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  1. Alice Stern: Jewish id card

    Jewish Identification Card of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia "Allgemeine Bürgerliche Legitimation" was issued 4 Nov 1940, it has a red "J" stamp in it, the date of the evacuation 31 Oct. 1941 and the marriage notice with Mr. Eckstein, dated 5 May 1942.German and Czech 

  2. Messcher family photographs

    Consists of two photographs of the Messcher children; one photograph of Frits Messcher (b. 1936) and Martijn Messcher (b. 1934), and one photograph of Martijn holding his infant sister Martha (b. 1942). The photographs were taken in Rotterdam on April 4, 1943. In the photographs, the children are wearing the Jewish star (Magen David).

  3. Ellen Gale photograph collection

    Contains 37 photographs depicting the Gallewski family and other refugees on board the ship "IBERIA," en route to Cuba in 1939, their daily life in Havana, Cuba, and on board a ship en route to Miami, Florida, in 1940.

  4. Rabbi Caplan Collection of Percy Haid recordings

    Disc 1: "Fantasy in Yellow" by Percy Haid, recorded at Temple Anshe Sholom, Olympia Fields IL, April 23, 2017. The CD was home-recorded at a memorial event during which Haid's "Fantasie in Gelb" was performed in an arrangement for string orchestra by Linda Veleckis Nussbaum. The event had been arranged by Rabbi Paul Caplan of Temple Anshe Sholom with the cooperation of Haid's children, Max and Joseph. Discs 2 (DVD video) and 3: "Yom HaShoah: A Community Observance" Yom Hashoah service recorded at Temple Anshe Shalom, Olympia Fields IL, April 23, 2017. The video documentation was edited by J...

  5. Hitler Marches into Purkersdorf; Field Exercises; Fundraising Campaign

    NSKK, part I. Caravan arrives in Purkersdorf, Austria. Driving through main street, passing retail shops and government. Well-dressed female onlookers and local men in uniforms. Official Nazi motorcade through streets: cars, trucks, tanks. Streets lined with people. Handmade “Adolf Hitler Platz“ sign. Rally in city center. NSKK, part II. Rural landscape, sheep grazing in field in Austria. Nazis in uniform. A group studies paperwork in field. Nazis in camoflauge train civilians how to load and shoot guns, march, crawl through grassy fields, hide in ditches, survey, study maps, etc. Airplanes...

  6. Frank Elkins collection

    Contains a booklet entitled "These 21," written by Allan Dreyfuss and published by Stars and Stripes, based on Dreyfuss's assigned coverage of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg in December 1945. Each of the 21 Nazi defendants' positions within the Third Reich is detailed as well as the crimes of which they are accused. The defendant’s original signatures are taped in the booklet in the chapter in which they are included by Frank Elkins, a United States military police officer who worked at the IMT. Also included are two handwritten notes, from defendants Fritz Sauckel and Han...

  7. Amtsgericht (District Court) of Poběžovice

    The fonds contains archival materials from the lowest instance of the judicial administration in the annexed border region in the years 1938–1945. In the library requests from 1940 it is possible to trace archival materials attesting to the sale of the synagogue in Meclov (box 76, file 291-40) or archival materials from 1939–1940 documenting the dissolution of the Jewish Religious Community in Poběžovice and the entrusting of its property to the care of the Aufbaufond (construction fund) and the subsequent transfers of these assets (box 75, files 380-39, 379-39, 391-39, 352-40).

  8. "Minerwa" Metal Factory in Częstochowa Zakłady Wyrobów Metalowych "Minerwa" w Częstochowie (Sygn.192/9)

    Contains records relating to opening balance of the "Minerwa" Metal factory in Częstochowa for Jan. 29, 1945. Included are records about the factory equipment, as well as records concerning the trial to regain the property by the heirs of the former owners.

  9. Vysoká škola umělecko-průmyslová, Praha 1, Alšovo nábř. 8

    • Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design, Prague 1, Alšovo nábř. 8 / NAD 1379

    The fonds contains archive materials for the history of the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague 1, including personal files of employees, in many cases leading Czech artists. The fonds also includes archival materials towards the persecution of the Jewish population during World War II, namely on the prohibition of the private teaching of Jewish children from 1940 (inv. No. 331).

  10. Celebrating May Day in Vienna

    May 1 (or the day before). Maypoles at Schwarzenbergplatz. Hotel Imperial. Shell Motor Oil Company headquarters on Schubertring (Schwarzenbergplatz #16). 01:04:40 Heinrichshof building on Opernring (opposite Opera House). 01:04:44 Flagship store "Backhausen & Soehne". 01:04:48 The Museum of Art History on Museumsstrasse. 01:04:54 Heldentor (Burgring) dressed with Nazi insignia and "Ehrt die Opfer der Arbeit". 01:04:59 Austrians, three women on bench, congregate at decorated Heldenplatz. SA erecting maypole. Unknown man (probably same as man in Prater garden with boy at 01:03:56) talking...

