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  1. William R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of William R., who was born in Arizona in 1918. He recounts liberating Mauthausen as a member of the United States Army 11th Armored Division; his shock at seeing thousands of starved and sick prisoners; the pervasive stench; prisoners dying after liberation because they could not digest food; buildings that appeared to be shower rooms but were gas chambers; and hundreds of corpses. He describes an American general who had himself sprayed with DDT so prisoners would allow themselves to be treated for lice to stem the typhus epidemic and the policy of the United States Ar...

  2. Georg and Eva Oppenheim collection

    This collection contains copy documentation pertaining to Georg Oppenheim's legal training and career; his trial for anti-nazi activities; his post war restitution claim and original correspondence to Eva Stein from her family and Georg Oppenheim.

  3. Processo de pedido de visto para Maria de la Estrella Cerdeira Soriano, Maria Estrella Cerdeira Soriano, Mohamed B. Ettaih Benquiran Ettazin, Rafael Hernandez Jimenez, Consesa Clemence Mathius Bonnet e Madeleine Ribeiro Colaço

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Tanger para Maria de la Estrella Cerdeira Soriano, de nacionalidade espanhola, com destino a Portugal. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Tanger para Maria Estrella Cerdeira Soriano, de nacionalidade espanhola, com destino a Portugal. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Tanger para Mohamed B. Ettaih Benquiran Ettazin, de nacionalidade não identificada, com destino a Portugal. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Tanger para...

  4. Dachau prisoners at home of baker; candlesticks made in Allach

    This footage was shot by a baker who supplied bread to Dachau concentration camp. See Stories 1282, 1283, and 1284 for related footage. The family (and others?) of the baker gathered around the family dining table, eating and celebrating a first communion. One of the girls is dressed in white with a headband of white flowers. There are two candlesticks on the table, holding lit candles. The candlesticks were made by prisoners in Allach, a subcamp of Dachau, where there was a porcelain manufacturing factory. Several views of people eating; all of them are women and girls, except for one very...

  5. Landrat (District Councillor) of Chomutov

    The debts of persons of the Jewish origin, evicted/escaped from the district of Chomutov, the administration of the ayrianized assets and trades - temporary administration, Treuhänder, etc. The register of people of the Jewish origin, 1943; the liquidation of a Jewish law firm and dealing with its claims, 1941.

  6. Staatsanwaltschaft Kassel

    Generalakten, Strafprozesse (auch des Sondergerichts)

  7. German invasion of Poland

    Reel 2: Footage of Polish military parade and maneuvers. Burning villages "Polish outrages." Danzig: fighting in street, tank through streets, burning buildings. Professor Burkhart. Swastikas hanging from buildings in Danzig. German troops enter city. Graphic of "Polish attack" and German counter attack. German motorized troops mass. Tanks, then cavalry along road. Long line of troops march past trucks. More motorized troops mass. CUS of armored vehicles on the move. Tilt up to long line of tanks along road. MSs of tanks. Cavalry across field. Pov motorcycle along road. Side view - motorcyc...

  8. March of Time -- outtakes -- Tel Aviv Schools

    Herzelia secondary school in Tel Aviv. First day of Mourning, of a week of mourning in memory of the millions of Jews tortured and killed by the Nazis, with a special ceremony at all schools in Palestine. Busy street, buildings. People exiting building en masse. 06:43:15 Lines of school children doing drills. Israeli flag. Women conducting girls singing hymn of Faith (brought from the ghetto). 06:44:35 Man reads oath from scroll to girls. Hebrew writing: "The remnant of Israel shall multiply on its soil. It shall rise. The hope of Israel shall never wane. His home shall be upbuilt and firml...

  9. Stadelheim death certificates

    The Stadelheim death certificates consists of certificates documenting the deaths of prisoners at the Stadelheim prison in Munich, Germany, between 1942-1944. The certificates indicate that the vast majority of the prisoners were executed by beheading in groups and their bodies transferred to the Anatomical Institute in Munich. Includes some bureaucratic correspondence and transport bills for taking the bodies to the Institute. Also includes the original binder which housed the documents, on which "Leichen" [Corpses] is written, and on the inside of the binder, the chemicals used to create ...

  10. Kenneth Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Kenneth Z., who was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1917. He recalls his medical education; marriage in 1941; enlistment in the Army Air Force in 1943; and serving as the surgeon for the 8th Armored Division's 399th Field Artillery as they crossed the English Channel in January 1945, progressed through France, Holland, and Germany, and crossed the Rhine on March 27th. He recounts establishing a medical station in Langenstein; entering a nearby concentration camp; his horror at the inmates' condition and mass graves; efforts to help the prisoners; witnessing the killing...

