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  1. Aron Zolty photograph collection

    The Aron Zolty photograph collection consists of 39 photographs relating to the experiences of Aron Zolty in the ghetto in Łódź, Poland, and in displaced persons camps in Hannover and Lübeck-Blankensee, Germany.

  2. Aronas Soloveičikas

    The personal fonds of the painter, a survivor of the Holocaust. The files of the personal fonds consist of paintings, drafts, sketches, illustrations; correspondence, personal documents; catalogues of the artist’s exhibitions, etc.

  3. Aronsfrau-Hollander family. Collection

    This collection consists of: photos of the Aronsfrau-Hollander family, including photos of siblings Leonore, Norbert and Siegbert Aronsfrau as children and adults, photos of parents Leon Aronsfrau and Eva Hollander, photos taken during family vacations, a photo of Leon Aronsfrau during his military service and a photo of Norbert Aronsfrau with his rescuer Simone Goossens ; documents regarding the Aronsfrau-Hollander family, including Siegbert Aronsfrau’s fake ID, a letter sent to Siegbert Aronsfrau while detained at the Dossin barracks from his rescuer Simone Goossens, a post-war letter fro...

  4. Arpad Stern letter

    Contains a Red Cross letter written by Arpad Stern (donor's great uncle) to Salomon Stern (donor's grandfather), December 1943, Rimaszecs, Hungary. Received by Salomon Stern, July 1944, in New York. Form is printed in Hungarian, French, and German, with message written in Hungarian. Text reads: "Dear Róza and Salomon we are well but without shop and income we would like to hear good news from you please write to us Kisses Arpad and Piroska;" Salamon Stern received the telegram months after it was created. Arpad and Piroska Stern perished in the Holocaust. Their two sons fled to Palestine an...

  5. Arquivo Oliveira Salazar

    • Fonds Oliveira Salazar

    O fundo compreende inúmeros conjuntos arquivísticos. A "Correspondência Oficial relativa à Guerra" retrata, predominantemente, o período em que Salazar acumula interinamente aquela pasta, de 1936 a 1944, e compreende, entre outros, processos sobre as reformas militares e o rearmamento do Exército e da Aviação. Na "Correspondência Oficial relativa aos Negócios Estrangeiros", do período em que Salazar exerce as funções ministro dos Negócios Estrangeiros, entre 1936 e 1947, ganham proeminência os processos relativos à posição portuguesa de "não intervenção" na guerra civil de Espanha e de "neu...

  6. Arrest and release notices from the Jewish prison in the Vilnius ghetto

    Consists of 13 arrest and release notices issued by the Arrestpolizei of the Vilnius (Wilno) ghetto from Jul. to November 1942. In most cases the name of the defendant and a description of the alleged crime are provided.

  7. Arrest of collaborators; Germans leave Prague, May 1945

    The arrest of a Czech collaborator with the Nazis (man wearing glasses). They lead him up to an official building. People hit him on the head. Street activity, pedestrians. Clock at 1:20 PM. Puddles in the street. Quick shots of Prague, a Czech flag. Two men on a motorcycle. German soldiers leaving the city. Covered wagons pulled by horses move through the streets, along with people on foot. Trucks whip around a bend. Dead German soldiers. More military vehicles, soldiers sitting in and on the cars. Fires rage at the edge of a field. Wreckage of tanks and trucks on the road. Dead horse, an ...

  8. Arrest of Jews in Romania

    MCU, low angle, soldiers marching into a town. Cut to MCU, Jews with their hands in the air, emotional shot of a woman clinging to and hiding behind a man (presumably her husband or a relative), the man has his arms raised. MCU, men with their arms raised, being searched by Romanian soldiers. They open their jackets, check pockets, etc. MCU, low angle, a man sleeping, curled up on the ground, another man, or possibly a woman, covered in a blanket is curled up, sleeping next to him, a cat is visible cleaning itself in the background. Low angle pan of a street in the village.

  9. Arrests and prison scenes

    Arrests and prison scenes. Jewish police arresting child, adults. Prisoners brought to ghetto jail. HA pan, market to prison yard. CU sign: "Arrestanstalt." Germans and police. Jewish police make prisoners run out of door. Young and very poor prisoners are lined up, forced to walk in circle. Similar shots of women prisoners. CUs of prisoners in prison.

  10. Arrigo Minerbi

    Il fondo raccoglie le lettere e le cartoline originali scritte negli anni '40 dallo scultore Arrigo Minerbi e dall'ingegnere Diego Nunes - Vais a Marta Pagnoni (1), donna di servizio in casa Minerbi-Ravenna relative all'arresto e alla deportazione della famiglia residente nel palazzo di via Garibaldi 94 a Ferrara. L'ultima unità archivistica è un fascicolo di soli fotoritratti protetti da una cornice.A corredo del fondo, per una più chiara comprensione delle carte, è conservato un fascicolo con la pubblicazione "Se la buona Marta è ancora in casa Ravenna" contenente le trascrizioni delle le...

