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  1. March of Time -- outtakes -- Vichy deputies meet; Petain; S. American diplomats; main streets in Vichy; Minister of War at airport

    811 C (04:28:36): (with Leblay camera) Meeting of the Comité d'Organisation du Parti Unique at Vichy. From left to right: Antoine Cayrel; Emmanuel Temple; Charles Spinasse; Gaston Bergery; Marcel Déat; Michel Brille; René Chateau; Remy Gousseau; Louis Deschizeaux; René Dommange; and standing Paul Saurin; Paul Rives. The men are all former deputies and the main chiefs are Marcel Déat and Gaston Bergery. Meetings are held in a small house, 83 Rue du Maréchal Pétain in Vichy. CUs and group shots of various members. 04:28:45 (with Leblay camera) Adrien Marquet, Minister of the Interior, in his ...

  2. Nuremberg Trial proceedings: summation and verdict

    Reel 8: Chief US prosecutor Robert Jackson delivers his summation. Courtroom scenes, showing defendants testifying and prisoners' dock, "...to say of these men that they are not guilty, it would be as true to say that there has been no war, there are no slain, there has been no crime." 08:10:04 Sir Hartley Shawcross delivers summation, "This trial must form a milestone in the history of our civilization..." 08:10:41 Gen. Rudenko delivers summation, "...their crimes have been proven...the truth cannot be challenged." 08:11:26 French prosecutor de Ribes delivers his summation, "...the fate of...

  3. Jacques Schop. Collection

    This collection consists of a photo of and an interview with Jacques Schop. In his testimony Jacques talks about his childhood in the ghetto of Krakow, his father's clothing business in the ghetto, his life in hiding with the catholic Polish family outside of Krakow where Jacques stayed for several months, how his ‘rescuers’ tried to get rid of Jacques once the payments seized, Jacques’ reunion with his parents in the Krakow ghetto, their flight to Budapest in Hungary with the help of smugglers, their life in Budapest and Jacques’ post-war life in Israel, Canada and Belgium.

  4. FDR campaigns for NY governor; Morgenthau family home movies

    Franklin D. Roosevelt swimming in the pool at the Morgenthau residence. Henry III holds up fish. The three children, Elinor, and another boy roast marshmallows outside. Women's luncheon (possibly a Vassar reunion organized by Elinor) outdoors at the farm, views of the property and a river. The Morgenthau children play on rings, swim in the pool, play ball, and sail toy ships in the swimming pool. Airplanes fly overhead. The children help build a dock in the summer at the farm; playing with the family dog, whose name was Puddles. A large group of people on the farm with a stable in the BG wh...

  5. German documents Dokumenty niemieckie (Sygn. IZ. Doc I)

    Various German documents regarding German policies in the occupied Polish territories, especially in the “Wartheland”: administration, economy, the police bodies and German settlements in the Wartheland. Records mostly relate to germanization and atrocities against Polish and Jewish population, in addition, to the activity of "Rechsuniversität Posen" created in Poznań. Included are trials against Poles who offended the so-called Volksdeutsche, directives for Germans how to behave towards Poles, a list of names that Polish parents were allowed to choose for their children [File 48], Germaniz...

  6. Сільські управи Дніпропетровської області (об'єднаний фонд)

    • Village boards of Dnipropetrovsk region (joint collection)
    • Silski upravy Dnipropetrovskoi oblasti (objednanyi fond)

    Village boards were the lowest level administrative bodies responsible for implementation of the German orders on the ground and facilitation of the occupation policies. Some of the files included in the Inventory 2 of the collection are connected to the German population policies and the Holocaust. Inventory 2 (Opys 2) File 1. Orders of the chef of district board in Apostolovo district, Soldatovo village board. 1941-42. 549 pages. File 4. Orders and decrees of Apostolovo district board about prohibition of Soviet propaganda, giving help to prisoners of war, awarding for arrests of communis...

  7. Zigarettentabakeinkaufs GmbH

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Bestandsgeschichte Die Bestände der Kriegswirtschaftsorganisationen des I. Weltkrieges waren in den Jahren 1943 und 1944 zunächst auswahlweise nach Staßfurt und dann unter Einbeziehung der gesamten zunächst zurückgelassenen Bestände und Bestandsteile nach Schönebeck ausgelagert worden. Im Zuge der Nachkriegsereignisse gelangten sie in das Deutsche Zentralarchiv, Abt. Merseburg, wo sie bis 1955 verblieben. Im Juli/August 1955 wurden die Bestände der Kriegsorganisationen des I. Weltkrieges nach Potsdam in das Zentralarchiv überführt. Archivische Bewertung und B...

