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  1. Copy papers concerning Karl Wittig

    This collection of copy papers documents the experiences of Karl Wittig in Germany during the Nazi era and in the immediate postwar years. The papers include sworn statements by various witnesses (including Pastor Martin Niemöller) who testify to his incarceration in various concentration camps.

  2. DPs; newborn children; DPs celebrate a special occiasion

    Displaced persons climb into a truck [same men in march in Film ID 4154?]. Babies in a crib. Brief shots of a newborn. A group celebrates, gathers around a table before a decorated sign in Hebrew.

  3. A Holocaust survivor returns to Bergen Belsen 20 years later

    Notes from the NFB/ONF online catalog: A Jewish Holocaust survivor takes a holiday from his glazier's shop to join an emotional pilgrimage to Bergen-Belsen. In traveling through new Germany, this man remembers. Scenes still vivid in his mind are recalled in flashback. The memorandum was Hitler's dealing with the solution to the "Jewish problem."

  4. Teheran Conference

    An American serviceman holds a slate that reads: Scene 140. The camera follows a car with a USA insignia on the back down a street in Teheran and into a courtyard in front of the Soviet embassy, where the Teheran conference was held. Soviet soldiers run and march past the building while American soldiers film and take photographs of them. 01:40:38 Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill come around the corner of the building and walk up the steps. They stop to pose for photographers or perhaps answer questions. 01:41:59 Roosevelt is now with them, sitting in a chair at the top of the steps. The...

  5. Oral history interview with Peter Schur

  6. Inspektion der Flakartillerie (L In 4) / General der Flakwaffe

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Die Akten stammen aus Rückführungen aus den USA und Großbritannien an die Dokumentenzentrale des Militärgeschichtlichen Forschungsamtes. Von dort wurden die Akten 1968 an das Bundesarchiv, Abteilung Militärarchiv abgegeben. Diese Akten waren bisher im Sammelbestand RL 4 (Ausbildungsdienststellen im Reichsluftfahrtministerium, mit Inspektionen und Waffengeneralen) zusammengefasst. Zur besseren Darstellung der einzelnen Provenienzen der Inspektionen und Waffengenerale wurden neue Bestände angelegt. Zitierweise BArch RL 16-4/...

  7. German TV documentary film on antisemitism (reel 12)

    Footage of deportations from the Warsaw ghetto (identified as Hungarian deportation), Soviet soldiers liberating Lublin in July 1944. The accused in the dock at the Majdanek trial. Scenes of Lugano, Switzerland, where Globke went on the advice of his doctor in 1944. Battle scenes and a quote from Globke about how he has destroyed most of his uniform. Shots of Russian soldiers raising the flag over the destroyed Reichstag. Globke is sought as war criminal number 101. Shots of the corpses of Globke's three bosses, Goering, Frick, and Himmler. Photo of his fourth boss, Konrad Adenauer. The nar...

  8. Ceramic figurine of Adolf Hitler with pincushion

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn532855
    • English
    • a: Height: 4.750 inches (12.065 cm) | Width: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Depth: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) b: Height: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Width: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) c: Height: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Width: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) d: Height: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Width: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm)

    Ceramic figure of Adolf Hitler bending over with brown fabric pin cushion as his bottom. Includes original tag titled "Hotzi Notzi" and two pins with paper American flags; dated 1941.

  9. Institut fur Deutsche Ostarbeit (IDO), Sektion für Rasse-und Volkstumforschung, Interviews

    Contains interviews with Polish survivors of the research program conducted by the Institut fur Deutsche Ostarbeit (IDO).

  10. Sklar family papers

    Contains the family papers of the Sklar family, principally, Boris Moiseevich Sklar. Included are personal letters, stamped certificates, and postcards. Also included is a photocopy of a brief, handwritten autobiographical statement written by Tsipa Yankelevna Shvidkaya (another family member) in 1946.

  11. Deutsche Gesandtschaft Brüssel

    Handakten des Gesandten Horstmann.

  12. Processo de pedido de visto para Thomson A. Moore, Ralph Strang, Srª. Daniel Reagan, Julia Goossens, Jane Goossens e Hamilton Armstrong

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Paris para Thomson A. Moore, de nacionalidade americana e residente nos Estados Unidos da América, com destino aos Estados Unidos da América. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Paris para Ralph Strang, de nacionalidade americana e residente nos Estados Unidos da América, com destino aos Estados Unidos da América. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Paris para Srª. Daniel Reagan, de nacionalidade britânica, com destino aos Estados Unidos da América. Visto autor...

