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  1. Katherine A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Katherine A., who was born in Luc?enec, Czechoslovakia in 1921. She describes growing up in an affluent family; cordial relations with non-Jews; her sister's marriage in a church to a Slovak; Hungarian occupation in 1938; living in Budapest; German occupation in 1944; her brother-in-law, who was a Slovak diplomat, arranging to smuggle her and her sister to Slovakia; living as non-Jews using false papers; joining partisans; hiding in a forest; staying briefly with her sister and brother-in-law in Ruz?omberok; hiding after her brother-in-law's arrest; liberation by Sovi...

  2. Joseph T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph T., who was born in Rozwado?w, Poland in 1923. He recalls his mother's career as a pharmacist and his father's as an attorney (he was a Polish military veteran); German invasion; expulsion of all the Jews across the San River to Soviet-occupied territory; traveling to L?viv where his mother had a sister; his father taking a low-level job to avoid Soviet deportation; German invasion in June 1941; ghettoization in November; being warned in 1942 by a non-Jewish friend of transports to extermination camps; his father obtaining false papers for him from the Polish u...

  3. Records of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee from the State Archives of the Russian Federation (GARF), Fond 8114, opis 1

    Contains records of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, JAC (Yevreysky Antifashistsky Komitet, ЕАК), including board organizational records; correspondence with Einikait (Unity) supporters; international correspondence with foreign Jewish organizations and individuals; name lists of foreign Jewish supporters of the JAC; JAC membership lists; material collected to be published in the “Black Book”; and copies of originals and edited "Einikait" newspaper articles, poems, works of prose, songs, and literary criticisms.

  4. Oldenburgisches Justizministerium

    Gesetzgebung und Justizorganisation im Herzogtum Oldenburg 1827-1939 (293); Gesetzgebung und Justizorganisation im Fürstentum Lübeck 1861-1935 (26); Dienstsachen der Justizverwaltung im Herzogtum Oldenburg 1869-1945 (149); Dienstsachen im Fürstentum Lübeck 1869-1934 (9); Personalangelegenheiten der Justizverwaltung im Herzogtum Oldenburg 1857-1956 (237); Personalangelegenheiten der Justizverwaltung im Fürstentum Lübeck 1858-1935 (27); Finanzielle Angelegenheiten der Justizverwaltung im Herzogtum Oldenburg 1858-1937 (142); Finanzielle Angelegenheiten der Justizverwaltung im Fürstentum Lübeck...

  5. Hospital for former Jewish prisoners; medical care

    St. Ottilien Hospital for Jewish Former Political Prisoners near Landsberg, Germany. Pan of hospital. Shots of doctors and patients: in beds, during examinations, surgery. Patients walking the hospital grounds. Labor: sewing, making uniforms. Bris ceremony (circumcision).

  6. Trial and hanging of German war criminals; US Army returns home

    Home movies of trial and hanging of a German war criminal (Alfons Klein?) convicted in October 1945 by U.S. Army court of the Hadamar euthanasia murders sent to the gallows in March 1946 and footage of the embarkation and return home to New York of Army troops filmed by war correspondent Murray Young of the Overseas Press Club. "At the trial of the Hadamar ‘injection’ murderers.” Men sit in the courtroom. Dark shots of people in the courtroom. “RETRIBUTION!,” “The hanging of five German murderers of six downed American airmen” “Bruchsal Prison, south of Heidelberg” Guards set up the gallows...

  7. Serge B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Serge B., who was born in France in 1921. He recalls his parents were Russian immigrants; their assimilated, secular life in Paris; not feeling Jewish until German invasion; his father's escape from the July 1942 round-up with help from a police friend; being sent with his siblings to live with their uncle in Cannes; joining the Resistance; becoming head of his group; arrest in 1943; violent interrogations; the Gestapo discovering he was Jewish; transfer to a prison in Nice, then Drancy; digging an escape tunnel with fourteen prisoners; discovery of the tunnel; confin...

