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  1. Ceremony honoring men who murdered Walther Rathenau

    Group of young men and women sitting on a hillside. The scene switches to show women and uniformed men sitting in a beer garden. In both scenes the women wear matching dresses. Uniformed men march down a road. SA men walk toward the camera carrying flower wreaths. The occasion is the dedication of a plaque honoring Erwin Kern and Hermann Fischer for the murder in 1922 of Walther Rathenau, who was the German Foreign Minister during the Weimar Republic and a Jew. SS men stand at attention. One man holds a standard that indicates his unit is from Kassel. CU of the wreath and the grave of Kern ...

  2. Ceremony; train production; German troops advance in Russia and Africa

    Military ceremony, swearing-in. Train. Women swimming in winter. Producing advertisement/poster. Entertainment - dancers on stage. Factory for trains. Train with "1000" sign. Map, German troops advancing in Latvia/Russia. Planes, soldiers, military equipment, snow, ice, military vehicles, fighting. POWs. In Africa, German soldiers riding in open vehicle, natives welcoming/cheering, looking at map, fighting. Prisoners, CUs faces, marching in columns with belongings. Troops at sea, firing cannons. INT, boat, various mechanisms.

  3. Cerne Lichtenstein collection

    Contains a Lithuanian passport issued to Cerne Lichtenstein (donor's grandmother), containing transit visas from Kovno, Lithuania through Europe enabling her to leave in 1940. Includes a visa granted by the Japanese Consulate in Kovno allowing Cerne to pass through Japan. Includes three photographs of Cerne, her daughter Esther (Lubocki), Esther's husband Meilach Lubocki, and their two children, all who perished in the Holocaust.

  4. Cerný, Jochen

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners geb. 23. Jan. 1934 in Berlin, Historiker am Wissenschaftsbereich DDR-Geschichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR, lebt in Berlin Bearbeitungshinweis unbearbeitet Bestandsbeschreibung Bestandsgeschichte: Übergaben im Aug. und Nov. 2013, Nachlassübereignungsvertrag Nov. 2013 Inhaltliche Charakterisierung enthält v.a.: Studium, Tätigkeit an der Akademie der Wissenschaften und in der Historischen Kommission der PDS, Landesheimschule Droyßig, KPD-Opposition, Betriebsgeschichte EKO, Ausarbeitungen, Vorarbeiten zu Publikationen, Interviews, Korrespondenzen, F...

  5. Certificate

    Certificate of liberation from the Mauthausen concentration camp.

  6. Certificate

    The certificate issued on April 20, 1941, in Germany recognizes the induction of H. Seyb into the Hitler-Jugend (Hitler Youth).

  7. Certificate

    The certificate ("Bescheinigung") of delousing was issued to Fryda Grossbard donor's mother by the Jewish Committee ("Jüdische Gemeinde") of Kraków, Poland.

  8. Certificate

    Commemorative coin certificate issued on fiftieth anniversary of the deportation of the Jewish population from Kolin, Czech Republic.

  9. Certificate from Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the American Occupied Zone in Germany

    Contains a certificate presented by the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the American Occupied Zone in Germany to Judge Lowental, the Jewish Affairs Advisor of the Commander of the Army, December 25, 1947, reading in part: "To our friend Judge Lowental, the Jewish Affairs Advisor of the Commander of the Army of the American occupied zone of Germany. A gift given as a symbol of friendship and gratitude for his fertile and devoted work for She'erit Ha'Pletah in Germany..." Signed by the members of the committee, including David Trager, President of the Central Committee of Liberated Jew...

  10. Certificate of compulsory contribution

    Certificate of compulsory contribution for the sum of 30 zloty by the German authorities in Warsaw; a sum of 100 million zloty was a penalty levied on the Polish population of the city of Warsaw and the vicinity for an attack by the underground on the German occupier; this certificate is a blank; in Polish; dated February 1944.

  11. Certificate of discharge

    The certificate ("Entlassungschein") issued for Kurt Gelles [donor's husband] from Buchenwald concentration camp in Weimar, Germany, dated December 23, 1938, stating that he was interned beginning June 1, 1938, and he was born on July 24, 1907, in Vienna, Austria, where he was arrested and released.

  12. Certificate of good conduct

    The "Führungszeugnis" was issued by the President's office, Department 2M, Berlin, Germany, and states that Herbert Israel Moses [donor] has lived in Berlin since birth, has no police record, has never transgressed against social order, has shown no mental deviance, and has never begged. The certificate was valid for purposes of emigration for 3 weeks from the date issued.

  13. Certificate of incarceration

    Certifification of donor's incarceration in Stutthof and Dachau concentration camps.

  14. Certificate of Naturalization for Max Herz

    Contains a "Certificate of Naturalization" issued by the United States Government to Max Herz (donor's uncle); states that he is 54 years old, former nationality is German, married; issued September 24, 1945.

  15. Certificate of proof of racial origin

  16. Certificate that Franz Wrobel was interned in Gurs Camp

    Certificate issued by the Sous Prefecture of Oloron that Franz Wrobel was interned in Gurs Camp from October 25 1940 to 4 Aug 1941

  17. Certification of Iosif Gavi's partisan activities

    Contains original and photocopy of a temporary certificate, in Russian, and a photocopy of a permanent certificate, in Russian and Belorussian, stating that Iosif Semionovich Gavi participated in partisan activities in Belorussia during the Great Patriotic War from May 1943 to July 1944.

  19. Cesare F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Cesare F., who was born in Naples, Italy to a Jewish, Hungarian mother and Catholic, Italian father. He recounts moving to Budapest with his mother in 1938 to protect his father's career as a musical composer; his mother working as a seamstress since Jews could not be in the ballet (she was a ballerina); being raised as a Catholic; attending mass every Sunday; German invasion in March 1944; orders to move to a yellow-star house; his mother trying to get him to Italy via Switzerland; the man his father paid to take him to Switzerland bringing him instead to a Catholic ...

  20. Cesare Lombroso letter

    Contains one letter written by Cesare Lombroso stating that there was "a criminal type."