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  1. Cemetery, daily activity, and synagogue in Filipow

    Country road. Lottie poses with locals and relatives, probably in Suwalki, including Peretz Lansky and his wife Razel, Nahum Lansky (01:00:10), Zawel Borodowski (man with cane), next to Labe Hirsch Borodowsky (man with hat), next to Rivka Borodowsky with her children David and Eliyahu Vinizky at 01:00:16, and Rachel and Shlomo Quint at the end of the group (cousins); some children, probably Avraham and Binyamin Borodowsky, hide behind Zawel. A different group poses for the camera on cobbled streets. The countryside around Filipow, LS of town square. The American Blands arrive in a horse-dra...

  2. Verwaltung für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Forsten des Vereinigten Wirtschaftsgebietes - Büro d. Dir. Schlange-Schöningen

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • Z 6-I
    • German
    • 1945-1949
    • Schriftgut 243 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 3,2 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Als Nachfolgerin der im Juli 1945 in Obernkirchen (Kreis Grafschaft Schaumburg) errichteten Zentralstelle für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft bei der britischen MilReg. war das am 11. März 1946 (VO Nr. 7) gegründete Zentralamt für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft in der brit. Zone (ZEL) in Hamburg zunächst nur für den übergebietlichen Ausgleich bei der Lebensmittelversorgung und für die Förderung der landwirtschaftlichen Produktion zuständig. Seit Aug. 1946 erhielt es von der britischen MilReg. umfassende exekutive Funktionen. Mit der Errichtung der Bizone ging Anfa...

  3. US Army 31st Tank Battalion soldier's wartime movies in Europe and Washington, DC

    Silent amateur footage taken by Stephan Minovich, a US Army soldier and member of the HQ 31st Tank Battalion. Footage shows homefront scenes in Minovich's hometown of Washington, DC with his wife and family, wartime scenes in England, Germany, and possibly France and Czechoslovakia circa 1944-45, and the liberation of a concentration camp. Minovich family posing for the camera with pets, various shots, in a snowy yard; celebrating Christmas in Washington, DC in 1942, dancing, cameraman can be seen in mirror in BG; playing ping-pong. Child and dogs playing in the snow. Tourist shots of DC mo...

  4. Mark G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mark G., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1930, the youngest of three children. He recounts his family moving to Rabka in 1933; German invasion; military draft of his father and brother; witnessing the execution of a classmate; his sister's privileged position as a maid for a brutal German officer; the officer's wife warning her to flee; escaping with his mother, sister, and a friend to the forest; a Polish woman helping them; smuggling themselves into the Krako?w ghetto; leaving to join an uncle in S?omniki; returning to the Krako?w ghetto with his sister and a you...

  5. "Mijn leven in Frankrijk, bezet en onbezet. Dwangarbeid voor O.T." (diary) by Mozes Isaak (Maurice) Sand. Collection

    In this diary Mozes Isaak (Maurice) Sand recounts daily life as a forced labourer in an Organisation Todt camp in France (August-October 1942), as a refugee in France (winter 1942) and as a member of the French resistance (1943-1944). The notes include detailed reports on the treatment of Jews in the French camps, Mozes Isaak Sand’s return to Belgium in 1942, his personal life and international politics.

  6. Driving tour of postwar divided Berlin; Russian women

    Blue sign indicates: "Berlin" straight ahead, "Potsdam" to the right, another sign reads: "Entering US Berlin District." Shot of newly constructed monument with tank on top. (The Soviets were quick to build monuments to remind their fellow Allies and the conquered Germans that Soviet troops were the first to enter Berlin. The first Soviet tank to advance through the city was placed on this memorial plinth, seen in this footage, still under construction.) VS of a parade area, with pictures of Truman, Stalin, Eisenhower, traffic moving along in FG. Stevens stops jeep in front of large mural o...

  7. Gerda S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gerda K., who was born in Hannover, Germany in 1932, the younger of two sisters. She recounts her family's affluence; her father losing a leg in World War I; his position in the Reichsbank; his forced retirement in 1935 due to anti-Jewish laws; his strong German identity, resulting in his refusal to emigrate; her uncle's arrest on Kristallnacht; futile attempts to emigrate; attending a Jewish school for two years, then a hachsharah in Ahlem; having to move many times; deportation with her family to Theresienstadt in 1942; playing hide and seek among corpses; hospitali...

