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Language of Description: English
  1. Soviet partisans; Stalingrad advance

    Titles: "Soviet Newsreel / 83-84 / Moscow / December 1942 / Directed by M. Fidelevoy"/ "Partisan-Glory" Coverage of ceremony extolling support of partisans in the war effort. 02:21:22 Title: "Defenders of the Caucuses" Gun workshop. CUs and MSs of workers putting together rifles and other guns. Tracking shot of cannon factory. Close shots of cannon maintenance. 02:23:10 Title: "Film-reporting from the Frontlines"/ "In the area of Nalchik" Pans across mountains. ELSs of soldiers hiking through. Coverage of fire fight in the mountains. CU badly wounded soldier. MS German soldier taken prisone...

  2. Wanderer in Hell: Erno Lazarovits's account

    In his memoir Erno (Erno) Lazarovits describes his experiences in the Holocaust. He was drafted into the Budapest labor battalion in May 1944. The forced laborers were herded towards the western border of the country (Gánt, Bodajk, Mór, Fertoʺrákos, Szombathely), and later transferred by the Hungarian gendarmes to the German Todt organization, which took them to Deutsch-Schützen, Austria. Subsequently they had to go on foot to Mauthausen, and finally they were liberated in Gunskirchen, Austria on May 4, 1945. Using flash-back technique Lazarovits remembers his childhood in Szilágysomly...

  3. Ministry of Foreign Affairs : The Legation of the Refugees Administration (Group 17M pk 367-404)

    Records related to the protection of Danish nationals in Europe, Danish refugees in Sweden, including members of the resistance and Jews: includes information on their residence, work, education, support, etc.; reports of activities and financial matters of refugee office. Also consists of a name card index of Danish refugees who arrived in Sweden between 1943-1945. The name index is used as the entrance to the files.

  4. Norbert M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Norbert M., who was born in Czernowitz, Romania in 1922. He recalls his family's socialist leanings; Soviet occupation; ghettoization in October 1941; deportations; arranging to flee with his entire family to Mogilev; forced labor for the Romanian army; ghettoization; improved conditions while working for the retreating German army; liberation by Soviet troops in 1944; being drafted with his brother into the Soviet army; deserting in Warsaw; returning to Romania; attending medical school; marriage; joining his family in Israel; and emigration to the United States.

  5. Lea Blumenkrantz Fried collection

    Contains photographs, documents and correspondence relating to the wartime experiences of Lila Blumenkranz, who survived the war in hiding in a convent in Przemyśl.

  6. Deportations, various locations; Himmler near Minsk

    05:15:34 Title: DEPORTATION 05:15:39 Balti, Romania. Deportation of Bessarabian Jews guarded by a few Romanian soldiers. Low shot as they pass over wooden footbridge. Medium close shots of people on the move, with bundles, children, etc. Long line curving into the distance, open field. 05:16:16 Unnidentified location: shot surreptitously from interior, through window. Woman shoved by German. 05:16:31 German deportees arrive in Warsaw Ghetto, "Aufnahmelager", 05:17:05 People gathered at the Killesberg assembly point in Stuttgart railroad station in 1943. They will be deported to Riga. 05:17:...

  7. Department of Housing of the Simferopol City Council

    • Жилищный отдел Симферопольской городской управы

    Information about Jewish property confiscated after the Jews of Simferopol had been murdered (in December 1941) can be found among the following files: File 1. Statute of the housing department. City board regulations, minutes of meetings of the city council. Instructions and reports of the department of housing of the city council (6.02.1942 – 7.09.1943) File 2. Inventory of houses for each city quarter. Vol. 1. 1941-1942. Quarters No. 1-139. File 3. Inventory of houses for each city quarter. Vol. 2. December 1941 – April 1942. Quarters No. 140-325. File 4. Inventory of houses for each cit...

  8. Selected records of the County Department of Busko Wydział Powiatowy w Busku (Sygn. 2120)

    Records related to history of Stopnica region and Jews living there in the interwar period. Includes plans of revitalization of the region, Starost's correspondence with daily paper "Epoka", newspaper clippings and articles, population statistics, files of finances and ownership of real estates, bills, bank documents, and hospital statistics.

  9. Městský národní výbor Blatná

    • Town National Committee of Blatná / NAD 16

    The fonds contains documents of the town administration and delegated state administration. Jewish issues can be found in the following areas: imposing national administration on Jewish property 1945-1951, property of the Jewish religious community - applications 1951, searching for those released from concentration camps (Drucker, E. Kohn) 1945-1957.

  10. Selected records of the Hungarian Saving Bank's Central Mortgage Bank (MOL Z 105)

    Contains records related to the implementation of any-Jewish laws. Includes circulars, reports, correspondence, bank statements and income records of Jewish employees at the bank.

  11. First Home Saving Bank of Pest City (MOL Z 100)

    This collection contains aryanization records of the Hungarian First Savings Bank, Secretarial. Includes correspondence, minutes, bank statements, list of Jewish debts, and inventories of Jewish estates.

