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  1. Schermeister girls play in the garden, 1928

    All three Schermeister girls play on the lawn of their vacation home in Snekkersten. The two older girls, Lis (donor's mother) and Jeanne, carry parasols and the youngest, Inge (age 3), rides in and pushes a baby carriage. Their mother and father (Edith Cohen Schermeister and Bernhard Schermeister) play with them.

  2. Deutsch-Italienische Studienstiftung

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Am 27. April 1938 wurde die Studienstiftung durch die Unternehmen Siemens & Halske, Siemens-Schuckert, IG Farbenindustrie, Deutsches Kalisyndikat, Stahlwerksverband, Rheinisch-westfälisches Kohlensyndikat gegründet. Ziel war die Förderung des Studiums der Kulturbeziehungen. Präsident war Dr. Ludwig von Winterfeld (Vorsitzender der deutsch-italienischen Gesellschaft), als Stellvertretender Vorsitzender fungierte Dr. Georg von Schnitzler. Bestandsbeschreibung Überliefert ist lediglich eine Namenskartei mit Angaben zur Person, Dienststellung, Anschrift, u.a....

  3. Murray Aronoff collection

    The collection relates to Murray Aronoff and his role as a volunteer on the SS Exodus (SS President Warfield), during the British siege of the vessel as it carried Jewish refugees to Palestine in 1947. The SS Exodus was an excursion boat transporting Jewish displaced persons to Palestine. It was rammed and boarded by British naval vessels. The passengers were forcibly evacuated by the British to France and then to Germany. Murray Aronoff was an American volunteer crew member and was injured, with others, while resisting the British boarding of the vessel. The collection includes mimeographe...

  4. Oral history interview with Max Nirenberg

  5. Papers of Georgiy Dimitrov (Fond 146)

    Contains notebooks from jail regarding "Mein Kampf" and studies of history and foreign languages. Also includes a part of Georgiy Dimitrov's diary, personal documents, letters, correspondence, and other records related to involvement with activities of the Communist Party.

  6. Selected records of the Hauptamt für Communalpolitic (NS 25)

    Contains records related to municipal regulation of taxes and to culture, finance, and social welfare throughout Germany. Also contains records related to Jewish apartments and lodgings, Jewish cemeteries, the expropriation of Jewish assets, and judicial procedures related to Jewish issues.

  7. War Crimes Trials/war criminals

    Army-Navy Screen Magazine, no. 79. Reel 2: "Guilty Men" War crimes trials. War criminals are beaten and hung by their heels. Moscow declaration. Concentration camp scenes. Collection of documents for the trial. CUs, dead bodies of Himmler, Goebbels, etc. Disorder. Arrest of major war criminals. Belsen trial. Hangings. Mobs gather to view bodies. Other European war crimes trials of Caruso, Quisling, popes. German war criminals are tried and executed. German concentration camp scenes. Trial of some Japanese war criminals.

  8. Selected records of the Presidium of the Municipal Council in Chmielnik Prezydium Miejskiej Rady Narodowej w Chmielniku (Sygn. 2447)

    Records of the Jewish properties abandoned after war in Chmielnik, Poland. Included are official correspondence of the city council, rent registers, and registry books of individual properties with information about their previous Jewish owners.

  9. Drielsma: family documents

    Readers need to reserve a termnal in the reading room to access this digital content.Drielsma: family documents also including correspondence and photographs

  10. Processo de pedido de visto para Donato Aguillar, mulher de Donato Aguillar, Antonio Ansola Lopez, mulher de Antonio Lopez, dois filhos de Antonio Lopez, Hypolito Medina e Elena Medina

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Dakar para Donato Aguillar, de nacionalidade espanhola, com destino a Espanha. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Dakar para mulher de Donato Aguillar, de nacionalidade espanhola, com destino a Espanha. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Dakar para Antonio Ansola Lopez, de nacionalidade espanhola, com destino a Espanha. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Dakar para mulher de Antonio Lopez, de nacionalidade espanhola, com...

  11. Processo de pedido de visto para Gaston Dezavelle, Jakob Boux, August Herrmann, Otto Siering, Eugen Hartweg e Eugen Barth

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Berlim para Gaston Dezavelle, de nacionalidade francesa e residente em França, com destino a Portugal. Sem informação de autorização de visto. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Berlim para Jakob Boux, de nacionalidade francesa e residente em França, com destino a Portugal. Sem informação de autorização de visto. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Berlim para August Herrmann, de nacionalidade alemã e residente na Alemanha, com destino a Portugal. Sem informação de autorização de visto. Processo...

