Archival Descriptions

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Country: United States
Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

    Contains records captured by the Red Army around the end of World War II currently housed at the Russian State Military Archive, formerly the Osobyi archives. In 1992, the Osobyi was renamed the Center for the Preservation of Historical Documentary Collections (CPHDC) and in 1999 The Russian Archives Committee merged the CPHDC into the Russian State Military Archives (RGVA) located next door. The RGVA contains prewar Soviet military documents. While the Osobyi is now a part of RGVA, the old Osobyi fond numbers for the various collections remain unchanged. In 1992, the Osobyi was renamed the...

  2. Ita Rozenczwajg Dimant collection

    Diary: written by Ita Rozenczwajg (donor's mother) during her forced labor on a farm in Germany, 1943-1945 on parchment paper she stole from the German owners of the farm. Collection of photographs (40), pre- and post-war; false documents; wartime correspondence from Ita's rescuer's family, Brust, pre and post-war correspondence; transcript of the Polish language diary; English memoir written by Ita Dimant based on her diary; Hebrew translation of the memoir. Fake tooth that contained cyanide which was installed in the mouth of Ita Rozenczwajg by members of the Polish underground. Ita was a...

  3. Kurt and Frieda Wellisch and Ignaz and Rosine Auerbach collection

    Collection of documents, correpondence, photographs and publications surrounding Kurt and Frieda Wellisch and their escape from Nazi occupied Vienna, Austria. Kurt, a lawyer, was arrested and held by the Gestapo before being released and able to flee to the United States.

  4. Ellis Gordon collection

    Invitation Card to a Gala Concert to aid the Danish Refugees in Sweden at the Metropolitan Opera House held on Thursday evening, February 17th, 1944. Lists participating artists, prices, special guests, contact for tickets. "There are about 11,000 Danish Refugees in Sweden who have fled Gestapo terror, they must be fed, clothed, housed until Denmark is free again. Denmark is not yet in the Nation-wide National War Fund Drive, as this unfortunately was closed before the latest tragedy to our country occurred, therefore this Benefit Concert has been arranged by Lauritz Melchior to help reliev...

  5. Majdanek liberated

    Opening titles and credits (see transcription below). Pan of prisoners behind barbed wire. CUs prisoners, their tatooed numbers, of the electrically charged barbed wire, ruins, various signs, guard towers, aerial views, etc. The Russian officers examine officials of camp. Men dig up graves for evidence. CU, women weeping as bodies are uncovered. CUs, decomposed bodies and pile of skulls. Gas chambers. CU can of chemicals used for gas. INTs, camp, etc. Officials of the camp are examined and, with the help of female Russian interpreter, various prisoners tell their stories. Rolling credits at...

  6. Nazis enter Czechoslovakia

    Brief: animap of Hungary-Czechoslovakia region. VAR standard shots of the German military entering Czechoslovakia: soldiers ride bicycles, tanks, and motorcycles on the snowy roads. Military enters the cities of Jihlava and Německý Brod. and completely fill the squares with military vehicles. Soldiers and police (in long coats) stand around, eating, conversing. "PRAHA" sign. Swarms of people wave as vehicles drive down wet streets and then enter gated square. Snow falling and blowing. Crowds swarm to see Hitler, who is driven into the square. Wearing a long coat, he walks in the square amid...

  7. American officers/POWs in Mauthausen

    (LIB 6495) Concentration Camp, Mauthasen, Austria, May 7-8, 1945. Sound interview with Lt Jack H Taylor, US Navy, who tells of his work in the German-occupied countries of Europe, his capture, and his treatment as a prisoner. Sound interview with Sgt Louis Biagioni, US Army, who tells of his service behind the lines serving with Italian partisans in the the northeast section of Italy. The Sgt relates his capture by the Gestapo and treatment while in the prison camp. Transcription: Jack H. Taylor U.S. Navy, CA. "Interview with American Officer in Austria, October 44. Captured in December by ...

