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  1. Chronicle of the Prague uprising and first days of liberation, May 1945

    TÝDEN VE FILMU. Ceskoslovenska filmova kronika KVĚTEN 1945. The first post-war newsreel - called Week in Film 1945 no. 1 WS of Prague. St. Vitus cathedral above the rest of the city. Street in Prague. Trees. Soldiers. Women in a crowd try to hand another woman money. News of the death of Hitler: “VUDCE PADL.” A man reads “LIDOVE LISTY” on the sidewalk. Women and children stand with their belongings on the sidewalk. Women in uniform walk into the street carrying suitcases. Young boys lounge, one packs his suitcase. People stand on the back of a truck. Military trucks. Trolley cars. 5. KVĚTEN...

  2. Church

    Church.

  3. Church and schoolyard in central Poland

    EXT, low angle shot of castle tower. Women in traditional dress walk along a country road. Young girls play ball in an open courtyard. LS of the countryside, river reflecting the trees and winding along calmly. Church spires visible far off in the distance. Cut to young girls playing ball in the courtyard. Townspeople exiting (a church?). Quick shot of men and women, then of the street and a horse drawn cart passing by. The brick schoolhouse and the teacher looking at the girls' work. CU, women entering a courtyard through iron gates, coming from the street.

  4. The Church in Austria: Correspondence

    This microfilm collection of papers documents antagonisms between the Nazi authorities and the Catholic Church in Austria. The correspondents include the Gauleiter und Landeshauptmann in Salzburg and the Reichsminister für kirchliche Angelegenheiten, in the cities of Klagenfurt, Salzburg and Vienna.

  5. Church of St. Teresa of Avila collection

    The collection consists of a picture of Dr. Gyula Hevey who was the priest at the St. Teresa of Avila church during WWII; Gyula Hevey (worked 1935-1952) was active in trying to supply baptismal certificates to Jews in 1944 as well as earlier during the war and a sign posted in St. Teresa of Avila Catholic Church in Budapest to notify people that conversions will no longer be offered.

  6. Church; Bach Museum

    LS, St. Thomas Lutheran Church [this is famous Protestant church where Sebastian Bach played and led choir] in Leipzig, pigeons flying in FG, patrons enter and exit via stairwell. Nurses. Bach Museum in Eisenach, building set off street, German women conversing, Bach-Museum sign, another shot of EXT of museum.

  8. Churchill defeated

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 18, No. 419. Release date, 07/26/1945. According to UN advance information: "Churchill Defeated by Attlee." Major Clement R. Attlee, leader of the British Labor Party, is commissioned by King George VI to form a Labor Government after the Labor Party decisively defeats Churchill's Conservative Party, in the first general election Great Britain has had in ten years. According to UN monolog: Attlee..., the head of the Labor Party, and his associates swept the wartime government from power, only Churchill and Eden retaining their seats in the House of Commons....25,000...

  9. Chwalek, Roman

    Bestandsbeschreibung 24. Juli 1898 in Woinowitz (heute: Wojnowice - Polen) geboren 1904 - 1912 Besuch der Volksschule 1912 - 1914 Lehre als Machinenschlosser in Konstadt/Oberschlesien (heute: Wolczyn - Polen) 1915 - 1918 Militärdienst 1918 Mitglied im Eisenbahnerverband und in der USPD 1919 - 1931 Schlosser im Reichsbahnausbesserungswerk (RAW) Oppeln, 1922 - 1925 1. Betriebsratsvorsitzender, 1924 - 1928 Vorsitzender des Bezirksbetriebsrates der Reichsbahndirektion Oppeln, 1927 -1930 Mitglied des Hauptbetriebsrates der Generaldirektion der Deutschen Reichsbahn, 1928 - 1931 Mitglied des gesch...

  10. CI. Armeekorps

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Wie die Kriegstagebücher aller Truppenteile und Dienststellen des Heeres waren auch die Kriegstagebücher der Generalkommandos und der bodenständigen Höheren Kommandos vom Mobilmachungstag (26. Aug. 1939) an beim Heeresarchiv Potsdam einzureichen, wo sie eine Zugangssignatur erhielten. Diese Zugangssignaturen wurden anfangs getrennt nach den Kriegsschauplätzen, nämlich P für Polen und W für Westen vergeben. Nach Beendigung des West- und des Norwegenfeldzuges wurden die Zugänge nur noch nach laufender Nummer signiert und in dieser Reihenfolge auch eingelagert, ...

  11. Ciechanowiecki and Miller families photograph collection

    The collection contains prewar photographs of Chaim Yaakov Ciechanowiecki and Hinka Miller, and their families in Poland; postwar photographs in a displaced persons camp in Cremona, Italy; and modern color photographs of family members.

  12. Ciechanowska family photographs

    Collection of approximately 50 photos of the donor and her parents and friends of her parients in the Pocking Displaced Persons camp in Germany after World War II. Also includes unidentified photos of survivors in Łódź and Pocking.

  13. Ciężkie Więzienie Karne w Koronowie, pow. Bydgoszcz

    • Zuchthaus Krone
    • Penitential Prison in Koronowo

    Pracownicy, więźniowie, przekazywanie osadzonych do innych więzień

  14. Cigarette card album

    German cigarette album, Deutschland erwacht. This album was probably received as a gift by the donor’s grandfather or great-grandfather who worked with the Frankfurt Zoological Society. All the German captions have been translated into English and pasted into the album.

  15. Cigarette cards

    Collection of cigarette cards with black and white images of Hitler, Nazi officials and political events. There is a caption, "Gammelwert Nr. 8: Deutschland Erwacht" on each card

  16. Cigarette cards

  17. Cigarette case carved in a POW camp

    Carved by Pieter Kaufmann while he was in a prisoner of war camp. He was a Viennese Jew who joined the British army at the beginning of the war. While stationed in Greece he was captured by the Germans.

  18. Cigarette case engraved with Camp Buchenwald

  19. Cigarette lighter crafted from a bullet shell casing by a prisoner in a Soviet labor camp

    Cigarette lighter fabricated by Laszlo Weisz while he was imprisoned in a forced labor camp in Russia. He was a master watchmaker and bartered his services to obtain provisions while in the camps. Weisz was 29 years old and living with his wife and 5 year old son, Peter, in his hometown of Kunszentmarton, Hungary, when he was conscripted into a forced labor battalion in June of 1942. He was transferred to several labor units in Hungary, Poland, and the Soviet Union. At the end of the war in late 1944-1945, he was in a labor camp in Dnepropetrovsk in the Soviet Union. He returned to Hungary ...

  20. Cikánsky tábor Lety u Pisku Lety concentration camp records

    Contains ledger books, indexes, and lists from the Lety concentration camp for Roma near Písek, Czechoslovakia. The materials contain information relating to camp finances and expenses, prisoner personal information, prisoner entries into the camp, prisoners releases from the camp, prisoners sent to the hospital, prisoner escapes, and prosecution of prisoners in court.