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  1. Eichmann Trial -- Session 80 -- Examination of the Accused re: relocation, deportation, Lebensborn, Palestine, Bulgaria

    Session 80. Dr. Servatius reads a document about 1,000 Poles taken on each transport, and a request to get moving so that the Aktion can begin in November. Servatius then asks Eichmann when he was involved with this in Berlin. He says that these were in the Government General area, and Birkenau was requesting transports, so his office got together to figure out how to fill the order. He says that teenage Poles were to replace the Jews of similar ages working in war industries. He says that he was involved with this indirectly. He says that Mueller's orders demanded setting up children's cam...

  2. Solomon Littman collection

    Photocopied documents from the National Archives UK, consisting of the records from the record group TS 26/903, titled "Treasury Solicitor and HM Procurator General: War Crimes Papers. World War II, 1939-194. U.N.W.C.C. Lists of War Criminals. Concentration Camps. Miscellaneous Papers." Most of the material consists of transcripts of depositions filed in cases prosecuted by the British against alleged war criminals, along with supporting documentation, such as lists of personnel at various concentration camps, compiled May - November 1945. Also includes one report from the U.N. War Crimes C...

  3. Hitler Youth in Vienna; Goering's visit

    HJ marching on Ringstrasse (Burgring) in preparation for Goering's visit. Hardly any audience. "Opern Café" in BG. Flags with SS insignia (skull and crossbone). BDM girls marching, then waiting. Cut to April/early May (Hitler's Birthday or May 1 celebrations?) with BDM girls warming-up like cheerleaders. Back to March 26 Goering visit. Parade. Goering passes in car.

  5. CUKUNFT Socialist Organization of Youth Socjalistyczna Organizacja Młodzieży CUKUNFT (Sygn. 1347)

    Minutes of meetings, reports, questionnaires concerning Jewish youth, proclamations, and a chronicle of 1942.

  6. Selected records of the General Jewish Labor Federation "Bund" in Poland Ogólno Żydowski Związek Robotniczy Bund w Polsce (Sygn.1214)

    Records of the activities of the the Central Committee of the Jewish Workers Federation "Bund" in Poland and abroad between 1900-1948. The collection contains circular letters, proclamations, reports, posters, appeals, photographs, press articles, a list of confiscated newspaper “Fołkscajtung”, correspondence, minutes, testimnonies, bulletins, accounts, memoirs, and card files.

  7. UFA documentary film on the Reich Labor Service (RAD)

    UFA documentary film on the RAD. Titles in German. Camera by Kurt Stanke; Music by Hans Ebert.

  8. March of Time -- outtakes -- Liberation of Paris

    Paris Liberation, 1946-1947. Overturned burning truck, exploding. Allied tank painted with cross of Lorraine. FFI men painting over captured German cavalry. French gendarme. Priest getting escorted under Red Cross flag. Man getting into ambulance. Gates of Paris, cemetary, graves of French patriots. Banner on the street with a German inscription. FFI men dismantling light machine gun.

  9. Ukrainian labor for Germany

    Propaganda footage. Young Ukrainian men and women being relocated to work in German factories. Young Ukrainians being taken from Kiev to Germany to help with the war effort. Arriving at station, boarding bus, going through town. CU of young men and women in bus intercut with street scenes (what they're seeing through the windows). Factory INT: young men and women at work wearing traditional Ukrainian clothes (embroidered blouses, caps, etc.). Inspirational-sounding music.

  10. 1936 Olympics: crowds; Hitler; races

    Film shows the 1936 Summer Olympic Games, the Eleventh Olympiad, at the German Arena on the western outskirts of Berlin, Aug. 1-16th. Reel 10: Shows crowds in stands at the German Arena, Hitler, Goering and Goebbels among them; relay races are held; garlands of victory are placed on the brows of US, British, and Finnish contestants.

  11. 24 drawings from the concentration camps in Germany Print

    One of a set of twenty-three prints of drawings created by George Zielezinski

  12. Andre Steiner

    Andre Steiner, an architect, discusses the Judenrat and resistance activities in Slovakia with Lanzmann. He recounts relations with Rabbi Weissmandel and Gisi Fleischmann in their attempt to rescue Slovak Jews from deportation. FILM ID 3414 -- Camera Rolls #1-3 -- 00:00:22 to 00:33:51 CR1 Andre Steiner was born into an assimilated Czechoslovakian Jewish family. He was an architect in Brno and in 1939 he was imprisoned briefly because his father-in-law was a leader of the Jewish Agency in Czechoslovakia. He and his family left Brno for Bratislava as soon as he was released from prison. In Br...

  13. Selected records from the Deutscher Gemeindetag collection (R 36)

    Contains selected documents of the Deutscher Gemeindetag (German Municipal Organization) which was responsible for the systematic exclusion of German Jews and other targeted groups from government welfare programs.

  14. Memoirs

    Contains a testimony, photocopy of typescript and manuscript, eight pages.

  16. March of Time -- outtakes -- Jewish Refugees in Paris

    Jewish Refugees in Paris. LS, Jewish hostel in Paris-16 rue Lamarck, Montmartre. VSs, Jews entering the hostel (four story plain concrete building). CU sign "Associations Philanthropique- Asile de nuit- Asile du jour et Creche Israelites." ES, class learning French. CU, teacher, pupils writing and listening. Refugees arriving at hostel and lining up near the director's office. Refugees in reception room. Director Beilin consulting index cards. ES, view of kitchen. Refugees entering the dining room. Plaque on wall of the Association.

  17. Kharkov Trial; Executions

    Scenes from wooded courtroom of men on trial for crimes committed against Soviet civilians and soldiers. The judge reads the sentence before a standing audience. The convicted men are led outside and are hanged at a public hanging. The names of the men are read: Reinhard Redslav, Wilhelm Langfeld, Hans Riitz, Mikhail Bulanov.

  18. SA.: Mann in Front (Munich, Germany) [Newspaper]

    German National Socialist newspaper.

  20. Celia Lee collection

    Consists of 12 pre-World War II photographs depicting the family of Celia Horwitz (later Celia Lee) in Germany and in England, and documents, correspondence, newspaper articles, and song lyrics relating to the history and experiences of the Horwitz family.