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  1. Central Committee of the Jews in Poland (CKŻP).The Presidium and Secretariat Centralny Komitet Żydów Polskich (CKŻP). Prezydium i Sekretariat (Sygn. 303/I)

    Contains reports, name lists, minutes of sessions, domestic and foreign correspondence, e.g. with the American Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC) and World Jewish Congress, personal files of the staff and others, records relating to pogroms of Jewish people in Kielce and other places, religious matters, graveyards, and exhumations, newspaper clippings, and documentation of various commissions of the Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce (CKŻP): the Centralna Komisja Międzypartyjna, Centralna Komisja Mieszana, Komisja Mieszkaniowa, Centralna Frakcja Polskiej Partii Robotniczej (PPR), Polska Zjed...

  2. Girls push miniature baby carriages; Hanna plays with a doll

    Children, more heavily dressed, are at some paved area with wooden beams in the background (a playground?). They play with baby carriages, racing them and attempting to chase down a preteen girl (maybe cousin Magda). Hanna plays with baby dolls indoors.

  3. Chava K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chava K., who was born in Komárno, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1931, the older of two children. She recounts visiting relatives in Budapest; her family's conversion in 1942, hoping to save themselves; enjoying church services; her father's illness and death; German invasion in 1944; her mother's deportation; their former maid assisting her and her brother; living with her ballet teacher, then her grandparents; ghettoization; living with her friend's family; deportation to Auschwitz; attaching herself to an older woman; transfer a week later to Płaszów; us...

  4. Yaakov E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yaakov E., who was born in Częstochowa, Russia (presently Poland) in 1904. He recounts attending Jewish and Polish schools; starvation during World War I; marriage and the births of two children; leaving his family to work in Paris for two years during the Depression; German invasion; ghettoization; his mother's murder by Germans in 1942; burying her; deportation with his wife and children to Treblinka; his selection as a carpenter (his family was killed); sadistic public executions; escaping; assistance from a local non-Jews who brought him to Jewish partisans; flee...

  5. Halla Aurél államtitkár iratai

    • Records of State Secretary Aurél Halla

    The overwhelming majority of the records of the Ministry of Trade and Transportation were destroyed during the siege of Budapest in 1944-45, when the main building of the ministry was destroyed by bomb attack. Therefore, the records of the ministry survived in other collections have special relevance for the study of the economic anti-Jewish policies in Hungary. State Secretary Aurél Halla was one of the key persons in the Ministry of Trade and Transportation responsible for the planning and implementation anti-Jewish legislation. Halla also worked for various companies, and he was an activ...

  6. Montessori school in Vienna

    Peter Schur, dressed for winter, a lunch box hanging from his neck, is helped into the backseat of a car. Scenes from inside the car as it drives down a street lined with trees, snow. The car was later confiscated by the Nazis, along with a revolver and some gold coins. 01:14:56 Seasons change, scenes from inside the car as it drives on a city street with trams. The boy is on his way to school, possibly on his first day. Sign on glass: "Montessori-Kindergarten Hedy Schwarz." Peter smiles and waves from inside the window. 01:15:25 INT, Montessori-Kindergarten, with children playing and inter...

  7. Tzipora A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Tzipora A., who was born in Przemyśl, Poland in 1939. She recounts being given to non-Jews when she was about two years old; knowing she was Jewish but being told to hide that information; attending a Polish school, church, and being baptized; occasionally being hidden in a closet or under the bed; enjoying Christmas and Polish music and dance; a visit from Youth Aliyah representatives in about 1948; being taken by them to join other orphans going to Israel by ship; living in a religious institute with other orphans; the empathic manager who was from Poland helping h...

  8. Rose and Aaron M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aaron M., who was born near ?o?dz?, Poland circa 1915, and his wife Rose M., who was born in ?o?dz? circa 1916. Mr. M. relates his conscription into the Polish army prior to the outbreak of the war; his escape from the army and, later, from deportation; the German takeover of his home town; and his transfer to the ghettos of Warta and then ?o?dz?, where he remained from 1942 until 1944. He describes life in the ghetto; his separation from his first wife and small daughter, whom he never saw again; and his own capture and imprisonment. Mrs. M. discusses the ghettoizati...

  9. Lotte S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lotte S., who was born into an upper middle class family in Frankfurt am Main. Mrs. S. describes her early childhood in Germany and emigration to Amsterdam after the Nazis came to power; the outbreak of the war; support by the Dutch; anti-Jewish legislation; and the beginnings of ghettoization and deportations. She tells of her arrest, along with her mother and sister, despite their acquisition of Paraguayan passports; their arrival in Westerbork; and conditions there. She recalls her transport to, and daily life in, Ravensbru?ck, where her mother died; her relationsh...

  10. Hitler Youth, BDM; Nazi Party rally in Weimar

    EXT, Friedrich Schiller's House decorated with swastikas, evergreen garlands. Hitler Youth by doorway. Candid shot of BDM girls walking towards camera, other passersby, SA men clowning in BG. More shots of Hitler Youth by doorway of Goethe's House; various pedestrians walking along sidewalk: women with children in strollers, men in suits, men in various uniforms. Shot of crowded town square in Weimar decorated with Nazi banners. Festival in town square, people dancing in the BG, in FG many people seated at long wooden tables, talking, eating. In FG, screen right, German military men are see...

