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  2. Ministry of Public Administration in Warsaw Ministerstwo Administracji Publicznej w Warszawie (Sygn. 199)

    Selected files from the following departments of the Ministry of Public Administration in Warsaw: The Cabinet of the Minister (Gabinet Ministra), Political Department (Departament Polityczny), Department of Administration and Law (Departament Administracyjno-Prawny), Department of Religious Denominations (Departament Wyznaniowy). The materials refer to: repatriation, the organization and activities of the Central Committee of Jews in Poland (CKŻP), Jewish political parties, organizations (e.g. Joint, Jewish Agency for Palestine, Polamit), statistical data and Jewish religious congregations,...

  3. Country pavilions at International Exposition in Paris, 1937

    Daytime, line to get into the expo grounds, guards stamping passes. View of country pavilions: Denmark. Austria. Canada. 01:17:30 German pavilion - the largest at the Exposition. CUs, eagle sculpture at top of building, swastika. Belgium. Radio. Italy. Sweden. USA. Czechoslovakia. Food stalls. MSs aquarium, turtle.

  4. Hans Gewecke

    Lanzmann used a false name and filmed this interview with a hidden camera. See his description of filming Gewecke in his memoir The Patagonian Hare, published 2009 by Farrar Strauss and Giroux, pages 456-457. Gewecke was the Gebietskommissar of Siauliai, Lithuania. In 1971 he was convicted and sentenced to four and a half years in prison for participation in the execution of a Jewish baker for smuggling. Gewecke is evasive about when he arrived in Siauliai, stating that the killing actions there took place "before my time." He claims that he was not a crass anti-Semite and provides as proof...

  5. March of Time -- outtakes -- Atrocity at Nuremberg; burials

    Atrocity at Nuremberg (via Fox). VSs, bodies of massacred Jews lying in woods. VSs, American soldiers arriving and inspecting the bodies. MCU, German civilians carrying coffins along road. CU, man weeping at sight of the bodies. VSs, German men and women carrying coffins thru the woods and along road. CU, weeping German woman. LS, Germans lining route over which coffins are being carried. Travelling shot, Germans standing beside open coffins. VSs, Germans carrying coffins along road and people weeping as they pass. Germans placing coffins down in cemetery. VSs, German men and women looking ...

  6. Berchtesgaden at liberation - 101st Airborne Division; Goering's art collection moved

    Adolf Hitler's 'Berghof' home in Berchtesgaden; 101st Airborne Division recovers Hermann Goering's collection of art looted from occupied Europe. White flags in windows in Munich. Bomb damage of Hitler's house and retreat at Berchtesgaden. Snow on mountains, seen through main window. INT, bomb damaged room. Guard outside entrance, seen through underground passage. Jeep entering main entrance; guard saluting; Gen. Albert Kesselring and aides enter sun porch, sitting at table, talking. Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor and Col. Ned D. Moore of the 101st Airborne Division leave building and meet Col. Cha...

  7. UNRRA Council plans belief of world's needy

    Delegates and the UNRRA meeting in Jersey City, NJ. Herbert Lehman speaks on international understanding.

  8. Abraham Zuckerman papers

    The papers consist of four sheets of paper bearing Austrian postage stamps along with postmarks commemorating the first anniversary of the liberation of Mauthausen concentration camp (May 5, 1946).

  9. Lisette Lamon and Benjamin Soep papers

    The Lisette Lamon and Benjamin Soep papers include biographical materials, correspondence, and personal narratives documenting Lisette and Benno Soep’s marriage, Benno’s imprisonment and death at Mauthausen, Lisette’s imprisonment at Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen, and her immigration to the United States. The collection also includes photographs stamped "International News Photos” taken in Nazi Germany depicting Hitler and senior members of his staff, Kristallnacht, book burnings, firing squads, and hangings in the forest near the Buchenwald concentration camp. Biographical materials include...

