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  1. An overview of the Holocaust in Croatia

    Opening credits, image of Lighthouse and the words Jadran film, Zagreb. Music. Clips of posters, photos, newspapers. People marching - Nazis. 01:01:50 Mein Kampf, portrait of Hitler, parades. Hitler speaking. Barbed wire and panning shots of camps. 01:03:16 crematorium. 01:03:43 "Leo Rupnik". Hitler greeting "Ante Pavelic". Camps, German eagle. 01:04:15 People getting into trains to go to camps. 01:05:04 Entrance to Auschwitz "Arbeit Macht Frei". Nazis shooting people, bodies on ground. 01:05:31 People being hung, carrying bodies, putting into mass graves, skulls being collected. 01:06:17 P...

  2. An Unknown World, Stories of Jewish Family Life of Judae Eine Unbekannte Welt...

    Contains a book entitlted "Eine Unbekannte Welt," published in 1907 by Laenger & Friedberg, Frankfurt am Main, about stories of Jewish family life.

  3. Ana and Frank Skopec collection

    The collection consists of four bars of RIF soap issued by the German Authority for Civilian Supplies to a shopkeeper, grandfather of Frank Skopec, in the Sudetenland region in German annexed Czechoslovakia.

  4. Ana Jinno memoir "Stories of Survival"

    Personal narrative authored by Ana Jinno (née Anna Klein, previously Anna Kalina), originally of Košice (Slovakia), and titled “Stories of Survival.” The narrative describes persecution in Slovakia, her father Ferdiand Klein’s deportation to Žilina concentration camp, his release from the camp, the family going into hiding, Ferdinand’s experiences with partisans, and post-war immigration to La Paz, Bolivia, Montevideo, Uruguay, and Petah Tikva, Israel.

  5. Ana M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ana M., who was born in 1928 in Przemyśl, Poland. She recounts the family move to Antwerp when she was six months old; a happy childhood; moving to Brussels; German invasion; fleeing to Pas-de-Calais, France; returning to Brussels; her brother's conscription for forced labor (she never saw him again); her parents obtaining false papers; her mother dying her hair blond; shopping at the black market; being shot when fleeing from a German checking papers; her father's arrest; visiting him in Malines (she never saw him again); liberation by Allied troops; emigration wit...

  6. Ana V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ana V., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1926. She recounts her large, extended family; attending public school; German invasion on September 1, 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions; killings of those who disobeyed; ghettoization; slave labor in a factory; starvation; her older brother smuggling sugar to make candy to sell; her father's refusal to serve in the Jewish police; Ḥayim Rumkowski's speech before a round-up of children and elderly, which included her younger brother (she never saw him again); a public hanging; release from a round-up by a German; deportation wit...

  7. Ananiev district prefecture and its subordinated preturas and town halls

    • Judeţul Ananiev – prefercturile judeţene, subprefecturile plaselor (preturilor) şi comunelor subordinate lor din stînga Nistrului
    • Примарии Ананьевского уезда
    • Primarii Anan'yevskogo uyezda

    Order of the primaria on the fulfillment of duties by the residents of the Ananiev district; list of policemen at Ananyevka village; lists of residents in Ananievka village et al.

  8. Ananiev district prefecture and its subordinated preturas and town halls

    • Judeţul Ananiev – prefercturile judeţene, subprefecturile plaselor (preturilor) şi comunelor subordinate lor din stînga Nistrului
    • Примарии Ананьевского уезда
    • Primarii Anan'yevskogo uyezda

    Files of the town hall of Chernovo village in Chernovsky district in Ananiev county (lists of persons who extradited Soviet citizens to the Romanian authorities; information about the policemen related to the town hall; information about tax collection from the residents) et al.

  9. Anatol and Alexandra Gorko collection

    The collection consists of documents, photographs, a newspaper, and artifacts related to Anatol and Alexandra Gorko who both survived the Holocaust and married after the war in Łódź, Poland.

  10. Anatol Chari collection

    Contains photographs and other materials documenting the experiences of Dr. Anatol Chari. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  11. Anatole Ponevejsky papers

    The Anatole Ponevejsky papers consist of photographs documenting Ponevejsky’s work on behalf of Jewish refugees in Kobe, Japan in the early years of World War II and correspondence, printed materials, and reports documenting his continued work on behalf of Jewish refugees after he moved to the United States in the spring of 1941. Correspondence consists of invitations, agendas, and telegrams documenting Ponevejsky’s continued work on behalf of Jewish refugees after he moved to the United States in the spring of 1941, particularly regarding budgets, fundraising, visas, and the cases of 451 y...

  12. Anatolijus Rozenbliumas

    Apyraše įrašyti autoriaus mokslo darbai (disertacija, monografija, autoreferatas, knygos, referatas, straipsniai, pranešimai, paskaitos), atsiliepimai, recenzijos, anotacijos, reziume, asmens, tarnybinės ir mokslinės veiklos dokumentai: autobiografija, charakteristika, kadrų įskaitos asmens lapas, mokslinis tiriamasis darbas ir jo ataskaitos, įvairūs duomenys ir skaičiavimai, brėžiniai, racionalizaciniai pasiūlymai, posėdžių protokolai, mokomosios priemonės, asmenų ir organizacijų laiškai bei raštai autoriui, recenzijos A. Rozenbliumo knygoms ir straipsniams, išvados apie jo rankraščius, st...

  13. Anatomy of the Auschwitz death camp

    Contains the edited typescript of "Auschwitz: Anatomy of a Death Camp," co-authored by Michael Berenbaum and Yisrael Gutman.

  14. Ancestry registration form, Tunisia

    One document, issued by the Vichy French government of Tunisia, 1941, used to determine the ancestry of Jewish residents. Completed by Victor Assal, of Tunis, in September 1941. Also includes census of family members, history of employment, and list of property owned by Assal family.

  15. Anciens combattants et victimes de guerre, Direction de l'état civil, du contentieux et des recherches, Missions françaises de rapatriement et de recherches en Allemagne, Italie et Tchécoslovaquie Rapatriement, recherches et exhumation des corps

    Art 1-4 : Rapatriements, recherches et exhumations des corps : rapports d’activité et correspondances des missions françaises en Allemagne, en Italie et en Tchécoslovaquie, 1944-1955

  16. Anciens combattants et victimes de guerre, direction des statuts et de l'information historique

    Art 1 : Création et activités de la Délégation à la mémoire et à l’information historique (DMIH), subventions accordées par la DMIH, travaux de la Commission pour l’information historique et la paix (CIHP). s.d., 1982-1998. Art 1 (suite)-5 : Cérémonies, expositions, colloques, 1962-1998. Art. 5 (suite)-6. Archives et documentation. s.d., 1968-1995. Art. 6 (suite)-7. Affaires délicates (à signaler : affaire Klaus Barbie), 1982-1993

  17. Anciens Combattants et Victimes de guerre, direction du Contentieux, de l'Etat-civil et des Recherches, service des successions et transferts de fonds

    Les documents contenus dans cette partie du versement 19940604, articles 23 à 169 proviennent du service des successions et transferts de fonds du ministère des ACVG : il s'agit des successions des anciens militaires et prisonniers de guerre de la guerre de 1939-1945 et des guerres d'Indochine et de Corée, ainsi que des successions des anciens déportés ou travailleurs STO. Ces successions consistent, d'une part, en la remise d'objets ramenés des camps de prisonniers de guerre ou de certains camps de concentration à leurs anciens propriétaires ou à leurs ayant-droit et, d'autre part, au vers...

  18. And they do not toll the bells... The story of the family of Dr. Hillél Friedmann, Chief Rabbi of Dombóvár

    Consists of one memoir, 243 pages, entitled "And they do not toll the bells...": The story of the family of Dr. Hillél Friedmann, Chief Rabbi of Dombóvár," written by Erzébet Rab Friedmann, circa 1945-1948. In the memoir, Mrs. Friedmann describes the family's 1944 deportation from Dombóvár to the Kaposvár ghetto. In great detail, she describes her memories of Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, forced labor at an aircraft factory near Leipzig, and a forced march to Theresienstadt from which she was liberated. She and her daughter Judit, who remained together during these experiences, returned to Hung...

  19. And where was god?

    The manuscript describes Alfred Dube's experiences in Prague, the Łódź ghetto, as a prisoner of both Buchenwald and a subcamp of Dora-Mittelbau (Nordhausen), and his liberation in Bergen-Belsen.