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  1. Burning farms; POWs; town on fire

    LS views of farm burning in Bialystok; soldiers arrest citizens, check IDs. CU of frightened man. Long view of tanks lining road; soldiers. Pan of many wrecked tanks burning in fields near Minsk, all spewing black smoke. HA pan of Russian POWs sitting on the ground (POW camp?). CU endless line of turbanned Russian POWs, many with Asiatic faces. Distance sign: "Berlin/Breslau/Moskau." MS Kalvaria in flames in the distance. Nazis ride into town. Dead horse on road ("Dunaburg"?); scorched earth. Many views of smoking rubble, total destruction.

  2. Licco Haim and friends on a ski adventure in 1941

    Handwritten title "Hochwinter 1941". Title with 9 February date, named friends, and a figure on a ski slope, "The Black Peak". Group with Anny, Belka, Vania, Shatsi, Konovaliko, and others climbs up a slope. Mountain hostel on Black Peak. Snow-covered hills. Skiing. 01:06:53 Title with 16 February date, "On the Jumping Hill" (?), Shtainke and Licco. Snowy mountainous scenery. Licco and his friends ski, some in slow motion. 01:14:18 [COLOR] Skiing. CUs of the group of friends, including a young girl. 01:20:17 [B/W] More skiing. 01:23:28 Title with 8 March date and two names, "Istene Kal", An...

  3. Hlavnoslužnovský úrad Medzibodrožského okresu v Kráľovskom Chlmci 1944

    • Chief Constable's Office of the Medzibodrožský District in Kráľovský Chlmec 1944
    • Bodrogközi Járás Főszolgabírói Hivatala

    The collection holds only the fragments of the administrative agenda that used to belong to the Chief Constable's Office of the Bodrogköz District. A total of 6 documents are preserved in the archival fond and all of them concerns the Aryanization of Jewish property in Kráľovský Chlmec. These files document the appointments of non-Jewish managers at the head of the store of Jenő Reisman, Hugó Tannenbaum, Ignác Salamon, Miksa Rieder, Jenő Braun and Emanuel Weisz.

  4. Gemeentelijk bouw- en woningtoezicht

    Op 1 juli 1906 werd de verordening, regelende de Bouwpolitie ingetrokken en het Gemeentelijk Bouwen Woningtoezicht ingesteld. Er ontstond een dienst waarvan de afdelingen werden belast met Bouwtoezicht, Woningtoezicht, Hinderwet en onderzoek van bouwmaterialen. Daarnaast was er een afdeling "Algemene Dienst". De dienst is belast met de uitvoering van voorschriften waaraan nieuw te bouwen en te verbouwen woningen. Bovendien is de Dienst verantwoordelijk voor het toezicht op woningen en voor de onbewoonbaarverklaring van woningen. Ook adviseert de Dienst aan het College van Burgemeester en we...

  5. Archives of the service for war victims Archives du service des victims de la guerre : Series P

    Contains records relating to the fate of Jewish and non-Jewish Belgians throughout Europe during the period of 1939 to1950. Includes name lists from a wide variety of sources such as concentration and prisoner of war camps, relief and charity organizations, hospitals, prisons, and similar institutions. See also Parts Mi, A, and R (Rg- Rg-65.001M; Rg-65.002M; Rg-65.004M).

  6. David Jakubowski papers

    The papers consist of documents and letters relating to Dr. David Jakubowski's time in the ghetto in Warsaw, Poland, where he was a physician before and during the uprising and also relating to his time of medical service with several refugee aid agencies after World War II.

  7. Papers of Virgil Dimov (Fond 4220)

    Contains correspondence, criminal cases, appeals, indictment and testimonies, and other legal papers of lawyer Virgil Dimov. Documents relate to the persecution of Komsomol members, confiscation of Jewish properties, Jewish partisans and other Jewish matters.

  8. Paul Mandel papers

    The papers primarily consist of Holocaust-era postcards related to the Mandel family of Łódź, Poland. Included are seven postcards written from Mirel Mandel in Łódź to her brother Barney Solomon in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1940. There is also one postcard to Barney Solomon from Estera Moszkowicz in Radom, Poland. Photograph postcards of the Mandel family depict Mirel and Abraham Mandel, their sons Mendel, Machel, and Paul, and their daughter Balcha. Also depicted is Barney Solomon and various other relatives.

  9. Andy Murray Coffey letter and photographs relating to the liberation of Ohrdruf

    Andy Murray Coffey's collection relates to the liberation of Ohrdruf. The collection includes: photocopies of photographs taken by Andy Murray Coffey and H.L. Jamis of dead inmates who died of abuse suffered while engaged in slave labor and of dead inmates being buried by American soldiers and Germans who lived near Ohrdruf; and a letter describing Coffey's recollections about Ohrdruf, the Germans who lived near the camp, and General Patton's order forcing German citizens to view the camp and bury its dead.

  10. Repatriation of POWs: airplane; supplies; camp; classroom; sports; roll call; mess hall

    Repatriation of Russian POWs in Bari and Florence, Italy. Reel 1: Airplane at Bari airport, Russians departing, lining up in double columns and marching. Inspecting airplane. Russian POWs boarding truck to repatriation camp, receiving mess kits. Men entering and leaving Russian orderly room. MCU, sign: "Orderly Room" in English and Russian. Russians entering and leaving recreation hall, star over entrance. Men entering and leaving shower room. Men cleaning up yards and sweeping living quarters. Back view of Russians sitting in group, officer delivering latest war news from European map. Men...

