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  1. Kate Fielding collection

    The bulk of the collection consists of the personal papers of Kate Fielding née Käthe Lichtenstern. These include vital records and identity papers, various accounts of her life, her poetry and prose, her doctorate and related materials, letters to her family in Vienna sent from London and letters she received, many concerning her relatives captured by the Nazis. In addition there are materials belonging to her sister Edith, father Victor and mother Olga, as well as relatives still on the continent: her grandfather Carl Löw, uncle Hermann Löw, aunt Erna Löw and Erna’s mother Minna Bernstei...

  2. Waffen SS red fez acquired by a US soldier

    Red fez that was part of the dress uniform of a Waffen-SS military detachment composed of Muslims from Bosnia, Croatia, and Herzegovina in occupied Yugoslavia, woth one divison from Albania. There was a field gray fez for the combat uniform. The creation of this unit was authorized by Hitler in 1943. The original purpose was to combat Tito’s partisans. Through recruitment and conscription, the unit had 26,000 soldiers within a few months. The group was commanded by German or ethnic German officers, and the uniforms were designed to reflect the religion/ethnicity of the recruits.

  3. Leon E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leon E. who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1922, one of two children. He recounts attending school; his family's brief move to Bielsko-Bia?a, then their return to Krako?w; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; he and his family joining friends in the countryside in Kalwaria Zebrzydowska; his job in a woodworking factory; deportation to P?aszo?w in 1942; escaping to visit his parents; returning two days later (he never saw his parents again); transfer to Skarz?ysko-Kamienna in 1943; slave labor in a munitions factory, working with picric acid; a fellow prisoner gi...

  4. Marianne D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marianne D., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1931. She recalls that her father was a blind musician; anti-Jewish regulations; Kristallnacht; being stoned by Hitler Youth in 1941; deportations of friends in 1941 and 1942; expulsion from school; her parents' forced labor; legal restrictions against Jews entering shelters during Allied bombings; her sister losing a leg in a bombing raid; her mother's determination to keep the family together; hiding during 1942 and 1943 in Berlin, then with friends in the country; and liberation in 1945 by Soviet troops. Mrs. D. recou...

  5. Soroca Gendarmes Legions, County Sections and Posts

    • Legiunile de jandarmi, secţiile şi posturile judeţene Soroca
    • Жандармский легион, секций и посты Сорокского уезда
    • Zhandarmskij legion, sectsij i posty Sorokskogo uezda

    Data on moral and political mood of the residents of Soroca county; data on criminal prosecution of communist movements in Ataca village; circulars of Soroca legion from 1939-1940; order of taking necessary measures to prevent anti-Romanian propaganda; lists of individuals who belong to various organizations and parties; lists of Jews who were under the supervision of the gendarmerie in 1937-1938; lists of Jews who illegally crossed Romania's border in 1927; personal files of criminals of Jewish origin (Şmillia Roitburt) accused of theft and murder; information provided by the hotel owners ...

  6. Eva Metzger Brown collection

    The Eva Metzger Brown collection contains three primary records. The first two are affidavits for her parents, Ernst and Doris Metzger. These affidavits were required for the Metzger family to immigrate into the United States. Also included in the collection are two copies of Eva’s memoir, titled “Healing from the Traumas of the Holocaust and the Years Thereafter.” They recount the early years of Eva’s life, as well as her parent’s background. The memoir also details Eva’s experiences growing up in the United States as a young child.

  7. Arnold R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Arnold R., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1920. He recalls graduating from a technical school in 1938; German invasion; anti-Jewish measures; moving to the ghetto area with his family; escaping to Tomaszo?w Mazowiecki in 1940 (he never saw his parents again); working as a painter; ghettoization; smuggling food into the ghetto in a network organized by the ghetto leaders; liquidation of the ghetto in November 1942; avoiding deportation with assistance from a German officer; forced labor in the remaining small ghetto; transfer to Bliz?yn in 1943; slave labor in an am...

  8. Židovská náboženská obec Hradec Králové

    • Jewish Religious Community in Hradec Králové / NAD 454

    The fonds contains mostly the correspondence of the rabbi with members of the Jewish community, lawyers and doctors. In addition to the correspondence, there is also archive material from the period of the Second World War, including the restitution issues of Jewish property. There is also the correspondence of the Jewish religious community in Kolín in the fonds. There are also documents about the first Czech Mutual Insurance Company. The fonds also includes Nazi documents as well as archive material concerning the purchase of the synagogue.

  9. Ukraine; concentration camps and aftermath

    The following notes are from NCJF documentation: MCU, overhead shot, woman rubbing shoulder of a man who is lying face down on the ground. Pan of hills, pan to bodies in a pit. MCU corpse. Pan across many bodies, side by side, people walking past sign at barracks: "HALT! SEIS MUIDULASEN!" (also in Cyrillic characters). VS, barracks filled with bodies, EXT, bodies stacked like lumber, intermingled with lumber, bodies in various states of decomposition, Russian soldiers walking through areas. EXT, MS, crowd, low angle, men on platform, one is speaking, many flags (not identified) in the crowd...

