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Displaying items 141 to 160 of 26,867
Language of Description: English
Country: United States
  1. Molotov addresses the Soviet people re. German invasion.

    Title: "Soviet newsreel / 59 / 1941 / M. Fidelevoy"/ "Radio address of the USSR's Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars and the People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs, V.M. Molotov / June 22, 1941" MS of Molotov. Voiceover of Molotov speech: "Today at 4 a.m. ... without declaring war, Germany attacked our country ... the attack was perpetrated despite a pact of non-aggression between the USSR and Germany, which the USSR faithfully abided by ... responsibility for this attack falls entirely upon German fascist rulers ... at 5:30 a.m. the German ambassador in Moscow relayed the messa...

  2. Drawing

  3. Hitler Youth

    Heini Voelker (Juergen Ohlsen, an unidentified Hitler Youth) is a 15 year old and non-political apprentice in Berlin with a jobless Communist father. While at a Communist Youth camp to which he was sent by his father, Heini is deeply intrigued by the expression of discipline and comradeship at a nearby Hitler Youth camp. His mother gasses herself and attempts to gas the boy. During his recovery in the hospital, he is incorporated into a "substitute family" of Hitler Youth. Heini is stabbed to death by members of the Communist Youth while disseminating Nazi propaganda materials for the parli...

  4. Ministry of Foreign Affairs : The Legation of the Refugees Administration (Group 17M pk 367-404)

    Records related to the protection of Danish nationals in Europe, Danish refugees in Sweden, including members of the resistance and Jews: includes information on their residence, work, education, support, etc.; reports of activities and financial matters of refugee office. Also consists of a name card index of Danish refugees who arrived in Sweden between 1943-1945. The name index is used as the entrance to the files.

  5. Chief of the Civil Administration in Brno Šéf civilní správy Brno (B 276)

    Administrative records of the Chief of the Civil Administration in Brno (Chef der Zivilverwaltung in Brünn) from the period of March 15, 1939 to April 15, 1939. Includes reports and correspondence relating to Aryanization of Jewish owned property in Ivančice, Moravská Ostrava, and in other rural area. of Brno.

  6. Drawing

  7. Bela Sampson collection

    Contains one certificate of naturalization for the United States (dated 1952); one United States citizenship declaration form for Bela Sampson and Joseph Samuel Sampson (dated 1946); one marriage license form (dated 21 October 1945) for Bela Bajnesz and Joseph Sampson; and two marriage certificates, one dated 9 January 1946, the other a Ketubah in Aramaic and English.

  8. Moses and Mania Leinwand family collection

    The collection consists of a wallet, documents, a manuscript, photographs, and a publication relating to the experiences of Moses and Mania Pfeffer Leinwand before and during the Holocaust in and near Przemyslany, Poland, where they lived in hiding, and after the Holocaust in Deggendorf displaced persons camp, as well as a copy of a siddur written while in hiding by Moishe Boruchowicz (Borochovitch) of Dzelechov (likely Zelechow), Poland.

  9. Scenes of destruction in Warsaw, Poland 1946

    LS, snow covered ground: statue of a man wielding a sword in a square in Warsaw, Poland. Buildings all around the statue are destroyed. MLS three young children in the street, walking toward the camera, they smile, continue walking until they are out of frame, then the camera captures them from behind, continuing their walk through the barren streets of the destroyed city of Warsaw. Cut to MLS, a man walking alone through the same deserted area, three men on a cart going down this same street- one man pedals the cart, two are in it. Soldiers in military supply trucks moving slowly through t...

  10. Broadside

  11. March of Time -- outtakes -- Josef Tiso in prison; airline; UNRRA supplies eggs

    1150 AA: LS, EXT of the jail called Kraiska Sud of Bratislava. LS warden opens Dr. Josef Tiso's cell (Tiso was a Monseignor of the Catholic Church and ex-prime minister of Slovakia; he was imprisoned for collaboration with the Nazis). CU the name "Josef Tiso" written on the door of Tiso's cell. MS Tiso at a little desk in the bottom of his cell reading or writing his memoirs. CU Tiso reading or writing and taking a book. LS Tiso leaving his cell at the side of a warden. LS Tiso walking in the courtyard of the jail. Several shots of Tiso walking around courtyard of jail. Warden in the courty...

  12. Mass surrender at Chemnitz; liberated POWs and DPs; Germans move out of Czechoslovakia; bomb damage

    Men overlook a factory. German prisoners walking on road, surrendering (part of the mass surrender of the German army around Chemnitz). One walks barefoot. Wrecked German vehicle. CU, U.S. 9th armored soldier, patch on shoulder. German in cockpit of plane as he puts his hands up. American officer frisks him. MPs take him away. German aircraft is towed with truck. German aircraft lands on American-held airfield. Long line of German trucks bring in surrendering army. German officer rides horse, surrendering, civilians on street. Men with horse-drawn vehicles come in for surrender. Men follow ...

  13. Barbara Garfinkel Goldlust collection

    Contains documents, correspondence, photographs, and postcards illustrating the Garfinkel family's efforts to sponsor Juda Cichowicz, who was living in Poland. Includes correspondence from her maternal relatives in Nazi-occupied Poland.

  14. German forced laborers in Lithuania in 1942

    Forced (or foreign) laborers from the occupied territories (Ostarbeiter) being transported from Russia into the Reich, to Tilsit , in the formerly Russian-controlled part of Lithuania (Tilze, now Sovetsk, Russia). Filmed by an anonymous soldier. Shows the train station where the laborers are registered, deloused, and fed (this is the border station at Krottingen in Eastern Prussia, a sign is visible in the delousing segment, now Kretinga in Western Lithuania). Shows the administrative apparatus of the German forced labor system, as well as the people from the occupied territories. Includes ...

  15. Karl and Julie Lotti Baum collection

    Collection illustrating the experiences during the time period surrounding the Holocaust of Karl Baum and his wife Julialotte Zwaab who survived the Holocaust. Also included is information on their extended family.

  16. Leon Shear collection

    Contains materials related to the Holocaust-era experiences of Leon Shear, his family, and his friends. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  17. Preskovsky family papers

    Collection of documents and photographs relating to Chana Tykocka Preskowski (donor’s mother) who together with her two small daughters, Bella (b. 1933) and Lea (b. 1935) travelled in the spring of 1939 from Tel Aviv to Grajewo, Poland to visit her parents, Mordechai and Ryvka Tykocki. With the German invasion of Poland and the Soviet annexation of Eastern Poland, Chana and her daughters were unable to leave. Jacob Preskovsky, Chana’s husband and the father of the two girls, was a Palestinian citizen, and he managed to arrange for “Emergency Certificates” for his wife and children. They rea...

  18. Selected records from the State Archive of Assisi

    Records concerning the discrimination and persecution of Jews in Italy in the community of Assisi.

  19. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 50 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  20. Nahum Sharon (Strachman) personal archives (RG-95-17), נחום שרון (שטרכמן) - ארכיון אישי

    Personal archive of Nachum Sharon (1912-1976) contains records on the Hashomer Hatzair in Poland, biographical data and description of his hometown Luck (Ukraine), speeches, articles, papers related to his leadership in MAPAM party (United Workers’ Party, Israel) and the Histadrut (General Organization of Workers), issues of the magazine "Al Hamishmar", articles on "German problem"-restitutions from Germany (1951), records from his mission in Cuba (1959-1962) and association of friends Israel-Cuba, the manuscript on Emanuel Ringelblum, the reproduction of his book "Summer 42" (in Hebrew).