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  1. Tour of Vienna

    Title card: “An der Kamera: Mario Wiberal.” “Gesamtbildgestaltung: Frank Rossak.” “Der Film zeigt Kultur- und Baudenkmäler sowie Wiens Garten von heute.” Church on Leopoldsberg in Vienna. Pan of the city and countryside below. Pan of Stephansplatz. Vienna Parliament and city council. A streetcar passing in front of the Parliament. The Volksgarten. The Naturhistorisches museum. The Theseus Temple. The Burgtheater. Cafe Landtmann. The City Council. The Rathausplatz. Various statues. A streetcar passes in front of the Rathaus. The Universität Wien Hauptgebäude. The Liebenberg statue. The Ratha...

  2. Sieraczek family papers

    The Sieraczek family papers include biographical material, correspondence, and photographs relating to Henryk Sieraczek and his son Jerzy Sieraczek’s (Jerome Sears) experience living in the Warsaw ghetto, going into hiding, and living in the Zeilsheim DP camp. The collection also includes papers relating to their immigrating to the United States. Biographical materials include Henryk’s passport for stateless persons and identification card as well as Jerzy’s identification card for his school in Lodz. Correspondence include letters from Henryk to his family about his experiences during the ...

  3. Girsh K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Girsh K., who was born in Minsk, Russia in 1914, the fourth of seven children. He recounts his family moving to Moscow in 1916 to avoid the German invasion; returning to Minsk in 1918; hardships under German and Polish invasions; attending a Jewish school; Soviet elimination of Jewish cultural and religious institutions in the 1930s; training as an engineer in Moscow; working in a shoe factory in Minsk; his brothers serving in the military; German occupation; ghettoization with his parents and sisters; round-up of all Jewish men; a mass shooting of all professionals i...

  4. Sara W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sara W., who was born in Jaworzno, Poland in 1911, one of nine children. She describes her mother's death in 1935; antisemitic boycotts; her father's emigration to Palestine; marriage in Krako?w in January 1939; German occupation; one brother's murder in a mass shooting; ghettoization; her husband's and son's disappearance in October 1942 (she never saw them again); working in the Wieliczka salt mine; her brother smuggling her to Chrzano?w; fleeing to Sosnowiec during Chrzano?w's liquidation; hiding in a bunker her brother built with assistance from a Polish woman; ob...

  5. Remembrance ceremonies for Heydrich in Prague, Brno, Plzen, and Tabor

    Official Czech newsreel folowing the assassination of Heydrich. The Czech government proclaims their loyalty to the Germans in a remembrance ceremony. “Cesky ZVUKOVÝ TÝDENÍK” “Prag-Praha” “KTULIA AKTUALITÀ” Church of Our Lady Before Tyn in Prague - a mass demonstration in Old Town Square on June 2, 1942. Stage with Czech coat of arms. Crowd. Astronomical Clock Tower. People stand and sit on the Jan Hus Memorial. The square is packed. German officials walk towards the grandstand. Around 60,000 people have gathered in the square (the German minority in Prague was significant). Aerial view. Dr...

  6. Irmgard K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irmgard K., who was born in Breslau (presently Wrocław, Poland), Germany in 1915, the youngest of five children of a Jewish father and Christian mother. She recounts attending synagogue and learning Hebrew; her father's death in 1924; antisemitic harassment; active participation in Social Democratic Party youth groups; her siblings' emigration to France in the early 1930s; her mother joining them; several arrests for anti-Nazi activities; engagement to a non-Jew; the Nuremberg laws prohibition against their marriage; her fiancé's arrest for anti-Nazi activities; one ...

  7. Katalin L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Katalin L., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1922, the second of two children. She recounts her parents' divorce; attending public school; anti-Jewish legislation; attending communist meetings with her brother; marriage; her husband's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion (he did not survive); German invasion; her brother obtaining false papers for therr and her mother; their arrest and imprisonment; beatings during interrogations; seeing her brother once (he escaped); their transfer to Sárvár; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her mother...

  8. Shoshana K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shoshana K., who was born in Prešov, Czechoslovakia in 1925, one of five children in a Hasidic family. She recounts attending a Jewish school; visiting relatives in Bardejov; transfer to a public school; anti-Jewish restrictions; confiscation of her father's store; deportation with her family by the Hlinka guard to the Dęblin ghetto; slave labor; a German officer allowing her to eat extra food; giving her soup ration to her mother; slave labor at an air strip; separation from her family (she never saw them again); transfer to the labor camp; assistance from a prison...

  9. Rene?e E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rene?e E., who was born in 1926 in Paris, France. She recounts that her parents were Turkish immigrants; a large and close extended family; German invasion; fleeing with her family to Nogent-le-Roi; returning to Paris upon encountering German troops; her father going into hiding; his deportation in 1942 (she never saw him again); living in Montreuil; her brother's birth; her mother placing the baby and her younger sister in hiding with assistance from their Catholic aunt; her sister's return; arrest with her sister, mother, and grandmother in June 1944 (cousins who we...

  10. German prisoners in Łódź Zakłady karne w Łodzi (Sygn.198)

    The collection consists of files from four Łodź prisons from the years of the German occupation (1939-1945), including: personal files of the prisoners and officers, indexes of prisoners (they contain such data as the first and last name, date of arrest, relocation from one prison or camp to another one, and whether a prisoner was released or executed). The files relate to the following prisons: 1. Police Prison (Gestapo) on 16 Sterlinga St. (Polizeigefängnis Robert Kochstrasse 16). Prisoners here were arrested by the Gestapo for sabotage, political activity, fighting for independence or be...

  11. Schwerin, Graf v.

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • N 1063
    • German
    • 1486-1713
    • Nachlässe 47 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 0,3 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Max Hein, Otto von Schwerin. Der Oberpräsident des Großen Kurfürsten, Königsberg 1929 Lebensdaten 18. März 1616 geb. in Wittstock b. Greifenhagen in Pommern 1634 - 1637 Student an der Universität Rostock ab 1638 Kammerjunker in den Diensten des Kurfürsten Georg Wilhelm von Brandenburg 1640 Hofkammergerichts- und Lehnsrat in Berlin 1645 Wirklicher Geheimer Rat 1646 Oberhofmeister der Gemahlin Luise Henriette des Kurfürsten Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg 1648 in den Reichsfreiherrnstand erhoben 1654 Erbkämmerer der Kurmark Brandenburg 1658 Erster Minister un...

  12. Gemeinschaft Schuhe

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Bestandsgeschichte Bereits im August 1943 errichtete die Gemeinschaft Schuhe ein Ausweichquartier in Sorau, das nach einem Bombenangriff auf das Dienstgebäude in Berlin im Dez. 1943 von einem großen Teil der Mitarbeiter genutzt wurde. Mit dem Näherrücken der Front wurde die Dienststelle nach Weissenfels/ Saale verlegt. Die dort von den amerikanischen Alliierten beschlagnahmten Akten gelangten über das Ministerial Collecting Center in Fürstenhagen, die Verwaltung für Wirtschaft in Frankfurt und schließlich das Bundeswirtschaftsministerium 1952 ins Bundesarchiv...

  13. Winnower of the type used in wartime Poland

    Wooden agricultural winnower found years after the war in the region near Belzec, Poland. It is the type that would have been used by farmers in late 19th-early 20th century. In 1942, when the Germans decided to destroy all traces of the murders committed at Belzec killing center, they requisitioned agricultural equipment from the surrounding villages. This winnower purportedly belonged to the local mayor and was taken and returned by the Germans, but its use at the camp is uncertain. Because it has a mesh screen, it was rumored to have been used to sift through the ashes of cremated human ...

  14. Sam G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sam G., who was born in Poland. He recounts antisemitic harassment; attending school in Piotrko?w Trybunalski; working in ?o?dz?; bringing his mother there for surgery in late summer 1939; German invasion delaying the surgery; her death; difficulty providing a Jewish burial due to German restrictions; returning home; eviction from their home by the Germans; his brother's disappearance (he suspects he escaped to Soviet territory and harbors the hope he is still alive); a childhood friend who was a German officer warning him to leave town; the mayor providing him with f...

  15. Коллекция документальных материалов периода временной оккупации Брянской области фашистскими захватчиками 1941-1943 гг.

