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  1. Prayer book

  2. Commissariat général aux questions juives

    Consists of records relating to the operations of the Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives. On 29 March 1941, the Vichy Government of France formed the Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives (CGQJ). The CGQJ was responsible for defining Jewish status, inventorying Jewish persons and their possessions, excluding Jewish persons from the French economy, and ultimately, interning Jewish persons to facilitate the implementation of the "Final Solution." The collection contains a variety of documents encapsulating the Commissariat Général aux Questions Juives' operations in Toulouse, Marse...

  3. General Association of Jews in France. Camp Commission

    Consists of records relating to the operations of the Union Générale des Israélites de France (UGIF) Commission des Camps, The Commission des Camps was headquartered in Toulouse, halfway between the camps of Gurs and Rivesaltes, and proximate to three other camps. The Commission's goal was the centralization of camp archives. The collection includes hundreds of letters from refugees and internees, testifying to the plight of Jews in France during occupation.

  4. Union générale des Israélites de France records from the CDJC, Paris

    Consists of records from the Contemporary Jewish Documentation, Paris, relating to the operations of the Union Générale des Israélites de France. The collection contains records from the Archives of the Union Générale des Israélites de France (UGIF). The collection includes the files of Jewish social organizations integrated into UGIF by the Germans. Representative of the documents in the collection are correspondence between constituent elements of UGIF, reports, statistics, legal affidavits, and testimonies. The collection also includes records from Groupements de Travailleurs Étra...

  5. Oral history interview with Benjamin Chruscicki

  6. Oral history interview with Melvin Goldfarb

  7. Oral history interview with Albert Speer

  8. Oral history interview with Dalibor Lovric

  9. Oral history interview with Myer Glick

  10. Joseph Goebbels photograph

    Contains a photographic print of Joseph Goebbels, taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt.

  11. Nazi anti-Soviet propaganda

    Reel 8 This feature film dramatizes the evils of the "bolschewistische Weltvernichtung"[Bolshevik destruction of the world] using the tools of the Soviet secret police GPU and the Comintern to spread anarchy and chaos. Peter Assmuss, a Baltic German student in Riga in the summer of 1939, is innocently drawn into the net of a high-ranking GPU agent Nikolai Bockscha and forced to participate in killing a dissident Armenian national leader in Kovno. Peter hides in Rotterdam with the ethnic German Irina, the secretary of the killed. Eventually they are caught and tortured by the GPU in the cell...

  12. British enemy

    Reel 2 Michael O'Brien, an Irish rebel leader from Dublin, is hanged in 1903 by the British for subversion and high treason. His eighteen-year-old son, also named Michael O'Brien, is sent to St. Edwards College -- a boarding school specifically aimed at making Irish children 'think English' by tight surveillance and ideological education. There, a fellow student collects information for his uncle at the British Secret Service. As a result, Patrick O'Connor unconsciously betrays Michael's widowed mother for harboring Irish freedom fighters even though he eventually joins the rebels' cause. O...

  13. Oral history interview with Berry Nahmias

  14. Oral history interview with Tibor Kovacs

  15. Oral history interview with Yankel Talis

  16. Oral history interview with Leo Weil

  17. Oral history interview with Larry Kowalsky

  18. Oral history interview with Jack Morse

  19. Oral history interview with Vivien Spitz

  20. Oral history interviews with the Laquer/Laqueur family