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  1. Captured German troops and GIs; airfield

    Stevens standing in front of sign that reads: "Frankenburg." Pan to several hundreds, possibly a thousand, captured Germans. German troops (excellent pan of German soldiers) captured filing into trucks. Pan to remainder of troops. Troops loading onto open trucks. CUs of German soldiers. Stevens, Moffat and others standing with the Germans. American GI climbs on truck with stick, reaching into soldiers with stick. GI sending soldiers up the hill. They run to the truck. German officer in front of truck. Cameraman shooting CU of young German soldier. Sign reads: "Frankenau/Kreis Frankenberg/Re...

  2. Jews hiding in a nightclub in Amsterdam (with text)

    Film with text. The film (as seen in Story 1315) repeats with added intertitles in Dutch (see linked document). Image rolls at 01:16:19 with an older couple stands and converses. An adolescent boy comforts a young woman [this scene is clearly acted out with the characters wearing stage makeup]. An older man then opens the door, enters the room, and converses with a girl. Several people arrive and are greeted warmly. They all wear yellow stars. INTs of the apartment. The table is set. A girl sits and knits. People lounge about; others arrive. The boy and young woman look out the window onto ...

  3. Eichmann Trial -- Session 88 -- Cross-examination of the Accused about membership in the Nazi party and antisemitism

    The footage begins near the end of Session 88 during cross-examination of Eichmann by Attorney General Gideon Hausner. Hausner questions the accused about his dismissal from the Austrian Vacuum Oil Company. Eichmann maintains that he was dismissed because of his marital status and not because he joined the Nazi party. A small part of this section is duplicate footage also found on Tape 2123 (at 01:06:39). Hausner then asks about Eichmann's membership in the NSDAP, the SD, whether he joined these organizations of his own free will (00:03:52), and whether he ever tried to leave the Nazi party...

  4. Julian M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Julian M., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1924. He recalls antisemitism in Polish schools he attended, particularly gymnasium; his father's prewar death; disbelief that conditions in Germany would impact them; German invasion; increasing restrictions and persecution; fleeing with his family to Nowy Wis?nicz; his capture; a forced labor camp in Krako?w; transfer to the ghetto; learning all Jews in Nowy Wis?nicz had been liquidated including his family; and his aunt's and cousins' deportation (he lived with them). He describes factory work; obtaining chemicals for p...

  5. Edith M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edith M., who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia in 1926. She recounts moving to Cluj when she was eight; visiting grandparents in Košice and Chernivt︠s︡i; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; Hungarian occupation in 1940; visiting relatives in Budapest in 1943; a ban on Jewish travel preventing her return home; German invasion in March 1944; forced relocation to a yellow star house; briefly hiding with a non-Jewish woman; a round-up by Hungarians on October 19; a forced march to Harkakópháza; slave labor digging tank trenches; purchasing food from local peasants...

  6. Secret and confidential records Secretos y Reservados

    This collection contains confidential reports from various Argentinean government agencies and political offices to the Argentine Ministry of the Interior, including the Ministry of Foreign Relations, various provincial Governor's offices, the national police, the Ministry of War, the Postal and Telegraph Service, the Ministry of Agriculture, and others. Also includes records pertaining to Jewish immigration (both legal and illegal) to Argentina and other Latin American countries, the Jewish colonization movement, Nazi activities in Patagonia and other parts of Argentina, and communications...

  7. David M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David M., who was born in Oberhausen, Germany in 1922. He recounts moving to Charleroi, Belgium, then Brussels; attending public school; his father's support of trade unions; his participation in a leftist group; disbelief in German refugees' stories of concentration camps; German invasion; briefly fleeing to Abbeville, France; returning to Brussels; involvement in a Resistance group; arrest; incarceration in Saint-Gilles; interrogations; transfer to Malines; meeting his father there; not escaping due to his promise to escape with his father; deportation to Auschwitz;...