  13. Processo de pedido de visto para Cônsul dos Estados Unidos da América em Leopoldville, mulher do Cônsul dos Estados Unidos da América em Leopoldville, filho do Cônsul dos Estados Unidos da América em Leopoldville,Reginald Leopold Burnham e Joana Cambresier

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Leopoldville para Cônsul dos Estados Unidos da América em Leopoldville, de nacionalidade americana, com destino aos Estados Unidos da América. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Leopoldville para mulher do Cônsul dos Estados Unidos da América em Leopoldville, de nacionalidade americana, com destino aos Estados Unidos da América. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Leopoldville para filho do Cônsul dos Estados Unidos da América em Leopoldville, de nacionalidade...

  14. Clifford C. Byrum photograph collection

    Consists of 27 photographs depicting Clifford Byrum, other United States soldiers, and German prisoners exhuming infants' graves at a Volkswagen maternity hospital and Kinderheim (children's home) in Rühen, Germany, during the investigation of Nazi atrocities. A maternity hospital and Kinderheim was established by the Volkswagen corporation in Rühen, Germany, in March 1943 for children born to Polish and Russian forced laborers working at the VW factory in Wolfsburg. Because of unsanitary conditions and neglect at the Kinderheim, approximately 365 children under the age of 16 months died ...

  15. John Krasny photograph collection

    The John Krasny photograph collection consists of eight photographs given to John Krasny by Steve, a fellow member of the counterintelligence unit of the United States Army. Steve [last name unknown] retrieved them from an unidentified German soldier. The photographs are images of Stalag XI D/321 camp for Soviet POWs in Oerbke, Germany, November 1941-Febraury 1942. The POWs were captured during the Operation Barbarossa in June 1941. Between November 1941 and February 1942, approximately 50,000 Soviet POWs died of starvation, hypothermia, and disease in the camp.

  16. Albert Neuwirt collection

    Consists of seven photographs, identification cards, and vaccination cards relating to Albert Neuwirt and his experiences as a refugee in the displaced persons camp in Landsberg am Lech, Germany.

  17. Schlesinger Hostel: papers

    This collection comprises original papers and correspondence which documents the establishment and maintenance of a refugee children's hostel in Highgate, London, 1938-1939. The papers offer a valuable insight into the processes and issues relating to such an enterprise. Two of the former children produced a documentary reader comprising copies and translations of much of the material in the archive (1625/1). It also includes copies of documents from Ilse Jacobsohn's (later Ilse Henry) own file. The personal files of the other children are not open to the public.

  18. Vilniaus apskrities policijos Naujosios Vilnios nuovada

    • Police Station in Naujoji Vilnia of the Vilnius County

    Statistics compiled by the mayor regarding the residents of Naujoji Vilnia by nationality, confidential documents concerning imprisoning of Jews in the ghettos and safeguarding their property and all precedures regarding this, orders by the chief of the Vilnius county to the chiefs of the county police stations concerning arrests of runaway Jews in hidding and taking them to Lukiškės prison.

  19. Helen Tichauer papers

    The Helen Tichauer papers consist of subject files and a photograph album of Feldafing displaced persons camp, clippings regarding Auschwitz war crimes trials in Wuppertal, Germany, and a small amount of correspondence. The photograph album was assembled by Helen Tichauer, a survivor of Auschwitz, who was deported there from Bratislava in 1942, and lived in Feldafing after the war. It depicts Helen, her husband Erwin Tischauer, and numerous friends and activities associated with the camp. Correspondence includes letters received from historian Konrad Kwiet and United States Holocaust Memori...

  20. Dodd speaks of mistreatment of Poles at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 436) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, December 11, 1945. LS, court rises as judges enter and take their places. Rear views only, Thomas J. Dodd, US prosecution counsel, talking to the Tribunal states in part, "...some of the punishment consists of starvation, such punishment results in the workers fainting. Spreading of tuberculosis among the Polish workers is the result of insufficient food rations given out in the camp..." Dodd continues his address telling of the mistreatment, starvation, and disease brought on by adverse conditions in the labor camps of Poland. Pan to priso...