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  1. Selected records from the Archives Départementales des Côtes d'Armor

    Contains information pertaining to the persecution of Jews, Freemasons, Communists, and French Resistance fighters in the area in and around the Côtes d'Armor. Also contains information on post war memorials.

  2. Nazi propaganda: home front

    The feature film begins with German families, including young people in HJ and BDM uniforms, running to a bomb shelter during an air raid alarm in Berlin in WWII. They discuss the endeavors of the German youth in the war effort. An older man recounts his own experience as an illusionist Wandervogel [wandering bird] before 1914 as romantic, utopian, and egoistic, whereas the 'hard reality' would now call for a different approach of the youth. Asked about their contribution to the ongoing "Daseinskampf" [struggle for existence] of the German people a uniformed member of the Jungvolk [young pe...

  3. Verdoner children playing in the yard

    VS, Francisca and Yoka Verdoner playing in their yard with their mother Hilde and their grandmother, and two puppy dogs.

  4. Einstein

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 3, No. 3, Part 3. Release date, 01/05/1931. According to UN Offical Motion Picture Release: "Throngs Acclaim Einstein's Arrival at Pacific Coast" San Diego, CA. Mount Wilson's Observatory helps to prove scientist's theory of relativity. Many of world's eminent astronomers join in making noted German's visit one of keen interest. CU, ship SS Blegenland, girls in middy blouses wave plumes for him. Einstein down gangplank, poses. (Most views of AE are out of focus.) ECU face, outdoor amphitheater. Einstein's wife is also in the picture. Other parts of the newsreel incl...

  5. Reichsoberseeamt und Seedisziplinarhof

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Bestandsgeschichte Das Schriftgut des (Reichs-)Oberseeamtes, soweit vom Reichsarchiv übernommen, ist im April 1945 in Potsdam verbrannt. Die überlieferten Akten wurdem vom Bundesoberseeamt in Hamburg übernommen. Bestandsbeschreibung Der Bestand umfasst die vom Reichsoberseeamt und vom Seedisziplinarhof überlieferten Akten. Im Einzelnen vom Reichsoberseeamt Generalakten 1878-1935 und Verfahrensakten und vom Seediziplinarhof Generalakten, chronologisch und nach Schiffsnamen geordnete Spruchakten sowie Register. Erschliessungszustand Findbuch (1991) Zitierweise ...

  6. Starostwo Powiatowe w Świeciu

    • Landratsamt Schwetz
    • Świecie County Governor's Office
    1. Sprawy organizacyjno-administracyjne: okólniki, odznaczenia, akta personalne 2. Sprawy policyjne: osadnictwo Niemców nadbałtyckich w powiecie, żebractwo 3. Sprawy szkolne: przejęcie nawłasność państwa poniemieckich szkół w powiecie 4. Sprawy gospodarcze i budowlane: zezwolenia na prowadzenie zakładow przemysłowych, budowa mleczarń, rozbudowa szpitala w Świeciu, pożyczki na cele budowlane 5. Sprawy wojskowe: pomoc dla rodzin żołnierzy 6. Finanse i sprawy majątkowe: budżety gmin, straty wojenne z 1939 r. 7. Statystyka ludnościowa: spis ludności z 1940 r. 8. Niemiecka lista narodowa: wnioski

  7. Collection of Jewish pamphlets of contemporary relevance and rare periodicals from the collections of the Library of the Vilnius University, Lithuania

    The collection contains copies of Jewish pamphlets of contemporary relevance and rare periodicals from the collections of the Library of the Vilnius University, Lithuania related to the life, culture, political and educational activities of the Jewish communities of Lithuania before WWII.

  8. Selected records of the Anti-Joodse Centrale

    Contains information created or collected by the Anti-Joodse Centrale for the purpose of enabling antisemitic measures in occupied Belgium.

  9. Bach-Zelewski testifies at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 488) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 7, 1946. MS, Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and Wilhelm Keitel in prisoners' dock as Col. Telford Taylor addresses the Tribunal. MS, witness Eric von dem Bach-Zelewski testifying in German. MLS, rear view, Russian prosecutor Col. Pokrovsky cross examines Bach-Zelewski, regarding Einsatzgruppe B. Questions are asked in Russian; witness answers in German. Alfred Jodl's counselor, Dr. Franz Exner, questions Bach-Zelewski. Questions and answers are in German. Another defense counselor, Dr. Kraus, questions the wit...

  10. Židovské organizace

    • Jewish organisations

    The collection contains documents about activities of Jewish organisations and individuals that were examined by the Czechoslovak security apparatus during the 1950s. It includes materials of Jewish relief organisations, in particular of the American Joint Distribution Committee (JOINT) in Czechoslovakia, documents about Jewish emigration from Czechoslovakia (especially between 1945 and 1950), and of Zionist organisations. It also contains materials about Czechoslovak assistance to Israel in 1948-49, including training and shipments of weaponry. Among other materials, it also contains a fil...

