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  1. Employment card issued to F. Galicka, Łódź, Poland, 1942.

    One document, titled "Beschäftigungs-karte" (Employment Card) issued to a woman with the last name of Galicka (née Wyzner), first name illegible, by the Arbeitsamt Litzmannstadt (Employment Office, Łódź, Poland), in March 1942, at which time the bearer of the card was declared to be unemployed. Last, stamp on document is 25 August 1942.

  3. Czech recruits swear allegiance to Hitler

    Somewhat dark shots of German officials saluting Czech recruits. The officials watch as the recruits sign an oath of allegiance to Adolf Hitler as Protector of Bohemia and Moravia according to a decree of 8 March 1940. CU of the oath reveals that it is written in both Czech and German.

  4. Corpses; exhumation; burial; survivors; sick

    Corpses are removed from a cellar in Stovelot, Belgium, and buried in a common grave. German civilians under guard exhume victims at Arnstadt, and bury corpses at Leipzig. Emaciated Hungarian women are evacuated from a concentration camp. Shows hospitalized inmates.

  5. May 1934 Jubilee

    "1 May 1934, Jubilee" Members of the Krupp family attend a Nazi rally in Berlin.

  6. Paul Frank postcard

    Contains a postcard, dated January 8, 1940, sent by Paul Frank to his family, stating that he is happy his family avoided his fate and he will write again when he will receive permission to do so. Paul Frank was deported from the Ostrava region in Slovakia in the so-called Nisko Plan, in October 1939.

  7. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 5 mark coin

    5 mark coin issued in the Łódź ghetto in Poland in 1943. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1940; Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and annexed to the German Reich. In February, the Germans forcibly relocated the large Jewish population into a sealed ghetto. All currency was confiscated in exchange for Quittungen [receipts] that could be exchanged only in the ghetto. The scrip and tokens were designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] and includes traditional Jewish symbols. The Germans closed the ghetto in the summer of 1944 by deporting the residents to concentration camps or killin...

  8. Clipping

    The "Linzer Wochenblatt" was self-identified as a Roman Catholic paper. The headline announces Chancellor Kurt Schussnigg's planned national referendum on achieving an "Anschluss" with Germany. The referendum was to be held on March 13, 1938.

  9. Interwar Germany, Nuremberg rally 1923

    Scenes from "German Day," September 2, 1923, with onscreen titles that describe some of the action. This was a rally of nationalist parties, which took place two months before the Munich Putsch. The "German Day" rally was the prototype for the official Nazi Party Day rallies held in Nuremberg after the seizure of power in 1933. Men from various nationalist parties march down the street in Nuremberg. Among them are World War I veterans, Nazi SA members, and others. Crowds of onlookers line the street and lean out windows, waving flags or handkerchiefs. The angle switches to show the parade f...

  11. Materials collected by the Foundation of Polish-German Reconciliation (FPNP) concerning forced labor in III Reich Materialy zebrane przez Fundacja Polsko-Niemieckie Pojednanie (FPNP) dotyczące pracy przymusowej w III Rzeszy

    The collection contains various records collected by the Polish-German Reconciliation Foundation (FPNP) during the project related to the payment of indemnities to Polish citizens for their forced labor on the territories of the Third Reich. Records include questionnaires, accounts, memoirs, diaries, interviews, correspondence, press cuttings; some photographs or other related documents are attached to the forced laborers files.

  12. Linz, Austria, 1948

    Austrian footage, c. 1948 in Linz, a factory town where several DPs were put to work and began rehabilitation postwar. Scene of men leaving the factory on bikes, some women, some children, and several Austrians (non DPs) are in the group as well. Another group of men walking from the factory, at the gate, exiting the factory grounds, there is a guard who checks them as they exit. Truckloads of workers also exit the factory- they are all seated in open military style supply trucks.VS, EXTs the factory in Linz, smoke stacks, etc. INT of the factory: men at work, VS. A rail car pulls up to the...

  13. Book

  14. Oral history interviews of the Chelminsky Family collection

    Oral history interviews of the Chelminsky Family collection

  15. Petain's trial; War Crimes Tribunal charter

    "Welt im Film": The Anglo-American newsreel series screened in occupied Germany, 1945-1950. Henri Petain's trial ends. Courtroom scenes and film of many prominent witnesses. Next scene shows a meeting in London where delegates sign the charter setting up the War Crimes Tribunal.

  16. Gisevius testimony at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 128) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, April 26, 1946. LSs, Dr. Rudolf Dix, counselor for Schacht, questions the witness Hans Bernhardt von Gisevius. MLS, Gisevius testifying. Pan to Hermann Goering scribbling notes. 19:02:40 Pan to dock, Ribbentrop. CU, Gisevius testifying. MCU, Dr. Otto Stahmer and another defense counselor making notes. 19:07:33 MCS, right side of dock, including Speer, Von Hindenburg, Fritsch, Frank, Frick, Streicher, and Funk listening to Gisevius testify. LSs, Gisevius speaking of the relationship between the German Army and the Gestapo. Pan from Chief Pr...

  17. Illegal Immigrants

    British soldiers guarding groups of refugees. Refugees smile and wave at camera. Refugees dancing. Refugees mill about with bundles. Tired refugee on ground. Group of young refugees sitting, singing. Guard brings refugee on beach. Refugee ship (SS Susanna) anchored on beach. British soldiers on beach. More shots of ship. Life boat with refugees' goods.

  18. Small poster made to discourage US troops from socializing with Germans

    Handbill issued by the American Army which uses an image of Holocaust victims to remind soldiers not to fraternize with German civilians.

  19. Polish inmates in Ravensbrueck collection

    The collection consists of one doily and two drawings created by Polish prisoners in Ravensbrueck concentration camp in Germany during the Holocaust.

  20. Karpfen family papers

    The Karpfen family papers primarily consist of letters from the Karpfen family in Janczyn, Poland (now Ivanovka, Ukraine, near Peremyshlyany) to Jack and Ruth Karp in New York between 1927 and 1941. The letters emphasize the difficulties they experience in their small town; thank Jack for money orders, packages of clothing, and newspapers he sent; and request more money and newspapers. In his final letter, Jack’s father writes that his mother goes to sleep holding their granddaughter’s baby picture. The correspondence files also include letters from Ruth’s family, the Katzensteins. The coll...