  8. March of Time -- outtakes -- Atrocities at Ohrdruf; Trial

    07:12:43-07:16:04 Atrocities at Ohrdruf, Germany. MS of civilians, and captured Nazi officials get off truck. CU German officer with a Red Cross armband on his sleeve near jeep. Pan shot of same officer joining other German civilians and officials outside slave labor camp. LS Germans tour camp, looking at bodies of dead inmates lying on ground. Germans listen as American officer reads atrocity story to them. CU officer reading. Closer shots of dead bodies. German official shakes head. American officer urges them enter shed containing other bodies. German officer with cross armband tries to ...

  9. Selected records from the Archives départementales de Vaucluse

    Contains various records on foreign refugees, including Jewish refugees; documents on the internment camp Saint-Cyprien and the prison Sainte-Anne, 1940; files on Jewish and French Freemasons (Masons); summary of prefecture reports for the non-occupied part of France, 1941-1943; registers and personal dossiers of internees.

  10. Jewish quarter of Warsaw burning, 1939

    This sequence was shot on the night of September 16, 1939, during Rosh Hashanah. The German invasion of Warsaw, Poland had begun over a week before, but they intentionally set the Jewish quarter of Warsaw on fire during the holiday. Bryan did not have any external lights to illuminate the action while shooting this event. If the viewer looks closely they can make out the outlines and shadows of the inhabitants of the Jewish quarter in bucket brigades in the foreground of these shots trying to save their homes, their lives, and their livelihoods. The quarter was destroyed that night.

  11. Archief van de Parochie Sint Gregorius van Utrecht te IJmuiden

    Tijdens de mobilisatie wordt het Forteiland voor IJmuiden in volledige staat van paraatheid gebracht. In de Kanaalstraat wordt een rooms-katholiek Militair Tehuis ingericht. De hoofdonderwijzer van de Heilig Hartschool staat aan de leiding. In 1939 wordt, als eerste van een reeks vorderingen, de Jongensschool opgeëist door Defensie. Het verenigingsgebouw volgt snel. In juli 1940 wordt bericht ontvangen, dat de herstelkosten van beide gebouwen zullen worden vergoed. Daarna volgt een reeks van bepalingen en richtlijnen zoals over 'het niet mogen vlaggen op tot dusver gebruikelijke dagen, het ...

  12. Reichsverkehrsministerium (Sammlung Kreidler).- Kartenbestand

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners 1979 von Ministerialrat a.D. Dipl.Ing. Eugen Kreidler (geb. 1904) käuflich erworbene Sammlung von Unterlagen für sein Buch: Die Eisenbahnen im Machtbereich der Achsenmächte während des Zweiten Weltkrieges, Göttingen 1975. Die Sammlung enthält vor allem Unterlagen aus der Tätigkeit Kreidlers als Leiter der Verbindungsgruppe des Reichsverkehrsministeriums zum Transportchef des Oberkommandos des Heeres (vgl. Bestand RH 2); im einzelnen: Akten von Eisenbahndienststellen, amtliche Drucksachen, Buchauszüge, Zeitschriften- und Zeitungsausschnitte, Erlebnisberichte, ...

  13. Selected records from the Division Politica of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Argentina

    This collection consists of records of Argentine embassies and consulates relating to the political situation in all countries between 1933-1955. For example, includes records from the Embassy in Germany relating to persecution of the Jews.

  14. Goring tours Italy by ship

    Three tiers of people stand next to a dock, looking out towards the boat. The camera operator films from a boat. A small boat on the side of the dock. People on the side wave and salute to the people on the boats. A huge German steamer ship with two funnels. Seagulls fly. A Nazi flag waves at the back of the boat. The wake of the boat. 10:34:14 Carin II boat in transit [Carin was Goering’s first wife and he named a lot of things after her]. In the BG, steep coast, various views of the ship, Göring at the wheel. Two women on the sundeck. Captain at the wheel, views from the traveling ship of...

