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  1. Philip H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Philip H., who was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1922. He describes a violent childhood in a poor Jewish neighborhood in Chicago, and vividly recalls the isolated experiences of love and kindness which proved crucial to his later outlook and conduct. He also discusses the dissolution of his mystical view of the unity of all life, as represented by the "Shema", after witnessing the devastation of Mannheim during World War II. Professor H. documents how his study of cruelty and evil eventually focused on the Holocaust, and how his discovery of goodness in its midst, exem...

  2. Metal lid from a cremation urn stamped Dachau

    Container lid with the birth, death, and cremation dates for 28 year old Anton Oleszak. The lid is believed to be from a cremation urn used to return his ashes to his family following his execution in Dachau concentration camp. Oleszak was condemned to death by hanging in Dachau on February 17, 1942. He was a Catholic from Neustadt, Poland. It was a policy of the Nazi government to return the remains of political prisoners to their families.

  3. Selected records from the collection of the Prefecture of Police of Prahova from the Prahova branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Contains records from the Prefecture police of Prahova, including correspondence and a list of goods taken by the police from the Iron Guard (Garda de Fier).

  4. Selected records of the City of Iłża Akta miasta Iłży (Sygn. 2683)

    Lists of voters for local authorities (Rada Miejska Miasta Iłży) and for the Sejm (Polish Parliament), files of the Jewish religious community, materials concerning trade and industry, vital records, statistics, correspondence, lists of the real estates (land and buildings)

  5. Processo de pedido de visto para Walter Olsen Willtard, Martin Lawrence Showl, Fre Joder Clifford Ryan, Ray Possiel, Lucy Hillman, Sarah Gotham e Cecilia Lewis

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Dakar para Walter Olsen Willtard, de nacionalidade americana, com destino aos Estados Unidos da América. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Dakar para Martin Lawrence Showl, de nacionalidade americana, com destino aos Estados Unidos da América. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Dakar para Fre Joder Clifford Ryan, de nacionalidade americana, com destino aos Estados Unidos da América. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Da...

  6. VE day in Paris; Latvian children in Germany; US soldiers; German surrender in small town

    01:34:36 (LIB 6426+6428) Paris Lights up on VE Day, France, May 8, 1945. Night shots, lights are on at Trocadero fountain, Arc de Triomphe, Place de la Concorde. Crowds milling about. Day shots, American and British soldiers dancing with civilians in the streets, celebrating VE day. 01:38:54 (LIB 6429) Latvian Children, Hahnenklee, Germany, May 4, 1945. INT, MSs, CUs, several small children, sick and undernourished, lying in beds. LS, MS, house in resort town which shelters Latvian and Polish children. MS, CU, sign at entrance to town: "Resort for Mothers and Children." 01:40:58 (LIB 6430) ...

  7. "Zug Bist Ahtzen"

    Consists of one typed memoir entitled "Zug Bist Ahtzen" ["Say You're Eighteen"] as told by Auschwitz survivor Gary S. Rubinstein to his grandson, Benyamin Moalem. In the memoir, Mr. Rubinstein describes the German invasion of his hometown of Wołomin, Poland. He describes being placed in a ghetto and his attempted escape to Łomża, Poland, in the fall of 1942. Almost immediately upon his arrival, the Jews of Lomza were marched to Zambrów , and, six weeks later, deported to Auschwitz. He was assigned to Kanada, where he sorted prisoner belongings and describes both the Nazi officers smugglin...

  8. Eva F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva F., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1936. She recounts her father was a physician and her mother a nurse; living in the Berlin Jewish Hospital from 1938; seeing many people leave and never return; her parents not speaking in front of her, but seeing them upset and distraught; playing with other children; Allied bombings; liberation by Soviet troops in 1945; assistance from Jewish officers; attending school; living in a refugee camp; and emigration to the United States in 1949. Ms. F. recalls wearing the yellow star; receiving German reparation payments; and her...

  9. Charles B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Charles B., who was drafted into the United States military in 1941. He recalls attending officer's training school; fighting in Italy, France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany; liberating Ohrdruf as part of the 89th Division; total lack of preparation for encountering a concentration camp; smelling it for two days prior to arrival; stacks of corpses; his strong physical response; liberating Weimar and Zwickau; former prisoners and U.S. troops killing German guards; assisting emaciated prisoners; and later interrogating German POWs.

  10. Bessarabian Regional Police Inspectorate. Rezina Police Station

    • Inspectoratul Regional de Poliție al Basarabiei. Poliţia centrelor de plasă. Rezina
    • Резинский комиссариат полиции
    • Rezinskiy komissariat politsii

    Notes of the guards about the Jews who were deported to the Soviet Union and those suspected of communist activity. Personal files of accused Jews of loyalty to the Soviet state who stayed in Bessarabia during the Soviet occupation. Bessarabian Regional Police Inspectorate orders about surveillance of foreigners, lists of people with foreign citizenship in Rezina. Copies of orders of Bessarabian Regional Police Inspectorate about the decisions taken to solve the Jewish problem. Informative report about moral and political attitudes of the population in the county Rezina. Correspondence with...

  11. Aron Adolf Neiss collection

    This collection contains the personal papers of Aron Adolf Neiss and his family, former Jewish refugees from Vienna. The Neiss family originally came from Poland but had moved to Vienna by the 1920s. Aron and his son emigrated to England in July 1939.Personal papers including birth and marriage certificates, certificates of family origin ('Heimatschein'), Herbert Neiss' tax clearance certificate, passports, Aron Neiss' certificate of naturalisation and power of attorney relating to his restitution claim. Also included are personal correspondence, papers relating to the sale of the family ho...

