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  1. US Army in Japan

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 18, No. 431. Release date, 09/06/1945. According to UN advance information, "Tokio [sic], The Desolate City." As Yanks occupy the Japanese capital they see that Tokio is a ruined city. The antiquated Jap fire-fighting equipment was unable to save immense areas which were burned out by fire bomb raids. Yet, most of the buildings in the Mikado's compound are untouched.

  2. Osobyi Archive records relating to Romania

    Contains records relating to the activities of the Council of Ministers; the military and economic effects of the General Staff of the Army’s 1940 evacuation of Bessarabia; and the General Staff’s response to an order from Ion Antonescu dated December 4, 1943. Also included are reports by the Military Cabinet on partisan activities, the treatment of Jews, anti-Soviet propaganda, the disposition of Romanian property in Bessarabia and North Bukovina in 1940, Romanian prisoners of war in the USSR, and SSI correspondence with military organs relating to conditions in Transnistria, Bessarabia, B...

  3. Oral history interview with Olga Kuludjian and Karnig Kuludjian

  4. Gateway to Victory: Rome taken

    US troops enter Rome under the supervision of Gen. Clark. A mob attacks collaborationists. Pope Pius XII addresses the populace.

  5. Jehovah's Witnesses

    A documentary about the fate of the Kusserow family in Germany during WWII. They are Jehovah's Witnesses.

  6. Book

    Family tree of aryan descent (ahnenpass) issued by the Nazi Party.

  7. Selected records from the State Museum of Majdanek

    Contains information about the Majdanek killing center near Lublin, Poland; included are a transport list of Polish Jews who arrived in May 1942 and fragments of lists of Jews of various nationalities who died at the camp during May to September 1942.

  8. Records relating to the fate of Jews from Gorinchem, Netherlands

    Relates to the fate of the Jews of the town of Gorinchem in the Netherlands during the Nazi occupation. Includes lists of German citizens in Gorinchem with Jews separately noted; list of Jews in Gorinchem and "aryans" married to Jews; a list of 70 Holocaust victims from Gorinchem; and key to symbols used for name lists with English translation.

  9. Miklos Szalay papers

    Contains information about Miklos Szalay and the role he and his family played in hiding and protecting a downed Jewish-American airman and a Jewish escapee from a labor camp in Hungary during the Holocaust.

  10. Peter O. Vlčko papers

    Memoir relates to Mr. Vlčko's experiences in Slovakia during the Holocaust, including his interfaith marriage to a Jewish woman and his aid to her and to other Jews threatened with persecution. Inclules letters to Harvey Sarner and to the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith relate to the postwar Arab-Israeli conflict, and to antisemitism in general.

  11. Stern family papers relating to restitution

    Relates to the fate of Ilse Stern Salinger, who was incarcerated in Westerbork and later perished at Auschwitz along with her husband and child. Also relates to cooperative efforts by Mrs. Salinger's father, Robert Stern, and her mother-in-law, Clara Alice Steinhaus, to obtain restitution from the West German government for damages (e.g. loss of freedom, loss of property) to Ilse Salinger.

  12. Rundschreiben from the Frankfurt am Main office of the United Restitution Organization

    Collection consist of thermofax and mimeograph copies of United Restitution Organization (URO) Rundschreiben from the Frankfurt am Main office, 1961-1970; miscellaneous printed and mimeograph memorandums, statistical reports, etc. some are from the URO office in Berlin.

  13. "Children of the Holocaust"

    The writer's account of the suffering of children she witnessed as a concentration camp inmate. She does not indicate the name of the camp, but another version of the memoir makes clear that it was Riga-Kaiserwald.

  14. Häftlingspersonalbogen from Auschwitz concentration camp

    Contains Häftlingspersonalbogen (prisoner registration forms), numbered 1 through 331, for female prisoners at the women's camp at Auschwitz (reel 1) and Häftlingspersonalbogen, numbered 1 through 4,50,0 for male prisoners at the Auschwitz main camp (reels 2-9). Each of the Häftlingspersonalbogen contains personal information such as date and place of birth, marital status, date of arrest, date of entry into the camp, nationality, occupation, religion, race, and physical appearance. Registration forms relate to prisoners, mainly Jews, from different European countries. Also included is i...

  15. Einwandererzentralstelle, Rasse und Siedlungsamt, Aussenstelle Litzmannstadt records (Sygn. 167)

    Contains information about the activities of the Einwandererzentralstelle, Rasse und Siedlungsamt, Aussenstelle Litzmannstadt from circa 1939 to circa 1944; resettlement of Poles; Germanization of native Poles; Germanization of Polish children; qualification of Poles as Volksdeutsche; racial investigations by the SS; Mischlinge; marriages of SS members; transports; establishment of concentration camps; and Poles used in forced labor.

  16. Der SS und Polizeiführer im Distrikt Lublin records (Sygn. 891)

    Contains information about propaganda; SS activities in Lublin, Poland; police activities in Lublin; industry; agriculture; "Germanization" and propagation of German culture in occupied areas of Poland; members of the SS in Lublin; and combatting partisans.

  17. Kreishauptmann in Busko, Innere Verwaltung (Sygn. 164)

    Contains information about activities of county officials in the Busko area; activity of the Polish police in the Busko area; agriculture; abolition of various unions and associations; banking activities in the Busko area; persecution of Roma; education; propaganda; health conditions; sports; economy; and health care for children.

  18. Records of der Landrat des Kreises Schrimm (Sygn.65)

    Contains circular letters, reports, and various other documents relating to the activities of the offices of the Landrat (district magistrate) des Kreises Schrimm (Śrem, Poland); employees of the Landrat office; the Gestapo office in Poznan; apprehension of prisoners of war; activities of the rural police in western Poland; extradition of Polish prisoners of war interned in Hungary and recruited into the Polish army in France; the transport of Franz Sobkowiak to Mauthausen; transports of prisoners to concentration camps; and a propaganda campaign by the "Army Information Garrison" to attrac...

  19. Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführers SS - SD Leitabschnitt Kattowitz (Katowice) (Sygn.169)

    Contains reports about the public opinion in various towns in the vicinity of Kattowitz from circa 1941 to circa 1944. The reports contain information about public opinions on economic matters, political matters, Russians, and members of the National Socialist's Russian movement in Germany; the "Day of German Domestic Music"; and recruitment of women into the air defense service.

  20. Records of the Gendarmerie Kreis Wollstein (Sygn. 73)

    Contains quarterly situation reports from 1940 to 1943 concerning political and economic atmosphere, population, criminal activity, German-Polish relations, strength of the police force, and special occurrences in several towns of the Wolstein (Wolsztyn) district including Gro-Nelken, Kirchdorf, Deutsch-Gabel, Wollstein, Teichrode, Weiberg, Kirchplatz, Rakwitz, Altkloster, and Klosterweise. Also contains regulations concerning confiscation, registration, operation and repair of motor vehicles (December 1939).