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  1. Ronya Royzen memoir

    Contains a memoir relating to the Kopaygorod Ghetto.

  2. Memoir

    Testimony, two pages, photocopy of typescript, describing experiences of Soviet POW who, after capture by Germans in 1941, was sent first to Latvia, and then to Sachsenhausen. Description of illness and of forced labor clearing rubble in and around Berlin.

  3. Free again

    Testimony, typescript, 28 pages, describing experiences during German occupation of Hungary, the ghetto in an unnamed hometown, and deportation to Auschwitz.

  4. War crimes files decoding book (RG 338)

    Contains a reference work created by the 7707 th War Crimes Group, Judge Advocate General, European Theater of Operations, to locate the geographic area and disposition of war crimes case files compiled by the units of the Judge Advocate General.

  5. Henry Mikols survived Holocaust death camp

    Consists of a photocopy of a memoir (in the form of a scrapbook) entitled "Henry Mikols Survived Holocaust Death camp."

  6. S. J. Rutkowski memoir

    Consists of a testimony, 90 typescript pages, detailing the author's account of life in various locations in German-occupied Poland (including Warsaw, Lwow, and Siedlice) during the war.

  7. Newsreel showing League of Nations, Japanese troops, Anschluss

    Reel 2 shows a League of Nations meeting and, later, Japan's delegates leaving after resigning. Japanese troops enter Shanghai. Shows fighting in China and Japanese air raid. Shows peaceful Japanese scenes and ceremonies at a baseball game. Hirohito reviews troops. Mussolini addresses a throng; Italy invades Ethiopia; Haile Selassi rallies his people. An Italian representative speaks in Japan. Germany marches into Austria (March 1938).

  8. Holocaust and World War II victims records

    Contains files from a variety of record groups relating to individual victims of the Holocaust and World War II. Includes files (primarily names lists) from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) collections RG-338 (reels 1-29 and 32-37, including war crimes trial materials), RG-84 (reels 30-31, 37-40, and 48), including materials from the U.S. legations in Bern, Ankara, Rome, and Shanghai), RG-153 (reels 41-43 and 49, Judge Advocate General records), and RG-59 (reels 44-47, State Department Visa Division, including materials about the Presidents Advisory Committee on Polit...

  9. Charlotte Opferman papers

    Testimony, 5 pages, typescript, describing author's experiences in Wiesbaden, her father's role as attorney who was forced to assist Nazis in liquidation of Jewish estates before he was deported to Auschwitz and killed. Also includes descriptions of the author's experiences in Theresienstadt. Includes deportation list of Jews sent from Wiesbaden to Theresienstadt in Sept. 1942.

  10. Jadwiga Jaszunska collection

    Contains a typescript copy of an English translation of a memoir written by Jadwiga Jaszunska and translated by Linda Noble, and a Russian language version of Jadwiga Jaszunska's memoir. The collection also includes fifteen black and white family photographs.

  11. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 10 mark coin

    10 mark coin issued in the Łódź ghetto in Poland in 1943. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1940; Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and annexed to the German Reich. In February, the Germans forcibly relocated the large Jewish population into a sealed ghetto. All currency was confiscated in exchange for Quittungen [receipts] that could be exchanged only in the ghetto. The scrip and tokens were designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] and includes traditional Jewish symbols. The Germans closed the ghetto in the summer of 1944 by deporting the residents to concentration camps or killi...

  12. Oral history interview with Bernard Caron

  13. Germans cross Rhine, invasion of France

    Reel 6: German tanks cross the Rhine on rafts. General Rommel confers with officers. Soldiers eat and sleep. German troops load and fire artillery and tanks advance. Germans fight thru a city and German forces close in on Dunkirk, and a French General leaving a German plane. German cavalry, tanks, cyclists, armor, motorized infantry advance past Allied equipment and ruins in Belgium. Maps the German attack on Dunkirk.

