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  1. Judenrat in Nowy Sącz Kolekcja dokumentów z gett i obozów Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej, 1939-1944. Judenraty Rada Żydowska Nowy Sącz (Syg. 261)

    Records of the Judenrat in Nowy Sącz, Poland. Consists of a portrait photograph of Boruch Roth (Born June 24, 1874). The photograph was taken before deportation (according to the note in Polish on the verso of the photo.

  2. Beatrice Maier papers

    The Beatrice Maier papers contains correspondence and a deposition. The correspondence consists of two letters, written by "Gerda," May and June 1939. The first letter, addressed to "Else," was written aboard the MS St. Louis; the second was written after arrival in Mirebeau, France. The letters describe experiences aboard the ship, their arrival in Havana and Florida. The deposition was prepared by Hugo Zivi of New York, addressed to the Badische Staatsanwaltschaft in April 1947, in which he describes events he witnessed during Kristallnacht in Mühlheim, Germany, and identifying by name th...

  3. Documentation from the Court of Law (Amstgericht) in the Neukoelln neighborhood in Berlin: Wills of Jews, 1935-1939

    Documentation from the Court of Law (Amstgericht) in the Neukoelln neighborhood in Berlin: Wills of Jews, 1935-1939 Files of the Court of Law, that deal with the handling of the Wills of Jews, most of whom resided in the Neukoelln neighborhood in Berlin (and a minority of them in the Treptow neighborhood in Berlin). The files include details regarding the possible inheritors, death certificates, and other personal documentation of the family members (mainly birth certificates and marriage certificates), and Inheritance Orders (Erbscheine) from the Court of Law. In several files there are de...

  4. M.38 - Documentation from the Archive for the Study of Austrian Resistance

    M.38 - Documentation from the Archive for the Study of Austrian Resistance There is much documentation regarding the persecution of opponents of the regime by the Nazi authorities in the Austrian Resistance Movement Archives (Dokumentationsarchiv des Oesterreichischen Widerstands). Within the documentation copied for Yad Vashem, there is material regarding the persecution of the Jews in Austria: orders and official directives, lists of people dismissed from their places of employment due to their Jewishness, reports and surveys regarding specific persecutions written during the period of th...

  5. Allied Invasion

    Part 1: Winston Churchill and Jan Christian Smuts wish luck to Allied troops boarding landing craft. General Eisenhower broadcasts to the French people. Shows street scene in London. Airborne troops board planes. The Navy and Air Force blast Normandy shore positions. Part 2: U.S. troops enter Rome. Shows General Clark. Stalin and Marshal Zhukov review Russian troops. Part 3: The 9th Air Force bombs German positions and airborne troops land in Normandy. General Eisenhower and General Montgomery inspect the beach positions.

  6. Selected records from the Beauftragter für den Vierjahresplan/Zentrale (R 26 I)

    Contains records pertaining to measures concerning the Jewish question, results of the 4-year plan, report of the department Hauptverbandstelle Ost, confiscation and expropriation issues, construction and organization of the Lódź Getto, supply of fuel to Auschwitz, the Transdanubia report about the status of Jewish trade in Hungary, report of the arbeitswissenschafltiche Institut der DAF, amnesty petition for Ernst Starkenberg, manuscripts about the national revolution in Romania, report about the situation in Poland and the Jewish population of Łódź and Warsaw, and a report by Dr. Scha...

  7. Jewish soldiers in Palestine perform military exercises

    Palestinian troops wearing helmets and carrying bayonets rush up a hill through an arch in a stone structure (IWM identifies it as an old city castle). LS of troops aiming their rifles from the top of the stone wall. Two soldiers stand sentry beside a Star of David flag atop the stone wall (battlement?). Jewish soldiers, smiling, talking, smoking, one gives the camera a thumbs up. A soldier operates a field phone with a board of international codes hanging on the wall. Soldiers perform various military exercises. Captured German soldiers under guard of the Palestinian troops cross a desert ...

  8. Stefan R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Stefan R., who was born in a small city in Romania in 1914 and spent most of his prewar life in Oradea Mare. He tells of his family life without his father, who died when he was six years old; his service in the Romanian army (1934-1936;) his conscription in 1942, after the Hungarian takeover, into the Jewish brigade of the Hungarian army, from which he repeatedly escaped; and his hiding in Budapest, at times with the aid of the Communist and Jewish undergrounds, and for a time in a Swedish safe house, until the city's liberation by the Russians.

  9. German invasion of Poland

    This story consists of a montage of various shots of life in Poland depicting a prosperous, hard working Polish people engaged in everything from forging steel to threshing wheat. The tone shifts as the story shifts to the German invasion of Poland. Slate: "Why? Answering Humanity's Question." Produced and directed by A.E. Caraco. 1919, Polish Independence. Ruins. Mining, textile industry. Railways, city of Gdynia and its harbor. Polish navy. Submarine ORZEL. Nazi rise in city of Danzig. Danzig port (harbor). "JUDE" written on house walls. Danzig synagogue, voice over narration speaks of th...

  10. Landeskrankenhaus Königslutter

    Dienststellen-, Gebäude- u. Grundstücksverwaltung; Personalia (insbesondere Anstellungen, Bewerbungen, Weiterbildung); Betriebsratswahlen; NS-Gesundheitspolitik; Anstaltsseelsorge; Friedhof; Verfügungen; Wehrangelegenheiten von Gefolgschaftsmitgliedern und Patienten. - Krankenakten u. dazugehörende Verwaltungsakten (einschl. Stammrollen, Transportlisten u. Sippentafeln).

