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  1. Barbie Trial -- Day 10 -- A victim testifies

    15:47 Mrs. Ennat Vitte, a civil party, continues to testify regarding her experience in Ravensbrück 15:48 President Cerdini asks the witness to describe the circumstances under which she lost her eyesight in Ravensbrück, and whether her inability to walk is a consequence of her time there; the witness has difficulty answering the questions posed 15:52 Prosecutor Vuillard asks the witness to confirm a particular threat leveled at her by Barbie 15:54 President Cerdini calls forward the next witness, Mrs. Simone Lagrange née Kadosche, a civil party in the suit against Barbie 15:55 Mrs. Langran...

  2. War-time and post WW II trial records of soldiers and civilians, accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity during WW II

    Selected trials of members of the Gestapo and the SD, soldiers, people who collaborated with Germans, high-ranking members of the French armed forces, and civilians accused of war crimes against humanity during WWII. The trials took place at the Military Tribunals in several places, e.g. Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseille, Metz, Paris,Tunis, and others, and consider following subjects: Camps, Criminales de Guerre (Individuals tried for war crimes); Gestap-SD; Massacres. The trials did not necessarily took place in the geographical region where the crimes were committed. On the contrary, the trials a...

  3. Collection of materials for the history of the Jewish population in Łódź Zbiór materiałów do dziejów ludności żydowskiej w Łodzi (Sygn.205)

    This collection contains records relating to the history of the Jewish population in Łódź between 1939-1945. Includes bulletins, lists of various economic investments, a city administration telephone directory and correspondence, a collection of documents related to the creation of the ghetto, information leaflets (NSDP), court files in civil cases, correspondence of the Police (Gestapo. Geheime Staatspolitzei Litzmannstadt), lists of displaced people to Germany, Himmler directives, military messages from Hitler's headquarters, statistical summaries on the Łódź real estate, name lists of te...

  4. Interrogation of suspected war criminal

    (LIB 6312) and (LIB 6313) Two German civilians, a man and a woman, enter a room and cremate a body, feeding the corpse into the flames. The narrator indicates that this is the crematory of the city cemetery of Hanover (Hanover-Ahlem, a subcamp of Neuengamme), where the bodies of slave laborers were cremated. The man has been doing this work [Heizer] since 1924 and will be interviewed by US Captain D.C. Nolan and an interpreter, Lieutenant A. Ackerman. An American soldier carrying a movie camera is briefly visible in the frame. After the body is cremated Nolan and Ackerman ask questions of t...

  5. Courtroom drawing of the Klaus Barbie trial

    1. David Rose collection

    The drawing was sketched by David Rose during the trial of Klaus Barbie in the court room of the Palace of Justice in Lyon, France.

  6. Camhi and Hirtenstein families papers

    The collection consists of documents and photographs regarding the Holocaust-era experiences of Joseph and Veronika (née Hirtenstein) Camhi, along with his parents Avram and Vida Camhi, in Budapest, Hungary. The bulk of the collection consists of documents regarding Joseph, and includes diplomas, passports and other identification documents, birth and marriage certificates, and business records. There are also documents related to forced labor in Budapest and property stolen by the Gestapo in 1944. Other documents include false baptism certificates for Joseph, Veronika, and their son Janos ...

  7. Ruth M. Grill photograph collection

    The collection consists of pre-war, wartime, and postwar photographs of Ruth Rubenstein (later Ruth Grill) and her family, originally of Königsberg, Germany. Includes pre-war photographs of Ruth's father, Heinz Rubenstein, and his staff at a Jewish hospital in Berlin, and a postwar photograph of Ruth en route to the United States aboard the MS Nieuw Amsterdam in 1948.

  8. Barbie Trial -- Day 9 -- A witness testifies and is questioned

    14:54 The witness, Michel Thomas, recounts his escape from the Milles deportation camp in September 1942, his subsequent arrival in Lyon in order to recruit Resistance members, and his presence at the UGIF on the day of the raid in February 1943, where he had gone to recruit young Jews into the Resistance 15:02 The witness comments on the Swiss authorities' lack of help or protection toward Jews fleeing France 15:03 The witness recounts his memory of the UGIF raid 15:09 The witness recalls his encounter with Barbie 15:20 The witness implores Cerdini to compel Barbie to appear before him in ...

  9. Katie Altenberg collection

    Consists of prewar, wartime, and post-war photographs from the collection of Katie Altenberg, born Kate Engel, in Vienna, Austria. Includes prewar family photographs in Edmunshof, near Hungary, and post-war photographs of Katie and her parents, Ludwig and Greta, as well as photographs taken after their 1948 immigration to New Berlin, NY. Katie and her family spent most of the war in Budapest, where they were liberated from the ghetto by the Russian Army in January 1945.

  10. Nazi feature film on espionage, British agents, German rearmament

    Plot summary: In this feature film set in 1936, Mr. Morris operates a British espionage ring based in Berlin that is eager to receive information about secret German rearmament plans. He is successful when he bribes a broke engineer involved in the construction of a new artillery cannon and places an agent in a military airport testing a new type of bomber. However, when Morris deliberately makes the acquaintance with the girlfriend of Hans Klemm, a soldier running in new tanks, he encounters trouble. He initially makes some progress by utilizing the soldier's friendliness and naiveté, but ...

