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  1. Schaap travels to Palestine via Italy in 1935

    Maurits Schaap visited his brother Meijer in Palestine in December 1935. Maurits showed the films to the Jewish community of Rotterdam after he returned. "ROTTERDAM-PALESTINA vice-versa, Camera: Mau Schaap. Caricaturen: Joseph Rosenberg. Chanoekah 5696" Title card: "VERTREK STATION D.P. met opnamen van Rotterdam - Parÿs - Milaan - Monza - Venetië - Triëst". Busy train station after 11AM. People moving about the station and getting on and off trains. The cameraman, shown to be Maurits Schaap from the title card, boards a train and films through an exterior window of the departure and the lan...

  2. Union of Jewish Fighters for Lithuanian Independence (Fond 593)

    The collection consists of minutes of the board meetings, questionnaires filled out by the members of the organization, lists of members, orders, circular letters, correspondence with branch offices and various Lithuanian government offices, financial documents and award certifications.

  3. Postcard for the 1934 Bavarian State Gymnastics Festival

    Unused postcard with an image of an eagle with an oak branch and acorn above the Bavarian coat of arms issued to commemorate the 18. Bayerisches Landesturnfest Nurnburg [Bavarian State Gymnastics Festival in Nuremberg] which took place July 20-22, 1934.

  4. The Demjanjuk Trial (Series 31.0/23) The hearings in the District Court of Jerusalem

    Correspondence, minutes of meetings and court hearings, judicial inquiries, evidences based primarily on survivor identifications, from the File 373/86 State of Israel, against John (Ivan) Demjanjuk. The trial opened in Jerusalem on February 16, 1987, before a special tribunal comprising Israeli Supreme Court Judge Dov Levin and Jerusalem District Court Judges Zvi Tal and Dalia Dorner. The Israeli court convicted Demjanjuk on April 25, 1988, and sentenced him to death. John (Iwan) Demjanjuk was the defendant in four different court proceedings relating to crimes that he committed while serv...

  5. Oral history interview with Robert L. Behrman

  6. Records of the commune Marianów, County Rawski Akta gminy Marianów powiatu Rawskiego (Sygn.1104)

    Contains correspondence, registration books and names lists from the commune of Marianów: inclues a list of inhabitants receiving government grants, a list of patients with typhoid, correspondence concerning the treatment of Jewish patients and Jewish hospitals, and registration books of population of the commune Marianów.

  7. Probated wills of Julius and Walter Hollander

    Probated wills of Anne Frank's uncles, Julius and Walter Hollander.

  8. George Mandel-Mantello research collection

    Consists of documents, correspondence, newspaper clippings, copies of articles and speeches, and copies of archival holdings related to the work of George Mandel-Mantello. The material was collected by Mantello and by his son, Enrico Mantello, about his wartime activities as a diplomat for the El Salvadore consulate in Geneva, Switzerland from 1942 to 1945, during which time he created false Salvadoran citizenship papers in an attempt to provide diplomatic protection for Jewish prisoners in Nazi concentration camps. Also contains a photocopy of a transcription of June 6, 1979 interview of T...

  9. National Migration Fond: Series of Consular Certificates of Identity Fondo Dirección Nacional de Migraciones: Serie Certificado Consular de Identidad

    Immigration certificates issued by various Argentine consular offices abroad or the Argentine immigration authorities in Buenos Aires for entry into Argentina. The certificates include a portrait photograph of the applicant and the applicant's fingerprints. The records pertaining to Jewish applicants were selectively digitized in Buenos Aires at the Archivo Intermedio branch archive of the National Archives of Argentina. This is an ongoing project.

  10. NSDAP convention of the Ammerland district

    Aerial view of Zwischenahn Lake filmed from the water tower on the south bank. The town of Bad Zwischenahn is located south of this land-locked sea. Windy with bright sunlight and full trees in early summer. 00:00:12 Title "Bad Zwischenahn im Festschmuck" The town of Bad Zwischenahn is decorated with Nazi symbols including flags, banners, garlands, and posters for the NSDAP convention. View of a gray stone building with columns, the NSDAP headquarters of the District Leader, Johann Schneider, in the Villa Windmüller located on Peter Street (also appears in Film ID 3930). Bathouse and boat d...

