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  1. Children bathe and play in the yard of their vacation home in prewar Poland

    Thomas and Hanna prepare for a bath, sitting in the nude and playing in the grass. They play with lawnchairs, "driving" them. An older, clothed girl (probably cousin Magda) plays with them.

  2. Hanna, her mother, and aunt model kimonos on the terrace in prewar Poland

    Hanna walks around in a kimono and holding a sun umbrella on the porch of their home in Jaremcze. Mother Ella and another woman are dressed similarly. Hanna walks around and plays with the umbrella.

  3. Miriam S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Miriam S., who was born in Homel?, Belarus in 1921. She describes the family moves to Vies?intos and Paneve?z?ys; attending university in Kaunas; antisemitic incidents; Soviet occupation; German invasion; being hidden by a non-Jew during Lithuanian killings of Jews; ghettoization; slave labor digging ditches; avoiding a large selection in October 1941; learning of mass killings in the Ninth Fort; marriage; her husband trading their possessions for food outside the ghetto; a round-up of children; escaping with her husband; being hidden with a group of Jews by a farmer ...

  4. Abe B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abe B., who was born in approximately 1922 in Brest-Litovsk, Poland (presently Brest, Belarus). He recounts living in Biała Podlaska; attending the Mir Yeshiva; antisemitic harassment; Soviet occupation; being smuggled with other yeshiva students to Vilnius; living with a family in Kėdainiai; receiving a letter from his mother (he never saw his family again); Soviet occupation; obtaining Dutch visas to Curaçao in Kaunas with others from the yeshiva; traveling to Moscow, then Vladivostok; receiving permission to enter the United States section of Shanghai; arrival on...

  5. Truppenkommandanturen der Reichswehr und Wehrmacht

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Die Truppenkommandanturen hatten in den Standorten des Heeres die Verantwortung für die militärische Ordnung und Disziplin sowie den allgemeinen militärischen Dienstbetrieb eines Ortes. Sie führten Bezeichnungen wie Standort-Kommandanten, Standortälteste, Orts- und Platz-Kommandanten, Stadt-Kommandanten und Bereichs-Kommandanten. Im Gegensatz zu den Kommandanturen der Militärverwaltung in den eroberten und besetzten Gebieten (Ortkommandantur, Kreiskommandantur, Feld- und Oberfeldkommandantur) trugen die Truppenkommandanturen keine Zahlen, vielmehr führten sie...

  6. Staatliche Kriminalpolizei, Kriminalpolizeistelle Litzmannstadt Państwowa Policja Kryminalna Posterunek Policji Kryminalnej w Łodzi (Sygn. 203)

    Contains records relating to organization of the Staatliche Kriminalpolizei (Kripo), Kriminalpolizeistelle Litzmannstadt. Includes personnel files of officers, reports of crimes in Łódź and the surrounding district, materials concerning police activity in the ghetto, such as: crossing boundaries, confiscation of property, reports concerning murders and suicides in the ghetto, records and statistics concerning the migration of people, daily reports of der Aelteste der Juden Litzmannstadt, the records of arrested/detained Jews and books of record and inspection, as well as ordinances and anno...

  7. Records of the Department of Anthropology of the Natural History Museum Vienna Akten der Anthropologischen Abteilung des Naturhistorischen Museums Wien

    Contains documents and photographs relating to pseudoscientific racial studies performed by Josef Wastl and team of anthropologists at the Natural History Museum Vienna, including the physical measuring and examination of Jews in Vienna and Tarnó́w, persons of unclear racial lineage in Vienna, and POWs in various Stalags. Contains also more than four-hundred original three-part portrait photographs, taken as part of the racial science examinations of stateless Jews in the soccer stadium in Vienna in 1939, and over a one thousand color slides taken of POWs as part of examinations that took ...

  8. Esther K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Esther K., who was born in 1935 in Split, Yugoslavia. She describes the Jewish community; Italian occupation including parades and expulsion of Jews from public schools; an influx of refugees; a book burning and destruction of the synagogue in June 1942; denial of official responsibility by the Italian government; and rebuilding of the synagogue. Mrs. K. recounts Nazi occupation; her father, brother and oldest sister joining the partisans; being warned of a Nazi round-up by a non-Jewish friend; hiding with her mother and another sister in a mountain village for severa...

  9. Documentation of the Bikur Cholim Association in Graz from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1923-1938

    Documentation of the Bikur Cholim Association in Graz from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1923-1938 The Association was founded in 1923 (a time of intense economic crisis) with the goal of providing assistance to the sick and giving charity to those in need. In the collection there is correspondence of the Association and of its Chairman, Elias Gruenschlag (who was active in the Zionist Movement in Austria as well), among other correspondence, with the Graz community and with Jewish and Zionist organizations in Austria; correspondence regarding matters pertaining to welfare and assistance (in...

  10. Marinestation der Nordsee der Kaiserlichen Marine

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Im Bestand RM 33 sind die Archivalien der Marinestation der Nordsee als Territorialkommando und Basisbehörde der Kaiserlichen Marine für Personalersatz, Personalsteuerung, Grundausbildung, materielle Versorgung der Flotte, Küstenverteidigung und Überwachung der Küstengewässer im Bereich der Nordsee aufgeführt. Bestandsbeschreibung Im Bestand sind hauptsächlich Unterlagen über materielle Bereitstellung und Kriegsbereitschaft von Schiffen und Hilfsschiffen, über Admiralstabsreisen, Sperrpläne für die Flussmündungen der Nordseeküste einschließlich Verminung und ...

