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  1. 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...

  2. 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

  3. 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.

  4. 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...

  5. Sephardic school for children in Kastoria

    Man and woman stand near a sign that says “Hello America - This the school of Kastoria speaking to you everyone send you their love.” Sam Elias poses with the sign. Another sign in Ladino [names of the members of the Community Council]. Victor Hazan shakes teacher’s hands in the courtyard of the school. Rabbi Mevorah (bearded man). Students march in a circle in the courtyard. Victor Hazan gives chocolate to the children. Lena Elias and Rita among group of schoolchildren; Beni Russo. Children stand in a line, pushing one another, march in a circle again. Victor Hazan gives out more chocolate...

  6. Elbridge H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elbridge H., who was born in 1924 and served with the United States Army 20th Armored Division in World War II. He recounts entering Dachau immediately after it was liberated; being overwhelmed with grief; the pervasive stench; piles of corpses; emaciated, dazed inmates; and leaving shortly thereafter. Mr. H. discusses his inability to believe the "inhumanity" of the camp; visiting Dachau with his family in 1964; and recently speaking publicly about his experience at Dachau.

  7. Lahousen testifies at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 399) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, November 30, 1945. MS, rear view, Russian Gen. Rudenko speaking to the court. MS, rear view, German defense counsel addresses the court. Gen. Lahousen (Austrian Intelligence Service) taking stand and being sworn in. Lahousen identifies Wilhelm Keitel and Alfred Jodl and proceeds to testify, recalling what was said and decided of a conference, and mentions Ribbentrop. Rear view, Soviet counsel Gen. Rudenko questions Lahousen. Voice is heard asking, "Were orders for the killing of the Russians in written form?" He answers saying, that yes, he...

  8. Selected records of the Organization for the Relief and Rehabilitation of Greek Jews (Ο.Π.Α.Ι.Ε.)

    Consists of several thematically arranged sections. Included are property restitution files, correspondence, inheritance documentation, files on individuals, and the like.

  9. Parliament (People's Congress) records (Fond 173)

    Contains requests made by the People's Representative Professor Stainov to the Chairman of Parliament and to the Minister of Foreign Affairs regarding deportation of Asian Jews. Also includes Law of Protection of the Nation records: telegrams, resolutions, and other supporting documents.

  10. Marie Rosenberg: documents re restitution claim

    Papers which document a restitution claim by Marie Rosenberg.

  11. Processo de pedido de visto para Ella Windel Bertha von Heck, Johan Leendert von Heck, Hendrikus Albertus Lutter, Grittie Eggink van Stolk e Willem Agathon Nicolaas Eggink

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Amesterdão para Ella Windel Bertha von Heck, de nacionalidade holandesa e residente nos Países Baixos, com destino a Portugal e Angola. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Amesterdão para Johan Leendert von Heck, de nacionalidade holandesa e residente nos Países Baixos, com destino a Portugal e Angola. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Amesterdão para Hendrikus Albertus Lutter, de nacionalidade holandesa e residente nos Países Baixos, com destino a Curaçau. V...

  12. Refugee camps in Switzerland: Various records

    Readers need to reserve a terminal in the reading room to access a digital version of this collection.This microfilm collection of copy records documents the official policy regarding the management of refugees in Switzerland and the day to day running of refugee camps. The papers consist of memoranda, circulars and minutes of meetings of camp leaders.Copies of instructions issued by the Eidgenossisches Justiz- und Polizeidepartment, Polizeiabteilung, Arbeitslager für Emigranten including:Miscellaneous memoranda, 24 Apr 1940- 10 Apr 1942, 14 pp, including 'Reglement für die Lagerführung, Pr...

  13. Majdanek at liberation; 1944 War Crimes Trial

    Majdanek camp after liberation, crematoriums. Polish Red Army with prisoners. The 1944 trial of six Nazi war criminals in charge of Majdanek camp outside Lublin. The trial takes place in Lublin. Charges are read in Polish, with views of defendants as they are named. Defendants speak in German (Polish subtitles). Concentration camp inmates (witnesses) sworn in. Man gives testimony, Jewish woman gives testimony. CUs of accused. Lawyer for the prosecution delivers his remarks. Sentencing to death. Public execution (by hanging) of five Nazis. Men swinging from the gallows' ropes, with a crowd o...

  14. Amtsgericht (District Court) of Chomutov

    In the materials concerning the criminal agenda there are files relating to the breach of the duty to use the supplemental first name Israel for Jewish men, and Sára for Jewish women, 1940.

  15. Verdoner family on summer holiday

    VS, Verdoner family on summer holiday in the beach resort town of Zandvoort, near Haarlem in the Netherlands.

  16. Bernhard Haas papers

    Two handwritten notebooks kept by Bernhard Haas, a Jewish prisoner in the Atlit detention camp near Haifa, 1944. Includes journal, poems and transcripts of letters. The date and place of writing are recorded on the first page of each notebook: Camp 195, Haifa, February 1944 / Camp 119, Atlit-Haifa, April 1944. The first notebook opens with a brief summary of Haas's life story until his arrest, including his childhood in Giessen, being orphaned of both his parents, the rise of the Nazis to power in Germany, his voyage to Palestine from Trieste, his studies in the Mikveh Israel agricultural s...

  17. Selected records from the Archives Départementales des Côtes d'Armor

    Contains information pertaining to the persecution of Jews, Freemasons, Communists, and French Resistance fighters in the area in and around the Côtes d'Armor. Also contains information on post war memorials.

  18. Nazi propaganda: home front

    The feature film begins with German families, including young people in HJ and BDM uniforms, running to a bomb shelter during an air raid alarm in Berlin in WWII. They discuss the endeavors of the German youth in the war effort. An older man recounts his own experience as an illusionist Wandervogel [wandering bird] before 1914 as romantic, utopian, and egoistic, whereas the 'hard reality' would now call for a different approach of the youth. Asked about their contribution to the ongoing "Daseinskampf" [struggle for existence] of the German people a uniformed member of the Jungvolk [young pe...

  19. Verdoner children playing in the yard

    VS, Francisca and Yoka Verdoner playing in their yard with their mother Hilde and their grandmother, and two puppy dogs.

  20. Der Moment

    The Yiddish journal "Der Moment", an Orthodox Zionist weekly published in Montevideo from the early 1940’s until the early 1960’s.