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  1. Anniversary of the Socialist Revolution; Kremlin; Care packages to the frontlines

    Title: "Soviet Newsreel / 76-77 / Moscow / November 1942 / Directed by I. Setkinoy"/ "1917-1942"/ "25 years since the great October socialist revolution!" High-angle ELSs of Moscow and the Kremlin. LS of soldiers on rooftop with cannon, one is observing through binoculars, all are silhouetted against sunlight. Busy Moscow streets. Title: "At the factories of the capitol on the eve of the great anniversary." LS row of telescopes. Factory workers. Title: 01:53:17 "Ardent greetings to the heroic defenders of Leningrad" High-angle panning ELS across Leningrad. MS tank. LS tank passing under arc...

  2. Anniversary of Yiddish writer Sholem Aleichem

    "Soviet Ukraine"- Release 33. This is a propaganda newsreel, therefore the language is pro-Stalinist. Anniversary of Sholem Aleichem, 1859-1939. Meeting, speakers, various.Itzik Fefer..CU of newspaper. Portraits on a wall, from left to right: Taras Shevchenko, Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Sholem Aleichem. Workers from the capital of Soviet Ukraine celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Jewish writer Sholem Aleichem. An honored poet, David Gofshtein, addresses the audience with an interesting and lively story about the life and work of Sholem Aleichem. Sholem Aleichem's brother speaks about...

  3. Anniversary; War Crimes Trials: Einsatzgruppen Case; Allied Council Meeting

    02:30:00 (Munich 680) Sig Corps 85th Anniversary, Hanau Sig Depot, Germany, March 3, 1948. MCU, Maj. Gen. Jerry V. Matejka saluting soldiers to be decorated and advancing to award the Italian War Cross. (The men decorated are Maj. Aldo R. Rossi, Capt. Wayne A. Meyers, and M/Sgt. Paul M. Daugherty). VS, black Army band playing as it marches in review, followed by 22nd HQ detachment, 218th, 192nd, and 69th Sig. Companies. (The men marching carry slung rifles.) MS, Sgt. and soldiers in the ranks listening to he general's talk. 02:34:47 (Munich 674) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedi...

  4. Annotated transport lists to Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen

    Contains documentation from the Saxony State Archive, with donor's annotations, detailing transports from Leipzig, Germany to Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen in 1938.

  5. Announcement

    Announcement from authorities in “North-East France” announcing the existence of “bandits” and asking for the cooperation of the French population not to align or work with the “bandits” which the French and the German Wehrmacht will squelch. The announcement Itself is entirely in French, however signed at bottom in German “Der Befehlshaber im Bezirk Nord-Ost Frankreich” or the commander in the district of north-eastern France.

  6. ANNOUNCEMENT Despite public warnings and the threat of execution... Announcement (Bekanntmachung) issued for the Lublin ghetto

    Ghetto announcement (Bekanntmachung) issued for the District of Lublin, Poland.

  7. Announcement for a prayer and public fast in honor of victims of the Holocaust

    Small poster announcing a prayer assembly in memory of victims of the Holocaust at the Churvat Yehuda Ha-Chasid synagogue in Jerusalem on December 21, 1943. It includes a commemorative prayer for a fast day to be held on Wednesday, the 24th of Kislev [December 21, 1943], the day of Hanukkah. Among the attendees was the Imrei Emet of Gur, Avraham Mordechai Alter. The prayer is based upon an adaptation of a traditional prayer chanted for the dead at funerals, El Male Rahamim, adapted to honor "the souls of many hundreds of thousands of Israel, men, women, boys and girls who were murdered and ...

  8. ANNOUNCEMENT/Despite public warnings and the threat of execution... Ghetto announcement issued for the District of Lublin, Poland.

    Ghetto announcement (Obwieszczenie) issued for the District of Lublin, Poland.

  9. Announcements and orders Obwieszczenia i zarządzenia władz okupacynych (Sygn. 241)

    Contains announcements and orders of Stadthauptmann, Kreishauptmann, SS-und Polizeiführer, Geheime Staatspolizei, the Älteste der Juden (Elder of the Jewish Council) of the Litzmannstadt Ghetto (Łódź Ghetto), and other offices. Most concern registration of property, identity papers, establishment of ghettos, and population transfers. Announcements refer to the entire Generalgouvernement as well as to Berlin, Częstochowa, Dębica, Falenica, Łódź, Kraków, Lublin, Lwów , Ostrów Mazowiecka, Otwock, Piotrków Trybunalski, Płock, Przemyśl, Radom, Rzeszów, Sanok, Skierniewice, Sokołów, Tarnów, Tomas...

