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  1. German Jewish family life and leisure activites, 1931-1934

    01:00:02 Roll 1. Renate plays with a framed photograph. Mother Johanna (Hanna), partially in frame, shows her various objects to play with. Renate holds a piece of paper with the date written on it: 20.III.32. [March 20, 1932] Otto and Hanna hold Renate. 01:02:15 Roll 2. HAS, train station, 1932. Elizabeth, Otto's sister, holds her baby. Sign for train from Dresden to Hamburg. Waving on the train platform. Renate walks in a park with Mother Hanna, Aunt Elizabeth Plaut Hamburger, and baby cousin Eleanor Hamburger. Brief shot of Renate sitting up in bed. 01:04:43 Roll 2A. In a public park, Ha...

  2. US military victory over Germany

    Newsreel footage surrounding the events involving the US and Allied defeat of Germany in WWII. Intertitles read as follows: US troops battle toward Rhine in mighty final offensive! Cologne, Germany's fourth city, falls to US First Army! Americans capture vital Remagen Bridge in amazing surprise maneuver. US Engineers bridge Rhine with pontoons! Allied air might shatters vital remains of Nazi communications! British and Canadian forces cross Rhine to capture Ruhr! Vast airborne force lands to widen beachhead! New rocket weapons destroy remaining fortifications to speed progress of Allied Arm...

  3. Luftflottenkommando 2

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Die Akten stammen aus Rückführungen aus den USA und Großbritannien an die Dokumentenzentrale des Militärgeschichtlichen Forschungsamtes. Von dort wurden die Akten 1968 an das Bundesarchiv, Abteilung Militärarchiv abgegeben. Diese Akten waren bisher im Sammelbestand RL 7 (Luftflottenkommandos) zusammengefasst. Zur besseren Darstellung der einzelnen Provenienzen wurden Nebenbestände zu RL 7 angelegt. Im Zuge der Umsignierung wurden die bisher in den Amtsdrucksachen (Bestand: RLD 18) verwahrten Akten ebenfalls den neuen Beständen zugeordnet. Luftflottenkommando ...

  4. Stichting Sieraden-Comité

    Het archief bevat persoonsdossiers, bankafschriften en correspondentie over de liquidatie van de organisatie.

  5. Wissenschaftsrat

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • B 247
    • German
    • Schriftgut 1175 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 10,3 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Der Wissenschaftsrat wurde am 5. September 1957 eingerichtet als Beratungsgremium zur gemeinsamen Abstimmung der bundesdeutschen Wissenschafts- und Forschungsplanung durch Bund und Länder. (Abkommen zwischen Bund und Ländern über die Errichtung eines Wissenschaftsrates vom 5. September 1957 (GMBl 1957, S. 553 f.)) Nach langen und z.T. kontroversen Diskussionen über eine Beteiligung des an Finanzkraft zunehmenden Bundes an der Wissenschaftsförderung wurde das "Abkommen zwischen Bund und Ländern über die Errichtung eines Wissenschaftsrates" (GMBl 1957, S. 553f....

  6. Der Beauftragte des Führers für die Überwachung der gesamten geistigen und weltanschaulichen Schulung und Erziehung der NSDAP

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Die in den Bestand NS 15 gelangten Unterlagen setzen sich im wesentlichen aus folgenden Komplexen zusammen: Rückgabe von Akten der DBFU durch das Federal Records Center in Alexandria /Va. (Oktober 1959); Rückgabe von Schriftgut des Geschäftsbereichs Rosenberg durch das Federal Records Center (März 1963); Akten aus einer Abgabe des Document Center (September 1962), die zunächst dem Bestand Reichsorganisationsleiter der NSDAP zugeordnet wurden; Unterlagen aus dem NS-Mischbestand. Aus dem im vormaligen Zentralen Staatsarchiv der DDR (ZStA) verwahrten Bestand 62 ...

  7. Meisel-Goldstein family. Collection

    This collection consists of: photos of Leon Meisel, his wife Rachel Goldstein and their children Catherine alias Katja and Philippe Meisel who were all deported and murdered ; a photo of family friend Florence Ciparisse who tried to rescue Philippe Meisel ; a photo of Sacha Goldstein, cousin of Rachel Goldstein, who visited Namur in the 1960s to look for traces of his deported relatives ; a business card of one of the Meisel-Goldstein family friends who assisted Sacha Goldstein in his search ; three letters from Sacha Goldstein to the Ciparisse sisters commemorating the deportation of his r...

