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  1. Selected records of the city Ruda Pabianicka Akta Miasta Ruda Pabianicka (Sygn. 223)

    Minutes, resolutions, regulations, statistics, indexes of inhabitants, correspondence and ordinances of the town of Ruda Pabianicka (today a district of the city Łódź). Contains records of the local slaughter house and artisan guilds related to trade and craft of the 1930s. Majority of records consist of statistics of the town dwellers, books of permanent inhabitants and their properties, indexes and books of control of migration. Extensive lists of Jewish people of 1939-1940 are located in the File 434a.

  2. Nuremberg demonstration

    AGFA 1938. Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg, 1938. Crowds. HAS, parade in streets. Demonstrations in the stadium. Street scenes. Swastika flags.

  3. stamped envelope

    Stamped envelope sent to inmate Louis Goldmann at Internment Camp "N", Ottowa, Canada. The return address is in Quito, Ecuador and the sender is Federico Goldmann. The envelope includes 4 stamps. The envelope is postmarked 29 April 1943.

  4. Touring Northern Spain and the French riviera

    With intertitles in English. Shots from up above of the coast and a village below. 0:41 “Cathedral of Notre Dame de la Garde at Marseilles- France.” Shots of the cathedral, two fashionably-dressed women pose and smile for the camera in front of the beach. 1:02 “In the Courtyard of a former Count’s Estate.” The same two women and a man stand before a building with a large rose window. 1:19 “Hotel D’Angleterre in Biarritz.” A well-dressed woman and man exit the Hotel D’Angleterre and walk around the gardens. 2:00 “A drive to St. Jean Pied de Port.” Shot of a flowing river. Car stopped on the ...

  5. Dachau photograph collection

    Contains post-liberation photographs identified as the Dachau concentration camp. The photos belonged to a medic who was donor's great uncle (name unknown). Some images are labeled on verso; one is addressed to "Eddie" [Edward Galarneau, donor's paternal grandfather]. The images were likely taken clandestinely and show various scenes of victims in rail cars and on horse-drawn carriages.

  6. Gliders

    Private film. Gliding school Leba. Lonske Düne. Pomerania. "Moderne Ikarier". "Ein Tag bei Segelfliegern". "Aufnahmen mit Zeiss-Ikon.Kinamo K.S.10".

  7. Trommer and Geldmann families collection

    Contains documents and photographs relating to the Trommer and Geldmann families from Copenhagen; documents include marriage certificate of Moses Diament of Copenhagen, Denmark and Pesa Geldmann of Łódź, Poland, issued in Zbaszyn, Poland on April 22, 1939; Ketubah of Josef Geldmann and Kaja Diament, dated October 27, 1935 in Copenhagen. Josef, son of Moses Geldmann (donor's grandfather) was born on September 9, 1914 in Łódź. Josef's sister Pesia Geldmann married Moses Diament and was able to come to Denmark just before the outbreak of the war. In 1943 the whole family was able to escape to ...

  8. Ford-Eifel automobile

    Ford "Eifel" is a car manufactured by Ford Germany between 1935 and 1940. NSKK men conduct cars during off-road driving, Hitler salute from moving cars, subtitles: "The third day started with rain", car collection point, Wehrmacht soldiers, salute from car at the destination, celebration at Kynsburg, award of the winners (Werner Huth, Breslau), " Exit from Silesia ”, detailed list of the winners. Ford end titles. Pictures by Rolf-Dietrich Nath, Agfa cameraman, later PK film reporter. 10:07:30 gas station, repair Ford, Kynsburg, Lower Silesia, Wroclaw 10:11:06 Nazi women support the driver 1...

  9. Card catalog of evacuees from Latvia

    Card index of citizens evacuated from Latvia in 1941.

  10. Russian campaign

    Russian campaign, June-July 1941. Lithuania, Lithuanian para-military organizations. Russia.

  11. Military maneuvers

    Parade in Berlin, Polish Campaign, French Campaign

  12. Berlin in Color

    Old Berlin, stroll through city, "Reich capital Berlin 1936". The recordings are from the years 1941/42, shot by the professional cameraman Frederick Fuglsang. East-West axis, decorated with swastika flags, traffic towards Brandenburg Gate, Uniformed. Unter den Linden, Radio tower, exhibition halls at the radio tower, Cafe, Hitler Youth, Old library, Hedwigskirche, Scharnhorst monument, Old St. Mary's Church, Theodor Körner Residential building, where Körner lived as a student.

  13. Massacre of Serbs; emaciated children

    Shooting of Serbs, Communists, and Jews in Sremska Mitrovica, Serbia in January or February 1942. In 1941, Nazi groups of Croatian Ustasha conquered the city and prepared to slaughter the Serbs in the city. According to historians, the group of people in the film were either accused for black market activity or part of the "politically unfit" Serbian population. 10:00:57-10:03:20 Emaciated children.

  14. UNRRA selected records AG-018-003 : Bureau of Supply

    Selected records of the UNRRA Bureau of Supply, including the Country Programs Division Operations and Programming Branches: reports on China, Czechoslovakia, Finland, Greece, Italy, and Poland, and other various reports. Other divisions files relating to the coordination and transportation of supplies; including are files of the Agricultural Rehabilitation Division, Industrial Rehabilitation Division, Clothing Textiles, and Footwear Division, Food Division, and Medical and Sanitation Supplies branch.

  15. “Old Guard” of the Nazi Party in 1939

    “Old Guard” of the Nazi Party in 1939. Police festival. Winter Relief. SS-Standarte Germania gives public concert. Day of Commemoration of Heroes. Carnival in 1939. May Day celebrations in 1935

  16. Joseph Starkman collection

    Contains two certificates issued to Sonia Starkman and to Josef Starkman testifying that each served in a Belorussian Partisan unit from June 18, 1942 until July 20, 1944; two temporary certificates issued to Sonia Starkman and to Josef Starkman awarding them medals for fighting as partisans against Germany during the “Patriotic War,” dated: June 22, 1944, in Russian; a “Deutsche Kennkarte” issued to Joseph and Sonja Starkmann, issued in Passau, Germany, dated October 2, 1951; two identity cards issued by Civilian Services attached to Polish Forces entering U.K. issued to Jozef and Zofia Gr...

  17. Displaced persons at Zeilsheim camp around 1947

    Quick pan of men with a flag at the Zeilsheim Displaced Persons camp in Germany. A young child eats an apple and stares at the camera. Posters tacked to tree trunks showing photographs of men and writing in Hebrew. 00:00:38 Outdoors, an archway decorated with a menorah, a star of David, and Hebrew/English inscriptions, including "Jewish Scout Camp". A large number of scouts -- teenaged boys and girls in uniform -- stand in rows while a white flag bearing a star of David is raised. Children and adults march behind the flag bearers. In Wiesbaden (?). A woman, possibly Lorna Adelman, with a wo...

  19. Private German films

    1938: Christmas, family, tram scenes. Fairground, railroad. 06:00 child plays with a shop, various children's toys, "carousel". 09:00 "Löffmgen", summer vacation, carriage rides. 11:03 Railway, Easter, train ride, Waldshut, boat trip. 14:40 A pig is slaughtered. Apprentice wears HJ shirt. 16:50 fire, fire department, deployment fire department, old fire engines. 19:50 1939: Freiburg: fire station, fire brigade routine, exercises. 30:00 Old electric locomotives, fairground, Linnep Castle, private. 36:30 "Beautiful home": Ratingen, Berg. 10:38:45 - 10:46:25 Refer to M 3757 41:23 Getting to kn...

  20. Olympic train

    Olympiazug. Train advertising measures in advance of the 1936 Olympic Games.