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  1. Records from Romanian State Archives

    Photocopied documents from various Romanian military officers relating to the case of David Margulies of Iasi.

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  3. Ágnes Grünwald collection

    Consists of color copies of report cards, a Swiss protective pass (Schutzpass), handwritten poems, postcards, letters, and photographs. The collection was created and owned by Ágnes Grünwald, who was sixteen years old when she was deported from Budapest in October 1944. The postcards, poems, and letters were sent from a forced march. Grünwald perished in a concentration camp (likely Bergen-Belsen).

  4. Exodus Jews in France

    INTs of refugees sleeping on cots, of floor, rough conditions (too dark). Refugees sleeping on cots outdoors, in trucks (police trucks). Shot of harbor. "Ocean Vigour," the "Runnymede Park," and the "Empire Valour" in harbor. Small boats go up to ship. Shots of refugees on ship (Runnymede) with barbed wire. Sailors on ship, more refugees. French Red Cross on shore, give water to refugees.

  5. Collection of Egon Michael Zweig and family Sammlung Egon Michael Zweig und familie (P 149)

    Genealogical documents, correspondence, photographs, published materials, records related to the political activities in Zionist movements, and claims of the Zweig family related to losses in WWII. Included are also records related to the Jewish organizations and Israeli religious community Vienna (Austria) and Olomouc (Czech Republic) and other organizations, also miscellaneous materials like: a map of the district Talpioth in Jerusalem with marking of all plots, publications in German newspaper, a bulletin of the Mitteilungsblatt des Heimatverbandes Olmütz und Mittelmähren (Homeland Assoc...

  6. Selected records from the Regional State Archives in Opava

    Features administrative records pertaining to the expropriation of Jewish properties and assets and the enactment of anti-Jewish measures in the districts of Opava and Olomouc, including from the Oberlandrat, the Regierungspräsident Troppau, the SD headquarters in Opava, the Gestapo headquarters in Opava, the Finance Chief in Opava, and the Police Headquarters in Olomouc. Also features administrative records from the State District Archives Přerov, State District Archives Šumperk, State District Archives Bruntal, State District Archives Karviná, State District Archives Jeseník, and the Stat...

  7. Inhabitants of ghetto

    CUs of people standing for the camera in the ghetto. One man holds a crutch.

  8. Bielski family collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, correspondence, documents, and photographs chiefly relating to the experiences of Dr. Johannes Bielski, his wife Dr. Hildegard Bielski, and their daughter Marion before and during the Holocaust when they escaped to the United States in November 1939 and als to the experiences of Herbert Boxer who fled Nazi-occupied Europe with his parents for America in 1940.

  9. Siege of Warsaw, reel 2

    Fires at night. Blazing apartments. CU flames, through windows. Burning area. Dead horse dragged. Several dead horses. Severely damaged apartment block. Dead woman on grass near bricks - CUs. Hospital and wounded. Nurses attending to the injured in beds, cleaning wounds. Maternity ward, doctor, newborns. Julien Bryan talking to female doctor. Caring for a wounded man (Jewish), patients' heads being shaved. Priest speaking with a Jewish man. VS, men in hospital beds. Potato fields on outskirts of Warsaw: after German strafing. Women pass bodies in the potato field - wooden huts visible in BG...

  10. Cecilia Horink papers

    Personal collection of correspondence mainly postcards and other documents sent from Poland during WWII to the family in Argentina.

  11. Bier family collection

    The collection consists of documents, correspondence, identification in wallet, papers and photographs illustrating the Bier family who resided in Berlin and family that fled from Nazi Germany. Particularly documented is Siegfried Bier (donor's husband's uncle) who fled to France and then the UK where he was interned as an enemy alien, and eventually then to the US.

  12. Oral history interviews of the Richard Newman collection

    Oral history interviews produced by Richard Newman for research on his book Alma Rosé : Vienna to Auschwitz

  13. Hitler's birthday; charity; Roehm; Goering in Rome

    Celebration of Hitler's 44th birthday in Berlin, including flags flying and the SA planting a "Hitler Linden" tree. The narrator notes that nobody will go hungry on the Chancellor's birthday. A scene shows the collection of money for charity through sales of Edelweiss flowers. Close-up of hands holding "Hitler-Geburtstagspende." Shot of people using or exchanging the vouchers (for money?). Location switches to Munich, where a group of SA men, including Ernst Roehm, places a large wreath at the memorial for the fallen heroes of the NSDAP movement. A band plays while the men carry the wreath ...

  14. German-Jewish emigres arrive in Shanghai by boat

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 11, No. 754, Part 2. Release date, 02/23/1939. 841 Jews arrive in Shanghai on the SS Conte Biancomano. View from dock as passengers wave from rail of boat (mostly men). CU women and men waving. MLS women and men walking down stairs, departing boat (nicely dressed). Refugees at desk, exchanging papers. 02:13:10 Hedrig Callman with her grandson Rolf Eis. Man in "window" dropping bread into a woman's bag. At rough table; men eating soup in CU, then MS. Newsreel footage also includes the following parts: 02:11:01 Port Washington, NY "Yankee Clipper in Test Flight for Oc...

  15. Rostock questioned at Medical trial; von Papen sentenced at Nuremberg trial

    (Munich 522) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. Dr. Pribilla questioning Rostock. HS, judges. Pan to Pribilla as voice of Rostock is heard. (Rostock is off-screen). 04:13:30 (Munich 523) Verdict Day at von Papen Trial, Nuremberg, Germany, February 24, 1947. SILENT. Von Papen walking down aisle in courtroom. Judges enter. Judge Sashs, presiding, brings the court to order. 01:15:09 Von Papen with his son, his attorney, and Dr. Sybil. EXT of Nuremberg Rathaus where trial was held. Von Papen stands and listens to verdict. Judge reads the...

  16. Selma Aufhaeuser affidavit

    Consists of one affidavit submitted to the general consul in Stuttgart, Germany, by Ludwig and Pepi Ottenheimer of New York City, in support of the visa application of Selma Aufhaeuser of Bavaria, Germany. The affidavit was notarized on April 10, 1941. The effort was ultimately unsuccessful; Selma Aufhaeuser and her husband were part of the first deportations of German Jews to Riga, and were killed upon arrival as part of the Rumbula massacre.

  17. Harry E. Norman collection

    The collection consists of a belt and a collectin of lantern slides.

  18. Catholic church celebration and schoolhouse in central Poland

    Polish country scenes, horse-drawn wagons, farmer. MCU of road sign "Zduny 6 km, Lowicz 17km." Preparations for the Easter holiday. Townspeople are dressed in traditional, central Polish folk costume. People are transported in the back of a wagon, riding bicycles, walking to church. General activity surrounding the day's religious festivities. Two young girls in traditional dress, walking towards church, horses with wagons parked in the town square, a young girl with a full head of curly blonde hair that is being braided and combed by her mother and her sister. Church. VAR, EXTs of the elab...

  19. Children are caught smuggling food

    Five youths are caught smuggling and forced by German (uniformed) police to empty the food from sacks under their clothes. Potatoes, carrots, etc. fall at their feet.

  20. Margaret Bourke White photograph

    1 Gelatin Silver Print: photograph by Margaret Bourke White. Photograph depicts charred remains inside Buchenwald crematorium oven, on display for German civilians forced to view Nazi atrocities found by American forces after they liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp.