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  1. March of Time -- outtakes -- Red Army advances; destruction of Warsaw

    On the Eastern Front. Russian Newsreel. Slate in Russian: "Front Issues-First Belorussian Front, 1945" Russian officers studying map. Explosions on Visla riverbanks. Underground bunkers. Map with Russian names of the Western Front, showing Red Army advancing. Dead German soldiers. Russian and Polish soldiers put up a Polish flag (Polish Hymn heard in BG). Destroyed Warsaw. Ruins of: University; theater; Chopin's home; streetcars. Sign "Adolph Hitler Platz." Warsaw inhabitants march on street with orchestra. Red Army, Polish Army, crowds.

  2. Justice Ministry : State Court Linz-Criminal cases against illegal Nazi Party members Justizministerium : Landesgericht Linz-Strafsachen gegen illegale NSDAP Mitglieder (AT-OeSta /AVA Justiz)

    Court cases against illegal Nazi party members in Linz and surrounding localities in Upper Austria before annexation to Nazi Germany.

  3. Records of the Ahavat Chesed Credit Union in Lwów, Poland (Fond 498, Opis1)

    The bulk of this collection consists of the applications of the members of the union for loans and financial assistance. The credit union was established for the purpose of providing financial assistance to working Jewish intelligentsia and members of their families. The trade union in Lwow, Poland (now L'viv, Ukraine) served as the central office for the whole of Eastern Galicia (Malopolska) .

  4. March of Time -- outtakes -- Germans arrive in Sudetenland; Sudeten refugees

    Big crowd mourning, (German) women in tears, talking; Nazi speaker heard. People in courtyard silently heiling. Pan, women cries as she heils. Sad faces of children and women boarding streetcar. Men on bicycles rush down street, men with QF ruined room. Border, gate going up, grinning Nazis on horseback go through. Lots of marching Nazis, heiling (hesitant). Nazis on carts, peasant women, flowers, heiling on cue, others being taught to heil. CU, elderly woman watches and does nothing. Goering with children. SS feeding people in square. Families standing together for camera, looking happy. F...

  5. Executive Committee of the Tașlîc village council of workers' Deputies in Grigoriopol district

    • Исполнительный комитет Ташлыкского Сельского совета депутатов трудящихся Григориопольского района МССР
    • Ispolnitel'nyy komitet Tashlykskogo Sel'skogo soveta deputatov trudyashchikhsya Grigoriopol'skogo rayona MSSR

    Registration of military cemeteries; lists of soldiers buried in 1944-1945

  6. SILCOFF, Maurice

    4 minute books, initial entries in Yiddish, subsequent ones in English (1926-1971) for the Capmakers Union (Headgear Workers Central Bureau of Canada - cloth hat, cap and millinery workers international union). The books include some inter-filed clippings and loose correspondence. 2 oversize photos; cloak workers union and ILGWU (International Ladies Garment Workers Union). Addition 2009: Booklet , by the Montefiore Observer, consisting of humorous essays written by Maurice Silcoff about life in the Manoir Montefiore Jewish seniors residence in Cote St. Luc. The booklet was produced by his ...

  7. Processo de pedido de visto para Ribuffel, mulher de Ribuffel, Hervé de Portes, Anne de Portes e Alice Feillere

    Processo de pedido de visto pela Legação da França ao Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros para Ribuffel, de nacionalidade francesa e residente em França, com destino a Marrocos. Sem informação de autorização de visto. Processo de pedido de visto pela Legação da França ao Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros para mulher de Ribuffel, de nacionalidade francesa e residente em França, com destino a Marrocos. Sem informação de autorização de visto. Processo de pedido de visto pela Legação da França ao Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros para Hervé de Portes, de nacionalidade francesa e resident...

  8. March of Time -- outtakes -- Foreign Service Officers Training; Dept of State

    Sign over door: Foreign Service Officers Training School. Seal and machinery for stamping the seal. Sign: Appointments: Department of State. Statement to camera (and to those gathered for class). Sync sound about the American Foreign Service, duties, importance. Silent views of individuals seated in the room taking notes. Sync sound: swearing of oath. Another take of same. (Two men) Calendar on wall in background: November. WS, of large room, procters during examinations at desks. Candidates are exclusively male; most in shirts and ties, no jackets. McCrory's store on corner, trams and traf...

  9. Deutsche Botschaft Bern

    Unterlagen zum Geschäftsgang.

