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  1. Jaša and Enica Frances Altarac families collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Jaša Altarac and his family before and during the war in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (later Serbia,) and during the Holocaust in Skopje, Macedonia, Pristina, Kosovo, and Albania and two photographs relating to the experiences of Enica Frances and her family in Albania during the Holocaust.

  2. Jasenovac camp

    This short film presents the atrocities committed in Jasenovac camp and was filmed only a few days following the liberation of the camp. This version is missing some of the opening titles, but includes the credits. Introductory statement scrolls by on screen: Ovaj dokumentarrni film sniman je poslije oslobodjenje sela I logora jasenovac. Snimke hoje prihazuju zatocenike I rad, snimali su ustase ranije s namjerom, da opovrgnu glasove o masovnom klnadu I mucenju, a nadoene su u filmskom ustaskom arhivu prigodom oslobodjenja zagreba. Podaci su doiveni od komisije za utvrdjivanje ratnih zlocina...

  3. Jasenovac Camp

    Opening scene: color footage of visitors to the Jasenovac Memorial Area. Image switches to black and white footage of CU pan of a sculpture of a human form lying on the ground on top of smooth white stones. Ceremony: Military giving out badges and medals. An unidentified high ranking officer pins a male soldier as the soldier salutes him; MCU of women who have been awarded medals, standing in a row. MS of train tracks that are overgrown with weeds. 01:01:32 Countryside, pan of grounds. Slate reads: "Jasenovac Est./ Dan. 54A/1" The camera continues to pan overgrown train tracks and the surro...

  4. Jasenovac Memorial Area collection

    This collection contains records created by the camp memorial administrations of Jasenovac, Lobor-Grad, and Stara Gradiška, including registers of artifacts and documents; testimonies by surviving inmates of the camps; copies of files relating to Croatian war crimes investigations and trials; documents relating to the camps and the activities of the Croatian government ministries during the period 1941‒1945; name lists of people who were displaced, deported, interned, and/or murdered; translations of German documents relating to the activities of German military units in Croatia; testimonie...

  5. Jasenovac oral history project

    Oral history interviews with ten Jasenovac concentration camp survivors recorded as part of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Jasenovac oral history project.

  6. Jaslo, Poland massacre site footage

    Contains one videocassette of footage shot in Jaslo, Poland, by George Lerner in 1994. The footage is of the site of a massacre which occurred in 1942 when the Nazis shot the Jews of the town.

  7. Jason Finkel collection

    Consists of five black and white photographs depicting wartime burial of corpses by German personnel and others. The majority of photographs may have been taken on the eastern front. Also includes one photograph of emaciated male prisoners, also seemingly wartime.

  8. Javni ured rada Sarajevo

    • Public Office for Work Sarajevo

    Information about situation of Jewish and other employees in the Independent State of Croatia.

  9. Javno tužilaštvo Socijalističke Republike Hrvatske

    • The State Attorney office of the Socialist Republic of Croatia

    The Public Prosecutor's Office was established in 1945. The Law on the Public Prosecutor's Office was adopted after the promulgation of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1946, and the Public Prosecutor's Office of PRC acted as an organ of public prosecution in the country. Collection holds 9 boxes of the Indictment Ante Pavelic-Andrija Artuković, from 1951 for their extradition. Besides the text of the statutory provisions of the ISC there is evidence, testimony and statements of surviving camp inmates, lists of interned and murdered Jews, etc. Researchers of the Hol...

  10. Javorkovsky family photographs

    Collection of photographs documenting the Yavarkovsky family in pre-war Riga, Latvia.

  11. Jaworski family collection

    Consists of photographs of the Jaworski family, including of Maria Teicher, the donor's mother, in the Polish and Soviet Armies, 1942 - 1946; in the Szczebrzesyn ghetto in 1941; and after the war in Sopot and Lublin, Poland. Al;so includes a six-pointed yellow star patch, with "Jood" printed in the center in in black ink; on the verso is a Nazi emblem of an eagle with extended wings holding a wreath, printed in black ink.

