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  1. Eichmann Trial -- Session 87 -- Direct examination of the Accused re: his travel to Auschwitz, Chelmno, Lublin and his knowledge of the gassing program

    Footage begins in the middle of the session. Servatius examines the witness about the "Gordon Affair." Avraham Gordon was a witness for the prosecution who testified in session 54 on 26 May 1961. In his testimony, Gordon described how he worked as a forced laborer on the villa Eichmann occupied in Budapest. Gordon testified that Eichmann and a man named Slawik beat a Hungarian Jewish boy to death for allegedly stealing fruit from the property. Eichmann states that he does not know anything about this event and never physically harmed or killed a human being in his life. There is a large sec...

  2. Josef and Ruth Rosenberg papers

    The collection primarily documents the post-war experiences of Josef and Ruth Rosenberg, both of whom were from Poland, interned in the Łódź ghetto, and liberated from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp where they met and later married. The collection includes identification papers, immigration documents, restitution claims paperwork, and photographs taken at Bergen-Belsen from 1945-1947 along with some pre-war family photographs. The biographical materials include identification papers and immigration documents that both reflect their status as stateless refugees. The restitution claims ...

  3. Documentation of the Central Historical Commission (CHC) of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the American Occupied Zone, Munich

    The Central Historical Commission in Munich began collecting historical documentation in Germany in December 1945. Much work was invested in involving Jewish survivors of concentration camps in Germany in the collection activity, and the response was great. It could be that the survivors' response was an expression of their spontaneous desire to perpetuate the memories of those who perished and document the terrors of the Holocaust. The 50 CHC branches established in the American Occupied Zone in Germany filled an important role. Indeed, much documentation arrived at the CHC in Munich via t...

  4. XXXXI. Armeekorps (mot.) / XXXXI. Panzerkorps

    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, ...

  5. Kichka-Gruska family. Collection

    This collection contains: a pre-war photo of siblings Henri, Bertha and Nicha Kichka with their friends Maximilien (Max) and Sara Skala at the beach ; a pre-war photo of Josek (Joseph) Kichka and Chana Gruska (also Gruszka) with their children Henri, Bertha and Nicha Kichka walking down a street ; a pre-war photo of three Jewish girls (Mathilde Bein, Sara Skala and Nicha Kichka) wearing the yellow star of David while posing in a park in Forest, Brussels, 1942 ; a post-war drawing by Henri Kichka, commemorating all Jews and Roma deported from the Dossin barracks during the war.

  6. Formationen der Kleinkampfverbände

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners In der Bundeswehr fanden die ersten Versuche der Minentaucher zusammen mit den Kampfschwimmern 1958 bei der Marineunterwasserwaffenschule in Flensburg und der Ausbildungsstätte List statt. Bis 1963 standen das Taucherboot UW 1 und später die EIDER im Einsatz. Zum 1. Oktober 1964 wurde die Minentaucherkompanie aufgestellt (Aufstellungsbefehl Nr. 131 -Marine- vom 18. September 1964) und dem Kommando der Minenstreitkräfte truppendienstlich sowie für den Einsatz unterstellt. Zu den Aufgaben zählten: · Absuche von küstennahen Seegebieten, Häfen und Binnengewässern...

  7. Kabinet van het Departement van Binnenlandse Zaken

    aard van de archiefbestanddelen Geschreven en getypte documenten, geen bijzondere handschriften.

  8. Walter Stier

    As a Reichsbahn official, Walter Stier scheduled the journeys of special trains to different death camps. He claims he knew nothing of the destination. Lanzmann used a false name and filmed this interview with a hidden camera. FILM ID 3800 - Stier 1-4A [CR 1,4,2,3] CR1 (silent) INT minivan with video transmission of the interview with Stier on a television monitor. 01:00:57 Volkswagon van on street approaching camera, parking. 01:01:39 CR4 (sound) Van parked next to residence. Zoom, CUs. White/red minivan with plate 307CAE75. 01:03:01 CR2 (sound) Side view of the van, exteriors. CU of the m...

  9. UNRRA selected records AG-018-001 : China Office

    Selected records of the UNRRA China Office relating to Displaced Persons Operations, medical and agricultural rehabilitation in China, 1944-1949: reports, correspondence with Jewish Sephardic Committee, Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, lists of refugees, as well as records relating to repatriation, transportation, and tracing inquiries.

  10. Stettner family papers

    This collection relates to the lives and emigration attempts of the Stettner family. As the family members were all born in different countries—Maximilian and his daughter Ilse in Czechoslovakia, Kathe in Austria, and Walter in Italy—they were under different refugee quotas and had different opportunities for immigration. The collection illuminates the hardships imposed by circumstances of birth and the difficulties each family member faced. The correspondence between the family members—in the United States, Trieste, the Netherlands, and Shanghai, is a highlight of the collection for resear...

  11. Case files from the Gestapo in Zichenau, Poland (Sygn. 186)

    Case files kept on individuals by the Gestapo in Zichenau (Ciechanów), Poland. The case files contain information about individuals in the Zichenau area suspected of crimes such as acts of resistance, smuggling, and illegal border crossings. In some cases, the persons accused were sent to concentration camps. Also contains files concerning Polish priests involved in underground movements, attacks by partisan groups, and investigations of illegal border crossings.