  11. Landsberg Hangings

    (Munich 191) Hangings at Landsberg, Germany, May 28, 1946. Bodies of hanged men are set in coffins and coffins are stacked in yard. One coffin is labelled "Niedermayer Engelbert". Niedermayer was a crematoria worker at Dachau. Soldier adjusts rope on scaffold. German civilian hangman speaking to American officers. 22:03:28 Klaus (or Claus) Karl Schilling is escorted up the steps of the scaffold. He faces the camera and speaks briefly before he is hanged. Schilling was a physician who deliberately infected inmates with malaria at Dachau. Another man is executed. Otto Moll is executed in the ...

  12. NSV training; French antisemitic youth rally

    05:31:01 NSV pupils training for employment as Red Cross nurses: caring for babies in nursery, cooking in kitchen, uniforms, classroom instruction on anatomy, giving massages, hospital care, doctor and nurses seen at patients' bedsides. calisthenics, playing chess, medical care, with families. 05:33:32 Women entering Palais du Sports for French youth demonstration against Bolshevism. Military officers in uniform (Nazis?) entering stadium. HAS, crowd. Banner reading "Le Combat Seul." Youth welcoming speaker, heiling, Nazis seated in audience. French safety minister Darnand speaking from podi...

  13. Personalbögen von Mitarbeitern des öffentlichen Dienstes bei Post und Bahn

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • PERS 100
    • German
    • Sammlung 3794 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 129,2 laufende Meter

    Bestandsbeschreibung Bestandsgeschichte Seit Mitte der 80er Jahre übernimmt das Bundesarchiv nach einer generellen Vereinbarungen mit den Landesarchiven sowie der Post und der Bahn Personalakten früherer Angehöriger der Post- und Bahnverwaltung anhand bestimmter Auswahlkriterien. Für die Personalbögen derjenigen Beschäftigten von Post und Bahn, deren Personalakten nicht in den Personalakten-Bestand "PERS 101 Personalakten von Beschäftigten des öffentlichen Dienstes" übernommen und die zunächst lediglich zu statistischen Zwecken gesammelt wurden, wurde der Bundesarchiv-Bestand "PERS 100 Pers...

  14. Papers re 'Gerechtigkeit', an Austrian anti-Nazi publication

    The collection consists of 4 letters from the offices of the publishers of Gerechtigkeit, an Austrian anti-racist publication. In addition there is an apparently unrelated note about the Austrian Office, a body supported by the bulk of Austrian liberals, Austrian legitimists and some Austrian socialists. The letters in this collection are also evidence of the organisers' desire to create an international anti-nazi movement. Moritz Zalman, responds to a letter at 735/1, because his colleague, Irene Harand is in Poland. The letter itself is addressed to a professor in Amsterdam. The letter at...

  15. Processo de pedido de visto para Weimersheimer, mulher de Weimersheimer, Deutsch, mulher de Deutsch, Henri Soulice, Jean Couloutros e mulher de Jean Couloutros

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Lausanne para Weimersheimer, de nacionalidade alemã, com destino não identificado. Visto recusado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Lausanne para mulher de Weimersheimer, de nacionalidade alemã, com destino não identificado. Visto recusado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Lausanne para Deutsch, de nacionalidade checoslovaca, com destino ao Haiti. Visto recusado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Lausanne para mulher de Deutsch, de nacionalidade checoslovaca, com desti...

  16. Rīgas pilsētas policijas iestādes

    • Riga City Police Institutions
    • Polizeibehörden Stadt Riga

    The fonds contains a large amount of information about activities of the Police Institution in the district since 1919. The wartime documents include reports of the chief of the Riga and district police precincts and criminal department about arrests of Jews, evictions from apartments, shooting of Jews in Riga and environs, suicide cases, burning of synagogue, and using of Jewish labour.

  17. Reichs Prosecutor´s Office of Litoměřice

    The fonds contains files of the judicial agenda from the district of the Land Court Litoměřice. General and collective files are preserved in the fonds, as well as staff files. Proper files of the criminal agenda capture cases relating to political offences, serious social cases, murders, suicides, robberies, moral and property offences, major road and rail accidents, unauthorised contact with prisoners etc. Index Js holds records of political offences which were forwarded to the People’s Court of Justice in Berlin (high treason, treason, sabotage). Records of additional investigation of in...

  18. Oral history interviews of the Israel Documentation Project

    Oral history interviews of the Israel Documentation project recorded by the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, the Massuah Institute for the Study of the Holocaust, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The 383 interviews in the collection date from 1991 to 2000 with two new additions in 2011, and as an ongoing project, additional interviews will be added. The interviews are recorded in a variety of languages including Hebrew, Yiddish, Polish, Russian, and French. Interviews include survivors of the Holocaust who immigrated to Israel.

  19. Bomb damage in Germany

    Various aerial shots of bombed military installations and marshalling yards. Bomb damage in Wiesbaden concentration camp. Damaged buildings in Wiesbaden. MLS trainer parked on airfield. Aerial shots of bomb damage in marshalling yards near Wiesbaden and destroyed town, bridge. Prison camp showing refugees in square. Bomb damaged train and buildings along track. Aerial shot of bomb damage in Durkheim, including town, marshalling yards. Bomb damage in Worms, Germany. Shots of bombed bridges in Frankfurt (hazy). Aerial shot of refugees in prison camp. Bomb damage in marshalling yards, building...

  20. March of Time -- outtakes -- MOMA Film Library and the motion picture industry

    Title: "Special Academy Award, RKO Radio Pictures. TIME the weekly news magazine presents a new kind of pictorial journalism. In this issue, The Movies March On! The March of Time, New York City." MLSs, street scenes, Fifth Ave, NYC, entrance to MOMA, the "spanking new home" for modern art, "no dusty storehouse for old masters." CU, sign above entrance to the film library. VS of Abbott and Barry at work, screening films, smoking and discussing films. VS, the MOMA vaults, CU of film cans. A clip from "The Great Train Robbery" is shown. VS, studio lots, production in progress on the set of a ...