  12. Internationaler Deutschlehrerverband

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Der Internationale Deutschlehrerverband (IDV) ist ein eingetragener Dachverband für organisierte Deutschlehrerverbände auf fünf Kontinenten. Er wurde 1968 von 16 Organisationen aus 15 Staaten gegründet. Heute (2015) gehören im 105 Mitgliedsverbände aus 85 Ländern an. Der Sitz des IDV-Vorstandes ist der Arbeitsort des jeweiligen Präsidenten/der jeweiligen Präsidentin. Seine Ziele sind vor allem die Förderung der Kontakte und der Zusammenarbeit zwischen Deutschlehrerverbänden und ihren Mitgliedern, die Unterstützung der Deutschlehrenden und ihre fachliche Aus- ...

  13. Deutsche Seewarte

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Die Deutsche Seewarte ging im Jahre 1872 aus der in Hamburg am 1. Januar 1868 gegründeten Norddeutschen Seewarte hervor, sie war ab dem 9. Januar 1875 der Kaiserlichen Admiralität zugeordnet. Ab dem 1. Oktober 1919 gehörte sie zum Reichsverkehrsministerium und ab 1934 mit ihren meteorologischen Aufgaben zum Reichsluftfahrtministerium, mit ihren nautisch-hydrographischen Tätigkeiten zur Reichsmarine/Kriegsmarine. Die beiden Bereiche wurden 1945 auf das Seewetteramt des Deutschen Wetterdienstes und das Deutsche Hydrographische Institut aufgeteilt. Bestandsbesch...

  14. Dr. Morris Kandel collection

    The collection contains a photograph, translated affidavit, and two bound volumes of transcripts from the I.G. Farben trial (The United States of America vs. Carl Krauch, et al.), where Dr. Morris Kandel worked as a research analyst. The photograph depicts I.G. Farben defendant Fritz Ter Meer at the podium with members of the prosecution behind him. The photograph is hand-annotated with numbers by 10 individuals, and an accompanying document identifies each person. Dr. Morris Kandel is identifed as number "5." The bound volumes of transcripts consist of Brief on "Fundamental Questions of La...

  15. Trims of Russian scenes: bucolic mountains; city street scenes

    TRIMS depicting a variety of activities in daily life throughout Russia. HS, boats on lake in mountains, bucolic atmosphere. 01:10:02 Pedestrians walking in city, street scene.

  16. Signing of Versailles Treaty

    Views of the Palace of Versailles and the gardens. The camera pans left to right across the exterior of the palace, showing the crowds lined up outside. More exterior shots - the fountain, crowds cheering, waving flags, soldiers marching in formation. One car after another drives through a large archway - the delegates arriving. Delegates and their wives embark from cars and are greeted and escorted inside: French Foreign Minister Stephen Pichon, French Premier Georges Clemenceau, American Secretary of State Robert Lansing, General Tasker Howard Bliss, Herbert Hoover, General Michel Maunour...

  17. Eric Gutsmuth collection

    Consists of three manuscripts regarding the Holocaust experiences of the Gutsmuth and Levi families. The first, entitled "So it Happened," uses family documents and testimonies to describe the experiences of the Gutsmuth family, originally of Giessen (Wiesek), Germany. Through these primary sources, Eric Gutsmuth, who compiled them, describes the experiences of every member of the family, both on the Gutsmuth and Levi sides, some of whom immigrated before the war, others survived in hiding, others of whom (including Flory van Beek) were rescuers, and some who were deported to concentration ...

  18. DPs assemble at train station; supplies/ration; staging area; paratroopers in US

    DP Stateside Bound, Butzbach, Bremen staging area, Germany, October 12, 1948. Several families are oriented by a female official. The Blumenbach, Rogouste, and Homik families stand at windows of train which will take them to Bremen. MS, Army capt, J L Streicher, and IRO movement officer Abolins, speaking at railroad platform. People assembled at railroad station to see relatives and friends off. Bread is unloaded from boxes at the railroad platform. CU, UNRRA written on wooden box. CU, railroad tickets used for bread ration. DPs are issued bread rations. Man taking bread away in box; man pl...

  19. Deutsche Ansiedlungsgesellschaft (German Settlement Company) – Branch in Karlovy Vary

    The fonds includes archival records resulting from the activities of the Karlovy Vary branch of the German Settlement Company. The fonds is not inventoried nor arranged. Given the nature of the office one can find archive records related to the Jewish population, and especially to its land property, throughout the entire fonds. The fonds mainly includes official correspondence, reports on the management of farms, accounting records, settlement maps and land sheets and extracts thereof.

  20. Processo de pedido de visto para Hans Seydlitz, Lisbeth Seydlitz, Juan Antonio Martin Martinez, Nisar Ahmed Khan, Corrado Carandini e Noel Wynne Spencer Lewin

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Madrid para Hans Seydlitz, de nacionalidade alemã, com destino não identificado. Sem informação de atribuição de visto. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Madrid para Lisbeth Seydlitz, de nacionalidade alemã, com destino a não identificado. Sem informação de atribuição de visto. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Madrid para Juan Antonio Martin Martinez, de nacionalidade espanhola, com destino a não identificado. Sem informação de atribuição de visto. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de...