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  1. Survivors and corpses at Buchenwald

    Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Germany, 1945. LSs, civilians kicking German soldier. MSs, civilians breaking windows in building. Camera (on automobile) traveling through outskirts town, passing people with bags, cart. In town, crowd on sidewalk, looting? store. MS, survivors in square. MSs, CUs, furnace doors being opened in crematorium showing remains of bodies not wholly consumed by fire. Demonstrating oven "tray." Pan, survivor with three ovens/crematoria in BG. Corpses on cart, in truck. CU, "Jedem das Seine" gate closing. Men circled around corpse, taking hats off. MSs, CUs, emaciated...

  2. Invasion of Norway

    Pan, German ships and troops in Norway. Pan, city of Oslo, Norway. Bicycle troops at railway station. German DDs. German boat steaming at high speed in water. Captain on bridge. Guns firing off forward section of boat, plane catapults. German troops on deck, snow-covered hills in BG. Machine gun firing on British plane. German seaplane landing on bay. Harbor, many ships. High mountains on side of fjord. German troops passing baggage from ship to tugs. Tug loaded with troops. German seaplane taking off from harbor, city and hills in BG. German troops along road, disembarking from ship. Tanks...

  3. Esther I. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Esther I., who was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1920, shortly after her parents had emigrated from Poland. She recalls her father's death in 1928; moving to Krako?w with her mother and sister to be near family; the warmth of Jewish holidays within a close and large, extended family; remaining with relatives for two years when her mother returned to the United States to retain her naturalized citizenship status; returning to the United States in 1936 due to her mother's fear of the German situation; maintaining contact with family in Poland until 1942; learning after ...

  4. Collectie periodieken.

    Het ADVN bewaart heel wat periodieken die voor deze gids relevant zijn. Ze beslaan de periode eind 18de eeuw - heden. Het gaat in de eerste plaats om publicaties van Joodse organisaties uit België. We noteren exemplaren van o.a. Belgisch Israëlitisch Weekblad, Berichten. Antwerpse contactgroep voor Joods-Christelijke Betrekkingen, La Centrale, Contact J, In naam van de vrijheid, Joods Actueel, Kehilatenou, Regards, Keren Kayemeth, Maccabi, Nieuw Israëlitisch Weekblad, ... Daarnaast vinden we ook heel wat (weliswaar zeer fragmentarisch bewaarde) periodieken van Joodse organisaties uit het bu...

  6. "Janina's Story" memoir

    An autobiographical memoir by Janina Spinner Mehlberg, edited by Dr. Arthur Layton Funk; the memoir includes photocopies of photographs of Janina Mehlberg and her husband Henry. The testimony describes the experiences of Mehlberg and her husband as refugees in hiding in Lublin, Poland, during the Holocaust and their involvement with an underground movement to assist the prisoners of Majdanek.

  7. March of Time -- outtakes -- Russian, Polish, Yugoslav governments; War Crimes Trial: Romanian war criminals

    1251 GGG: January 23, 1946. Russian Newsreel. Moscow, Russia. Members of the Polish government with Russian ministers (Molotov, Bulanin, Vishinsky, Osubka-Moravsky, Gomulka, Sir Kerr, etc.). Warsaw rebuilds, brigades of volunteers. 1251 HHH: 01:26:24 Russian Newsreel. Moscow, Russia. Yugoslsav President Marshal Josip Broz Tito with Russian Minister Molotov. Marshall Tito visits Lenin's Mausoleum, takes a boat ride at Volga Canal. 01:30:38 Bucharest, Romania. Trial of Romanian war criminals: ex-Marshall Ion Antonescu, General Alexianu, ex-chief of Police Vasiliv, etc. Reconstruction of Dneip...

  8. Eskanazi family photographs

    Photographs of Lena (Eskenazi) Morris; her siblings Eli, Sylvia and Emmanuel Eskanazi; and their friends. Also includes photographs from the Vittel internment camp in France. Miriam and Israel Eskenazi emigrated from Salonika, Greece to the United States circa 1917, where their children Eli and Lena were born. The family returned to Salonika circa 1922 where their children Sylvia and Emmanuel were born. In the spring of 1943, Miriam, Israel, Sylvia and Emmanuel were among the thousands rounded up in Salonika and deported to Auschwitz, where they died. Because Lena and Eli were American citi...

  9. Mordechai Moniek Hanani collection

    Contains photographs depicting the Wassertail family in Rajcza, Poland.

  10. Червоноармійська районна надзвичайна комісія зі встановлення збитків та злочинів, заподіяних німецько-фашистськими загарбниками.

    Акти розслідувань злочинів та збитків, заподіяних німецько-фашистськими загарбниками під час окупації Червоноармійського району Рівненської області.

