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  3. Marshall W. Minard photographs

    The Marshall W. Minard photographs consist of 14 photographic prints and postcards documenting the Buchenwald concentration camp immediately following liberation and the Dachau death train. The Buchenwald photographs are captioned “Buchenwald Stalag” on the back. The images depict survivors, victims, skin with tattoos, exterior and interior of buildings, an effigy of Hitler, and American soldiers. The Dachau photographs depict victims inside and next to the open railcars of the Dachau death train.

  4. Deportees; scenes suggesting Warsaw Ghetto in flames; rubble

    Wartime. VLS from ceiling rafters of enormous barn-like room filled with refugees/ deportees (?) and their bundles. Soldiers in action, various locations (probably including USSR, Berlin, many countries), edited to represent the attack on the Warsaw Ghetto during the Uprising, and intercut with contemporary shots of smoke blowing across closeup portions of Rappaport sculpture commemorating the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Night time shot of buildings on fire (various locations; unclear if any is actually the Warsaw Ghetto). Expanse of rubble after the ghetto was destroyed and razed, likewise int...

  5. Leo Mantelmacher memoir

    Typescript memoir, 6 pages, by Leo Mantelmacher (1919-2006), titled "How One Brother Saved His Other Brother's Life Without Knowing It." Mantelmacher, originally of Kozienice, Poland, described the experiences of his family in German-occupied Poland during World War II, and in particular, the evacuation of the Jewish population from his hometown of Kozienice in 1942, his own work as a forced laborer, his experiences working as a tailor on the side for Polish overseers, his experiences at various concentration camps (Auschwitz, Dachau, Allach), and those of his siblings, including his brothe...

  6. Oral history interview with Pnina Kaminsky

  7. Processo de pedido de visto para Arthur Deutsch, Henry Hession, Randall Leiby e Joseph Lynch

    Processo de pedido de visto pela Legação dos Estados Unidos da América ao Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros para Arthur Deutsch, de nacionalidade americana, com destino a Portugal. Sem informação de autorização de visto. Processo de pedido de visto pela Legação dos Estados Unidos da América ao Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros para Henry Hession, de nacionalidade americana, com destino a Portugal. Sem informação de autorização de visto. Processo de pedido de visto pela Legação dos Estados Unidos da América ao Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros para Randall Leiby, de nacionalidade am...

  8. Processo de pedido de visto para Georg Schneevoigt, Auliki Rautawaara, Kerttu Aune Anti Holmqvist e Signe Brigitta Gadolin

    Processo de pedido de visto pela Legação da Finlandia ao Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros para Georg Schneevoigt, de nacionalidade sueca e residente na Suécia, com destino a Portugal. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto pela Legação da Finlandia ao Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros para Auliki Rautawaara, de nacionalidade finlandesa e residente na Finlândia, com destino a Portugal. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto pela Legação da Finlandia ao Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros para Kerttu Aune Anti Holmqvist, de nacionalidade finlandesa e residente na Finlând...

  9. Processo de pedido de visto para Peter George Julian Gray, Lawrence Carr Hill, Nan Brochlau Hill, dois filhos de Lawrence Carr Hill e Charles Lever

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Huelva para Peter George Julian Gray, de nacionalidade britânica, com destino ao Reino Unido. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Huelva para Lawrence Carr Hill, de nacionalidade britânica, com destino ao Reino Unido. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Huelva para Nan Brochlau Hill, de nacionalidade britânica, com destino ao Reino Unido. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Huelva para dois filhos de Lawrence Carr Hill, de ...

  10. Sąd Niemiecki w Radomiu

    • Deutsches Gericht Radom
    • German Court in Radom

    Zawartość zespołu stanowią akta: spraw cywilnych dotyczące alimentów i o uznanie ojcostwa (sygn. 1-18) i, przykładowo pozostawione, listy płac i wezwanie do sądu (sygn. 19-20)

  11. Herman Kutun collection

    Consists of loose photographs and photograph album pages from the collection of Herman Kutun, a member of the Counter-Intelligence Corps and Army Air Corps. The photographs depict Kutun, his fellow soldiers, displaced persons, and local people in Oberammergau, Kitzingen, and Bad Kissingen. Many of the photographs were taken at a displaced persons camp in Garmisch.

  12. Feature film about a Russian army officer: soldiers going to war

    Feature film about a young Russian army officer. Begins with his participation at a Russian youth military school and follows him as he advances in the army. Film portrays youthful patriotism through the willingness of young Russian men and women to enlist. The inhumanity of war is illustrated through scenes of extreme and ruthless German aggression. There are many any scenes of camaraderie between soldiers, battles with the Germans, and the destruction of war. Reel 2: (badly scratched). Parade at train platform, train station, waving goodbye as soldiers board train. Views of countryside fr...

  13. Lazega family collection

    Documents, photographs, papers, correspondence documenting the experiences of Jacob and Leah Lazega, and their children Fanny (donor), Eva, and Max before, during, and after the Holocaust. The Lazega family fled their home in Brussels during the German invasion of Belgium and went to Paris temporarily. When the Germans arrived in Paris, the family fled first to Vannes and then south to Marseilles. Jacob was taken to Camp des Milles, where the family could occasionally visit and bring him food and supplies. Leah was able to help her husband escape from the camp, and he then went into hiding....