  11. Soup kitchen; International Workers Health Org

    Interior of a soup kitchen, showing women and children being served bowls of soup or some other food from large barrels. A couple of men are also present; they fill out papers or cards which are collected by one of the women. A close-up shot of a ration card, good for one hot lunch on November 8, 1923. The ration card is stamped with the logo of the "Internationale Arbeiter-hilfe" (International Workers Aid Association). More shots of women and chilren receiving rations of soup; one of the aid workers takes notes. A woman feeds soup to her baby. A close up shot of a sign that says "Only Com...

  12. Executions

    00:10:06 (Paris 502) Execution of Three German Civilians by Hanging, Bruchsal, Germany, January 12, 1946. SEQ: Death sentence is read; condemned man walks to scaffold, is executed by hanging and his body placed in a coffin. (Same sequence for each prisoner.) MS, two Russian officers who were observers, speaking to an American woman correspondent. Note: A Military Commission of the Seventh US Army found three German civilians guilty of killing two US Army men who were unarmed and prisoners of war. 00:15:14 (Paris 497) Execution of Nazi, Bruchsal, Germany, January 10, 1946. LS, gallows as hoo...

  13. Processo de pedido de visto para Alfred Cecil Crithley, Pauline Mary Gower, John Beaumont Beck, Edward Bromley Davenport, Robert McKean e Frank Richard Hodges

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Londres para Alfred Cecil Crithley, de nacionalidade britânica, com destino à África Ocidental Britânica.Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Londres para Pauline Mary Gower, de nacionalidade britânica, com destino à África Ocidental Britânica.Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Londres para John Beaumont Beck, de nacionalidade britânica, com destino à África Ocidental Britânica.Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Londres pa...

  14. Processo de pedido de visto para Ruth Bean, Catherine Mulcahy, George T. Douglas, Ella Gimmestad, Etta Hazard e Ann Mc Mechen

    Processo de pedido de visto à Legação de Portugal em Washington para Ruth Bean, de nacionalidade americana, com destino não identificado. Sem informação de autorização de visto. Processo de pedido de visto à Legação de Portugal em Washington para Catherine Mulcahy, de nacionalidade americana, com destino não identificado. Sem informação de autorização de visto. Processo de pedido de visto à Legação de Portugal em Washington para George T. Douglas, de nacionalidade americana, com destino não identificado. Sem informação de autorização de visto. Processo de pedido de visto à Legação de Portug...

  15. Roman Antoniak papers

    The Roman Antoniak papers consists of two identification documents issued by the East German Enamel and Metal Factory and the Ukrainian support committee to Roman Antoniak of Lwow, Poland (L'viv, Ukraine) in 1942.

  16. March of Time -- outtakes -- Vittel Internment Camp, France

    VSs, crowd of internees waving at passing armored vehicles. VSs, people waving to passing tanks. MLS, American women internees. CU, Polish woman and her baby grandaughter. 04:26:02 Aaron Rapoport (a furrier) with his three daughters, Malka, Bola, and Chana. VSs, Mr. and Mrs. Rymanowski and son, Teddy. VSs, three little girl internees hold American flag, one of them is giving the "V" for Victory, the one behind the flag is Rodi Glass (better CU at 04:26:58). VSs, Mr. and Mrs. William Irwin. Private Eldon Nicholas, who was a Red Cross aide, entertains internee children through the barbed wire...

  17. Aldo Ascoli

  18. M2121, Langenstein-Zwieberge Concentration Camp Inmate Cards, April 1944-April 1945

    Contains three series of original German records identifying inmates of the Langenstein-Zwieberge Concentration Camp, a subcamp of Buchenwald Concentration Camp, for the period April 1944 to April 1945. The first group is a name series, and the other two smaller series consist of cards organized by block (barrack) number to which the inmate was assigned, and occupations or trades to which some of the inmates were assigned within the camp. American forces seized the cards when they liberated and occupied the camp in April 1945. These records are unique in form, as the Germans cut the cards t...

  19. Selected individual files of children under the care of Œuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE)

    Contains files of people who had been under OSE (Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants) care in France during the occupation, and who in 2003 were living in the United States. Included is documentation on their Holocaust-era biographies, subsequent correspondence on emigration to the U.S., and information on non-Jewish families that hid children.

  20. Nederlands-Israelitische Gemeente (NIG) (Rotterdam), 1737-1971

    Op 29 juni 1943 werd bij verordening van de Duitse bezetter de Nederlands Israëlitische gemeente buiten werking gesteld. Toen (augustus 1943) is een lid van de opgeheven gemeente het door de Duitsers verzegelde gebouw aan de Joost van Geelstraat binnengegaan en heeft er de zilveren kerksieraden, de kantoormachines en administratieve bescheiden 'gestolen'. Dit was het begin van de ondergrondse joodse gemeente: de Nederlands Israëlitische Schuilkerk Zuid-Holland-Zuid. Na de bevrijding kon de synagoge Lew Jom, die de oorlog tamelijk ongeschonden had overleefd, weer in gebruik worden genomen. B...