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  1. 1943 news roundup

    News documentary with intertitles produced for the home movie market by Castle Films Productions. "The News Parade of the Year 1943" "Battling the U-Boats!" "Tragedy at Tulon!" "MacArthur's Smashing Offensive!" "Argentina Revolts!" "Allies on the March!" "Bombs Over Hitlerland!"

  2. Selected records of the Municipal Council and Municipal Government in Łódź Miejska Rada Narodowa i Zarząd Miejski w Łodzi (Sygn. 222)

    Reports, correspondence, registers, declarations, financial reports, statistics, application and permits relating to survivors of the war, Jews and Poles. Includes documents on medical assistance for returning and repatriates, the fate of real estate belonging to Jews before the war (so-called abandoned property), population statistics, permits for running and liquidating Jewish enterprises, construction and activity of the Jewish theater, matters of Jewish religion (choice of rabbi, ritual slaughter). In addition, includes documents from various associations and organizations: the Health P...

  3. Selected records of the County Office in Stopnica located in Busko Starostwo Powiatowe Stopnickie w Busku (Sygn. 2119)

    Records related to Holocaust survivors in the Busko County; Jewish cemeteries, and war crimes committed by Germans. Includes statistics of population of Busko county, lists of people murdered by the Germans, missing, deported to German labor camps, transported to concentration camps, lists of places where the murders were carried out and where the murdered are buried, and written statements of witnesses about crimes committed by Germans.

  4. Michaela and Antonin eat a meal and dance

    Michaela pushes a doll in a toy stroller in the yard of their home in Brno in 1940. The children take a walk in the city and run toward the camera in matching sweaters (probably Spring 1940 - note the bare trees). They climb up and down a set of stairs. Indoors, the children eat a meal. They smile and eat. 01:02:14 (splice) In the children’s room, Antonin (age 4) and Michaela (age 5.5) dance together (note the cross hanging on the closet door in their room). They crouch and sing and play (possibly November 1940). End 01:04:23

  5. Oral history interview with Paul Kester

  6. The city governor office in L’viv Der Stadthauptmann in Lemberg (Sygn. 540)

    Consist of selected records of the Stadthauptmann office in L’viv. Included are ordinances, circulars, reports, German personnel files, lists, correspondence, regulations, announcements, and financial books of taxes related to German population, Ukrainian police, ownership of properties, abandoned Jewish properties, and taxes.

  7. Selected records of the Collection of Jan Sehn Archiwum Jana Sehna (GK 190)

    Archives collected by Jan Sehn, a chairman of the District Commission to Investigate Nazi Crimes in Kraków, head of the Documentation Department of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum in Oświęcim, full secretary of the Minister of Justice for prosecuting war criminals. Consist of notes, correspondence regarding the publication of memories of Rudolf Höss, KL Auschwitz commander and other matters related to war crimes, memories of Rudolf. Hössa, his statement, account, and opinion about high-ranking SS officers.

  8. Eckstein children play at home in Brno

    May 1938. Michaela plays on the balcony of her home in Brno, Hlínky 35, with flowering plants next to the toy kitchen, red toy car, dolls, and books. Michaela holds an umbrella, and walks toward the camera. Her brother Antonín joins and they snack on pretzels. 01:02:12 Antonín and Michaela with sun-hats smile and play outdoors in the yard at Hlínky 35. Spring flowers in bloom. Michaela pushes a toy baby carriage along the gravel walkway. Antonín crouches and digs with a trowel in the sandbox (father Michael sits on the white bench behind and smokes a cigar). 01:02:57 Dark-haired woman in re...

  9. Selected records of the commune Kazimierza Wielka Akta gminy Kazimierza Wielka (Sygn. 2227)

    Lists of voters (with accurate personal data) to the municipal council from 1933-1934, minutes of the council meetings from 1934-1936 and 1937-1945; the book of tribute (tax) from 1941-1942; lists of voters for the Sejm (Polish Parliament) and Senate from 1928; various documents related to issuing and the register of ID cards; population control books and the index to the register of residents of the commune from 1931-1938.

  11. Selected records. Obóz Koncentracyjny Stutthof Konzentrationslager Stutthof (GK 138)

    Personal files of guards at the Stutthof concerntration camp, including Ukrainians, Lithuanians and Russians; lists of soldiers of the dissolved National Army of General Kurdic, operating in Lithuania (approximately 1,000 names) and pay lists, surveys of arrested persons; list of children from Tuszynek admitted to the camp.

