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  1. Lola L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lola L., who was born in approximately 1927. She recounts attending a Jewish public school in ?o?dz?; German invasion; her older brother's one-day seizure for forced labor; his escape to the Soviet zone (they never saw him again); ghettoization in 1940; forced factory labor; her father and mother dying of starvation; a round-up of children, including her four-year-old nephew; deportation with her sisters to Birkenau; selection with them for transfer to a slave labor camp; a death march to Bergen-Belsen; having to carry one sister to appell because she was so ill; esca...

  2. Processo de pedido de visto para Selik Rosowsky, Israel Hans Mathias, Sara Ida Mathias (nascida Vogelbaum), Paul Eltbogen, Edgar Bernstein, Otto Huttrer, Gertrude Huttrer (nascida Michel), Marguerite Laure Catherine Gille Henrard e Renée Louise Augusta Samuel (nascida Thomas)

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Bruxelas para Selik Rosowsky, de nacionalidade letã e residente na Bélgica, com destino a Portugal. Sem informação de atribuição de visto. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Bruxelas para Israel Hans Mathias, de nacionalidade alemã e residente no Luxemburgo, com destino ao Brasil. Sem informação de atribuição de visto. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Bruxelas para Sara Ida Mathias (nascida Vogelbaum), de nacionalidade alemã e residente no Luxemburgo, com destino ao Brasil. Sem informação de ...

  3. Akta gminy w Kamieniu

    • Files of the commune of Kamień

    okres okupacji - sprawy finansowe, korespondencja ogólna, protokoły zebrań - 3 j.a. okres PRL - sprawy administracyjne, protokoły posiedzeń gminnych rad narodowych, ich prezydiów i zarządów gminnych, kontrola wewnętrzna, sprawy osobowe i personalne, budżety gminy, sprawy rolnictwa, majątkowe, podatkowe, sprawozdania rachunkowe, księgi biercze - 67 j.a.

  4. March of Time -- outtakes -- Rabbi evacuating sacred objects from synagogue in France

    French artillery troops, on horseback and on foot, pass through a village. Local residents, mostly women and children, watch them pass. Close-ups of the spectators and the soldiers. The scene switches to show a train coming up to an outdoor platform. General Maurice Gamelin, commander of the General Staff of the French army, walks along the platform with a group of French officers. He drives off in a motorcade, observed by civilians. He is shown meeting with British General John Gort, Commander-in-Chief of the British Expeditionary Force at the British General Headquarters in France. They p...

  5. Goldschmidt School

    Goldschmidt School. Hebrew on chalkboard. Teacher and Jewish girl. Girls in class at desk. Packing book bags.

  6. Street scenes in Cracow 1936

    A large barge on the Vistula River in Cracow, Poland, workers are barely visible on the barge, steering it around the river bank's edge. People visible along the banks in the BG. VS of Wawel Castle and architectural details; a man and women atop a vantage point on the castle looking down at the river below, more barges; VS of buildings viewed from the river, very picturesque. MS main marketplace. Schoolgirls marching along in uniform, and singing while carrying Nazi flags, VS, including one LS that follows the girls from behind and out of frame after they march past the camera.

  7. Mia I. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mia I., who was born in 1936 in Antwerp, Belgium, an only child. She recounts German invasion in 1940; anti-Jewish measures; harassment by a teacher; her parents obtaining false papers; planning an escape to Switzerland in 1942; her father's arrest before entering France (she never saw him again); continuing with her mother; their return the next day; her mother's arrest at the border; pretending not to know her mother (she never saw her again) and the smuggler pretending she was his daughter; returning home; briefly hiding with the smuggler; joining her grandfather; ...

  8. Documents related to the history of the so-called Hungarian Jewish Gold Train

    Records generated by the Hungarian, German, Austrian, USA, and French individuals and authorities. Contains memorandums, telegrams, inventories and reports related to the stolen valuables from Hungarian Jews during the WWII, and transported out from Hungary in 1944 by the so-called Hungarian Gold Train.

  9. Inge W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Inge W., one of seven children, who was born in Gautzsch, Germany in 1920. She recalls her father's local importance as a physician; the Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses in April 1933, including her father's practice; the Nuremberg laws resulting in increasing hardships; participation in Jewish youth, sports and cultural activities; attending the 1936 Olympics; expulsion from school in 1937; attending a teacher training course in Stuttgart for one year; teaching at the Leipzig Jewish school until October 1938; Kristallnacht, which caused her family to attempt emigrat...

  10. Mestský národný výbor v Rožňave

    • City National Committee of Rožňava

    The agenda of the City National Committee of Rožňava holds records of the city administration in the period between 1945 and 1990. A specific segment of the archival collections preserves archival materials related to the immediate post-WWII period when Holocaust survivors were returning from the concentration camps and were trying to get back their confiscated real estate and movable property. The collection contains many applications and requests of different types for the recovery of their taken property (apartment, house, furniture, shops, household, other movable property items, etc.)....

  11. Selected records from the collections of the Argeș branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Records relating to the confiscation of Iron Guard goods, the Iron Guard rebellion, neo-Protestant Churches, prisoners of war, Romanies sent to Transnistria; confiscation of properties of Romanies; taxes and goods for Jews, the hunt for those accused of war crimes, the round up of nomadic Romanies, refugees, deportation to Transnistria of Jews, deportation of Romanies, and Jewish affairs. Included are lists of properties of Romanies, and lists of Jews.