  10. Łódź becomes Litzmannstadt, reels 1 and 3

    Germans build new planned city for German Volk. Łódź before and after being "rebuilt." Stroll through town, labor camps, city street. Reel 1: LS panorama of city. Animap highlights darkened area "Wandalen" (early history of Vandals and Germanic occupation of area). CU stone surrounding circular metal object, pull out to reveal museum (archeological?) cases of vases. "Das Gefaess Aus Biala..." label on one of the vases. Swastika carved into urn. CU of ornamental crosses and other objects, spearheads, helmets. Map of Sudetenland and Warthegau, extreme Eastern edge, points to Litzmannstadt (Łó...

  11. Jewish Union for resistance and mutual aid Fonds David Diamant/Union des Juifs pour la Résistance et l'entr'aide (UJRE)

    This collection contains information about David Diamant (David Erlich), a Communist who remained in Paris during World War II, took part in the Resistance, and after the war worked with the UJRE helping Jewish refugees from Poland. It includes documents concerning Jewish immigrants in the Communist Party; documents of Jewish volunteers in the Spanish Civil War; the final letters of Jewish resistance fighters before their execution; postwar personal files on Polish Jews requesting aid; files on children in Communist-sponsored orphanages (Comité central de l'enfance); books from lending libr...

  12. Eisenberg and Birnbaum families collection

    The collection consists of a metal tag, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Helena (Nelly) Eisenberg (later Birnbaum), and her parents, Ilya and Sonia Eisenberg, before, during, and after the Holocaust, who immigrated from Danzig to the United States between 1936-1939, as well as the immigration of Joseph Birnbaum, from Kosice, Czechoslovakia, to Baltimore, in 1939.

  13. Oral history interviews, presentations, and recordings of the Mira Kimmelman collection

    Videotaped interviews, presentations, news features, and lectures related to the experiences of Holocaust survivor Mira Kimmelman

  14. Collection of posters and prints from the area of Częstochowa Zbiór afiszy i druków z terenu Częstochowy (Sygn. 59)

    This collection contains posters and prints from the pre-war, wartime and postwar periods. Includes announcements issued by the German authorities with regulations directed to Polish people, farmers and workers for paying taxes, to report to work in Germany, and to work in Poland, etc. Contains several issues of Polish newspaper "Nowiny dla Polskiej Wsi" (April 1942, May-Dec.1943; Jan.-June 1944) with articles related to Katyń massacre, political situation, some are with antisemitic and anti-Bolshevik titles. The newspaper includes a list of Polish generals murdered in Katyń.

  15. Mildred G. Hunter photograph collection

    Contains three photographs taken shortly after the liberation of a concentration camp.

  16. [Newspaper]

    German National Socialist newspaper.

  17. Anita Sockol collection

    The Anita Sockol collection consists of two postcards and an autograph album that belonged to Anita Plachte (later Sockol), from mid-1930s, brought out of Nazi-occupied Europe.

  18. Shay’keh Weiner personal archives (RG-95-59) שייקה ויינר- ארכיון אישי

    Personal archives of Shay'keh Weiner (1912-1979) contains interviews, letters from Poland and Paris, biographical documents and personal papers, minutes of meetings of the World Headquarters of Hashomer Hatzair (1957-1969), correspondence with branches and representatives of the Hashomer Hatzair abroad.

  19. Hindenburg and Wachtruppe

    Intertitle reads, "Aufnahmen aus dem Leben Kaiser Franz Josefs laesslich der 100. Wiederkehr seines Geburtstag." Hindenburg leaving building (Reichstag?), salutes camera. Other officers stand around. Intertitle reads, "Berliner Wachtruppe pfing den Besuch des Reichspraesidenten." Berliner Wachtruppe greets Hindenburg as he reviews the troops. Profile of Hindenburg as he walks back and forth, salutes an officer.

  20. Berko family papers

    Correspondence, from Ignatz Berko, sent to family members in New York, circa 1937-1941; among the recipients were son Louis (Lajos) Berkow, and daughters Sadie Grossman and Rose Rubin. Also includes copy of certificate attesting to Andor Lichtman's imprisonment at Mauthausen, 1944-1945; and copy prints of photographs of Ignatz Berko and family (original was from circa 1932), and of a memorial plaque for Ernest Lichtman at the site of the Ebensee concentration camp.