  10. Regional Inspectorate of Security in Bessarabia

    • Inspectoratul Regional de Siguranță din Basarabia
    • Бессарабский областной инспекториат полиции
    • Bessarabskiy oblastnoy inspektoriat politsii

    Intelligence materials on the external surveillance of the Soviet diplomatic mission in Romania; historical overview of the legionary and iron guard movement in Romania (1940-1941); information reports of the 3rd Romanian army on the moral condition and political sentiment of the army personnel and the population (1940-1942); information about the Soviet prisoners of war to be interned in the camp (lists of people, 1941); lists of Romanian citizens who served in the German army (1943); lists of informants of the secret information service of Romania etc.

  11. Selected records of the Departmental Archives of the Haute-Vienne

    Contains documents from the camps at Nexon, Saint-Paul d'Eyjeaux, Séreilhac, Saint-Germain-les-Belles, Saint Sulpice-la-Pointe, and la Meyse. Includes documents related to the organization and forced labor of foreigners in France during the Vichy regime. Also includes documents pertaining to the massacre at Oradour-sur-Glane, France, on June 10, 1944; the Œuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE) children's home at Chateau Montintin; and emigration to Palestine after World War II.

  12. Harriet Postman correspondence

    The Harriet Postman correspondence documents Postman's unsuccessful efforts to assist Flora Hochsinger's immigration to the United States from Vienna. Letters include correspondence between Flora Hochsinger and Harriet Postman as well as between Postman and relatives, friends, and aid agencies Postman contacted for help, such as the Boston Committee for Refugees, B'nai Brith, and Eleanor Roosevelt.

  13. Guttentag family papers

    Contains one diary written by Dr. Adolf Guttentag in Berlin, Germany in 1942. In the diary, Dr. Guttentag described his experiences as a Jew in Berlin, anticipated his deportation to Theresienstadt, and addressed his son Otto, who had been able to emigrate to the United States, instructing Otto how to remember his parents. At the end of the diary, which is written in German, Dr. Guttentag wrote goodbye to his son and chronicled the date on which he and his wife committed suicide. Includes an English translation of the diary as well as four black and white photographs of Adolf and Helene Gut...

  14. Bert E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bert E., who served in the United States Army in World War II. He recounts serving in a tank battalion of the 4th Armored Division; deployment to Europe in 1944; entering Ohrdruf concentration camp; emaciated prisoners; stacks of corpses; his state of shock; and assignment to occupation forces in Wilseder Berg where they found prisoners bodies in a mass grave, and then organized a proper funeral. He reads excerpts and shows photographs, including his own, from the history of the 4th Armored Division.

  15. Powiatowy Oddział Państwowego Urzędu Repatriacyjnego w Lubartowie

    • State Repatriation Office. Lubartów County Branch

    Zarządzenia Ministerstwa Ziem Odzyskanych, 1947-1948, sygn. 1 Materiały pokontrolne, 1947-1948, sygn. 2 Ewidencja osób przesiedlonych, 1945-1948, sygn. 3-6 Wykazy i opisy mienia osób przesiedlonych, 1945-1946, sygn. 7-9

  16. Ministry of Foreign Affairs : Danish Refugee Administration in Sweden Central Register (Group A-Ø)

    Consits of the alphabetical (phonetic) register of refugees with detailed information about an each refugee, including both Jews and resistance fighters and their families. There are no related files to the register, but the information on the cards is quite unique. This collection contains the most detailed and systematic overview of Danish refugees in Sweden.

  17. Wolfram Sievers: Documents regarding his SS membership

    Readers need to reserve a terminal in the reading room to access a digital version of this archive.Microfilm file of documents on Wolfram Sievers concerning his SS membership, including Lebenslauf, SS muster roll extract; personnel questionnaire; service career; examination certificates 

  18. Okręgowa Komisja Badania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu - Instytut Pamięci Narodowej w Szczecinie

    • akta administracyjne (sprawozdania, konferencje, plany pracy, kontrole) - ankietyzacja miejsc i faktów zbrodni niemieckich - akta dotyczące badań nad zbrodniami niemieckimi (dokumenty dotyczące badań nad obozami niemieckimi, rejestry egzekucji wykonanych w latach 1939-1945) - dane dotyczące robotników przymusowych na terenie Pomorza Zachodniego, zeznania świadków, akta żołnierzy SA i członków NSDAP

  19. Rokiskis district police commander in Uzinth (Fond R-708/1)

    Consists of a name list of policemen who received awards for the performance of various duties.

  20. Halmi z Košíc

    • The Halmi family from Košice

    The collection is based on the legacy of one of the Halmi (Hennefeld) family from Košice in the period between 1867 and 1945. The documents that were preserved in the legacy are connected mainly to the personal files of four brothers, Félix, Jenő, Pál and Béla Halmi, and their sister, Piroska who were active in the political, social and cultural life of Košice. Many of the documents belonging to the family legacy concerns the life and survival strategies of the familiy after the first Vienna Award in 1938 and during the holocaust. Among these materials are also their requests for exceptions...