  12. Selected records of the commune Duraczów Akta gminy Duraczów (Sygn. 524)

    Registers of inhabitants of individual villages, industrial and commercial cards from 1941-1942, name lists and statistics of population from 1939-1943, and documentation regarding Jewish real estate, 1942. Includes the pre-war period records of the spa in Czarnecka Góra, a registration book of spa patients, also correspondence regarding the contribution to the Jewish religious community.

  13. Selected records from the Salzburger Landesarchiv

    Records pertaining to the Nazi office of the Reichsstatthalter in Salzburg, as well as of the Bezirkshauptmannschaften and Landräte. Includes the expropriation records ("VMS Arisierung") for the provincial state of Salzburg, records of the city of Salzburg, records pertaining information on Roma people, camps in Salzburg, labor camps for "asocial "prisoners, Russian labor workers and prisoners of war.

  14. Ice skating in Brno

    An older boy, the son of the family Klein - the Eckstein’s housekeeper, ice skates with Michaela in Brno in January 1941. Boys play ice hockey in the BG. The Klein boy twirls and skates and tries some tricks. A nanny helps Antonin and Michaela on the ice. They rest on a bench. The older boy shows off again. More shots of ice hockey and ice skating. End 01:04:23

  15. Selected records of the Prosecutor's Office of the District Court in Kielce Prokuratura Sądu Okręgowego w Kielcach (Sygn. 144) : Wybrane materialy

    Selected records of the Prosecutor's Office of the District Court in Kielce consist of civil and criminal files. Includes cases related to political, economic and criminal-social matters, as distribution of illegal prints, anti-state speeches, espionage activities, Communist activities of Jewish organizations, and election fraud. A separate group are files relate to the abuse and neglect of official duties, taking bribes, forgery of documents, etc. The collection also includes cases of theft, beatings, litigation and others.

  16. Selected records of the Ministry of Justice of the Government of the Republic of Poland in London Ministerstwo Sprawiedliwości Rządu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Londynie (GK 160)

    Contains selected records of the Ministry of Justice of the Polish government-in-exile in London: interrogations of witnesses regarding German crimes during the war in Stanisławów, District of Lviv (liquidation of the ghetto), list of Gestapo members in Stanisławów (15 names), testimony of Stanisław Kocyan about SS-man in KL Auschwitz Concentration Camp. „Central registry of War Criminals and Security Suspects “prepared in 1945 and 1946.

  17. Selected records of the Central Committee for Social Welfare in Warsaw Centralny Komitet Opieki Społecznej w Warszawie (Sygn. 164/0)

    Questionnaires of children who were abroad (in Denmark and Norway), correspondence and name lists on the persons returned to Poland after the Second World War. Includes documents related to financial assistance for children and lists of former KL Auschwitz-Birkenau prisoners who survived the camp.

  18. Polish Workers' Party. Central Committee and Districts Polska Partia Robotnicza. Komitet Centralny i Obwody (Sygn. 1314)

    Protocols, instructions, appeals, ideological programs, correspondence, reports, diplomatic telegrams, lists of members and other records of the Central Committee of the Polska Partia Robotnicza (KC PPR) and its regional branches in Poland.

  19. Komendant Policji Bezpieczeństwa i Służby Bezpieczeństwa dla Okręgu Warszawskiego (GK 106) Selected records of the Der Kommandeur der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD für den Distrikt Warschau Der Kommandeur der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD fur den Distrikt Warschau (GK 106)

    Anonimous denunciations to Gestapo mostly related to Jews in Warsaw, training of Jewish policemen in Warsaw ghetto and lists of policemen, various ordinances and reports, daily orders of Der Kommandeur der Sipo und SD for 1940, files on illegal trade carried out by Jews, files of investigations against Germans suspected of accepting a bribe, maintaining contacts with Polish women, illegal trade and other.

  20. Personal collection of Georges Neu

    Consists of digital scans of the handwritten diary (tagebuch) of Mr. Neu's grandmother, Clementine Neu (1923-1943), with family phographs, identity cards, correspondence, letters, immigration documents, and press clippings. Also includes an English translation of a book on the Neu family by Martin Ruch, published by Hartung-Garre Verlag Konstanz in 1998, entitled "Aus der Heimat verjagt"; and an 18th century book by Isaac Berr, which Mr. Neu found among his father Erwin's belongings at his death. The French translation of Clementine Neu's diary is included.