  11. Sorger family photograph collection

    Collection of eight original photographs depicting the Sorger family in Obertyn, Poland. Elias Sorger (donor’s father) was a professional photographer and Golda Olga Schleimer Sorger (donor’s mother) took care of their three daughters and was an amateur photographer; Donia Rosa, b. 1922 and Ester Edzia, b. 1925, were Sulamit’s older sisters. Sulamit, the youngest, b. 1932, is the only survivor of her immediate family; her sisters were killed together on February 18, 1943 and the parents were killed together on March 3, 1943 after they were denounced. Sulamit survived hidden by several peopl...

  12. Territorial collection on France, Holocaust period (RG-116, France II)

    The collection relates to the situation of the Jews in France during German occupation. The collection pertains number of subjects including: anti-Jewish legislation enacted by the Vichy regime, general situation of the Jews in France, deportations, situation in the internment and concentration camps, religious, cultural and everyday life in the camps, the resistance movement, protests against anti-Jewish persecution, clandestine press, legal press, identification cards including the production of false identification documents as part of the resistance movement.

  13. Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp barracks

    Barracks from Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp established by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland from October 1941-January 18, 1945. Barracks were primitive wooden structures with large wooden shelves for bunkbeds. There were 36 bunks per barrack; 5 to 6 prisoners were packed on a shelf to fit over 500 prisoners per barracks. Inmates wore the same ragged clothes for work and sleep. The barracks had no insulation from the cold or heat, the wooden roofs often leaked, and the straw sometimes supplied as bedding was soon filthy and wet. The only toilet facility was a single bucket, and dia...

  15. Minutes of the Commission of Spain Procès-verbaux de la Commission d'Espagne (B CR 212 PV)

    Records related to the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939. After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) formed the so-called Commission d'Espagne (Commission of Spain) on August 26, 1936 which directed and coordinated all of the ICRC's humanitarian activities and operations within both the Republican and Nationalist territories. The collection covers the ICRC's humanitarian activities in Spain and consists of correspondence, reports and minutes of the Commission. Contains documentation on military and civilian prisoners, visits to the internment...

  16. Supreme National Tribunal Sprawy organizacyjne Najwyższego Trybunału Narodowego (NTN), (Sygn.196)

    This collection contains selected records relating to the general organization of the Supreme National Tribunal (NTN), including are lists of completed cases, official correspondence of the NTN Secretariat, reports, minutes, and the logbook of correspondence.

  17. Ketubah from Deggendorf displaced persons camp

    One ketubah, recording the wedding of Moshe Wasserman and Rachel Landa, at the Deggendorf displaced persons camp, 20 October 1945. Text in Hebrew, with ink stamp from "Jewish Committee, D.P. Camp 7, Deggendorf." The groom is listed as being the son of Meir Wasserman, and the bride as being the daughter of Mordechai Landa, with witnesses Mendel Gorski and Meir Blumshtayn present, and Rabbi Refael ben Yehudah Halevi officiating.

  18. Records of the commune Gortatowice County Rawski Akta gminy Gortatowice powiatu Rawskiego (Sygn.1102)

    General correspondence of the commune Gortatowice, includes registration of teachers, intelligentsia, firemen, Jewish inhabitants, orders of relocation of Jewish families to Nowe Miasto, and the order to Polish inhabitants prohibiting them from helping Jewish people, with the threat of punishment by death for doing so. Also includes statistics about local properties, farms, agricultural property and household goods.

  19. Postwar life of the Schaap family; funeral for Dr. Amir

    Men with yarmulkes exit a building. INTs, dark. Cars on a street, one with "USA" and numbers on the hood. An elder with a top-hat gets into a car. CUs, adults, one pins flower on lapel. 00:37:21 In London, pan, up and down of a stone statue. Sign advertising "Yehudi Menuhin" concert at Royal Albert Hall (maybe in June 1946). British soldiers. Lake. 00:38:48 Street traffic and sightseeing to the Parliament and Westminster and around London's cinemas (films opened in 1946). 00:40:16 Israel Legation in Amsterdam. Funeral procession for Dr. Michael Amir, the Israel envoy to the Netherlands, on ...

  20. Michelle King collection

    Consists of four wartime postcards: three color postcards of artwork depicting (respectively) the Bureau of Printing and Engraving; Pennsylvania Avenue; and "New Government Buildings on Constitution and Pennsylvania Avenues Triangle;" and one photographic postcard of the newly erected Pentagon. Also includes one ration book holder advertising Imperial Dairy Products, containing four original wartime ration books, circa May 1942.