  10. Announcements and placards regarding various cultural events held in the Vilna Ghetto, 1941 - 1943

    Announcements and placards regarding various cultural events held in the Vilna Ghetto, 1941 - 1943 The various cultural events include: plays, concerts, sport competitions, lectures, and other events; most of the announcements include the names of the artists who implemented the events.

  11. Annual harvest festival at Bueckeberg

    Large groups of civilians travel along a road to the harvest festival in Bueckeberg on October 6, 1935. Germans heil officials and watch a large procession. Tillman describes in his diary how one million people traveled by special trains and by foot to the rally. "The whole mountain... was alive with people, hardly room for more... People of different parts of G[ermany] with their native costumes marched in procession until 12:00 when the Fuehrer arrived - walked through the crowd to platform on top of mountain to watch the battle - very realistic." In his manuscript "Meine Herrschaften" (i...

  12. Anonymous diaries from Hungarian woman

    The collection includes three diaries written between 1942 and 1945 by an unidentified Jewish woman, originally from Brno, Czechoslovakia, but living in Budapest and Subotica. She was arrested by the Hungarian and German occupation forces in Serbia, where she sought refuge, and was sent to a succession of concentration camps and forced labor sites between the summer of 1944 and the spring of 1945. In the diary she describes her experiences in exile in Subotica (Szabadka), Serbia; the worsening situation for Jews in the spring of 1944; her arrest and transport to camps at Bácsalmás (Hungar...

  13. Anonymous Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of a non-Jewish woman who was born in 1913 in Belgium. She recounts her happy childhood; marriage in spring 1932; moving shortly thereafter to Latvia, where her husband's family owned fur and textile businesses; living in Limbaži and Rīga; cordial relations with Jews, Germans, Russians, and Latvians; observing overt antisemitism in Germany while traveling to visit her family in Belgium; Latvian nationalism beginning in 1935, which included antisemitism; rabbis advising Jews to emigrate; Soviet occupation; German invasion in June 1941; observing ghettoization, round-ups...

  14. Anonymous Jehovah’s Witness collection

    The collection consists of a concentration camp uniform jacket, pants, and overcoat relating to the experiences of a Jehovah's Witness imprisoned in Buchenwald and Flossenburg concentration camps in Germany before and during the Holocaust.

  15. Anordnungs- und Mitteilungsblatt des Ministeriums für Nationale Verteidigung

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Das Anordnungs- und Mitteilungsblatt wurde vom MfNV in loser Folge nach fe festgelegtem Verteiler in der NVA verteilt. Es enthält grundlegende militärische Bestimmungen (Befehle, Anordnungen, Ordnungen) sowie Gesetze, Erlasse und Beschlüsse der zentralen Staatsorgane, die für das Militär bekanntgegeben und zum Gegenstand von Belehrungen gemacht wurden. Bestandsbeschreibung Für die vom Ministerium für Nationale Verteidigung herausgegebenen Befehle, Direktiven, Anordnungen, Durchführungsbestimmungen, Anweisungen und Mitteilungen benötigte man ein Instrument um ...

  16. Anrich, Gustav

    Zitierweise BArch BSG 8/...

  17. Ansbacher family collection

    The collection consists of a photograph album from Sweden, photographs, documents, correspondence, two Star of David badges, scrip, and a flake of mica from Theresienstadt, relating to the experiences of Sigrid Ansbacher and her family before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  18. Anschel and Fela Warschau papers

    Photocopied documents related to the experiences of the Warschau family at the Feldafing DP camp from 1949-1950, including the birth certificate (original) of daughter Martl, 1949.

  19. Anschluss and Austrian enthusiasm

    Starting with a map showing the borders between Germany and Austria fading, this footage illustrates the occupation of Austria by German military forces on March 12, 1938 and the enthusiastic welcome by the Austrian population shouting 'Heil' and 'Hitler,' waving flags, and giving the Nazi salute. Special occasions include the crossing of the border at Kufstein, the destruction of the turnpike at Passau, the occupation of Salzburg and Graz, the fraternization between German and Austrian troops in Villach, and Hitler waving from a balcony in Linz. Most of the film is shot in Vienna, showing:...

  20. Anschluss and Austrian enthusiasm

    Starting with a map showing the borders between Germany and Austria fading, this footage illustrates the occupation of Austria by German military forces on March 12, 1938 and the enthusiastic welcome by the Austrian population shouting 'Heil' and 'Hitler,' waving flags, and giving the Nazi salute. Special occasions include the crossing of the border at Kufstein, the destruction of the turnpike at Passau, the occupation of Salzburg and Graz, the fraternization between German and Austrian troops in Villach, and Hitler waving from a balcony in Linz. Most of the film is shot in Vienna, showing:...