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  1. Ferencz discusses war crimes and Sadam Hussein

    A BBC Production, aired March, 1991. Includes segments of interview with Benjamin Ferencz, among others. Program asks whether or not Sadam Hussein should be brought to justice. Ferencz speaks about enforcing the principles founded at the Nuremberg trials, including laws that define 1) planning and waging a war of aggression; 2) war crimes; and 3) crimes against humanity. In Sadam Hussein's case, these standards were violated and are going unpunished. He says that we cannot walk away from the horrors of Sadam, or else we will encourage more strife: "We should get serious about this!" Because...

  2. Selected records from the State Archive of Foligno

    Records concerning the discrimination and persecution of Jews in Italy in the community of Foligno.

  3. Selected records of the city of Mińsk Mazowiecki Akta miasta Mińska Mazowieckiego (Sygn.35)

    This collection contains materials related to social welfare, tributes and taxes on civilians (1940-1941), as well as information regarding sending people to forced labor in Germany, lists of real estate, workshops and manufactures belonging to Jews (from 1941), lists of Jewish inhabitants of Mińsk Mazowiecki (above the age of 14), announcements of the German authorities, documents related to the ghetto, post-war specifications on the so-called abandoned property, i.e. previously belonging to Jews. Documents from the pre-war period: indexes of the registers of inhabitants (1935-1939), the e...

  4. Schoolhouse and countryside in Zlakow Koscielny, Poland 1937

    Zlakow Koscielny, Poland (near Lowicz) 1937: images of small town life in this central Polish town. INT: kindergarten age children playing and performing a circle dance on a small stage under the direction of their teacher. VS, children studying, EXT of newly constructed school house and the schoolyard. Images cut back and forth between school children and townspeople going about their daily routines. EXT: girls play dodgeball in the school courtyard, all are in traditional peasant dress, with large, full skirts and scarves cover their heads. One girl is barefoot and has her head uncovered ...

  5. A memoir

    Contains a one-page testimony of a former forced laborer in Romania.

  6. Volkssturm defend the Eastern Front

    Map of the Eastern Front, indicating Warsaw, Breslau, Kattowitz, Litzmannstadt, and other locations. German refugees on horse-drawn carts with their belongings move West, fleeing the "Mongol storm." Shots of Soviet POWs. Civilians build barricades to defend against the Soviets. Refugees board trains to get away from the front. The woman getting on the train wears an armband bearing the insignia of the Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt (NSV; National Socialist Peoples' Welfare organization). Members of the NSV provide food and other care to refugees arriving in Germany. NSV members (all ...

  7. German passport issued to Charlotte Hartmann

    Consists of a German passport ("Reisepass") issued to Charlotte Hartmann of Vienna on 19 September 1938. Charlotte's son, Paul (1933-), is also registered on this same passport. Visas stamped inside the passport indicate that the Hartmanns arrived in Shanghai in 1939.

  8. Soap issued to a concentration camp prisoner in Auschwitz-Birkenau

    Soap issued to Esther Moses, October-November 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Esther Zelmanovits Moses was interred in Auschwitz-Birkenau. She was given this bar of soap when she was sent to work in Hamburg on November 26, 1944. She carried it with her for the remainder of the war. Her husband, Herbert Moses hid the bar of soap in his father-in-law's, Sam Zelman, store in Kansas.

  9. Kivilsha & Grigorjov testify at Nuremberg Trial

    23:11:07 (Munich 13) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, February 26, 1946. LSs, Eugene Kivilsha, Red Army physician, testifying on stand identifies a photograph presented to him. (The witness and counsel speaking in Russian.) LSs, Dr. Hans Laternser, defense counsel for the German General Staff and OKW, questions the witness in German. LS, audience attending trials. MLSs, prosecution staff in courtroom. LS, court adjourns; judges file out. 23:16:09 (Munich 14) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, no date (silent). HSs, Tribunal as witness Jacob Grigorjov testifies. HSs, Eugene Kivilsh...

  10. "As I Recall"

    Consists of one memoir, approximately 60 pages, entitled "As I Recall," written in 2009 by Albert Erlebacher, originally of Karlsruhe, Germany. In the memoir, he describes his childhood in Germany, deportation in 1940 to Gurs, transfer to Rivesaltes, and being removed from the camps by the OSE. He describes life in the Villa Mariana and Chateau de Chabannes OSE homes, crossing the Swiss border on foot, and his life in Switzerland. Also includes information on his post-war emigration to the United States and later educational, personal, and professional experiences.

