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  1. Rachel Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rachel Z., who was born in Zamość, Poland in 1931, one of three children. She recounts attending first grade in a Polish school; German invasion; briefly fleeing with her family to a nearby village; returning home; ghettoization; moving to an aunt's home in Szcelatyn; a round-up to Grabowiec; the family being chosen for farm work by a German farmer who knew them; her parents paying a farmer to hide her and her younger brother; overhearing that all the Jews had been killed; the farmer telling them he was taking them to their parents; jumping from the horse carriage e...

  2. Rena S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rena S., who was born in Zdun?ska Wola, Poland in 1929. She recalls a comfortable life; visiting grandparents in Kalisz and ?o?dz?; German invasion in September 1939; walking to ?o?dz?; returning home shortly thereafter; confiscation of their home; living with grandparents in Kalisz; confiscation of their home; returning to her parents; ghettoization; her younger sister's selection in 1942 (she never saw her again); rail transport to the ?o?dz? ghetto; living with relatives; forced factory labor; hospitalization for typhus; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in 1944; s...

  3. Twentieth Century Fox version, Reel 5: 20th July bomb plot; Hitler's 55th birthday

    Reel 5 of the English language version of "The Nazi Plan" produced by Twentieth Century Fox with new graphics. (The order of this reel is slightly different that the version shown in the Nuremberg courtroom - see RG-60.2465). Title: "1944" "Conference after Hitler's escape from the bombing plot 20 July 1944." Hitler with Mussolini and others at the Fuehrerhauptquartier (FHQ). Mussolini leans out of a train window and speaks to Hitler. Goering, Funk, Sauckel, Speer, Dr. Sauer, Lammers, Himmler, Goebbels, Guderian, Fegelein, Bormann, Jodl are all present. The narrator notes that Goebbels was ...

  4. Eichmann Trial -- Session 70 -- Screening of films

    Session 70. Cuts between the film footage entered as evidence and shots of Eichmann in the courtroom watching the footage. 00:01:06 The scene opens on the courtroom, there is no sound. 00:02:58 Eichmann is brought in. 00:06:09 Film footage is shown of people walking through a camp covered in snow (Auschwitz). Cut to Eichmann then back to footage of a crowd walking through the camp; inmates looking through barbed wire; another shot of the camp covered in snow. Eichmann in courtroom. Film: building with scaffolding around it, snow, train, industrial town. 00:07:17 Aerial shot pans across snow...

  5. Eichmann Trial -- Session 14 and 15 -- Testimonies of Z. & M. Grynszpan, B. Cohn, A. Lindenstrauss

    Sessions 14 and 15. Witness Zindel Shmuel Grynszpan is called to the stand. The story skips after a blip at 00:02:13. Witness Mordechai Eliezer Grynszpan, son of prior witness Zindel Grynszpan, is called to the stand. Assistant State Attorney Gabriel Bar-Or questions Mordechai about his brother, Herschel Grynszpan. After a blip, Mordechai explains his reservations for writing to Herschel in France as the Nazis occupied. Mordechai details his actions during the 1940s and describes his search for his brother after the war. The witness is dismissed. A blip at 00:06:33 backtracks to Hausner rea...

  6. Fürth family papers

    This collection consists of correspondence, documents and personal papers of the Fürth family, a family with Jewish roots, which has it's origins in the town of Susice, near Pilsen in the Czech Republic. They founded a paper mill in 1869, which was later run by Emil Fürth, grandfather of Peter Fürth, the main character of this family history, who was himself the son of paper manufacturer, Eugen Fürth. With the annexation of Austria and the Sudetenland, Emil and his wife Sophie, Eugen and Peter fled to France and their paper factories were confiscated along with property in the Czech Republi...

  7. Generalstab der Luftwaffe / Generalquartiermeister

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Am 1 .Februar 1938 wurde der bisherige Oberquartiermeister im Luftwaffenführungsstab als Generalquartiermeister dem Chef des Generalstabes unmittelbar unterstellt und gleichzeitig zu dessen ständigem Stellvertreter bestellt. Seine Dienststelle bestand aus der für alle Organisations- und Mobilmachungsfragen zuständigen 2. (Organisations-) Abteilung, der 4. (Quartiermeister-) Abteilung, zuständig für Nachschub und Versorgung und der 6. (Rüstungs-) Abteilung, zuständig für die personellen und materiellen Rüstungsforderungen. Am 1. Juni 1940 wurde ihm die Inspekt...

