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  1. Kan family vacationing during winter in Switzerland

    Title card with "Arosa" centered under a stick figure with skis. Next card: "Grd Hotel Tschuggen" revealed. Next card: "Arosa 23 Dec. 1934 - 15 Jan. 1935." Robert, Betsy, Jeanne, and another woman wave from a train car window (the left of the car shows the name "Arosa"). Betsy, Robert, and Jeanne sit in a sled covered in white fur. Betsy pulls Robert on a sled. Both children wave. 01:01:24 The façade of "Grand Hotel Tschuggen" with a Swiss flag. Kan family and others. Jeanne, Betsy, and Robert sit with friends in a horse drawn sleigh. Different angles as they ride. MS, stationary sleigh wit...

  2. Selected records of the Court of the First Instance in Rawa Mazowiecka Sąd Grodzki w Rawie Mazowieckiej (Sygn.1846)

    Court civil cases investigated by the court during the occupation of Poland. The cases relate to Jews who were inhabitants of Rawa Mazowiecka and include records of evictions or paying off debts.

  3. P.60 - Dr. Joseph Kermish Collection, Director of the Yad Vashem Archives, 1953-1979

    P.60 - Joseph Kermish Collection, Director of the Yad Vashem Archives, 1953-1979 Dr. Joseph Kermish was born in the town of Zlotniki, in the Tarnopol district, 1907. He studied history at the University of Warsaw and completed his doctoral studies in 1937. He spent the years 1936-1939 preparing a book of bibliographies on the history of Warsaw and the history of the Jewish community in Warsaw, work that was suspended with the outbreak of the war, 01 September 1939, and his draft into the Polish Army. He spent the period of the German occupation, from 1941, in the town of Probuzna, not far f...

  4. Jewish forced laborers

    12:00:00 - 12:27:58 refer to M 3048 http://www.archiv-akh.de/filme/3048#1 12:28:06 Cameraman films himself in the mirror. 12:30:53 Everyday winter, summer: staff eats outdoors, HK flag. 12:32:53 "Warsaw 52 KM", guard soldier presents rifle, market, winter, Jews. 12:37:58 Polish children at Landsern, dead horse, market day, winter, cart dirt, 12:44:12 Summer, Landser started, "bulletin board" stage. 12:48:10 Winter: column marching, house cleaning, field kitchen, Polish market, Winter, ruins, child in rags collects from garbage. 12:51:10 Polish market, winter, ruins. 12:52:11 shot unit. 12:5...

  5. Documentation of the municipal administration in Kostopol, 1941-1942

    Documentation of the municipal administration in Kostopol, 1941-1942 Included in the collection: - Applications of Kostopol municipality workers requesting to receive residence permits in apartments and homes that were owned by Jews; - Documentation regarding the Jews in Kostopol, including the number of Jews in the ghetto, places of work, and the burial of murdered Jews.

  6. German TV documentary film on antisemitism (reel 12)

    Footage of deportations from the Warsaw ghetto (identified as Hungarian deportation), Soviet soldiers liberating Lublin in July 1944. The accused in the dock at the Majdanek trial. Scenes of Lugano, Switzerland, where Globke went on the advice of his doctor in 1944. Battle scenes and a quote from Globke about how he has destroyed most of his uniform. Shots of Russian soldiers raising the flag over the destroyed Reichstag. Globke is sought as war criminal number 101. Shots of the corpses of Globke's three bosses, Goering, Frick, and Himmler. Photo of his fourth boss, Konrad Adenauer. The nar...

  7. Oral history interview with Hessy Taft

  8. Program on United Nations, peace, and nuclear arms

    Presented by The Center for War/Peace Studies. Host: Richard Hudson. Program proposes a "binding triad system" to deal with international conflicts. Includes a weighted voting system in the General Assembly of the United Nations: 1) one nation, one vote; 2) population; 3) financial contributions. This would allow support from the most nations, the most people, and the greatest economic and political powers in the world. Additionally, the Center proposes binding resolutions in the General Assembly for peacekeeping forces and economic sanctions. Conferences in New York with many diplomats sim...

  9. Denmark under occupation

    Ufa logo onscreen. View of the Royal Palace in Copenhagen. Guards march on the snow-covered courtyard. Cars arrive for a traditional New Year's reception with the king (the king is not seen). One of the cars carries a German general in the backseat. Changing of the guard, then shots of men in bowler hats walking toward the palace. A man drives a horse-drawn carriage through the courtyard.

