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  1. Ethnic groups of the Soviet Union

    Russian intertitle. Excerpt from a film showing the everyday life of different ethnic groups in the Soviet Union including Kazakhs, Uzbeks, Kalmyks, Ukrainians, Finns, Karelians, Kirghiz, Turks, Tajiks, Jews, Byelorussians, Bashkirs, Armenians, peoples of the Caucasus, Germans and Buryats. Brief shot of a group of Jews outdoors. A man reads a Yiddish newspaper. Jewish men use scythes in a field. An elderly Jewish man in profile.

  2. United States Army Signal Corps photographs

    Collection consists of 36 U.S. Army Signal Corps photographs from multiple concentration camps including Buchenwald and Ohrdruf.

  3. Aviva Ben Heled photograph album

    Photograph album with brown cover and interior pages that contain pre- and post-World War II black and white photographs (some loose photographs contained inside album). The photograph album was taken with Alida Henrietta "Letty" Rudelsheim (Aviva Ben Heled) into hiding in Holland. After her deportation, the photograph album was kept hidden by the gardner who worked at the Hachshara, an agricultural training farm Rudelsheim was involved with. It was returned to her after her liberation.

  4. Oral testimony of Karl Neustadt

  5. General records of the Hungarian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MOL K 150)

    This collection contains records concerning anti-Jewish legislation in Hungary, the legal foundation for the activities of German agencies there, the exemption of some individuals from anti-Jewish measures, instructions to various levels of public administration regarding Jewish matters, the processing of passports, repatriation, disciplinary actions, and grievances. It also includes records of steps taken to protect Hungarian citizens living abroad.

  6. Selected records of the Executive Office of the Hungarian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MOL K 148)

    Contains parliamentary interpellations (e.g., by the Nyilaskeresztes Párt (Arrow-Cross Party) MP Kálmán Hubay or the anti-Nazi MP Endre Bajcsy-Zsilinszky) to the Minister; the latter's responses; reports to the Minister regarding Jewish individuals (e.g., the Communist Endre Ságvári) and communities (e.g., of Békés county); the citizenship of Jews; the 1941 deportation of “stateless” Jews; exemptions of Jewish doctors from anti-Jewish measures; residence of Jews and Romanies; the November 1944 creation of the Budapest ghetto; war casualties; and others.

  7. Personal records of the Hungarian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MOL K 150 P)

    Records of Hungarian law enforcement authorities about extra-judicial suppression of such activities as "spreading rumors," "anti-state" or "anti-Hungarian" statements, listening to British or Soviet radio broadcasts, "profiteering," "hoarding," sheltering Jewish fugitives, providing the latter with false papers, bribing officials, "vagrancy," prostitution, "miscegination," and so on. Measures included not only arrest and incarceration, but house arrest, restrictions on use of telephones and postal services, banishment from particular places, forbidding contact with persons outside immediat...

  8. David family papers

    The David family papers include a pre-World War II photograph of Lili Brody-Carmosino with her brother Morris and cousin Annutza in Iaşi, Romania; a photograph of Lili planting seeds at the Beth Bialik displaced persons camp in Salzburg, Austria; an identification card for Adela David issued by the AJDC; and a photograph of Lili, Morris, and Ben David in Toronto.

  9. Liberation of Minsk

    The Soviet regular army meets up with Jewish or Roma partisans (they are not identified as such in the narration). One of the partisans wears a bullet clip around his shoulders. A female partisan, wearing a patterned head scarf, smiles at the camera. Scenes from the liberation of Minsk on July 3, 1944. A sign in German reads, "End of the Autobahn Minsk." A cameraman films the activity. Shot of the ghetto burning. A Soviet tank rolls down the street. German POWs with their hands raised in surrender. Soldiers greet smiling townspeople. A swastika falls off a building. A Soviet soldier cuts a ...

  10. Selected records from the OSE archives related to Tunisia

    This collection contains records related to the founding, financing, and disbanding of the Tunisian branch of the Oeuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE, Children's Relief Organization). The Tunisian branch was founded in 1947 and ceased activity in 1983.

  11. Selected records of the Schutzstaffel (NS 47)

    Contains partial files and fragmentary records of the Schutzstaffel Oberabschnitte, Abschnitte, Standarten, Sturmbanne, and Stürme.