  8. Versorgungsflottille

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Alle Trossschiffe und schwimmend beweglichen Einrichtungen der Stützpunktversorgungsebene wurden in der Versorgungsflottille zusammengefasst und in Versorgungstruppen der Ostsee und der Nordsee untergliedert. Die Versorgungsflottille hatte die Aufgabe, die Herstellung und Erhaltung der personellen, materiellen und logistischen Einsatzbereitschaft der unterstellten Einheiten und ihre Vorbereitung für den taktischen Einsatz sicherzustellen. Die Aufstellung des Kommandos der Trossschiffe wurde durch Aufstellungsbefehl Nr. 95 -Marine- vom 25. Juni 1959 zum 1. Jul...

  9. Jewish National Fund. Head Office in Poland, Łódź Żydowski Fundusz Narodowy. Biuro Centralne w Polsce, Łódź (Sygn. 627)

    The collection contains correspondence with the Commission of Foreign Currency of the National Polish Bank, as well as the files of the property matters, includes personal documents of Jews emigrated from Poland to Israel.

  10. German siege of Warsaw, Poland 1939

    Dead woman with a basket over her head. MS, two women and one man approach this woman's body when she is still laying face down in the dirt, they roll her over, she is now lying face up, the basket is next to her head (I don't believe it has been placed over her head yet), and then they walk on. The man looks back at the camera a few times after passing the dead woman's body. Cut to MS, three women in the field digging for potatoes, CU of an injured woman. Cut to MS, refugees of the bombing teaming around their destroyed neighborhood, the site seems to be the former cemetery that is also me...

  11. Issachar G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Issachar G., who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1929, one of five children. He recounts his father was a rabbi; attending school for five years; his brother's marriage to a Swiss woman and their emigration to Switzerland; his older sister's emigration to Palestine; receiving emigration documents from her; his father's refusal to leave; Hlinka guards designating his family for deportation; receiving deportation exemptions from Rabbi Abraham-Aba Frieder; Frieder, Dov Weissmandel, and Gisi Fleischmann meeting in their home; his father arra...

  12. Archiv města Berouna

    • The Archives of the Town of Beroun / NAD 63

    The fonds contains documents of the Beroun Municipal Office, deeds, official books, file material, and accounting material. Jews are explicitly mentioned in the following documents: inv. no. 3792 Jewish Oath (1723); Inv. no. 1680 Jews, marriage and residence permits (1836-1849); Inv. no. 2264 Jews - list of Jewish houses, Aryanization of Jewish property (1940-1948); Inv. no. 2264 File of Beroun Jews (in box no. 681) 1942; Inv. no. 2279 Jewish School (1948); Inv. no. 3657 Domicile protocol for the born persons of the Jewish faith (1842-1848); inv. no. 3853 Jews, marriage and residence permit...

  13. Processo de pedido de visto para Frank Demblon, mulher de Frank Demblon (nascida Berthe Van Reeth), Christiane, Nicole, Srª. Mathieu (nascida Léontine Watnin), Francine-Elise Bosselaar Mathieu, Simone Eveline Mathieu, Srª. H. A. Beesmans, Srº. Van Beneden, Albéric de Valkeneer, mulher de Albéric de Valkeneer (nascida Madeleine Bonte), Denise, Serge e Micheline

    Processo de pedido de visto pela Legação da Bélgica ao Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros para Frank Demblon, de nacionalidade belga, com destino a Portugal. Sem informação de autorização de visto. Processo de pedido de visto pela Legação da Bélgica ao Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros para mulher de Frank Demblon (nascida Berthe Van Reeth), de nacionalidade belga, com destino a Portugal. Sem informação de autorização de visto. Processo de pedido de visto pela Legação da Bélgica ao Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros para Christiane, de nacionalidade belga, com destino a Portugal. Sem...

