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  1. Skiiers; US army maneuvers; West Point

    Skiers on a slalom course, a crowd is watching. This is a race, or competition of some sort as all the skiers are wearing large race numbers on their vests. VS, skiers taking the chair lift up to the top of the slopes. 01:02:04 Oceanside, there is a small wooden dock that juts out from the beach into the water's edge, waves, crashing against the dock, VS waves hitting the shore. MCU flagpole in the sand, camera pans up to show American flag. Large wood frame house on beach front, camera pans house and surrounding beachfront property, including CUs of flowers in bloom. 01:04:13 "Mechanized C...

  2. Paula K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paula K. who was born in Cze?stochowa, Poland in 1924, the oldest of six children. She recalls her father building a bunker prior to the war; German invasion; ghettoization; family members hiding from aktions in their bunker; deportation of many relatives; selling clothes for food; and forced labor in a munitions plant. Mrs. K. recounts episodes when she was almost killed; carrying bombs for partisans; liquidation of the small ghetto when her mother and three siblings were killed; working with her father, brother and sister in HASAG-Pelzery; hiding with her sister dur...

  3. Cipa R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Cipa R., who was born in Nizhneye Krivche, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Ukraine) in 1901. She recalls her family's affluence; their impoverishment after Soviet occupation; German invasion; forced relocation to Mel'nytsya-Podil's'ka; ghettoization in Borschiv; hiding in a bunker with twenty-two people, including her husband, their two children, and other relatives; collapse of the bunker roof resulting in the deaths of fifteen; local Poles hiding her family, a niece, and two cousins; liberation by Soviet troops; living in Borshchiv; assistance from Poles; antis...

  4. American propaganda film to educate US soldiers going to France

    An American propaganda film produced by the U.S. Office of War Information to educate US soldiers before going to France. Some scenes are staged. Reel 2: Shows Nazi, fascist, and Japanese leaders and their followers, including Adolf Hitler, Pierre Laval, Oswald Mosley, Fritz Kuhn, Japanese Emperor Hirohito, Rudolph Hess, Julius Streicher, Joseph Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler, and Benito Mussolini. Flashbacks to World War I show the German Kaiser reviewing troops, French posting mobilization orders, the French taxicab army leaving Paris, scenes of the battles at Verdun and Chemin des Dames, Llo...

  5. Kan family vacationing during summer in Switzerland

    In 2002, siblings Robert F. Kan and Betsy Klein donated this and other films (see more below) that capture vacations, daily activities, and other moments in their Dutch Jewish family's prewar life. They and their parents, Frits Kan and Jeanne (Bloch) Kan, escaped the Nazis by immigrating to the United States in May 1940. Robert's wife, Francisca Verdoner Kan, and her siblings also donated family films. Side view of a bus. Plaque: "Chur - Flims Wald Haus." Jeanne, Robert, and Betsy sit in the bus. People move luggage, seen from the rear of the bus. Robert in a lake wearing a hat and playing ...

  6. Swiatlowski-Koronczyk family. Collection

    This collection contains photocopies of : Berek Swiatlowski's Polish military booklet ; Berek Swiatlowski and Pesa Koronczyk's Polish passport ; a postcard thrown from the Transport X by Berek Swiatlowski on 13 September 1942 ; administrative documents of the Swiatlowski-Koronczyk family ; war-time work permits of Abram Swiatlowski ; pre-war photos of Swiatlowski and Koronczyk family members in Poland and in Belgium.

  7. Margo B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Margo B., who was born in Schkeuditz, Germany in 1925. She recalls attending school in Halle; antisemitic restrictions; her father's arrest in 1938 because he had Polish citizenship; his release provided he emigrate within four weeks; his emigration to Paris; joining him with her younger sister, mother, and uncle a month later; moving to Villeneuve-sur-Lot; attending school; her father serving in the military when war began; his return upon French surrender; obtaining false papers for himself from a military colleague; their family receiving false papers from a non-Je...

  8. Rosenberg family papers

    The collection documents the post-war experiences of the Rosenberg family in the Feldafing displaced persons camp. Included are photographs depicting the lives of Mania and Jacob Rosenberg and their children Ada and Abraham in the camp; Jacob’s cousin Harry Silverman at the Lemberg displaced persons camp; childrens’ religious classes; and a wedding. Other material includes Mania Rosenberg's identification card from Feldafing, a newspaper article written by Jacob Rosenberg and published in Feldafing, and a Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year) greeting card for 1947.

  9. Miriam G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Miriam G., who was born in Fulda, Germany in 1906. She recalls her family emigrating to Antwerp in 1912; their comfortable, orthodox life; the large and cohesive Jewish community; participation in Zionist organizations; marriage in 1930; German invasion; fleeing to Paris; her husband's brief military service; moving to Bayonne, then Marseille; working as a dressmaker to support her family; living with her sister's family in one room; their lack of resources to purchase United States visas; obtaining false papers; moving to a suburb of Lyon; working for villagers in re...

  10. Marcelle B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marcelle B., who was born in Paris, France, in 1931. Mrs. B. recalls her close, extended family's Polish roots; long illnesses that separated her from her twin sisters; staying at a sanatorium in Hendaye after corrective surgery in summer 1939; returning with her father to Paris; German occupation; imposition of anti-Semitic measures; deportations; riding the Paris Metro in defiance of regulations; and her father's decision to go into hiding before a July 1942 round-up. She tells of being taken with her mother to the Ve?lodrome d'Hiver; appalling conditions; separatio...