  8. Sauveur Eskenazi. Collection

    In this interview Sauveur Eskenazi talks about: his youth in Marseille, France ; his family's arrest and their internment in the camps Royallieu near Compiègne and Drancy near Paris ; their deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau ; his life as a forced labourer in Auschwitz, Warsaw and Dachau ; his liberation in Plzeň (Pilsen) by the Soviet army and his repatriation to France ; his post-war family life in Belgium.

  9. Zbiór wycinków prasowych - "Pressearchiv"

    Wycinkom prasowym nadano układ rzeczowy wg tytułów gazet, a w ich obrębie układ, chronologiczny. W wypadkach większej ilości kart wprowadzono do tych gazet podział na roczniki. Każdy tom stanowi jednostkę archiwalną i zawiera karty ponumerowane od 1: 1-3 Deutsche Rundschau - Bydgoszcz, roczniki: 1940, 1941, 4-6 Danziger Neueste Nachrichten - Gdańsk, roczniki - tomy: 1940, 1941, 1942, 7-9 Der Danziger Vorposten - Gdańsk, roczniki: 1940, 1941, 1942/43, 10-11 Weichsel - Zeitung - Grudziądz, roczniki: 1940, 1941, 12-13 Der Gesellige - Grudziądz, roczniki: 1942, 1943-1945, 14-16 Thorner Freiheit...

  10. Reichskommissar für Fischversorgung

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Bestandsgeschichte Die Bestände der Kriegswirtschaftsorganisationen des I. Weltkrieges waren in den Jahren 1943 und 1944 zunächst auswahlweise nach Staßfurt und dann unter Einbeziehung der gesamten zunächst zurückgelassenen Bestände und Bestandsteile nach Schönebeck ausgelagert worden. Im Zuge der Nachkriegsereignisse gelangten sie in das Deutsche Zentralarchiv, Abt. Merseburg, wo sie bis 1955 verblieben. Im Juli/August 1955 wurden die Bestände der Kriegsorganisationen des I. Weltkrieges nach Potsdam in das Zentralarchiv überführt. Archivische Bewertung und B...

  11. Private papers of Salomon (Shalom) Adler-Rudel (A140)

    Personal papers of Shalom Adler-Rudel (1894-1975): Lists, brochures and leaflets of various schools, and correspondence between Shalom Adler-Rudel, Paul Reiward and the Zionist Federation of Belgium regarding the financial situation and activities of Jewish refugees in Belgium, 1938; a copy of a letter from Reiwald to Adler-Rudel, concerning the economic activities of German refugees, including a list of companies in Belgium owned by refugees; reports on the assistance to Jewish refugees, 1939, in Antwerp, Brussels, and other locations; correspondence between the World Jewish Congress, the ...

  12. Prewar folk festival; wartime scenes, soldiers

    VS, group of young men and women performing traditional folk songs and dances for a large crowd, presumably gathered for a folk festival. Shots alternate between shots of the performers and shots of the crowd cheering. During the dance performance, a man announces "Jewish cradle song" (lullaby). VS, Red Army, marching along roads, reclining and socializing in the sun. City, large crowds of civilians, lined up in front of government buidling. Men, women and children in the crowds. CUs of weapons- rifles, grenades, etc. Soldiers aiming a cannon. VS of military machinery that had been destroye...

  13. St. Lo in ruins; German prisoners

    Opens with shot of sign that reads: "St. Lo." LS of city in ruins. Series of shots of remnants of buildings. GI directing traffic at sight of Ortslazarett Red Cross. Sign reads: "St. Lo Bridge repaired by 148th Engineer Battalion 4th August 1944. Equipment furnished by 631st Engineer Light Equipment Company." Remnants of cathedral at St. Lo. Army vehicles including Red Cross trucks driving down road in front of bombed out buildings. Water filled craters in FG. Jeep goes by named "Hocus Pocus Focus." Men around their pup tents in a soccer field surrounded by barbed wire. Shot of machine gun ...

