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Language of Description: English

  1. Poster encouraging voter turnout as a way to support freedom and the war effort

    Poster titled Your Right to Vote, promoting Roosevelt's Four Freedoms. Different types of wartime propaganda campaigns were designed around these slogans. This poster says that exercising the right to vote is the way civilians on the home front can protect the freedoms the US is fighting for overseas during World War II. This poster shows a vote for Freedom of Enterprise. The other choices on the ballot machine are Freedom of Worship, Freedom of Speech, and Freedom of Press. In his January 1941 State of the Union address, FDR proposed four fundamental freedoms that people everywhere in the ...

  2. Ida C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ida C., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1931. She recalls moving to Siedlce, returning to Warsaw prior to 1938; brief German invasion while she was with her grandparents near Siedlce; Soviet occupation; traveling to Minsk; her parents and sister joining them, transport to Arkhangel?sk in late 1939, then to a labor camp in Komi; attending school while her parents worked; hunger; and transfer to Samarqand at the end of 1941. Mrs. C. recounts their return to Poland in 1945; leaving ?o?dz? intending to emigrate to Palestine, living in a displaced persons camp and in Ulm...

  3. Olympics -- Berlin 1936

    Title: "The Games Begin." Scenes show various events interspersed with crowd scenes. In most cases there is a title after the event that names the winners and gives their times. The games begin with a warm up (or a first heat?) sprint, won by a man name Borchmeyer. Tilly Fleischer throws the javelin, winning the first gold medal for Germany. Hitler and Hermann Goering congratulate the athletes on the podium. 01:13:38 Jesse Owens wins the 100 m sprint in 10.3 seconds. Slow motion of the women's 100 m sprint, won by the American Stephens. The footage of the two men's and women's races is repe...

  4. Invasion of the USSR

    German soldiers on horseback and in vehicles on a dusty road, moving east, on the march toward Schaulen (Siauliai). The camera focuses on one soldier who has his foot soaking in a bucket, riding on a horse-drawn cart. The music is upbeat and slightly comical. Three soldiers carry radio or telephone equipment between them as they walk. The music changes as the soldiers engage the enemy with automatic weapons and rifles. A few Soviet soldiers, with their hands in the air, surrender to the Germans. More fighting, surrender, burning vehicles. Close-ups of POWs, including one woman, described by...

  5. Oscar Reiss papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Oscar K. Reiss, originally of Munich, Germany. Included are immigration paperwork, his German passport, United States Army records, and an affidavit related to his attempt to help his family in Germany immigrate to the United States. Also included are a small number of photographs which include depictions of Oscar’s mother Irma Reiss prior to the Holocaust, and Oscar in his U.S. Army uniform.

  6. Selected records from the National Library of Morocco

    Contains mostly regulations, correspondence, reports and the like, compiled by French authorities in Morocco. Main topics are: legislation related to Jews; Moroccan and Algerian laws concerning Jews; professions prohibited to Jews (1941-1942 records); records on taxes levied on the Jewish community (1940-1945); decrees concerning nationality and citizenship of Jews; 1930-1935 tax matters related to the Jewish community; Jewish cemeteries; Jewish life in Fez; German activity in Morocco before and during the war including notes of the DAP (Deutsche Arbeitspartei); activities in the Spanish zo...

  7. Five Cities

    Yiddish titles. English title: "Jewish Life in Krakow" Pan of city of Krakow, buildings, tram, street scenes, statues, city square with pigeons. Streetcars share tree-lined streets with horse-drawn carriages. People conduct business under umbrella-covered markets and arcaded market halls. Jewish children, impoverished housing in Jewish quarter. Scenes of the famous Remu Synagogue and the Alte Shul, an orphanage, a hospital, and the Jewish Community Council. Street scenes with Jews showing the vitality of the community. Several schools. Parks and schoolyards host sports, games and animated d...

  8. British Colonial Office : Palestine, original correspondence

    Includes correspondence relating to British policy in Palestine, e.g., discussions with the Jewish Agency, other Jewish organizations, and individuals as well as world reaction to policy; petitions; Arab opposition and disturbances; Jewish immigration issues, granting visas, settlements, and illegal immigration; logistical/administrative concerns relating to public works, police, railways, and other infrastructure concerns; financial issues in Palestine; the Royal Commission on Palestine, Partition Commission, Jordan Valley Authority, and implementation of the United Nations Organizations D...

  9. Selected records of the Provincial Headquarters of the State Police in Łódź Komenda Wojewódzka Policji Państwowej w Łodzi (Sygn.183) : Wybrane materialy

    Police reports, include name lists of police officers, surveys and surveillance journals, arrest warrants, and photographs of detainees from the register of the State Police, 1938-1939.

  10. Registration cards for Jews from Lviv ghetto and a register of the Jewish cemetery in Lviv

    Contains alphabetically ordered index cards from a file of those L’viv ghetto inhabitants who went to places of work in the city each day. Included are the name of each Jew, some biographical data, and addresses of workplaces. Also included is a register of burials in the Jewish cemetery in L’viv from 1941 to 1942. This collection is part of the Fond 701, RG -31.033M, Jewish religious community in Lwów, Poland records.

  11. March of Time -- outtakes -- Drancy, France; Repatriation

    1252 K (07:01:12-07:04:00): Concentration Camp for Collaborationists, Drancy, France. LS entire courtyard. Traveling shots of people walking about in the courtyard. Shots taken from an auto. LS and MS people standing about. Shot looking up of girls leaning out of windows. Collaborationists filing through doorway escorted by ?? man. 1252 O (07:04:02-07:12:34): Repatriation of French War Prisoners and Civilians, Paris, France. French war prisoners wait on airfield. CU prisoner sitting at side of small tricolor. Close shots of prisoners waiting for planes; march toward planes and board some. C...