  11. Ernest P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ernest P., who was born in Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1912. He recalls his father's death in 1918 serving in World War I; his mother's struggle to support him and two younger siblings; working at age sixteen to assist; the Anschluss; immediate anti-Jewish laws and violence; obtaining a forged passport in 1938 (his siblings had already left and his mother followed); living in Luxembourg for eighteen months; support from the local Jewish community; marriage to a Polish-Jewish refugee; the Jewish community organizing a group emigration to Cuba; traveling to Iru...

  12. Abe H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abe H., who was born in Opole Lubelski, Poland in 1925, one of eight children. Mr. H. recounts the family's move to ?o?dz? when he was six; attending school until he began his apprenticeship as a tailor; the extreme poverty; his father's death in 1938; rumors of war; mobilization; German invasion; and restrictions on Jews. He describes ghettoization; extreme food shortages; organization of the ghetto under H?ayim Rumkowski; his sister opening a tailor shop in which he worked; deportations; transports of German, Czech, and Belgian Jews into the ghetto; deportation of h...

  13. Johannes Kohl: Personal papers

    This collection contains the papers of Johannes Kohl, a Jewish refugee from Vienna who emigrated to the UK via Holland in 1939.Personal papers including his membership card of the Austrian Centre in London; an information guide for Jewish refugees in England and press cutting from the Kleine Volkszeitung (5 May 1938) regarding the execution of a Jewish criminal in Paris.

  14. Armeeoberkommando 6

    Chef d. Gen.St.: Befehle aus 1941/42 (4 AE) Ia: KTB von Oktober 1939 bis November 1942 und von März 1943 bis Mai 1944 (Anlagen bis Oktober 1944) sowie KTB der Gruppe Pfeiffer von Dezember 1942 bis Januar 1943 und der Festung Stalingrad von Dezember 1942 bis Januar 1943 und der Armeeabt. Hollidt von November 1942 bis März 1943. OQu: KTB von Oktober 1939 bis August 1942 und von November 1942 bis Juni 1944. Ic: TB von April 1940 bis Mai 1942 und von Dezember 1942 bis September 1944. IIa: von Oktober 1939 bis November 1942, von Mai 1943 und von Juli 1943 bis März 1944. IVa: TB von Oktober 1939 ...

  15. Okresní národní výbor Praha-jih

    • District National Committee of Praha-jih / NAD 21

    The fonds originated from activities of the District National Committee of Praha-venkov-jih and Praha-jih in 1945-1960. It contains documents arisen from activities of the district office. Information on Jews can be found in the following documents: inv. no. 106 Conversions of religion from 1945–1946 and 1948; inv. no. 235 Secret files: Jewish associations - investigation, no. 102/1951 (1951); inv. no. 268 Confiscation, call no. II/2 (1945–1948); inv. no. 271 Concentration camps on the territory of the Czechoslovak Republic during the occupation, call no. III/1-210 (1947); inv. no. 309 Jewi...

  16. Processo de pedido de visto para Cecile Abboud, Mona Saqman, Sheila, Toby, Mary, Mascha, Luis Ergoynne, Mna. Cohn, Jean Gluck, Silvia Gluck, Gustavo Kaufman, Margarida Kaufman e filho de Gustavo Kaufman

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Baiona para Cecile Abboud, de nacionalidade não identificada, com destino não identificado. Visto recusado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Baiona para Mona Saqman, de nacionalidade britânica, com destino não identificado. Visto recusado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Baiona para Sheila, de nacionalidade britânica, com destino não identificado. Visto recusado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Baiona para Toby, de nacionalidade britânica, com destino não identifica...

  17. Leon Gildesgame papers

    Consists of a cover letter addressed to Meir Grossman of the American Jewish Conference by Leon Gildesgame and two original enclosures. The original enclosures include a typewritten account of SS-Unterscharführer Franz Xaver Sommerhoff articulating his participation in the killing of Jewish civilians and others, and a typewritten copy of First Army Special Report titled "It Happened in the Twentieth Century," detailing the interrogation of Dr. Gustav Wilhelm Schübbe. Schübbe, a medical doctor, admitted to the killings of thousands of Jews, Romani people, and others by morphine injection in ...

  18. June M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of June M., who was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1929. She describes her close extended family; joyous holiday celebrations in an orthodox environment; German invasion; fleeing with her family to Calais, France; repatriation to Antwerp by the Germans; forced relocation to Limburg; moving to Brussels; anti-Jewish restrictions; refusing to wear the star; being hidden in a convent in Sint-Pieters-Leeuw (her parents hid elsewhere); conversion to Catholicism; wonderful relations with nuns; tacitly acknowledging the other hidden Jewish children (there were twenty-eight); seeing...

  19. Marion L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marion L., who was born in Bielefeld, Germany in 1924 and raised in nearby Herford. Mrs. L. recalls her comfortable upper-middle-class childhood; playing in her father's tobacco warehouse; a non-Jewish girlfriend who refused to see her after joining a Nazi organization; a family employee's role in her home's looting on Kristallnacht; her father's return from incarceration at Sachsenhausen; being sent by her parents on a chidren's transport to Holland in 1939; and living in an orphanage with 100 other refugee children. She details the 1940 German attack; a prominent Ch...

  20. Forest, adults gathered in Palestine

    A farm building, fence, cows. The camera is very shaky. Circular pan of pine trees. 02:07:56 Possibly the Lieberman House in Nahariya, Palestine? Three men talking to each other. Woman stands in front of a car. Man in a straw hat holds a baby on top of a brick structure (a well?).