  14. Orden "Pour le merite"

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • B 238
    • German
    • Schriftgut 507 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 18,8 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners 1842 stiftete König Friedrich Wilhelm IV. von Preußen den Orden Pour le mérite für Wissenschaften und Künste; er sollte als "Friedensklasse" den von Friedrich II. hundert Jahre früher begründeten "Militärorden" ergänzen. Erster Kanzler und Berater bei der Gründung des Ordens war Alexander von Humboldt. Das Ende der Monarchie 1918 bedeutete auch das Ende beider Ordensklassen, doch während der Militärorden endgültig erloschen blieb (letzter Ordensträger war Ernst Jünger, 1895 -1998) konstituierte sich die "Friedensklasse" 1922 als "freie Vereinigung von hervorr...

  15. Westerbork Deportation

    WS, train entering station. Rows of people with armbands "FK" [Fliegende Kolonne]. One of the women with the "FK" is Lenie Nijstad Cohen. Well-dressed Jews with Star of David on their coats on the platform, some getting bundles off the train. Soldiers checking documents. Guards with dogs. Another train (goods wagons) pulls into the station from which men wearing clogs get out, caps on their shaven heads. These are Jewish prisoners from Vught concentration camp being sent to Westerbork on punishment. LS, prisoners on platform. INTs, men with shaved heads (light on left), sharing bread. Men b...

  16. Max and Sala Webb papers

    The collection primarily documents the post-war experiences of Max Webb (born Menashe Weisbrot), a survivor of Auschwitz II-Birkenau and other camps, and his wife Sala Webb (born Sala Schapelski), in Münchberg, Germany prior to their immigration to the United States in 1951. Biographical material includes copies of marriage certificates, a statement regarding the dates of the camps where Max was imprisoned during the Holocaust, affidavits regarding name changes, paper copies of photographs likely taken in Münchberg and an engagement announcement card. Identification papers include a card li...

  17. Schiffer family in Budapest

    János plays with a bucket of water in yard of vacation home in Viranyos in June 1932. Dressed in a suit, Ernö kicks the ball with his boy. (01:55) Nurse-maid coaxes János to walk toward the camera. (03:00) János walks up and down steps to the door of his house in Budapest, and continues water-play. (05:15) János and cousin Anni play in a trough of water. Freshly dressed, they greet a newborn baby in carriage, providing a pacifier. (08:13) At the city park, János plays ball with a small bucket and ball. (10:27) In January 1932, people in winter clothing gather in the park with babies in stro...

  18. Portfolio

    Signed portfolio of rotogravure prints, number 0004 of 1000, of 24 drawings by George (Jerzy) Zielezinski depicting scenes he witnessed of daily life and death as a prisoner in German concentration camps from 1943-1945. The set includes a portfolio cover, a folded introductory insert discussing the prints signed by Zielezinski, and 24 individual reproductions. These sets were sold in the US for $10 by the American Friends Service Committee to raise funds for Zielezinski, then working as a dish washer in New York City. Zielezinski, a Polish Catholic, was arrested in Warsaw by the Germans for...

  19. Gert (Gerhard) Lilienthal. Collection

    KD_00059_0001 : Judaica concerning Jewish emancipation and the German liberal revolution of 1848 ; remains of the looted collection of Berlin banker dr. Heinz Lilienthal, father of the donor. KD_00059_0002 : Prewar Lilienthal family documents, including vaccination certificates, birth certificates, marriage certificates, documents related to dr. Heinz Lilienthal’s business, a household inventory and household budget. KD_00059_0003 : Wartime Lilienthal family documents, including three letters sent from the Dossin barracks by Hilda Kirschstein and Minni Marie Fabian, mother and maternal gran...

  20. Jewish community in Wrocław Synagogen Gemeinde zu Breslau Gmina Żydowska we Wrocławiu (Sygn.105)

    Contains records of the Jewish Community in Wrocław from 1796-1944 (Gmina Żydowska we Wrocławiu). Includes Board minutes,1922-1939; Board correspondence with offices,1796-1939, communities and Jewish associations as well as private individuals, including correspondence concerning the protection of refugees from Russia, Romania, Galicia, the Grand Duchy of Poland, 1867-1874, 1892-1907, 1914-1930; documentation on preparations to the Third Convention of the Association of German Jews in 1909, the District Association of Jewish Communities in Prussia in Breslau,1926-1933; correspondence with t...