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  1. Celebrating May Day in Vienna

    May 1 (or the day before). Maypoles at Schwarzenbergplatz. Hotel Imperial. Shell Motor Oil Company headquarters on Schubertring (Schwarzenbergplatz #16). 01:04:40 Heinrichshof building on Opernring (opposite Opera House). 01:04:44 Flagship store "Backhausen & Soehne". 01:04:48 The Museum of Art History on Museumsstrasse. 01:04:54 Heldentor (Burgring) dressed with Nazi insignia and "Ehrt die Opfer der Arbeit". 01:04:59 Austrians, three women on bench, congregate at decorated Heldenplatz. SA erecting maypole. Unknown man (probably same as man in Prater garden with boy at 01:03:56) talking...

  2. War Crimes Trial: The Belsen Case

    Part 5: Courtroom scenes of the trial by a British military tribunal at Lueneberg, Germany, of Nazis who served at the Belsen prison camp. Includes scenes of atrocities at Belsen. According to UN contents sheet: "To a British military tribunal at Luneburg [sic] is brought a sordid assortment of Nazi war criminals...headed by the notorious Josef Kramer, charged with responsibility for torture and mass murder of 50,000 prisoners, at the German death camp at Belsen. Belsen's women -- as savage as any of the men. Kramer's chief assistant -- 21 years old and a veteran of five years of atrocities...

  3. Ardeatine Caves Massacre: burials

    Photographs and newspaper articles posted for 320 Italian civilians murdered in Ardeatine Caves massacre on March 24, 1944. It is likely that this film was recorded months later, during the summer of 1944. Blessing of bodies by priest, and burial of corpses. Crowds of Italians. Man in hospital bed.

  4. Theodore P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Theodore P., who served in the United States 3rd Army. He recounts being trained to interrogate German POWs; deployment to Europe in October 1944; moving through France; assignment to the 261st regiment; front line interrogations in Germany; entering Ohrdruf hours after liberation; corpses stacked "like wood"; a prisoner showing him a mass killing site; shock at the condition of the prisoners and learning of their experiences; local Germans denying knowledge of the camp; traveling to Mauthausen weeks after its liberation; speaking with the few remaining survivors and ...

  5. Okręgowa Komisja Badania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu - Instytut Pamięci Narodowej w Poznaniu

    • akta śledztw dotyczących zbrodni niemieckich - akta administracyjne (sprawozdania, korespondencja, opracowania problemowe przygotowane przez Komisję, dokumentacja dotycząca działalności Komisji i realizacji ustawowych zadań, akty normatywne, dokumentacja fotograficzna, fotokopie z prasy z okresu okupacji, materiały organizacji niepodległościowych działających na terenie Wielkopolski w latach 1945-1956) - ankietyzacja miejsc i faktów zbrodni niemieckich - materiały ewidencyjne (repertoria, skorowidze, kartoteka strat osobowych na terenie Wielkopolski w okresie II wojny światowej, kartoteka...

  6. The Documentation Center of the Central Union of Jewish Communities in Bratislava

    There are 190 files in the Record Group including documentation from the Jewish Center, Slovakian institutions that were involved in the persecution of the Jews, the Nazi party in Slovakia, anti-Jewish legislation and decrees, documentation regarding forced labor camps, documentation of trials against Nazi criminals and more.

  7. Rada Żydowska w Lublinie

    • Judenrat in Lublin
    • Jewish Council in Lublin

    The collection contains documents including circulars and public announcements; minutes of meetings; reports on the work of the council to the German authorities; personal materials; documents on financial and economic matters, forced labour, aid to children, the poor and the needy; and lists of populations, resettled people, those employed in the labour camp at Lipowa Street, and the deceased.

  8. Bundeszozialgericht.- Organisationsunterlagen

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • B 188-ORG
    • German
    • Sammlung 107 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 0,0 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Das Bundessozialgericht in Kassel ist durch Gesetz vom 03.09.1953 (BGBl. I S.1293) errichtet worden; es ist oberster Gerichtshof für das Gebiet der Sozialgerichtsbarkeit ( Art. 95 GG.). Das Bundessozialgericht entscheidet über das Rechtsmittel der Revision und über Nichtzulassungsbeschwerden; außerdem im ersten und letzten Rechtszug über Streitgkeiten nicht verfassungsrechtlicher Art zwischen dem Bund und den Ländern sowie zwischen den Ländern untereinander. Das Bundessozialgericht besteht aus 14 Senaten, in der Besetzung von einem Vorsitzenden (Präsident, Vi...

  9. R.3 - Documentation of the Nazi Party (National Socialist Party - NSDAP) in Eretz Israel, 1928-1939

    R.3 - Documentation of the Nazi Party (National Socialist Party - NSDAP) in Eretz Israel, 1928-1939 The first two chapters of the Nazi Party in Eretz Israel were established in Sharona and Jaffa in March 1933. Karl Ruf from Haifa set the chapters up, but during most of the time that the Nazi Party was active Cornelius Schwarz, from the Templar settlement, served as head of the party. In the summer of 1933 the party numbered 42 members, and in 1934, their numbers reached 239 (the largest chapter was in Jerusalem with 67 members). That same year, there were already active Nazi youth organizat...

  10. Hitler visits Krupp factory

    Hitler pays tribute to Gustav Krupp von Bohlen. 03:19:39 MS Hitler shakes hands with Krupp as officers look on. 03:19:45 Hitler talking to and gesturing to civilian in dark suit as officers look on. 03:19:55 Large crowd of factory workers cheer and salute as Hitler walks past them toward camera, then steps up into car and remains standing.

