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  1. Uprising in Prague; Looted art discovered; Children in Holland

    Welt im Film. Issue no. 7 (part) Title: Aufstand in Prag [Uprising in Prague] The citizens of Prague rise up against the German occupiers. People tear down a German-language street sign, throw leaflets from windows, and burn a German flag. They raise British, American, and Soviet flags. Shots of captured German POWs. Czechs retake the radio station and citizens build barricades and hand out weapons. Fighting in the streets. The narrator says that while the free world celebrated the capitulation of Germany, Prague still lay in darkness. More fighting, German POWs taken prisoner. Male and fem...

  2. Germans in Occupied Ukraine

    Footage shot by a German cameraman during Germany's occupation of Ukraine in World War II. Footage with German photographers traveling through the Ukraine photographing cities, villages, and collective farms. The most extensive footage is taken with a female photographer from her trip to Ukraine in the summer of 1943. She traveled by plane and car from southern Ukraine (the Melitopol region) just north of Crimea, then along the Dnepr River northward over Dnepropetrovsk to Kiev and then due west to Rovno and then the border of General Government. Reel 2: 05:26:20 MS EXT of Germany's main bro...

  3. Rejencja Opolska

    • Rejencja Opolska
    • Opole Regional Administration

    The collection comprises i.a.the extensive correspondence in connection with the destruction and liquidation of synagogues during the Kristallnacht, 9-10 November 1938, and other antisemitic incidents; documents of the Związek Żydów Polskich (Union of Polish Jews) and other materials (file with the call no. 1963, Wydział I [Department I]).

  4. Joseph H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph H., a Catholic, who was born in Paliseul, Belgium in 1917, one of two sons. He recounts his mother's death in 1921; living with an aunt in Bastogne; attending school in Boullion (his neighbor was Léon Degrelle); living in Sugny; enlisting in the military in 1936; assignment to barracks in Liège; marriage in June 1939; German invasion; his wife fleeing to England; brief capture as a prisoner of war; returning to Antwerp; recapture; forced farm labor in Meldorf; release; joining his father in Bastogne; repairing radios to provide access to the BBC; hiding membe...

  5. Prüfungsstelle Gießereiindustrie

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Das Registraturgut der Prüfungsstelle Gießereiindustrie gelangte im September 1955 durch Abgabe des Custodian für die Reichsstellen, Wirtschaftsgruppen und anderen staatlichen Wirtschaftsstellen im amerikanischen, britischen und französischen Sektor von Berlin in das Geheime Staatsarchiv. 1969 erfolgte die Abgabe an das Bundesarchiv. Bestandsbeschreibung Das im Bundesarchiv befindliche Registraturgut der Prüfungsstelle Gießereiindustrie setzt 1935 ein und enthält überwiegend Unterlagen zur Ausfuhr von Gusserzeugnissen. Aufgrund der lückenhaften Überlieferung ...

  6. LXXV. Armeekorps

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Wie die Kriegstagebücher aller Truppenteile und Dienststellen des Heeres waren auch die Kriegstagebücher der Generalkommandos und der bodenständigen Höheren Kommandos vom Mobilmachungstag (26. Aug. 1939) an beim Heeresarchiv Potsdam einzureichen, wo sie eine Zugangssignatur erhielten. Diese Zugangssignaturen wurden anfangs getrennt nach den Kriegsschauplätzen, nämlich P für Polen und W für Westen vergeben. Nach Beendigung des West- und des Norwegenfeldzuges wurden die Zugänge nur noch nach laufender Nummer signiert und in dieser Reihenfolge auch eingelagert, ...

  7. Moshe S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Moshe S., who was born in Švenčionys, Poland (presently Lithuania) in approximately 1924, one of six children. He recounts attending a Yiddish school; influence by the Bundist teachers; working with his father from the age of nine; Soviet occupation; German invasion in 1941; anti-Jewish restrictions; organizing a clandestine radio; ghettoization; hiding during a round-up (one sister and his grandmother were taken); another sister's attempt to join her boyfriend (she was killed); volunteering to work in a weapons storehouse; smuggling out guns and ammunition for his ...

