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  1. March of Time -- outtakes -- Vittel Internment Camp, France

    VSs, crowd of internees waving at passing armored vehicles. VSs, people waving to passing tanks. MLS, American women internees. CU, Polish woman and her baby grandaughter. 04:26:02 Aaron Rapoport (a furrier) with his three daughters, Malka, Bola, and Chana. VSs, Mr. and Mrs. Rymanowski and son, Teddy. VSs, three little girl internees hold American flag, one of them is giving the "V" for Victory, the one behind the flag is Rodi Glass (better CU at 04:26:58). VSs, Mr. and Mrs. William Irwin. Private Eldon Nicholas, who was a Red Cross aide, entertains internee children through the barbed wire...

  2. Aldo Ascoli

  3. M2121, Langenstein-Zwieberge Concentration Camp Inmate Cards, April 1944-April 1945

    Contains three series of original German records identifying inmates of the Langenstein-Zwieberge Concentration Camp, a subcamp of Buchenwald Concentration Camp, for the period April 1944 to April 1945. The first group is a name series, and the other two smaller series consist of cards organized by block (barrack) number to which the inmate was assigned, and occupations or trades to which some of the inmates were assigned within the camp. American forces seized the cards when they liberated and occupied the camp in April 1945. These records are unique in form, as the Germans cut the cards t...

  4. Selected individual files of children under the care of Œuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE)

    Contains files of people who had been under OSE (Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants) care in France during the occupation, and who in 2003 were living in the United States. Included is documentation on their Holocaust-era biographies, subsequent correspondence on emigration to the U.S., and information on non-Jewish families that hid children.

  5. Nederlands-Israelitische Gemeente (NIG) (Rotterdam), 1737-1971

    Op 29 juni 1943 werd bij verordening van de Duitse bezetter de Nederlands Israëlitische gemeente buiten werking gesteld. Toen (augustus 1943) is een lid van de opgeheven gemeente het door de Duitsers verzegelde gebouw aan de Joost van Geelstraat binnengegaan en heeft er de zilveren kerksieraden, de kantoormachines en administratieve bescheiden 'gestolen'. Dit was het begin van de ondergrondse joodse gemeente: de Nederlands Israëlitische Schuilkerk Zuid-Holland-Zuid. Na de bevrijding kon de synagoge Lew Jom, die de oorlog tamelijk ongeschonden had overleefd, weer in gebruik worden genomen. B...

  6. Irvin Wittwer photographs

    The collection consists of photographs depicting the Mauthausen concentration camp after liberation by the United States Army, as well as scenes from Gallneukirchen, Austria, Rodach, Germany, Bayreuth, Germany, and Cham, Germany.

  7. Selected records from the collections of the Mehedinţi branch of the Romanian National Archive

    Contains records from Orsova, consisting of records related to requests and changes of citizenship, firing of Jews, expropriation of Jewish properties -- including orders and lists of names.

  8. Testimony re: Hitler's death, Horstenau testifies at Nuremberg Trial

    23:37:34 (Munich 275) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, June 12, 1946. LS, US prosecutor Thomas J. Dodd asking unidentified witness whether he was present at Hitler's death. HMS, Dodd asking witness if he wasn't the man who carried Hitler's body to the bunker and set it on fire. Witness actually testifies that he carried Hitler's wife out of the bunker and saw Hitler's body wrapped in a blanket. Asked whether he actually saw Hitler, he answers no, he could only see his legs hanging out of the blanket, which was a bit too short to cover the whole body. 23:40:30 (Munich 224) War Crimes T...

  9. Executive Committee of the Glinoe (Hlinaia) village council of workers' Deputies in Grigoriopol district

    • Исполнительный комитет Глинянского сельского Совета депутатов трудящихся Григориопольского района
    • Ispolnitel'nyy komitet Glinyanskogo sel'skogo Soveta deputatov trudyashchikhsya Grigoriopol'skogo rayona

    The register of damage caused by the Fascist invaders to the Glinoe (Hlinaia) village council in 1944

  10. M.52.DAViO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Vinnytsa Region

    M.52.DAViO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Vinnytsa Region History of the Archives The State Archives of the Vinnitsa Region was established in 1920 as the Archives of the Podole Region. During its first years, the Archives was intended as a place the storage and conservation of documents from the pre-Bolshevik period. The Archives was transferred to the responsibility of the NKVD in 1938. The Archives received the name: the State Archives of the Vinnitsa Region, in 1944. Since 1960, the Archives has been under the authority of the Implementation Committee of the Vinnitsa Reg...