  8. Herbst family papers

    The papers consist of nine photographs depicting the experiences of the Herbst family in the Ansbach displaced persons camp, two photographs depicting the experiences of the Herbst family before World War II, two identification cards issued to Sabina Herbst [donor's mother] and Ziunia Herbst [donor] in Ansbach, three documents relating to Sabina and Ziunia Herbst's emigration to the United States in 1948, and two letters (with envelopes) written to Sabina Herbst while she was living in New York, N.Y.

  9. Charles Vogel papers

    The Charles Vogel papers consist of documents, diaries and testimonies, correspondence, photographs, and newspaper clippings acquired by Charles Vogel during his efforts to document and record what occurred to the 350 American soldiers held prisoner at Berga an der Elster. The collection also includes originals and photocopies of trial documents relating to the war crimes trial of Erwin Metz and Ludwig Merz. Correspondence includes letters sent from Charles to Berga survivors and family members regarding his efforts to collect information to present to the War Department and letters from su...

  10. Leverkuehn, Paul

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • N 1146
    • German
    • 1939-1960
    • Nachlässe 65 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 1,0 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Paul Leverkuehn Jurist, Politiker Träger des Großen Verdienstkreuzes 31. Juli 1893 geboren in Lübeck Besuch des Gymnasiums Katherineum in Lübeck Studium der Rechtswissenschaften an den Universitäten Edinburgh, Freiburg, München, Berlin, Königsberg und Göttingen 1914 - 1918 Teilnahme am Ersten Weltkrieg 1915/1916 Teilnahme an der Expedition an der persisch-türkischen Grenze im Auftrag des Auswärtigen Amtes und des Großen Generalstabes 1919 - 1922 Juristischer Vorbereitungsdienst Mitarbeiter im Reichsausgleichsamt in Lübeck 1922 - 1923 Zweites Examen und Promot...

  11. Army film documenting Axis powers, Lindbergh, Willkie, and FDR speaking to Congress

    Orientation Film no. 7, Reel 6. International events cause the US to enter into World War II. Winston Churchill signs a document for more ships. A map shows US bases along the Caribbean to protect the Panama Canal. In Berlin, Hitler shakes hands with Japanese diplomats. A sign reads, "Mr. Berle Assistant Secretary of State" and he speaks of the pact of Berlin and the alliance of the Axis powers. Text states, "Pact of Berlin Sept. 27, 1940," people cheer on the street and flags wave. Hitler salutes and shakes hands with officials. Joachim von Ribbentrop of Germany, Galleazzo Ciano of Italy, ...

  12. Hitler's retreat: Goebbels, Himmler, Hitler, dogs, children

    Reel 2 of the private motion pictures of Eva Braun (Seized Enemy Records). COLOR Panoramic view from the terrace of Hitler's Berghof retreat, Haus Wachenfeld. Eva Braun greets Josef Goebbels as he arrives in a Mercedes-Cabriolet and comes upstairs to Berghof. Hitler with his physician, Dr. Karl Brandt. New arrivals up the steps to Berghof. Heinrich Himmler, Reinhard Heydrich, Karl Wolff, close views on the terrace. Also with one other man. Panning shots over mountains at sunset. Hitler using large magnifying glass to look at photograph; with Julius Schaub and Hermann Esser. Berghof, August ...

  13. Research by Florence Matteazzi on the role of clergy from the Liège diocese in hiding Jews. Collection

    This collection consists of 82 files created by Florence Matteazzi while researching clergymen in the Liège diocese and their attitude towards helping Jews during the Holocaust. These files include: administrative files with correspondence with private and public archives or archival holders and witnesses, index cards with biographical notes and draft elements of the final dissertation ; bibliographical files with photocopies of literature on oral history, the psychological analyses of testimonies by hidden children, the position of the catholic church during the Second World War, conversio...

  14. Family activities at the house in Bítýška; friend in uniform; children get haircuts

    “The last visit in Bítýška at the yard” in September 1938. Baby Elizabeth Shenk with newspaper. 01:00:39 Michael in shorts with tall socks. Cousins from Prague visit the summer cottage: Felix Landsmann (school-age boy in striped suit, b. 1930, died in Auschwitz) with his mother Lilli (niece of Michael Eckstein) in the foyer. Lilli in trenchcoat plays table tennis with her husband Hans (b. 1898, died in Auschwitz) and her son Gustav (b. 1926, died in Auschwitz). Michaela plays in the yard with stroller; Felix on a tricycle. Michael Eckstein (on left) with his brother Jakob Eckstein (in dark ...