  10. Jürgen Stroop statement

    The Jürgen Stroop statement consists of a 14-page handwritten statement prepared by Jürgen Stroop, an SS-Gruppenführer who led the effort to repress the Warsaw Ghetto uprising in 1943. The statement, dated 26 April 1946 in Wiesbaden, Germany, includes details about the preparation and military action to suppress the uprising.

  11. Simon F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Simon F., who was born in Paris, France in 1926. He recounts his parents were Polish immigrants; living in the Jewish area (Marais); German invasion; traveling south hoping to assist the French military; returning to Paris after France was divided; imposition of anti-Jewish restrictions; round-ups; his father leaving for unoccupied France; smuggling the remainder of the family to join his father in Avignon; joining the Resistance; obtaining false papers for the entire family; one sister being hidden in a convent; other family, including his parents, hiding with non-Je...

  12. Oscar R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Oscar R., who was born in Vienna of Hungarian parents in 1910. He describes Vienna on the eve of the German invasion; his medical studies in an atmosphere of increasing antisemitism; his marriage to a fellow medical student in 1937; and his emigration to the United States (via Copenhagen) in 1938. He tells of his voluntary enlistment in the American army after he became a United States citizen and his 1945 arrival at Mauthausen, after the Germans had already fled, where he remained for a month. Showing photographs which he took at the time, he discusses the condition ...

  13. Boxing

    Boys seen through a doorway playing ping pong. Two men and a boy walk through the doorway and watch the boys play. CUs, boys. They shadowbox. They scramble to grab boxing mitts off the floor. Boys lace up boxing gloves. Two pairs of boys practice while the instructor and other boys watch. CU boxing. Boys walk down stairs with wrought iron railing.

  14. Animated map and graphics of Poland for the film "Poland - the Country and the People"

    Animated map of Poland showing the industrial region of Silesia and its factories. The map serves as a transition from this region of southern Poland to the northwestern region of Poland and the port city of Gdynia. This map was created by Philip Stapp. From Julien Bryan's film "Poland the Country and the People" released in 1948, shot 1936-1937.

  15. Thea S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Thea S., who was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1935. Her mother was Catholic and her father Huguenot. She recalls little change during the first two years of German occupation; her father joining the Dutch underground and falsifying passports for Jews; hiding a Jewish woman and her son in their attic; frequently talking to the boy late at night; being told they would all be killed if she told anyone they were hiding Jews; her uncle's execution by the Germans as a spy; her sister's hospitalization and evacuation to Belgium after the hospital was bombed; her father'...

  16. George K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of George K., who was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts in 1922 and served in the United States Army during World War II. He recalls enlisting in 1940; incidents of antisemitism in the Army; advancing through Germany in December 1944; feelings of outrage at a building in Bavaria where, he was told, Jews had been tortured; finding bodies in striped clothing on the roadside near Dachau; coming upon what he thought was a prisoner of war camp; prisoners attacking guards; and his realization it was a concentration camp. Mr. K. describes one of the camp barracks and its overwhelm...

  17. Notariusz Hans Pohl w Złotowie

    Skorowidz nazwisk do rejestru notarialnego, 1939-1941, sygn 1; akty notarialne, 1939-1941, sygn. 2-7.

  18. Catholic church in Warsaw postwar

    EXT, Warsaw in ruins in winter 1946/1947 on a bright sunny day. Damaged buildings. Good close shots of Poles entering and exiting a Catholic church. The doorway is marked in Polish with "Wejscie do Kosciola"[the entrance to the church]. Some men in Polish military uniforms. Longer shot of the same area showing the church steeple, patrons, ruined buildings, electronic rail lines above the streets.

  19. Judenrat in Wola Wereszczyńska Kolekcja dokumentów z gett i obozów Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej, 1939-1944. Judenraty Rada Żydowska Wola Wereszczyńska (Sygn.270)

    Records of the Judenrat in Wola Wereszczyńska. It contains two work ID cards issued for Ch. Orzech from Andrzejów and Jankiel Szczupak from Wola Werszczanska. Includes information about dates of employment in Judenrat Wola Wrzeszczanska and on a private farm in Dębiec (region Chelm).

  20. Andreas S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Andreas S., who was born in Thessalonikē, Greece in 1929, an only child. He recalls ghettoization; obtaining false papers from his grandfather's friend, a police officer; escaping by train to his relatives in Athens to live under the benign Italian occupation; his parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and their children escaping to Chalkis on Euboea Island, then joining him in Athens; German invasion; fleeing to Argos with assistance from his father's client; their rescuer's death in an Allied bombing; living on a farm for fourteen months; hiding during conflicts; an...