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  1. Holocaust experiences of Adela Kestenberg Manheimer

    The collection consists of a five-page typewritten personal narrative of Adela Manheimer's (nee Kestenberg) experiences in prewar Poland; as a forced-laborer in the Grünberg subcamp of Gross-Rosen working for the German army weaving blankets; on a death march lasting from January 1945 to May 1945, when she escaped from the march; and in postwar Germany and the United States. Includes a photocopy of a photograph of Adela circa 1945.

  2. March of Time -- outtakes -- Mass graves, monument, ceremony

    Somber looking men with flags. The bald man on whom the camera focuses and who gives the speech is Jozef Cyrankiewicz, head of the Polish Socialist Party and later head of the Polish government. An Auschwitz survivor, he had been active in the Polish resistance and was arrested in 1941. 06:18:47 Unidentified man speaking, crowd watches. 06:09:57 Tombstone uncovered, Cyrankiewicz places a medal on the stone. 06:21:32 Panning shot of huge crowd, with people visible through the empty window frames of the damaged buildings. 06:22:35 Coat of arms. 06:22:48 Unidentified man giving speech. 06:23:4...

  3. March of Time -- outtakes -- Palestine, 1938 Chaim Weizmann & others

    02:28:16 EXT of The Daniel Sieff Research Institute at Rehovot. INT scenes, Dr. Chaim Weizmann's lab, research, main entrance, name of institute. Dr. Weizmann leaving the Institute by car in company of Brig. Harrison, Commander of the Sarafand Army Base and 2) with Gen. Haining, Commander in Chief of British troops in Palestine. 02:29:54 City walls of Jerusalem, convoy/vehicles at bottom of hill, pedestrians walking on road. Western wall. 02:30:39 Jerusalem street scenes, automobiles and pedestrians. 02:30:58 Dr. Weizmann leaving the Sieff Institute by car with Gen. Haining, Commander in Ch...

  4. Carl Schurz Tour of American professors and students through Germany in summer 1934

    REEL 6. The Americans drink wine in a wine cellar at a vineyard. They sail down the Rhine River. President Schanz takes numerous photos. Steam rises from the funnel of a boat on the water. The University of Bonn, cloisters, Nazi flags decorates the streets of Bonn. The group visits the house where Beethoven was born, bronze statue in garden. They tour Cologne. The gothic cathedral architecture. They go to nearby Liblar where Carl Schurz was born. President Schanz places a wreath against the wall beneath the bronze plate in memory of Carl Schurz. The final stop is Hamburg. Sightseeing in the...

  5. Otto K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Otto K., who was born in Prague to upper middle class parents around 1921. He speaks of joining a Zionist youth movement at the outbreak of the war; the deterioration of the Jewish situation in Prague; and his deportation to Terezin in May, 1942. He describes living conditions there, where he worked in a vegetable garden and was a member of the ghetto's Zionist council. He relates his and his family's transport to Auschwitz; their stay in Birkenau family camp B2B; his job caring for children from a children's barrack until July, 1944, when he was sent to Schwarzheide,...

  6. Piotr R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Piotr R., who was born in Drahichyn, Poland (presently Belarus) in 1923. In addition to information in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-3304), Mr. R. recounts is mother giving him the family photographs to save; his German supervisor hiding him after the October 1942 mass killing and instructing him how to act as a non-Jew; marriage in 1949; the births of his children; attending a survivor conference in Warsaw in 1996; and his attempts to locate and honor the German who saved him. Mr. R. notes that only two of his five siblings survived. He shows photographs and d...

  7. Jews protest in London; Diplomats sign pact in Italy

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 5, No. 166, Parts 2 and 7. Release date, 07/26/1933. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: Part 2 (11:23:15-11:24:07): "Jews Demand Nazi Boycott" London, England, July 20, 1933. Unprecedented scenes in famous Hyde Park as 50,000 mass to urge a cessation of trade relations with Germany in retaliation for the persecutions of Jews by Adolf Hitler's followers. Demonstration headed by Jewish war veterans. LS crowded city street, well dressed crowd, women, marching, banner 1914 "freedom from Hitler's Armies", double decker bus. Part 7 (11:27:00-11:28:01): "Nati...

  8. Поименни декларации на лица от еврейски произход, съгласно чл. 26 от Закона за защита на нациата Bulgarian People's Bank, Sofia (Fond 285K, Opis 7). Personal declarations of financial accests and property submitted by Bulgarian Jews.

    Personal declarations of financial assets and property submitted by the Bulgarian Jews in accordance with the Law for the Defense of Nation. Each file consists of detailed questionnaire providing information about person's financial assets, property etc. declared in accordance with the Law for the Defense of Nation effective from 23 January 1941 to 27 November 1944.

  9. Peter grows up

    Baby Peter developing and growing up. CUs and MSs of the baby in a high chair, crib, playing peek-a-boo, crawling, playing with sister, ring a rosie in the garden, toddling, walking with father (Dr. Max Schur), picking fruit from bushes in the garden, and drinking water from a large bucket or barrel.