  11. Robert K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Robert K., who was born in New York in 1920. He recalls enlisting in the United States Army at age twenty-one; assignment to the 101st Cavalry Reconnaissance; entering Europe shortly after D Day; receiving radio orders to proceed to a concentration camp in April 1945; prisoners wearing striped uniforms; mounds of smoldering bodies; smoking chimneys; giving the prisoners food; leaving the camp when they were relieved by other soldiers; and learning later that it had been Landsberg concentration camp. Mr. K. recounts his reaction of disbelief upon entering Landsberg and...

  12. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Jura

    Contains documents from the Jura, a mountainous, sparsely-populated region on the eastern border of France, once part of the Franche-Comté. The documents concern the anti-Jewish laws put into effect, certain Jews who held government jobs and were given special permission to keep them, the cancellation of Vichy laws allowing lawful pillaging of Jewish property under “Aryanization”, letters that singled out Jews in hiding to the authorities, documents dealing with foreigners who had been given exile in 1939, arrests of Jews by German authorities, and post-war Zionist youth camps.

  13. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Haute-Loire

    Contains documents concerning the refugee centers in Chambon-sur-Lignon, run by La Cimade (Côteau-Fleuri) and La Maison-des-Roches. Daniel Trocmé, nephew of Pastor Trocmé and director of the latter, was sent to Buchenwald when a round-up occurred (see PV of his arrest). Also includes records from internment camps like Tence, records connected to Gurs on Noé, and police records relating to immigration, foreign workers in forced labor brigades, house arrests and surveillance of foreigners, round-ups, education and teachers.

  14. Reichstuberkuloseausschuß

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Entstand 1933 im Zuge der nationalsozialistischen "Gleichschaltung" der Verbände und Organisationen aus dem im Jahre 1895 gegründeten Zentralkomitee zur Bekämpfung der Tuberkulose und wurde der Reichszentrale für Gesundheitsführung (Reichsausschuss für Volksgesundheitsdienst e.V.) unterstellt. Mit dem 1938 geschaffenen Reichstuberkuloserat erhielt der Reichstuberkuloseausschuss Funktionen eines Ausführungsorgans der vom Reichstuberkuloserat beschlossenen Grundsätze und Planungen. Leiter wurde Dr. Barthels; ihm folgten 1934 Prof. Dr. Taute, 1934-1938 Dr. Frey ...

  15. National Administration of the Assets – Circuit Office of Jihlava

    The fonds contains the files concerning the administration, seizure, post–war restitution and nationalisation of property of Jews and persons of hostile countries, primarily houses in the Jihlava region, western Moravia and certain houses in southern Bohemia. The fonds contains 2 books – list of restitutions and list of real estate. The files are sub–divided into several groups – files concerning general matters, files of returned real estate (classified according to location) and files concerning real estate transferred to the administration of national committees, communal enterprises or ...

  16. Simon Goldman photographs

    The Simon Goldman photographs include 17 photographs of Simon Goldmand and his friends at the Bindermichl Displaced Persons camp in Austria. The collection also inclues a floppy disc.

  17. Selected records the Lithuanian Central State Archives, Jager report (Fond 1742/1)

    Contains reports, personal files, and legal documents relating to the escape of the president, Antanas Smetona form Lithuania, the Jäger Report on Einsatzkommando 3, and Lithuania's cultural relations with the Soviet Union.

  18. Booth family papers

    Includes photocopies of correspondence between the Philip Booth family and Leon Kubowitzki, exchanged while attempting to aid several Jews from German-occupied Belgium with emigration matters. Also included are affidavits relating to the efforts of Philip and Mary Booth to help Jews emigrate from Europe. See RG list for RG-10.02601 and RG-10.026*02 titles.

  19. Bundespatentgericht.- Organisationsunterlagen

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • B 194-ORG
    • German
    • Sammlung 106 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 0,0 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Das Bundespatentgericht wurde am 1. Juli 1961 aufgrund des Sechsten Gesetzes zur Änderung und Überleitung von Vorschriften auf dem Gebiet des gewerblichen Rechtsschutzes vom 23. März 1961 (BGBl. I , S. 274) als unabhängiges und selbständiges Bundesgericht mit Sitz in München errichtet. Das Bundespatentgericht gehört insofern zur ordentlichen Gerichtsbarkeit, weil es gemäß Art. 96 Abs. 3 GG im Rechtszug unter dem Bundesgerichtshof steht. Berufungsgericht ist folglich der Bundesgerichtshof. Das Bundespatentgericht ist zuständig für die rechtliche Kontrolle der ...

  20. George C. Gross photographs

    Consists of photographic negatives of images of the "death train" from which concentration camp prisoners from Bergen-Belsen were liberated near Farsleben (near Magdeburg, Germany) in April 1945. The prisoners had been placed on the train and departed Bergen-Belsen prior to the camp's liberation though the train had no intended destination. The images were taken and acquired immediately by George Gross, who was part of the 743rd Tank Battalion which secured the train while others in the unit sought provisions for the newly liberated prisoners.