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  1. Stephan H. Lewy collection

    The collection consists of a camera, a prayer book, documents, photographs, and two memoirs relating to the experiences of Heinz Stephan Lewy before the Holocaust in Berlin, Germany, during the Holocaust in France, and after the Holocaust in the United States.

  2. Eichmann Trial -- Session 97 -- Cross-examination of the Accused

    There is visual interference throughout the footage. Footage begins in the latter portion of Session 97 at the end of a discussion on an apology sent to Eichmann by the Foreign Ministry for actions taken in unoccupied France concerning Jews without his consultation. Footage cuts (00:02:39 to 00:02:50) Attorney General Gideon Hausner cross examines the accused about the agreement between Theodor Danneker and Alexander Belev to deport Bulgarian Jews reached after Dannecker had received authorization from Eichmann to draw up the agreement (00:04:35). Belev was the Jewish Commissar for the Bulg...

  3. Yugoslavia: Easter church service

    Reel 6: INT, Saborna Serbian Orthodox Church on Easter Sunday; parishioners standing as priests conduct services. (Choir singing throughout entire roll.)

  4. Eichmann Trial -- Session 41 -- Witness Dr. Grueber re: knowing Eichmann during the war and concentration camps

    Session 41. Dr. Servatius complains that the numerous witnesses from abroad fall within various courts, and that it would take too much time to attain all of these witnesses, their affidavits, and their testimony. They list the witnesses whose addresses they do not yet have. That court will make the request to the German courts, and Dr. Servatius says that his assistant will attempt to do just that. Attorney General Hausner requests that the Defense be instructed to supply the names of all of the witnesses to be questioned, as it is becoming global. The Judges agree. Dr. Servatius says that...

  5. Charles Vogel papers

    The Charles Vogel papers consist of documents, diaries and testimonies, correspondence, photographs, and newspaper clippings acquired by Charles Vogel during his efforts to document and record what occurred to the 350 American soldiers held prisoner at Berga an der Elster. The collection also includes originals and photocopies of trial documents relating to the war crimes trial of Erwin Metz and Ludwig Merz. Correspondence includes letters sent from Charles to Berga survivors and family members regarding his efforts to collect information to present to the War Department and letters from su...

  6. May family photograph collection

    Collection of photographs documenting the experiences of Samuel and Fella May (donor's parents) as displaced persons in the years immediately following the Holocaust and their immigration to the United States in 1949.

  7. Selected records of the Voivodship Office in Nowogródek Urząd Wojewódzki w Nowogródku (Sygn.1184)

    Monthly reports on the state of security, national minorities, social and political life, population movement, communist movement, activities of unions and associations, includes also confidential reports relating to members of communist organizations (Komunistyczna Partia Białorusi Zachodniej, KPZB), and a monograph of Jewish political organizations operating in the Nowogródek voivodship.

  8. Selected records from the Historical Archives of Subotica related to the history of the Jewish community

    Contains selected records related to the history of the Jewish Community of the city of Subotica, part of the Vojvodina province in Serbia. It includes records from the collection of the Senate of Subotica (Fond 41), the executive body governing of the city, Records pertain to the economic and political activities of the local Jewish community, and others, Serbs, Hungarians, Germans in 1918-1941. Contains census statistics, applications for permission to open business, various petitions and certifications, minutes of the Jevrejskog ortodoksnog pobožnog društva (Jewish Orthodox Pious Society...

  9. War Crimes Trial: Franz Strasser

    Summary: Austrian Franz Strasser is tried for the murder of Lt E Warren Woodruff and an unknown airman. His testimony is in German. Cpl. Henry Halperin is the interpreter for all witnesses; Sgt. Sessler interprets for Franz Strasser. The six-officer Army Military Commission included Capt. Victor Miles, Lt. Harvey Szanger, and Col. Raymond E. Zickel. Reel 3: Reichl continuing testimony. Defense attorney reading Reichl's sworn statement; defense attorney questioning Strasser; prosecutor questioning Strasser.

