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Language of Description: Ukrainian

  1. Reprisal action by the Grossdeutschland regiment in Pancevo

    Color. Shots of the cemetery at night, followed by a sketch that Kessel drew showing how the partisans shot the Germans from hiding places in the cemetery. The next scenes show the gruesome executions of civilians in the cemetery. Members of the Grossdeutschland regiment and Serbian civilians inspect the corpses of men who were lined up against the cemetery wall and shot in reprisal for the killings of the Gemans. Several men are hanged in the cemetery. In his narration, Kessel points out that these are not partisans but civilians who are being executed as examples. Serbian civilians perfor...

  2. Der Ober-Aeltestenrat der Judischen Bevölkerung des Districts Radom in Radom = The Judenrat for Radom district Naczelna Rada Starszych Ludności Żydowskiej Dystryktu Radomskiego-Dział Dowodów Osobistych (Sygn.387)

    This collection contains thousands of applications filled out by Jews applying for identity cards in Radom District in 1941 and 1942. The applications include name, date of birth, family status, and address, and other personal data; most bear photographs. The application process was administered by the Jewish Councils in Radom (Judenrat).

  3. Alice S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alice S., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1921. She recalls her family's affluence; attending school until 1936; her sister's emigration to England; nursing training in a children's home, then the Jewish hospital; an uncle who worked there arranging for the removal of her name from deportation lists (her brother was deported and killed); meeting her future husband, who was hiding in Berlin (his mother was a non-Jew); liberation by Soviet troops; continuing to work with children at the hospital; learning her future husband's father had died in Theresienstadt; visiti...

  4. Capture of Josef Meisinger

    Josef Meisinger, the so-called Butcher of Warsaw is captured. He is dressed in civilian clothes and talks to American Air Force personnel, including MPs. 01:13:39 Lt.Col Jennis R. Galloway (left, facing the camera) and Major James W. McColl (to his right) had orders to escort Meisinger from Atsugi air base Japan to Frankfurt, Germany to await trial as a war criminal. He is escorted across an airfield and onto a plane. Lettering on the side of the plane reads: THE AIR TRANSPORT COMMAND. Some shots repeat.

  5. Joseph F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph F., who was born in Missouri in 1919. He relates enlisting in the army in 1942; assignment to the 20th Armored Division; entering France in early 1945; hearing horror stories from Jewish refugees; starting a daily newspaper in his division; coming into the town of Dachau on April 30th, the day after the liberation of the camp (which he did not enter); viewing boxcars filled with corpses, the area littered with body parts, and the horrendous conditions of the prisoners wandering outside the camp; the disparity between the peaceful life in the town and the horror...

  6. In memoriam - Kurt Lowenstein. Collection

    The item in this collection is an In Memoriam dedicated to the memory of dr. Kurt Lowenstein (1885-1939), a German socialist politician and a founder of the Socialist Youth of Germany - Red Falcons (Rote Falke).

  7. Selected records pertaining to the Nazi office of the Reichsstatthalter in Oberdonau, Austria

    Records pertaining to the Nazi office of the Reichsstatthalter in Oberdonau.

  8. A void in my heart the memoirs of Regina Godinger Hoffman, a Jewish Holocaust survivor, (1927- )

    The memoir describes Regina Hoffman's (b. 1927) deportation from Czechoslovakia to Poland, the deaths of family members, her psychological trauma, internment in the ghetto in Khust, Ukraine, life in Auschwitz and her transfer to camps in Nuremberg, Germany, and Holešov (Holeshovitz), Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic), liberation, and immigration to the United States in 1948.

  9. Provincial Council in Kielce Wojewódzka Rada Narodowa w Kielcach (Sygn.306)

    List of places in Poland of executions by Germans and mass graves during WWII, correspondence regarding identification and care for the war graves; contracts of land lease, correspondence, and protocols related to abonded Jewish properties. Includes the transfer of a Jewish farm in Opatów for the needs of Junior High and High School, and a list of other Jewish lands transferred for lease to school and private citizens, etc.

  10. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 100 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 100 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  11. US Army infantry advances in Germany

    Staff Film Report no. 46; Combat Bulletin, no. 46. (with intertitles) Reel 2: The 29th Division crosses bridge at Jülich. Aerial views of the wrecked city of Jülich. Gen. Gerhardt and his G-2 officer report plans and conditions at a staff meeting. Troops cross a bridge under enemy fire. Gen. Gerhardt crosses the bridge. The 102nd Division liberates US prisoners at Erkelenz. Undelivered Red Cross packages intended for American POWs but used by Nazis are found in Heppendorf. The 1st Army battles toward Cologne; the 83d Division takes Neusse. Telephoto images of Düsseldorf under bombardment fr...