  14. March of Time -- outtakes -- Soldiers; Munich Pact

    667 KK (09:01:12): Hilly countryside. Underground bunker with barbed wire. Group of soldiers going underground with rifles. Beds. Removing gear. Shaving, barechested. Pouring water from large bucket (preparing food?). Ladder. Switchboard. Nazi Party Rally. German horses, tanks, boats, submarines, planes. 667 MM (09:03:44) Heston Airport with Chamberlain leaving for Munich. Cabinet members at airport. 03:36:44 Plane taking off. 03:37:02 London street scenes, sandbagging. Marines jumping off truck. 03:38:08 Mussolini arriving with Adolf Hitler, entering hall where Munich Pact was signed. 03:3...

  15. March of Time -- outtakes -- Refugees; Jewish shelter; London, England

    Jewish shelter on Mansell Street, Whitechapel, London, England. Permanent institution for helping poor Jews, housing approximately 120 refugees (mostly Austrian). Dining hall, crowded, free meals. Adolph and Sarah Michaelson, the Superintendant and Matron of the shelter from about 1912 until 1940, appear in this sequence (Adolph is the gentleman with the mustache standing at 06:01:13 and at right at 06:01:35. Sarah wears a lace collar in the doorway at 06:02:40. Their daughter, Esther (known as Elsie, b. 1915), is the third serving person in a white coat who comes into the dining room at 06...

  16. March of Time -- outtakes -- Ruins/memorials in Warsaw

    LS, MS Polish sculptor Xawery Dunikowski carving clay for a monument to the Silesian insurgents. CU, the number 744 tattooed on his left arm (from Auschwitz). Dunikowski chiseling marble with a cigarette. LS, MS Monument to the Unknown Warrior with guard parading, some ruins in BG. MS, grave covered with flowers. MS, a marble slab fixed on a pillar with the names of the great battles in which Polish soldiers took part in the West. MS, another slab with the names of the German-Russian campaign. MS, soldier parading. LS, Warsaw with people, trams. LS, Russo-Polish monument with flowers at the...

  17. Peace leadership speech by Lange

    Audio recording of David Lange's speech after accepting the Distinguished Peace Leadership award. Annually, the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation gives the prestigious distinguished peace leadership award to an individual who has demonstrated dedicated and courageous leadership in the causes of peace. In 1988, Hon. David Lange, the prime minister of New Zealand, received the award for his country's anti-nuclear status.

  18. March of Time -- outtakes -- Reconstruction of war-damaged properties; refugees

    Reconstruction of Czech Tunnel and Bridge (Czech Newsreel material - Lavender) Optical shots of Czech workmen standing around looking at the camera. Pan to silent factories and smokestacks. LS line of Czechs in food queue, dissolving to shots of refugees returning to their homes, on foot and in wagons. Several shots of same, dissolving to man pasting poster on wall intended to get men to work repairing war damaged properties. Other posters. Men, women, and children, carrying shovels on their shoulders go to work. LS mob of men and women over hillside, dissolve to workmen clearing up debris ...

  19. Calling card brought to the US by an Austrian refugee

    Calling card for Edith Fraenkel/Hamburg found in the autograph album, 1994.53.6.1, owned by Irene Rosenthal. Irene fled Nazi ruled Austria for the United States in March 1940. German troops marched over the border into Austria in March 1938. The next day, Austria was annexed to Nazi Germany. Anti-Jewish legislation was enacted to strip Jews of their civil rights. The November 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom vandalized Jewish businesses and homes and destroyed most of the synagogues in Austria. Irene received a visa to leave Austria in March and sailed that month from Genoa, Italy, to New York.

  20. Idealized picture of Prussia to garner German support for total war

    Reel 6 starts with Maria and Nettelbeck looking down at Friedrich's body. Outside, the battle continues to rage. As large numbers of French soldiers march toward Kolberg, Gneisenau discusses the overwhelming odds with Nettelbeck. He suggests that they surrender. Nettelbeck tells Gneisenau how much Kolberg means to the people who live there. He falls on his knees and begs Gneisenau not to surrender. Gneisenau hugs Nettelbeck and tells him that now they can die together. As the battle continues, the French debate whether they should halt their attack on the city, in light of the peace negotia...