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  1. Cook book with annotations

    Cookbook entitled Grundrezepte als Schlüssel zur Kochkunst with pencilled annotations by the owner

  2. Documentation of the Reichsgericht (Reich Supreme Court) in Leipzig and the Reichsanwaltschaft (Reich Prosecution Service) associated with the court, 1939-1945

    Documentation of the Reichsgericht (Reich Supreme Court) in Leipzig and the Reichsanwaltschaft (Reich Prosecution Service) associated with the court, 1939-1945 The main subject of the files is the determination of racial origin. Appeals of verdicts handed down by various courts throughout the German Reich regarding people who had been defined as Jews or Mischlinge (children of mixed marriages) reached the Reich Supreme Court, arguing that in actuality the origin of these people was Aryan. The vast majority of the files were from Austria, mainly from Vienna. The files on Microfilm JM/29041 (...

  3. Decisions regarding the Todeserklaerungen (Declaration of Death) of Jewish victims, given in the Amtsgericht (Magistrates Court) in Herne (Westphalia)

    Decisions regarding the Todeserklaerungen (Declaration of Death) of Jewish victims, given in the Amtsgericht (Magistrates Court) in Herne (Westphalia) Decisions regarding the Todeserklaerungen (Declaration of Death) of Jewish victims, given in Courts of Law in Westphalia In the Collection are files including applications to Courts of Law in Westphalia for the recognition of death of local Jews who were deported to the East by the Nazis, and for whom no official Declaration of Death had been given. These applications (requests) were submitted in most part by the relatives of those who had pe...

  4. The Flack family in Vienna before the Holocaust

    Includes: Erika Flack, Gertrude Flack, Peter Flack, Susanne Flack, Alexander Flack, Erna Flack, Hans Flack, Emil Flack, Alfred Flack, Mathide Flack, Annie Flack, and Johann Flack.

  5. Jews in Vilna

    Sound is a bit scratchy at certain points. Crowds of people at the annual Kaziukas craft fair in Vilna. Horses stand on muddy ground. Vendors sell round pretzel-like bread (Kaziukas bread?). A woman with a fur collared coat buys strands of the round bread from a smiling vendor. CUs of nicely decorated cookies and sugar hearts. Visitors to the fair look at paintings, caged birds, rocking horses, and other items for sale. View of giant crosses on a hilltop and aerial views of the city. Picturesque shots of alleys, cobblestone streets, and archways, while the narrator describes the city as a "...

  6. Corpses, survivors at Dachau

    (LIB 6576) Atrocities at Dachau, Germany, May 3, 1945. LSs, CUs, survivors attending services conducted by American Jewish chaplain. Women and men weeping. Flags, chaplain at podium. CUs, corpses. LS, outdoor church services. MSs, survivors, flags. 02:47:43 LS, MSs Men wrapped in blankets, sitting on flatbed, assisted by liberators. Naked corpse lying in stretcher, EXT. Church service, flags. Cut to piles of corpses. Full screen view, starved, mutilated bodies of former camp inmates. Additional scenes, freight cars loaded with dead bodies. 02:50:00 HSs, long line of German prisoners is marc...

  7. March of Time -- outtakes -- Clearing ruins/rubble in Warsaw

    Men demolishing parts of wrecked walls, still standing on Place Napoleon. 06:12:03 LS and CU insert, sign with name of the future avenue dedicated "To the heroes of the Ghetto." A monument has been erected to their memory. LS the same surrounded by ruins. 06:12:25 Men and women working on tram line crossing Ghetto. 06:14:08 Old woman working on top of a heap of bricks. In FG wrecked buildings of Warsaw. LS ruins of the ghetto. Wrecked wall still standing draws a cross in the sky. 06:15:31 Cement cross emerging out of a heap of bricks. Cart loaded with rubbish passing through ruins of the gh...

  8. Rose D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rose D., who was born in Poland. She recalls her three older brothers were married and had children; her parents' deaths before the war; incarceration in a concentration camp in Poland for about four weeks; transfer to Buchenwald; slave labor in a munitions factory; sharing extra water with fellow prisoners; transfer to Bergen-Belsen; learning four nephews were the sole family survivors; emigration to the United States in late 1947; marriage; and raising a daughter. Ms. D. notes health problems resulting from her camp experiences; her continuing belief in God; and dif...

  9. Generalkommando Lombardia

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Das Generalkommando Lombardia wurde Anfang August 1944 in Italien beim OB Südwest aus Teilen des Generalkommandos LXXXVII. Armeekorps errichtet und als gemischtes deutsch-italienisches Generalkommando aufgestellt. Bis zum Kriegsende war es in Ligurien eingesetzt. Bestandsbeschreibung Ia: KTB Aug. bis Dez. 1944. Qu.: KTB Sept. bis Dez. 1944. Ic: TB Nov. bis Dez. 1944. IIa: TB Sept. bis Dez. 1944 Erschliessungszustand vollständig erschlossen Zitierweise BArch RH 24-204/...