  10. Jewish Community in Morocco

    From the opening titles of the film: "This film was made on the eve of the dissolution of one of the oldest Jewish communities in the Diaspora - the Jewish community of Morocco. Within a short time, ancient and established communities were rooted out: inhabitants of the mellah in the large cities, the kasbahs in the desert of the south, and the remote villages of the Atlast mountains. Via the camera we have attempted to perpetuate a way of life, the customs and mores of a splendid community seen in their Moroccan context, before the community moved on to its new-ancient homeland." From NCJF...

  11. Leon Denski photograph

    Contains a photographic print, black and white, showing two American soldiers standing next to large pile of bodies to buried; taken in an unidentified concentration camp after liberation; dated April-May 1945. This photo was brought home from WWII by Leon A. Denski (donor's father) whose job after liberation was to bury the bodies that were found in the camps into mass graves.

  12. Dyno Lowenstein collection

    Contains photographs and passports documenting the experiences if Dyno Lowenstein, who escaped via Marseille with the assistance of the Emergency Rescue Committee. Includes photographs of the donor's parents, Kurt and Mara Lowenstein.

  13. Oral history interview with Arthur Tenenbaum

  14. Ellen Kaufmann Boucher papers

    The Ellen Kaufmann Boucher papers include Holocaust-era and postwar correspondence addressed to Ellen in the United States from family and friends in Europe, the memoir Ellen drafted between 1988 and her death, prewar and wartime photographs of her family in Mainz, Germany, and a transcript of an interview she gave in 1995. Holocaust-era letters are addressed to Ellen primarily from her parents and sister Marianne in Mainz and relates family news and good wishes. A letter from a friend of Marianne’s in Montevideo describes an opportunity for Marianne to immigrate to Uruguay. A letter from a...

  15. JDC vice-chairman Moses Leavitt visits DP camps in 1947; Lag B'Omer celebration

    Original, out-of-sequence, private footage documenting the field trip by Moses Leavitt (JDC’s Executive Vice Chairman from 1947-1965) in April/May 1947 to DP camps in the American Zone in Germany with stops in Austria, Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia. 01:00:10 At a displaced persons camp in Germany, EXT pan along a path lined with trees, children playing soccer. Crowd of DPs gather, children sitting in the front, waving at something off camera. Several young children are guided by two women up the path, they stand, some holding hands, as a woman arranges them. 01:01:13 INT dark room wit...

  16. Verdoner family and friends out in Hilversum

    Verdoner family and friends out for a stroll on a late fall/early winter day in Hilversum, Holland. Yoka Verdoner, her mother Hilde Verdoner, Francisca Verdoner in baby carriage, and several other children, women and men (possibly relatives or friends, the family is indentified as the Cohen family in original captions that accompany films). Walking through park, posing for group portraits, pointing out things of interest along their path. All are well dressed. Yoka hams it up for the camera. In one shot, we can see the arm of a man with a movie camera.

  17. Denazification

    (LIB 6854) Military Government, Cologne, Germany, May 3, 1945. SEQ: Civilians remove records and money from wrecked bank vault. LSs, walls of bombed building are torn down. CU, boy smears poster of "Hitler Jugend" so as to obscure lettering. LS, workman using acetylene torch removes Nazi emblem from atop building entrance. SEQ: Emblem crashes to ground; two workmen destroy it with sledge hammers. Also tackle bust of Hitler. Sledge hammer breaks before the bust. 01:09:28 LSs, children burn propaganda leaflets, posters, and flags.

  18. Nazi propaganda slides regarding America

    Consists of eleven published photographic slides produced by the NSDAP, Dienststelle Rosenberg Amt Lehrmittel, depicting Nazi propaganda of American Jewish life. Includes nine slides of politicians (Jewish and non-Jewish) with Jewish constituents (including Franklin Roosevelt, Fiorello LaGuardia, Frank Knox, Felix Frankfurter, and Herbert Lehman), images of New York City, of unemployed Americans, and of a synagogue in the city. Also includes one slide depicting a snowball fight and one of a German barn.

  20. Pilsen on V-E Day; Grace Moore, Ingrid Bergman, Jack Benny entertain; Soldiers at work in office

    Entering Pilsen, Czechoslovakia on May 8th, 1945 -- V-E Day. Street scenes of civilians in traditional Czech clothing. The opera house. View of the soldiers’ barracks. Sign for the “15th Finance.” Scenes of life in Pilsen and the countryside: people sunbathing, boating, swimming. An enormous crowd gathers to listen to Grace Moore sing. Soldiers play tennis with local civilians. Scenes from a parade. Pilsen castle. Soldiers smoke cigarettes and drink beer, including Murray. Ingrid Bergman and Jack Benny. Soldiers work in an office. Soldiers board a military airplane. Scenes of mountains and ...