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  1. Transcarpathia travelogue

    Transcarpathia travelogue (Hungarian Production). Bucolic scenery: stream, bridge, horse drawn cart. Cameraman in an open cart, filming as the cart rolls by [early form of tracking shot; he is using a hand-cranked camera]. Scene of a village, with wooden buildings, including huts with thatched roofs and a church with an onion dome. A group of women in shawls walks by, cut to a small procession of wagons bearing peasant men in traditional dress. Village square, where people appear to be gathering, perhaps for some sort of festivity. CU of a young girl in embroidered peasant shirt, petting a ...

  2. Reports and other papers pertaining to refugees in Shanghai

    This collection comprises reports about the fate of Jewish refugees in Shanghai during World War Two; eyewitness statements of individual Jewish refugees; personal papers of Ernst Platz, former Jewish refugee in Shanghai; correspondence regarding documents relating to the Shanghai Jewish refugee experience

  3. M.40.RCM - Documentation from the Russian State Archive for Social and Political History, 1941-1948

    M.40.RCM - Documentation from the Russian State Archive for Social and Political History, 1941-1948 In the collection there is documentation regarding the administration of the Central Committee of the Communist party (Tsk VKP(b)-Tsentralny Komitet Vsesoyuznoy Kommunisticheskoy Partii Bolshevikov), including information, official correspondence and reports regarding partisan and underground activity in the occupied areas of the Soviet Union, 1941-1944, lists of Jewish partisans and Red Army soldiers, lists of the Jews from Hungary who served in Hungarian Army forced labor battalions and wer...

  4. Районные чрезвычайные государственные комиссии по установлению и расследованию злодеяний и убытков, нанесенных немецко-фашистскими захватчиками во время оккупации - Тучинская, м. Тучин

    Представлены списки еврейских жителей городов и местечек Ровенской обл., пострадавших в период немецкой оккупации, и данные о размере нанесенного им ущерба; показания очевидцев массовых расстрелов еврейского населения, географические координаты мест захоронений, акты вскрытия могил и осмотра трупов. Имеются также сведения о материальном ущербе, нанесенном синагогам, перечень разграбленного имущества и др.

  5. Baby Wilhelmina

    Dark and grainy, Willie looks at the camera from her crib, and crawls on the floor of her room

  6. Deutsches Vizekonsulat in Kischineff (Chisinau)

    Pass- und Visaangelegenheitehn; Handel.

  7. Postwar Poland; destruction

    Snow-covered and war-damaged Poland, 1946. Horse with cart, building ruins. Three men looking at architectural drawing of a shelled building, pointing to destruction in BG. CU, blueprint of building.

  8. Ruined Italian town; Italian civilians; US soldiers

    American Troops Shell and Occupy San Pietro, Italy, December 18, 1943. American engineers enter the ruined town. American soldiers round up German prisoners; MP soldier guards prisoners. MCU, CU, German prisoners. American paratrooper escorts German prisoner through field to POW enclosure. VS, Italian civilians return to their ruined homes in San Pietro; civilians leave caves and air raid shelters. MCU, American soldiers speak to Italian civilians. MCU, Italian women and children stand at doorway of ruined home. The woman motions that they are hungry. MCU, CU, Italian children. MS, MCU, hys...

  9. Okresní soud Soběslav I.

    • District Court of Soběslav I / NAD 72

    The fonds contains documents of the Soběslav District Court from the years 1850-1949 (1951) concerning the civil and criminal agendas, as well as the agenda for the establishment of new land registers. As part of the inheritance agenda (file no. D), there are the inheritance proceedings of Jews who died during World War II, for example in concentration camps, dealt with especially in 1946.

  10. Processo de pedido de visto para Galo Egues Cenoz, José Krausz, Paul d' Aigneaux, Alvaro Juan Cañada e Alberto M. Delmar

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Tanger para Galo Egues Cenoz, de nacionalidade espanhola, com destino a Portugal. Sem informação de atribuição de visto. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Tanger para José Krausz, de nacionalidade húngara, com destino a Portugal. Sem informação de atribuição de visto. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Tanger para Paul d' Aigneaux, de nacionalidade canadiana e residente em Marrocos, com destino ao Canadá. Sem informação de atribuição de visto. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portug...

  11. Former nazis in Middle East: various papers

    This collection of various papers relates to former Nazis in Muslim countries in the Middle East and German/ Arab relations in the 1960s./1: Article entitled 'Ehemalige Nazis im Dienste Aegyptens', 23 Mar 1965No author German 4 pages/2: Article entitled 'Nazi Criminals in Arab Countries', March 1965No author English 10 pages/3: Orphan document entiled 'Appendix: Some of the Leading Former Nazis in United Arab Republic Service', ndNo author English 2 pages/4: Article entitled 'Arab Anti-Semitism', ndNo author English 8 pages/5 Anti-Semitic leaflet addessed to the German people from unidentif...

