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  1. Janke, Lothar

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Elektriker, Ingenieur für Fernmeldetechnik, Dipl.-Ingenieur für Elektrotechnik; Entwicklungsingenieur im Bereich Forschung und Entwicklung im Fernsehgerätewerk VEB Rafena-Werk Radeberg (1952-1963); Tätigkeit in der Abt. Elektronik des Volkswirtschaftsrates der DDR (1963-1966), Leiter der Abt. Wissenschaft und Technik des Ministeriums für Elektrotechnik und Elektronik (1966), Stellv. des Ministers für Elektrotechnik und Elektronik (1969-1978); Vizepräsident, dann 1. Stellvertretr des Präsidenten, des Amtes für Erfindungs- und Patentwesen (1978-1990) Bestandsbe...

  2. Jannushka J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jannushka J., who was born in Paris, France in 1933. She recounts her parents' eastern European backgrounds; their secularism (she did not realize she was Jewish); German invasion; fleeing with her mother and brother to Pithiviers; returning to Paris; anti-Jewish harassment at school; being sent to Drancy; their escape; assimilating Nazi propaganda thus believing Jews were ugly and usurious; her parents placing her and her brother with the Resistance; being hidden outside Paris; living with a woman who treated them cruelly; converting to Catholicism; carrying messages...

  3. Janos and Marta Beer papers

    The János and Marta Beér papers consist of five photographs by Tom Veres; three lists of Jews in different localities (prison camps) who fall under the protection of the Swedish Legation in Hungary; a letter signed by Raoul Wallenberg to free Dr. Georg Ballint (a Swedish citizen); a document issued by the Royal Swedish Embassy in Budapest stating that János Beér is a permanent employee of the Humanitarian Department; an identification card for János Beér issued by the Office for Jewish Issues; and a work identification card signed by Raoul Wallenberg.

  4. Jansen, Kapitein G. (cdt. Fort 't Spoel te Culemborg)

    Gerrit Jansen werd op 5 april 1893 te Gennep (Limburg) geboren. Tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog werd hij bij de grenswacht te Eleringen, gemeente Tubbergen tot commandant benoemd. In 1939 werd Kapitein Jansen opnieuw gemobiliseerd en op 18 april 1940 werd zijn hele compagnie 'overgewandeld' naar Tiel. Jansen's compagnie werd niet daadwerkelijk ingezet bij de verdediging van de Grebbelinie, maar op 10 mei kwam toch de oorlog over hen heen. Bij de beschieting van een Nederlandse batterij aan de Elzenpas op 11 mei viel er een dode en gewonden. Na de capitulatie volgde een chaotische terugtocht,...

  5. Japanese & German troops advance; African campaign; Stalin's fight against Germany; factories on home front

    Records world-wide war activities. Reel 2: (1942) Japanese and German troops continue to advance on all fronts. US and Japanese fleets are attacked by carrier planes off Midway. The British stop German armor at El Alamein, Egypt. Shows street fighting in Stalingrad. Shows British and Russian factories. Personages: Admiral Nimitz, Joseph Stalin.

  6. Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 36, No. 30, Part 3. MS and CU of Japanese envoys coming down steps and getting into car. LS Japanese planes in sky. AV bombing of Pearl Harbor. Civilians in street. Ship "Arizona" in heavy smoke. NYC scenes, Times Square headlines. Shot of broadcasters. Hawaii shots of wounded and damage. Japanese midget-subs and destroyed ships.

  7. Japanese in South Pacific

    Japanese ships battling Americans and English in the South Pacific. Shots of Japanese sailors preparing for battle, shoes running across the deck and up stairs of the ship, exciting music. Japanese planes taking off from the deck of an aircraft carrier; shots of planes in the air. Battle scenes from the Japanese ship's perspective, including guns firing and low-flying planes, with dramatic music and occasional comments by the narrator. A graphic illustrates the number of American vessels destroyed by the Japanese. "In the first eleven months of the war, the Japanese navy has destroyed seven...

  8. Jar containing bars of soap presented to an employee at the American Victory Foundation

  9. Jarosch, Walter (Major)

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Geboren am 05.04.1879 in Bensberg a.Rh.; gestorben am 24.02.1920. 1902 verheiratet mit Anna Luise Johanna, Tochter des Majors Otto von Schweder. Eintritt in die königlich-preußische Armee um 1896. Beförderungen: 18.08.1898 Leutnant; 27.01.1909 Oberleutnant; 22.03.1912 Hauptmann; 1919 Major; Abschied 24.02.1920. Dienststellungen: 18.08.1898 2. Thür. Inf.Rgt. Nr. 32; 1898/99 Kriegsakadamie; 1900 2. Thür. Inf.Rgt. Nr. 32; März 1912 I. A.K.; 1914 GenSt. OBKdo. Heeresgruppe Kiew; 06.04.1916 GenSt. 8. A.O.K. und zeitweiliger Dienst im GenSt. der Südarmee; 1918 GenS...

