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  1. Mary Dickinson photograph collection

    The Mary Dickinson photograph collection consists of 39 black and white photographs of Buchenwald, Weimar, Hergenhein, Nuremberg, Ohrdruf, Schwartenxenfield, Wetterfield, and other unidentified German concentration camps after liberation. Most are stamped on the back with the seal of the U.S. Army Examiner. Thirty-one of the photographs have captions in English attached to the bottom.

  2. The Attorney General against Malkiel Gruenwald (RG 30) The Kasztner Trial

    Contains records from the libel trial against Malkiel Gruenwald who had accused Dr. Rudolph (Rezsö) Kasztner, a well-known official in the Israeli government, of being a traitor, charging that Kasztner, as the former head of the Jewish Rescue Committee in Budapest, had made a traitorous bargain with the Nazis and had allowed half a million Jews to die unwarned so that he might escape with 600 (including 19 of his own family, and 300 from his home town of Cluj).

  3. Lammers & Wielen questioned at Nuremberg Trial

    20:10:05 (Munich 94) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, April 8, 1946. Mostly empty courtroom, camera set up on tripod in corner, sound test heard. Dr. Alfred Seidl, defense counselor for Hess, questions Hans Heinrich Lammers, member of the German Secret Cabinet, who is a witness for Keitel. 20:12:45 (Munich 96) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, April 10, 1946. HAS, Dr. Alfred Seidl questions Hans Heinrich Lammers, member of the German Secret Cabinet. Pan from Seidl to Goering, Hess, and Ribbentrop in dock. CU, Dr. Otto Stahmer, defense counselor for Goering. HAS, Tribunal; Chief J...

  4. Paul G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paul G., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1922. He tells of family moves to Budapest, France, then Berlin before he was five; being the only Jew in public school; the cosmopolitan Berlin lifestyle; being sent to his grandmother in Hungary from 1933 to 1935 due to the rise of Hitler; and increased antisemitism upon his return. Mr. G. recalls emigrating to the United States with his parents in 1936 rather than Hungary (his parents were Hungarian); their adjustment; the experience of being an immigrant; learning of family members who perished in concentration camps; an...

  5. Lvov Pogrom, Jews rounded up, beatings

    Jews are rounded up in Lvov, Poland. Barely-clothed or naked men and women are tortured and pulled along ground. Soldiers. Jews are lined up around building and civilians crowd the streets. The Soviet Union occupied Lvov, Poland in September 1939. Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, occupying Lvov within a week. The Germans claimed that the city's Jewish population had supported the Soviets. Ukrainian mobs went on a rampage against Jews. They stripped and beat Jewish women and men in the streets of Lvov. Ukrainian partisans supported by German authorities killed about 4,000 J...

  6. Rolf Pakuscher: report re departure from Auschwitz

    This report provides an account by a former Auschwitz inmate of the last days of the camp and of the subsequent fate of prisoners who ended up in Sachsenhausen.In addition to the original typescript report, there is a transcript by the depositor and notes regarding provenance and authorship by the depositor. The report is missing at least one page and the transcript is incomplete. The partial transcription of the report was an attempt to make the text of the original more accessible. The depositor does not know the intended readership of the original.

  7. Tourists visit Russian city; skylines

    Mostly male tourists visiting city, pan up ornate building (Kiev?). View of riverside. City skyline at dusk. More different shots of the skyline (Moscow?).

  8. Chef der Zivilverwaltung in Luxemburg

    Bestandsbeschreibung Neben Informationen für die Presse 1940-1944 (3) liegt eine Sammlung von Anordnungen und Rundschreiben über Organisation der Verwaltung, Lebensmittelbewirtschaftung und Beamtenrecht vor (7). Zitierweise BArch R 83-LUXEMBURG/...

  9. Inventaris van het archief van het Gezantschap in Zwitserland, (1912) 1914-1954 (1955)

    • Nationaal archief
    • 2.05.49
    • Dutch
    • 1914-1954
    • 47 meter; 929 inventarisnummers

    Het archief van het Gezantschap in Zwitserland bevat voor de periode 1914-1954 correspondentie en stukken m.b.t. de organisatie en het personeel. Er zijn verder stukken inzake de Volkenbond te Genève, handelsvoorlichting (inclusief van de Kamers van Koophandel), betreffende de Rijnvaart en de naoorlogse economische toestand. Het neutrale Zwitserland was voor de Nederlandse regering in ballingschap tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog een cruciale post. Via Zwitserland had men contact met het Europese continent en bezet Nederland (o.a. via de informatie die door dr. W.A. Visser 't Hooft naar Zwits...

  10. Processo de pedido de visto para Mna. Colenutt, Felicia Alison Schuster, Maud Burt, Geneal H. Bland e Herbert G, Stewart

    Processo de pedido de visto da Embaixada Britânica ao Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros para Mna. Colenutt, de nacionalidade britânica e residente em França, com destino ao Reino Unido. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto da Embaixada Britânica ao Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros para Felicia Alison schuster, de nacionalidade britânica e residente em França, com destino ao Reino Unido. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto da Embaixada Britânica ao Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros para Maud Burt, de nacionalidade britânica e residente em França, com destino ao R...