  11. Острожецька районна надзвичайна комісія зі встановлення збитків та злочинів, заподіяних німецько-фашистськими загарбниками.

    Акти розслідувань злочинів та збитків, заподіяних німецько-фашистськими загарбника під час окупації, списки потерпілих осіб Острожецького району Рівненської області.

  12. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Publizistik und Kommunikationswissenschaft (DGPUK) ging aus der 1951 entstandenen Deutschen Gesellschaft für Publizistik hervor, die 1963 als Deutsche Gesellschaft für Publizistik und Zeitungswissenschaft neu gegründet wurde. Sie ist eine Vereinigung von Hochschullehrern und Forschern zur Vertretung und Förderung publizistik- und kommunikationswissenschftlicher Interessen. Stand: 2013 Bestandsbeschreibung Die bislang ins Bundesarchiv gelangten Akten der DGPUK enthalten neben allgemeinem Schriftwechsel Unterlagen zu Grundsatzangel...

  13. Hinzert camp in 1946; repatriation of victims' bodies to Luxembourg city

    Includes original French intertitles. Musical accompaniment and end titles added by Centre national de l'audiovisual Luxembourg in 2003. On March 9, 1946, the bodies of Luxembourgers who died at SS-Sonderlager Hinzert in 1942 were repatriated to Luxembourg city. Amateur filmmaker Alphonse Wirion accompanied the convoy to Hinzert and filmed the camp at length (what was left of it), including barracks, barbed wire fences, watchtowers, debris. Then he searched the woods around the camp, exhumed the bones and the bodies that were lined up in an empty shack. The filmmaker then follows the trucks...

  14. Jewish children return home

    "Going Home", Weimar, Germany, June 5, 1945. MSs, CUs, Jewish orphans boarding train and some saying goodbye; train pulls out as children wave from windows. LSs, MSs, CUs, Jewish flag hanging from train window. CU, signs on side of train. "Going Home", Buchenwald, Germany, June 5, 1945. LSs, MSs, Polish, Hungarian, Czechoslovakian and Jewish orphans board train with their belongings. CUs, of individual children. MCUs, children looking out of window of train. Jewish flag hangs beneath window. LSs, MSs, signs hanging from train: "Vive Truman, Stalin, Churchill"; and in French: "Our beginning ...

  15. Reichstag elections, June 1920: election leaflets and advertisements

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This microfilm collection of election leaflets and advertisements also contains some antisemitic material. The Deutsche Nationalpartei and the Deutsche Demokratische Partei are most often represented, although there is also material from the National Versammlung.Reichstag election, June 1920, election leaflets and advertisements. The location of specifically antisemitic material follows.MF Doc 54/ Reel 10, Frames 115-118; 136-139; 142-143; 199; 225-226

  16. Bulletin of the Jewish Press Agency Żydowska Agencja Prasowa. Biuletyn (Sygn. 354)

    Contains selected issues of the Bulletin of the Żydowska Agencja Prasowa (Jewish Press Agency), published from Nov.1944 to Dec.1949. Bulletin covers mainly political aspects of Jewish life. The Bulletin was published on bad quality paper, using duplicate typescript; some issues are almost completely illegible.

  17. "Transylvanian Youth" Erdélyi Fiatalok [Newspapers]

    A "Erdélyi Fiatalok" [Transylvanian Youth] was a journal of the new Hungarian generation in Romania, It contains liberal reviews on political views of young national-liberal Transylvanian politicians during the interwar period. 1930-1940

  18. Obersitzker family papers

    Documents and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Siegfried Obersitzker (a Polish born German Jew) and his wife Charlotte Reuter Obersitzker (a German born non-Jew) who fled from Berlin with their son Horst in December 1938 to Havana, Cuba where they remained until ultimately immigrating to the United States in 1941. Included are affidavits of support for the Obersitzkers, German passports, landing permits for Havana, as well as immigration correspondence for Charlotte's mother Franziska Reuter who emigrated from Berlin to the United States in 1947.

  19. War Crimes Trial: Bergen-Belsen guards

    "Belsen Death Camp Leaders Meet Justice." Four British soldiers guarding door. CU, SS camp guards arriving for trial and climbing out of a truck. VCU, Josef Kramer. Crowds behind barriers in street. SS woman, including Irma Grese (the "bitch of Bergen-Belsen") and Juana Bormann, climbing out of truck. Filing into courtroom. Numbers hanging on defendants. Soldiers/military seated, Fritz Klein. Hundreds of corpses laid out in rows on ground. Newsreel footage also includes the following parts: 01:32:31 "Sailing Ship 'Danmark' Goes Home Again" 01:33:44 "14 Marines and Sailors Win Highest Award"...

  20. Deutsches Generalkonsulat in Tiflis

    Geschäftsführung; Angelegenheiten einzelner Personen; Passregister.