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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Ukrainian

  1. 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...

  2. Liselotte K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Liselotte K., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1918. She describes her affluent childhood; a close, extended family; antisemitism in school; educating herself about Judaism; erosion of relationships with non-Jews after the Nuremberg laws; expulsion from school; vacationing in Germany; working in a department store; nurses training at a Jewish hospital; viewing the destruction after Kristallnacht; applying through Bloomsbury House to emigrate to England; moving to Midlands, England in 1939; learning of her parents' deportation to Theresienstadt and their subsequent d...

  3. John W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of John W., who was born in Mo?nchengladbach, Germany in 1920. He describes his assimilated family background; his bar mitzvah in 1933; disbelief anything would happen to them because his father was a World War I veteran; changes beginning in 1934; the Nuremberg laws; his brother's emigration to England in 1937; his parents' arranging to ship their possessions to the United States; obtaining passports; his father's arrest on Kristallnacht and incarceration in Dachau; and emigrating to the United States after his father's release in June 1940. Mr. W. discusses how appeali...

  4. Criminels de guerre

    • War criminals
    • CdG

    The fonds War criminals (Criminels de guerre) is divided into different subfonds. These are: - German Civil Administration (Administration civile allemande) - Commissions - Court for war crimes (Cour des crimes de guerre) - Deportation of Jews (Déportation des juifs) - Various - Extraditions - Trial of war criminals (Jugement des criminels de guerre) - German court (Justice allemande) - Offensive «von Rundstedt» - National Office for Research of War Crimes (Office national pour la Recherche des crimes de guerre) - German police (Police allemande) - trial (Procès) - Military war court (Tribu...

  5. German invasion, occupation of France; surrender of French

    Reel 12: German troops advance, reduce French strong points, fire artillery, guard French POWs, cross a pontoon bridge and enter French forts. German officers ride in staff cars. French soldiers load guns in their forts. French officers surrender. French POWs plod along, Senegalese POWs dance. German flag covers a WWI monument in Compiegne, German troops stand at attention. Hitler, Goering and others enter the WWI armistice railway car and receive the French surrender from General Huntziger and others. Maps Vichy France, shows a cathedral. Hitler visits a Paris cathedral and addresses the R...

  6. Forced labor battalion of Hungarian Jews

    George Veres and other Hungarian Jews march at a forced labor group stationed in the Jewish Boys' Orphanage. Jews were forced by the Hungarian government into these battalions prior to the German invasion. George served several periods with the forced labor battalion, beginning in September 1940 and ending in December 1944 when he escaped from the camp. This was filmed by one of George's relatives who worked in the camp office. Jewish workers unload hay from a train and stack piles of chopped wood. George (the worker closest to the barn with the log on his shoulder) smiles at the camera. Sc...

  7. Jewish wedding in Holland

    Wertheimer family, CUs, jumping rope. Jewish wedding of Alfred Wertheimer (a cellist) and Marion Warner in Amsterdam, Holland on May 19, 1937. 01:04:52 Family trips: beach, Pension Belvedere, CUs girls, young women, Wertheimer family members posing in a garden. The newly married couple, Alfred and Marion.

  9. Tom S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Tom S., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1935. He recounts his parents' conversion to Christianity; his brother's birth on March 2, 1944; German occupation on March 19; anti-Jewish laws; visiting his father, who was a doctor, in the assembly place for Jews; his father's deportation; living with his mother, brother, and grandmother in the ghetto from October 1944 until liberation by Soviet troops in February 1945; learning of his father's death in Mauthausen; psychological and physical effects of his war experiences; joining his uncle in Switzerland in June 1947 (h...

  10. March of Time -- outtakes -- Chamberlain returning from Germany

    (Leblay camera) Neville Chamberlain's trip to Berchtesgaden to see Hitler, 09/15/1938. VAR, Chamberlain at Heston Aerodrome, walking towards plane, delivering a speech into microphones. VAR, Lord and Lady Halifax, Herr Kordt, German Charge d'Affaires, and others. Chamberlain gets into plane. Plane taking off. (Leblay camera) Chamberlain returns to Heston Aerodrome from Berchtesgaden, 09/16/1938. Crowds of press awaiting Chamberlain's arrival. Lord and Lady Halifax awaiting arrival. Shots of plane arriving, Chamberlain getting out, reading King's message, delivering speech, surrounded by pre...

  11. Advokatfirman Julius Hepners arkiv

    • Law firm Julius Hepner's archive
    • Riksarkivet
    • Advokatfirman Julius Hepners arkiv
    • English
    • 1920-1976
    • 12,7 linear meters of textual records, organized in 141 volumes.

