. Includes index cards and material on deportations mainly from Terezín (Theresienstadt), Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic).

  11. Reményi-Schneller Lajos pénzügyminiszter iratai, 1938-1944

    • Records of Finance Minister Lajos Reményi-Schneller, 1938-1944

    The Hungarian Ministry of Finance was headed by Lajos Reményi-Schneller (1892-1946) between 1938 and 1944, i.e. Reményi-Schneller served in this position in the successive governments of Darányi, Imrédy, Teleki (his second term), Bárdossy, Kállay, Sztójay, Lakatos and Szálasi. Reményi-Schneller even held the position of economic superminister (gazdasági csúcsminiszter) in the governments of Teleki, Bárdossy and Kállay. His policies were strongly in favor of Nazi Germany during the war years. In 1946, he was sentenced to death and executed as part of the Sztójay-trial. The collection contain...

  12. Župné mesto Nové Zámky (1939 - 1944)

    • Érsekújvár megyei város

    In the fragmentary fonds, it is possible to find traders' records, records pertaining to business restrictions, revisions and withdrawals of Jewish concessions and trades. The fonds also contains documents on the aryanization of the mill and Jewish shops. The fonds contains also inventories of Jewish property, documents pertaining to the confiscation of Jewish homes and shops, as well as to a ban on Jews attending public baths. There is also a decree defining the streets of the ghetto preserved in the fonds. The fonds also contains a list of books from the town library that remained with Je...

  13. Hitler Youth Reviewed by SS

    CU Iron Cross, pan down to poster that reads "Welcome to War ... of the Greater Germany Division", and in small print mentions Hitlerjugend. MCU jumble of smiling girls give smiling boys leafy lapel boutonnieres. German military band marches down cobblestone city street. Many civilians and soldiers watching. CU marching legs. Young uniformed troops marching with rifles. CU of reviewing SS officer. LS procession of new recruits in coats, marching. HS lines of soldiers in caps watching. Many townspeople on sidewalk. Marchers turn left in the square, camera follows them away. MS Young Hitler Y...

  14. Regierungspräsident (Office of the Governing President) of Karlovy Vary

    This is an exceptionally valuable fonds regarding political, economic, social and cultural history of an important part of the Sudetenland Reichsgau (Sudeten Reichs Region) in 1938–1945. For study of Jewish history, it is possible in particular to use the following archival records: box № 1 (Reports by the Gestapo on number of arrested and confiscated property of Jewish associations, 1938), box № 1 (Pogroms on Jews, burning to the ground of synagogues, 1938), box № 7, call № 1103 (Aryan origin of officials, 1938–1943), box № 8, call № 1203 (Employment of Jews in state services, 1939–1944), ...

  15. Polish underground press Polska prasa konspiracyjna

    Collection comprises approximately 500 publication titles.

  16. March of Time -- outtakes -- Cemetery in Łódź; dead honored

    October 18, 1947: Polish authorities at funeral of American soldiers in a Catholic Polish church. Clergy, US military, people on pews in church. 03:01:17 Coffin with American flag over it. Religious ceremony, including American Ambassador Stanton Griffis, Mr. and Mrs. Crocker, and Edward Raymond, Agricultural Attache at the Embassy. 03:02:14 American soldiers salute. Polish soldiers and Polish flag. Wreaths carried out. Clergy leave. 03:03:19 Putting wreaths in hearse. Polish officers shaking hands with American officers. 03:04:16 Military procession, coffin on road in Warsaw. 03:05:15 Nove...

  17. Provincial Administration in Wrocław Urząd Wojewódzki we Wrocławiu (Sygn. 331)

    These files derive from three sections of the Administration's Department of Social and Political Matters: Social and Political, Religious, and Productivity of the Jewish People in the Wrocław Province. They include reports on the Jewish population, Jewish institutions, and Jewish congregations, including conflicts within the Jewish community. Most of the files are from the Provincial Commissioner for the Productivity of the Jewish People in the Wrocław Province, whose objectives were to employ Jews in industry; establish, finance, and supply cooperatives and farms; find housing for Jews; t...

  18. Henry Schimmel collection

    The Henry Schimmel collection consists of documents, affidavits, and correspondence related to Henry Schimmel's post-war assistance with the emigration efforts of his relatives who had survived the Holocaust. Mr. Schimmel, who immigrated from Uzhorod, Czechoslovakia in the 1920s, contacted various relief organizations and government officials to intervene and assist with the immigration of his sister, Jolan Rozenbaum, her children Andy, Ella, and Katherine, and his nephew, David Silberstein, all of whom had survived the Holocaust.

  19. Collection of documents of Anti-Jewish Laws and Decrees of Hungary

    This collection consists of the texts of Hungary's anti-Jewish laws and decrees from 1938 to 1944 that appeared in official serial publications. Records are derived from five periodicals: Magyar Törvenytár, Magyaroszági Rendeletek Tára, Budapesti Közlöny, and Csendörségi.

  20. Cooperative Bank of Industrialists and Merchants in Częstochowa Bank Spółdzielczy Przemysłowców i Kupców w Częstochowie (Sygn. 1419)

    Financial records of one of the Jewish banks in Częstochowa, included are: the records of the opening balance during liquidation of 1941, and other liquidation files of the bank.