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  1. Lorenz Schmuhl papers

    The Lorenz Schmuhl papers consist of correspondence, writings, diaries, photographs, and documents relating to Major Lorenz Schmuhl's service as the first American commander of the Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation and his work at a DP camp in Wiesbaden, Germany. The collection also includes information about Karl Koch, Kommandant of Buchenwald during World War II, and his wife, Ilse Koch, as well as testimonies and writing about Buchenwald and Lorenz. Photographs include originals and copies of Buchenwald during and after the war. Correspondence includes letters, announcements...

  2. Russian Center for the Preservation and Study of Documents of Contemporary History records relating to Jewish partisan resistance in the Soviet Union

    Contains name lists, case files, photographs, interrogations, reports, memoranda, and various other documents relating to both Jewish and non-Jewish partisan resistance movements in all areas of the occupied Soviet Union during World War II; biographical information on individual partisans, their promotions, awards, and activities; persecutions of Soviet Jews during the German occupation; atrocities committed against Soviet Jews during the German occupation; the establishment of ghettos in the Soviet Union; counter-intelligence by the Gestapo to combat partisan activity; and the role of the...

  3. Odessa Oblast Archives records

    Contains files from the central administration of Transnistria (Ukraine) dealing with the local Jews and with the Jews deported from Bessarabia, Bukovina and Transnistria, and their fate in the ghettos between the Dniestr and the Bug.

  4. Women, childcare, park, "Der Stuermer", market

    INT women training for Nazi motherhood at soup kitchen, cooking class, ladling soup. All at table, hands clasped, praying, eating. Class on infant care, instruction with doll, diapers, rubbing lotion. Potty in glass bowl in crib corner. Women around crib see how to lift baby out. LS town of summer garden homes with trees, big buildings (new city housing?) on outskirts. Apartment building with five stories, swastika flags. Woman in backyard feeding chickens. Pram with baby, stares at sky. In garden, girl picks daisy; shaved man with cigar. 00:24:20 EXT shops, sign "B. R. Friedland" [this is ...

  5. Seymour Z. Mann collection

    The Seymour Z. Mann collection includes reports, correspondence, a diary, cultural programs, questionnaires, and printed materials documenting the Evangelical Church and the Social Democratic Party in Ludwigsburg, Germany before, during, and after the Nazi years and Nazi cultural programming in Ludwigsburg during World War II. Adolf Dörrfuss (1875-1948) was a pastor in Ludwigsburg and his 157-page 1946 report describes the Evangelical Church in Ludwigsburg during the Nazi years. The report is interspersed with historical documents such as articles, bulletins, and pamphlets about the Church ...

  6. The Częstochowa Council of Elders (Judenrat) Rada Starszych w Częstochowie (Sygn. 213)

    Records pertains to the administration of the Częstochowa ghetto. Included are statistics on the Jewish community and ghetto; a census of Jews in Częstochowa, with name lists; duty rosters for and instructions to Jewish ghetto police; and a book of events and regulations for the Jewish ghetto police.

  7. Kommandeur der Schutzpolizei in Distrikt Radom work journal (Sygn.172)

    Contains a work journal (diary) kept by the commander of the Schutzpolizei station in Radom, Poland, from June 15, 1944, to December 12, 1944. The journal contains information about police activities and various crimes commited such as trespassing, robbery, kidnapping by partisans (bandits) and theft.

  8. Stutthof concentration camp records

    Contains personal files on prisoners of Stutthof concentration camp; personnel files for SS staff at Stutthof; and records relating to the general administration of the camp. Administrative records include files from the camp commanders office, files from the "Political Department" concerning marking of prisoners and prisoner transports, files from the "Camp" relating to daily operations and handling of prisoners, files from the "Economic Administration" relating to financial management of the camp, files from the "Camp Physician" relating to medical services and the crematoria in the camp,...

  9. Records of the SS in Lublin (Sygn. 22)

    The bulk of the collection contains the records of the Zentralbauleitung der Waffen SS und Polizei in Lublin, Poland, relating to the design and construction of various camp facilities in and around Lublin, among them KGL (Kriegsgefangenenlager) Lublin and "Lager F" in Lublin. Records from other occupation agencies in Lublin contain information about general administrative and police matters in Lublin and surrounding communities. Also includes records of the Jewish councils (Judenräte) in Biskupice and Zamosc ranging from 1939 to 1942. Among these records are several lists of Jewish citize...

  10. Lászlό Erős papers

    The Lászlό Erős papers include an English translation of his joint memoir with his wife, I Will Never Let Go of Your Hand! The memoir covers the period from 1940-1946 and consists of three parts: Blanka’s experiences with deportation and concentration camps, a diary account of Lászlό’s escape from his labor battalion and his eventual reunion with Blanka, and an account of how the survivors from Gyergyόszentmiklόs were memorialized at the local synagogue. The manuscript is accompanied by the original photographs published in the Hungarian version of the memoir and a list of 986 Jews transpor...