  11. Alfons Van San photographs

    Consists of four photographs from the collection of Alfons Van San, who was hidden at the Chateau de Beloeil children's home in Belgium during World War II. The photographs depict groups of boys, including a photograph of a female scout leader with her troop of boys gathered behind her.

  12. Gertner family papers

    The collection primarily documents the post-war experiences of Regina, Lucy, and Samuel Gertner in the Foehrenwald displaced persons camp. Biographical materials include DP camp identification papers, International Refugee Organization documents, immigration papers, marriage certificates, report cards, postcards received at Foehrenwald, and restitution claims. Photographs include pre-war depictions of Regina’s first husband, Hersch Fenster and his sister Scheindale, Lucy as a hidden child in a convent in Czerwonogrod, Ukraine, and the family in Foehrenwald.

  13. Records of the New Israelite Congregation, Uruguay (Nueva Congregación Israelita)

    Copies of La voz newspaper, minutes of meetings of the General Assembly, minutes of the Board of Directors and assembly of representatives, correspondence, and marriage registrations.

  14. Reis family papers

    Contains a photograph portrait of large group of people, inscribed on verso in ink: "I / People from Kielce (Dad's Home City) / after war / This picture is from Kielce Poland before the pogrom, they / all were kilt (sic) in the pogrom / 1946 Kielce," created in Kielce, Poland, early 1945; and an identity card issued to Lejzor Rajz (donor's husband), August 1945, in the Feldafing displaced persons camp, confirming that he had been a prisoner in the Buchenwald and Dachau camps.

  15. Review of 1938 events

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 36, No. 87, Part 2. Release date, 10/24/1963. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: "Twenty Five Years Ago" A quarter of a century ago history recorded fifteen days of international crisis that forever shaped the destiny of man. There were riots in Sudetenland as pro-Hitler Germans backed his demand that this Czech territory and its people be returned to the Reich. At Munich, England and France allowed Hitler to take over....appeasement did not work. Less than a year later war raged in Europe. Other parts of the newsreel include: 15:08:31 "Operation Big L...

  16. Verdoner family in their garden

    Francisca and Yoka Verdoner playing at home and in the garden with a large metal spinning top toy. VS, of the children playing with several family members- identified in original documentation that accompanied films as Grandma and Grandpa Vinkeles (Hilde's parents). More scenes in the garden with unidentified family members, sitting and talking. Yoka and Francisca continue to play in the BG, and FG. VS, MCU, CU, MS Yoka and Francisca picking mushrooms in the garden with their mother, Yoka eats one of the mushrooms.

  17. Destroyed Gdansk

    Reel 3A Winter 1945/1946 or 1946/1947 In Gdansk (Danzig), destruction to buildings along the river in the city, reflection in the water. Building EXTs with German-language signs (iron factory, restaurant, etc). [VQ- still frames in places where there are technical problems from Bryan's camera and poor processing.] Cut to elder couple walking toward camera among ruins. Three men digging in a pile of bricks. Repeat of earlier two sequences in black and white. August-September 1958 Village scenes (poor image color and quality) in Poland, geese in water, tractor and farming. Winter 1945/1946 or...

  18. "My Life in Germany, before and after January 30th, 1933"

    Consists of one typed memoir, 75 pages, entitled "My Life in Germany, before and after January 30th, 1933", by Erna Prehn Albersheim, who was born in the United States and lived in Frankfurt, Germany until January 27, 1939. The memoir, which is dated March 13, 1940, describes life in Germany during and after World War I, post-war inflation, Hitler's rise to power, the April 1933 boycott, the rise of antisemitism and anti-Jewish legislation and how these affected her life and late husband's business. She and her daughter managed to immigrate to the United States in early 1939.

  19. Baruch family collection

    Artifacts and documents from the Baruch family including a set of china (EPIAG/Czechoslovakia) owned by the donor's grandmother Astro (Elias) Baruch; a set of silverware owned by the donor's mother, Rachel (Zadick) Baruch; an amulet; a mezuzah pendant engraved with floral motifs; a shell motif pendant; Greek documents for David Baruch; British gold coins (3); a U.S. silver dollar; a British one penny coin; and photographs.

  20. Nazi propaganda: anti-Soviet

    Images of the Dnieper River and a forest, excavations of corpses in advanced degrees of decay with visible bullet wounds. Swedish narration claims that the victims shown are Polish officers murdered by the Soviet secret police GPU in the forest of Katyn. The corpses are examined by an European commission including the former minister president of Poland Prof. Koslowski and coroners said to be from Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Switzerland, and Bulgaria. Piles of dead bodies are pictured, most of them hardly identifiable. Remnants of the Polish Gen. Smorawinski are shown. Relatives try to identi...