  10. Jaroslav Pistek collection

    The collection consists of an issue of Kladderadatsch and nine pieces of scrip from Theresienstadt ghetto labor camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic).

  11. Jarreck, Walter

    Bestandsbeschreibung 31. Jan. 1903 in Gelsenkirchen geboren 1909-1917 Besuch der Volksschule 1917-1931 tätig als Bergmann seit 1919 gewerkschaftlich organisiert 1925 als Ringer in der Arbeitersportbewegung Teilnehmer an der Arbeiterolympiade in Frankfurt bis 1929/1930 Mitglied des Betriebsrates der Schachtanlage Westerholt seit 1931 Mitglied der KPD und des Stadtparlaments in Gelsenkirchen 1932 - 1933 Sekretär für Agitation und Propaganda im KPD - Unterbezirk Gelsenkirchen 1933 Mitglied des Provinziallandtages/ Kandidat für den Reichstag ab Feb. 1933 illegale Tätigkeit, Unterbezirkssekretär...

  12. Jas?a A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotaped testimony of Jas?a A., who was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1918. He recalls leaving Belgrade with his cousins and sister on April 6, 1941, when Germany invaded; traveling to a village on the Bay of Kotor; being joined by his family, except one brother who was a POW; brief hospitalization in Cetinje; organizing a Jewish partisan unit; transport of the Jews by the Italians to a military camp in Kavaje?, Albania in July; benign treatment by the Italians; ship transfer in November to Bari, Italy, then Ferramonti; prisoner-organized cultural, sport, educational, and administrative...

  13. Jaša and Enica Frances Altarac families collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Jaša Altarac and his family before and during the war in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (later Serbia,) and during the Holocaust in Skopje, Macedonia, Pristina, Kosovo, and Albania and two photographs relating to the experiences of Enica Frances and her family in Albania during the Holocaust.

  14. Jasenovac camp

    This short film presents the atrocities committed in Jasenovac camp and was filmed only a few days following the liberation of the camp. This version is missing some of the opening titles, but includes the credits. Introductory statement scrolls by on screen: Ovaj dokumentarrni film sniman je poslije oslobodjenje sela I logora jasenovac. Snimke hoje prihazuju zatocenike I rad, snimali su ustase ranije s namjerom, da opovrgnu glasove o masovnom klnadu I mucenju, a nadoene su u filmskom ustaskom arhivu prigodom oslobodjenja zagreba. Podaci su doiveni od komisije za utvrdjivanje ratnih zlocina...

  15. Jasenovac Camp

    Opening scene: color footage of visitors to the Jasenovac Memorial Area. Image switches to black and white footage of CU pan of a sculpture of a human form lying on the ground on top of smooth white stones. Ceremony: Military giving out badges and medals. An unidentified high ranking officer pins a male soldier as the soldier salutes him; MCU of women who have been awarded medals, standing in a row. MS of train tracks that are overgrown with weeds. 01:01:32 Countryside, pan of grounds. Slate reads: "Jasenovac Est./ Dan. 54A/1" The camera continues to pan overgrown train tracks and the surro...

  16. Jasenovac Memorial Area collection

    This collection contains records created by the camp memorial administrations of Jasenovac, Lobor-Grad, and Stara Gradiška, including registers of artifacts and documents; testimonies by surviving inmates of the camps; copies of files relating to Croatian war crimes investigations and trials; documents relating to the camps and the activities of the Croatian government ministries during the period 1941‒1945; name lists of people who were displaced, deported, interned, and/or murdered; translations of German documents relating to the activities of German military units in Croatia; testimonie...

  17. Jasenovac oral history project

    Oral history interviews with ten Jasenovac concentration camp survivors recorded as part of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Jasenovac oral history project.

  18. Jaslo, Poland massacre site footage

    Contains one videocassette of footage shot in Jaslo, Poland, by George Lerner in 1994. The footage is of the site of a massacre which occurred in 1942 when the Nazis shot the Jews of the town.

  19. Jason Finkel collection

    Consists of five black and white photographs depicting wartime burial of corpses by German personnel and others. The majority of photographs may have been taken on the eastern front. Also includes one photograph of emaciated male prisoners, also seemingly wartime.

  20. Javni ured rada Sarajevo

    • Public Office for Work Sarajevo

    Information about situation of Jewish and other employees in the Independent State of Croatia.