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  1. Case of Julius Streicher presented at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 490) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 10, 1946. Rear views, Col. Griffith-Jones of the British prosecution presenting the case against Julius Streicher. He reads articles and describes pictures in "Der Stuermer" about alleged atrocities committed by Jews. MLS, defense counsel for Streicher, Dr. Hans Marx, asks the Tribunal questions about the book offered as evidence. 06:37:35 Photographer visible behind the judges. The British prosecutor steps in and explains. Defense counsel returns to his place and the British prosecutor continues. MS, prisoners' dock showing Streich...

  2. Children Parade; Hitler Youth

    LS Children parade down street of Jihlava, Czechoslovakia in this very regimented series of events. Various views of spectators lining sidewalk; man in SA uniform; boys marching through field in costume, carrying what seem to be toy rifles with bayonets. LS pan over field with Nazi banners, onlookers on hillside. Parade grounds and children marching in formation. CU children. Narrator tells of Germany's gradual replacement of population in region (German for Czech.). CU medieval banner. CU Nazi officer speaking. VS of children in costume. Night bonfire: LS then MS Hitler Youth in a row, hol...

  3. John R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of John R., who was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1917. He recalls enlisting in the United States Army; moving from England through France to Germany; having no prior knowledge of concentration camps; arriving in Buchenwald shortly after its liberation; initial shock at the conditions; emaciated, lethargic prisoners; piles of corpses; several prisoners dying in front of him; the contrast between the prisoner and SS barracks; and taking pictures so he would not forget what he had seen. Mr. R. notes the lack of interest of those to whom he described his visit; ceasing to d...

  4. Lucie W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lucie W., who was born in Bad Berleburg, Germany in 1924. She describes instances of Nazi-related antisemitism in public school; her family's experiences during Kristallnacht and its aftermath; her journey to Belgium, along with her brother and sister, on a children's transport; and her unsuccessful attempt to escape into France. She also relates her illegal entry into Germany in February 1941, in order to emigrate to the United States with her family, and her subsequent emigration to the United States via Portugal.

  5. Brauchitsch testifies at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 40) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, March 13, 1946. Witness Berndt von Brauchitsch, former colonel in the German Luftwaffe, is sworn in and testifies. Brauchitsch is being questioned concerning a document apparently referring to a meeting in which destructive measures of the Luftwaffe during operation "Barbarossa" were outlined. He insists not knowing or remembering the document, now having been present at the meeting and thus not able to elaborate on any of the issues discussed there. To his knowledge at the time, the targets for the Luftwaffe were exclusively airports, not ...

  6. Jüdische Gemeinden (überwiegend vor 1945)

    Personenbezogene Unterlagen der Jüdischen Gemeinde zu Berlin, darunter: -Austrittskartei der Jüdischen Gemeinde zu Berlin, Ende 19. Jh.−1941 -Registerbände des Jüdischen Krankenhauses, 1888−1978 -Kartei und Akten des jüdischen Friedhofs Berlin-Weißensee, 1880−1990 (Mikrofiches) Jüdische Gemeinde Halle/Saale, 1859−1990 (Benutzung vorbehaltlich der Zustimmung der Jüdischen Gemeinde Halle/Saale)

  7. O.40 - Documentation regarding the Jews of the Netherlands, primarily during the Holocaust period

    O.40 - Documentation regarding the Jews of the Netherlands, primarily during the Holocaust period In the Collection there are files submitted to Yad Vashem by private people including personal documents from the war period, correspondence with the German authorities in the Netherlands, correspondence with family members; correspondence after the war; anti-Jewish orders and directives, newspaper clippings including information regarding the persecution of the Dutch Jews, documentation concerning the rescue of Jews, Joodse Raad (Jewish Council) activities, the Westerbork transit camp, concent...

  8. Von Papen and Hitler on election day

    Hitler's car pulls up to a curb and he gets out, dressed in a suit and tie, and salutes a small crowd. People in the crowd take photos of him. There are election posters and placards outside of the bulidng that Hitler enters. Hitler is shown exiting the same building. A larger crowd salutes enthusiastically. As Hitler prepares to drive away, someone in the crowd shouts "Unser Fuehrer!" Hitler hands an envelope (a card?) and a bouquet of flowers to a man in the backseat of the car. A car pulls up outside a different building and von Papen gets out. He wears a black armband (mourning) and car...

  9. Selected records from the Central State Archives of the Republic of Kazakhstan related to the evacuation to Kazakhstan during the Second World War II

    The collection contains copies of the archival records related to the evacuation of civilians to Kazakhstan during WWII that includes information about resettlement, employment and food supplies and medical assistance provided by the local authorities. This collection also includes records related to the special assistance given to foreign political immigrants (mostly members of the Communist Parties of the Nazi occupied countries) who were evacuated to Kazakhstan by the Soviet authorities.

