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  1. Poster announcing travel restrictions for Jews in German occupied Chelmno

    Order (Anordnung) concerning use of public transportation by Jews in area inside the district of Cholm (Chelmno).

  2. Bomb damage in Germany

    Various aerial shots of bombed military installations and marshalling yards. Bomb damage in Wiesbaden concentration camp. Damaged buildings in Wiesbaden. MLS trainer parked on airfield. Aerial shots of bomb damage in marshalling yards near Wiesbaden and destroyed town, bridge. Prison camp showing refugees in square. Bomb damaged train and buildings along track. Aerial shot of bomb damage in Durkheim, including town, marshalling yards. Bomb damage in Worms, Germany. Shots of bombed bridges in Frankfurt (hazy). Aerial shot of refugees in prison camp. Bomb damage in marshalling yards, building...

  3. Bessarabian Regional Police Inspectorate. Romanovca Police Station

    • Inspectoratul Regional de Poliție al Basarabiei. Poliţia centrelor de plasǎ. Romanovca
    • Бессарабский областной инспекториат полиции. Романовский комиссариат полиции
    • Bessarabskii oblastnoi inspektoriat politsii. Romanovskii komissariat politsii

    The orders of the Bessarabian Regional Police Inspectorate about the search for suspects - members of the Communist illegal movement; copies of the information notes issued by the Bessarabian Regional Police Inspectorate about Zionist organizations; copies of the orders by the Regional Police Inspectorate of Bessarabia about the prosecution of suspects, about the demonstrators who escaped from the camps; copies of the orders of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Romania, of the Governor of Bessarabia about the measures to fight saboteurs and on deportation of Jews to Transnistria; reports ...

  4. Le Havre harbor and on board Normandie ship to the U.S.

    Title: "Havre. Homeward Bound on the 'Normandie'." Le Havre harbor. HAS. Capsized hulk of the French Lines' ship PARIS, which burned and rolled over at Le Havre in April 1939. View of another ship, possibly the French Lines' ship CHAMPLAIN docked in Le Havre, seen from the deck of 'Normandie.' On deck, people on red chaise lounge chairs, man in swimming pool behind. Good view of the Statue of Liberty.

  5. Deutsche Gesandtschaft Bukarest

    Reichskreditkasse Bukarest; Truppenversorgung.

  6. British prosecutor and map at Nuremberg Trial

    02:10:04 (Paris 419) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, December 5, 1945. MLSs, rear views only, Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe, Chief Prosecutor for Britain, speaking before the Tribunal. Cut-in animated map, "Violations of Treaties, Agreements, and Assurances." 02:12:24 (Paris 436) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, December 11, 1945. Rear views only, counsel for Fritz Sauckel, Dr. Robert Servatius, makes a plea before the Tribunal, requesting that the defending counsels be given copies of the evidence. Pan to Tribunal as Chief Justice Geoffrey Lawrence requests the counsel to clear up so...

  7. "LOL* After 67 Years"

    Consists of one bound memoir entitled "LOL* After 67 Years" written in 2012 by Peter R. Span, who was born in 1938 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, In the memoir, he describes the bombing of Belgrade which ended the attempts of his parents, Ignac Rosenfeld and Elisabeth Span, to emigrate with their sons to Mexico. After the bombing, the family moved to Subotica and in 1942 and again in 1944, Ignac was sent to a forced labor battalion. In the summer of 1944, Elisabeth and her sons (including Peter) were deported to the Ulrichskirchen labor camp in Austria, where they remained until liberation in Apr...

  8. Южный штаб партизанского движения (1941 – 1944 гг.)

    • Southern headquarters of the partisan movement (1941-1944)

    Отчет о боевой и разведывательной деятельности Краснодарского штаба партизанского движения, газеты и листовки военного времени

  9. Ruth Loewenstein collection

    Doll: handmade by Annie Loewenstein (donor's mother) in Munich, Germany. The Loewenstein family: Willy (donor's father) [b. 1894], Annie [b. 1904], Ruth (donor) [b. 1929], and Marianne (donor's sister) [b. 1932], were able to leave Germany in August 1939 for England. Ruth and Marianne were wearing thin gold bracelets on their wrists and each carried a doll. The German guard at the Dutch border tore off the bracelets, but did not pay any attention to the dolls. Upon arrival in New York on September 10, 1940, Annie took the heads off the dolls, in which she had hidden valuables. She sold the ...

  10. Valsts slepenpolicijas pārvalde Gestapo

    • Secret State Police Office (Gestapo)
    • Geheime Staatspolizei - Gestapo Amt

    The fonds contains information collected since 1924, including information about the German secret police; German diplomatic mission reports, including reports on the activities of the Communist Party; Latvian political administration official staff lists; outgoing correspondence from the Baltic states to Germany; snippets from Latvian newspapers and newspapers from other European countries;; information about migrants (Übersiedler) from Baltic states in 1941, including names of agents and persons involved.

  11. Hierl, Konstantin

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • N 1125
    • German
    • 1891-1955
    • Nachlässe 44 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 1,1 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Reichsarbeitsführer Lebenslauf 24. Febr. 1875 Geboren in Passberg Besuch von Humanistischen Gymnasien in Burghausen und Regensburg 1893 Fahnenjunker des 11. Infanterie-Regiments „von der Tann" 1895 Beförderung zum Leutnant 1899 - 1902 Besuch der Kriegsakademie 1903 Zentralstelle des Generalstabs 1907 Großer Generalstab, Berlin 1909 - 1911 17. Infanterie-Regiment „Orff" Lehrtätigkeit als Lehrer für Kriegsgeschichte und Kriegskunst an der Kriegsakademie 1918 Gründung des Freikorps „Hierl" Reichswehrministerium 30. Sept. 1924 Suspendierung wg. Unterstützung des ...

  12. Wajsrosen family collection

    Contains a "Certificate of Integrity," based on a background check, issued by the Israeli Police to Malka Weissrozen (donor) for the purpose of issue of US visa; dated April 1955; a photograph depicting Malka on a motorcycle in the Bergen Belsen DP camp, dated: June 28, 1946; an identification photograph, c. 1954, for Mala Malka Bella Wajsrozen b. 12/18/1930 in Sandomierz, Poland, daughter of Cwi Hersch Wajsrozen, b. 1887 and Chana Tuchman Wajsrozen.

  13. Fiction film about a German immigrant becoming a US citizen

    16mm film "This is America" Part of a series produced by Frederic Ullman Jr. in the 1940s. This episode, "New Americans," which dates from around the late 1940s, focuses on a German immigrant (or refugee) and his quest to become a United States citizen. Depicted are his arrival in the city via Ellis Island, meetings with immigration officials, and attempts to find housing and a job. He is led to the National Refugee Service where he finds friendly assistance. He perseveres and is eventually sworn in as a United States citizen.

  14. Archief van de secretarie van de gemeente Wymbritseradeel 1923 - 1983

    Het archief bevat de neerslag van de taken en activiteiten van de gemeente. In hoofdstuk 2.1.3.1 en 2.1.3.2 zijn de notulen van vergaderingen van de gemeenteraad en het College B&W te vinden. In hoofdstuk 2.1.7 vindt u stukken betreffende personeelsaangelegenheden. In hoofdstuk 2.2.3 zitten stukken betreffende de bevolkingsregistratie (zie ook het gedeponeerd archief van de ambtenaar van de burgerlijke stand, hoofdstuk 3.1). Hier kunt u in de gedeeltes over de oorlogsjaren mogelijk relevante informatie vinden.

  15. District Gendarmerie Headquarters of Trutnov

    The archival fonds of the Trutnov District Gendarmerie Headquarters contains records from 1938. As the records are kept in a single box, it may be assumed that they are only a fraction of the creator's original files. All that has been preserved are various reports of crimes and offences. The reports include information on the posting of anti-Jewish posters in Jičín, on the appointment of the forced administrator Stöhr from Rochlitz to the Jewish firm of D. Glaser (a mechanical spinning mill), on an anti-Jewish gathering in Vrchlabí on 10 November 1938, on the arrest of Jews from Vrchlabí o...

  16. Jerry S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jerry S., who was drafted into the United States Army in 1943. He recounts assignment to the 82nd Airborne Division; dropping into France behind enemy lines; fighting from town to town in Germany; entering Dachau, having no conception of a concentration camp; observing prisoners who looked like walking cadavers, mostly Jews; providing whatever food and water they had; observing piles of corpses, human hair, and belongings; United Stares military authorities compelling local Germans to go through Dachau; their specious claim of having no knowledge of the camp; and leav...

  17. Poland; Warsaw ghetto

    Officer training course Prien, Chiemsee, chess game, excursion, sunbathing, rowing. 10:05:45 Knight cross holder, igloo building (exercise for Russia), snowball fight with women. 10:16:40 Title: "Poland 1940/41" Horses, Polish village, riders, everyday life, guns, Draw well. 10:24:16 Soldiers with young dogs, eating, riding column, guns, laughing young woman.10:30:00 Medical vehicle, winter, "patch hour", snowfall, hairdresser, market, graves. 10:40:41 Warsaw Ghetto, driving, train station "Warschau-West" sign. 10:42:20 In Mszczonow, Poland, sign "Mszczonow", village, ruins, market, office,...

  18. Oral history interview with Sherman Ray

  19. Zbiór materiałów dotyczących zbrodni hitlerowskich w Polsce

    • Collection of materials detailing Nazi crimes in Poland

    Prokuratura I Frontu Białoruskiego: zbrodnie hitlerowskie w województwie białostockim, lubelskim, warszawskim, nowogródzkim i wileńskim - protokoły zeznań świadków, 1944, sygn. 230, t. 1; Polsko - Radziecka Komisja dla Badania Zbrodni Niemców w Lublinie: badania zbrodni na terenie Siedlec i okolicy - protokoły, 1944, sygn. 230, t. 2; Łódzka Wojewódzka Komisja dla Badania Zbrodni Niemców w Polsce: wyjazd do obozu w Chełmnie nad Nerem, posiedzenie - protokół, sprawozdanie, 1945, sygn. 230, t. 3; Gminna Rada Narodowa w Zaborowie: ekshumacja zwłok ofiar terroru hitlerowskiego - protokół, 1945, ...

  20. Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands