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  1. Five Cities

    Yiddish titles. English title, "Jewish Life in Vilna" Pan, overview of the city of Vilna, showing broad streets, traffic, large buildings, pedestrians. Shows Vilna's famous landmarks: the Strashun Library, Shnipeshiker Cemetery, and the YIVO Institute. Elderly woman prays. In Jewish quarter, clocks displayed on EXT of buildings, Yiddish signs, narrow streets with shops, people engaged in the rituals and realities of daily existence at work selling wares on the street, resting. Men with horses and buggies wait for passengers at square. CUs, children. Street scenes, pedestrians, shops, signs,...

  2. Broder Family collection

  3. Documentation of the German rule in Grodno, 1941-1942

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 13242665
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1941-1942
    • Appeal to the authorities Approval Correspondence Instruction List of craftspeople List of forced laborers List of Jewish residents List of workers Official documentation Questionnaire

    Documentation of the German rule in Grodno, 1941-1942 The Collection includes an appeal by the Jewish community to the municipal administration asking to install a sewer system in the main synagogue; an appeal by the person in charge of the Polish cemetery to the municipal administration regarding the payment of salaries to Jewish workers; permit granted by the mayor of Grodno to have a worker enter the ghetto for repair work; correspondence of the municipal administration with the Municipal Governor (Stadtkommissar-City Commissioner) regarding the confiscation of the Jewish bathhouse and i...

  4. Минская районная управа, г.Минск

    • Kreisverwaltung Minsk

    Приказы, постановления, распоряжения, циркуляры, инструкции генерального комиссариата Белоруссии, Комиссариата Минского округа, бургомистра Минской районной управы, начальника службы порядка и Белорусской народной самопомощи, штатаные расписания и списки работников Минской районной и волостных управ, предприятий, организаций, государственных хозяйств, протоколы заседаний председателей волостных управ и старост деревень, планы и отчёты о работе Минской районной управы, предприятий, организаций, хозяйств района, финансовые отчёты управы, планы, отчёты, сведения о состоянии, работе, укомплекто...

  5. Kurt L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Kurt L., who was born in Wiesbaden, Germany in 1910. He recalls his father's prosperous cattle business; attending law school; Hitler's ascent to power; antisemitic laws prohibiting him from practicing law; studying in Basel; an unsuccessful attempt to establish a business in Casablanca; living in Paris and Brussels; returning to Germany; obtaining a ten-day visa to visit the United States; traveling to New York; spending three months in Havana obtaining documents to return to the United States; his parents' visit in 1937; their return to Germany, not liking the U.S.;...

  6. Sentencing Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg Trial (SOUND ONLY)

    Sentencing of Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany, October 1946. NOTE: Here, the actual sentences for the defendants are read, but there was a court ruling that no filming and photographs were allowed during the announcement. So the voice of judge is heard, no pictures, white screen,. SOUND ONLY. Sentences pronounced by tribunal: Arthur Seyss-Inquart: Death (02:08:54) Albert Speer: 20 years (02:08:18) Constantin von Neurath: 15 years (02:09:45) Martin Bormann: Death in absentia (02:10:06) 02:10:27 British Justice Geoffrey Lawrence registers dissent of the Soviet Justice on the ver...

  7. Michele Sabatello papers

    The collection consists of false identity cards belonging to Renate Piperno and Fausto Sabatello; letters and notes written by Michele Sabatello in the Fossoli concentration camp; a document excluding a representative of a cheese factory from work; a document from the Archbishop of Florence; a document from Massalombarda SA; an identity pass permit for work along with a photograph for Pietro Ansuinelli (a false identity of Fausto Sabatello); a ration card for bread and soup; and an announcement by Fausto Sabatello, searching for his brother Michele Sabatello.

  8. Selected records from the National Archives of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

    Records relate to the Fünfbrunnen concentration camp. Included are name lists of Jews deported from Luxembourg to Poland, Sipo reports on arrested Jews and resistance members, investigation files and survivor accusation statements against Gestapo man Fritz Hartmann, and excerpts from the trial of Gestapo man Klöker and many others charged with war crimes in 1948.

  9. Frieda and Max Reinach diary

    Contains a handwritten diary by Frieda (née Schwarzschild, 1887–1942) and Marcus (Max, 1878–1942) Reinach. Frieda and Max Reinach kept a diary in Berlin from September 1, 1939 to October 24, 1942. On October 26, 1942, they were deported to Riga, and later Kaiserwald concentration camp where they were murdered. The diary describes their life under the Nazi occupation. The collection also includes an English translation, a short history of how the diary reached the United States, and three photographs of the Reinach family members: Ilana Schwartz with her mother, Ilana Schwartz with her fathe...

  10. The unshed tears

    Although written as fiction, many of the details in "The unshed tears" are based on the experiences of Edith Hofman Birkin and her family during the Holocaust. It describes how the main character, Judith Baron, was deported from Prague to the Łódź ghetto and later to Monowitz; forced to work in Kristianstadt, a sub-camp of Gross-Rosen; and later participated in a death march. The manuscript also details her liberation and her attempts to return to a normal life. "The unshed tears" was written in 1950, soon after Edith Birkin arrived in England.

  11. American journalist interviewed re: propaganda

    Interview with the "well-known radio reporter" Doug Brinkley about "atrocity propaganda" (reaction against the Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses) in the United States. Doug Brinkley traveled extensively in Germany from 1932-1934 and wrote a pro-Nazi book titled "An American Sees the New Germany." The interview takes place outside. The interviewer asks his questions in German and Brinkley responds in English. Brinkley proclaims his admiration for Hitler and the new Germany, and states that although the first reports of atrocities caused demonstrations in the US, Americans now realize that su...

  12. March of Time -- outtakes -- Rotterdam - Spring 1939

    703 J: April 20 and 21, 1939. German boats with Nazi flag on the River Maas at Rotterdam, railway bridge in BG. Other boats. 05:43:48 Canal between Dutch houses. Barges at River Maas and liner "Statendam" in BG. Church. 05:44:27 View of Colingselstraat in Rotterdam, the main shopping street. Handing out flyers. Barges in Lloyd harbor with factory and ship in BG (used for taking merchandise from Dutch colonies to small towns). Docks. 05:45:16 Cargo and sacks, unloading boxes. Produce of Dutch East Indies on bale, bamboo canes. 703 O: 05:46:04 Dutch Army in North Brabant, May 1, 1939 statione...

  13. Elliot L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elliot L., who was born in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1925. He recalls moving to Paris with his family in 1928; returning to Sofia in 1937; enactment of anti-Jewish laws; expulsion of Jews from Sofia; relocating with his family to Ki?u?stendil; continuing to attend school; preparing for deportation which never occurred; and liberation by Soviet troops in September 1944. Mr. L. recounts studying engineering in Sofia; affiliation with Zionist organizations; an illegal attempt to emigrate to Palestine in 1947; incarceration in Cyprus when the ship was intercepted by the British;...

  14. Central Committee of the Jews in Poland. Department of Emigration Centralny Komitet Żydow Polskich (CKŻP). Wydzial Emigracji (Sygn.303/XIV)

    Circulars, communiqués, and other publications; correspondence with American and Polish Jewish organizations and Polish governmental agencies; name lists of persons applying for passports, registration certificates, and records of financial assistance to emigrés; personal letters regarding emigration to Palestine/Israel; photographs and various miscellanea.

  15. Red Cross treats victims of Penig concentration camp

    Jewish Concentration Camp, Penig, Germany, April 17, 1945. German uniformed medics carry female survivors from concentration camp in Penig into hospital from Red Cross ambulances. VAR MSs and CUs, females on litters waiting to be carried. Survivors smile widely. Hospital sign, "Zum Luftschutz-Sanitaetsraum." 01:01:16 Ambulances traveling on road. LS, medics take survivors on litters out of ambulance and line cots on the grass. Medic talks to a survivor, helps another walk into the hospital. Red Cross nurses. INT, American doctors consult surviviors in their hospital beds, treat wounds. Aeri...

  16. War Crimes Trials: film used as evidence in Ministries' Case (#11)

    Case XI, Ministries-Keppler, "German Entry into Austria." "The Return to Berlin." Crowds in Berlin await return of Hitler from Austria. Banners fly and flags are thrown to the crowd. Hitler's plane arrives. He gets out, shakes hands with Goebbels. His car rides in state through crowded streets, people saluting and waving flags. A child gives Hitler a flower. He marches by lines of soldiers. One hundred thousand people gather in square. Hitler appears on a balcony with Goering. Police try to hold back hysterical crowds. Amassed close together, the crowd sways singing a song. Hitler appears a...

  17. Belsen Concentration Camp at liberation

    Tank moving across field. LS, pan, inmates women standing around moat/reservoir, women fishing out tin buckets for washing; two boys sharing soup, stand huddled together, intent on soup. Low to ground, MLS, several clothed corpses, lots of inmates walk by corpse, possibly a murdered Nazi in civilian clothes (original shot sheet captions do not suggest or confirm this). CU corpse. WS of camp with many inmates. Emaciated man, "practically a skeleton", with a cap crouches, holding a piece of clothing. LS, bodies all over (clothed), survivors at edges in BG; LS, barracks, road outside, views of...

  18. Erich and Margot Leyser photograph collection

    The collection consists of two studio portraits of Erich and Margot Leyser, who were passengers aboard the MS St. Louis. Both photographs have inscriptions written by Margot Leyser. One photograph is inscribed with "Zum Abscheid aus Deutschland 4-Mai-1939" and the other photograph is inscribed "10.Juli 1946" and is stamped .".Optica Ariel..Montevideo" Uruguay.

  19. Joseph Borkin papers

    Consists of correspondence and research material (photocopied and original) related to the research, writing, and publication of the book "The Crime and Punishment of I.G. Farben" by Joseph Borkin. Among the research materials are court documents from various legal cases against successor companies to I.G. Farben, which were tried in United States courts during the 1950s and 1960s, as well as subject files of copied primary and secondary source materials about individuals, organizations, and products related to I.G. Farben. These latter materials range information about the pre-World War I ...

  20. Report and photographs relating to post-liberation Buchenwald

    Contains information about the experiences of Major Donald Luby and others in a reconnaissance group that visited Buchenwald, including a photocopied report dated Apr. 18, 1945 concerning the post-liberation situation on the camp. Also includes photocopies of photographs, including one showing what appears to be an African-American soldier standing in front of a cart full of corpses. The photographs also contain scenes from Dachau and Ohrdruf camps.