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  1. Liberation of Auschwitz

    Polish narration. Former Auschwitz prisoners walk slowly past the barbed wire fence. There is snow on the ground. Well-known Soviet footage of uniformed prisoners looking solemnly at camera through fence at liberation in January 1945. Aerial pans of camp. Blueprints or architectural drawings of camp. Interior of barracks with women. "Arbeit macht frei" gate. Pages of photographs. Woman and child stand stiffly outside in front of building; corpses on the groud around them. Survivors exiting barracks, carrying blankets, bundles, being escorted by Soviet soldiers. Horse-drawn carts carrying su...

  2. March of Time -- outtakes -- South America, 1938

    On board the SS Brazil (tendered by the US Maritime Commission to North and South American diplomats, bankers, and businessmen to initiate the "Good Will Service" to South America). Conference of Admirals Hutchinson I. Cone, Emory S. Land, and H.A. Wiley. 01:34:21 INT, Mrs. Woodward, wife of Thomas Woodward of the Maritime Commission, in bedroom, at desk. Man cleaning room. 01:34:59 Harbor, view of Buenos Aires, ship. 01:35:40 Flags, other ships go by and are moored. 01:36:57 People on shore, disembarking. 01:37:53 Breckinridge Long, George Messersmith, and other diplomats talking. 01:39:02...

  3. Werner Siegbert Oster collection

    The collection consists of correspondence of the Oster family of Boppard, Germany. Included are letters sent to Werner Oster, who immigrated to the United States in 1939, from his parents Ferdinand and Rosa Oster and sister Gisela Oster in Boppard; letters to Werner from “Aunt Alice and Uncle Ernst" in Westerburg, Germany; and letters from Rosa and Ferdinand Oster to Elma Katz in Brussels, Belgium.

  4. Men in office

    INT, man sitting at table, staring at wall. INT, office or apartment with two men. Poster on wall reading "Prague 17 XI 1945". Men eating bread, pointing to photographs on wall.

  5. Berliner Vertretung der Bankers Trust Company

    Bestandsbeschreibung Angelegenheiten grundsätzlicher Art, darunter Organisation und Geschäftsgebaren der Bankers Trust Company, New York 1929-1939 (4) und Finanz- und allgemein politische Problem des Berliner Büros 1929-1939 (5), Kreditaufnahme und ¿gewährung, Vermittlung des Zahlungsverkehrs sowie andere Bankgeschäfte (ohne Stillhaltung): Telegramme, Geschäftskorrespondenzen und Belastung des Ausländerkontos für Inlandszahlungen 1929-1939 (37), Wirtschaftsunternehmen und Banken 1924-1939 (1943) (153), Kommunen 1929-1932 (14), Länder 1929-1935 (4), Reich 1929-1935 (4), Einzelpersonen 1931-1...

  6. Inventaris van het archief van het Nederlandse consulaat te Brussel, 1851-1940; en het Bureau ter behartiging van de belangen van Nederlanders te Brussel, 1940-1945

    • Nationaal archief
    • 2.05.48.17
    • Dutch
    • 1851-1945
    • 2.6 meter; 63 inventarisnummers

    Het Nederlands consulaat te Brussel werd in 1851 opgericht, dit in verband met het toenemend aantal Nederlandse schepen dat de haven van Brussel bezocht en dat een beroep deed op consulaire faciliteiten. Het archief bevat brievenboeken en overige correspondentie plus een register van binnengekomen schepen. Tevens zijn er stukken betreffende richtlijnen inzake de hulpverlening aan en de toelating van vreemdelingen tot Nederland. Gedurende de Tweede Wereldoorlog fungeerde er een 'Bureau ter behartiging van de belangen van Nederlanders'. Dit bureau werd geopend na het vertrek van de Nederlands...

  7. Voigtländer, Dr. Heinz

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners geb. am 30. Sept 1911 in Oranienbaum, gest. am 25. Sept. 2005; 1932 Abitur am Goethe Reform-Realgymnasium in Dessau Dez. 1938 Hanseatische Universität Hamburg 1939 Approbation und Promotion an der Hanseatischen Universität Hamburg 1. Nov. 1934 - 12. Okt. 1935 Reiter-Regiment 14 in Ludwigslust/Mecklenburg 1. Okt. 1940 - 30. Nov. 1940 Unter-Arzt Reiter-Regiment 14 1939 Medizinal-Praktikant in der Städtischen Krankenanstalt Dessau 1. Nov. 1939 - 15. März 1942 Assistent Chirurgische Abteilung Ludwigslust, Stift Betlehem 18. März 1942 - 31. Juli 1943 2. Chirurg Sa...

  8. RWK 1996-1997.

    Dit bestand herbergt onder andere een deel van het archief van het Joods vluchtelingencentrum te Merksplas (1938-1940). Het gaat om rollen (nrs. 5002-5004) met alfabetische tafel (nr. 5005), dagboeken van ontvangsten en uitgaven voor order (nrs. 5006-5007) en een factuurboek (nr. 5008). Daarnaast zijn er stukken bewaard afkomstig uit het archief van de strafinrichting te Merksplas, zoals de documentatiedossiers waarvan we de dossiers inzake “Eredienst, 1921-1946” (nr. 5019) en “Gevangenen (vreemdelingen), 1925-1947” (nr. 5033) aangeven. Het bestand bevat eveneens archief van het Internering...

