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  1. Opening of the Official Anti-semitic Campaign

    "April 1, 1933, Opening of the Anti-Semitic Campaign." Goebbels addresses a cheering crowd. Trucks filled with Nazis move through the streets. Crowds fill streets of Berlin. On doorway the sign with skull: "Achtung Juden". On closed stores the sign "Jude" painted on window. Party members put up signs, hold back crowds, and sing in the streets. A huge crowd yelling "Heil" as Goebbels speaks re: the battle against Jews. Wide pan of the audience and Goebbels standing on a stage/balcony outdoors. Many SA men on a truck go through the streets with banners waving, shouting "Kauft nicht bei Juden....

  2. Selected records of the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare in Warsaw Ministerstwo Pracy i Opieki Społecznej w Warszawie (Sygn.402)

    Plans,reports, minutes, applications, circulars, correspondence related to assistance to war invalids, relief of daily life, training and employment, physical rehabilitation, distribution of help to war victims, distribution of gifts of Jeannette Hove from England. Includes registers and statistics of disabled war veterans organized by cities.

  3. Isaac N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Isaac N., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1915. He recounts participation in Po?alei Zion including organizing summer camps and meeting his future wife; German invasion; a futile attempt to escape to Warsaw; ghettoization; pervasive hunger; contact with H?ayim Rumkowski while establishing a soup kitchen; his belief that Rumkowski prolonged the ghetto's existence; liquidation of the ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; his mother's selection for death; transfer with his father and brother to Dachau, then Kaufering; his father's death; transfer to Utting, then b...

  4. Joseph M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph M., who was born in Oradea, Romania in 1918. He recalls his father's death; attending Jewish schools; their identification as Hungarians; his successful garment manufacturing business; participating in Mizrachi; Hungarian occupation; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in Baia Mare in 1942; slave labor in Yugoslavia and Ukraine; frequent beatings and killings; bombings by Soviets; feeling he would die from the work in Brest; transfer to the Ma?tra Mountains; escaping briefly with a friend near Hasznos; a mass killing when they rejoined a Jewish unit; a...

  5. XXIX. Armeekorps

    KTB Ia: Juni 1940 bis Dezember 1943 sowie Korpsbefehle von Oktober und Dezember 1944. KTB Qu.: Juni 1940 bis Mai 1942 und Januar bis Juni 1943 (Anlagen bis Dezember 1943). TB Ic: Juni bis Juli 1940, Oktober 1940 bis Mai 1942 und Januar 1943 bis Juni 1943. TB IIa: Mitte Juni 1940 bis Juli 1940 und Oktober 1940 bis Mitte Mai 1942.

  6. 25. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS "Hunyadi" (ungarische Nr. 1)

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Die überlieferten Schriftgutsplitter stammen aus Rückführungen aus den USA. Bestandsbeschreibung Erhalten ist nur ein Schriftstück die Unterbringung betreffend. Erschliessungszustand Vollständig erschlossen Zitierweise BArch RS 3-25/...

  7. Archief van de N.V. Koninklijke Stearine Kaarsenfabriek Gouda-Apollo te Gouda, 1858-1960

    Het ontstaan van de kaarsenfabriek in Gouda is te danken aan drie personen: A. Schoneveld van der Cloet, D.W. Westerbaan en A.A.G. van Iterson. Zij brachten in 1853 het startkapitaal bijeen en richtten een vennootschap op en begonnen een stearine-kaarsenfabriek als nevenbedrijf van de Goudse aardappelmeel-, siroop- en sagofabriek. Doel van de onderneming was "de handel in smeer en het vervaardigen van kaarsen". In 1858 werd de zaak grondiger aangepakt door een aantal Goudse ondernemers, waaronder de drie bovengenoemden. Na de aankoop van een nieuw fabricageprocedé door de firma Schoneveld v...

  8. Bill Carr papers

    The Bill Carr papers consists of 7 type-written pages of testimony attributed to Franz Ziereis, the former commandant of Mauthausen concentration camp. The testimony was translated into English from German by former camp inmate Charles-Heinz Pilarski. The testimony describes methods used to kill Jewish and other prisoners in the concentration camp, conditions in various camps that Ziereis worked in, a brothel for concentration camp prisoners, the execution of camp prisoners, the capture of American officers, the hiding places of various SS officers, the sexual harassment of women, the plund...

  9. Akta miasta Błażowej

    • Files of the town of Błażowa

    Zarząd Miejski; lata 1888-1918 Zachowały się uchwały Rady Gminnej miasta Błażowej od 1907 r., zdekompletowane budżety, inwentarz długów długoterminowych od 1909 r. oraz księga szupasowa. Zarząd Miejski; lata 1919-1939 Zachowany fragmentarycznie - budżety gminy miasta Błażowej, sprawozdania roczne, uchwały Rady Gminnej, inwentarz długów długoterminowych, księga szupasowa, rejestr kar, dziennik podawczy. Zarząd Miejski; lata 1939-1944 Akta zachowane w ok. 70 %. 1. Dział Ogólno Organizacyjny - zarządzenia Starostwa i ich realizacja przez Zarząd Miejski, materiały dotyczące ewidencji ludności, ...

