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  1. Frank family collection

    This collection consists of copy Red Cross telegrams between members of the Frank family during the war and with a people tracing agency after the war.

  2. March of Time -- outtakes -- Clearing ruins/rubble of Warsaw

    LS ruins of Warsaw. In FG, Polish cart. 06:01:56 German prisoners of war clearing the ruins of the Ghetto. 06:04:10 German prisoners of war working on future tram line which will cross the ex-Ghetto as a prolongation of the main street of Warsaw. 06:05:13 A detachment of the garrison of Warsaw marching among ruined houses with shovels on their shoulders. 06:09:06 In FG, civilians working among rubbish. Soldiers marching and singing. Soldiers loading lorries with rubble. LS at sunset, ruins of highest concrete building in Warsaw. 06:09:27 Men and women clearing the ruins of Warsaw.

  3. Capture of Rotterdam

    Columns of smoke. Pan over river, showing destroyed Rotterdam. Explosion. CU, sniper, trees, smoke. Destruction, burning of Rotterdam. LS, Dutch troops walking toward camera waving white flags. Burning buildings, tanks, armored vehicles. CU, night shot: burning buildings in Rotterdam, troops. Civilians in FG, rubble. Aerial shots of Rotterdam. CU, government officials entering buildng. INT, Dutch surrendering Rotterdam to the Germans, officials seated at table. German plane as it turns over, three German planes taking off from airfield, more German planes in formation. Aerial shot, refugees...

  4. Harold Floyd photograph collection

    The Harold Floyd photograph collection consists of thirteen photographs of the Dachau Concentration in March 1946. The photographs include images of various buildings within the camp, the crematoriums, gallows, a tree used for hangings, a mass grave, and the headquarters of the Dachau War Crimes Group. Captain Harold Floyd was assigned to the Publications and Microfilm division of the Field Information Agency Technical, which copied documents of interest to the Allies.

  5. Felice Zimmern Stokes memoir

    Consists of one typed memoir written by Felice Zimmern Stokes, who was born in Wallduern, Germany, in 1939. In the memoir, she describes her family's deportation to France to Camp de Gurs and being taken to the "La Pouponniere" OSE nursery in Limoges and from there, into hiding with the Patoux family on their farm in La Caillaudiere, France. After the war, Felice reunited with her sister Beate (who also survived in hiding) in the Daveil and Taveny orphanages; they emigrated to the United States in 1951. She later visited Wallduern, and gave testimony when M. and Mme Patoux were named Righte...

  6. Processo de pedido de visto para Krieger, mulher de Krieger, Georges Hodson, mulher de Georges Hodson, Srª. Lachman e dois filhos de Srª. Lachman

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Lausanne para Krieger, de nacionalidade polaca, com destino ao Brasil. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Lausanne para mulher de Krieger, de nacionalidade polaca, com destino ao Brasil. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Lausanne para Georges Hodson, de nacionalidade britânica, com destino aos Estados Unidos da América. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Lausanne para mulher de Georges Hodson, de nacionalidade britânica...

  7. Румунський науково-дослідницький інститут Дирекції культури Губернаторства Трансністрії, м. Одеса.

    Накази Губернаторства, постанови Дирекції культури, циркуляри. Звіт про роботу, протоколи засідань дирекції інституту. Списки робітників інституту, репатріантів.

  8. Magyar Filmiroda Rt. iratai

    • Records of the Hungarian Film Office

    The Hungarian Film Office was a branch of the Magyar Távirati Iroda (the Hungarian News Agency). The Film Office was primarily responsible for producing the weekly reports titled Hungarian News and the Hungária 16 mm films. It had a department of photography too, which provided periodicals with photos of current events and the main sites of the country. It also had a department of advertisement, which produced commercials for the movie theaters. The collection contains information on the operation of the film office such as minutes of its meetings on various levels or its budgets and turnov...

  9. P.52 - Yehuda Bauer Collection

    Yehuda Bauer is one of the most respected authorities on the subjects of the Holocaust, antisemitism and the Jewish resistance movement during the Shoah He was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, emigrated with his family to Palestine in 1939. Bauer attended high school in Haifa and then joined the Palmach. He attended Cardiff University in Wales, interrupting his studies to fight in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, after which he completed his degree. He returned to Israel to continue his studies and received his doctorate from Hebrew University in 1960 for a thesis on the British Mandate of Palesti...

  10. Okręgowa Komisja Badania Zbrodni Niemieckich w Łodzi

    • akta śledztw dot. zbrodni niemieckich (dokumentacja dot. poszukiwania, aresztowania i ekstradycji przestępców wojennych oraz procesów karnych przeciwko przestępcom wojennym) - akta administracyjne (sprawy administracyjne i organizacyjne, m.in. sprawozdania z działalności Komisji, dokumentacja w sprawie gromadzenia i udostępniania materiałów dot. zbrodni nazistowskich oraz wydawania zaświadczeń osobom represjonowanym) - ankietyzacja miejsc i faktów zbrodni niemieckich - materiały ewidencyjne (wykazy funkcjonariuszy niemieckich z terenów b. Kraju Warty, m.in. imienne listy b. sędziów oraz p...