  11. Arrival of Berlin Youth Theater in Odessa; Solomon Mikhoels

    Title in Ukrainian, translation in English: "Hello to the Western European revolutionary artists! Odessa. Train from Berlin with members of the Berlin Youth Theater." LS, train station, arrival of train in station, passengers disembark. Crowds of civilians are gathered on the platform to greet them. Intertitle translation: "Solomon Mikhoels, director of the Jewish State Theater of Moscow(GOSET) greets them." CU, of a young man smiling for the camera, notes identify him as Veniamin Zuskin, a Jewish actor. CU of Mikhoels speaking. Crowd clapping after Mikhoels finishes speaking.

  12. Arrival of Nazi sub in New Hampshire

    Arrival of Nazi Sub U-234 at Portsmouth, NH. MS German sub crew members gather gear & debark from boat alongside pier-SV. LS-MS-Pan German prisoners walk along pier with personal gear-SV (camera lost loop & image jumps). LS-DA Prisoners in small boat underway. LS-Pan Submarine officers & men cross gangway & walk across pier-SV; armed Marine guard stands by. LS Surfaced submarine underway, coastline BG following escort vessels. LS YTs transfer boarding party to sub-SV. MS YT comes alongside pier as men handle lines. LS Gen. Ulrich Kessler & other German officers cross gan...

  13. Arrivés 1933 – 1941 ; Départ Etrangers 1938 – 1941

    These files contain the administrative files on foreigners registering in or leaving from the city of Luxembourg.

  14. Arrondissementscommissariaat Brugge – Oostende.

    In het deelbestand “depot 1980” vinden we in pak nr. 6 een dossier nr. 6162 “20/10/[19]40 Joden” (inzake de verordening van 28 oktober 1940). Pak nr. 10 bevat verschillende relevante (sub)dossiers uit de periode 1940-1942: nr. 7052 betreft de “regeling van het Jodenvraagstuk” en bevat o.a. circulaires van de Kreiskommandantur; nr. 7077 (“Jodenaangelegenheden”) handelt o.a. over het invoeren van de ‘Jodenster’ en nr. 7147 betreft de “verwijdering der Joden”.

  15. Arrow Cross execution photographs

    Consists of 34 photographs depicting the executions of Arrow Cross leaders. Included are images of Ferenc Szálasi's execution on 12 March 1946 alongside Gábor Vajna, Károly Beregfy, and József Gera.

  16. Arrow Cross Takeover

    Battle footage. People relaxing in Budapest cafes, strolling on street. People line up at housing office. Staged scenes of Jews with stars "Idle people at work site." VO says these are Jewish influenced pacifists. Sync sound: "There were Hungarians and "Hungarists" who were suffering in jails to prepare for the new Hungary..." Staged scenes of Arrow Cross out of hiding, to arms. VO encourages people to work; footage of women, elderly, others working in industry.

  17. Art exhibition in Riga; German troops advance in East

    Troops in snow. German soldiers/officials greet Orthodox priest, receive blessing, castle. Musical performed in theater. Hair styling lessons. Art exhibition in Riga, Frank opens exhibit, "Hilfswerke fuer deutsche bildende Kunst". Construction/industry. Todt's funeral, Hitler and very high Nazi officials, wreath laying, parade. Troops at sea, firing cannons. Aerial shots, fighting, bombing. Boats, at sea, fighting.

  18. Art G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Art G., who was born in approximately 1929, in K?obuck, Poland. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; fleeing east with his siblings; being overtaken by the Germans in Radomsko; returning home; his father hiding from a round-up with a non-Jewish friend; his deportation (he did not survive); ghettoization in 1941; his bar mitzvah; he, two sisters, and his mother smuggling themselves to the Cze?stochowa ghetto; his oldest sister bringing him and his sisters to K?obuck concentration camp (his mother remained and did not survive); sl...

  19. Art installation

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn694102
    • English
    • a: Height: 7.250 inches (18.415 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) | Depth: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) s: Height: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) | Width: 33.500 inches (85.09 cm) | Depth: 19.000 inches (48.26 cm) t: Height: 21.000 inches (53.34 cm) | Width: 47.750 inches (121.285 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm)

    Artistic installation entitled "Voyage" by Diana Kurz, who documents in this piece the flight of her immediate family from Austria to the United States in 1938.

  20. Art school and zinc refinery

    Several trims/outtakes that jump around to different regions of Poland. CU, a young boy sculpts a bust from clay. MS of young girls doing needlework in a classroom. Hot piece of zinc in a furnace (the refinery in Katowice), zinc plates being made. Cut back to the boy with the bust and girls learning needlework. Snow-covered mountains of Zakopane, tracking shot down the mountainside. CU, iris in the zinc-smelting furnace, back to the girls and needlework, back to the zinc refinery, workers exiting the refinery. Art school in Zakopane. EXT, LS a courtyard of a modern looking building, white, ...