  12. Renata M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Renata M., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1925. She recalls not understanding why she could no longer attend public school; her non-Jewish nursemaid's role in their escape to Italy in 1936; settling in Alassio; her father's and uncle's imprisonments during which she visited them; imprisonment with her mother in Perugia; transfer to Cascia under police supervision; receiving food from the villagers; transfer to Citta? di Castella, where her brother was born in 1941; and her realization that something was wrong. Mrs. M. describes moving to Bevagna; receiving orders ...

  13. Barbara Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Barbara Z., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1921, an only child. She recalls her father was not Jewish; her parents were both dentists; their divorce when she was twelve; her maternal grandfather living with them; her mother's Danish friend urging her mother to send her to Denmark due to Hitler's ascent to power; arrival in Copenhagen in 1936; attending a Catholic school; her mother's arrival a year later (her grandfather had died); their sham marriages so they could remain; German invasion; non-Jews arranging their transport in a small fishing boat to Sweden (the ...

  14. Roma caravan and German military share road; German soldiers advance; British POWs

    MS German women sending Morse code on key, man supervises. CU potatoes, potato peeler, chopping, making dumplings. Workers at tables eat potato dumplings. LS Germans with suitcases, boarding ship. CU women aboard ship. LS ship in heavy seas. In city, two women stand on canal bridge. CU woman gives soup to patient in hospital. Street car with female conductor. 01:15:14 Long line of Roma caravan carts on road as German army trucks and vehicles pass other way. Carts pulled by oxen. Group of four Roma men standing. Two women under a high teepee tent. Men and women at table, cart headed high wit...

  15. Eta P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eta P., who was born in Bardejov, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1921, the oldest of five children. She recalls her family's orthodoxy; a large extended family in Bardejov; attending public school; expulsion in 1939 due to anti-Jewish regulations; confiscation of their home and business; hiding during round-ups for deportation; one sister escaping to Hungary; round-up with her sisters to Poprad in early 1942; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; a cousin greeting them; brief hospitalization; the trauma of her sister's selection for gassing; assignment sorting cl...

  16. Hungarian Press House; men speaking; Horthy at live performance

    Special Film Theatre Edition of Hungarian Newsreel / Híradó Filmszínház Különkiadása 54. “A MAGYAR SAJTÓ ÜNNEPE” [The Celebration of the Hungarian Press]. MS, building completely covered in ivy. A guard stands at the front gate and a person walks by the sidewalk. Sign with the Hungarian coat of arms: “A MAGYAR SAJTÓ HÁZA ORSZÁGOS MAGYAR SAJTÖKAMARA MAGYAR UJSÁGIRÓK EGYESÜLETE PÁTRIA KLUBJA, MAGYAR HIRLAPIRÓK ORSZÁGOS NYUGDIJINTÉZETE UJSÁGIRÓK SZANATORIUM EGYESÜLETE”. This is the Hungarian Press House. INT a man in a suit reads from a piece of paper. MS, audience, large group of men. The man...

  17. David B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David B., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1919. He recalls pervasive antisemitism; belonging to the Zionist organization Gordonyah; German invasion; deportation for forced labor three weeks later; escaping from a train in 1940; returning home; transfer with his family to Kielce; ghettoization; deportation of most of his family to Treblinka; forced labor with his brother in Ludwikow; a German foreman who saved many Jews; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from his brother and a later reunion; transfer with his brother two weeks later; bombings at Klinkerwerk; a dea...

  18. Államvédelmi Központ Általános iratok, 1942–1944

    • Centre of State Security General Records, 1942–1944

    The survived records of the Centre of State Security mostly contain investigative files, including the cases of corruption, bribery, embezzlement, fraud, falsification of documents, black marketeering, trafficking and other violations of economic laws. A significant part of the suspects of these cases were Jews trying to circumvent the regulations of the anti-Jewish laws, or were trying to escape internment, ghettoization and deportation in 1944, as well as non-Jews who helped or cooperated with them. Besides, the general records of the Center contain plenty of information about the large s...

  19. Hitler's first speech as Chancellor, Berlin Sportpalast

    Nazi party rally in the crowded Berlin Sportpalast on February 10, 1933. Hitler in uniform explains the ideological reasons for the Nazi rise to power and their main political aims. He announces the indictment of the politicians responsible for the evils of the Weimar Republic and promises to 'resurrect' a "Neue Deutsche Reich" [new German Empire] undivided and rooted in 'healthy' soil. He does not openly address the Jewish question. The audience of civilians and uniformed SA and SS rises, cheers, shouts 'Heil,' and gives the Nazi salute (several times during the speech). This is Hitler's "...

  20. Wehrmacht soldiers are welcomed in Yugoslavia

    Wehrmacht soldiers preparing to invade Yugoslavia from Hungary on the morning of April 10, 1941. Smiling soldiers marching, tanks rolling down a road. Kessel says that the soldiers called the battalion commander "Ohm Krueger." Quick shot of Serbian civilians wearing home-made swastika armbands. Kessel notes that the German soldiers viewed these men, who had shortly before been enemies of the Germans, with "mixed feelings." Men identified by Kessel as Croatian farmers wearing Serbian uniforms give themselves up to the Germans. A Serbian officer gives a Hitler salute. Romanian soldiers search...