  10. Caucasus Front

    Animated map of the Caucasus region. The campaign in the Caucasus began in the summer of 1942, preceding Stalingrad. An airfield with a plane. Three men in flight suits study a map; one of them holds a dog. According to the narrator, they are preparing to fly a reconnaissance mission around the Terek river, looking for artillery emplacements. View of a plane from the ground, then the interior, with two men in the cockpit. Aerial view of the Terek river and surrounding area. The copilot studies the ground through binoculars. The scene switches to German soldiers on the ground, listening to r...

  11. Hitler bust in Vienna; Nazi propaganda

    Loos-Haus, Michaelerplatz, a "Hitler Altar" set up. Slogan painted on top reads "Gleiches Blut gehoert in ein gemeinsames Reich" ["Shared blood belongs in a shared Reich"]. Guard at altar. Passers-by saluting. Bust. LS. Shell headquarters, now with Hitler poster and inscription, "Ein Volk Ein Reich Ein Fuehrer" (official slogan for the referendum on April 10 "One people, one Reich, one Leader.") Propaganda. Pedestrians. Poodle arranged as a still life before a shopping window dressed with a "Hitler Altar". Schwarzenbergplatz and the fountain, viewed from in front of Palais Schwarzenberg. Co...

  12. Hashomer Hatzair in Bulgaria (RG-7-2) השומר הצעיר בבולגריה

    Contains newspapers "Itoneynu", "Halapid", "Hashofar", and "Medura", the information bulletin published in Sofia in 1931; programs of activities, statistics and reports on the situation in "kenim" (branches), 1931; the central leadership reports in Bulgaria; correspondence, circulars, and minutes regarding Aliyah Bet (Alyah "B"), Plovdiv,1932; articles and lectures of the Hashomer Hatzair leaders translated to Bulgarian language; and records from "ken" (branch) in Ruse, 1923-1939. Includes also records on activities after WWII.

  13. Women working at sewing machines; fashion

    INT, women sitting at tables and sewing clothing in a large room. A woman walks through the room with two shirts. A woman stands in front of a mirror in a dress that a seamstress is adjusting and pinning. CU, book of fashion. A designer sketches a dress. CU, Singer sewing machine. Camera pans over a city street in Russia, closes in on a sign on a building (in Cyrillic). INT, large group of women sitting around a table. Garments hang and rotate from mirror panels on a wall. CU, high heels as the camera pans up the body of a woman trying on a dress. INTs, women work at sewing machines. CU, fa...

  14. Gertrude G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gertrude G., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1931. She recalls hostility from local Nazis after the Anschluss in March 1938; anti-Jewish restrictions and violence; expulsion from school; her father's arrest prior to Kristallnacht; public humiliation of her mother and grandmother on Kristallnacht; learning her father was in Dachau; his release, based upon a promise to leave Austria; their emigration to Italy; living in Milan with assistance from the Joint; attending a Jewish school; her father's internment as a political refugee; joining him, with her mother, in Cas...

  15. Stephen B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Stephen B., who was born in Berettyo?u?jfalu, Hungary in 1927. He recalls being raised with his sister in Debrecen; joyous family holiday celebrations; attending a Jewish school; German occupation in March 1944; anti-Jewish laws; ghettoization; forced labor cleaning bombing rubble; transfer to a brickyard a month later; deportation with his mother and sister to Strasshof (his father was in a slave labor battalion), then a labor camp in Vienna; contacts with Allied POWs; an Austrian foreman giving him extra food; observing Yom Kippur; disappearance of the guards; trave...

  16. Fondo Documental Secretaría Técnica, Primera y Segunda Presidencia del Teniente General Juan Domingo Perón (1946-1955), Sección: Migraciones y Colonización

    Administrative records, declarations, testimonies, declartations, decrees, name lists pertaining to Argentine migration and colonization policies and legislation, including Jewish migration in Europe and South America after the end of the Second World War.

  17. Census from the city Cluj, Romania, 1924 and 1938

    The collection contains an inventory of the Romanian citizens in Cluj county, dating from 1924-1952; as well as lists of Jews and Christians in Cluj, Gherla, Mociu commune, Câțcău commune, Dej, and Turda, Romania, compiled in 1938, 1945 and 1949. Lists complaied in 1938 are mainly based on the lists of 1924.

  18. Edward Anders papers

    The Edward Anders paper consists of a Latvian identification card issued to Edward Anders (then known as Edwards Alperovics) in 1941; his mother, Erika Alperovics’ Latvian passport, issued in 1942; documents and related correspondence, including his draft notice for the Waffen-SS, in German and Latvian, circa 1943; a pamphlet, in German and English, entitled "Baltic War Criminals, Witnesses Urgently Required Again the Persons Mentioned Overleaf!," published by a Group of Baltic Survivors in Great Britain and addressed to surviving Jews and non-Jews in Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia; documen...

  19. Oral history interview with Freda Silberberg Wineman

  20. Jack B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack B., who was born in Be?dzin, Poland in 1927. He recalls his orthodox family; his father's death in 1939; German invasion; destruction of the synagogues; anti-Jewish regulations; his older brothers working as tailors for the Germans; his family's exemption from deportation due to his brothers' jobs; his deportation to Auschwitz, Neukirch, Gross Rosen, and Wu?stegiersdorf; receiving extra food from one foreman; being beaten when the extra food was discovered; forced labor burning bodies, making caskets, and working in the kitchen; recovering from a severe burn in a...