  10. Documents related to the righteous gentiles in the former USSR

    The collection includes photocopied letters, envelopes, testimonies, certified statements, photographs, passports, certificates of honor, forms, and applications of Jewish residents of the Former Soviet Union (FSU) and the Gentiles who saved them. These documents were collected mostly from 1989 to 1997 by four main organizations: The Jewish Foundation of Christian Rescuers; the Association of Jewish Organizations and the Ukrainian Community; World of the Righteous; and the Societal History Instruction Center on Babi Yar.

  11. Selected records from the collections of the Ialomiţa branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Contains records from the Democratic Jewish Committee (CDE) of Calarasi, and includes records relating to support for Jewish citizens and reports of activities of CDE. Includes also records from the sub-district of Slobozia, including records relating to the confiscation of goods of Iron Guard movement, instructions regarding registration of Jews, and forced labor of Jews.

  12. Rasela K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rasela K., who was born in Skopje, Yugoslavia (presently Macedonia) in 1925. She recalls attending public school; her family being the only Jews in their neighborhood; German, then Bulgarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions, including wearing the yellow star; round-up to a tobacco factory (Monopol) on March 11; starvation and lack of sanitation; arrival of Jews from surrounding areas; deportations beginning March 22; the release of Italian and Spanish citizens after twenty days, including her family and other paternal relatives, due to assistance from Spanish and ...

  13. Golda S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Golda S., who was born in Sokal?, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1922, one of eight children. She recounts a weaving apprenticeship in L?viv; increased antisemitism in the mid 1930s; Soviet occupation of Sokal? in 1939; German invasion in 1941; anti-Jewish violence and restrictions; ghettoization; escaping from a deportation train; returning home; being hidden in a monastery; leaving when her life was in danger; encountering a woman on a train who offered her a job in Krako?w; discovery and incarceration in P?aszo?w; escaping four weeks later; obtaining false papers; w...

  14. Zinnowaldschule (a German school): girls in class

    EXT of school with CU of sign "Zinnowaldschule" at front. Schoolgirls on bicycles outside school. VAR shots of the school INT. Girls in class painting and drawing, at desks.

  15. Janina Spinner Mehlberg testimony

    Consists of a copy of a testimony by Janina Spinner Mehlberg. The testimony describes the experiences of Mehlberg and her husband as refugees in hiding in Lublin, Poland, during the Holocaust and their involvement with an underground movement to assist the prisoners of Majdanek concentration camp.

  16. US Army Air Force in Germany; Ohrdruf in flames; planes

    The clip that is viewable online is a selected excerpt from the complete story - timecode 09:04:04 to 09:10:07. Diving on bridge over river. P-47 dives on town. Strafing railroad, road, town. Large formation of P-47s in the air. MS, CU C-47 taking off. 09:04:04 MS German officers waiting evacuation. CU Hugo Sperrle, former chief of staff. MCU as officers climb into C-47 for evacuation. German officers. MS German prisoners awaiting air evacuation. MS as they board C-47. CU pilot and nose of C-47 as he turns over engine. MS A-20 buzzes and flies over field. 09:05:53 MS burning barracks ...

  17. Anne C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anne C., who was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1919, the middle of three children. She recounts her family's affluence; participating in a Zionist youth group; removal from school in 1934 due to anti-Jewish laws; attending a Jewish school; her parents' emigration to Luxemburg in 1935; attending a boarding school in Munich; emigration to London in 1937; seeing one brother on his way to the United States; visiting her parents in France; her other brother's emigration to Palestine in 1939; marriage; living in Scotland; her husband's death in 1946 (he was killed w...

  18. Bălţi County Tribunal

    • Tribunal judeţean Bălţi
    • Бельцкий уездный трибунал
    • Bel'tskiy uyezdnyy tribunal

    Cases of the Office of the Tribunal, administrative cases, cases of the Prosecutor’s Office, statistical information of a different nature, cases of various departments (cases of determining the date of birth [including a petition from Bernstein Pinchos, Bryn Nuhim, Bromberg Riva, Goldar Itzik, Fingerts Moshko, etc.], adoption cases, cases of determining the date of death, the divorces [ including Lisker Leib divorcing Lisker Reveka; Livshits Meer divorcing Livshits Rebeka, etc.]

  19. World War II American servicemen (POWs) in stalags, forced marches, death marches and separated because of religion, color or nationality and forced to go to special concentration camps instead of stalags

    Contains information about American prisoners of war and their experiences at the hands of the Nazis on marches and in POW and concentration camps. Some materials also relate to American Jewish POWs who were placed in Berga/Elster, a Buchenwald subcamp.

  20. The Jolly Boys recordings

    Side A: Kabootar (Khatibi) ["La Paloma" by Sebastian de Iradier (c. 1860)] - Columbia G.P. 107/CO 189. Side B: Yasseman (Fakoor) ["Solamente una vez" by Agustin Lara (1941)] - Columbia G.P. 107/CO 191. An instrumental recording featuring Polish popular jazz band, "The Jolly Boys," exiled to Iran. The performers include Stanislaw Sperber, Sonia Vartanian, Ghanbary, F. Socolow, and Igo Krischer. The Jewish band found unexpected sanctuary in Tehran, where they had been invited to perform at the future Shah’s wedding party (in the summer of 1939), and where they continued to perform as a group ...