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  1. Selected Belgian war crimes tribunals and investigation records

    Contains selected records of the Belgian post-war commission of inquiry regarding war crimes, particularly as they relate to the operation of concentration camps.

  2. Records related to German control of currency exchange rates in Belgium

    Contains documents concerning foreign currency and property. Approximately 30% regard Jewish property and the opening of Jewish deposits in Antwerp, Bruxelles, and Liege. Also contains police investigations into violations of foreign currency regulations, bank account fraud, etc.

  3. Selected records related to anti-Masonic measures in Belgium

    Contains documents pertaining to the prohibition of Freemasonry in occupied Belgium and various anti-Masonic measures carried out against Freemasons.

  4. Selected records of the National Bank of Romania

    Contains records relating to the bank of Romania secretariat, reports on the economic situation, correspondence with others including the president of the Council of Minister, financial relations with the USSR, and a confidential note regarding Jewish property.

  5. Records of the Jewish organization Karen Hayesod (East Galicia - Malopolska branch) (Fond 335, Opis 1)

    The collection includes fundraising appeals, circulatory letters of the Central Bureau of the organization in Jerusalem, annual reports concerning various activities of the organization in the region during the interwar period. The bulk of collection consists of various correspondence files with the local branches of the organization, sister organizations worldwide and membership lists.

  6. Records of the Regional Zionist Organization (East Galicia- Malopolska) (Fond 338, Opis 1)

    Contains bylaws, programs, appeals, meeting minutes, documents of Zionist congresses and conferences, informational dispatches of Zionist organizations worldwide, reviews of Zionist newspapers, records of activities of the local branches of this organization in Tarnopol (Ternopil) and Stanislawow (Ivano-Frankivsk), lists of Jews applying for immigration to Palestine, and membership lists of local Zionist and Jewish organizations. The bulk consists of correspondence with Zionist organizations and active Zionists worldwide.

  7. Selected records of the Anti-Joodse Centrale

    Contains information created or collected by the Anti-Joodse Centrale for the purpose of enabling antisemitic measures in occupied Belgium.

  8. Records of the Jewish Health Organization (Towarzystwo Ochrony Zdrowia Ludności Żydowskiej), Lwów Branch (Fond 503)

    Contains records of the Towarzystwo Ochrony Zydowskiej (TOZ) of the Lwów. Records relate to the TOZ activities in the Eastern Galicia ( Lwów, Tarnopol and Stanisławów counties) during the interwar period. The collection consists of several major types of documents divided into six categories: 1. Bylaws, programs of the activities of the organization, circulatory letters of the central office in Warsaw, monthly reports; 2. Documents related to the activities of the organization and its local sections; 3. Correspondence with the central office of the organization in Warsaw and its local br...

  9. Selected records of the Royal Belgian Archive

    Contains clandestine underground bulletins, newsletters and other publications selected from the Royal Belgian Archive's Inventory 253. Also contains records of the Belgian Communist Party, papers of René Greindl (wartime governor of the Luxembourg province), an inventory of the German Foreign Ministry Archives, and records concerning the German occupation administration in Belgium, the Belgian National Movement in Luxembourg, partisan armies, the battle of the Ardennes, the Feldkommandatura in Bastogne, and the situation in the Luxembourg province.

  10. documentary film about Babi Yar

    Documentary film about Babi Yar including archival footage and interviews. At times, the narration does not accurately support the footage, images are sometimes misused. Captured Nazi footage, photographic stills, and newsreel footage were obtained from various Russian archives (see notes for more details). Scenes show Kiev, Hitler, Hitler Youth, Nazi flags with swastikas, US protest posters, neo-Nazi scenes, deportation, piles of victims' belongings, Dina Pronicheva's testimony at the war crimes trials in Kiev, Jewish boycotts, undressing sequences, the chief of Kiev Ukrainian Police Kajva...

  11. March of Time -- outtakes -- Swedish ship Drottningholm arrives in US with diplomatic officers leaving Axis nations

    Shots of the Swedish-American ship Drottningholm. The ship bears the Swedish flag and the word "DIPLOMAT." Passengers wave from the decks. People disembark from the ship, including diplomatic officers from Axis countries George Wadsworth from the State Department and Curtis T. Everett, listed on the dope sheet as a diplomatic officer to Vichy, disembark from the ship. It is not clear which individuals they are in the crowd. A man speaks at a microphone -- perhaps he is the third man identified on the dope sheet, S. Azacarte of Mexico. Men stand among several pieces of luggage. A label on on...

  13. Barbie Trial -- Day 11 -- Witnesses testify

    Jérôme Scorin continues his testimony before the Court. He describes his transfers from Montluc, Drancy, and ultimately Auschwitz-Birkenau. He then discusses his experience at Auschwitz-Birkenau, including forced labor, sickness, and persecution. He was subsequently moved to Stutthof, to a camp near Stuttgart, to Ohrdruf Le Revier, and then to Buchenwald before being marched away from the encroaching Allied front on foot before being liberated by American troops. 18:35:01 The President asks Scorin to describe how he recognized Klaus Barbie. Scorin replies that he recognized Barbie on televi...

  14. Drawing

  15. German Revolution of 1918-1919

    This is an excerpt from a film about German film history which was produced in 1942. Berlin during the revolution of 1918-1919. Intertitles describe the scenes. Armed men, members of the "Republican protection troops," patrol in front of the Brandenburg Gate. Men stand beside big bundles of shot-up rolls of newspapers that they have erected as barricades. A car loaded with armed men drives off down the street.

  16. Barbie Trial -- Day 9 -- A previous expert witness asks to give additional testimony and is questioned; a witness testifies

    13:40 President Cerdini opens the hearing; asks for the accused to present himself; Barbie refuses to appear 13:41 Cerdini asks a bailiff to summon Barbie 13:41 Another bailiff reads the list of witnesses set to appear; identifies those who are absent 13:44 Cerdini suspends the hearing until the bailiff returns from summoning Barbie at the jail 14:05 Cerdini resumes the hearing; the clerk reads the bailiff's report; Barbie refuses to appear 14:08 Cerdini reads a decree stating that the trial will continue in Barbie's absence 14:09 German Attorney General Streim, a previous witness, asks to ...

  17. Drawing

  18. Drawing

  19. Agro-Joint colonies of Nowaja-Zarza and Voroshila

    Intertitles provide information. Very good CUs and pan of a group of men and women vineyard workers (former ghetto inhabitants). MS of men coming out of building at Voroshila. Young boy (visiting from Leningrad) poses for camera. Poultry farm house with chickens wandering about.

  20. Soviet film of atrocities shown at Nuremberg Trials

    Reel 1: Documents. Atrocities, corpses, women weeping, Soviet soldiers. Exhumation of mass grave, Russians weeping. Corpses at camp. 01:18:32 Reel 2: Human remains. Doctors, exhumation, skulls. Human remains at camp, beach. Reburying children in coffins, women weeping. Watchtower, barbed wire, corpses. Gravesite in forest. Fires. 01:31:40 Klooga: corpses, CU of victim with number and Star of David. 01:33:51 Reel 3: Lublin, INTs corpses. Civilians view bodies and camp barracks. MS, survivors. Aerial views of Majdanek, barracks. Skulls and bones, crematorium. Victims' belongings (shoes, passp...