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  1. Helen S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helen S., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1920. She speaks of her childhood; the rise of antisemitism in prewar Berlin; escape from Germany through Holland in 1938; her family's emigration to the United States after being detained in an internment camp in Bonaire, Netherlands West Indies; and her adult life in the United States.

  2. Комисарство по Еврейските Въпроси

    • Commissariat for Jewish Questions
    • Komisarstvo po Evreyskite Vuprosi

    Contains personal files; lists of the real estate property of Jews; lists of persons of Jewish origin; bank inventories and receipts for deposited Jewish property; correspondence regarding Jewish rights and duties, the payment of taxes by Jews, the expropriation and sale of Jewish property, the “New Territories” of Thrace and Macedonia, and the establishment of ghettos; announcements of actions for the sale of expropriated Jewish property; an agreement for the initial deportation of 20,000 Jews; reports on the rounding up and resettlement of Jews; plans for temporary concentration camps; na...

  3. Amtsgericht (District Court) of Vimperk

    The fonds includes documents of the Amtsgericht (District Court) of Vimperk from the period of the German occupation. The preserved files concern administrative and judicial agendas, both criminal and civil ones (disputes, seizures of property, inheritance, and guardianships), and the agenda of land books from 1938-1945. The criminal files include documents concerning national and racial discrimination, illegal crossing of the border, etc. Except for the agenda of inheritance court the fonds has been well preserved.

  4. Elmer Rothermich letter

    The Elmer Rothermich letter consists of a nine page letter with an envelope, written by Elmer Rothermich on April 10, 1945, in Germany, describing his experiences liberating the Ohrdruf concentration camp as a member of the 81st Field Infantry Battalion of the United States Army. Also includes additional information regarding Mr. Rothermich's service record, his wife's memories of the receipt of this letter, and a copy of an article in the St. Charles, MO "Banner News" quoting from the letter.

  5. Prewar scenes of Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Yugoslavia

    The documentary movie depicts the landscapes surrounding the Danube starting in Romania with the town of Turn-Severin located after the 'Iron Gate' and with pictures of orthodox priests and peasant life. Scenes of petroleum wells in the Carpathians, buildings in Bucharest, and the Danube delta located in the Dobrudscha province are shown. From Bulgaria there are scenes of village life and tobacco harvest. From Turkey, the island of Adakalah. Concerning Yugoslavia, there are pictures of the tributary Sava River, the city of Semendria, the Banat district, the capital Belgrade and the harbor c...

  6. "A Long Road Home: The Life and Times of Grisha Sklovsky, 1915-1995"

    Consists of one manuscript, in print and on CD-ROM, entitled "A Long Road Home: The Life and Times of Grisha Sklovsky, 1915-1995", written by John Nicholson in 2007. Mr. Sklovksy was born in Siberia, but following the Russian Revolution, his family moved to Berlin, where he attended school. In 1934, Mr. Sklovsky moved to France and studied at the University of Lyon. In October 1939, he joined the Czech Brigade and spent the war fighting with the British Army, while his mother, Chaja Sklovsky, was deported from Drancy in 1942 and perished in the Holocaust. In 1947, Mr. Sklovsky immigrated to...

  7. The Eternal Jew Der ewige Jude [Book]

    Anti-semitic propaganda book created as promotional material for a Nazi sponsored exhibition of the Der Ewige Jude [The Eternal Jew)," which opened in Germany in November 1937. According to an exhibit promotional postcard, canceled December 18, 1937, the installation was considered by the Nazi party to be a "great political exhibition" and was on display daily in the Munich German Museum.

  8. Processo de pedido de visto para Louis Mathey, mulher, dois filhos, nora e dois netos

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Marselha para Louis Mathey, de nacionalidade suiça e residente em França, com destino a Portugal. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Marselha para mulher de Louis Mathey, de nacionalidade suiça e residente em França, com destino a Portugal. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Marselha para dois filhos de Louis Mathey, de nacionalidade suiça e residente em França, com destino a Portugal. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em ...

  9. Max Shattner photograph collection

    The Max Shattner photograph collection consists of photographs related to the wartime experiences of Max Shattner, who survived the war in a Swiss internment camp. The photographs depict Shattner with other refugees living in the camp, and the collection also includes copyprints of his post-war life and family. Also includes a 1972 recording of Mr. Shattner singing German and Hebrew songs, including opera arias, liturgical songs, a Bialik poem, and "Die Uhr."

  10. Raeder, Commander in Chief of Navy, and Albert Toms questioned at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 173) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, May 17 and 20, 1946. Commander in Chief of the Navy questioned as to the impression a speech by Hitler made on him in which he announced that after a long time of not involving France and Britain in the war, he had now decided to attack. HAS, MCU, Dr. Walter Siemers, counselor for Erich Raeder, at lectern. English interpreter is heard translating (sound poor). LS, Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe and Dr. Siemers at lectern. HAS, Tribunal. HAS, US prosecutor Thomas Dodd questions Albert Toms, Frankfurt Reichsbank employee (not seen). Interpreter tran...