  12. Benjamin D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Benjamin D., who was born in Soko??ka, Poland in 1915. He tells of serving in the Polish army; retreating from the German invasion; capture by a German officer; transfer to a prisoner of war camp in Germany; changing his name to avoid detection as a Jew; and internment in a Stalag at Alt-Grabow. Mr. D. describes conditions of starvation and brutal treatment; forced labor; deportation of some prisoners to a death camp (he learned this later); letters from his brother in a ghetto dated February 2, 1943 and December 13, 1943; and not knowing the whereabouts or fate of hi...

  13. Atrocities, Seeshaupt, Germany

    Atrocities, Seeshaupt, Germany. EXT, LS, pile of decomposed bodies. LS, German civilians opening mass grave. CU, partially exhumed body. MS, German civilians removing a body from a mass grave. LS, pile of decomposed bodies. CU, several decomposed bodies. MS, pile of bodies. CU, decomposed bodies. CU, decomposed face of a slave laborer (dead). MS, German civilians carrying a body on a stretcher. LS, pile of decomposed bodies. EXT, crowd of German civilians, building in BG. LS, crowd of German civilians, American soldiers in FG. MS, German civilians unloading bodies from a truck, others looki...

  14. Zoo; baths in Budapest, parade in Vienna or Budapest

    Views of animals at a zoo including deer, a seal, lions. 01:27 People dancing on a small stage giving some sort of performance. 02:03 A horse race, the men riding them wield swords. 02:47 Views of a chic outdoor café, waiters wearing tuxedos stand by. 03:17 Views of a crowded outdoor pool and of the bathers lounging beside it. A woman in a bathing suit poses for the camera, walks towards it. This is possibly Gellert Bath in Budapest, Hungary. 4:09 Views of a large, possibly religious, procession of people in the street, a large crowd observes. CUs of the people in the procession as they wal...

  15. Selected records from the Archivio di Stato di Taranto

    Records concerning the discrimination and persecution of foreign and Italian Jews in Italy in the community of Taranto. The archive contain relevant documents within the Prefettura and Questura, e.g. 1938 census, foreign Jews living in Italy, and a list of all strangers living in the Taranto region.

  16. Vera Klara Cohn: papers concerning Kurt Singer

    This collection contains the papers of Vera Cohn, mainly concerning Dr Kurt Singer, conductor and musicologist, with whom she had a relationship before she emigrated to the UK in 1938.Personal papers including press cuttings relating to Singer, programme for a guest performance at the Berliner Ensemble accompanying the exhibition 'Geschlossene Vorstellung - Der Jüdische Kulturbund 1933-1941' at the Academy of Art Berlin (1992) and a photograph of Kurt Singer. Also included are two publications by Kurt Singer 'J S Bach Kantatenwelt - A. Allgemeines and grundsätzliches - Einleitung' and 'J S ...

  17. Amtsgericht (District Court) of Mariánské Lázně

    The fonds contains record books and files from the activity of the Amtsgericht (district court) Mariánské Lázně. The files have survived lacunal. Criminal matters are wholly absent, and neither the civil nor library administration task areas have survived completely. The administrative files apply primarily to the organisation and functioning of the court and its employees. The civil administration task area includes civil disputes, auctions and enforced administrations, property seizures and family law. The library administration primarily contains files concerning debt servicing. The fond...

  18. Helena S., Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helena S., a Catholic Romani, who was born in Giraltovce, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1918. She recalls working as a housekeeper for a Jewish family; cordial relations with non-Romanies; marriage; the births of children; persecution of Jews and Romanies by Hlinka guards; her husband's arrest and deportation; begging for food since she had no means of support; Germans deporting the Jews and assaulting and killing Romanies; hiding in the woods with her children; her husband's return after the war; his one-year recuperation; and former Hlinka guards leaving to...

  19. Selected records from the collections of the Salaj branch of the Romanian National Archives

    This collection contains selected records of the Mayorship of Jibou. Includes papers of the Jewish community of Jibou, records relating to the citizenship of Jews and the Jewish Democratic Committee of Sălaj District including name lists and various activity reports.

  20. Jesode Hatora and Beth Jacob school, Antwerp. Collection

    This collection contains prewar, wartime and postwar parts of the administrative archive of the Jesode Hatora and Beth Jacob school in Antwerp. KD_00037_0001 : General documents regarding expenses and teaching staff, letters with blessings by Isaac Herzog, chief rabbi of Israel, and Eliezer Silver, rabbi of Ohio, promotional leaflets, speeches and magazines of the parent association and the pupils. KD_00037_0002 : Attendance lists of the teachers, 1934-1966 KD_00037_0003 : Attendance lists of the pupils, 1941-1983 KD_00037_0004 : Student count based on the municipal register, 1936-1960 KD_0...