  12. Luftwaffenkommando Südost

    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 7 (Luftflottenkommandos) zusammengefasst. Zur besseren Darstellung der einzelnen Provenienzen wurden Nebenbestände zu RL 7 angelegt. Im Zuge der Umsignierung wurden die bisher in den Amtsdrucksachen (Bestand: RLD 18) verwahrten Akten ebenfalls den neuen Beständen zugeordnet. Luftflottenchef und ...

  13. Police President in Ústi nad Labem - Department of Teplice-Šanov

    The fonds contains some essential materials concerning the history of the Nazi occupation in 1939-1945 and the work of the police in 1938-1945. Jewish-related documents can be found in the following files: Passports and visa matters for Jews 1939-1941 (inv. No. 66), Identity cards compulsorily carried by Jews 1941 (inv. No. 86), Jewish family names 1940-1941 (inv. No. 161), Police surveillance of Jews 1940-1942 (inv. No. 497). Records of Jews may also be expected in the following files: Cancelling trade establishments 1939-1935 (inv. No. 428), Religious organizations and their prohibition 1...

  14. Mestský úrad v Brezne

    • Municipality Office in Brezno

    The fonds contains documents of the Municipality office in Brezno. These include various documents pertaining to the Jews living in Brezno nad Hronom including documents on anti-Jewish measures in the town such as list of Jewish doctors in Brezno from 1939, list of Jews who possess passports, documents pertaining the dissolution of Jewish associations in the town. Other documents pertain to the orders of the commander of temporary district labor camp for Jews, list of administrators of Jewish real estate property or documents pertaining to the evaluation of Jewish real estate property. Some...

  15. IMT Verdicts: Schacht, Doenitz, Raeder, Sauckel, Jodl, von Papen, Speer, von Neurath, Fritzsche at Nuremberg Trial

    Sentencing of Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany, October 1946. Shot of dock as Justice Francis Biddle gives the Tribunal's conclusion on Hjalmar Schacht: not guilty under the indictment because his influence was not established beyond doubt. More footage of defendants, defendants' lawyers, as Justice reads conclusions of the tribunal on the prisoners: Schacht: Not guilty Doenitz (in French): Guilty under counts 3 and 4 Raeder (in Russia): Guilty under count 4 Sauckel: Guilty under counts 3 and 4 Jodl (in French): ?? (verdict not audible) Von Papen: Not guilty Unidentified defend...

  16. Scarf worn by female prisoner in Stuthoff concentration camp

    Originally worn by female prisoner, Stuthoff concentration camp. Given to Jacob Hennenberg by original owner (name unknown), Stuthoff concentration camp, May 1945.

  17. Amateur shots: Austrians welcome Hitler in Hadersdorf-Weidlingau and Austrian family life

    Private film of a Nazi rally during Hitler’s journey from Linz to Vienna. Outdoor shots of a large home with painted swastikas and several Nazi flags. Tanks drive down a street. Nazi soldiers walking down the street. Hitler gives the Nazi salute from his car driving down the street with many onlookers on the sidewalks. Austrians shake hands and kiss cheeks. Nazi flags hanging from buildings. Trucks and tanks with swastikas on them driving down the street. Cut to women tending to plants in a greenhouse. INTs in a house, focusing on a cat. The women walk the cat on a leash. They hold and dote...

  18. US cities: Atlanta, Washington, DC and Panama City

    Location filming of Atlanta, GA, Washington, DC, and Panama City, FL for SHOAH. FILM ID 4626 -- Atlanta Ville ATL 24 Highway toward downtown Atlanta, where Lanzmann interviewed Steiner and Reams. Shots of the city from a car. FILM ID 4627 -- Washington Ville 52.61.62 (probably related to the interview with McClelland or Karski) DC. Lafayette Square, the White House and the Eisenhower Executive Office Building from street level. Lanzmann plays with a squirrel in Lafayette Square. (19:50) East side of the Capitol Building. Jefferson Memorial. Lincoln Memorial. . FILM ID 4628 -- Panama Ville P...

  19. Czernowitz Oblast Archives records

    Contains various documents relating to ghettoization and other forms of persecution against Jews in Czernowitz (Chernivtsi). Records relate to the Romanian occupation of the city of Czernovitz and the surrounding territory by the Romanian military. Subjects include the establishment and maintenance of a wide variety of ghettos and labor camps, the administration of the occupied territory by city and regional administrative agencies, the activities of various police agencies, the confiscation and disposition of Jewish property, and census (name lists) of Jews and others, the individual case ...

  20. Questioning von Schirach at Nuremberg; War Crimes Trials: Malmedy

    17:07:15 (Munich 187) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, May 24, 1946. HAS, Dodd, US prosecutor, questions Baldur von Schirach about a song printed in the Hitler Youth Song Books (witness not seen). HAS, Dr. Fritz Sauter cross-examines Schirach. (English interpreter is heard translating the questions and answers). 17:10:47 (Munich 176) Malmedy War Crimes Trials, Dachau, Germany, May 21, 1946. Former Lt Virgil P Lary tells how he and fifteen of his men made a break after witnessing the massacre of approx one hundred US soldiers. Former soldier Carl Daub is questioned about his background...