  12. The assistance center for racially-persecuted persons, sponsored by the Evangelical Association in Stuttgart Records of the "Hilfsstelle für rassisch Verfolgte bei der Evangelischen Gesellschaft Stuttgart" (K 13)

    Contains correspondence, questionnaires, newspaper articles, essays, photographs, and research material on the fate of so-called "Judenchristen" (persons of Christian faith regarded as Jews under the Nuremberg laws, also known as "non-Aryan Christians"), Roma, and other non-Jewish victims. The records pertain to factual and individual-related information concerning emigration, food parcels, restitution, NS persecution, theological arguments, and public relations. Includes an index of people who received any kind of help or assistance by the "Hilfestelle." Some of the names in the index are ...

  13. Russian orphans return to the USSR

    A Soviet soldier raises a border gate to allow a medical van to pass though. The van contains the orphans of Ostarbeiters [forced laborers from the East] who are being repatriated to the Soviet Union. The children are lifted out of the van by a nurse and Soviet soldiers. Shots of the children and nurses in front of a building featuring a large portrait of Stalin. The children are led into the building, where they receive bundles containing food and toys. Portrait of Stalin on the building. The last shot shows two soldiers holding orphans in front of another portrait of Stalin.

  14. Metal badge with the letter Ž to identify a Croatian Jew

    Jewish identification badge with a Z for Zidov (Jew) that Alfred Grunhut was forced to wear in Zagreb, Croatia, from 1941-1945. Grunhut was a well known cabaret and theater actor. He survived the Holocaust despite the zealous persecutions of Jews by the independent state of Croatia. This government was run by the fascist Croatian organization, Ustasa, whose rule was endorsed by the Germans after they partitioned Yugoslavia in April 1941. By May, the Jews of Zagreb had to register at the community center and wear badges. There were frequent deportations to the concentration camps established...

  15. Twentieth Century Fox version, Reel 2: Triumph of the Will excerpts; rearmament; Nuremberg Laws

    Reel 2 of the English language version of "The Nazi Plan" produced by Twentieth Century Fox with new graphics. Nighttime rally. Ernst Roehm (?) speaks at a podium. SA members sing. Hitler, Goebbels, and Baldur von Schirach at a huge gathering of Hitler Youth. Young boys play drums, wave at Hitler. Von Schirach introduces Hitler, who makes a speech. Only part of the speech is translated. Title: Sixth Party Congress presented in excerpts from the official German film "Triumph of the Will" 4 - 10 September 1934. Excerpts from speeches of Hess, Rosenberg, Dietrich, Streicher, Ley, Frank, Goebbe...

  16. Postwar Zurich

    Aerial views of Zurich: tram station, pedestrians, Tram #15, traffic along main street next to river, bank, cathedral and mountains in BG. War damage to city structures.

  17. US Foreign Service; Cordell Hull; US diplomats

    March of Time, Vol. 5, No. 4 Title on screen: "The Foreign Service" Footage of cities around the world where the US Foreign Service might be found. Shots of the American flag, the shield of the consulate general, and American embassies. The narrator notes that the most important task of the foreign service officer is to make friends for his country. Washington DC: the Capitol and the Old Executive Office building. Secretary of State Cordell Hull at work in his office. The narrator describes Hull as a man of peace who nonetheless insists that his country must be ready to defend itself. Stage...

  19. Photograph reproduction of dedication to Rezso Kasztner

    Framed photographic reproduction of dedication to Rezso (Rudolph) Kasztner [donor's father]. The original document was written in May 1945 in Switzerland on behalf of those rescued on the Kasztner train, and signed by Yitzhak Klein and Dr. Deszoe Hermann. The original document hung in the family's apartment in Tel Aviv, and was used as evidence during Rezso Kasztner's trial in 1954-55. The location of the original document is unknown. (2006.415.1a- photograph) (2006.415.1b- frame).

  20. Iosif Kats memoir

    Contains one handwritten memoir, untitled, 10 pages, about Iosif Kats' Holocaust experiences. Mr. Kats was born in Voronovitsa in Vinnitskaya Oblast in the Ukraine in 1922. After the Geramns occupied Voronovitsa on August 19, 1941, Mr. Kats and his family were forced into a ghetto. On November 12, 1941, the Jews were taken from the ghetto to be shot; luckily, Mr. Kats and his father were able to escape. From 1941 to July 1943, Mr. Kats hid in various areas. He was arrested and sent to a work came in Nikolayev from July 1943-March 1944. In March 1944, he went to Murafa, where he reunited wit...