    The archive of Law firm Julius Hepner contains client files from victims of Nazi Germany's persecution of Jews and the Holocaust whom the firm assisted in seeking reparations, known as Wiedergutmachung, from West Germany. There is no index or catalog, but the client files are in alphabetical order A-Z. The archive contains series of correspondence concerning Wiedergutmachung and other documents relating to legal aid for victims of Nazi persecution.

  12. King Lear in Yiddish; Habima Players

    There are burn-in time codes on the intermediate Betacam SP (Protection) video. There is no way to order a clean copy. Prominent actor, Solomon Mikhoels, of the Moscow State Yiddish Theater, in his dressing room, applying makeup. Starkly lit closeup of Mikhoels as King Lear. Another prominent Jewish theater group in the Soviet Union, the Habima Players, perform an ancient Hebrew dance.

  13. Memorial service at Buchenwald concentration camp; burials at Gardelegen

    (LIB 5903) Concentration Camp, Buchenwald, Germany, April 19, 1945. MS, CU, brass band. MSs, CUs, liberated prisoners in concentration camp marching at memorial ceremony for the 51,000 persons killed in the camp. CUs, liberated prisoners marching and carrying French, Polish and Russian flags. CUs, freed prisoner places wreath at foot of monument dedicated to those who died as victims of Nazi brutality. MS, effigy of Hitler hangs in front of camp building. MLS, speaker on platform at dedication ceremony. (LIB 5904) Burial at Gardelegen, Germany, April 22, 1945. Seq: Civilians of the town rem...

  14. Truman and Berlin Conference

    President Truman on board the Navy ship Augusta enroute to Berlin Conference. Casual shots of Truman waving to a crowd in Antwerp. Truman on parade in Europe. Truman getting on plane, various shots of plane taking off and landing. Meeting of Truman and military leaders to discuss the primary goal of winning the war in Japan. Parades and processions of British Army and Navy. Discussion of Cairo Declaration. AVs of war ravaged Berlin. [Nazi footage-Hitler addressing crowds at 1930's Nazi rallies]. Truman raises the flag of victory over Europe. Various shots of American soldiers and civilians ...

  15. Soroca County Tribunal

    • Tribunal judeţean Soroca
    • Сорокский уездный трибунал
    • Sorokskiy uyezdnyy tribunal

    Acts and copies of property sale certificates (in particular, the sale of Meer Rosenboim’s property to Ihim Tsipkis; the sale of Fain Sura-Rivka’s property to Zelberstein Mordka; sale of the property by Fleur Berko to Halfina Shlema; sale of property owned by Seltzer Joseph to Hlein Itsik; sale of the property by Sitkov Usher to Shoykhet Isak); logs of registration of received acts and documents

  16. Selected records from Reichsschatzmeister der NSDAP (NS1)

    Contains reports, ordinances, and correspondence between the Nazi Party headquarters and its regional offices as well as officials in the occupied territories. Records include information on: Aryanization and confiscation of Jewish-, church-, and foreign-owned property; heat supply stations for various concentration camps, provisions of food and supplies to prisoner-of-war camps (Hilfszug Bayern), use of forced and slave labor, a report on the disbanding of Dachau concentration camp in 1945, and miscellaneous antisemitic newspaper clippings.

  17. Eugene Cohen photograph collection

    Eugune Cohen photograph collection consists of 45 photographs taken at Mauthausen concentration camp, Ebensee concentration camp, and Gusen concentration camp in Austria at the time of liberation. The photographs include images of concentration camp victims and corpses, male and female concentration camp survivors, the buildings and crematoria of the camps, members of the Nazi party, as well as Eugene Cohen and other unidentified soldiers. Handwritten and typed captions in English are on the verso.

  18. Zina Gasko photographs

    The collection consists of photographs of Zina Gasko, her brother, Jefim, and her aunts and cousins in Krzemieniec, Poland, before World War II.

  19. Reichsministerium für die besetzten Ostgebiete (R 6)

    This collection contains files relating to the organization and functioning of the agency especially in dealing with legal matters including the competence of various agency departments, the use of foreigners in the economic exploitation of the Eastern Territories, ideological subjects (e.g., “Deutschtum” and “Fremdes Volkstum”), political matters (situation reports), and remnants of Alfred Rosenberg’s office files.

  20. March of Time -- outtakes -- Scenes from occupied Norway, including Quisling with Nazi officers

    Various scenes in occupied Norway, including: German soldiers load a gun in a bunker located on a Norwegian coast. Exterior of the bunker. Vidkun Quisling, accompanied by several high-ranking Nazi officers, reviewing German or Norwegian troops on a snowy day. Among the German officers are Reichskomissar Josef Terboven and Nikolaus von Falkenhorst. The Karl Johans Gate in Oslo with the Norwegian Parliament, Stortinget, at left and Oslo Grand Hotel on the right. INT of the cellar bar at the Grand Hotel where civilians and German officers drink and fraternize. The camera pans down a large port...