  11. Barbie Trial -- Day 6 -- Barbie's knowledge of the Final Solution; an expert testifies

    16:21 Prosecutor Iannucci reminds the court that Barbie had been a member of the SD since 1935 and of the Nazi party since 1937; Dachau was inaugurated in March 1933; argues that Barbie cannot have been a member of the organization, for whom the concentration camps were an arm of government, without knowing they existed; gives history relating to the Reichstag Fire (February 1933) and the subsequent decimation of personal freedoms by the Nazi party, as well as the inauguration of Dachau just one month later. 16:27 Nordmann remarks that Barbie's formal education, and therefore his ideologica...

  12. Barbie Trial -- Day 9 -- A civil party testifies regarding the UGIF raid and her subsequent deportation

    15:50 Vergès asks the witness whether he has a relationship with prosecutor Ryan; the witness replies that they had one long conversation 15:51 Vergès questions the witness as to why he left the French Army and joined the U.S. Army during the war; Cerdini interjects that the question is irrelevant to the trial 15:53 President Cerdini suspends the hearing 16:23 Cerdini resumes the hearing and introduces a new witness, Gilberte Jacob née Levy 16:25 The witness testifies; she worked at the UGIF as an assistant at the time of the raid; she recalls working at her desk in the early afternoon, whe...

  13. Barbie Trial -- Day 10 -- Two witnesses testify

    17:57 The witness, Mr. Stourdze, describes the evacuation of Auschwitz in January 1945 on foot to Gleiwitz, and then by coal train to Mauthausen and Oranienburg; the witness was then sent to Flossenburg, where there were inmates of several concentration camps; they were forced under scalding water for 20 minutes, and then made to stand outside naked in the bitter cold for three hours; the witness stayed for two weeks before being transferred again, to Regensburg, where he worked constructing a runway for a jet engine factory; Hermann Göring arrived and inspected the facility, which was ridd...

  14. Nazi feature film on espionage, British agents, German rearmament

    Plot summary: In this feature film set in 1936, Mr. Morris operates a British espionage ring based in Berlin that is eager to receive information about secret German rearmament plans. He is successful when he bribes a broke engineer involved in the construction of a new artillery cannon and places an agent in a military airport testing a new type of bomber. However, when Morris deliberately makes the acquaintance with the girlfriend of Hans Klemm, a soldier running in new tanks, he encounters trouble. He initially makes some progress by utilizing the soldier's friendliness and naiveté, but ...

  15. Selected records of the city Żyrardów Akta miasta Żyrardowa (Sygn. 2)

    This collection contains selected records of the city Żyrardów in Poland, e.g. registers of permanent inhabitants and houses, birth certificates, circular letters and other documents issued by the German authorities (1940-1943); witness testimonies relating to the crimes committed by the Gestapo and gendarmerie; documents relating to the changing of surnames, social welfare in the wartime including a list of victims, and documents of the WWII Committee of the Exhumation of those Murdered by the Nazis.

  16. Rozia Topor memoir

    The Rozia Topor memoir contains an eight page memoir written by Rozia Topor describing her experiences in several ghettos and labor camps of Poland, while caring for her younger siblings.

  17. Customs Investigation Office Brno Zollfahndungszweigstelle Brünn (D25)

    Investigative files pertaining to the confiscation by the Customs Investigation Office Brno and Gestapo Brünn of assets and valuables of Jews. In many cases, there are arrest warrants issued by the Gestapo for Jews suspected of having fled with their assets or suspected of hiding their assets or having moved their assets abroad in preparation for their emigration. The investigative files feature criminal complaints by non-Jews about their Jewish neighbors, employers and acquaintances whom they suspect of hiding assets, detailed reports about house searches and arrests, interrogation protoco...

  18. Nazi feature film on espionage, British agents, German rearmament

    Plot Summary: In this feature film set in 1936, Mr. Morris operates a British espionage ring based in Berlin that is eager to receive information about secret German rearmament plans. He is successful when he bribes a broke engineer involved in the construction of a new artillery cannon and places an agent in a military airport testing a new type of bomber. However, when Morris deliberately makes the acquaintance with the girlfriend of Hans Klemm, a soldier running in new tanks, he encounters trouble. He initially makes some progress by utilizing the soldier's friendliness and naiveté, but ...

  19. Stanisław Maciejewski collection

    Stanisław Maciejewski collection consists of records relating to activities of the Association of Polish Former Political Prisoners of Prisons and Concentration Camps in Germany. These records include prisoner questionnaires containing comprehensive bibliographical information about the prisoners and prospective association members as well as photographs, fingerprints, and Verification Commission notes. The collection also contains correspondence, medical and compensation records, Maciejewski family documents, newspaper clippings, and publications relating to various concentration camp muse...

  20. Barbie Trial -- Day 16 -- A written deposition is presented; a witness testifies

    13:44 President Cerdini calls the session to order; asks that the accused present himself; Barbie refuses to appear; Cerdini calls on the bailiff to compel the accused to appear 13:45 The bailiff reads the names of the witnesses scheduled to give testimony in the session 13:48 Cerdini suspends the session while the bailiff goes to Barbie to compel him to appear 14:08 Cerdini calls the session to order; the bailiff reads Barbie's statement that he refuses to appear 14:10 Prosecutor Nogueres presents new information to the court, following a deposition made by the widow of a victim of Barbie'...