  10. Mros, Bodo

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Abgabe durch das Institut für Geschichte der Medizin und Ethik in der Medizin/Universitätsmedizin Charite, Herr Dr. Schagen und Frau Prof. Schleiermacher, am 19.7.2022 Bestandsbeschreibung Arbeitsmaterialien aus seiner Tätigkeit auf dem Gebiet der Facharztausbildung in der DDR Vorarchivische Ordnung Inhaltsverzeichnis für die Ordner 1-13, zusätzlich 3 Kartons ohne Verzeichnis, in Bestandsakte Zitierweise BArch N 2849/...

  11. Oberster Kommissar für die Operationszone Alpenvorland

    Bestandsbeschreibung Vorhanden sind lediglich einzelne Aktensplitter über die Reaktion der Südtiroler Bevölkerung auf die Befreiung Mussolinis, die Besetzung kirchlicher Stellen sowie organisatorische Maßnahmen. Zitierweise BArch R 83-ALPENVORLAND/...

  12. Landrat (District Councillor) of Krnov

    The fonds contains the documents of the German administration, including the policee, personnel, education, cultural and military matters, population card files, registers of foreign workers, Arbeitsbuch (labour book), personal documents, and more. The fonds also includes documents concerning the appointment of forced administrators of Jewish property and further disposal of former Jewish property, proposals for issuing ID cards to Jews, instructions for terminating the concession of persons of Jewish origin, lists of names of Jews and those with Jewish ancestry from Krnov, and the schoolin...

  13. "August Cohn--Anti-Fascist: His Life under Nazi Tyranny and American Repression"

    Consists of a CD containing one manuscript, 219 pages, entitled "August Cohn--Anti-Fascist: His Life under Nazi Tyranny and American Repression," by Howard Cohn. In the manuscript, Mr. Cohn describes his the experiences of his father, August Cohn, who born in Fulda, Germany, and arrested as a Communist in April 1933. After being beaten and publicly humiliated in Oberkaufungen, he was tried and imprisoned in the Kassel and Hameln prisons before entering the concentration camp system in 1935, where he was imprisoned both as a Jew and a Communist in the Esterwegen, Sachsenhausen, Dachau, and B...

  14. Abraham Duke papers

    The Abraham Duke papers consists of copyprint photographs of Abraham Duke and his family. Also included is an untitled memoir of Duke's wartime experiences in various ghettos and labor camps, as well as photocopies of articles relate to his childhood in Minsk, Poland (now Mir, Belarus).

  15. Archives de Nuremberg : Juives de Riga

    Contains documentation about the German occupation authorities in Latvia, the expropriation of Jewish property, and the head of the Reichsministerium für die besetzten Ostgebiete, Alfred Rosenberg. The documents that comprise this collection were selected by the source repository, the Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine, following the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, from documents that had been collected as potential evidence during the trial of Alfred Rosenberg.

  16. Big Three at Yalta Conference

    FDR, Churchill, and Stalin meet at Yalta to discuss postwar issues. 01:53:54 MCU Pres. Roosevelt in cape lights cigarette next to Premier Joseph Stalin. Big Three seated. Behind FDR is Admiral William Leahy. Two shots of Churchill and Roosevelt. Two shots of FDR and Stalin. MS of all three seated on portico, Churchill smokes cigar. Among those standing behind them are Anthony Eden, Edward Stettinius, Vyacheslav Molotov, William Harriman, Harry Hopkins, Gen Marshall, Air Marshal Sir Charles Portal, Alexander Cadogan. 01:56:51 VS military and civilian cameramen shooting Big Three (most Russia...

  17. Documentation of the municipal administration in Bila Tserkva, 1941-1943

    Documentation of the municipal administration in Bila Tserkva, 1941-1943 - Documentation regarding the registration of the population, confiscation of Jewish property and a list of the Jewish inmates in the local prison; - Information regarding the number of inmates in the prison taken for execution; - Information regarding the theft of abandoned Jewish property carried out by the local residents before the German occupation; - Documentation of the mayor of Bila Tserkva regarding life in the city and regarding Jewish property; - Announcement sent to the mayor of Bila Tserkva by the German I...

  18. Sąd Grodzki w Bodzentynie

    • Court of the first instance in Bodzentyn

    repertoria spraw cywilnych, skorowidz spraw karnych, terminarz C, akta spraw cywilnych C o dział spadku, zwrot nieruchomości rozgraniczenie, wyjście z niepodzielności

  19. Court of the First Instance in Koziegłowy Sąd Grodzki w Koziegłowach (Sygn.587)

    This collection contains five legal cases in which one of the parties was Jewish. Cases relate to restoration of property, acknowledging the right to inheritance, and finding a person deceased.

  20. Trial of Marshal Henri Petain

    Trial of Marshal Henri Petain, Fortress Montrouge (outskirts of Paris), July 1945. MSs, crowds entering palace courtyard after credentials are checked by guards. VS, Palace of Justice. MSs, Pierre Mongibaud, President of the High Court, enters palace. Anteroom shots (dark), civilians and military enter; group watches from stairs. MSs, EXT, bedroom window of palace. Room formerly occupied by Petain. MSs, CUs, correspondents working in press room. LS, policemen and firemen on palace roof. INT of courtroom, Petain enters, sits in chair flanked by guards. INT, witnesses appear; Michael Clemence...