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  1. German-Jewish emigres arrive in Shanghai by boat

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 11, No. 754, Part 2. Release date, 02/23/1939. 841 Jews arrive in Shanghai on the SS Conte Biancomano. View from dock as passengers wave from rail of boat (mostly men). CU women and men waving. MLS women and men walking down stairs, departing boat (nicely dressed). Refugees at desk, exchanging papers. 02:13:10 Hedrig Callman with her grandson Rolf Eis. Man in "window" dropping bread into a woman's bag. At rough table; men eating soup in CU, then MS. Newsreel footage also includes the following parts: 02:11:01 Port Washington, NY "Yankee Clipper in Test Flight for Oc...

  2. Selected records of the City of Błonie Akta miasta Błonia (Sygn.107)

    Minutes of the Municipal Council of Błonie, projects of buildings of Jews living in Błonie, certificates of the birth, death and marriage, various ordinances and circular letters of German authorities, as well as documents related to sanitary actions in the town.

  3. Yamashita Trial; Jackson and map at Nuremberg Trial

    22:44:35 Yamashita Trial, 20th Day, Manila, Philippines, November 21, 1945. Gen. Muto on stand answers in part the question: "Describe the military administration in the Philippines." 22:47:08 (Paris 374) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, November 22, 1945. LS, prisoners sitting in dock. Pan to US Chief Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson speaking. Rear view, Jackson addressing the court. MS, Goering, Hess, Ribbentrop, Keitel, Doenitz, Raeder, von Schirach, and Sauckel in prisoners' dock. Goering makes notes on pad. LS map on wall showing German aggression. Note: Voice of Jackson heard throug...

  4. Atrocity in Riga; Riga synagogue burns

    According to the narrator, an atrocity committed by the retreating Soviets against Latvian nationalists in the Riga area. View of a building, then people carrying corpses on stretchers and laying them out in a row on the grass. Civilians looking at the bodies and weeping; many women. A woman in a flowered dress lays a body in a coffin. Close-up of a woman weeping. Bodies of children. Latvian civilians beating Jews they hold responsible for the atrocity. They drag a man across the street. Many German soldiers in the street watching the Jews being beaten. A burning synagogue in Riga. The narr...

  5. Mass burial of murdered Jews; exhumation of slave laborers

    German Killing of Jewish Slave Labor, Neuenberg, Germany, April 29, 1945. Seq: German civilians are assembled and marched to graves of murdered Jews. Seq: German men and women in teams of four carry decomposed bodies in open pine boxes from woods through town streets to cemetery. VS, townspeople as they walk past open coffins. CUs, facial expressions of townspeople. LS, bodies awaiting burial as civilians walk past. LS, pan, 200 bodies of murdered Jews lying in woods. CUs, German civilians digging up bodies. Exhumation of 1500 Russian Slave Laborers, Essen, Germany, April 28, 1945. VS, 17th...

  6. March of Time -- outtakes -- Amsterdam - May 1939

    May 9, 1939: General activity on Muntz Plein, in the center of Amsterdam. Trams, bicycles, busy. Sailors. Policeman directing traffic. 05:34:44 View of square, street scenes. 05:35:26 Cases unloaded from barges on the River Amstel. Barges. More materials unloaded. 05:37:37 View of canal, tour boat, Dutch houses in BG. 05:38:12 Policeman directing traffic. Boat unloading. 05:39:09 Sailing boats at dusk, going down canal. Amsterdam station. People entering. 05:39:30 April 18, 1939: View of Kalverstraat, the main shopping street of Amsterdam. People getting on trams, street scenes, shop window...

  7. Oral testimony of William Fertig

  8. Sammlung NS-"Euthanasie", u.a. Reichsarbeitsgemeinschaft für Heil- und Pflegeanstalten

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Der Bestand vereint verschiedene Unterlagen zum nationalsozialistischen Krankenmord. Ein Bestandteil sind Dokumente, die sich der Reichsarbeitsgemeinschaft Heil- und Pflegeanstalten, der Zentrale oder anderen der Ende 1939 innerhalb des Hauptamtes II der Kanzlei des Führers geschaffenen Tarnorganisationen zuordnen lassen. Ihre Aufgabe war die Organisation der massenhaften Tötung von psychisch Kranken im Deutschen Reich, u.a. durch Auswahl, Einrichtung und Kontrolle der "Euthanasieanstalten". Da sich im Bestand längst nicht n...

  9. Schermeister family vacationing in Snekkersten, 1929

    An indoor shot of the donor's great grandparents, Leopold and Franzisca Cohen. They exit the door to their vacation home in Snekkersten, along with Bernhard (donor's grandfather) and his sister. The extended family on the lawn. The three girls, Lis (donor's mother), Jeanne, and Inge, eat ice cream with Bernhard's mother (Hana Schermeister). Various family members pose for the camera.

  10. Funeral for SA men at which Goebbels speaks.

    The cortege and funeral of three SA men: Walter Apel, Robert Gleuel, and Franz Klein, who were purportedly shot and killed by members of the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD) in June 1933. People are shown laying flowers at the location of the murder in Berlin-Köpenick. The funeral cortege leaves the hospital and passes crowds of mourners, who line the street and give a Hitler salute to the passing hearses. The heavy-handed narration is accompanied by mournful music. The coffins are taken to their local SA headquarters for some sort of ceremony, attended by Joseph Goebbels. Low ...