  8. Simon B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Simon B., who was born in the Soviet Union (now Estonia) in 1920. He recounts his family's emigration to France in 1922; growing up in Courbevoie; his bar mitzvah; his mother's death in 1934; military draft in 1940; German invasion; demobilization; staying in a youth camp near Cluny for eight months; moving to Paris; arrest in August 1942; internment in Drancy; transfer to Pithiviers, Beaune-la-Rolande, then back to Drancy; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in September 1942; hospitalization in December; assistance from a non-Jewish nurse; a privileged assignment in t...

  9. Surrender of General Elster; US infantry in France, Belgium, Maastricht, Netherlands.

    General Major Botho Elster studies a map with a French Lieutenant Colonel. Accompanied by other high-ranking officers, Elster bids farewell to some of his troops in a wooded area. He salutes, speaks to the men, and shakes their hands. On September 16, 1944, on the Loire bridge in Beaugency, France, Elster capitulated and handed over 19,500 men to the French. He did so without permission from his superiors, for which he was sentenced to death in absentia by a Nazi court. 01:01:37 US infantry patrols in France. Soldiers walk along devastated, empty streets. A tank rolls down the street. A med...

  10. Selected records from Ministerul Economiei Naţionale

    Contains selected records from Ministry of National Economy. Records include following subjects: implementation of legislation regarding Jewish and non-Jewish staff of industries; expropriation of Jewish goods; the antisemitic polices of the Iron Guards; Iron Guard control of Jewish companies; surveillance of Jewish commerce; regulations concerning food packages sent to Jews in Transnistria; reports on Jewish commerce; forced labor of Jews in Ilia, in the Hunedoara district; aryanization of Jewish enterprises; memos of W. Filderman about the Jewish star (star of David); orders concerning fo...

  11. Nathan R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Nathan R., who was born in Sevluš, Czechoslovakia (presently Vynohradiv, Ukraine) in 1928, the older of two children. He recounts his aunt's emigration to Palestine in 1933; attending cheder and public school; cordial relations with non-Jews; his father's work as a blacksmith; his bar mitzvah; attending gymnasium in Berehove; returning home after Hungarian occupation; attending a Zionist gymnasium in Mukacheve from 1942 to 1944; German invasion in March; returning home; ghettoization; his aunt's non-Jewish boyfriend smuggling food to them; his mother entrusting valua...

  12. Yvette B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yvette B., who was born in France. She describes attending school in Paris; German invasion; her decision, along with her sister, not to declare themselves as Jews; obtaining false papers; joining her family in Lyon; entering the Resistance through Bertie Albrecht; activities in Vitteaux; providing social services for several Resistance groups; coordinating with Resistance leaders (she names many); secret marriage to a Resistance leader; arrest with her husband in January 1943; imprisonment in Blois; torture and interrogations; suffering a stillbirth; transfer to a ho...

  13. Reichslandbund-Pressearchiv

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Bestandsgeschichte Der Aufbau des Pressearchivs des Reichslandbunds, das zu den größten und ältesten deutschen Pressearchiven zählte, begann bereits nach Gründung des Bundes der Landwirte 1893. Beim Zusammenschluss des Bundes der Landwirte mit dem Deutschen Landbund zum Reichslandbund 1921 und der Überführung des Reichslandbundes in den Reichsnährstand 1933 wurde das Pressearchiv weitergeführt. Die Akten gelangten zusammen mit den Sachakten des Reichslandbunds in das Zentrale Staatsarchiv der DDR. Bestandsbeschreibung Das Pressearchiv enthält Sammlungen von P...