  12. Selected records of the Steam Brewery in Skierniewice Browar Parowy w Skierniewicach (Sygn. 922)

    Books of recipients, debtors, incomes and expenditures of the Steam Brewery in Skierniewice, owned by Polish businessman, Władysław Strakacz. The brewery’s clientele included many Jews.

  13. JDC aids refugees, DPs

    Warburg speaking intercut with: Various JDC headquarters NYC and Paris (Leavitt and Schwartz). JDC supply trucks and warehouses in Europe. Memorial ceremonies: Rome, Munich. Shots of DPs eating various places. Liberation footage. UN meeting. Warsaw: Ghetto ruins, TOZ hospital, nursery (pre-war?), JDC warehouse, TB sanatorium, orphanage. Bricha: DPs get onto trains, along road, into Czechoslovakia, into buses, trucks, Bratislava camp and trains. Prague: Service (JDC supplied torah). JDC meeting, children's home. Loan co-op office, small businesses. Budapest: Clothing warehouse. Canteen. Germ...

  14. Belsen Concentration Camp: burial; hairwashing; Red Cross

    MLS, two chaplains, Rev. P.T. Stretch and Rev. Cuthbert, standing by pit performing burial service before open mass grave. VAR shots, scarf with cross visible. MCU Jewish priest, Rev. L. H. Hordman shovels dirt into open grave. Bulldozing earth into pit. SS men help to fill in grave with shovels. Survivors sitting under pitched roof on heap. CU of various male survivors, sitting cooking together before entrance to tent. CU man leaning against hut wall, talking, emaciated. CU, women talking and nodding to cameraman's assistant at frame left. MLS, two French women in open ground, one washes t...

  15. George Salton photographs

    The photographs include one photoprint depicting George Salton at age 17 in Lubeck in June 1945; one a copy print depicting Salton’s parents soon after their marriage; two photoprints depicting members of Bricha in Łódź in 1947; one photoprint depicting members of Bricha in Szczecin in 1947, and one photoprint of survivors in front of the Kibbutz DROR in Szczecin in 1947.

  16. ENSV Riikliku Julgeoleku Komitee lõpetatud uurimistoimikute kollektsioon

    • Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic KGB, Collection of files of closed investigations
    • Коллекция прекращенных следственныхдел
    • Rahvusarchiiv
    • ERAF.130SM
    • English
    • 1920-1990
    • 15,448 records in 2 series; original bounded paper documents; partly digitalized.

    This archival fonds includes mostly cases of political repressions of the Soviet regime (1940-1941 and after 1944). A smaller part contains the interrogation materials of former guards and officials of the Concentration Camps, police and military personnel among Estonian residents who participated in or were accused of participating in Nazi crimes during the Second World War. The basic languages of the documents are Russian and Estonian; only a limited number of documents are in German (copied documents from the German occupation period) or other languages.

  17. Kan family: daily life in Netherlands; children at play

    House shot from across the street. Jeanne and children on sidewalk. Two children walk hand in hand in backyard. Four older men look down hill in yard, woman and two children in BG. Children stand by a window looking out. 01:10:14 Two older women stand next to little girl (Betsy?) and watch the little boy walk towards the camera. Little boy (Robert?) walks around the yard and plays with a ball. Woman and children cross street, walking. Boy eats in chair and points to the camera with Betsy(?) on the right. Shot of both children. 01:11:43 Scenes of a band playing on the beach. People gathered ...

  18. Klara S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Klara S., who was born in a small town near Vladislavovka, Ukraine in 1900. She recalls moving to L?vov; moving to the ghetto with her husband, daughter, siblings and other members of their extended families; avoiding deportation due to her husband's job; hiding her daughter with a Polish woman; the liquidation of the ghetto; hiding with her daughter and sister-in-law with a Polish family for fourteen months; receiving letters from her husband; the deaths of her husband and most of the other members of their families; and liberation by the Russians. She relates travel...

  19. החלטות על הכרה במוות (Todeserklaerungen) של קרבנות יהודיים של בית משפט השלום (Amtsgericht) ב-Kamen (ווסטפליה)

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 12424829
    • English, Hebrew
    • Legal documentation Official documentation Personal documents Record of deportees Record of murdered persons Record of persecuted persons Record of survivors

    Decisions regarding the Todeserklaerungen (Declaration of Death) of Jewish victims, given in Courts of Law in Westphalia In the Collection are files including applications to Courts of Law in Westphalia for the recognition of death of local Jews who were deported to the East by the Nazis, and for whom no official Declaration of Death had been given. These applications (requests) were submitted in most part by the relatives of those who had perished, [and] who requested to receive claims for compensation from Germany. The files include the applications including details regarding those who p...

  20. Sudeten crisis; Munich accord; Nazis threaten

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 10, No. 731, Part 1. Release date, 12/26/1938. German military power. Mobilization in Austria. Schuschnigg gives weak Nazi salute. Mobilization in Sudetenland, President Benes. digging trenches; country folk; woman with gas mask and baby. Chamberlain goes to Munich while the English drill and prepare for war. Chamberlain returns with "settlement of Czech problem". Smashed windows in Czechoslovakia prior to Kristallnacht. Jewish refugees (German citizens) in makeshift camp near Brunn, Czechoslovakia after being banned from areas ceded to German Reich. FDR and advisor...