  11. Opening Reichsbruecke suspension bridge

    Opening of the Reichsbruecke suspension bridge in Vienna. Cardinal Innitzer, President Wilhelm Miklas, Vice Mayor (and later Nazi Vice Mayor) Fritz Lahr (far right). The construction project was an important propaganda tool for Austria's authoritarian 'Staendestaat.' Parade of workers, floats. CU, officials.

  12. Selected Records from the State Archives of Verona

    This collection contains records from the Prefettura and Questura di Verona (1938-44) regarding racial laws and their implementation in Verona; census of Italian Jews and confiscation Jewish property.

  14. Новомиколаївська районна комісія по сприянню в роботі Надзвичайної державної комісії по встановленню та розслідуванню злочинів німецько-фашистських загарбників та їх спільників і заподіяних ними збитків громадянам, колгоспам, громадським організаціям і державним підприємствам, с. Новомиколаївка Новомиколаївського району Запорізької області

    • Novomykolaivska District Commission for assistance to Extraordinary State Commission on Establishment and Investigation of the Crimes committed by the German-Fascist Invaders and their Accomplices, village of Novomykolaivka
    • Ново-Николаевская районная комиссия по оказанию содействия в работе Чрезвычайной государственной комиссии по установлению и расследованию злодеяний немецко-фашистских захватчиков и их сообщников и причиненного ими ущерба гражданам, колхозам, общественным организациям, государственным предприятиям и учреждениям СССР

    File 1. Statements about atrocities and crimes committed by the German-Fascist invaders in Novo-Mykolaivka district. 1943-1944. 55 pages.

  15. United Jewish Craft Union in Warta, the Sieradz County Cech Zjednoczonych Rzemieślników Żydów w Warcie Powiatu Sieradzkiego (Sygn. 83)

    This collection contains 20 protocols and meeting minues of the United Jewish Craft Union in Warta, in Sieradz County in Poland.

  16. War crimes investigation and trial records from the former Lithuanian KGB Archives (Fond K)

    Contains documents from the criminal investigation files and trial records of Lithuanian citizens of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) accused of wartime crimes related to the Holocaust.

  17. Waffen SS; SS volunteers in Denmark, Sweden, Croatia, Hungary; International fascist organizations and SS volunteers

    Various film recordings. European Waffen SS major rally of the DNSAP, in Denmark. (05:18:17). Advertising poster for Dutch SS, Sven Olov Lindholm, leader of the Swedish Nazi party. 1938: Swedish Nazis in Stockholm. 1933: Lindholm in Hamburg, Hungary: an arrow cruiser (07:55:09). December 21, 1944: Goebbels receives Russian volunteers, "Eastern volunteers" Rally of the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia. Includes Gen. Skilenkow, Gen. Wlassow, Dr. Ante Pavelic (Croatia), Bosnian SS volunteers, Muslim volunteer. September 26, 1944: German-American Bund (USA). November 2, 194...

  18. "80574"

    Consists of one typed portion of a memoir, 37 pages, entitled "80574" written by Simha Naor, born Stella Silberstein, 1899-1994, originally of Vienna, Austria. In the memoir, which was written based on the diary she began immediately after liberation, Simha describes her arrest in southern France in 1943, her deportation to Drancy and almost immediately thereafter, to Auschwitz. She describes the process of arriving at Auschwitz, the architecture of the barracks, and life with fellow prisoners. The memoir, which is incomplete, contains a preface by Tisa von der Schulenburg. The original Ger...

  19. Blueprint copies for Buchenwald

    Includes three copies of the blueprint plans for Buchenwald concentration camp. Also included is a report by the Sixth Service Command describing conditions in Buchenwald in 1944. This report contains testimony by Henry Glass, a prisoner of Buchenwald for approximately four months, from September 1938 to January 1939. The report describes the physical layout of the camp, its administration, methods of torture practiced in the camp, and the colored markings used to identify the prisoners.

  20. Prewar Vienna; President Miklas

    Garden path in Vienna. HAS, city street with Hotel Bristol. Streetcar, crowds. (:45) The Opera House Bustling city life, traffic, people walking around. Tracking shots along busy street, shop signs, pedestrians on sidewalks. "Wiener Werk-statte" "Kartner Kino" "Jakob Rothberger" "Phillip Kornitzer" Naschmarkt. Statue. (4:52) “Phillipp Hof” building on Albertinaplatz (building destroyed on March 12, 1945). Crowds of people walking down the street. "Mercedes Benz" "Nord Deutscher Lloyd Bremen" and other advertising signs affixed to the street lamps. Closer views of pedestrians on a bustling s...