    В состав фонда вошли следующие документы: - приказы и распоряжения Клинцовского окружного управления, обер-бургомистра Локотского округа, Унечской и Суражской районных Служб Порядка, Навлинской райуправы, Почепской комендатуры; - протоколы собраний окружных бургомистров, совещаний старост, допросов граждан; - рапорты урядников, становых приставов начальникам районных Служб Порядка о деятельности партизан; - акты старост и полицейских о произведенных обысков, задержании граждан; - ордера на обыск; - паспорта, временные удостоверения жителей Брянской области; - учетные карточки немецкой биржи...

  16. Gebietskommissare im Geschäftsbereich des Reichskommissars für das Ostland

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Die Gebietskommissare bildeten entsprechend Führer-Erlass vom 17. Juli 1941 (R 43 II/685a) die unterste Ebene der deutschen Zivilverwaltung in den besetzten Ostgebieten unterhalb der Ebenen der Reichskommissariate und der Generalkommissariate; ihre Aufgaben lagen vor allem im Bereich der Kommunalverwaltung (Kommunalpolitik, Ernähung und Landwirtschaft, gewerbliche Wirtschaft sowie Arbeit und Soziales) einschließlich der Ordnungspolizei. Der Gebietskommissar von Riga-Stadt war zugleich kommissarischer Oberbürgermeister der Stadt Riga. Bestandsbeschreibung Die ...

  17. Robert H. Harlan diary

    Robert H. Harlan was an American exchange student from the University of Chicago studying abroad during the academic year 1938-1939 at the Philipps-Universitat in Marburg, Germany. His diary was written between September 7, 1938 and November 14, 1938, in Germany and English, on pages of a date book and include his impressions of the treatment of Jews during Kristallnacht. In a separate typed document, Robert recorded these same events in greater detail after he returned from Germany. The typed chronology details Robert's ten-day visit to the home of German Jews Bruno (1880-1957) and Frida S...

  18. Central Committee of the Communist Party of Moldova

    • Comitetul central al Partidului Comunist al Moldovei
    • Центральный комитет Коммунистической партии Молдавии
    • Tsentral'nyy komitet Kommunisticheskoy partii Moldavii

    General information about the Soviet Moldavian Republic; materials on persons evacuated in 1941; the list of persons evacuated from the Moldavian SSR in 1941; information provided by the authorized Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Moldova and the Council of People's Commissars of the MSSR for the Turkmen SSR on the registration of personnel evacuated to Turkmenistan; lists of evacuated enterprises of the Moldavian SSR; lists of communists evacuated from the Moldavian USSR to the Rostov, Saratov, Stalingrad, Turkmen, Uzbek and Chkalov regions; lists of communists evac...

  19. Saksa fašistlike okupantide roimade ja nende poolt tekitatud kahjude kindlakstegemise ja uurimise Eesti Vabariiklik Komisjon

    • Extraordinary State Commission for the Establishment and Investigation of Crimes and Damages Perpetrated by German-Fascist Invaders and Their Collaborators Against Citizens, Kolkhozes, Public Authorities, State Companies and Agencies.
    • Eesti Ajaloomuuseum
    • AM, D 152
    • English
    • 1944-1945
    • 9 records in 2 series; original bound paper documents.

    This archival fonds contains, in addition to documents from the Extraordinary State Commission, original documents from German authorities. Documents that are directly related to the Holocaust include original reports from SS camp doctor KZ Vaivara Franz von Bodmann from October 1943 until June 1944 (Der SS Lagerarzt K.L. Waiwara an das SS Wirtschafts- und Verwaltungshauptamt. Monatsberichte Oktober 1943 – June 1944). These reports present statistics and death rates of inmates in KZ Vaivara and subcamps (AM.D-152.2.40). Documents partially related to the Holocaust include original documents...

  20. Solomon Zynstein papers

    Consists of photographs, scrapbook pages, loose documents, and newspaper clippings mainly related to Solomon Zynstein's life and work in the Bamberg displaced persons camp, particularly his work directing Yiddish Theater in Bamberg. Includes photographs, programs, and newsclippings about performances, as well as documents related to Zynstein's work as a journalist, including brief notes on the International Military Tribunal (the Nuremberg trials).