  11. Judge Brand & T. Taylor open Krupp case; defendants

    War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 10 (Krupp Case), Nuremberg, Germany, December 8, 1947. Profile shot of presiding judge James T. Brand opening the Krupp case. LS, defendants in dock. Alfred Krupp von Bohlen und Halback is on the far left followed by Loeser, Houdremont, Mueller, Janssen, Pfirsch, Ihn, and Everhardt. MS, Gen Telford Taylor, chief prosecutor, making the opening statement telling on what counts the defendants are guilty. Taylor gives a brief history of the Krupp concern and a resume of the Krupp family until the outbreak of WWI.

  12. Eugene Berger collection

    Consists of two identity cards and two photographs. One card is for the Diplaced Persons Assembly Center 578, Lampertheim, has Eugene Berger's photograph on it, and is signed by the Director of the UNRRA. The second card is for securing rations and has Mr. Berger's right thumb print on the card. Both are dated 1946. The two photographs are of post-war Buchenwald. The photographic print of the Weimar civilians looking at the gallow has dittoed information on the back and is from "Photo-France A.E.P." The photograph of the bodies at the camp has very faint dittoed information on it.

  13. Zarząd Miejski w Aleksandrowie Kujawskim [Stadtverwaltung Weichselstadt]

    • akta administracyjne (pisma okólne i zarządzenia ministra spraw wewnętrznych Rzeszy, komisarza Rzeszy do spraw umacniania Niemczyzny, namiestnika Rzeszy w Kraju Warty, prezydenta rejencji inowrocławskiej oraz miejscowego starosty dot.: obowiązku zgłaszania się Polaków i Niemców w urzędzie pracy, obowiązku noszenia przez polskich robotników oznaczenia „P”, spraw dowodów tożsamości wystawianych Polakom oraz przepustek policyjnych, zasad korzystania przez Polaków z komunikacji publicznej, telegrafu oraz telefonów; stosowania kar policyjnych, obowiązku zgłaszania do Niemieckiego Czerwonego Kr...

  14. War crimes files decoding book (RG 338)

    Contains a reference work created by the 7707 th War Crimes Group, Judge Advocate General, European Theater of Operations, to locate the geographic area and disposition of war crimes case files compiled by the units of the Judge Advocate General.

  15. Documentation of the Reichsleiter Rosenberg Taskforce (Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg), which was responsible for the confiscation of Jewish works of art

    Documentation of the Reichsleiter Rosenberg Taskforce (Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg), which was responsible for the confiscation of Jewish works of art Documentation of the Reichsleiter Rosenberg Taskforce, a body established in September 1940, following the occupation of France. Its function was to plunder works of art that were owned by Jews who had left France. Alfred Rosenberg, the Chief Nazi Party ideologist was placed at its head. The Reichsleiter Rosenberg Taskforce was assisted by the French Police and by the German occupation forces in its activities. Later, the Taskforce are...

  16. Processo de pedido de visto para Kenneth, Patton, mulher de Patton, John Rawlinson, Alvatabar e Russel-Quirk

    Processo de pedido de visto à Legação de Portugal em Washington para Kenneth, de nacionalidade americana, com destino à Índia. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto à Legação de Portugal em Washington para Patton, de nacionalidade americana, com destino à Índia. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto à Legação de Portugal em Washington para mulher de Patton, de nacionalidade americana, com destino à Índia. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto à Legação de Portugal em Washington para John Rawlinson, de nacionalidade americana, com destino à China. Visto autorizado. Pr...

  17. Collection of A. Flesche, Trustee of the Lippmann, Rosenthal & Company in Amsterdam, 1940-1945

    Collection of A. Flesche, Trustee of the Lippmann, Rosenthal & Company in Amsterdam, 1940-1945 Correspondence between the Wirtschaft abd Alfred Flesche, a German banker and Abwehr employee, who was appointed as the Trustee of the Lippmann, Rosenthal & Company in 1940 for the purpose of the Aryanization of Jewish property; most of the correspondence is from the Sarphatistraat Collection, including documentation of the policies of the Nazi leadership regarding the confiscation of Jewish property in the Netherlands; the correspondence demonstrates the cooperation between various Nazi o...

  18. Documentation of the Soviet government authorities, regarding war crimes by the Nazis and their collaborators in the Zaporozhye region, 1944

    Documentation of the Soviet government authorities, regarding war crimes by the Nazis and their collaborators in the Zaporozhye region, 1944 Included in the collection: - Survey report of the regional commission for the investigation of war crimes by the Nazis and their collaborators in the Zaporozhye region, regarding the German occupation period; - Exhumation report prepared by the regional commission for the investigation of war crimes by the Nazis and their collaborators in the Zaporozhye region and the surrounding area; - Testimony of members of the Komunar Kolkhoz, regarding the murde...

  19. Julius Rothschild Papers

    Official correspondence from Julius and Carry Ruth Rothschild (1957); Financial correspondence of Julius Rothschild (1955 - 1956): Passport applications (N.d.); Will of Carry Ruth Rothschild (1956); Various official papers relating to Carry Ruth Rothschild and Julius Rothschild (1939 - 1954); Death certificates (1955 - 1966).

  20. March of Time -- outtakes -- pre-war Prague; Sudetenland

    Air raid rehearsal in Prague. Tear gas released, soldiers, journalists, and cameraman wearing gas masks. Soldier on ground pretending to be dead. Nurses tend "injured." 01:17:52 Czech president Benes horseback riding near Prague. 01:18:53 Views of Prague. Konrad Henlein speaking to crowds in Hohenelbe in the Sudetenland. Parade. People wearing German national costumes.