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  1. Account re Kristallnacht

    An account of Kristallnacht by Vincent C. Frank in Berlin who holds the view that it was meticulously plannedGerman 5 pages 

  2. Account re Ruth Plaut

    Account re Ruth Plaut

  3. Accounts, memories and materials of soldiers from the Peasant Battalions Relacje, wspomnienia i materiały żołnierzy Batalionów Chłopskich

    Reports, memories and other materials relating to peasant underground movement, labor camps, prisons and concentration camps, such as lists of the dead, organizational structures of the Peasant Battalions (BCH), reports of BCH members' meetings, correspondence, copies of secret messages written in the camp, speeches, descriptions, surveys and others concerning the territories of occupied Poland.

  4. Achduth-Jedność, Fraternal Federation in Warsaw Stowarzyszenie Braterskie "Achduth-Jedność" w Warszawie (Sygn. 117)

    Records of the “Achduth-Jedność” Fraternal Federation in Warsaw: List of members and candidates for membership, minutes and correspondence of 1938, insurance policies, bills, a journal of minutes of general assemblies.

  5. Achille D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Achille D., a non-Jew, who was born in Harelbeke, Belgium in 1924, one of two children. He recounts being orphaned when he was eight; living with loving grandparents; attending school to become a textile engineer in Kortrijk (Courtrai); distributing Resistance publications and doing reconnaisance for the Front de l'indépendance; arrest in April 1942; incarceration in Courtrai prison; a public trial; a five-month prison sentence; incarceration in St. Gilles and Merxplas; receiving Red Cross packages; visits from his aunt; attending classes; release in August; continu...

  6. Achttienhoven

    Voorloper van waterschap De Vecht. In notulen, begrotingen en dossiers over personeel kan mogelijk ook oorlogsgerelateerde informatie zitten.

  7. Ackermann, Anton (eigentlich Eugen Hanisch)

    Bestandsbeschreibung Biographische Angaben: 25. Dez. 1905 in Thalheim/Erzgebirge als Eugen Hanisch geboren 1912 - 1920 Besuch der Volksschule in Thalheim, Mitglied der Freien Sozialistischen Jugend, dann des KJD (1919) und Leiter der Pioniergruppe in Thalheim (1919-1920) 1920 - 1922 Besuch der Fortbildungsschule und Lehre (Anlernling) als Strumpfwirker Apr. 1920 Mitglied des Deutschen Fabrikarbeiterbandes, dann Deutscher Textilarbeiterverband und Ortsgruppenleitung des KJD, dann Mitglied der UBL des KJVD (1922) 1923 Mitglied des illegalen militärischen Komitees des Unterbezirks des KJVD und...

  8. Ackermann, Kurt

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners geb. 4. Apr. 1934 in Ebeleben/Thüringen, gest. 24. Mai 2013 in Leipzig, Professor für Bauingenieurwesen an der TU Dresden Bearbeitungshinweis unbearbeitet Bestandsbeschreibung Bestandsgeschichte: Übernahme Okt. 2013, noch kein Nachlassübereignungsvertrag Erschließungszustand vorl. Findbuch Zitierweise BArch N 2606/...

  9. Ackner and Geller families collection

    The collection consists of papers and photographs of the Ackner and Geller families (maternal and paternal families of the donor). Included are family records: among them birth certificates, school reports, wedding certificates, and other materials including books that pre-date the Nazi era. Ackner and Geller items from Vienna, Austria, duirng the Nazi era include identity cards, financial statements, citizenship and right of domicile certifications, and police reports, and Chaskel Geller's WWI medals credentials. Prior to Kristallnacht, Chaskel, Mathilde and their son Sigmund went to Riga....

  11. Acrylic painting by Rick Prol

    Acrylic painting by Rick Prol created in 1984.

  12. Actions against partisans in Transnistria

    Reports of counter-espionage. Fights with bands of partisans by German and Romanian troops. Reports of attacks by partisans on railroads, military installations, hospitals. Interception and fights with parachutists. Full scale fights against partisans with considerable human and material losses. Lists of victims.

  13. Activation of the Volkssturm

    DW 738/1944 (October 25, 1944) Men of the Volkssturm march down the street. Posters and newspaper articles about the Volkssturm (People's Assault), which was the militia activated near the end of the war to defend Germany from the approaching Allies. The Volkssturm consisted of those males previously considered unfit for military service, including boys younger than 16 and men up to age 60. Shot of a crowded recruiting station for the Volkssturm. Men fill out paperwork and speak to recruiters. A boy staffs the station where 16-18 year olds should register. Himmler speaks about Hitler's decr...

  14. Activities in France; Kershner speech; children sing

    “American Friends Service Committee.” “Views of some of the activities in and around Marseille May 1942.” “France May 1940.” Flames engulf various buildings, with billowing black smoke. Various collapsed buildings. Civilians leave the city en masse, loaded into trucks or walking. People are carried on stretchers. Large crowds of people sleep in a large, crowded room. CU of various children sleeping, crying, looking upset. AFSC logo. Pan of the AFSC building (the offices weree one floor above Varian Fry's office in Marseille). Howard Kershner, the American head of the Quaker delegation, sits...

  15. Activities in New Zealand; Reopening of synagogue in Metz, France

    (LIB 1121) Reopening of Synagogue, Metz, France, December 2, 1944. SEQ: Jewish Army chaplain conducts services in synagogue. [Light is poor, scratches] EXT, soldiers and civilians exit from synagogue. CU sign, "Rededication, Jewish Services". CUs, Jewish chaplain shakes hands with soldiers entering synagogue. Unrelated footage about the Special Project QM Activities in the South Pacific Area, New Zealand (near Auckland) precedes this clip from 01:10:55 to 01:19:02.

  16. Activities of German soldiers

    Reels 36-39. German soldiers kneel down in the woods. They use various tools to construct a track. After they have completed the tracks, they attempt to move a vehicle over them. It gets stuck. A train of covered wagons pulled by horses moves by. Soldiers ride on horseback. Trucks drive across the dirt road, clouds of dust come out from under their wheels. The men on horseback follow. Two men on the left struggle with a motorcycle and sidecar, attempting to push it through ruts in the dirt. Soldiers march alongside horses pulling carts. They halt momentarily, before continuing their march o...

  17. Activities of the 257th German Infantry

    With German intertitles. Scenes filmed by Lieutenant Edgar Forsberg of the 257 German Infantry following the collapse of the Polish army on October 6, 1939. Solciers and their activities.

  18. Activities of the 257th German Infantry

    With German intertitles. Scenes filmed by Lieutenant Edgar Forsberg of the 257 German Infantry following the collapse of the Polish army on October 6, 1939. Men working in a quarry, soldiers eating, exploring, playing soccer, training, testing weapons, examining a destroyed bridge, bouncing on broken traintracks.

  19. Activity report for the Basler Hilfswerk für Emigrantenkinder

    Contains a "Praktikumsbericht" [Activity report]; typed document with handwritten corrections; nine pages, concerning 300 boys and girls from Germany who found refuge in Switzerland in what was titled the "300 Kinder-Aktion" in 1939. The report, written by Eli Mangold of the Basel Relief Organization for Emigrant Children (Basler Hilfswerk für Emigrantenkinder), describes the group, in particular fifty children of Orthodox families; their time in Langenbruck and later Basel; and their daily lives and activities.

  20. Acusado de receção - Instruções referentes a vistos

    Confirmação da receção de instruções referentes ao envio de pedidos de vistos diretamente à PVDE.