  11. Joseph S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph S., who was born in Charleroi, Belgium in 1931. He recalls attending public school; studying with his father, a rabbi; his grandfather's arrival from Austria in 1938; German invasion in May 1940; fleeing with his family to France; living at a refugee shelter in Saint-Pourc?ain-sur-Sioule; moving to Vichy; living at a hotel which housed OSE offices; moving to Nice in August 1940; his grandfather's death; hiding after foreign Jews were required to report to authorities; living openly during Italian occupation; German occupation in September 1943; he and his broth...

  12. Sylvia F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sylvia F., who was born, an only child, in Krako?w, Poland, in 1909. During the last quarter of the testimony she is joined by her husband, Jacob, who details the circumstances under which they met and notes the camps in which he was interned: Lemberg (Lv?ov,) Borislav, Krako?w (P?aszo?w,) Vielichka, Mauthausen, and Linz. [His wartime experiences are more fully recounted in Holocaust videotape testimony T-120.] Mrs. F. describes her marriage at the age of nineteen; the arrest and murder of her first husband; her life in the ghetto and her work in the commissary in Kra...

  13. Prokuratura Sądu Okręgowego w Tarnowie

    • Public Prosecutor at the County Court in Tarnów

    Akta prezydialne - korespondencja ogólna 1939-1944 (sygn. PSOT.1-5) Wokandy spraw w Sądzie Okręgowym w Tarnowie 1941-1943 (sygn. PSOT.6) Wykaz spraw skierowanych do Sądu Okręgowego z aktem oskarżenia 1941-1944 (sygn. PSOT.7) Wykaz spraw Prokuratora Sądu Okręgowego przekazanych do archiwum prokuratorskiego 1940 (sygn. PSOT.8) Akta dochodzeń i śledztw "Ds." 1939-1944 (sygn. PSOT.9-38) Akta dochodzeń zakończonych wyrokiem sądowym 1939-1944 (sygn. PSOT.39-47) Akta spraw różnych rejestrowanych w skorowidzu ogólnym 1939-1944 (sygn. PSOT.48-56)

  14. Kan family vacationing during winter in Switzerland

    Color. Scenic shots of Arosa, Switzerland and mountains. Ice skating in FG. Ice rink. Betsy sits on some steps outside of a building and waves. Ice rink. Pan up to the snow covered mountainside. Betsy gets a skating lesson and Jeanne also skates. Betsy and Robert stand next to a building, balloons hang from the side of the building's railing. From overhead, a long line of horse drawn sleighs with balloons. Jeanne sits in a sleigh, waves, balloons hang from the sleigh behind her. More shots of the sleighs and horses. 01:06:37 MS, Betsy holds a blue balloon with "Tschuggen Club Arosa" in whit...

  15. Toby K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Toby K., who was born in Vis?eu de Sus, Romania in 1922, one of eight children. She recalls her family's move to Oradea; her father working as a cantor; Hungarian occupation in 1939; German invasion in 1944; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz; remaining with two sisters (she never saw her parents or other siblings again); having to dispose of infants born in her barrack; transfer with her sisters to a slave labor camp; a privileged kitchen job; a death march to Bergen-Belsen; one sister being beaten, resulting in permanent loss of vision; liberation; transfer to ...

  16. Five Cities

    Yiddish titles. English title, "A Day in Warsaw" Pan, overview of city of Warsaw, street scenes, pedestrians, important modern multistoried buildings, cars, city square with pedestrians. Contrasted with old market square, narrow streets, Jewish quarter, including Zamenhof Street and the commercial Nalewki Steet where 400,000 Jews lived before WWII, and Jewish institutions, such as the community council, hospitals, schools and synagogues. Scenes of the modern parts of the city with large buildings, autos, and trucks meet with horse-drawn carriages, crowds, pushcarts, and porters in the bustl...

  17. Kurtz family and friends on European tour in the south of France, Paris, and Switzerland

    MS of Liza Kurtz, Louis and Lillian Malina and Essie Diamond smiling for the camera and admiring the landscape from Parc Municipal du Mt. Boron in Southern France in mid August 1938. Panning shot of city and harbor of Nice and distant mountains. 01:05:12 Over shoulder shot of Louis in a sunhat pointing toward the old city of Monaco from the Jardins Exotique. 01:05:19 Street scenes in a city, possibly Cannes. Louis in a suit, and African soldier with a red hat. 01:05:27 LS of Liza, Louis, Lily, and Essie feeding birds in Paris in front of the Préfecture de Police and the Hôtel-Dieu, most lik...

  18. Hana G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hana G., an only child, who was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1926. She recounts German occupation; receiving extra food from non-Jewish friends; eviction from their apartment; deportation to Theresienstadt in December 1943; public hangings; her mother sharing extra food with her and her father; their deportation to Auschwitz in December 1943; remaining with her mother (she never saw her father again); briefly working in a children's barrack; deportation to Stutthof in July 1944; twice being in the infirmary; a death march in January 1945; escaping with her mother...

  19. Klooga concentration camp

    Burning town. Civilians, soldiers, survivors. Smoke. Camp, barbed wire. Sign reading O.T. BETRIEBE KLOOGA. Photographic still of Hitler. Corpses piled next to bunks, corpses in pits. Pan of survivors, simulating murders/torture. Footage of brutally murdered bodies.

  20. Andrew S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Andrew S., who was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1928. He recalls the integration of Jews in his hometown, Niederrad; his father's position as a university professor of medicine; his family's ties to Jewish culture, even though they were not religious; his first anti-Jewish experience when he was not allowed to play with a non-Jew in 1933; his father's dismissal from his position due to anti-Jewish laws; and the family joining his maternal grandparents in Zurich. Mr. S. recounts his father's efforts for the Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced German Scholars; thei...