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  1. 1948 short fiction film by Karl Sztollar

    Title "Eine Tür Steht Offen" Credits: Helios-Film Wien Directed by Karl Sztollar Pictures by Julius Jonak Music by Robert Stolz Window opens to the sky. Title card reads “Eine Tür Steht Offen.” Credits over sky. Open car full of young people driving on a winding road through the hills. Two men, a woman, and a dog in the car. View out the windshield of the car. CU Smiling woman with her arm around the man. Car stops, young people pile out and run up some stairs. Scenic overlook with tables set up. Young people admire the view. Pan over the view of the city. 2:22 Young people having a picnic ...

  2. Ya'akov B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ya'akov B., who was born in 1926 in Rotterdam, Holland, the oldest of three brothers. He recounts his mother's death in 1937; living with his grandparents; attending a Jewish school; living in an orphanage until his father remarried; fleeing with his family to the Hague during German bombing of Rotterdam; attending school in Amsterdam; anti-Jewish restrictions; joining the underground; being assigned to smuggle microfilm to Paris and Antwerp disguised as a Hitler Youth; arrest in Paris in 1942 when his false papers were exposed; deportation to Westerbork, then Auschwi...

  3. War victims; Flossenbuerg liberated; camp survivors and medics; women at Lenzing; burning belongings at 121st Evac Hospital; digging graves

    Removing bodies of victims from wreckage, mattresses, covering bodies with sheet. Pan up, body of victim hanging over wall. Civilians look at ruins and wipe eyes, mountain in far BG. CU American holds battered body of a girl. 03:00:56 (LIB 6355) May 4, 1945. View of concentration camp buildings. CU, sign, "Zugang zu den Krankenbaracken" with figurines. Barbed wire fence and guardtower surrounding Flossenbuerg slave labor camp. CU, bullet-marked and blood-smeared wall - the scene of executions in the camp. INTs, barracks/living quarters, dead prisoners. Steel grating over open pit, crematori...

  4. René Goldman fonds

    The records in this fonds pertain mostly to René Goldman and his parents, Wolf and Mira Goldman from Poland, Luxembourg and France. Fonds consists of family photographs, travel and identity documents, disappearance reports, certificates and post-war school records from orphanages resided in by René Goldman. Records have been arranged into the following two series: Goldman family photographs series (1917–[195-?]) and Goldman family records series (1929–1965).

  5. County Command of the State Police in Kielce Komenda Powiatowa Policji Państwowej w Kielcach (Sygn.112)

    Police orders, circulars, various reports and investigative protocols, registers of the political organizations, social and sporting events. Included are records related to Jewish organizations, Jewish trade unions, and situation of the political and criminal prisoners.

  6. Bezirks- bzw. Landratsamt Rockenhausen

    Staatsrechtliche Angelegenheiten: Beziehungen zum Ausland (auch Saargebiet), Paßwesen, Landesgrenze gegen Preußen, Königliches Haus, Adel, Orden und Ehrenzeichen, Staatsangehörigkeit, Ein- und Auswanderung, Zivilstand, Namensänderungen, Reichstags- und Landtagswahlen. Militär: Heeresergänzung, Kriegsleistungen. Religionsangelegenheiten: Kultusbauten, Simultaneen, Friedhöfe und Kirchenglocken, kirchliche Feiertage, katholische Pfarreien, niederer katholischer Kirchendienst, geistliche Orden, katholische Kultusgemeinden und -stiftungen, protestantische Pfarreien, niederer evangelischer Kirche...

  7. Jakob S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jakob S., who was born in Radom, Poland in 1927, one of six brothers. He recounts attending public and Jewish schools; antisemitic harassment; visiting his grandfather in Jedlin?sk; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; forced labor in a kitchen; a German soldier giving him potatoes; his father having him smuggled out of the ghetto; the ghetto's liquidation; slave labor in a munitions factory; sabotaging production; public executions; transfer to Tomaszo?w Mazowiecki, Auschwitz, then Vaihingen an der Enz; constructing underground airplane hangers; ...

  8. Betty C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Betty C., who was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1919, the youngest of five sisters. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; attending public school; antisemitic harassment; attending a Jewish school; participating in a Zionist youth group; one sister's emigration to Palestine in 1936; her father's death; preparing to emigrate to Palestine on a Hechalutz kibbutz in Beverwijk; German invasion; returning to Amsterdam; marriage; operating a children's kibbutz in Elden with her husband; arrest in October 1942; deportation to Westerbork; arrival of her mother and one siste...

  9. Andre? B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Andre B., who was born in Cze?stochowa, Poland in 1925. He recounts his family's move to Antwerp in 1929; joining a Jewish socialist youth group; attending public school; fleeing with his family toward France during the German invasion; encountering German forces; returning home; Resistance activities; his father's orders to report for forced labor (he never saw him again); deportation with his mother and sister to Malines; three days later their deportation by passenger train; orders to leave the train at Cosel (he never saw his mother or sister again); transfer to K...

  10. M.53: Documentation from the Central State Archives of Supreme Bodies of Power and Government of Ukraine, 1941-1945

    M.53: Documentation from the Central State Archives of Supreme Bodies of Power and Government of Ukraine, 1941-1946 In the collection there is documentation regarding the Reichskommissariat (Regional Commissariat- occupation regime in Ukraine), 1941-1945. Additionally, there is documentation regarding the period prior to the German occupation, such as documentation from courts in Ukraine regarding Jews accused of anti-Soviet propaganda, theft and profiteering, reports of meetings of the Council for Religious Affairs (CRA) attached to the USSR Council of Ministers (SNK), including decisions ...