  11. Foreign Office: General Correspondence, Russia

    Contains correspondence relating to the treatment of Jewish businessmen in Russia, in general, and of Leon Lewisohn, in particular. Leon Lewisohn, a German-born businessman and naturalized British citizen, was ejected from Imperial Russia and denied the ability to conduct business because he was Jewish. The British Foreign Office interceded with Imperial Russia on his behalf.

  12. Hedwig Schwarz collection

    Collection consists of correspondence by Hedwig Schwarz in the last days of her life, from a Marian Hospital in Stuttgart. It also contains nine photographs of Mrs. Schwarz in her hospital bed and the eulogy and correspondence written after her death. Mrs. Schwarz was one of three survivors of Rexingen and spent the last years of the war through her death in 1952, at the Marian Hospital in Stuttgart.

  13. Border between Pilsen and Prague; railcars

    Aerial view of Pilsen. Murray posing for the camera. Russian border checkpoint between Pilsen and Prague. Scenes from Prague, including St. Vitus Cathedral and the Hebrew clock at the Jewish Town Hall. Prague Castle. Soldiers on a boxcar with “Dachau” painted on the outside. They line up and board boxcars.

  14. Diary of Walter Tausk

    Contains four volumes of the diary of Walter Tausk. Walter Tausk describes own experiences in Nazi Germany related to antisemitism and polices against Jews. The diary contains also newspaper clippings, photographs of leading Nazis, letters to Walter Tausk, fascists leaflets, business cards of companies Tausk worked for and meal vouchers for Jews.

  15. Emil: episodes and remembrance

    The testimony describes Emil Jacoby's Holocaust recollections and his return to Eastern Europe to visit various concentration camps in 1987. Included is information about imprisonment at Auschwitz, survival of a death march in Austria, liberation by the Soviet army, and Jacoby's involvement in a Zionist organization called the Palestine Brigade (a.k.a. Jewish Brigade).

  16. German Anti-Nazi Opposition-collection of records Niemiecka Opozycja Anty-hitlerowska-zbiór akt (Sygn. 1336/0)

    Selected records of the Nationalkomitee Freies Deutschland (National Committee of Free Germany; Komitet Narodowy Wolne Niemcy). Includes leaflets intended for German soldiers on the Eastern Front, the Komitee der Bewegung “Freies Deutschland” fur den Westen (Committee of the Free Germany-West Movement (Komitet Ruchu Wolne Niemcy-Zachód), and proclamations calling for the overthrow of the Nazi regime and various other appeals.

  17. Frank Collins: personal papers

    The collection comprises both original and copy material.

  18. M.39 - Documentation from the State Archive in the Odessa Region, 1939-1945

    M. 39- Documentation from the State Archive in the Odessa Region, 1939-1945 In the collection there is official documentation from the Romanian regime in Transnistria, including the decision made by Marshal Ion Antonescu regarding Romanian military officials in Transnistria and a list of names of the government officials. Additionally, there is documentation regarding the deportation of Jews to camps in Transnistria, lists of Jews deported to Transnistria and where they were located in 1942, prepared by the Jewish Center, lists of Gypsies deported from Romania to Transnistria, documentation...

  19. Archives of the Union of Jewish Women

    Minutes of the general committee, 1902-18; executive committee, 1902-72; annual general meetings, 1960-71; council, 1963-70; general welfare sub-committee, 1946-59; Helen Lucas House committee, 1968-76; Delissa Joseph Memorial Fund, 1938- 64; case sub-committee, 1913-16, 1943-62; reconstruction scheme sub-committee, 1917-19; homes association sub- committee, 1927-37; and the loan funds sub-committee, 1933-5, 1943-59. Reports of meetings, 1902-25. Attendance registers for committees, 1958-71. Annual reports, 1903-61. Report of the Union of Jewish Women of Great Britain to the International C...

  20. TR.6 - Documentation of the People's Court in Bulgaria, 1944-1945

    TR.6 - Documentation of the People's Court in Bulgaria, 1944-1945 The People's Court was active in Bulgaria from 19 December 1944 until April 1945. It was set up as a special court with the purpose of bringing to trial those people accused of collaboration with the authorities between 01 January 1941 and 09 September 1944. While it was in session, the People's Court handed down approximately 9,550 verdicts leading to the execution of 2,680 people, while the rest of the defendants were sentenced to terms in prison. Among those found guilty was Dimitar Peshev, the Deputy Speaker of the Nation...