  11. Bessarabian Regional Police Inspectorate. Police Headquarters Cahul

    • Inspectoratului Regional de Poliție al Basarabiei. Poliţia centrelor județene. Cahul
    • Полиция города Кагул
    • Politsiya goroda Kagul

    The fond contains documents that reflect the activity of Cahul City Police in between 1933-1944; the lists of Jews in prisons on July 22, 1941; correspondence with the Regional Police Inspectorate in Chisinau regarding the legal status of the Jews; the lists of Jews who emigrated to Palestine and those who converted to Christianity.

  12. Posterunek Żandarmerii w Woli Pękoszewskiej [Gendarmerie Posten Wola Pękoszewska]

    • akta administracyjne (zarządzenia i pisma okólne dot. odnajdywania zakopanej broni na terenie GG przy pomocy różdżkarzy, organizacji sądownictwa SS i policji, służby wartowniczej w Warszawie, umundurowania oraz wyposażenia policji polskiej i ukraińskiej, udzielania pomocy rodzinom rannych policjantów, zwalczania nielegalnego handlu, obrony przeciwlotniczej, obchodów dnia policji niemieckiej; rozkazy dzienne dowódcy Policji Porządkowej w GG, komendanta Policji Porządkowej dla dystryktu warszawskiego odnośnie odkomenderowań, podróży służbowych, awansów, udzielania pochwał, nadawania odznacz...

  13. Коропська районна поліція, с. Короп Коропського району Чернігівської області

    • Korop district police, village of Korop, Korop district of Chernihivska oblast
    • Koropska raionna politsiia, v. Korop Koropskoho raionu Chernihivskoi oblasti

    Local auxiliary police documentation can contain information related to the Holocaust. Titles and sizes of the selected files: File 2. Lists of policemen of Korop district to obtain allowance, 35 pages. File 3. Lists of policemen. Reports about searches, statements for obtaining food assistance, 73 pages. File 4. Lists of policemen of Korop district. Reports on receiving food and food inventories. Applications for food and uniforms, 105 pages. File 5. Lists of policemen to obtain foodstuff. Salary inventories for assistants of Korop district police, 202 pages. File 9. Salary inventories for...

  14. Levenbach, M.G.

  15. Fonds avant-guerre / guerre des ondes

    • Pre-war fonds / war of the airwaves

    Pre-war (1933–1940) The fonds includes programmes broadcast on state radio stations and private stations. - Public stations: Paris PTT, Radio Paris, Poste Colonial - Private stations: Poste Parisien, Radio cité, Radio Nîmes, Radio 37 Agence sonore Radio Actualités Françaises: several copies of material and reports that had been recorded on discs for distribution to different radio stations War of the airwaves (1940–1944) The fonds consists of radio recordings from different radio stations broadcasting: - In occupied areas: Radio Paris - In the free zone: Radio Vichy - In Free France...

  16. Father Antoni Gerwel collection

    Consists of a typed transcript copy of a letter, with translation, describing the Holocaust experiences of Father Antoni Gerwel, a Polish Catholic priest who perished in the Dachau concentration camp on August 31, 1942. The letter was written on July 22, 1977 by Father Jan Żelaźnicki to Father Gerwel's nephew, Jędrzej Gerwel. In the letter, Father Żelaźnicki explains that Father Gerwel was a priest in Kadzidło, Poland, and that they were deported together to Dachau in April 1940. Both were sent to Gusen and separated, but reunited again in Dachau. Father Gerwel volunteered to go to a specia...

  17. Demonstration at DP camp

    A large group gathers outside in a field carrying hand-made flags of Israel and other countries. The demonstration begins, people march in uniform, carrying signs in Hebrew. (See brief shot of same event in RG-60.1811)

  18. Records relating to Wöbbelin concentration camp

    Includes articles concerning the role of the 8th U.S. Infantry Division and the 82nd U.S. Airborne Division in the liberation of Wöbbelin concentration camp. Also included is information concerning the surrender of the 21st German Army at Tippelskirch castle near Ludwigslust, Germany. Other materials include program booklets of a Holocaust memorial service and the 1988 United States Holocaust Memorial Council Days of Remembrance ceremony in Washington, D.C.

  19. Documentation of the German State Ministry for Bohemian and Moravian Affairs (Deutsches Staatsministerium fuer Boehmen und Maehren), Germany, 1938-1945

    Documentation of the German State Ministry for Bohemian and Moravian Affairs (Deutsches Staatsministerium fuer Boehmen und Maehren), Germany, 1938-1945 The Ministry for Bohemian and Moravian Affairs was established following the occupation of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis and the establishment of the Protectorate on the majority of its territory. Konstantin von Neurath, appointed as Governor of the Protectorate by the German authorities, was, in effect, ousted from his position by Hitler, on September 1941, for introducing policies that were not harsh enough in the eyes of the Fuehrer. Wilhel...

  20. Henry Sharp collection

    The Henry Sharp papers consist of identification and registration papers documenting Sharp’s immediate post-war life as a Holocaust survivor in liberated Germany. The collection also includes photographs of Buchenwald after liberation.