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  1. Refugees fleeing Belgium and France; destruction

    [Refugies sur le bord d'une route - Nord de la France, Mai 1940] Refugees fleeing villages between Belgium and France. Planes in air, cut in. "Evacuation" sign on bus. Children, elderly, others onto truck/bus, sleeping child in arms. Air attack. Fierce scenes just after fall, flames. Storefront, "Bazar Parisien." Big fires, houses along square, church tower, burnt and falling, broken sculpture, INT. "Femmes Medecin" ruins. "Medecin Maternite" smoldering cots. Wounded nun. Tracking shot of street, low buildings, destruction. Planes in sky. Civilians hide under brush lining road, in courtyard...

  2. Jan Istvan memoir

    The Jan Istvan memoir consists of information about the experiences of Roma Holocaust survivor Jan Istvan in various concentration camps, such as Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Dora, and his personal philosophy about racism.

  3. Akta miasta Otwocka

    • Files of the town of Otwock

    The collection contains i.a. regulations and general orders concerning matters such as forced labour and resettlement of the Jews, taxes, materials connected with the expropriation of Jewish real estate in the “Aryan” quarter by a special administrative office, and many documents related to statistics, population records and control, lists of real properties, a personnel list of the Getto-Polizei and instructions for it, and a range of official letters and correspondence on matters concerning the Jews of Otwock. The body of material is relatively extensive and thus sufficient to reconstruct...

  4. Pressedokumentation Rote Armee Fraktion

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Die Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF) gründete sich 1970 um Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin, Horst Mahler und Ulrike Meinhof. Als linksgerichtete Untergrundorganisation nach dem Vorbild der südamerikanischen Widerstandskämpfer führte sie den bewaffneten Kampf gegen den Staatsapparat der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Bei terroristischen Anschlägen und Geiselnahmen wurden 34 Menschen getötet. Von den Mitgliedern der RAF starben 20. Die RAF löste sich 1998 endgültig auf. Stand: Februar 2006 Bestandsbeschreibung Die Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF) gründete sich 1970 um Andreas Ba...

  5. Hadamar Murder Mills; Atrocities at Ohrdruf

    20:00:41 (LIB 5168-LIB 5170) Hadamar Murder Mills, Hadamar, Germany, April 7, 1945. LSs building of insane asylum where interrogation is taking place. INT, Dr. Adolf Wahlmann, Karl Willig, and Adolph Merkle being interrogated by War Crimes Investigation team. MSs, CUs, political prisoners leaving building and entering car. Car driving off. 20:05:45 (LIB 5211) Atrocities at Ohrdruf, near Gotha, Germany, April 10, 1945. SEQ: Leading German citizens and German officers are brought out to labor camp to view results of the mass slayings. They view stacks of dead bodies and look at outdoor cremat...

  6. Anniversary of Manfred von Richthofen's death

    Ceremony commemorating the 15th anniversary of the death of Manfred von Richthofen. Opens on a portrait of von Richthofen, then a shot of his gravestone with a rose laid across it. Large crowds at the cemetery; pastor speaks a brief part of eulogy, people salute as music plays. Civilians and military in crowd. Photographers visible.

  7. Landrat (District Councillor) of Kraslice

    The fonds includes incomplete archival materials of the political administration of the district of Kraslice from the period of the German occupation, mainly a construction agenda and files relating to businesses, control of the self-government, education and social care. Sources to the history of Jews can be found mainly in documents relating to abolishing businesses in 1938-1939 (inv. No. 36) and the exclusion from citizenship from 1938-1945 (inv. No. 63). There are also preserved materials from the 1939 census of persons and businesses.

  8. Sarah Froiman letter

    Sarah Froiman, a Polish Jewish woman who was imprisoned by the Nazis during the Holocaust, wrote this letter shortly before being killed when the Germans shot to death all of the Jewish slave laborers from the Rudzki factory in Mińsk Mazowiecki. She describes hiding among Christians, the horror of her situation, and her fear that she would soon be killed, and she begs for help.

  9. Institut für die Geschichte der Deutschen Juden in Hamburg collection

    Contains protocols, correspondence, writings of M. Plaut, personal papers of Epstein, who was chairman of the Jewish community, including poems and writings from Theresienstadt concentration camp (1942), restitution matters, postcards of Lotte Cahn from Theresienstadt and Łódź, Poland, and letters from Hamburg, Germany (1935-1937).

  10. Frima Laub papers

    The Frima Laub papers consist of photographs of Frima Gleiser (later Frima Laub) taken in 1945 and 1947. Four of the photographs were taken at the Schlüpfing displaced persons camp in Bavaria, Germany and shows Frima with an unidentified friend. Also included is a poster featuring a photograph of Frima and announcing a performance sponsored by the Association of Jewish Women in Havana, Cuba, in 1949.

  11. Betty Weissberger Lauer papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Betty Lauer (born Berta Weissberger), originally of Hindenburg (Zabrze, Poland). Consists of an identity card (kennkarte) issued to Krystyna Zotkos, the false identity Betty used in the Generalgouvernement in September 1942. Also included is a document, dated October 5, 1937, confiscating the property of Oskar Weissberger, Betty's father, who was able to immigrate to the United States, and a good conduct certificate for Berta Weissberger dated January 4, 1939. Also includes a story entitled "Friends 1940-1942" written by Betty Lauer in 1...