  14. Records of the World Jewish Congress in Romania

    Contains sixteen-page family questionnaires distributed by the World Jewish Congress in Arad, Birlad, Botoşani, Brăila, Bucharest, Burdujeni, Carei, Cluj, Constanţa, Galaţi, Iasį, Oradea, Rădăuţi, Roman, Timişoara, and Vaslui. Forms include name, address, date and place of birth, occupation/profession, education, and details of persecution under the Antonescu regime (as well as deportations from Transylvania to German-occupied Poland).

  15. Akta gminy Łagiewniki

    • Files of the commune of Łagiewniki

    Akta Wójta Gminy z lat 1818-1867: kupno i sprzedaż ziemi, powinności i świadczenia pieniężne związane z posiadaniem ziemi, szkoła gminna, emigracja ludności, opłaty za leczenie ponoszone przez gminę, zakres czynności sołtysów, korespondencja dotycząca udziału mieszkańców gminy w powstaniach listopadowym i styczniowym. Akta Zarządu Gminnego lat 1867-1882: ewidencja osób pozostających pod nadzorem policyjnym, spisy osób, które wyprowadziły się z gminy, leczenie chorych na koszt gminy, korespondencja dotycząca kościołów i szkół, spis folwarków, kolonii i zabudowań, spisy bydła, księga obrad gm...

  16. Selected records of the town Busko Akta miasta Busko (Sygn. 2128) : Wybrane materialy

    Registers and census of Busko town, including are registers of births, marriages and deaths and annexes to the registers (Files 1673-3086); files of registers for the years 1935-1939, 1941, 1942, 1945 and 1946, lists of artisans (File 622-alphabetical list of 1934), lists of commercial, industrial and craft companies, and related correspondence, records concerning industry and trade, e.g. leasing of stalls, halls and municipal lands (Files 1216-1218); education matters, as well as lists of schoolchildren and students. The collection also includes documents related to the Jewish community in...

  17. Nationalsozialistische Justiz

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Bestandsgeschichte Anlage der Sammlung zur Nationalsozialistischen Justiz in den 1960er Jahren im Zentralen Parteiarchiv der Sozialistischen Einheitspartei Deutschlands; bis zur Abgabe der Akten an das Zentrale Staatsarchiv der DDR im Jahre 1990 laufend ergänzt; die Bestandsbildung sollte - inhaltlichen Kriterien folgend - der Dokumentation des politischen Widerstands, darunter vor allem seitens der Arbeiterbewegung, gegen das nationalsozialistische Regime dienen; ursprüngliche Herkunft der Unterlagen: u.a. Volksgerichtshof, Oberreichsanwalt beim Volksgericht...

  18. Selected records from the Sąd Wojewódzki we Wrocławiu (SWWr), (Sygn.GK 319)

    Selected records of trials at the district court in Wrocław, 1945‒1966, for crimes by the Germans and their collaborators. Prosecutions based on the Decree of August 31, 1944 (Sierpniówka) of the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (PKWN, Polish Committee of National Liberation), one of the world's first laws on liability for crimes of World War II. Decree also applied against former partisans of the anti-Communist Armia Krajowa, or Home Army, whom Stalinist propaganda portrayed as German collaborators.

  19. Zoltan L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zoltan L., who was born in Liptovský Mikuláš, Czechoslovakia in 1927. He recalls cordial relations with non-Jews; his mother's singing talent; attending a Jewish school, then gymnasium; his mother singing at Jewish and non-Jewish weddings; he and his brother learning songs from her; anti-Jewish measures, including expulsion from gymnasium, following Slovak independence; attending a Jewish gymnasium; his father attacking a man who painted antisemitic slogans on his bakery; their arrest by Hlinka guard and transport to Košice; returning home; his bar mitzvah; his fa...

  20. Wehrmachtakademie

    Bestandsbeschreibung Die überlieferten Akten befassen sich zumeist mit Fragen operativer Gesamtkriegsführung und dem Zusammenwirken von Land-, Luft- und Seestreitkräften, häufig dargestellt an Beispielen aus der Militär- und Kriegsgeschichte. Weiterhin finden sich Ausarbeitungen zu Manövern der englischen Truppen 1929 und 1934 sowie Übungen und Planspiele zur Kriegsführung. Sechs Akten beziehen sich auf die Winterausbildung der Generalstabsoffiziere (1938). Außerdem werden die Landesbefestigungen und ihre Aufgaben im Rahmen der Führung thematisiert. Einige an der Wehrmachtakademie geha...