  11. Akta stanu cywilnego Okręgu Bożniczego Slupca

    Podział na serie: Akta urodzeń, rejestry urodzeń, daty skrajne: 1869-1880, 1 j.a. Zapowiedzi, akta małżeństw, alegata, daty skrajne: 1900-1907, 7 j.a. Księgi łączne, daty skrajne: 1839-1911, 44 j.a.

  12. Anna Teitelbaum. Collection

    This collection contains: copies of three photos taken in 1941 right before public parks in Antwerp became non-accessible for Jews, showing the girls attending fifth grade at the local primary school (Stedelijk Onderwijsgesticht voor meisjes nr. 1) at Lange Leemstraat in Antwerp, including Anna Teitelbaum, her best friend Eliane Russinger and their Jewish class mates Ruth Wenger (not deported), Eveline Kohn (deported), Annette Grossfeld (deported), Felicie Gruszow (not deported), Suzanne Spingarn (not deported) and Paulette Liliane Buschel (deported) ; a copy of three pages from Anna Teitel...

  13. Emmanuel R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Emmanuel R., who was born in Bardejov, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1921, one of five children. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; attending public school and cheder; antisemitic harassment; apprenticing at a lumber business; moving to Mizrachi training facilities in Michalovce, then Poprad, preparing for emigration to Palestine; conscription into the Sixth Slovak Brigade in October 1940; slave labor digging canals in Sva?ty? Jur, then in a brick factory near Bratislava; his family's evacuation to Z?ilina in 1944; visiting them briefly (he never saw his par...

  14. Beauftragter für den Vierjahresplan.- Bevollmächtigter für das Kraftfahrwesen

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Der Generalbevollmächtigte für das Kraftfahrwesen war ein 1938 vom Beauftragten für den Vierjahresplan geschaffenes Amt mit dem Ziel, durch Typenreduzierung und Bauteilnormierung eine Vereinheitlichung der deutschen Kraftfahrzeug- und Motorradherstellung zu erreichen; damit sollte die Wartung des Wehrmacht-Fuhrparks erheblich erleichtert werden. Bestandsgeschichte: Der Bestand im Bundesarchiv besteht lediglich aus vier Akten. Die restliche Überlieferung muss als verloren gelten. Archivische Bearbeitung: Eine Verzeichnung der Akten wurde 1965 in das Sammelfind...

  15. Piroska Berki and Gustave Balog family papers

    The Piroska Berki and Gustave Balog family papers contains two memoirs, one written by Gustave and the other by Piroska. Both are written to their grandchildren, and explain their family’s history. The memoirs detail life growing up in Hungary prior to the war, and gives details on the family’s background. Piroska’s memoirs go into great detail about life in Jewish ghettos in Budapest, living undercover as Christians in Kiskunlacháza, and the general discrimination she faced as a Jew living in Hungary. Gustave’s memoirs go into great detail about the family’s historical background. Gustave ...

  16. Shmuel H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shmuel H., who was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1926, the sixth of seven children. He describes his large, extended family, half of which were assimilated, half orthodox; his family's focus on music and humor; wonderful Sabbath dinners; his father's death in 1934; resulting pressures on his immediate family, particularly financial; his mother taking in boarders and Jewish refugees; assistance from some uncles; participating in Mizrachi; his bar mitzvah in 1939; one brother's emigration to Palestine; believing they were safe despite the war; German invasion in May...

  17. Hanemann-Kelemen, familie

    Het archief bestaat hoofdzakelijk uit persoonlijke documenten en correspondentie. Daarnaast zijn er ook knipselalbums, persoonlijke aantekeningen, foto's en audiovisuele documenten.

  18. Jüdisches Standesregister

    Die hier verzeichneten Fotokopien jüdischer Standesregister wurden im Juli 1953 auf Grund einer Weisung des Staatsministeriums der der Finanzen vom Bayerischen Landesentschädigungsamt abgegeben. Aus den Mitteilungen dieses Amtes ergibt sich Folgendes über die Herkunft dieser Fotokopien: Die Standesregister der jüdischen Gemeinden in Deutschland wurden während des Krieges bzw. kurz vorher beschlagnahmt, sie sollen sich bei Kriegsende in Thüringen befunden haben und dort den Russen in die Hände gefallen sein. Im Auftrag einer Dienststelle des Reiches oder der Partei (wie sich bei der Verzeich...

  19. Selected records from the State Archives of the Pavlodar Region, Kazakhstan related to evacuation of civilians in the former USSR

    Records related to the evacuation of civilians to Pavlodar Region, Kazakhstan during WWII that includes information about resettlement, employment and food supplies and medical assistance provided by the local authorities. This collection includes various lists of evacuees arriving to Pavlodar from various regions of the former USSR: Communists and specialists arrived in Pavlodar Region, persons arrived from the front line; the list of Polish citizens living in Pavlodar Region, lists of Polish-Jewish citizens traveling to Poland; correspondence, statistics, reports, materials related to the...

  20. Postcard by Markus Singer. Collection

    This item is a postcard sent by Markus Singer, while detained at the Dossin barracks, to the protestant parish office in Grossgartach (today Leingarten). The text contains a request to obtain copies of baptism and marriage certificates for the family of Markus's wife.