  12. Renee H. edited testimony

    From the point of view of the child that she was at the time, Renee H., a survivor of Bergen-Belsen from Bratislava, Slovakia relates her wartime experiences. She tells how, in German-occupied Bratislava, she served as the "ears" of her deaf parents and younger sister, alerting them to impending round-ups of Jews. She speaks of her vain attempts to find shelter for her sister and herself after the deportation of her parents, and her voluntary surrender to the police in the hopes of being reunited with her parents in Auschwitz. She describes the life that she and her sister led in Bergen-Bel...

  13. Jacobsohn family: papers and correspondence

    This collection contains the personal papers of the Jacobsohns, a Jewish family from Berlin who emigrated to Argentina in 1937 to flee Nazi persecution.Papers including birth and marriage certificates, Ursel Jacobsohn's work references and apprenticeship deed; notice of emigration of the residents' registration office; Familienstammbuch; passports and identity cards; family photographs; correspondence with friends and family received after their emigration. Also included are papers, correspondence and interviews with Ursel Jacobsohn regarding  the Jewish resistance group led by Herbert...

  14. Legion of Gendarmerie of Bucharest

    Contains records relating to surveillance of Jews, Zionists, Iron Guardists, Communists, Nazi organizations, and Roma; and to deportation of Roma to Transnistria and Roma deportees who returned from Transnistria. It also includes reports on antisemitism and on Jews who did not show up for forced labor.

  15. Вінницький міський касаційний суд при Вінницькому окружному комісарі

    • Vinnytsa city appeal court at Vinnytsa gebietskommissariat
    • Vinnytskyi miskyi kasatsiynyi sud pry Vinnytskomu okruzhnomy komisari

    Inventory 1, files 18, 24, 28, 43, 45, 90, 91, 102, 139, etc. - uniformed sets of documents, representing criminal and civil cases, produced by cassation courts at the district commissariat. These include, in particular, the complaints of Jews: the alienation of houses, robbery of property, etc. The cases cover the circumstances in which the damage was occurred. The group of civil cases testifies about fining of Jews who did not leave their homes in time and did not move to areas determined by the occupation authorities, or did not contribute their share into the indemnity imposed by the au...

  16. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 20 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 20 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  17. Records of the registry office of the Jewish community in Lutomiersk Akta urządu stanu cywilnego gminy żydowskiej w Lutomiersku (Sygn. 1547)

    Books of the registry office in Lutomiersk, Poland. Selected records contain registry books with data of marriages, births and deaths of inhabitants in Lutomiersk as well as bound copies of annexes.

  18. Kan family vacationing in France

    Color. People in a field of yellow flowers. CUs of people (unidentified). Countryside, river with a house. Men and women walk down a dirt road towards the camera, trees in BG. People walk in small groups - three women walk side by side and two men several paces behind them. Scenic shots of the countryside. People walk in the garden. 01:04:38 Group of men and women in a garden. Sundial, large white manor. People sitting in lawn chairs. 01:05:09 Robert on the far left and Betsy on the far right walking with their grandparents (Frits's parents). Grandma tosses a ball to Betsy who then tosses i...

  19. Romanian Marshal Antonescu visits German and Romanian troops on the Eastern Front

    Romanian Field Marshal Ion Antonescu deplanes from his JU-52 transport airplane in the Eastern front and shakes hands with Gen. von Manstein in fall or winter 1941 (note gloves and overcoat). Scene of airfield, airplane, line of troops with rifles, men salute and shake hands. Antonescu and other high officers review troops (German and Romanian), cavalrymen next to horses, and weapons. They inspect cannon in a trench. Antonescu reviews troops in a field, possibly in Bessarabia in 1941 (summer?). He is escorted by German General Erich von Manstein. Presenting awards and medals, troops marchin...

  20. Milch testifies at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 41) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, March 11, 1946. MLSs, witness and prosecutor. Erhard Milch, General Field Marshal and Secretary, Permanent Deputy of the Ministry of the Reich Luftwaffe, is cross-examined by Chief US Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson. Milch held positions of Quartermaster General of the Air Force and IG for the same branch, was a member of the Armament Council, and directed air operations against Norway in 1940. Jackson questions the witness in English; Milch answers in German. Jackson attempts to establish that Germany was prepared for war by questions leading...