  11. State Archive at the Council of Ministers of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea

    • Государственный архив при Совете Министров Автономной Республики Крым

    The files relating to the Nazi occupation regime and the Holocaust can be found in the files of the Inventory 2: File 1Б. Materials on the former soviet citizens who served in the German military units. 25.05.1943-22.04.1955. 25 pages. File 1В. List of the German-Fascist criminals, who committed crimes on the temporarily occupied territory of the Crimea. 28.08.1944. 4 pages. File 1Г. List of pseudonyms of the newspaper “Golos Kryma” reporters. 9.03.1945. 179 pages. File 11А. Reference list of the publications in the Crimea during the occupation period. 31.01.1996. 10 pages. File 13Б. Refere...

  12. Selected records from the "Nedic Archives" of the Military Historical Institute of the Ministry of Defense of Serbia

    Selected records from the archives of the Military Historical Institute of the Ministry of Defense of Serbia related to the activities of the puppet government of the Prime-Minister Milan Nedic during the Nazi occupation. This collection includes correspondence of the various Government authorities regarding arrests, persecution and reprisals against Jews, members of the antifascist movement, communists and the civilian population.

  13. Philip W. Porter collection

    Consists of articles and clippings from various newspapers and periodicals, in German, which were discovered at the German Propaganda Ministry in July 1945. The clippings, collected from American and British print sources, have handwritten annotations and were organized alphabetically by subject, generally related to Jewish themes. Also includes one bound book entitled "High Life de Belgique," published in 1937 and consists of names and addresses of the Belgian upper class, with handwritten annotations, seemingly identifying those sympathetic to the German cause. The materials were collecte...

  14. Warsaw Ghetto documentary for BBC

    After a brief sequence of Nazi rallies (including shots from Triumph of the Will), German footage of the invasion of Poland, and Julien Bryan footage of the siege of Warsaw in September 1939, this film uses still photographs (some from Himmler's personal collection) and much of the 1942 German propaganda footage shot in the Warsaw Ghetto. It details the daily struggle to survive the Warsaw Ghetto, including scenes of poor sanitation, smuggling food from outside, beggars, Jewish Police and the ghetto prison, deportations, collaboration, and resistance. It uses film footage of flamethrowers a...

  15. Union of "Napredak" (Progress) co-ops in Sarajevo Savez Napretkovih Zadruga-Sarajevo (Fond DRGP)

    Contains documents relating to the inventory of Jewish shops in the Independent State of Croatia. They encompass records of both the State Agency for Economic Renewal (Državno ravnateljstvo za gospodarsku ponovu) in Zagreb and the Union of “Napredak” Cooperatives in Sarajevo, Banja Luka, and Osijek.

  16. Records from the National Jewish Community, Rome (Unione delle comunita ebraiche Italiane)

    Contains records relating to the situation of Italian Jews across Italy, with a larger section focusing on Rome and depicting the response of the Italian Jewish communities to both the racial laws and the deportations.

  17. Okręgowa Komisja Badania Zbrodni Hitlerowskich w Poznaniu

    • akta śledztw dot. zbrodni niemieckich (dokumentacja dot. poszukiwania, aresztowania, ekstradycji oraz procesów karnych przeciwko przestępcom wojennym, m.in. dokumentacja dot. procesu karnego przed NTN przeciwko Arturowi Greiserowi b. namiestnikowi III Rzeszy w Kraju Warty) - akta administracyjne (sprawy administracyjne i organizacyjne m.in. okólniki oraz instrukcje Ministerstwa Sprawiedliwości odnośnie przeprowadzania czynności śledczych oraz gromadzenia i zabezpieczania materiałów dowodowych, sprawozdania z działalności Komisji, dzienniki korespondencyjne, dokumentacja w sprawie gromadze...

  18. Amtsgericht (District Court) of Žacléř

    The fonds of the Amtsgericht (District Court) in Žacléř includes sources of the judicial administration. The data about the persecution of Jewish people during the Nazi occupation can be found in the file labeled The Settlement between the Crown and the Reichsmark in the Sudetenland Territory, dealing with the foreign currency funds of Jews and Poles - generally from 1941, filing No. 13, inv. No. 154, call No. 72. In the fonds there are also files relating to churches and religious associations where information on the Jewish population of the judicial district can be found, too.

  19. Crematorium tag from Dachau concentration camp

    Crematorium tag from Dachau concentration camp in Germany. The tag was picked up by an American soldier on a tour of the camp in the spring of 1945, after the camp’s liberation. A numbered tag was placed with each corpse to be able to identify the ashes after cremation. The numbers on the tags did not correspond to prisoner numbers. Produced in large quantities, not all the tags were used. Dachau was the first concentration camp established by the Nazi government in 1933, originally for political prisoners. Over time, other groups were interned at Dachau, such as Jehovah's Witnesses, Roma, ...

  20. Bronka Rezak papers

    The papers consist of two manuscripts written by Bronka Grynglas Rezak [donor] for her grandsons, Avi and Ronnen Gruber, and a newspaper article. In the manuscript, titled "The History of our family," she describes the history of her family in Poland before World War II, their experiences in the ghetto in Łódź, Poland, and various concentration camps during World War II, and their immigration to Australia after World War II. In the manuscript, titled "My experiences during the War, 1939-1945," she describes her experiences in the Łódź ghetto, Auschwitz concentration camp, a factory in F...