  10. Archief van de Gemeente Bingelrade (1912) 1940-1981 (1983)

    Op 10 mei 1940 staken de Duitsers de grens over bij Jabeek. Daar er geen of weinig tegenstand werd geboden marcheerden de Duitsers naar de omliggende gemeenten. Er was geen sprake van burgerslachtoffers en evacués. Wel was er sprake van materiele schade aan woningen en zelfs aan het gemeentehuis ten gevolge van de gevechtshandelingen. Ook werden enkelen koeien en een paard gedood. De oorlog in Bingelrade duurde tot 1944. Het eerste contact met de bevrijders vond plaats op 18 september 1944. Op die dag rolden de eerste Amerikaanse tanks Bingelrade binnen om het dorp van de Duitse bezetters t...

  11. Zachariasz family photographs

    The collection consists of four photographs of Judit Popinski (born Judyta Zachariasz) and her family while in the Łódź ghetto, Poland.

  12. Schwarz-Krakowiak family papers

    Collection consists of 79 postcards sent to Hildegard Krakowiak (later Schwarz), of Shanghai, by her mother, Frieda Krakowiak, of Berlin, 1939-1941; as well as autograph album of Hildegard Krakowiak, 1919-1928.

  13. Mutti

    Consists of a photocopy of "Mutti" by Ilse M. Thompson. The memoir is an English-language translation of a German-language diary that Ilse Thompson kept from 1940 to 1946, while living as a German-Jewish refugee in the United Kingdom. Included are Thompson's reactions to news about her mother, who had remained in Germany, and to Holocaust events.

  14. Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission in the Zhitomir region, 1945-1946

    Documentation of the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission in the Zhitomir region, 1945-1946 Included in the collection are reports prepared for the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission by the Zhitomir regional committee; general information regarding the number of civilians and Soviet POWs who were murdered or deported in the region's districts; decision by the Red Army Prosecutor regarding the composition of the State Commission for the investigation of the circumstances of the murder of Jews in Lyubar in 1941; documentation regarding the exhumation of murder sites in Berdichev and the m...

  15. M.88 - Osoby Collection: Nazi documentation from the Special Archive (Osoby) in the Soviet Union

    M.88 - Osoby Collection: Nazi documentation from the Special Archive (Osoby) in the Soviet Union The Collection contains files that were photocopied from the "Special Archive" in Moscow; the existing documentation in the Archive was taken as plunder by the Red Army when it occupied Germany. In the Collection there is documentation from important archives in Germany, documentation confiscated by the Germans from countries they occupied during the war, documentation from Jewish archives in and outside of Germany confiscated by the Germans and more. It should be noted that the Collection also ...

  16. M.61.MZsML - Documentation from the Hungarian Jewish Archives (Magyar Zsidó Múzeum és Levéltár), Budapest, from 1938-1945

    M.61.MZsML - Documentation from the Hungarian Jewish Archives (Magyar Zsidó Múzeum és Levéltár), Budapest, from 1938-1945 Contents: Reel 11933 - Office of the Jewish community of Baja: lists, property Reel 11934 - Properties, documents from the Supervisor over Estates - related to places such as Velence, Seregelyes Reel 11935 - Kecskemet, conversion to Christianity, offices of the Baja community Reel 11938 - Documents from the National Archive - MOLVT - the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Schutzpass certificates, passports, protective documents Reels 11939-11940 (Lists) - List of persons who p...

  17. Претура Овідіопольського району, м. Овідіополь Овідіопольського р-ну Одеської області

    • .District Pretura of the Ovidiopol' District, Town of Ovidiopol' (Ovidiopol’ County)

    The fonds’ inventories are systematized according to the structural-chronological principle. Included are directives, instructions, and orders of the Romanian civilian and military authorities on restrictive measures regarding Jews located in the territory of Transnistria. A significant number of documents concern Jews located in ghettos and labor camps. Documents of the Romanian authorities regarding the conscription of Jews into forced labor include decrees of the governor of Transnistria on the mandatory work of Jews in Transnistria (1943); resolutions of the governor of Transnistria and...

  18. Ankiety Volksdeutschów urodzonych na terenie województwa białostockiego - różna przynależność zespołowa

    Ankiety osób ubiegających się o uzyskanie obywatelstwa niemieckiego 1940-1945, sygn. 1.

  19. Prison camp, slave labor, atrocities

    Slave labor, workshops, atrocities and leaders of camp are highlighted during war and at liberation. 01:07:10 Sign. MLS of large group of male prisoners with heads shaved. Siren and clock, men trudge up hill against big sky, men with horse-pulled carts as others work under observation. CU, men struggle with wheelbarrow full of stone and dirt, mixing cement, go up plank barefoot, watchtower guard, men at bread and water break. 01:09:27 Ustasa propaganda headlines regarding resettlement of Roma when they were being killed, CU of corpses of victims. Roma/Sinti men and women in field pulling ap...

  20. Jews in Warsaw, Poland

    Unidentified German footage, some in Warsaw. People walking in street. CUs of old man. Men working in street. Soft shots of Jewish men. CU of Jewish man (seen in newsreel). Unidentified footage of large group of Jewish men seated on ground (round-up). 01:44:48 Street scenes in Warsaw,Jewish district (ghetto). German soldier directs people. Title: "Judentypen" CUs Jewish men on street. Shot of Warsaw main station. Title: "Mit der Kleinbahn zum HKD Gora-Calvaria" Flash of footage. Title: "Juden-Getto in Warschau" Street scene, pedestrians with armbands. CU sign: "Rogatschew" (seen before). 01...