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  1. Shmaruk-Tsybulnik collection

    The collection includes photocopied letters sent primarily between Isaac Shmaruk and his wife, Sulamif Tsybulnik. Other correspondence of note includes reciprocal letters from friends, family, and the Kiev Film Studio. The letters from Isaac Shmaruk discuss his life in the Red Army, his time spent in Germany, and efforts to contact family and friends throughout the Soviet Union. The letters from Sulamif Tsybulnik discuss her daily life in Ashkhabad, news from family and friends, her work with the Kiev Film Studio, and her brief stay in a Crimean sanitarium throughout a brief illness.

  2. Documents related to the righteous gentiles in the former USSR

    The collection includes photocopied letters, envelopes, testimonies, certified statements, photographs, passports, certificates of honor, forms, and applications of Jewish residents of the Former Soviet Union (FSU) and the Gentiles who saved them. These documents were collected mostly from 1989 to 1997 by four main organizations: The Jewish Foundation of Christian Rescuers; the Association of Jewish Organizations and the Ukrainian Community; World of the Righteous; and the Societal History Instruction Center on Babi Yar.

  3. Diary of M. Zhabotinskii, a Jewish actor

    The collection includes the 85-page photocopied memoirs of M. Zhabotinskii, written between the years of 1957-1962.

  4. Memoir of Mark Josevich Sirota

    The collection includes a memoir of Mark Sirota, a renowned Ukrainian Jewish actor and theatre director. The memoir, completed in 1970, only covers the author's life from 1901 to 1939. The work is divided into 12 main chapters. Sirota provides interesting account of his childhood in Zitomir ( Zhytomyr) , beginning of his theatrical career with traveling Jewish theatre, travels trough Ukrainian, Polish and Romanian provincial towns. The memoirs offer rich and detailed information about Jewish life, history of the Jewish theatre in the background of the Russian revolution, civil war establish...

  5. Hitler's visit to Rome, May 1938

    A group of Italian school girls, escorted by nuns, followed by a group of young boys in uniform. Uniformed men with feathered hats march down the street. Women in native costume. A panning shot shows a huge building surrounded by Nazi flags and a crowd of spectators behind a barricade. Uniformed young girls march down the street. Uniformed boys, some with rifles and some playing drums. Long shot of men on motorcycles as they perform some kind of routine on a large field. More marching men on the streets of Rome, followed by Hitler's motorcade. Hitler is briefly visible, as is Goebbels, who ...

  6. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Alpes de Haute Provence

    This collection contains material pertaining to Jews residing in the Alpes de Haute-Provence, and to the administrative procedures for arresting and holding Jews in internment camps there. The prewar Department of the Basses-Alpes had no Jewish population, but became a refuge for Jews fleeing the Occupied Zone in the North for the Italian-occupied (before November 1942) portion of the South. The citadel of Sisteron became an internment camp, and Jews were kept under house arrest in several communes (rural districts).

  7. Selected records from Statistisch-wissenschaftliches Institut des RFSS (NS 48)

    Contains records of the Statistisch-wissenschaftliches Institut des Reichsfuehrers-SS, including statistics on demography and population, war casualties, sickness and death at the Mittelbau camp, water analysis at the Nordhausen camp, Warsaw ghetto statistics, personnel case files, and a name list of Himmler’s friends and associates.

  8. Selected records of the Reichspropagandaleitung (NS 18)

    Contains records created by the Reichspropagandaleitung, including propaganda leaflets, brochures, publication of war reports, political discussion of the situation in the USA, Winston Churchill, the war with Italy, propaganda in the East, advertisements for pro-Nazi companies, the role of the churches, measures in regard to foreigners, typhus, race defilement, swing dancers, Jews in the film industry, and prisoners of war.

  9. Selected records of the NS-Volkswohlfahrt (NS 37)

    Contains selected records of the NS-Volkswohlfahrt, the Nazi social welfare institution charged with propagating health care issues and family aid to those deemed racially pure. Primarily contains files of financial/real estate properties of the NSV outside of Germany.

  10. Selected records of the Reichsstudentenführung / Nationalsozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund (NS 38)

    Contains selected records of the Reichsstudentenführung / Nationalsozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund pertaining to the denial of matriculation to Jewish students in Brünn/Czech Republic, non-admission of Polish students, reports of the Jewish derivation of students, and denunciations of various non-Aryan professors.

  11. Selected records of the Hauptamt für Beamte/ Reichsbund der deutschen Beamten (NS 40)

    Contains records pertaining to the operation of the Hauptamt für Beamte/ Reichsbund der deutschen Beamten and the organization and operation of the Nazi civil service.

  12. Selected records of the Oberstes Parteigericht der NSDAP (NS 36)

    The Oberstes Parteigericht der NSDAP (OPG) was founded on January 1, 1934 to handle cases concerning behavior that could harm the reputation of the NSDAP. It was responsible for trials of political importance and for appeals against decisions of district party tribunals. This collection includes transcripts of trials for excesses against Jews, such as murder or sexual assault during Kristallnacht; for abuses by SA leaders in concentration camps; and of a German "race-scientist" accused of having had a relationship with a half-Jewish woman. It also includes guidelines for the nomination of p...

  13. Selected records from the Geschäftsgruppe Ernährung (R 26 IV)

    Contains records pertaining to Aryanization, activity reports of the Geschäftsgruppe Ernährung, statistics on the Carpathian countries, social politics in Slovakia, emigration in Hungary, organization and structure of the University of Zagreb, and forced laborers in the agricultural sector.

  14. Maximilian Winkler papers

    Papers consist of a memoir written by Maximilian Winkler, M.D. [Rosita Winkler's father] that records his experiences in Transylvania and Hungary during the Holocaust. Also included is a CD that contains a transcript of the memoir.

  15. John Stevens photograph collection

    Collection consists of 14 photographic images of scenes from the Dachau concentration camp.

  16. Orthodox Jews in Biecz, Poland

    In Biecz, Poland, 1936, pan of town, street scenes, CUs Jewish boys, including Mendel Halpern on left at 00:09:43 and 00:09:45 (boy with curls). Town hall, Orthodox Jews. Fast pan of shops, streets, pavillion, Jews, the boy Mendel Halpern (00:10:10), Hebrew writing on building EXT, Library. More pan of the village.

  17. Nuremberg Trial proceedings: summation and verdict

    Part 4 of ENGLISH language version [corresponds to NARA reels 7 & 8] Courtroom scenes, questioning various defendants, showing various views of the courtroom and trial proceedings. Questioning Jodl and von Ribbentrop. Prosecutor asks Goering: "Do you still say that neither Hitler nor you knew of the policy to exterminate the Jews?" Goering: "I already had said that not even approximately did I know to what degree this thing took place." Prosecutor: "You did not know to what degree, but you knew there was a policy which aimed at the liquidation of the Jews?" Goering: "No, not liquidation...

  18. German soldiers; various sights in Germany

    German troops and marching band parade, a crowd of German civilians follow. Streetcar, traffic, street scenes in Berlin(?). Mark Jacoby and his father Samuel take a carriage ride. Samuel and Marie kiss. Jacoby family tours garden, poses for a group shot with some kind of equipment (pushcart?). Circular pan of grounds, planting/digging with equipment.

  19. Liberation of Prussia, including Insterburg POW camp

    A column of German civilians carrying their belongings flees the Soviet advance. The narrator says that all roads of escape have been blocked. Close-up on a poster advertising the German Volkssturm. Captured German troops and civilians. Close-up of Margarethe Gensler, who the narrator says was a female member of the SS. A woman points out a man who she says used slave labor at his factory. POWs, including French and British soldiers are liberated from the Insterburg (Prussia) POW camp. The men exit through a barbed wire gate and receive cigarettes from Soviet soldiers. Brief close-up of a f...

  20. Liberating, providing aid to survivors at Buchenwald

    US Army assisting survivors of Buchenwald and shots of the dead and dying. Ambulance with Red Cross drives through gate into camp compound, past brick building labeled 59, many GIs walking around, can see several other same kind of brick buildings. MCU some kind of entryway past brick wall manned by GIs thru which German civilians are filing into or out of camp. HAS of GI smoking next to wall as civilians pass. MS civilians in line on grounds of camp, a number of GIs pass camera. MCU of corpse covered partially by blanket next to brick wall. CU of head and staring eyes, then back to previou...