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  2. Five Cities

    Yiddish titles. English title, "Jewish Life in Bialystok." Pan, overview of city of Bialystok. Street scenes illustrating city as an industrial and cultural center with buildings, shops, and pedestrians. Images of downtown shops and buses, market day with peasants and horses. 03:04:10 Scenes of the Jewish community, children, elderly, street scenes, schools and synagogues. 03:05:31 Tile-roofed home of Dr. Zamenhof, creator of Esperanto. Sholem Aleichem Library, signs in Yiddish. INTs, factory, smokestacks, power looms and textile workers. Nursery. TOZ sanatorium. 03:08:40 Community-run summ...

  3. Westerbork, Jewish transit camp Westerbork, Judendurchgangslager (Fond 250i)

    This collection contains documents relating to the Westerbork Jewish transit camp between 1942-1945, including are reports, maps and some photos as well as pre-war correspondence, and post-war court proceedings. The collections also contains documents on the refugee camp Westerbork between 1939-1942, as it was still under Dutch administration. A special component of the collection is called “Westerbork kartothek” containing lists of name and date of birth of deportees, their last official place of residence before leaving for Westerbork and the date of shipment from the camp. These lists we...

  4. Belsen: Nazis bury the dead

    LS bulldozer digging grave, many SS men surround bulldozer, also digging with shovels. VLS, large group of SS men digging. MLS, naked corpses lined up on the ground, to be loaded onto truck.

  5. Handmade Star of David pendant given to an American liberator by a Polish Jewish slave laborer

    Handmade, beaded, Star of David pendant given to US Private First Class Marvin Dorf by a young Polish woman, who he helped free from a forced labor transport near Munich, Germany, in April 1945. Marvin grew up in New York City, the son of Jewish immigrants. After Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and Germany’s subsequent declaration of war on the United States, Marvin enlisted in the United States Army in October 1942, where he was assigned to Troop E of the 92nd Cavalry Reconnaissance Squad (Mechanized), 12th Armored Division. In April 1945, He arrived in Europe in the fa...

  6. Wilno Great Synagogue area (Shulhoyf)

    Men, women, and children walk through a market square in Vilnius (Wilno, Vilna) outside Vilnius Old Town. Many hold flowers. One woman holds a large basket. People move through a large outdoor market. A woman buys goods. A young man walks through a residential street, glancing back towards the camera. 0:44 CU, facade of the Great Synagogue in Vilnius, the camera moves around the Shulhoyf (courtyard of the Great Synagogue) alleys and streets. Sign in Polish: “CHEMICZNA PRALINE i FARBIARNIA” [Chemical dry cleaning and coloring of Cloth) with Yiddish words beneath. A horse-drawn carriage moves...

  7. German occupation of Denmark

    Title: "Non-aggression Pact" Stating that the decision is quite firm to hold the peace between Denmark and Germany under all circumstances. Looks to be dated May 31, 1939; time code cuts off the date. The German occupation of Denmark, April 9, 1940. Menacing shots of German troops and guns. Port, crowded with cars and pedestrians on the move. Tanks move in, pedestrians scatter. SS and troops march through streets. Danish civilians watch.

  8. Trial of Reichstag fire-setters; art exhibition; French POWs

    05:03:07 Title: "Verhandlung gegen die Reichstags-Brandstifter am Tatort. Senatspraesident Dr. Buenger eroeffnet im Hauptausschuss-Saal des Reichstages die Sitzung." Berlin. Reichstag building, dome, meeting room. The accused Reichstag fire-setters entering courtroom, public standing. Chief Judge Dr. Buenger (president of the Senate) presides over the trial (original sound). LS Reichstag. Proceedings continue, including listening to accusation and hearing evidence. Good lighting contrasts. Judge in formal robe. Spectators. Witnesses are admonished by Buenger (speaking for a long time). 05:0...

  9. Kürti and Vamos family collection

    Contains documents related to the wartime experiences of Susanne Vamos (née Kürti) and her parents, Ilona Kürti (née Fuchs) and Julius Kürti and other family members. Also includes documents from Endre Vamos as well as reparations related papers.