  12. Carlebach Collection

    This collection mainly consists of papers related to Julius Carlebach (1922 - 2001) moved life, concerning his work in the Jewish Orphanage Norwood, his academic career and his religious placements and engagement. Few papers providing personal impressions reflecting his early life experiences in Nazi Germany, arriving in Great Britain as a refugee through the first Kindertransport in 1938 and commemorations on his father Josef Carlebach, former Chief Rabbi in Hamburg. His father and most other family members were killed in concentration camp. Guidance The collection consists of corresponden...

  13. Russians meet Americans at Torgau; dancing

    Color film coverage of Americans linking up with Russians on the Elbe River in April 1945. Boat comes toward shore, lands. Foreign officer (possibly French Naval officer) in dark blue uniform is greeted. Mounted Russian soldiers with sabers. Horses loaded on pontoon ferry boat. Women seated on tractors. Stevens and Captain walk to the river, meet Russians. Shot of Stevens, on Russian side of river. Russian officer walking with a cane. Stevens, cameraman holding tripod talking with Russians. CUs of Russian army officers and soldiers. Americans and Russians looking at money. Stevens and Russi...

  14. Lippold, Eva

    Bestandsbeschreibung Biographische Angaben Eva Lippold geb. Rut[t]kowski 15.4.1909 Geburt in Magdeburg 1915-1923 Besuch der Volksschule 1921-1927 Mitglied der SAJ 1928-1931 Mitglied der SPD Okt. 1930 Heirat mit Rudolf Lippold Apr. 1931 Scheidung 1931-1947 Mitglied der KPD Nov. 1933 Kurierdienste für die Reichsleitung der "Roten Hilfe" unter dem Decknamen "Käte" 14.7.1934 Verhaftung 20.7.1935 Verurteilung vom Volksgerichtshof, 2. Senat, zu 9 Jahren Zuchthaus wegen Vorbereitung zum Hochverrat 1935-1937 Inhaftierung Zuchthaus Jauer Jan. 1938-24.7.1943 Inhaftierung Zuchthaus Waldheim 1943-1944 ...

  15. UNRRA selected records AG-018-023 : Hungary Mission

    Consist of correspondence, reports, statistics, newspaper clippings, and articles relating to welfare programs of various agencies, displaced persons in Hungary, and repatriation of Hungarians from Palestine, welfare institutions and projects in Budapest, and to Hungarian journalists.

  16. Star of David pendant with a prisoner number made by a former concentration camp inmate

    Star of David pendant made postwar by Paul Rosenberg and given for safekeeping to Josef Fischman, a fellow former concentration camp survivor in 1947. It is engraved with Paul’s initials and his prisoner number, 194446, from Auschwitz. At an unknown date, Paul was sent to Auschwitz from Krakow, Poland, which was occupied by Germany in September 1939. He was transferred to Gross-Rosen concentration camp, where he met Josef Fischman, a Romanian born Jew from Sighet Maramures, then part of Hungary and invaded by Germany in March 1944. In May, Josef was deported to Auschwitz, and sent to Gross-...

  17. Selected records from the IG-Farbenindustrie collection (R 8128)

    Consists of selected records from the institutional archive of Interessengemeinschaft Farbenindustrie AG, commonly known as IG Farben, a German chemical and pharmaceutical conglomerate. Records pertain to slave labor at the IG Farben complex at Auschwitz, as well as forced labor throughout the IG Farben complex (such as the arms production and the mining industry such as the Riebek'sche Montanwerke AG), the purging of Jewish employees and workers, the nexus between Stickstoff production and explosive weapons production, internal correspondence and minutes of meetings, monthly reports, the 1...

  18. UNRRA selected records AG-018-003 : Bureau of Supply

    Selected records of the UNRRA Bureau of Supply, including the Country Programs Division Operations and Programming Branches: reports on China, Czechoslovakia, Finland, Greece, Italy, and Poland, and other various reports. Other divisions files relating to the coordination and transportation of supplies; including are files of the Agricultural Rehabilitation Division, Industrial Rehabilitation Division, Clothing Textiles, and Footwear Division, Food Division, and Medical and Sanitation Supplies branch.

  19. Refugees; captured Germans; bombed towns; GIs; marching into Paris

    Civilians with rucksacks walking down street with belongings. Some wheeling bicycles. Refugees. These are twilight shots, autumn leaves in the pictures. Red Cross truck followed by jeep coming down street. More shots of refugees. Some of the men are dressed in suits and ties, roads are wet and muddy. Woman wheeling a pushcart with belongings. Two people embrace. Stevens walks toward camera. Empty wet street. Tank coming through town past Hotel Caspiel Hindenburg. Men running, including cameraman, some men firing mortars, others small light weapons. Members of camera crew visible in frame. P...

  20. Deutscher Holzarbeiterverband

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Bei den vom Zentralarchiv des FDGB in der Historischen Abteilung zusammengefassten Beständen handelt es sich um Restbestände verschiedener Provenienzen, die zu den seit 1935 im Zentralarchiv der Deutschen Arbeitsfront zusammengeführten Unterlagen gehörten. Die durch kriegsbedingte Verluste stark reduzierten Bestände wurden 1945/1946 dem FDGB übergeben. In der Folgezeit wurden die Bestände durch lokale Provenienzen und Kopien aus anderen Archiven ergänzt. Aufgaben und Organisation: Auf dem von Johann Baptist von Schweitzer und Friedrich Wilhelm Fritzsche einbe...