  11. Eugenia D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eugenia D., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1926. She recalls her affluent family life; her oldest brother withdrawing from medical school due to antisemitism; German invasion; ghettoization; severe hunger; food smuggling; deportations; building and hiding in bunkers; the ghetto uprising; and deportation to Majdanek. Mrs. D. recounts forced labor; tranport to Auschwitz three months later with her mother, aunts, and cousins; successful efforts to remain with her mother; a severe beating for refusing to enter a truck that she knew would take them to execution; working...

  12. George A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of George A., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1907. He describes his family's move to Brno in 1920; his rebellious youth; working until 1936; moving to Prague; realizing the danger following the 1938 Munich agreement; registering for emigration to the United States; German occupation in March 1938; arrest; release with assistance from a police official, his father's friend; obtaining a temporary French visa; attempting to escape with assistance from non-Jews; brief imprisonment; traveling to Paris; incarceration as an enemy alien after the war began; transfer to Borde...

  13. March of Time -- outtakes -- Palestine, 1938

    Black Watch Regiment troops reviewed by the High Commissioner for Palestine, Sir Harold MacMichael. Regiment lines up, arrival of the colors, inspection by MacMichael and Gen. Wavell. Black Watch troops march. High Commissioner and General salute. 02:44:11 On the road from Jerusalem to Jericho to the Dead Sea, Black Watch Troops put on a demonstration to let a military convoy through. Soldiers look though binoculars and record planes flying above in a book. Prisoner being searched (scene staged by military). 02:45:18 Brief scene (unrelated) of men smoking cigarettes. 02:45:26 Troops get off...

  14. Archieven van de Ministeries van Binnenlandse Zaken en Algemene Zaken te Londen, 1940-1945 (1946)

    • Nationaal archief
    • 2.04.76
    • Dutch
    • 1940-1945
    • 7.5 meter; 413 inventarisnummers

    De ministeries van Binnenlandse Zaken en Algemene Zaken werden in Londen samengevoegd. H. van Boeijen werd minister van beide departementen. Van 31 mei 1944 tot 27 januari 1945 was mr. J.A.W. Burger minister van Binnenlandse Zaken, daarna nam Van Boeijen tijdelijk waar, tot dr. L.J.M. Beel op 25 februari 1945 werd benoemd. Aanvankelijk was de voornaamste taak de steun voor Nederlandse vluchtelingen en de opvang van Engelandvaarders. In de loop van 1942 werd de organisatie uitgebreid en werd de voorbereiding van de terugkeer (wetgeving en organisatorische voorbereidingen) de belangrijkste ta...

  16. A Zsidó Világkongresszus Magyarországi Képviselete iratai

    • Documents of the Hungarian Representation of the World Jewish Congress

    The collection includes miscellaneous materials of the Hungarian Representation of the World Jewish Congress. It contains activity and financial reports for the years 1946 to 1949, materials from the Statistical Department as well as the correspondence of the Hungarian Representation of the World Jewish Congress. The materials of the Statistical Department provide data on the demographic situation, family status, educational structure, mother tongue, generational structure and institutional network of Hungarian Jewish survivors alongside information on the aid provided to them. It also incl...

  17. Amalia K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Amalia K., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1913. She describes learning about her family's restaurant business; marriage; her husband's draft into a Hungarian labor battalion; last seeing him when her daughter was six months old; learning of his deportation to Germany and subsequent death; German invasion; living with her parents and daughter in a Jewish designated house; escaping from incarceration in a brick factory; acquiring false papers for her family with assistance from her manager's wife; living with her parents and daughter, posing as non-Jews, with assi...

  18. Alzbeta D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alzbeta D., a Romani, who was born in Dlhé nad Cirochou, Czechoslovakia in 1929, one of nine children. She recounts her father was a blacksmith; cordial relations with Jews; deportation of all the Romanies in town to Dubnica nad Váhom; harsh conditions; a guard who had known her relatives warning her not to reveal when they were sick since the sick were killed; warning everyone else; shootings and beatings by Hlinka guards; punishment of a man in February who had to strip and jump into a cesspool (he died); liberation by Soviet troops in winter; fleeing through the ...

  19. Wehrwirtschaftsdienststellen in Finnland

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Die Kriegstagebücher, Lageberichte und die Geschichte der Wehrwirtschafts- und Rüstungsdienststellen (von 1940 bis 1944) wurden bereits während des Krieges sukzessive aus den Registraturen ausgesondert und an das "Archiv der Wehrwirtschaftsdienststellen" (zuletzt in Muskau/Oberlausitz) abgegeben. Die Sachakten hingegen verblieben beim Registraturbildner und wurden dort vermutlich bei Kriegsende vernichtet. Das "Archiv der Wehrwirtschaftsdienststellen" wurde 1945 nach Vacha/Thüringen ausgelagert und dort von den Amerikanern beschlagnahmt. Die Rückgabe der Unte...

  20. Okresný ľudový súd v Banskej Štiavnici

    • District People´s Court in Banská Štiavnica

    The fonds contains various files concerning the persecution of Jews in Slovakia (1938-1945). Several files pertain the so called aryanization of enterprise property in Banská Štiavnica. Two separate files pertain the former Hlinka guard members who served as a guard in the labor and concentration camp for Jews in Nováky and the labor camp in Vyhne. There is also a file of the former deputy commander of the Emergency Unit of the Hlinka Guard (POHG) in Banská Štiavnica. There are also several files with the information on denunciation and detention of Jews in 1944.