  11. Photograph of liberated Buchenwald inmate

    Contains a photograph of an unidentified liberated inmate of the Buchenwald concentration camp, circa may 1945.

  12. Joseph Napoli collection

    Photocopy of an article written by Napoli, a former officer in Army tasked with de-nazification of Germany after 1945, describing problems with process of denazification during that period. Published as "Indifference or Ignorance?" in the newsletter of the Public Committee in Israel of Survivors of Auschwitz, 1983.

  13. Hersz Fischel identification card

    The identification card was issued by the Arbeitsamt-Getto to Hersz Fischel (donor's uncle) to authorize his labor exchange in the ghetto in Łódź (Litzmannstadt), Poland.

  14. Joseph C. Solarz papers

    The Joseph C. Solarz papers include narratives, letters, photographs, and news clippings documenting the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. The narratives include a personal narrative by Solarz and a report by an anonymous author. The letters include a 1945 illustrated note to Solarz by liberated prisoners Tadeusz Warsowicz, Jozef Kachel, and Stefan Dziwlik; a letter from “Alex” to his parents recounting his visit to Buchenwald; and a 1957 letter from former Buchenwald prisoner Feliks Grossman. Photographs depict the liberated Buchenwald concentration camp, and most bear capti...

  15. Michael Honey family trees

    Six family trees created by Michael Honey: 1. Jewish Historical Clock - Branches from the Start of the Horowitz Family in Prague up the the Horowitz Dynasty in Dzikow/Tarnobrzeg Poland Giving Estimates of Birth Years for Each Generation, 1994, 19 1/4 x 13 7/8 2. The Charif-Heizelbeck Genealogy to Find Eitzikel Charif, 1995, 16 ½ x 32 3/4 3. The Levy-Benoliel-Cansino Genealogy from Gibraltar, 1995, 40 1/4 x 41 ½ 4. Jewish Historical Clock - Descendants of R. Yehuda Löw Ben Bezalel The Mahara”l of Prague Giving Estimates of Birth Years For Each Generation, 1995, 41 ⅝ x 41 5. Jewish Historical...

  16. NSDAP / SA and political activities

    Following "Der Kampf geht weiter!" [The Struggle Goes on!] title, this propaganda documentary depicts the efforts of the NSDAP and SA to organize political activities. Special occasions are indicated by intertitles. 07:01:13 Title cards read: "Hitler's Kampf um Deutschland," "Der Film ist hergestelli von der Landesfilmstelle Hessen, Hessen-Nassau," "An der Camera: Pg. Frank Hensel," "Verleih: Pg. Frank Hensel Frankfurt a. M.," "Erster Teil," "Ein Feiertag in Hessen- Nassau" [Holiday in Hessen-Nassau], "Leitung: Gauleiter Sprenger," and "Vor der Zwingburg des Kapitalismus." 07:02:02 Nazi sol...

  17. US Navy; music

    Reel 2: Bing Crosby sings accompanied by the 11th Naval District Coast Guard band.

  18. Tallit

    Tallit given to Leo [Leib] Recht upon liberation of an unknown concentration camp in 1945 by the Joint Distribution Committee upon his return to his home town Kielce, Poland, and worn by him until his death in 1992.

  19. March of Time -- outtakes -- State Department Library; Passport office; Div of Communication and Records

    665 NN Various shots in the State Department library. Man with books. CUs document, treaties signed by officials. People in library, CUs books. Pan right to card catalog. Sign, "Library - US Department of State - For the use of the Department - Not open to the Public." CUs treaty. 665 OO Men typing at desks, telegrams with Secretary of State emblem. Office in Paris? Sign, "Passports Applications and Information. Renewal and Amendments." Passport office. CUs woman filling out paperwork, passport application. Sign, "Division of Communications and Records." INT, office, man at desk. Typing. Mo...

  20. Hitler, Speer, Karl Brandt, Himmler, Heydrich, Ribbentrop

    Reel 1 of the private motion pictures of Eva Braun (Seized Enemy Records). Film titles/locations include: Am Chiemsee, Wolfgangsee, Aschauer Weiher [pond], Woerthsee, Punktchen am Berg. B/W. Eva Braun swims with her parents and others at the Koenigsee, near Berchtesgaden. Scenes at waterfall. Munich, inside Eva Braun's home at Wasserburgerstrasse 12. INT, Eva Braun with family and friends, seated in front of large fireplace. Includes Ilse Braun and CU of Herta Schneider, her husband, and her oldest child. Koenigsee: The Schneiders pose on the edge of the lake for camera. INT at Berghof, Ber...