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  1. Erika Fry identifcation document

    Identification document issued to Erika Fry, 1939, Vienna, Germany (Austria). Includes "Amtsbestätigung" (official confirmation) adding the middle name "Sara."

  2. Russian News (1944, No. 1)

    Russian troops, tanks, and motorcycles cross the Dvina River on rafts and reach Vitebsk. Artillery fires on the city. Troops march through its ruins. Germans surrender and are marched to the rear. Citizens berate them, and embrace Russian soldiers. Rockets and artillery are fired. Russian planes pass over. Shows German dead, abandoned equipment, and German prisoners. Five German generals are interrogated by Russian troops.

  3. Polish Consulate General in Tel-Aviv Konsulat Generalny Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej w Tel-Avivie (A.49)

    Contains documents from the Polish Consulate General in Tel Aviv, including: correspondence, personal files and accounts from 1928-1945, relating to the removal of Polish citizenship (refers mainly to Jews), lists of deserters, and refugees. Consuls General: Tadeusz Piszczkowski (1937-1940), Henryk Rosmarin (1940-1945).

  4. Records of the headquarters of the Polish Army Akta władz naczelnych Polskiej Armii (A.XII)

    Contains selected records of the headquarters of the Polish Army of the Polish Government in Exile. Records relate to the Polish-American and Polish-Soviet relations, Katyń massacre, desertion of Jews from the Polish Army 1943-1945, evacuation of Jews from the USSR, situation in Romania, Italy and Hungary, displaced persons, Jews, Ukrainians, and orthodox. Includes reports and announcements of the Home Army 1942-1943, and the name list of Jewish deserters.

  5. General Władysław Anders collection Kolekcja Generala Wladyslawa Andersa (KGA.11)

    Contains papers of Władysław Anders, General of the Polish Armed Forces in Exile. Also includes a journal of the activities of General Anders, 7 August 1941-27 March 1945, and speeches, orders, statements, studies, notes and correspondence.

  6. Professor Stanisław Kot collection Kot Stanisław (Kol. 25)

    Contains photocopies of the clandestine press, publications of various political parties and fractions, reports from occupied Poland, speeches (e.g. the speech of the Prime Minister Mikolajczyk during his meetings with BUND), records on various Jewish cases, on Polish Government in Exile post in Teheran, Polish refugees in Teheran, Iran, Jewish children coming to Palestine from Teheran, situation of Polish Jews in France, and relations between Stanislaw Kot and General Anders, on BBC broadcast, Jerusalem (1942-1945). Includes official correspondence (e.g. on relations with USSR, Middle East...

  7. Prewar life in an Austrian village and tourist views of Prague

    Amateur footage shot in Schruns, Austria (identified by the location of the Hotel Taube, which appears in the film). AUSTRIAN VILLAGE title. Low aerial shots of picturesque village, focusing on a church spire. Children and adults, many dressed very formally and/or in local costume (long dresses, hats, dirndls) walk outdoors near the church. A priest or monk speaks with a group of young boys. Townspeople, men and boys wear top hats and lederhosen or breeches, on the occasion of a Catholic holiday(?). Shop signs advertise film equipment/stock - Agfa and Perutz. 01:59 German flag with a swasti...

  8. Stanisław Paprocki collection Stanisław Paprocki (Kol. 30)

    Contains fragments of addresses of Prime Minister Sikorski of November 14, 1940, the list of Jewish journalists and reporters abroad, letters from and to President of the New Zionist Organization in London, the report of the World Jewish Congress, and press clippings.

  9. Jan Ciechanowski collection Kolekcja Jana Ciechanowskiego (Kol. 82)

    Contains correspondence and other documents of the Polish Embassy in the USA, 1939-1945. Includes records relating to aid for refugees from USSR, relations with the USSR, arresting of the staff of the Polish Embassy in USSR, help rendered by the USA to the USSR, the conference Churchill-Roosevelt, U.S. attitude toward the war, policy of FDR towards Poland, the Ambassador’s reports to the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, evacuation of Polish children from USSR, denouncing Polish Citizens to Germans by the Vichy Government, Jewish affairs: mass extermination of Jews in the German occupied ...