  15. Materials relating to Jehovah’s Witnesses in Auschwitz

    This collection is comprised of photocopied documents and copy print photographs detailing the fates of Jehovah’s Witness from the villages of Wisła and Ustroń, in Cieszyn County, Poland during the Holocaust. Materials include name lists of men and women from Wisła and Ustroń who were interned and murdered at KZ Auschwitz and their corresponding death records as copied from the Nazi death log (sterbebuch). Other name lists include children from Wisła sent to Łódź as part of the German youth camp (Jugenverwahrlager Litzmannstadt). Associated with the name lists is a series of copy prints of ...

  16. Memoires pour mes petit-enfants Memoirs for my grandchildren

    Consists of a copy of a 47-page French-language typescript entitled "Memoires pour mes petit-enfants (Memoirs for My Grandchildren)" by Sandor (Alexandre) Bokshorn. The memoir, which is dated July 1985, describes the author's early life in Hungary. He attended school at the Sorbonne then entered his family's furrier business. He describes increasing antisemitism in Hungary beginning in the mid-1930s, slave labor, deportations, Soviet liberation, deportation to the Ukraine, and life in postwar communist Hungary until the 1956 revolt and his escape to France in the following year. The memoir ...

  17. Documentation of the Oberfinanzpraesident Karlsbad, from the Saechsisches Hauptstaatsarchiv (Saxon State Archive) in Dresden

    Documentation of the Oberfinanzpraesident Karlsbad, from the Saechsisches Hauptstaatsarchiv (Saxon State Archive) in Dresden Following the annexation of the Sudeten region to Germany in 1938, the Saxon State was responsible for the establishment and manning of German governmental institutions in the region. In this context, the Oberfinanzpraesident Karlsbad (regional finance office in Karlsbad) was established on 01/09/1939; it was responsible to the Regierungsbezirke of the Aussig and Eger (regions) in the Sudeten region. Being that the institution was included among the Saxon State govern...

  18. Souchon, Wilhelm (Admiral)

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Wilhelm Souchon, Vizeadmiral geb. am 02. Juni 1864 in Leipzig, gest. am 13. Januar 1946 in Bremen verheiratet mit Violet (geb. Lahusen) 1881: Seekadett auf SMS Leipzig; 1894: Kommandant des Minenschulschiffes SMS Rhein, Beförderung zum Kapitänleutnant 1900: I. Offizier/Kommandant der SMS Odin 1900-1903: Beförderung zum Korvettenkapitän 1903: Chef des Stabes des II. (Reserve-)Geschwaders 1904: Chef des Stabes des Kreuzergeschwaders in Ostasien auf der SMS Fürst Bismarck 1906: Beförderung zum Kapitän zur See, Beschäftigung im Marineamt 1907: Kommandant der SMS ...

  19. Anniversary of Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia republics; collective farm; Kalinin front

    Titles: "Soviet Newsreel"/ "49"/ "Moscow"/ "July 1943"/ "Directed by I. Setkinoy"/ "The third anniversary of the Lithuanian, Latvian, and Estonian Soviet Republics" Coverage shots of commemorative event. Title: "The Lieutenant Colonel of the Latvian Red Army, Ballodis, has declared..." MS of Ballodis at podium listing Soviet Republics. Shots of crowd clapping. Titles: "People of collective-farm community"/ "Marta Plieva" Panning ELS and various shots of village nestled amidst vast mountain range. MS of Marta walking with villagers. CU signing in book. ELS of goat herd and shots of shepherds...

  20. Gad Beck papers

    The Gad Beck papers consist of a miniature book, two photographs, and an aphorism. The booklet, titled "Erinnerst Du Dich," was created by Manfred Lewin as a souvenir for his lover, Gad Beck, and includes sketches, poetry, and memories. One photograph is a portrait of Manfred Lewin, and the other is a photograph taken by Manfred Lewin of Gad Beck and other members of their youth movement on the roof of the Jewish school at Artilleriestrasse 14 in Berlin. The aphorism is by Wilhelm von Humboldt and describes the beauty of the gift of life.