  8. Death of Fritz Todt

    List of "Kriegsberichter": Dr. Aletan, Blenck, Buhlmann, Dressler, Elton, Ertl, Frentz, Frickhoeffer, Garms, Gessl, Grund, Hapke, Hardacker, Hornschu, Jacobi, Koenig, Komor, Lehmann, Mahla, Olesko, Onasch, v. Reibnitz, Sakeus, Schmidmeier, Alfred Scholz, Hans Scholz, Schwennicke, Thoemmes, Wenig. Tribute to Dr. Fritz Todt and the works of the Organisation Todt, including construction of the Autobahn and the Westwall. Todt walks with other officials. He hands out shovels to workers, who march with the shovels over their shoulders. The narrator states that construction of the Autobahn began i...

  9. Eichmann Trial -- Sessions 53, 62, 63 and 64 -- Excerpts from diary of Grand Mufti Hajj Amin Al-Husseini and other witnesses

    Session 53. Witness Margit Reich is questioned by State Attorney Gavriel Bach. Bach asks about correspondence she received from her husband after he was sent to the Kistarcsa camp in Hungary. She reads from a postcard thrown from a train and a letter written on toilet paper that she received from him. Footage cuts to Session 62 at 00:10:44. Witness testimony from Leslie Gordon. The witness speaks in English, which is translated into Hebrew. He tells of being put to forced labor in Buczacz, Hungary, where the SS and SD forced him to dig ditches. A German truck painted with the words "Deutsch...

  10. Selected records of the State Archive in Prešov, branch Humenné

    Selected records pertaining to anti-Jewish regulations and decrees, the persecution of Jews, and the Aryanization of Jewish property and businesses in the towns of Humenné and Medzilaborce in Slovakia. Also includes a proposal from 1929 for the appointment of members of an election commission, among them several Jews, and records pertaining to detention camp for prisoners of war (Serbs and French) in Humenné.

  11. Eichmann Trial -- Session 98 -- Cross-examination of the Accused

    Footage begins in the middle of Session 98. Cross examination of the accused continues with Attorney General Gideon Hausner questioning Eichmann about his refusal to allow parcels to be sent to Jewish deportees in the General Government from their relatives in the Reich. Eichmann replies that there was nothing he could have done on his own initiative (00:01:14). Hausner continues, asking Eichmann why this matter concerned him and if he had to receive instructions from Heinrich Müller, head of Section IV (Gestapo) of the Reich Main Security Office, first (00:03:28). After giving insufficient...

  12. Olshausen, Dr. Klaus

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Klaus Olshausen (* 25. April 1945 in Eisenberg) ist ein Generalleutnant a. D. des Heeres der Bundeswehr. Von 2005 bis 2013 war er Präsident des Bundes deutscher Pioniere (BdPi). Vom 12. August 2006 bis zum 26. Oktober 2013 war er Präsident der Clausewitz-Gesellschaft. Olshausen trat am 1. April 1964 in den Dienst der Bundeswehr und wurde zum Offizier in der Pioniertruppe ausgebildet. Nach der Beförderung zum Leutnant wurde er nach München versetzt und diente dort vom April 1966 an als Zugführer der 3. Kompanie des schweren Pionierbataillons 210. Vom Herbst 19...

  13. Klara Süss papers

    The collection includes a journal and accounting book kept by Klara Süss. Klara began her journal in 1941 while aboard the SS Navemar, waiting to immigrate to the United States. In the journal she recounts her experiences being forced from her home and sent to Camp de Gurs, living in Marseilles, and the process of obtaining visas. The collection also includes a translation of the journal, a German passport issued to Klara, American citizenship papers issued to Klara and her husband David Süss, and the leather wallet the certificates were housed in.

  14. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1918-1945. Ministerstwo Spraw Zagranicznych (A.11)

    Contains selected records of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Polish government-in-exile relating to the Polish Army in the USSR; Jews in the Polish Military Forces; desertions in Poland, USSR, North and South America, and Asia; Jewish refugees in Europe and other continents; exchange of Jews for Germans interned in the USA; Polish-Soviet relations; war crimes and criminals; medical experiments in Ravensbrück and Dachau; and the Congress of Polish Jews, organized in 1945. Documents also include correspondence of the intelligence service, encrypted dispatches, reviews of the Jewish pre...

