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  1. Gomel Oblast Archive records

    Consists of microfilmed documents relating to the activities of various oblast government offices in the vicinity of Gomel. Included is information concerning reprisal actions by Germans against partisan activity, the liquidation of the ghetto at Monastyrek, the confiscation of Jewish property and livestock, and arrests of Roma.

  2. Executive Committee of the Dubăsari district council of workers' deputies

    • Исполнительный комитет Дубоссарского районного совета депутатов трудящихся
    • Ispolnitel'nyy komitet Dubossarskogo rayonnogo soveta deputatov trudyashchikhsya

    Summarized information about the established atrocities committed over the citizens of the USSR by the fascist German criminals in the Dubossary district of the Moldavian SSR. Information about the number of residents of the Dubossary district of the MSSR who were shot by the German invaders. Extract from the consolidated statement of damage and losses caused by the German fascist invaders and their associates on the collective farms of the Dubossary district of the Moldavian SSR during the occupation period

  3. Socialist Vanguard Group: 5 issues of Commentary

    Issue Nos 26, 28, 29,30, 31of Commentary, produced by the Socialist VanguardEnglish 

  4. UN appeal for WWII refugees; DP camps

    From opening credits of the film: "United Nations Film Board presents...Produced by the Office of Public Information of the International Refugee Organization, A specialized agency of the United Nations." UN appeal for WWII Refugees, an "inside look" at life in a DP camp. A day in the life of a DP.

  5. Marshall Plan parade

    Dutch flags on buildings. Marshall Plan parade in the Netherlands. Float proclaiming "Thank You Marshall" with girls dressed in white passes the camera. Various MSs, CUs of spectators watching parade and cheering. More floats process. Another view of the Dutch flags. CUs, Dutch spectators.

  6. Fighting on the Russian front; Lvov; work detail

    Reel 4: 00:00:00 Lvov. Street scenes with civilians, smoke in sky. Tanks in the street, soldiers and civilians walking around. Camera pans across a large apartment building with all the windows broken. People walk in the park with a smoke coming from a building in the background. A large crowd of civilians clap and wave in front of the city hall (Rathaus), a swastika banner is draped from the balcony. Reel 7: 00:00:54 German officers in a field discuss over a map, CU. One has a bandage on his face. Edelweiss insignia can be seen on sleeves. Shot of a radio operator in a truck. Reel 8: 00:02...

  7. Peter G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Peter G., a distinguished scholar and professor of history, who was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1923. Professor G. describes his childhood and education; his parents' atheism; the Nuremberg laws; the different opinions people held about the Nazis; his family's haphazard plans to emigrate; Kristallnacht; obtaining passage to Cuba; his two year stay in Havana; and his emigration to the United States. He also discusses the opposing theories of whether the Holocaust could happen again; the impact that the refugees had on United States intellectual life; and his thoughts o...

  8. John M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of John M., who served in the United States military during World War II. He recounts attending officer training school in 1941; attachment to an anti-aircraft regiment; transfer to England, then Oran; landing in Sicily; transfer to Marseille; moving through Germany; observing emaciated prisoners in striped uniforms and prisoners of war in Seeshaupt; corpses piled in box cars; moving to Landsberg; corpses everywhere; photographing the camp; guarding German prisoners in Schwabmu?nchen; and preparing a barrack to contain war criminals in Kornwestheim. He shows photographs.

  9. Sylvia B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sylvia B., who was born in Velykyi? Bereznyi?, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine), in 1928. Mrs. B. speaks of her early family life; her Orthodox upbringing; and the absence of prewar Czech antisemitism. She recalls the effects of the Hungarian occupation in 1939, including anti-Jewish regulations and a Jewish census in 1942; and continued Czech benevolence under Hungarian rule. She recounts the German occupation, during which she had to hide; the rumor-filled environment of Passover in 1944; the round-up of the town's Jews in a synagogue; and her deportation with her...

  10. Documentation of the Muzey-arkhiv perekhodovoi doby (Kiev Archive Museum of Transitional Period [History]) in Kiev, 1942

    Documentation of the Muzey-arkhiv perekhodovoi doby (Kiev Archive Museum of Transitional Period [History]) in Kiev, 1942 The Kiev Archive Museum of Transitional Period [History] was established under the auspices of the German authorities and was active during April-October 1942 with the aim of presenting the [history of the] transitional period from the Soviet occupation period until the period of Nazi rule; Included in the collection: - Decisions taken by the mayor of Kiev regarding the opening of the museum; - Decision by the Kiev municipality regarding the registration of the books left...