  11. Germany at liberation: refugees, destruction, etc

    French liberated prisoners. US soldiers and ammunition, firing from tank. Tanks on village street. Airplanes dive bombing. MCUs German POWs. German civilians. Damaged gate entrance reading in part "Trier." German civilians departing town; horse, oxen, and tractor drawn wagons loaded with possessions. 01:07:20 Slate reads "Luxembourg, April 14, 1945" Germans with belongings on carts. CUs, displaced persons in line for water on city plaza, waving to camera, holidng up water cans (staged). Digging with shovels. April 16, 1945 - MCUs, German children in park, in Wiesbaden, Germany, wrestling. A...

  12. World Jewish Congress: material re first congress

    This collection includes letters, declarations and other material regarding the first meeting of the World Jewish Congress held in Geneva between 8 and 14 August 1936. Correspondents and contributors in this collection include Chaim Weizmann, David Ben Gurion, Simon Dubnow, Lord Robert Cecil, Sir Neil Malcolm, Stephen Wise, Dr Nahum Goldmann, Henri Berenger, Dr J Niemirower.

  13. Projekt Dotrščina: Zagrepčani - revolucionari, antifašisti i žrtve fašističkog terora 1941. - 1945. (podserija)

    • The Dotrščina Park Project: citizens of Zagreb, revolutionaries, anti-Fascist fighters and victims of fascist terror 1941-1945

    The Dotrsicna park in Zagreb is the site of the mass murder where around 18 000 citizens of Zagreb and its surroundings were shot during the Fascist regime due to their ethnic background, or the fact they were anti-regime. Thanks to archivists Josipa Paver and Igor Graovac, there was systematic work on the names of the victims from 1967 until the late 1990s. The project started in the State Archive back in 1967, and lasted, with interruptions, until April 1985. The project examined the records of the Croatian State Archives, the former archives of the Institute of History of the labor movem...

  14. Партійний архів Полтавського обласного комітету Комуністичної партії України

    • Party archives of the Poltava regional committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine

    Within this collection the following files contain information on occupation and local administration, population policies, and the Holocaust: • File 789 - Selected documents for 3-volume collection of the documents "Ukrainian SSR in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945", 252 pages. This file contains documentation on the evacuation of economic structures of Poltava region (pp. 49-117); and on the activities of diversionary-partisan groups and occupier atrocities (pp. 118-172); • File 240 - Manuscript of the "Chronological reference book abour liberation by the Soviet Army of the region's loca...

  15. Akta gminy Miastków Kościelny powiat Garwolin

    • Files of the commune of Miastków Kościelny

    Z okresu zaborów - księga uchwał zgromadzenia wiejskiego wsi Zagórze, księgi ludności. Z okresu międzywojennego - protokóły z zebrań - rady gminnej, zarządu, sołtysów; sprawy finansowe, ewidencja ludności, kontrole, podatki, szkolnictwo, pobór do wojska, pozwolenia na broń, statystyka, budżet. Z okresu II wojny światowej - protokóły z zebrań sołtysów, majątek gminny, budżet, przymusowe roboty, podatek i aprowizacja, kontyngenty, sprawy finansowe Z lat 1944-1954 - protokóły, sprawozdania, podatki, kontrola ruchu ludności, drogi i mosty, statystyka, wykazy osób posiadających gospodarstwa roln...

  16. Papers of the Home and Hospital for Jewish Incurables, Tottenham

    Minute books, 1889-1989 (22 vols.); annual reports, 1896-1995 (incomplete series); legal and financial papers, including deeds for High Road, Tottenham, 1897-1914; correspondence, photograph albums and loose photographs, including albums for Berthons House, Walthamstow, c.1899, and one for the Home, Tottenham, 1906 Minute book of the trustees of the British Tay-Sachs Foundation, 1966-74 (1 vol.)

  17. Luftgaustab z.b.V. 10

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Die Akten stammen aus Rückführungen aus den USA und Großbritannien an die Dokumentenzentrale des Militärgeschichtlichen Forschungsamtes. Von dort wurden die Akten 1968 an das Bundesarchiv, Abteilung Militärarchiv abgegeben. Diese Akten waren bisher im Sammelbestand RL 19 (Luftgaukommandos und Luftgaustäbe) zusammengefasst. Zur besseren Darstellung der einzelnen Provenienzen wurden Nebenbestände zu RL 19 angelegt. Bestandsbeschreibung Es ist nur eine Akte zur Gefahrenprävention vorhanden. Zitierweise BArch RL 19-38/...

  18. Couple visits estate

    Couple walks up a driveway to an estate in the Polish countryside. People and dog walk about the property (hunting party?). CU, man with a cane speaks to a peasant woman.

  19. UJA appeal for refugees overseas needs

    The Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) endorses United Jewish Appeal (UJA) and American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) executives' appeal to bring DPs from Europe to Palestine or to the USA. Footage of liberation of camps. An appeal to raise money for displaced persons. Shows footage of a number of organizers and fundraisers, and speaks of an assembly in Atlantic City, NJ to raise one million dollars. Features founders of the UJA, JDC, United Jewish Fund, etc. Footage of Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg is interspersed with speeches given post war to US audiences.

  20. Photographic postcard

    Consists of a photographic postcard depicting Jewish men and boys, with armbands, seated with hands on their heads. Armed guards are visible in the background. The postcard was acquired by survivor Chaim Fuchs. Chaim, born 1923 in Krosniewice, Poland, was a survivor of Auschwitz and other camps. An inscription on the reverse of the postcard reads, "Bürkenau," though its relationship to the scene captured is unclear.