  8. Siegmund Pluznik photograph collection

    The collection consists of photographs depicting the Holocaust-era experiences of Siegmund Pluznik (born Zygmunt Pluznik), originally of Będzin, Poland. The photographs include depictions of Siegmund with friends in the Będzin ghetto, a group of Jewish youth in Romania awaiting a ship which will take them to Palestine, and Siegmund on a beach in Natania, Palestine.

  9. Henryk Glucksman photograph collection

    The photographs depict the Glucksman family before and during the Holocaust in Wadowice, Poland; Jewish men in the Gogolin labor camp in Poland in 1941; and Maria Pelikant Glucksman, Henryk Glucksman’s wife, Noemi Glucksman, Henryk Glucksman’s daughter, and Kamila Rozenberg and Emma Datner, Henryk Glucksman's in-laws, in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1963. Captions on verso in Polish.lish.

  10. Records of the Stadtverwaltung Litzmannstadt, Ghettoverwaltung Records of the Łódź City Council Ghetto Administration Akta Miasta Łodzi Zarząd Miejski. Wydział do Spraw Getta (Sygn. 221)

    This collection contains records of the Ghettoverwaltung, a department of the Germans' administration of the city of Łódź. Included are documents of over 120 enterprises operating in the ghetto; ghetto police reports; information on Jews being brought from Western Europe; and information about deportations to labor and death camps.

  11. Selected records from the Historical Archives of Subotica related to the history of the Jewish community

    Contains selected records related to the history of the Jewish Community of the city of Subotica, part of the Vojvodina province in Serbia. It includes records from the collection of the Senate of Subotica (Fond 41), the executive body governing of the city, Records pertain to the economic and political activities of the local Jewish community, and others, Serbs, Hungarians, Germans in 1918-1941. Contains census statistics, applications for permission to open business, various petitions and certifications, minutes of the Jevrejskog ortodoksnog pobožnog društva (Jewish Orthodox Pious Society...

  12. Eichmann Trial -- Session 111 -- Prosecution continues summing up

    Session 111. 00:01:05 Tape begins with a nearly empty courtroom. Eichmann and Servatius talk over their private microphone line; we cannot hear what they are saying. 00:05:55 Judges enter. Session 111 is opened. Hausner discusses an interview with one of Eichmann's subordinates concerning the emigration of a certain family. This proves that Eichmann's office had the authority to decide which camp or ghetto a person went to. 00:11:49 The affidavit of the SS judge who issued a warrant for the arrest of Eichmann is discussed by Hausner, but this warrant was soon eliminated by Himmler because E...

  13. Processo de pedido de visto para J. Randall, Sra. J. Patchett, dois filhos da Sra. J. Patchett, Sra. Abbott-Smith, Charles Rosas, Joseph Dazia, Pemberton, mulher de Pemberton, Margaret Cosgrave, Yvonne Halberton, Maurice Bowden Smith, Viscondessa Furness Patricia Cavendish, Sra. Sattorthwaite, Fryer e Roderick Cameron

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Marselha para J. Randall, de nacionalidade britânica e residente em França, com destino ao Reino Unido. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Marselha para Sra. J. Patchett, de nacionalidade britânica e residente em França, com destino ao Reino Unido. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Marselha para dois filhos da Sra. J. Patchett, de nacionalidade britânica e residente em França, com destino ao Reino Unido. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consu...

  14. Nazi Germany 1937: Hitler Youth girls on a country road; BDM; farming

    Sequence of outtakes. BDM girls place flag in ground, write letters. Landscape with ploughed fields, oxen and cart. Road with BDM girls, marching and singing with banner. CUs faces, braids, white blouses. While resting at roadside two girls perform a singing act for the camera, flirtatious, very animated. Others seated, write in diaries, then march on. Ages range from 8 to 12, most in braids or bobbed hair. BDM girls eating, with group leader, CU BDM flag, reading magazine, resting. Antiquated shaking threshing machine. CUs hay. Farmers working. Note: J.Bryan's film lecture, "Germany 1937,"...