  8. Eichmann Trial -- Sessions 21 and 22 -- Testimonies of H. Pachter, Y. Gurfein, N. Zabludowicz, L. Wells

    Sessions 21 and 22. Court is not in session. Court officials interact; Adolf Eichmann enters his booth; Attorney General Gideon Hausner and Defense Attorney Dr. Robert Servatius converse; and Servatius exchanges information with Eichmann. The Judges enter the courtroom and there is a blip at 00:04.52. Witness Hirsch (Zvi) Pachter discusses Nazi treatment in Hrubieszow, a town near Chelm: "They took hold of a man... they hit [him] on the head with their rifle butts... They kept on asking each other: 'How many did you manage to kill by shooting...'" Blip at 00:08:19. Witness Ya'Akov Gurfein d...

  9. Rauter Trial, Westerbork

    "Neerlands Nieuws / Polygoon Profilti" "Het Proces Rauter Opens with the trial of Hanns Rauter, an Austrian who was the highest SS official in Nazi-occupied Holland and who was tasked with setting up Westerbork and Vught 02:19:44 The judge's voice, presumably reading the indictment, over footage of well dressed civilians wearing stars either arriving at Westerbork or boarding for deportation to Auschwitz or Belsen. Men, women, and children. Good shots of Dutch military police on duty. Back to Rauter sitting at the trial. 02:20:12 Men wearing wooden clogs getting off train at Westerbork lini...

  10. Second transport of war criminals

    Second transport of war criminals. Former Arrow Cross leaders arrive from Germany, interrogated in former Arrow Cross headquarters. Including: Sandor Csia, Tribunal Judge Lajos Szasz, Supply Minister Ferenz Vas, Leader of Volksbund Emil Szakvari, Secretary of Gombos, Minister under Szalasi Pal Tider, Arrow Cross Count Peter Hain, Gestapo agent Kalman Kubai (L) chained with Laszlo Baky (R) State Secretary Karoly Beregi, Arrow Cross Defense Minister Mihaly Borcsa Kolozsvari, Szalasi Press Secretary Istvan Antal, Minister of Propaganda Ferenz Kiss, Actor Ferencz Fiala, Press Secretary Jeno Rac...

  11. Westerbork Arrival

    Arrivals at Westerbork transit camp. Workers and guards at train station. Train pulls in. People get off trains with bundles; chaotic feeling. Freight train pulls in, Jewish prisoners from Vught concentration camp wearing clogs and work clothes, get off, line up. They have been sent to Westerbork for punishment. Brief INT of registration (out of focus).

  12. Westerbork Deportation

    Deportations at Westerbork transit camp. People with Star of David on their coats at railroad station, with bundles. Barracks can be seen in the background. Well dressed men and women. People getting onto freight cars. Confusion. MS, crowd in front of freight car. Two officers walking by. People wave goodbye from inside of train. Sick woman (Ms. Frouwke Kroon - 1882-1944) lying on a wooden cart being wheeled into train station. Guards with dogs. 00:07:38 Sophia de Groot at far left of the door opening on train wagon #9, gesturing to someone on the platform. Boxes filled with food, cigarette...

  13. Westerbork labor

    Slave labor at Westerbork transit camp. Recycling metals - men working at tables, putting things into baskets and barrels marked Kupfer [copper], Messing [brass], etc. Forward tracking shot through shop past workers, including at least one woman. Man with goggles and sledge hammer working outside on metal rods. (Some scenes marred by camera fault). Close view of men at work table, in assorted clothing and assorted markings. Some have stars; armbands are present on most. Women pulling wire through boards, in a circle. Some have stars. Closeup of hands and tangled wires. Men at work table wor...

  14. Col. Joseph Albert Meisinger (Butcher of Warsaw) surrenders

    Butcher of Warsaw, Kawaguchi, Japan, September 6, 1945. MSs, Gestapo Col Joseph Albert Meisinger, known as the "Butcher of Warsaw," walking into deserted dining room of Fuji Hotel and surrendering to war correspondents. CUs, MSs, correspondents interrogating Meisinger. MSs, CUs, Meisinger is shown to jeep by correspondents and escorted by them as they drive along road. CUs, Meisinger. Mitsubishi Aircraft and Engine Works, Nagoya, Japan, September 7, 1945. VS, US officer with Japanese civilians inspecct the aircraft plant. Scenes showing complete destruction of factory and equipment. AV, wre...