  14. "A Hidden Child's Story"

    Consists of one article, entitled "A Hidden Child's Story" by Sam Lauber, which originally appeared in the Dayton (OH) Jewish Observer in May 2005. In the article, which includes copies of photographs, Mr. Lauber describes the Nazi occupation of Antwerp, where he was born in 1942. Mr. Lauber's parents arranged for him to go into hiding with the Detry family in La Louviere, Belgium, where he remained for a year before reuniting with his family. In 1948, the family immigrated to the United States. Mr. Lauber describes his post-war life and decision in 1986 to travel to La Louviere to find the...

  15. Barbie Trial -- Day 5 -- Witness testifies; discussions about Barbie refusing to appear in court

    13:35 President Cerdini asks for the accused, who refuses to appear at the trial, to be introduced. 13:37 A clerk lists the names of testifying witnesses. 13:41 President Cerdini asks Mme Vogel, née Esssner, to speak about the deportation of her parents by Nazi collaborator Paul Touvier. 14:26 Lawyer Welzer requests the Court to decide on whether it can continue to be permitted for Barbie to be absent. 14:46 Lawyer Du Granut says the presence of Barbie at his own trial would be useful and neccessary, but the respect of the French legal tradition excludes the use of force. 14:50 The prosecut...

  16. Frida Gefen family papers

    Correspondence regarding the Holocaust experiences of Jacob Szmulowicz who fled Lida, Lithuania (Lida, Belarus) with his son Samuel to Shanghai in 1939. His wife Liba, daughter Frida, and son Eliezer were deported to Siberia in 1940.

  17. Morzik, Friedrich-Wilhelm (Generalmajor)

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners geb,10.Dezember 1891 in Passenheim/Ostpr.; verh. 13.April 1922 mit Hanna Wieland; 1939 Kampfgruppe z.b.V. 1; 1941 Großraumlastensegler Gru.Me. 321, Kdr.; 1941 Lufttrs.-Führer b. GenQuM. d.Lw., Kdr. der Blindflugschulen; 1943 Trsp.Flg.Führer 2; 1944 1.FallschirmArmee, Flg.Führer; 1944 Lg.Kdo. VII, Gen. z.b.V.; 1945 OKL, Lufttrsp.-Chef der Wm. Bearbeitungshinweis Findbuch Bestandsbeschreibung Luftversorgung der Festung Stalingrad.- Angriffe gegen Generalmajor Morzik:Schriftwechsel zur Klärung des Versagens der Luftversorgung mit Oberst i.G. Dr. Ing. Pasewaldt T...

  18. Kraut, Georg (Major)

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Werdegang: 1892 Sek.Lt. im Inf.Regt. 95, Oblt. (16.11.99), 16.4.1905 kdrt. z. Ob.Kdo. d. Schutztruppen, Hptm. (27.1.06), 27.1.1906 versetzt zum Inf.Regt.167 und kommandiert zum Ob.Kdo. d. Schtr, 18.2.1908 versetzt zum Kdo. D. Schtr. i. Reichs-Kol.Amt, seit 18.11.1909 Schutztruppe f. DOA, 30.5.-24.7.1912 kdrt. zum Inf.Regt. 95); Stab (kdrt. zur Nordgrenze); 23.8.1914 Fhr. Nord-Abt.; Major (5.9.14); 25.3.1915 z.b.V. Kdo.; 14.4.1915 Fhr. Abt. Taveta; 15.4.1916 Nord-Befhb.; 2.8.1916 Abt.Fhr.; März 1918 Kdo.Stab bis zum Waffenstillstand am 14.11.1918; 31.3.1920 Ab...

  19. Narodowosocjalistyczna Niemiecka Partia Robotnicza. Oddziały Szturmowe. Dywizja „Wisła” [Sturmabteilungen (SA) der Nationalsozialistischen Deutschen Arbeiterpartei. Gruppe Weichsel]

    • akta osobowe (akta personalne oraz ankiety rejestracyjne członków SA) - akta administracyjne (zarządzenia, rozkazy i wytyczne naczelnego dowódcy SA, dowództwa Grupy SA Ostland w Królewcu, dowództwa 6 Brygady SA w Gdańsku, dowódcy Pułku SA nr 5 w Gdańsku i Pułku SA nr 17 w Bydgoszczy dot. spraw organizacyjnych, szkoleniowych, wyposażenia, stanu zdrowia, itp.; meldunki o poległych, rannych i zaginionych funkcjonariuszach oraz sprawy pomocy ich rodzinom; informacje o dyplomatach polskich oraz o osobach podejrzanych o szpiegostwo na rzecz Polski)

  20. Charles Scherz Buchenwald liberation photographs

    Consists of two photographs taken upon the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. One depicts a building in Buchenwald with a sign asking war correspondents to go to the press room for assistance and one depicts Allied liberators walking towards the entrance of Buchenwald, on which is hung a banner regarding the triumph of anti-fascism. The photographs are from the collection of Charles (Jeff) Scherz, who liberated the camp with Patton's Third Army.