  10. Visiting Berlin

    Hans Lindemann stands by the garden in front of The Reichstag in Berlin. Berliner Dom. Altes Museum. A man speaks from the passenger seat of a car. The Preußisches Staatstheater in Gendarmenmarkt. “Markgrafen Str.” Busy streets of Berlin. Trolleys and cars drive past. Double-decker bus. The corner building, “HACIFA.” A man standing near factory. “PATHEX”

  12. Polish Press Agency "Polpress" Polska Agencja Prasowa "Polpress" (Sygn.1926)

    Selected records of the Polska Agencja Prasowa "Polpress", a government press agency set up in Moscow on March 10, 1944, by the communist Polish Patriots Union. Included in the collection are regulations, orders, circulars, registers of service messages, newsletters in Polish and other languages: e.g. Biuletyn Wewnętrzny XI, 1944, Biuletyn Młodzieżowy, Vi-VII, 1945, Centralny Serwis Artykułowy nr 11(VII0, 1945, Biuletyn Polski (Oddział Moskiewski), 1944-1945, Biuletyn: English Release (Yew York), 1944-1945; Biuletyn Felietonowy, 1945, Biuletyn Krajowy i Zagraniczny, 1945, Polish Facts and F...

  13. Hans Fischböck papers

    The Hans Fischböck papers consist of correspondence, official documentation, biographical materials, and photographs, documenting Fischböck's National Socialist career which involved the systematic expropriation and Aryanization of Jewish properties and assets in Nazi-annexed Austria and the Nazi-occupied Netherlands; Fischböck's flight to Argentina after the war; his life and work in Latin America; and his eventual return to Germany and Austria. It contains official certificates of promotion and commendations issued to Hans Fischböck by high-ranking Nazi officials including Adolf Hitler, H...

  14. Selected records of the court of the First Instance in Nowe Miasto nad Pilicą Sąd Grodzki w Nowym Mieście nad Pilicą (Sygn.1089)

    Court civil cases relating to promissory notes and repayment of debts. Parties in these processes were Jews, residents of Nowe Miasto nad Pilicą. The files contain personal data about participants of lawsuits.

  15. Eichmann Trial -- Sessions 25 and 26 -- Testimony of Z. Lubetkin, Y. Zuckerman, A. Berman, R. Kuper

    Sessions 25 and 26. Eichmann sitting in his booth. The Judges open Session 25 and present Decision 14. This decision notes the appeal of witness interrogation abroad as certain witnesses would be arrested under the Nazi Collaborators Punishment Law of 1950, should they appear in Israel. Presiding Judge, Moshe Landau refers to Decision 11, which states that foreign courts may acquire testimony from restricted witnesses for the purpose of the Eichmann trial. There is a blip at 00:07:08. Hausner questions Zivia Lubetkin Zuckerman, a resistance fighter in the Warsaw Ghetto about the conditions ...

  16. Russian monuments destroyed

    Man smashing plaster statue with a sledgehammer. Group of men pulling down bust of statue with ropes. Man cutting into a tapestry picture of Stalin's head. Crowd cheering.

  17. Notice demanding the surrender of the city of Utrecht to German forces

    Notice issued May 14, 1940, by the German Supreme Military Commander to the Military Commander of the city of Utrecht, Netherlands, demanding the city's unconditional surrender to Germany. It warns that the city is surrounded by German forces, including Stuka bombers, and that the Dutch commander should consider sparing Utrecht and its residents the fate of Warsaw. If Utrecht does not surrender, it will be regarded as a fortress and attacked. The German blitzkrieg attack on the Netherlands began on May 10 with bomb attacks near Rotterdam. On May 14, Rotterdam was attacked and occupied by Ge...

  19. Personal archives of Miriam Yahieli (RG-95-86) מרים יחיאלי - ארכיון אישי

    Contains interviews, memoirs, correspondence, maps, and records on the Hebrew gymnasium “Tarbut” in Rovno, commemoration sites, informaton about World War II in the Soviet Union, the Hashomer Hatzair activities in Poland, Germany and Cyprus, educational work in kibbutz Tel-Amal, and material about the activities in the Hashomer Hatzair archive Yad Ya’ari.

  20. Kamerman family collection

    Contains an “Arbeitsbuch” [workbook for foreigners] issued to “Irena Kruczewska” the false identity of Ida Kamerman [donor’s mother] in Katowice, Poland on January 8, 1944; four photographic images of Erna Kamerman [donor] taken while she was living in a rectory under the false name of “Danka,” where her mother was assigned to work as a slave laborer, dated 1944 in Katowice, Poland.