  11. War Crimes Trial: The Belsen Case

    Part 5: Courtroom scenes of the trial by a British military tribunal at Lueneberg, Germany, of Nazis who served at the Belsen prison camp. Includes scenes of atrocities at Belsen. According to UN contents sheet: "To a British military tribunal at Luneburg [sic] is brought a sordid assortment of Nazi war criminals...headed by the notorious Josef Kramer, charged with responsibility for torture and mass murder of 50,000 prisoners, at the German death camp at Belsen. Belsen's women -- as savage as any of the men. Kramer's chief assistant -- 21 years old and a veteran of five years of atrocities...

  12. Ardeatine Caves Massacre: burials

    Photographs and newspaper articles posted for 320 Italian civilians murdered in Ardeatine Caves massacre on March 24, 1944. It is likely that this film was recorded months later, during the summer of 1944. Blessing of bodies by priest, and burial of corpses. Crowds of Italians. Man in hospital bed.

  13. Theodore P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Theodore P., who served in the United States 3rd Army. He recounts being trained to interrogate German POWs; deployment to Europe in October 1944; moving through France; assignment to the 261st regiment; front line interrogations in Germany; entering Ohrdruf hours after liberation; corpses stacked "like wood"; a prisoner showing him a mass killing site; shock at the condition of the prisoners and learning of their experiences; local Germans denying knowledge of the camp; traveling to Mauthausen weeks after its liberation; speaking with the few remaining survivors and ...

  14. The Documentation Center of the Central Union of Jewish Communities in Bratislava

    There are 190 files in the Record Group including documentation from the Jewish Center, Slovakian institutions that were involved in the persecution of the Jews, the Nazi party in Slovakia, anti-Jewish legislation and decrees, documentation regarding forced labor camps, documentation of trials against Nazi criminals and more.

  15. R.3 - Documentation of the Nazi Party (National Socialist Party - NSDAP) in Eretz Israel, 1928-1939

    R.3 - Documentation of the Nazi Party (National Socialist Party - NSDAP) in Eretz Israel, 1928-1939 The first two chapters of the Nazi Party in Eretz Israel were established in Sharona and Jaffa in March 1933. Karl Ruf from Haifa set the chapters up, but during most of the time that the Nazi Party was active Cornelius Schwarz, from the Templar settlement, served as head of the party. In the summer of 1933 the party numbered 42 members, and in 1934, their numbers reached 239 (the largest chapter was in Jerusalem with 67 members). That same year, there were already active Nazi youth organizat...

  16. Hitler visits Krupp factory

    Hitler pays tribute to Gustav Krupp von Bohlen. 03:19:39 MS Hitler shakes hands with Krupp as officers look on. 03:19:45 Hitler talking to and gesturing to civilian in dark suit as officers look on. 03:19:55 Large crowd of factory workers cheer and salute as Hitler walks past them toward camera, then steps up into car and remains standing.

  17. State Archive at the Council of Ministers of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea

    • Государственный архив при Совете Министров Автономной Республики Крым

    The files relating to the Nazi occupation regime and the Holocaust can be found in the files of the Inventory 2: File 1Б. Materials on the former soviet citizens who served in the German military units. 25.05.1943-22.04.1955. 25 pages. File 1В. List of the German-Fascist criminals, who committed crimes on the temporarily occupied territory of the Crimea. 28.08.1944. 4 pages. File 1Г. List of pseudonyms of the newspaper “Golos Kryma” reporters. 9.03.1945. 179 pages. File 11А. Reference list of the publications in the Crimea during the occupation period. 31.01.1996. 10 pages. File 13Б. Refere...

  18. Selected records from the "Nedic Archives" of the Military Historical Institute of the Ministry of Defense of Serbia

    Selected records from the archives of the Military Historical Institute of the Ministry of Defense of Serbia related to the activities of the puppet government of the Prime-Minister Milan Nedic during the Nazi occupation. This collection includes correspondence of the various Government authorities regarding arrests, persecution and reprisals against Jews, members of the antifascist movement, communists and the civilian population.

  19. Philip W. Porter collection

    Consists of articles and clippings from various newspapers and periodicals, in German, which were discovered at the German Propaganda Ministry in July 1945. The clippings, collected from American and British print sources, have handwritten annotations and were organized alphabetically by subject, generally related to Jewish themes. Also includes one bound book entitled "High Life de Belgique," published in 1937 and consists of names and addresses of the Belgian upper class, with handwritten annotations, seemingly identifying those sympathetic to the German cause. The materials were collecte...

  20. Warsaw Ghetto documentary for BBC

    After a brief sequence of Nazi rallies (including shots from Triumph of the Will), German footage of the invasion of Poland, and Julien Bryan footage of the siege of Warsaw in September 1939, this film uses still photographs (some from Himmler's personal collection) and much of the 1942 German propaganda footage shot in the Warsaw Ghetto. It details the daily struggle to survive the Warsaw Ghetto, including scenes of poor sanitation, smuggling food from outside, beggars, Jewish Police and the ghetto prison, deportations, collaboration, and resistance. It uses film footage of flamethrowers a...