  12. Processo de pedido de visto para Ema Amália Ana Kath, Matilde, Ruth Carinajese, Eduardo Huggler, mulher de Eduardo Huggler, Maurits Diepven e Eduardo Gotfried

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Oslo para Ema Amália Ana Kath, de nacionalidade dinamarquesa, com destino a Angola. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Oslo para Matilde, de nacionalidade dinamarquesa, com destino a Angola. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Copenhaga para Ruth Carinajese, de nacionalidade dinamarquesa, com destino a Portugal. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Oslo para Eduardo Huggler, de nacionalidade dinamarquesa, com destino a Portugal. Visto autorizado. Processo de ...

  13. Repatriação de mulheres e crianças

    Documentação referente à repatriação de mulheres e crianças pelo governo britânico. Inclui: reclamação sobre atraso na concessão de vistos; comunicação do Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros para os Consulados de Portugal em Nova Iorque e São Francisco para autorizarem os vistos; reclamação sobre a ausência de resposta da Polícia de Vigilância e Defesa do Estado (PVDE) aos pedidos iniciais de vistos e resposta da PVDE. Contém também informação dos processos de pedido de visto para: Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Washington para Enaspiro, de nacionalidade britânica,...

  14. Володимирська районна поліція м. Києва

    • Vladimirskiy rayon Ukrainian guard police

    USHMM has copied from this fonds and describes the copies as follows: Fond 4437: 1: Orders of the commandants of staffs of the city and rayon police for October 1941-December 1942 (copies). List of employees of the city and Vladimirskiy rayon police. 1941-42. 385 pp. Fond 4437: 2: Registry book of persons arrested. 1942. 48 pp. Fond 4437: 3: Registry book of persons arrested. 1942-1943. 200 pp. Fond 4437: 4: Police duty roster book. 1941-1943. 500 pp. Fond 4437: 5: Police duty roster book. 1942. 200 pp. Fond 4437: 6: Police duty roster book. 1943. 234 pp. Fond 4437: 7: Sketch of police rout...

  15. Корецька районна надзвичайна комісія зі встановлення збитків та злочинів, заподіяних німецько-фашистськими загарбниками.

    Списки осіб, які зазнали збитків від німецько-фашистських загарбників під час окупації Корецького району Рівненської області.

  16. Overseas visits of UJA Women's Commission

    Featuring Barry Sullivan and Myrtle Kemp. Film intends to tell the story of the work of the UJA through the experiences of American women who went abroad as UJA representatives. Notes taken from NCJF documentation: Barry and Myrtle meet on the studio lot, go to the projection room to view footage and talk. CU, 6 women in Myrtle's group that went abroad representing the Women's Commission of the UJA. Eiffel Tower, scenes at orphanage, eating, drinking, playing. North Africa, clinic in the Mellah. Trachoma and ringworm treatments, school, hot meal in soup kitchen, kindergarten in Casablanca, ...

  17. Yugoslavia: farming; villagers; military vehicles; railroad yards

    Reel 8: Farmer plowing field, women sowing seed; sheep grazing. Man sitting on bench reading newspaper, soldier on crutches, woman resting on steps, street car motorman, woman with child in park. Belgrade Hospital, entrance gates. Man smoking cigar, man with beard, partisan boy soldier saluting, Serbian girl and Roma beggar sitting on walk. Military vehicles, troops and civilians boarding ferry, crossing Danube River and departing ferry. Pan, across destroyed German tanks and guns, destroyed Sava Bridge, railroad yards and town. Railroad yards in Belgrade, locomotives moving down tracks.

  18. Hagana Troops

    Men walking through streets of Jerusalem. Suitcases sign on wall of old city. CUs, woman and her children. Crowd gathered in square. Hagana troops on jeep. CUs, moving villagers on truck, boat. Dead bodies. Aerial shot of buildings. Soldiers on truck with thumbs up. Boys walking towards camera with guns. Weapons moved onto cart. Sandbags block streets. Civilians searched. Hagana officer guards captured Palestinians. Villagers interrogated. Walking with belongings in streets. HAS, city. Civilians walking on streets. Holding portraits. Women with belongings carried on top of their heads. Sold...

  19. Freiburg market and Corpus Christi Day parade

    “MARKET FREIBURG” Sellers and shoppers in the Munsterplatz Market in Freiburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. A man looks over goods in a large basket. “CORPUS CHRISTI DAY FREIBURG” Religious procession for Corpus Christi Day. Marching band. Young girls in white dresses wear flower wreaths on their heads. A large reliquary is carried down the street. German bishops, friars, and other clergymen march. Canopy. Marching band, men walking, and flag bearers.

  20. Albert Süsskind collection

    This collection contains a transcript of Albert Süsskind's report and related correspondence to the Australian High Commissioner of the UK on the conditions on board the HMT Dunera, on which internees and prisoners of war were transported to Hay internment camp in New South Wales, Australia, from England in 1940. Süsskind requested an investigation into the material damage and humiliating treatment endured by the internees on board the ship and payment of compensation. Also included is his identity card for commercial travellers.