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  1. Jews in Berlin at the beginning of 1942: a report

    This typescript report on conditions in Berlin is the product of a conversation with a Jewish woman who left Berlin in the beginning of 1942 and arrived in London in October of that year.

  2. Jews in Brazil: various papers

    Letters and reports which document the situation of Jews in Brazil in the 1930s.

  3. Jews in Brzeziny ghetto

    Brzeziny ghetto. Jews working in snow, digging, posing for the camera, CUs, etc. Empty streets. Sled with goods dragged in the snow from one house to another. Women and men move about. CU, child with Jude star.

  4. Jews in Budapest during the German occupation, Autumn 1944

    A film by József Herczog. As an amateur filmmaker, Herczog filmed the streets of Budapest during the German occupation of Hungary in autumn 1944 and captured a record of his salon business, the dedication of the bomb shelter in cellar of the “yellow star house” where he lived and over 50% of the tenants were Jewish, Hungarian soldiers, an evacuation, and bomb damage. Title card: “Filmezte es osszeallitotta: Herczog Jozsef fodraszmester” Title card: drawing of Danube and Parliament with handwritten “BUDAPEST”. Herczog's salon at Thököly street 22 (Hernád street) in Budapest. Baross Square. S...

  6. Jews in ghetto of Dabrowa Gornicza & Bedzin, Poland; street scenes, workers, sewing workshop of Rossner

    Jews walking on sidewalk, nicely dressed, past storefronts, including "Schumacherei". Jewish Stars marked "Jude" worn on clothing, mostly young adults. CUs. Funny angle up, Jewish star on clothes of boy and his dad. 01:00:24 Policeman passing quickly close to camera. 01:00:30 Large group of many smiling women with Jewish stars close together, elevated camera angle. CU, pan CU to more faces. 01:00:31 Wider shot, big crowd on street in front of building. Pan up brick building to window with bars, three men lean heads out window. CU men from elevated angle. Serious-looking man, grim woman, two...

  7. Jews in Hungary: Miscellaneous documents

    Apparently unrelated documents concerning Jews in Hungary.

  8. Jews in Kazimierz in 1940 before the establishment of the ghetto

    In color, inside Kazimierz (the Jewish neighborhood of Krakow), Jews wear armbands with the Star of David. Men peer at camera from a shop entrance in BG. Pan of public announcement poster in Polish signed by Schmid (Bekanntmachung LXII was published on May 10, 1940). [Schmid served as Stadthauptmann of Krakow from February 21, 1940 to March 31, 1941; the ghetto was formed on March 3, 1941.] Red Cross YMCA poster. Good CUs of children, one barefoot. Tram, bookstore, and other shops show street activity. Horse and buggy. Street scenes with pedestrians and shuttered shops. 01:18:05 A Jewish ma...

  9. Jews in Livny with Soviet soldiers

    Two Soviet soldiers converse with a group of local Jews in the town of Livny, 1942. One Jew shows the two soldiers an armband with "Jude" written on it. Close-up on the armband.

  10. Jews in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia: Various collections

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This microfilm collection comprises 3 separate, unrelated deposits. They have been filmed in the following order. 578/II contains the family correspondence of Gerda Mayer (née Stein) from her parents in Prague, 1939-1940. 578/I contains the surgical case notes of Dr Erich Springer, whilst inmate and surgeon in Terezin, 1943-1944. 578/III contains the papers of Dr Walter Feuereisen, chief medical officer of the Jewish community in Prague, deposited by his brother.

  11. Jews in occupied Poland

    Camera pans across a damaged brick building to a synagogue while the narrator says that the synagogue is the only building that has not been destroyed by the arsonists, and "further commentary is superfluous." Shots of the exterior and interior of the synagogue. Several close-up shots of Jews. The narrator says that in the ghettos of the occupied territories the eastern Jews are in the best mood. More shots of smiling men, women and children as the narrator asserts that these scenes should refute the foreign atrocity propaganda. The camera pans across a large crowd of Jewish men and boys si...

  12. Jews in park in Warsaw, 1938

    CU, baby in carriage. Men and women sit on benches in park, read newspaper.

  13. Jews in Poland; unearthing the Ringelblum Archives

    Immediate postwar documentary about the Jews in Poland during World War II. In Yiddish with English subtitles. Also called "We the Survivors". 06:12:59 to 06:13:58 Footage of the first unearthing of the Ringelblum Archives on September 19, 1946 in the ruins of the Warsaw ghetto. During the war, Emanuel Ringelblum and a team of historians within the Warsaw Ghetto assembled an astonishing set of testimonies, documents, and photographs, which they preserved in buried milk cans to be unearthed after the war. Man arrives on a motorcycle at a large pile of rubble. Group of men stand at the entran...

  14. Jews in Riga

    Panoramic view of Riga's Old Town from Kipsala Island, including a view of Dome Cathedral, Church of Jekaba, Church of Maria Magdalena, Anglican Church, and Polish Church of the St. Mary. Daugava River with boats. Jews (mostly men) with Star of David patches on the back of their coats getting onto a boat (possibly finished with a day of labor on Kipsala Island?). Various shots of the boat with several dozen Jews, some with satchels. An overloaded boat leaves the dock.

  15. Jews in Salonika: copy list of shop owners

    This apparently complete (copy) list of Jewish shop owners in Salonika, 1943, came to light as a result of investigations into Kurt Waldheim's role during the Second World War. The Greek Ministry of Justice offered the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece all the files of the former office for the Distribution of Jewish Property, set up by the occupation authorities in 1943. The list comprises the names of shop keepers, their addresses and the nature of their businesses.

  17. Jews in train station, Westerbork?

    Wartime deportation. Westerbork or Warsaw? (there are no records from Bundesarchiv that substantiate either location). Well-known footage of men, women and children on train platform. Jewish stars visible on clothing (patches). Nazis checking ID papers.

  18. Jews in Vilna

    Sound is a bit scratchy at certain points. Crowds of people at the annual Kaziukas craft fair in Vilna. Horses stand on muddy ground. Vendors sell round pretzel-like bread (Kaziukas bread?). A woman with a fur collared coat buys strands of the round bread from a smiling vendor. CUs of nicely decorated cookies and sugar hearts. Visitors to the fair look at paintings, caged birds, rocking horses, and other items for sale. View of giant crosses on a hilltop and aerial views of the city. Picturesque shots of alleys, cobblestone streets, and archways, while the narrator describes the city as a "...

  19. Jews in Warsaw in 1938

    The following notes are from NCJF documentation: The lively Jewish neighborhoods of Warsaw, including Zamenhof Street and the commercial "beehive" Nalewki Steet, were home to 400,000 Jews before World War II. "A Day in Warsaw" sets Warsaw's modern multistoried buildings and broad streets against its old market square and Jewish quarter. Trucks, trolleys, autos and buses meet horse-drawn carriages, pushcarts, and porters in the bustling commercial district. Also shown are the Yiddish Theater, Gensza Cemetery and other Jewish institutions-the community council, hospitals, schools and synagogu...

  20. Jews in Warsaw, 1938

    Children and women in park. Lots of people and baby carriages.