  15. David Glick's trip to WWI battle sites in France in the late 1920s

    EXT, VS of unidentified town in France, in the vicinity of Verdun, France. Horses and carts pass by, townspeople move about the streets. Three Americans (David Glick, his wife, and an unidentified woman) standing in front of a monument and memorial to the fallen in World War I. The monument is in a town square, children are visible playing in the BG. It is difficult to make out the inscription on the monument due to the poorly shot footage, but the year inscribed on one of the stone pillars is "1918". Camera pans this pillar from top to bottom, a wreath lies at the foot of the monument. Ano...

  16. Goldstein family papers

    The Goldstein family papers, 1914-1982, contain photographic postcards of Herman Goldstein (1889-1943) serving as a German soldier in World War I; four photographs of Herman, Rita, and Heinz Goldstein (b. 1928) at a celebration aboard the MS St. Louis, 1939; a printed wedding invitation for Herman Goldstein and Rita Goldstein (née Grubner, 1893-1979) held on November 6, 1927 at the Lutzow Strasse Synagogue in Berlin; and a typed letter regarding the publication of the book "Voyage of the Damned," April 18, 1974. Also included are newspaper clippings and magazine articles relating to the MS ...

  17. Central Committee of Jews in Poland (CKŻP) "Landmannschaften" Department Centralny Komitet Żydów Polskich (CKŻP). Wydział Ziomkostw (Sygn. 303/XIX)

    Documents of “Landsmanschaften,” organizations of Polish Jews from various regions, collected by the Central Committee of Jews in Poland (CKŻP), Department of Associations of Compatriots, in post-war Poland. Includes correspondence with foreign charitable institutions and banks about aid to the Jews in Poland, questionnaires, requests for assistance, bulletins and newspapers, notes, speeches, minutes, periodic reports of “Landmannschaften,” name lists and name indexes. Collection includes address books of the "Landsmanschaft” in the US, Argentina, Brazil, Canada.

  18. Goldfarb family papers

    The Goldfarb family papers document the experiences of Polish-born Leopold Goldfarb, his Belgian-born wife Jenny, and their daughter Nina; as they sought to escape Belgium following the German invasion in 1940, and immigrate to the United States, by way of Portugal, Jamaica, and Cuba, following Jenny’s death in France. The papers contain identification and immigration documents, correspondence, including over a dozen postcards sent to Leopold Goldfarb by members of his extended family in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1940-1941, family photographs, and correspondence related to Goldfarb’s efforts to ...

  19. XXXXII. Armeekorps / XXXXII. Armeekorps z.b.V.

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Wie die Kriegstagebücher aller Truppenteile und Dienststellen des Heeres waren auch die Kriegstagebücher der Generalkommandos und der bodenständigen Höheren Kommandos vom Mobilmachungstag (26. Aug. 1939) an beim Heeresarchiv Potsdam einzureichen, wo sie eine Zugangssignatur erhielten. Diese Zugangssignaturen wurden anfangs getrennt nach den Kriegsschauplätzen, nämlich P für Polen und W für Westen vergeben. Nach Beendigung des West- und des Norwegenfeldzuges wurden die Zugänge nur noch nach laufender Nummer signiert und in dieser Reihenfolge auch eingelagert, ...

  20. Archief van de Secretarie; Algemene Secretarie en Arbeidszaken en rechtsvoorganers en Secretarie; Personeelszaken en rechtsvoorganger

    Inleiding Een toenemende bestuurlijke bemoeienis met het maatschappelijke leven staat aan het begin van deze overheidstaak. De resultaten van een enquete naar de arbeidstoestanden, op initiatief van een aantal leden van de Tweede Kamer, gaf aanleiding tot de Arbeidswet van 1889. Een jaar later nam de Amsterdamse gemeenteraad het besluit om in bestekken voor gemeentelijke openbare werken de verplichting op te nemen voor aannemers om hun werklieden te verzekeren tegen ongelukken. De werkzaamheden rond deze specifieke taak werden op het Stadhuis verricht door de secretarieafdeling Publieke Wer...