  9. James Livesay papers relating to the liberation of Nordhausen

    The records relate to James Livesay's experiences at the liberation of Nordhausen (a.k.a. Dora, Dora-Mittelbau): an original photograph that Livesay took during the burial of the camp's inmates accompanied by a brief testimony of Livesay's; two 1945 newspaper clippings from a West Virginia newspaper, "The Register," describing the activities of Livesay and the 104th U.S. Infantry Division; a copy of a "Witness to the Holocaust" questionnaire distributed by Emory University's Center for Research in Social Change that Livesay filled out to describe his war-time experiences, including those wh...

  10. Arendt, Rudolf

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Geboren am: 25.01.1923, Diensteintritt Kriegsmarine: 01.10.1940, Beförderungen: Seekadett, 15.02.1941, Fähnrich zur See, 01.08.1941, Oberfähnrich zur See, 01.07.1942, Leutnant zur See, 01.01.1943, Oberleutnant zur See, 01.05.1944, Diensteintritt Bundeswehr: 01.05.1956, Beförderungen: Kapitän Leutnant, 22.09.1956, Korvettenkapitän, 19.09.1960, Fregattenkapitän, 04.11.1963, Kapitän zur See, 14.09.1971, Flottenadmiral, 09.05.1977, Konteradmiral, 01.04.1980, Chef des Führungsstabes der Streitkräfte: 01.04.1980 - 31.03.1983, Pensioniert am: 01.04.1983 1940 Eintrit...

  11. Henry Landman collection

    Collection contains correspondence, documents, photographs, leaflets, postcards, and related materials, including a yarmulke, which document the immigration of Joseph and Regina Landman, and their son Henry (Heinz), originally of Augsburg, Germany, to the United States as a result of anti-Semitic persecution in Germany. Includes biographical documents about Joseph and Regina, sports awards received by Henry in Augsburg, prior to emigration; correspondence with relatives of Regina Landmann, including the Aretz family; documents and ephemera related to Henry's service in the United States Arm...

  12. Kriegsberichterstattung: Von einem Gefangenenlager in Italien senden britische Kriegsgefangene Weihnachtsgrüße an ihre Familien

    Decelith Folie D. 8 discs. "From a prison camp in Italy, British prisoners of war send Christmas and New Years greetings to their families." Several South African soldiers speak in Afrikaans to their families. The narrator names, gives the home address, and mentions specific family members of each POW. The POWs say they are “fit and well” and send love and greetings to family and friends by name. Some names are unintelligible. One provides an address of 18 Ratcliffe Road, Yorkshire, Sheffield. Ralph Thompson Matthews calling his wife Vera Matthews, 143 Oxford Road, County West (?). Gunner T...

  13. Tag

    Tag worn by Rita Buchholz as a child on a transport sponsored by the US Committee for the Care of European Children. She sailed from Lisbon on August 20, 1941, aboard the Mouzinho, arriving in New York on September 2.

  14. Anne Marie Yellin photograph collection

    The photographs depict Anne Marie Yellin and her parents before World War II as well as Anne Marie and other children who were in hiding during the Holocaust in a convent, St. Antoine de Padoue, in Sint-Pieters-Leeuw, Belgium.

  15. Signal Corps Cameramen; Nazi SS Trial

    21:00:41 (LIB 6866) Combat Cameramen, Germany, March-April 1945. LS, jeep pulls up to street corner, camera team gets out and still man pockets film in paratroop trousers. MLSs, CUs, two soldiers lead cameramen through rubble-strewn street. Cameraman stops to take pictures with a Speed Graphic. LS, still cameraman takes pictures of two infantrymen walking past burning building in Schweigen. LS, officer takes picture with still camera of advancing column of the 100th Div in Nussloch. LS, cameraman takes pictures of two soldiers as they pass burning rubble and buildings. CUs, cameraman using ...

  16. Family films, 1938

  17. Card file of members of Hungarian labor battalions who perished

    The card file was collected and compiled by the Hungarian Ministry of Defense (Honvédelmi Minisztérium) between the years 1945-1954, and includes the personal cards of Hungarian Jewish victims. Some of the documents are photocopies of death certificates which were issued by local courts on the basis of lists and publications of various bodies such as the International Tracing Service, the US army, declarations by individuals regarding Hungarian Jews who had perished, and lists prepared by former prisoners.The card file, which was used for legal, and other, purposes includes information abou...

  18. Holocaust-era serials collection

    Collection is comprised of newspapers, magazines and other periodicals published in Western Europe and the United States in the period leading up to and during the Second World War. Publications are relevant to Holocaust studies and education in that they demonstrate widespread antisemitism, Nazi propaganda, international responses and military and resistance activities. Serials in collection are both originals and reprints printed after the original publication.

  19. Charles W. Alexander photograph collection

    The collection consists primarily of photographs documenting the Nuremberg trials taken by Charles W. Alexander. The photographs depict the participants in the Nuremberg trials both in the courtroom and behind the scenes, smaller war crimes trials, and scenes of Germany. The collection also includes two books of similar photographs and captions of the personal experiences of Charles and his wife Anne Alexander in Germany in 1945-1946.

  20. Austrian newsreel excerpts, March 25, 1938

    Excerpts from reel 1 of Ostmark-Wochenschau Nr. 13/1938 (25. März 1938), from frames 02107 to 05331. German narration. Title card: “Eintreffen motorisierter deutscher Truppen-Abteilungen in Wien und Graz” Night motorcade with motorcycles, cars, and tanks through city streets. Nazi officials wave and smile from platform before the Heinrichhof Cafe in Vienna. CUs. Crowds watch and cheer from balcony. Salute. (01:26) Daytime motorcade in Graz. Crowds line cobbled streets, swastika flags. Sign for: "Grand Hotel Steirerhof". Cars and tanks pass. Excerpts from reel 2 of Ostmark-Wochenschau Nr. 13...