  15. Kern, Käthe

    Bestandsbeschreibung Biographische Angaben 22. Juli 1900 in Darmstadt geboren 1906 - 1914 Besuch der Mittelschule 1917/1918 Ausbildung zur kaufmännischen Angestellten an der Alice-Frauenschule Darmstadt 1919 Mitglied der SAJ Dez. 1920 - 1933, 1945/1946 Mitglied der SPD Okt. 1921 - 1933 Mitglied des Zentralverbandes der Angestellten (ZdA) Okt. 1921 - Okt. 1924 Sekretärin beim Präsidenten der Landesversicherungsanstalt Hessen in Darmstadt Nov. 1924 - Juli 1925 Lehrgang an der Akademie der Arbeit an der Universität Frankfurt/Main Sept. 1925 - Sept. 1928 Sekretärin und wissenschaftliche Hilfsar...

  16. Registration lists of the Polish citizens and ethnic Poles repatriated from the Soviet Ukraine to Poland (Fond 3229)

    The collection contains case files and registration lists of Polish citizens and ethnic Poles who applied for repatriation to Poland from Soviet Ukraine. Registration lists include the names of the returnees, gender, nationality, date of birth, marital status, place of residence, occupation and description of movable personal property (cattle, agricultural tools and machinery, etc.). The repatriation of Polish citizens and ethnic Poles was carried out under the auspices of the L’viv Regional Office of the Chief Representative of the Government of Soviet Ukraine on Repatriation Issues. This ...

  17. Schick, Rudolf

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners geb. 9. Apr. 1905 in Berlin-Schöneberg, gest. 13. Sept. 1969 in Rostock, Agrarwissenschaftler, Kartoffelzüchter Apr. 1923 - März 1925 landwirtschaftliche Lehre, März 1925 Prüfung als Landwirtschaftlicher Gehilfe, 1925-1929 Studium an den Landwirtschaftlichen Hochschulen Berlin und Weihenstephan, Dipl.-Landwirt, 1928 Examen Dipl.-Landwirt, Jan. 1929 - Apr. 1936 Assistent im Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Züchtungsforschung, Müncheberg/Mark, dort insb. Forschung zur Kartoffelresistenzzüchtung, später Abteilungsleiter für Pflanzenzüchtung, Saatzuchtleiter in Neubus...

  18. Eichmann Trial -- Session 91 -- Cross-examination of the Accused

    Footage begins late in the session during the cross-examination of the accused by Attorney General Gideon Hausner. Adolf Eichmann is asked a series of questions about the Madagascar Plan, including whether or not Reinhard Heydrich made efforts to implement it (00:04:05) and who opposed the plan. [The Madagascar Plan was an idea to resettle the Jews on the island of Madagascar]. Hausner asks the accused if the main objective was to send the Jews there to die (00:07:19). Eichmann maintains that the plan was not to exterminate or annihilate the Jews (00:07:49) and Hausner points out that there...

  19. Polizeiliches Durchgangslager Amersfoort

    Die Sammlung enthält v.a.: Namenslisten, Entlassungsscheine, Verzeichnis verstorbener Häftlinge, Transportliste, Fernschreiben, Häftlingspersonalkarten, Schreibstubenkarten, Geldverwaltungskarten, Revierkarten, Transportkarten, Rot-Kreuz-Korrespondenz Geschichte des Polizeilichen Durchgangslager Amersfoort 1941-1945: Am 18.08.1941 wurde bei Amersfoort in den Niederlanden ein Polizeiliches Durchgangslager errichtet. Es unterstand dem Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des Sicherheitsdienstes (BdS) in Den Haag. Im Mai 1943 wurde die Aufnahmekapazität stark vergrößert und ein Außenkommand...

  20. MS St. Louis captain's hat

    Captain's hat worn by Captain Gustav Schröder of the MS St. Louis, captain of the ship on its ill-fated voyage that left Hamburg, Germany, on May 13, 1939, for Cuba, from where it was forced to return a few weeks later to Europe. The cap was given to Herbert Karliner, a twelve year old passenger on that voyage, by Rolf Ernst Schroeder, Captain Schröder's nephew, at a reunion of MS St. Louis survivors in 1989.