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  1. Sven Sonnenberg collection

    The collection consists of one armband with a blue Star of David worn in the Drzewica ghetto, one yellow badge worn in the Płock ghetto, one coin from the Łódź ghetto, and two photographs.

  2. Švenčionių apskrities policijos vadas ir punktai

    • Police Commander and Police Stations of Švenčionys District

    The fonds consists of documents about confisacation of Jewish property: lists of things and personal belongings (with names of owners mentioned); reports about arrested people, prisoners of war, soviets activists; correspondence with the chiefs of the districts concerning moods of the locals.

  3. Švenčionių apskrities viršininkas

    • Chief of Švenčionys District

    The files concern anti-semitic posters from April 1942 ("Jews are your deadly enemy"); confiscation of Jewish property and adaptation for such property for public use (for example: the synagogue was adapted for police purposes); the report of the chief of the county concerning registration by doctors Aryan origins all cases of deaths of Jews in August 1942; the main instructions for how settlements in the county were to deal with Jews, how they were to forced Jews to work, how they were to confiscate and register private property of Jews from September 1941.

  4. Swaab-Tygel family. Collection

    This collection contains: three pre-war photos of members of the Antwerp sports club Joodse Arbeiders Sportklub or JASK [English: Jewish Workers Sports Club (Antwerp) or YASK], including Philip Swaab and possibly a brother or future brother-in-law called Marcel ; a pre-war group photo of pupils at a school or colony, including Bertha and Eugenie alias Jennie Tygel ; two pre-war photos of Philip Schwaab with friends ; one post-war portrait of Philip Schwaab ; a certificate issued by the Dutch branche of the Red Cross in Switzerland to Philip Schwaab for passing an exam

  5. Swarthmore College Collection

    Pamphlets, bulletins, serial issues, reports, and other printed matter, relating to peace, disarmament, international relations, World War I, the Spanish Civil War, World War II, the Vietnamese War, the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany, civil liberties in the United States, and the espionage case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and Morton Sobell. Collected by Swarthmore College.

  6. Swastika shaped pin commemorating the reintegration of the Saarland with Nazi Germany

    Pin created to commemorate the March 1, 1935, reintegration of the Saar region into Nazi Germany. This German industrial region on the border with France and Luxembourg had been removed from German control and placed under a fifteen year League of Nations mandate by the Treaty of Versailles following the end of World War I. The French controlled the coal mining operations as part of the reparations owed by Germany under the treaty. On January 1, 1935, there was a plebiscite to determine the future of the country and an overwhelming ninety percent of the population voted to reunite with Germ...

  7. Swastikas, flags, posters of Hitler

    Fast cuts, good images. VAR newspaper printing sequence of the Völkische Beobachter; people hanging flags on buildings; VAR Nazi banners and flags hanging on buildings, portraits of Hitler. Brief cuts of rallies and Goebbels, Hess, Goering, speaking. Sequence of trains and planes with banners: "Ein Volk, ein Führer, ein Wille"; "Treue dem Führer." Swastikas strung overhead on street. Optical effects throughout. NOTE: This is propaganda about propaganda.

  8. Swastikas; Boycott of Jewish shops; Parade; Nazi soldiers

    Intertitles: “W L Film- Nr. 3.” “Leipziger Fahresschau,” “Ein Bild-Bericht von Walther Lenger,” “Camera…. Bearbeitung Walther Lenger Projektor….” “1933,” “März 1933: Sieg der nationalen Revolution: Schwarz-weiss-rote Fahnen und Hakenkreuz-Banner wehen überall.” Shot of a grid of Hakenkreuz side by side. A Nazi flag flies in the street. Then the flag of Germany. Flags fly from buildings in Leipzig. A woman eats a spoonful of something. 10:19:16 Intertitle: “1. April 1933. Boykott. Jüdischer Geschafte.” A newspaper reads, “Boykott! Wir Kampfen, bis Juda kapituliert!” There is a cartoon that s...

  10. Swearing-in Engelbert Dollfuss as chancellor; Heldenplatz

    Probably the May 20, 1932 swearing-in of Engelbert Dollfuss as chancellor of Austria. 01:00:29 Title: “Reception of the Cardinal Legation.” Crowded street scenes in Vienna as people watch parade of people carrying Catholic flags. 01:01:41 Archbishop of Vienna (later Cardinal) Theodor Innitzer. Crowded street scenes continue as several groups of men and boys, wearing different types of uniforms, march down the streets of Vienna. Informal shots of men wearing elaborate uniforms and hats. 01:04:41 A photographer prepares his camera on a tripod at the far left of the frame. 01:05:31 Title: “At ...