  12. Emissaries Section (S86)

    Contains records of Israeli delegations in various countries of Europe, Asia and the Middle East, including the records of Zionist organizations abroad such as Youth Aliyah and Keren Hayesod. Features reports on the Jewish situation including Jewish refugee and DP camps after the war, negotiations with immigration agencies, cultural material that was prepared and sent around the world, and various other documentation.

  13. Association of Immigrants from Poland, Tel Aviv (J20)

    Contains records of the Association of Immigrants from Poland that was active in Israel, 1942-1961. Includes meeting protocols, various name lists, questionnaires, and newspaper clippings relating to assistance to Jewish refugees and Holocaust survivors by giving out loans, finding work, and reuniting families after the war. In addition, the organization created name lists of Holocaust survivors still remaining in Europe, and of those who immigrated to Palestine/Israel.

  14. Fall of Metz: fighting; German prisoners; military officers

    LS, across field to view of Metz under artillery fire; see rising smoke columns. MS, GIs riding down streets of Metz in jeeps. MS, from ground to 3-story window of building to GIs, and civilians. CU, GI with flower standing with other GIs and French woman. MS, large group of German prisoners. MS, German prisoners exiting building and marched away. LS, line of German prisoners. LS, tank destroyer crew in action. MS, loading tank. CU, phone picked up by GI. MS, group officer greeted by Gen. Ward. MS officers inspecting Mobile Air Support unit. Group of officers talking. Cemetery. LS, across f...

  15. Ustaša Supervisory Office - Lists of Murdered Jews

    Various lists with more than 7,000 Jews murdered in the Independent State of Croatia.

  16. Letter requesting release from marriage obligation (chalitzah), written by a Holocaust survivor at the St. Ottilien displaced persons camp.

    One letter, handwritten, 5 pages, dated 26 May 1946, from Sara Rudney, writing from the St. Ottilien displaced persons camp, to her brother-in-law, Saul Rudney, presumably in Baltimore, Maryland, asking from release from her halakhic obligations to marry him after the death of her husband during the Holocaust. In the letter, Sara Rudney describes the circumstances of the death of her husband, Moishe, at the age of 36 on 31 December 1944, in the Landsberg concentration camp, and notes that her rabbi has instructed her to obtain chalitzah from her brother-in-law. She mentions the loss of most...

  17. Fenya B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fenya B., who was born in Odesa, Ukraine in 1932. She describes hiding from bombardments in catacombs during the German invasion; evacuation with her mother, brother, and aunt to Novorossii?sk; living for a month in Krasnodarskii? krai?; renting an apartment in Makhachkala; traveling to Tajikistan; living for six months near the Afghanistan border; traveling to live with her grandparents in Krasnoarme?isk; and returning to Odesa in 1944. Mrs. B. recalls attending school; marriage; the birth of her sons; and emigration to the United States.

  18. M.54- Documentation regarding the Holocaust from State Archives in Poland

    M.54- Documentation regarding the Holocaust from State Archives in Poland In the Record Group there is material selected from collections in various State Archives in Poland (Archiwa Państwowe) and other regional archives. The material was initially copied onto microfilm and partially on paper. Eventually scanned documentation will also be added to the Record Group. The Collection was created over scores of years and we are still receiving new material. The documentation in the Record Group is very varied and contains material from the 1920s and 30s, mainly lists of Jewish residents, Jewish...

  19. Київська міська управа.

    • Киевская городская управа

    Среди отложившихся документов распоряжение рейхскомиссара Украины об урегулировании условий и оплаты труда местного населения, согласно которому заработная плата евреев ограничива: лась 80% от установленных окладов, и при этом они лишались ка: ких:либо надбавок и отпусков; уведомления генерал:комиссариата г. Киева о порядке продажи вещей, реквизированных у еврейского населения; воззвания оккупационных властей, а также обращения представителей украинской интеллигенции и духовенства к населению Киева, ко всем украинцам и верующим с обвинениями евреев (наряду с «красными комиссарами» и «палачо...

  20. Harold Green photograph collection

    The Harold Green photograph collection consists of a small photograph album depicting liberation scenes of the Ohrdruf concentration camp. According to an interior inscription the photographs are associated with the Intelligence and Reconnaissance Platoon of the 317th Infantry Regiment, 80th Division. The photographs were given to Harold Green by an unidentified friend and fellow WWII veteran.