  11. Костопільський гебітскомісаріат, м. Костопіль Рівненської області

    • Gebietskommissariat Kostopol

    The copies of documents from this collection are stored in USHMM and described as follows: Opis 1 Folder 13, Census of the Jewish Population in Berezna. (undated). 31 pp. Folder 3, Information on confiscated property. 1941-1943. 48 pp.

  12. Paramount Newsreel, Year 1945, Issue 33 (part)

    The War Crimes Trial in Nuremberg with shots of the justices, prisoners dock, translators, Goering, Hess, German counsel. 01:46:30 features archival footage of soldiers and liberation shown in the courtroom.

  13. Train; crowds

    Train cuts through snowy mountains. LS, town in distance, and body of water at base of mountain. Storefront with Cyrillic sign. Crowd of people stand around a building looking at news. CUs, photographs of current events.

  14. Reichsvereinigung Chemische Fasern

    Bestandsbeschreibung Statistische Übersichten über Erzeugung von Zellwolle und Kunstseide Erschliessungszustand Verzeichnis (1967) Zitierweise BArch R 10-II/...

  15. Carl Gärtig collection

    The Carl Gärtig papers consists of color photocopies of photographs, letters, and documents relating Carl Gärtig and his family while he was imprisoned in Kassel, Germany and Buchenwald concentration camp; post-war letters written to Gärtig from fellow survivors; pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs; a brief biography of Carl Gärtig; and Carl Gärtig's memories of the death of Reverend Paul Schneider (1897-1939) in Buchenwald concentration camp.

  16. Municipal National Committee in Třebíč Městský národní výbor Třebíč

    Consists of municipal records from the Nazi occupation period featuring an alphabetical list of Jews living in Třebíč (German: Trebitsch), a register of persons arrested, and a register of executions and deaths, 1939-1945, with information about the races of prosecuted persons.

  17. Organizational and administrative correspondence relating to the Wehrmacht, SS, SD, and SIPO in Ostland

    Contains photocopies of letters, memoranda, orders, directives, and various other documents relating to the organizational and operational structure of the Wehrmacht, SIPO, SS, SD, Einsatzgruppen A and B, Geheime Feldpolizei, Feldgendarmerie, Hilfspolizei, and Ordungspolizei in Latvia and the USSR. Of special interest is a copy of a letter, December 4, 1939, RSHA Amt II, concerning antisemitism and a pogrom.

  18. Gustav R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gustav R., who was born in Darmstadt, Germany in 1929. He speaks of his childhood in pre-war Germany; differences in the attitudes of his parents towards Judaism; the rise of Nazism in Germany; his father's arrest and imprisonment in Buchenwald in the wake of Kristallnacht; the difficulties encountered by his family in attempts to leave Germany; the family's eventual emigration to the United States after spending one and one-half years in Cuba; and the influences his wartime experiences had on his later life, particularly on his relationship with his children.

  19. Processo de pedido de visto para Manuel Cunquero y Ferreira, mulher de Manuel Cunquero y Ferreira, filho de Manuel Cunquero y Ferreira, Manuel Luis Guerrero y Jimenez, mulher de Manuel Luis Guerrero y Jimenez e filha de Manuel Luis Guerrero y Jimenez

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Port of Spain para Manuel Cunquero y Ferreira, de nacionalidade não identificada, com destino a Espanha. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Port of Spain para mulher de Manuel Cunquero y Ferreira, de nacionalidade não identificada, com destino a Espanha. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Port of Spain para filho de Manuel Cunquero y Ferreira, de nacionalidade não identificada, com destino a Espanha. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado ...

  20. Processo de pedido de visto para Osias Nacht, mulher de Osias Nacht, Charlotte Nacht, Jonas Nacht, Josef Landau, Popper Jules, mulher e filha

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Londres para Osias Nacht, de nacionalidade romena, com destino á Roménia. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Londres para mulher de Osias Nacht, de nacionalidade romena, com destino á Roménia. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Londres para Charlotte Nacht, de nacionalidade romena, com destino á Roménia. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Londres para Jonas Nacht, de nacionalidade romena, com destino á Roménia. Visto aut...