  14. Landsberg DP camp: UNRRA; Zionist demonstration; rebuilding life

    Transfer of defendant to a trial. Shots of crowd, MPs, UNRRA officials, judges moving/walking through streets of Landsberg DP camp. VAR, UNRRA or military officials walking in streets, entering and exiting a building, talking. Children boarding train, some in scouts uniforms. More views of the UNRRA officials on the street. Parade of scouts marching, rally, flags. Some men in suits. Demonstration of DPs, young crowd. Man speaking with Hebrew banner in BG (seen briefly in RG-60.0088). Flags. 01:09:10 Pan, INT, another demonstration, DP officials grouped on a platform, singing, various men gi...

  15. Playing outdoors in early summer 1938

    June 1938. Antonín and Michaela in the garden in Brno, Hlínky 18, bright red tulips. Michael on the balcony of the family home. Michaela pulls her brother in a toy car, the nanny helps. The children play with a toy castle doll-house with the red/white flag. 01:02:00 A woman walks from the house along the garden path. Garden furniture. The children play outdoors. Slow pan of the gardens. Woman (possibly the sister of Michael, Berta Freudenfeld, or her daughter, Lilli?) and teenage boy in dark suit (grandson of Berta, Gustav Landsmann, died in Auschwitz) closes the garden gate. 01:03:12 Vever...

  16. Frank Steiner: Family papers

    This collection comprises the following folders: (1869/1) Correspondence from parents to Willi and Franz, 1938-1939; (1869/2) Correspondence between parents, Willi and Franz and Max Steiner (1874-1942), father's eldest brother, 1938-1942; (1869/3) Correspondence from parents to Franz and Willi, 1938-1943; (1869/4) Correspondence from Julian Halberstam to Willi and Franz, 1939-1951, also biographical material on the family; (1869/5) Correspondence from Julian Halberstam in Saanen, Switzerland, to Willi and Franz, 1951-1956; (1869/6) Correspondence from parents in Budapest to Willi and Franz,...

  17. The Nuremberg Laws Nuremberg Race Law teaching chart for explaining blood purity laws

    German Nuremberg Law teaching chart that distinguishes the hierarchal difference between German-blooded individuals, Jews, and those in between, distributed in 1936. The chart separates individuals into three “races”: German-Blooded, Jews, and Mischling (part Jewish) based on their grandparent’s race. Mischling are further broken down into two grades: first class, those who are half-Jewish (two Jewish grandparents); and second class, those who are one quarter Jewish (one Jewish grandparent). These three “races” were codified by the Reich Citizenship Law and the Law for the Protection of Ger...

  18. Lili Wronker collection about the Jewish community in Sosúa, Dominican Republic

    The Lili Wronker collection about the Jewish community in Sosúa, Dominican Republic contains commemorative stamps, food packaging, photographic materials, printed materials, and reports documenting the establishment of the Sosúa Jewish community in the Dominican Republic and the town’s development into a tourist destination. The commemorative stamps were created in 1960. Three depict an aerial view of the Sosúa coastline and two depict four of the original Jewish refugee children, Naomi Neumann, Caroline Papernik, Susanna Tauber, and Teresa Hirschfeld. Food packaging includes a salami wrapp...

  19. Hofacker, Eberhard von (Generalleutnant)

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Generalleutnant Eberhardt von Hofacker 25. Juni 1861 - 19. Jan. 1928 Bestandsbeschreibung HStA Stuttgart: Eberhard von Hofacker, ein Enkel des württembergischen Außenministers Friedrich Gottlob Karl von Varnbüler, trat im Jahr 1879 beim württembergischen Dragoner-Regiment Königin Olga Nr. 25 ein. In dieser Formation stieg er zwischen 1879 und 1898 bis zum Rittmeister auf. In den Jahren zwischen 1898 und 1914 diente Hofacker in wechselnden Funktionen in Kavallerie- und Infanterieverbänden. Wichtige Stationen seiner militärischen Karriere stellten insbesondere ...

  20. Lilly F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lilly F., who was born in Czechoslovakia in 1924, one of seven children of a rebbe. She recounts her mother's death in 1937; her older sister's emigration to the United States; her father's futile emigration efforts, including a trip to Portugal; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; working in a factory to help support her family; her father's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; his return nine months later; German invasion; deportation to Irshava, then the Munkács ghetto; deportation three weeks later to Auschwitz; separation from her father and...