  15. Selected records related to the Holocaust in Serbia

    The collection contains selected records of the Administration of the City of Belgrade (Fond 1) established by the collaborationist Government of Serbia under the authority of the German authorities in April of 1941. The bulk of the selected records include dossiers, correspondence files, reports of movable and unmovable assets of Jews in Belgrade etc. all kept by the Section No 7 created specifically for the persecution of Jews and Roma (Odeljenje za Jevreje i Cigane/ Sedmo odeljenje ) and other sections of the Special Serbian police department (Odeljenje specijalne policije) of the Belgra...

  16. Guta T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Guta T., who was born in Starachowice-Wierzbnik, Poland in 1919. She recalls prewar visits of high German officials; German invasion in 1939; fleeing the city; returning since Germans were everywhere; ghettoization which included Jews from surrounding areas; encouraging others to care for orphans; her daughter's birth in September 1942 assisted by a non-Jewish doctor; giving her daughter to a Ukrainian women who was fleeing to the Soviet zone (she never saw her again); and work in an ammunition factory in Starachowice from October 1942 to July 1944. Mrs. T. recounts a...

  17. Kießling, Günther

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Günter, Hans-Joachim, Klaus Kießling, Generalleutnant geb. 20.10.1925, gest. 28.08.2009 1940 - Eintritt in die Wehrmacht 01.04.1941 - Heeres-Unteroffizier-Vorschule, Frankenstein 01.02.1943 - Heeres-Unteroffizier-Vorschule, Hohensalza bei Kriegsende Leutnant in einem Infanterieregiment 1947 - Reifeprüfung, anschließend Studium der Wirtschaftswissenschaften und Promotion an der Universität Bonn 08.05.1953 - Diplom Volkswirt 1954 - Eintritt als Leutnant in den Bundesgrenzschutz 18.12.1954 - Oberleutnant im Bundesgrenzschutz Beförderungen 01.07.1956 - Oberleutna...

  18. Bernard O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bernard O., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1937, an only child. He recalls his familys' affluence; their insistence he speak only Polish; German invasion; his father's mother giving them gold coins; joining relatives in Warsaw; moving to the Piotrków ghetto; his mother obtaining false papers for herself and him; taking a train with her (his father was hidden with non-Jews); observing Gestapo inspecting papers; jumping off the train without their documents; entering the nearby Radom ghetto; his mother contacting his father; his father joining them; hiding during de...

  19. Hindenburg, Paul von Beneckendorff und von (Generalfeldmarschall, Reichspräsident)

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg Lebensdaten 02.10.1849 geb. in Posen als Sohn des Königlich preußischen Majors Robert Ludwig von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg 02.08.1934 gest. auf Gut Neudeck, Beisetzung im Tannenberg-Ehrenmal 1945 Überführung in die Elisabeth-Kirche in Marburg/Lahn Werdegang 1859 Eintritt, Kadetten-Anstalt Wahlstatt Apr. 1863 Haupt-Kadetten-Anstalt Berlin 1865 3. Garde-Rgt. zu Fuß 15.05.1877 Kommandiert zum Großen Generalstab 18.04.1878 Großer Generalstab 09.07.1878 II. Armee-Korps, Generalstab 05.05.1881 1. Di...

  20. Molotov addresses the Soviet people re. German invasion.

    Title: "Soviet newsreel / 59 / 1941 / M. Fidelevoy"/ "Radio address of the USSR's Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars and the People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs, V.M. Molotov / June 22, 1941" MS of Molotov. Voiceover of Molotov speech: "Today at 4 a.m. ... without declaring war, Germany attacked our country ... the attack was perpetrated despite a pact of non-aggression between the USSR and Germany, which the USSR faithfully abided by ... responsibility for this attack falls entirely upon German fascist rulers ... at 5:30 a.m. the German ambassador in Moscow relayed the messa...