  15. War atrocities; exhumation of bodies

    War Atrocities, Dortmund, Germany, April 30, 1945. INTs, sick and tubercular slave laborers in hospital beds at former German concentration camp. MSs, US doctors and medics care for the sick. CUs, doctor treats severe head wound. CUs, various sick prisoners, many with wounds and bruises. The majority of the prisoners are emaciated. Exhumation of Bodies, Landwehr (sp?), Germany, April 30, 1945. HSs, MSs, CUs, former Nazi Gestapo agents and civilians remove bodies of murdered political prisoners from mass grave. MSs, entrance to cave where prisoners were held before their assassination. CUs, ...

  16. German concentration camp in Holzen; destruction in German town

    (LIB 5215) German Concentration Camp, Holzen, Germany, April 8, 1945. LSs, soldiers of 329th Regiment, 83rd Division, near German concentration camp. CUs, Russian, Polish, Czech and Jewish prisoners behind barbed-wire fence. VS, undernourished prisoners. MS, internee picking lice from body of another internee. Officers and soldiers speaking with internees. 02:11:58 The newly liberated prisoner, Adriaan Thomson, with his hands clasped together talks to an American officer. MSs, officers leaving cave where French and Italian slave labor was employed making V-1 buzz bombs. (LIB 5216) Pockets, ...

  17. French liberation: FFI, Germans, collaborators, POWs

    Reel 2: FFI and German units fight in the streets. Collaborationists are rounded up. Gestapo torture chambers are examined; prisoners are released. FFI wounded are treated. A rifle is seized from a wounded German. FFI riflemen fire from barricades at German tanks. Shows smashed German vehicles and German POWs. Allied tanks and motorized info enter the city. The tricolor is raised and German signs torn down. Machine guns and rifles are fired at German snipers in the Place de la Concorde.

  18. Westerbork Deportation

    WS, train entering station. Rows of people with armbands "FK" [Fliegende Kolonne]. One of the women with the "FK" is Lenie Nijstad Cohen. Well-dressed Jews with Star of David on their coats on the platform, some getting bundles off the train. Soldiers checking documents. Guards with dogs. Another train (goods wagons) pulls into the station from which men wearing clogs get out, caps on their shaven heads. These are Jewish prisoners from Vught concentration camp being sent to Westerbork on punishment. LS, prisoners on platform. INTs, men with shaved heads (light on left), sharing bread. Men b...

  19. Westerbork Camp: paper factory; carpentry hall

    MS, men cleaning a freight car floor with shovels. Group of men pulling small wagon filled with empty cans? Pressing cans, separating and cutting metal pieces. 01:34:28 Westerbork's paper factory. Men and women separating sheets of paper. MS, piles of white paper sheets. Large hall packed with women working on sewing machines, using dark colored textiles (for military uniforms?). Men cutting through layers of fabric. Making toys. Shelves filled with beautiful handmade toys (stuffed animals, wooden cubes, etc.) 01:45:05 MS, sign on brick building: TISCHLEREI, HIER MELDEN. Carpentry hall. Sig...

  20. Sewing, laundry, dentist, carpentry, trains at Camp Westerbork

    CU, wooden table covered with buttons. CU of man's and woman's hands covering buttons in leather, putting it through a press. 02:04:05 Pan of a large working hall with people sewing. Laundry room: MS of women in white overcoats putting white sheets through a press and folding sheets. Men pulling out clean laundry from large washing machines and separating them into tall wooden crates. Row of women behind table ironing. 02:06:38 MS, chemical lab. Men and women in white coats mixing chemicals. Shelves with bottles filled with chemicals. CU of man looking through microscope. 02:07:40 MS, sign ...