  11. Swedish Foreign Ministry records

    Contains diplomatic correspondence and other records relating to ethnic minorities in Sweden. Many of the volumes contain reports on the situation of Jews. Volumes 1094 through 1101 contain reports on Raoul Wallenberg's work in Budapest. The records date from 1920 to 1964.

  12. Swedish protection documents issued in Budapest

    Photocopy of "Schutzpass" for Laszlo Tibor, as well as copy of his Swedish-issued work permit, both from Budapest, 1944.

  13. Swedish Red Cross Aid for prisoners in Germany, 1945

    "Witness Stand: A Reportage on the Swedish Red Cross Aid Action for Prisoners in Germany" Production date, April 1945. Part 1 Greve Folke Bernadotte leaves for mission to Germany, plane takes off. Red Cross personnel get off a white bus. In Malmo they take a ferry to Copenhagen. Happy, freed prisoners board the boat at the dock. Poles and French land in Sweden. Old women. Small children. Womenfolk. Wagon rolls inland from ferry. Countess Maj-Lis from Eichstedt, born Luening, greets them welcome home. Boarding ambulances, taken to curatorium/convalescent home. Old woman greets her stretcher ...

  14. Swedish Red Cross Aid for prisoners in Germany, 1945

    "Witness Stand: Diverse Clips" Red Cross ship "Crown Princess Ingrid" in port. More unloading refugees. Transport from Lubeck to Sweden. Bathing women.

  15. Swedish Red Cross Aid for prisoners in Germany, 1945

    "Witness Stand: Diverse Clips" Malmo: ambulance on a dock. Ferry station. Refugees go inland. Malmo ferry arrives. More women getting naked, bathing, getting new clothes, and getting disinfected.

  16. Swedish Red Cross Aid for prisoners in Germany, 1945

    "Witness Stand: A Reportage on the Swedish Red Cross Aid Action for Prisoners in Germany" Production date, April 1945. Part 2, the ambulance column arrives. Memorial day for E V Ringmann, ambulance driver who was killed in an allied aircraft, whose casket is loaded onto a railroad car. Norwegian paramedic team. Doctors examine the new arrivals. Women with naked torsos show their tattoo marks. Naked women bathing, showering, and get new clothes. They are disinfected from lice. Registration stall for Danes and Norwegians. Danes get new clothes. Some people talk with each other, doctors examin...

  17. Sweisserok

    The poem "Sweisserok" was written by Erzsebet Frank at Markkleeberg in 1945 and describes the friendship and daily lives of twelve welders at the Junkers-Markkleeberg slave labor camp during the Holocaust. The poem features an illustration of the welders by a fellow laborer, possibly a young woman named Gizella. One of the welders described in the poem is Erszebet Zucker (later Elizabeth Mermel, b. 1924, Sátoraljaújhely, Hungary), who carried the poem during the death march evacuation from Markkleeberg in April 1945. (Zahava Szász Stessel describes the creation and preservation of the poem ...

  18. Swiatlowski-Koronczyk family. Collection

    This collection contains photocopies of : Berek Swiatlowski's Polish military booklet ; Berek Swiatlowski and Pesa Koronczyk's Polish passport ; a postcard thrown from the Transport X by Berek Swiatlowski on 13 September 1942 ; administrative documents of the Swiatlowski-Koronczyk family ; war-time work permits of Abram Swiatlowski ; pre-war photos of Swiatlowski and Koronczyk family members in Poland and in Belgium.

  19. Swimming in Budapest; zoo visit

    The Schiffers put coats on and children play on a grassy hillside. (01:30) Anni and János swim with Ernö at Szecheny bath/pools in Budapest in July 1934. (02:42) At a restaurant on Lake Balaton. The family takes a boat trip, views of water, horizon, sailboat. (05:11) At Szecheny bath, swimming, including János, Anni, Bözske, Alice, Gyuri, and nurse-maid Tete. (06:20) Trip to the zoo that includes elephants, camels, zebras, and other animals. János and others ride ponies and horses at the zoo. (09:20) They greet more animals, including peacocks, tigers, and bears. (10:02) Newborn Éva (János’...

  20. Swimming; family takes a train in June 1940

    Eva is slightly older now, her hair in braids, she walks towards the camera with her mother Lilly and another young boy holding her hand. They play with a small terrier dog. The dog runs through a field. Large building. A girl jumps over a rope. Others practice handstands, backbends and cartwheels on the grass. The group picks up the little girl with braids. 01:02:37 Intertitle “Svábhegy 1940. Julius~ augusztus.” (film slightly damaged) Toy sailboat in water. People go down a water slide. Eva cries, and then relaxes on a float with a young boy. Everyone plays in the water. CU of Eva stickin...