  10. Retinger Józef, Dr. (Kol. 68)

    Contains drafts and copies of addresses of Gen. Sikorski and other documents related to political activities of Retinger. Includes study, letters, notes, reports, correspondence, e.g. with S.Brodetzki, Stanisław Kot, Jan Karski, S. Gruszka, the Joint, New Zionist Organization and “The Jewish Chronicle”, Polish Embassy in Washington, etc. related to various issues, e.g. relives of Jews to the Army in Palestine, Polish refugees in Italy, Jewish emigrants in Triest, and Jewish matters.

  11. Col. Wincenty Bąkiewicz collection Płk. Wincentego Bąkiewicza (Kol.138)

    Contains records of the Polish intelligence services, decoded dispatches from and to the Polish intelligence base in Teheran June 1942-June 1945, decoded dispatches from and to the Polish Army in Russia and the Polish intelligence services in Russia. Includes testimonies of the Polish civilians in Russia-refugees, POWs from Soviet camps, testimonies of the ex prisoners and „³agiernik” written mostly in 1944, various reports, testimonies on Katyń-Starobielsk-Ostaszków, evacuation of refugees from USSR (The Anders Army), Jewish issues in Palestine, the Jewish Agency in Palestine, Jewish prope...

  12. Archive of the Jewish Community in Trebic Archiv Židovské obce Třebíč

    Municipal register books of Jews living in Třebíč (German: Trebitsch) with notes, from the Nazi occupation period, pertaining to individual arrests, revocations of citizenship, deportations and transports to concentration camps.

  13. Waffen-SS Muslim red fez found by a US soldier at Ohrdruf concentration camp

    Red fez with a swastika and Death's head found by James Howard Edwards, a US army soldier, in Ohrdruf concentration camp, following the liberation of the camp by the United States Army on April 29, 1945. He found the fez in the commandant’s barracks. The red fez was part of the dress uniform of a Waffen-SS military detachment composed of Muslims from Bosnia, Croatia, and Herzegovina in occupied Yugoslavia. There was a field gray one for combat. The creation of this unit was authorized by Hitler in 1943. The original purpose was to combat Tito’s partisans. Through recruitment and conscriptio...

  14. General Brochwicz-Lewiński Antoni collection Generał Brochwicz-Lewiński Antoni (Kol. 330)

    Contains selected records relating to Jewish matters, cases of desertion of Jews from the Polish Army in Palestine, on the Middle East, the Jewish soldiers in the Polish Army in USSR, statistics, political background of the desertion phenomenon, its technical organization, protocols of investigation of deserters, the study in English relating to the atmosphere in the Polish Army in the UK towards Jews and the orthodox soldiers.

  15. Roger Raczyński collection Raczyński Roger (Kol. 482)

    Contains selected records relating to Jewish matters in Romania, studies of the Jewish question in Poland, fragments of the study relating to Jewish organizations in Romania, and Jewish refugees from Poland in Romania, German minorities In Romania, the fragment of the study of the structure of power among Jews in the global context, including in Poland, and the copy of the letter of W. Pelc from the Polish Embassy in Paris to W. Bączkowski relating to Polish-Jewish.

  16. Manuscripts and tapescripts collection Rękopisy i maszynopisy (B.)

    Contains selected manuscripts and typescripts related to the fate of the Jews and Poles during WWII in Russia, Palestine and Middle East. Includes records related to Jews in Palestine from Gdansk, desertion of Jews from the Polish Army, correspondence of Robert Pawlowski from Auschwitz, testimonies about Jews in the Polish Armed Forces, USSR and Palestine, and the memoirs of the anti-Semite of Dr. Herman Schuering.

  17. Estate of Albert Mülli Nachlass Albert Mülli (1916-1997) NL

    Contains records relating to Albert Mülli's years of imprisonment as a political prisoner of the Nazis.

  18. Red Cross ship at NY harbor

    REEL 3: Unedited footage shows Canadian and American Red Cross parcels and mail being loaded aboard ship for delivery to prisoners of war in Japanese camps, stocks of food supplies on the ship, two women in their cabins, and customs inspectors examining baggage.

  19. Robert Jackson in his office

    (Munich 135) Robert H. Jackson, Nuremberg, Germany, May 2, 1946. Jackson seated behind desk in his private office talking with Brig Gen Telford Taylor. Same setting with Jackson talking to Thomas J Dodd, assistant prosecutor. CU, Jackson speaking. CU, Dodd. MS, Jackson going over papers handed by his secretary Mrs. Douglas. Jackson at desk signing papers. Note: Some CUs of Jackson are scratched.