  12. Jay Becker newspaper clipping collection

    Collection of 17 laminated newspaper clippings pertaining to World War II.

  13. Jay Janis collection

    Photograph of Berchtesgaden taken by Jay Janis (donor's father) in the postwar period.

  14. Jay M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jay M., who was born in Bia?ystok, Poland. He recounts growing up in a Jewish neighborhood; his father's emigration to the United States; German invasion; Soviet occupation a week later; German invasion in June 1941; a mass killing; ghettoization; the role of the Judenrat; hiding with his mother and sister during mass killings; working with his mother and sister at a munitions factory; hiding with his mother and sister in bunkers after liquidation of the ghetto was announced on August 16, 1943; constant fear of discovery; escaping to the forest in November 1943; learn...

  15. Jay M. Rostov collection

    Contains 27 black and white photographs depicting Holocaust-era subjects including concentration camp victims, Roma and Sinti children, concentration camp survivors, Jewish ghettos, and transports.

  16. JDC aids DPs

    The clip begins, with a JDC spokesperson speaking at a podium: "...of the 80,000 Jews who have survived in Poland today, at least 70,000 require assistance." Then, voice over narration begins with music in the background and montage of shots described below: "...though the number is tragically small the need is greater than ever, for them JDC alone halts the hand of death..." DPs eating (including children). Medical exam - children. DPs receive clothing from JDC. Orphans from Buchenwald enroute to Marseilles, France and then on to Palestine: Children board train - US army personnel look on....

  17. JDC aids refugees, DPs

    Warburg speaking intercut with: Various JDC headquarters NYC and Paris (Leavitt and Schwartz). JDC supply trucks and warehouses in Europe. Memorial ceremonies: Rome, Munich. Shots of DPs eating various places. Liberation footage. UN meeting. Warsaw: Ghetto ruins, TOZ hospital, nursery (pre-war?), JDC warehouse, TB sanatorium, orphanage. Bricha: DPs get onto trains, along road, into Czechoslovakia, into buses, trucks, Bratislava camp and trains. Prague: Service (JDC supplied torah). JDC meeting, children's home. Loan co-op office, small businesses. Budapest: Clothing warehouse. Canteen. Germ...

  18. JDC aids refugees, DPs

    Includes title of the film and intertitles. From opening credits of the film (Foreword): "American Jews at the outbreak of the World War in 1914, organized the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) to aid the Jewish masses overseas suffering from war, pogroms, famine and pestilence. The following episodes depict the activities in Russia only." Brief shots of Felix Warburg and Julius Rosenwald, to whose memory the film is dedicated. Stills of other JDC officials and footage of the members of the JDC relief unit sailing for Russia. Dr. Rosen, organizer of Agro-Joint. Scenes of th...

  19. JDC aids refugees, DPs

    Warburg speaking intercut with: Various JDC headquarters NYC and Paris (Leavitt and Schwartz). JDC supply trucks and warehouses in Europe. Memorial ceremonies: Rome, Munich. Shots of DPs eating various places. Liberation footage. UN meeting. Warsaw: Ghetto ruins, TOZ hospital, nursery (pre-war?), JDC warehouse, TB sanatorium, orphanage. Bricha: DPs get onto trains, along road, into Czechoslovakia, into buses, trucks, Bratislava camp and trains. Prague: Service (JDC supplied torah). JDC meeting, children's home. Loan co-op office, small businesses. Budapest: Clothing warehouse. Canteen. Germ...

  20. JDC at Belsen DP Camp

    Various activities at Belsen DP camp, occasional emphasis on JDC work. JDC cars in parking lot near barracks. Scenes include committee meetings, meeting at memorial, soccer game, printing camp newspaper, nursery, congress meetings, retraining shops, etc.