  11. Więzienie Łódzkie

    • Łódź Prison

    Akta personalne więźniów ułożone alfabetycznie, głównie z lat trzydziestych XX w., więzionych za przestępstwa pospolite: gwałty napady, nierząd, kazirodztwo, wielożeństwo, czerpanie zysku z nierządu, zabójstwo oraz za przestępstwa społeczno-polityczne: zajścia uliczne, opór przeciwko władzy, uchylanie się od służby wojskowej, dezercja, antysemityzm, nielegalne przekroczenie granicy, przynależność do Komunistycznego Związku Młodzieży Polskiej i Organizacji Ukraińskich Nacjonalistów.

  12. Buchheit, Dr. Gert (Historiker)

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Dr. Gerd Buchheit (geb. 2.6.1900 in Saargemünd, gest. 31.5.1978 in Landstuhl) Gerd Buchheit studierte Geschichte, Germanistik, Philosophie und Kunstgeschichte an den Universitäten Heidelberg, Bonn, Erlangen und München. Nach dem Studium arbeitete er als Lehrer in München und Pirmasens, später als Kunsthistoriker, Militärwissenschaftler und zeitgeschichtlicher Schriftsteller. Während des Zweiten Weltkriegs war er Offizier im Kommandostab des Militärbefehlshabers in Frankreich. Ein Schwerpunkt seines Schaffens stellte der deutsche militärische Geheimdienst dar....

  13. Selected records of the SS-und Polizeigerichtsbarkeit (NS 7)

    Contains records related to various SS orders, decrees, and regulations concerning Jews. Includes the jurisdiction of the Wehrmacht court; former Jewish dwellings in Odessa; death sentences in various locations and situations; partisan war in Croatia and death sentences for suspected partisans there; criminal statistics comparing the SS and the Wehrmacht; treatment of SS men assigned to KL Buchenwald who were alcoholics; and records of local courts.

  14. Ministry of Foreign Affairs : Internal political conditions. Deported communists (Group 120 D.4-5)

    Records relating to the arrest and detention of Danish communists and others in June 1941, the illegal printing of "Land og folk," shipping of food packages, medicine to Danish communists transferred to German prisons, correspondence with relatives, some single case files, as well as relating to the visit of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to concentration camps in Germany and Theresienstadt.

  15. Public Prosecutor's Office

    Contains the bill of indictment requesting the extradition of Ante Pavelić and Andrija Artuković, including materials relating to the operation of the Đakovo, Jasenovac, Lobor-Grad, and Slavonski Brod camps. There are also lists of inmates and those murdered in the camps.

  16. Helen Waren letter concerning displaced persons

    Consists of a copy of an undated letter by Helen Waren, an actress in Europe at the close of World War II. In her letter she describes her experiences with Allied troops in Europe, displaced persons camps, and displaced Jews suffering persecution after the war. Also included is a 21 Nov 1945 letter by Maj. Charles Heitzberg of the War Department - Office of the Chief of Staff describing the origins of the letter to Lt. General Lucius D. Clay.

  17. Carl Lutz collection

    Private papers of Carl Lutz (1895-1975), a Swiss Vice-Consul in Budapest (1942-1945). The collection contains a part of Lutz's papers (another part is held by the Yad Vashem Archives) and consists of biographical materials and personal documents: CV, honors, photographs, diaries, audio recordings, and correspondence, e.g. with the US Holocaust Museum, Washington DC (1989-1990), (File 137); diplomatic reports relating to Palestine (1934-1940), economic relations Switzerland-Palestine, the protection of German interests in Palestine, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Berlin (1941), and the sit...

  18. Leon Matsas memoirs

    Consists of the unfinished handwritten memoirs of Leon Matsas, entitled "Survival I," "Survival II," and Survival III." The memoirs are originally written in Greek and have been translated by Mr. Matsas' daughter, Ninetta Matsa Feldman. In the memoirs, Mr. Matsas, a banker, describes pre-war antisemitism and the fear of a German invasion. In 1940, he transferred with his family from Preveza to Agrinion, and after the war began, to Ioannina (Janina or Yanina). He describes life in the Greek Army, into which he was drafted to fight against the Italians in Albania; as well as the Army's retrea...

  19. Prints of Hitler in a shop window in Germany

    Various sizes of framed prints of Adolf Hitler. Somewhere in Germany. German soldier standing in street wearing the spiked helmet. Nazi soldiers marching through the streets. Trolley cars move past soldiers on horseback.

  20. Deutsches Staatsministerium für Böhmen und Mähren (zuvor Reichsprotektor in Böhmen und Mähren)

    Bestandsbeschreibung Die in das BArch gelangten Schriftgutsplitter beziehen sich vor allem auf Personalangelegenheiten und auf die Organisation und Stellenbesetzung in der oberlandrätlichen Verwaltung. Der Bestand enthält auch einige Akten des Stellvertretenden Reichsprotektors sowie Kopien von Akten im Staatlichen Zentralarchiv in Prag über den Aufstand in der Slowakei im August 1944. Den weitaus größeren Teil der erhalten gebliebenen Überlieferung verwahrt das Staatliche Zentralarchiv in Prag. Die Aktenbände 1-56 liegen in Form von Mikrofilmen vor, die Signaturen 57-60 als Originalakten. ...