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  1. 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 ...

  2. 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...

  3. 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...

  4. 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.

  5. 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...

  6. 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.

  7. 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...

  8. 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 ...

  9. Henri Maizels photograph collection

    The collection includes a photograph of Henri Maizels's parents in Paris before WWII and a photograph of Henri's aunt and uncle, who he lived with after WWII, dated 1947.

  10. Poster announcing travel restrictions for Jews in German occupied Chelmno

    Order (Anordnung) concerning use of public transportation by Jews in area inside the district of Cholm (Chelmno).

  11. 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...

  12. Bessarabian Regional Police Inspectorate. Romanovca Police Station

    • Inspectoratul Regional de Poliție al Basarabiei. Poliţia centrelor de plasǎ. Romanovca
    • Бессарабский областной инспекториат полиции. Романовский комиссариат полиции
    • Bessarabskii oblastnoi inspektoriat politsii. Romanovskii komissariat politsii

    The orders of the Bessarabian Regional Police Inspectorate about the search for suspects - members of the Communist illegal movement; copies of the information notes issued by the Bessarabian Regional Police Inspectorate about Zionist organizations; copies of the orders by the Regional Police Inspectorate of Bessarabia about the prosecution of suspects, about the demonstrators who escaped from the camps; copies of the orders of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Romania, of the Governor of Bessarabia about the measures to fight saboteurs and on deportation of Jews to Transnistria; reports ...

  13. Le Havre harbor and on board Normandie ship to the U.S.

    Title: "Havre. Homeward Bound on the 'Normandie'." Le Havre harbor. HAS. Capsized hulk of the French Lines' ship PARIS, which burned and rolled over at Le Havre in April 1939. View of another ship, possibly the French Lines' ship CHAMPLAIN docked in Le Havre, seen from the deck of 'Normandie.' On deck, people on red chaise lounge chairs, man in swimming pool behind. Good view of the Statue of Liberty.

  14. Deutsche Gesandtschaft Bukarest

    Reichskreditkasse Bukarest; Truppenversorgung.

  15. British prosecutor and map at Nuremberg Trial

    02:10:04 (Paris 419) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, December 5, 1945. MLSs, rear views only, Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe, Chief Prosecutor for Britain, speaking before the Tribunal. Cut-in animated map, "Violations of Treaties, Agreements, and Assurances." 02:12:24 (Paris 436) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, December 11, 1945. Rear views only, counsel for Fritz Sauckel, Dr. Robert Servatius, makes a plea before the Tribunal, requesting that the defending counsels be given copies of the evidence. Pan to Tribunal as Chief Justice Geoffrey Lawrence requests the counsel to clear up so...

  16. "LOL* After 67 Years"

    Consists of one bound memoir entitled "LOL* After 67 Years" written in 2012 by Peter R. Span, who was born in 1938 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, In the memoir, he describes the bombing of Belgrade which ended the attempts of his parents, Ignac Rosenfeld and Elisabeth Span, to emigrate with their sons to Mexico. After the bombing, the family moved to Subotica and in 1942 and again in 1944, Ignac was sent to a forced labor battalion. In the summer of 1944, Elisabeth and her sons (including Peter) were deported to the Ulrichskirchen labor camp in Austria, where they remained until liberation in Apr...

  17. Южный штаб партизанского движения (1941 – 1944 гг.)

    • Southern headquarters of the partisan movement (1941-1944)

    Отчет о боевой и разведывательной деятельности Краснодарского штаба партизанского движения, газеты и листовки военного времени

  18. Ruth Loewenstein collection

    Doll: handmade by Annie Loewenstein (donor's mother) in Munich, Germany. The Loewenstein family: Willy (donor's father) [b. 1894], Annie [b. 1904], Ruth (donor) [b. 1929], and Marianne (donor's sister) [b. 1932], were able to leave Germany in August 1939 for England. Ruth and Marianne were wearing thin gold bracelets on their wrists and each carried a doll. The German guard at the Dutch border tore off the bracelets, but did not pay any attention to the dolls. Upon arrival in New York on September 10, 1940, Annie took the heads off the dolls, in which she had hidden valuables. She sold the ...

  19. Valsts slepenpolicijas pārvalde Gestapo

    • Secret State Police Office (Gestapo)
    • Geheime Staatspolizei - Gestapo Amt

    The fonds contains information collected since 1924, including information about the German secret police; German diplomatic mission reports, including reports on the activities of the Communist Party; Latvian political administration official staff lists; outgoing correspondence from the Baltic states to Germany; snippets from Latvian newspapers and newspapers from other European countries;; information about migrants (Übersiedler) from Baltic states in 1941, including names of agents and persons involved.

  20. Hierl, Konstantin

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • N 1125
    • German
    • 1891-1955
    • Nachlässe 44 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 1,1 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Reichsarbeitsführer Lebenslauf 24. Febr. 1875 Geboren in Passberg Besuch von Humanistischen Gymnasien in Burghausen und Regensburg 1893 Fahnenjunker des 11. Infanterie-Regiments „von der Tann" 1895 Beförderung zum Leutnant 1899 - 1902 Besuch der Kriegsakademie 1903 Zentralstelle des Generalstabs 1907 Großer Generalstab, Berlin 1909 - 1911 17. Infanterie-Regiment „Orff" Lehrtätigkeit als Lehrer für Kriegsgeschichte und Kriegskunst an der Kriegsakademie 1918 Gründung des Freikorps „Hierl" Reichswehrministerium 30. Sept. 1924 Suspendierung wg. Unterstützung des ...