  10. Koos Vorrink testifies at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 535) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, February 2, 1946. MSs, continuation of Koos Vorrink, Senator of the Netherlands and President of the Socialist Party in 1940, giving testimony. Rear views, Dr. Gustav Steinbauer, the counselor for Seyss-Inquart, questions the witness. (All testimony is in German.)

  11. District Notary Office in Stropkov Obvodný notársky úrad Stropkv

    Selected records pertaining to anti-Jewish regulations and decrees, the persecution of Jews, and Aryanization of Jewish property in the Stropkov district. The collection consists of minutes, notes, legal decrees and other documents concerning the Jews living in Stropkov. Files 1939-1944: handwritten minutes and notes of the General Council in Stropkov; regulations of the Stropkov government commissioner, relating to execution of anti-Jewish legislation; measures relating to Jewish real estate, immovable property of Jews who were deported. Files 1941: documents relating to various anti-Jewis...

  13. Court of the First Instance in Janów Sąd Grodzki w Janowie (Sygn.312)

    This collection contains three civil cases concerning Jews, which were selected out of 29 civil cases judged by the Court of the 1st Instance in Janów. The Court had the following communes in its jurisdiction: Olsztyn, Przyrów and Złoty Potok. The files of criminal cases did not survive.

  14. Raduta Matache collection

    Contains a bound series of photocopied documents, dated December 1943 - February 1944, relating to efforts by the Royal Romanian Government to repatriate Romanian Jews from occupied France.

  15. Agro-Joint activity in Russia, Morris Troper's 1936 trip

    Morris Troper arrives in Simpferopol and enters a building with a sign reading "American Jewish Joint, Agricultural Corporation." Mr. Zaichek, the chief agronom, shows Troper the route he will travel on a map. He leaves for Jonkoi in a car. MS, Mr. Zaichek's son. MS, cow. 01:02:19 Pervomaysk colony. Pan, LS village with little white houses, farming. MCU, man with white beard and glasses. Man exits house, chickens, walking towards camera. CU, man. LS Modern school in Kalininsk. 01:04:27 Maxim Gorky colony. Pan, bare-chested boys, smiling for camera. LS, women bake bread in an outdoor oven. H...

  16. On board the Exodus

    Video copy of Bill Bernstein's 8mm color home movies aboard the ship Exodus 1947. Exodus 1947 carried 4,500 Jewish survivors of the Holocaust who sought to illegally immigrate into Palestine. Even before the ship reached Palestine's territorial waters, British destroyers surrounded it. Bill Bernstein, the Exodus's second officer and a Jew, was clubbed to death trying to prevent a British soldier from entering the wheelhouse on the ship. The remaining passengers were eventually transferred to DP camps in Germany. Exodus ship at sea, flag on ship. 01:03:20 MSs, snow on board steamship (probab...

  17. Camp in Czestochowa Obóz w Częstochowie (Sygn.1041)

    This collection contains a register of Jews prisoners employed in the Camp of Częstochowa during April 10-12,1943. The register contains 23 cards.

  18. Polish Consulate and travel agency in Vienna

    Crowd lining up in front of the Polish Consulate at Rennweg 1. Different angle of crowd (Jews?). Counter-shot, travel agency on Schwarzenbergplatz #7 displaying swastikas, men debating in front of shop, cinema sign in BG (Kammerlichtspiele movie theater). CU, people seem irritated by filming. CU, two men (Jews?).

  19. History of Majdanek camp; survivors

    An onscreen slate from WFDiF (not original to the film) reads: Film entitled "Majdanek" was produced after the liberation of camp by the Polish Army. The premiere of film: November 1, 1944. Original titles read: Film Polski Warsaw presents: a documentary of the Polish Army Film Unit made on 25th July 1944: "Majdanek". Majdanek was liberated by the Soviets on July 23, 1944. 25th July 1944: Celebration scenes outside in Lublin as Polish Army soldiers enter the city. Women weep with joy, people hand flowers to soldiers. The camera pans down a turret of the Lublin Castle to show the corpses of ...

  20. Drawing