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  1. Joseph Goetz collection

    The collection consist of two wallets, documents, writings, photographs, ephemera, and photographic postcards relating to the experiences of Joseph Goetz, a Holocaust survivor, and his experiences as a displaced person in Italy following World War II.

  2. Collection of photographs Zbiór fotografii (Sygn. 1125)

    Selected photographs documenting life in Kielce: The Association of Former Political Prisoners Branch of Kielce, Hotel European, 1928; the strike in Końskie, 1935; studio portraits of a German soldiers; a small number of photographs portraying local Jews, the synagogues of Kielce and Sandomierz, a group of Jewish women and men from Kielce Ghetto on their way to forced labor in 1942. The photographs are mainly unidentified (place and date) scenes of the time of German occupation.

  3. Torah fragment found in the ruins of a desecrated synagogue

    Torah fragment found in the ruins of a desecrated synagogue by Charles Braun, circa 1945, in Jaszbereny, Hungary. On March 19, 1944, Germany invaded Hungary and began to deport all Jews to concentration camps. Charles' wife was deported and he was sent to a labor camp. After the war ended in May 1945, Charles returned to Jaszbereny. His wife had been killed in the the gas chambers.

  4. French liberation: FFI, Germans, collaborators, POWs

    Reel 2: FFI and German units fight in the streets. Collaborationists are rounded up. Gestapo torture chambers are examined; prisoners are released. FFI wounded are treated. A rifle is seized from a wounded German. FFI riflemen fire from barricades at German tanks. Shows smashed German vehicles and German POWs. Allied tanks and motorized info enter the city. The tricolor is raised and German signs torn down. Machine guns and rifles are fired at German snipers in the Place de la Concorde.

  5. Ravensbruck Trial: The Sentencing [Das Urteil]

    Welt im Film. Issue no. 90 Ravensbruck Trial. INTs, Curio House in Hamburg, Allied Military Tribunal presided over by British Gen. Westropp, sentences those responsible for the Ravensbruck women's camp. MCUs, Johann Schwarzhuber; Dorothea Binz, former SS woman guard; Carmen Maria Mory; and others sentenced to death by hanging. 01:12:40 The three women guards shown are: Dorothrea 'Thea' Binz (Stellvertrende Oberaufseherin/Replacement Chief Officer); Wachterin Margarete Mewes (who served as guard in the Ravensbrueck 'bunker'-jail); and Arbeitseinsatzfuehrerin Greta Boesel (born Mueller) who d...

  6. Prof. Leo van der Essen at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 541) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, February 4, 1946. LS, prisoners' dock. Pan to French prosecutor Faure questioning Professor Leo van der Essen, General Secretary of the Louvain University in Belgium. (French is spoken throughout the entire reel.)

  7. Eichmann Trial -- Session 1 -- Reading of indictment

    Session 1. Court officials are organizing the courtroom for the trial. Various individuals walk around the room, greeting and talking to each other. There is occasional sound as the trial commentators prepare for Session 001. The trial begins, and the camera focuses on Adolf Eichmann as he sits in the glass box. As the three judges, Moshe Landau, Benjamin Halevi, and Yitzchak Raveh enter the courtroom, the commentators detail trial particulars such as the trial number and specific court officials. Judge Landau formally ascertains the defendant's identity and choice of council. He then grant...

  8. Hermanowski family collection

    The collection consists of an armband, a badge, an envelope with commemorative stamps, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Wojciech Hermanowksi and his family in Poland, Germany, and Sweden during and after the Holocaust.

  9. Oral history interview with Jacqueline Wolf

  10. Provincial Command of the State Police in Kielce Komenda Wojewódzka Policji Państwowej w Kielcach (Sygn. 111)

    Orders, ordinances, reports, registers, correspondence, questionnaires and minutes of the Provincial Chief Officer of the State Police in Kielce. Included are registers of crimes, police reports, opinions and instructions, photos of criminals from the register of the State Police, reports of the chief officers of Major Security Organizations in Poland, personnel lists of the State Police in Kielce and subordinate police stations, personal questionnaires, personnel matters of the State Police officers, reports and information concerning police informers, information on the national movements...

  11. Chaim and Rita Wind collection

    Consists of documents, correspondence, and photographs pertaining to the experiences of Chaim and Rita Wind, formerly of Berlin, after their emigration from Nazi Germany to Shanghai. Included is a postcard sent to Chaim Wind in 1940 from his sister and parents in the Tarnow ghetto.

  12. Herbst family papers

    The Herbst family papers document the prewar, wartime, and postwar experiences of Manny Herbst, his siblings Bernard Herbst and Silvia Herbst, and his parents Adolf Herbst and Sara Herbst (née Weintraub), including the siblings’ immigration to the United States in 1940, Adolf’s attempt to get to Palestine, and subsequent deportation to Mauritius in 1940, and Sara’s deportation from Vienna to Izbica transit camp in 1942. Biographical material includes identification papers, immigration paperwork, and family genealogy materials. The bulk of the collection consists of letters sent from Adolf i...

  13. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 50 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  14. Morris Gabrielides collection

    Collection consists of a photograph of donor with his family taken at the Port of Pireaus, Greece on March 7, 1951, a day before the family left Greece for the United States. Also includes two copy prints, one of the donor and his father and sister circa 1938, and the other of donor and sister (Effie) with parents and paternal grandmother, circa 1939, both in Athens, Greece.

  15. Collection of documents from the period of World War II Zbiór dokumentów z okresu II wojny światowej (Sygn.1978)

    Selected records with a diverse provenance relating to Jewish inhabitants in various regions of Poland during World War II. The most significant records (card file No 14) are lists of inhabitants of individual towns and villages of the county of Hrubieszów, the district of Lublin, as well as applications of Jews to return to Międzyrzecz Podlaski in 1940 (some with photos), and a list of Jewish inhabitants of the town of Płock. Also included is private correspondence, in Polish and German, and orders of the occupier’s authorities.

  16. Nazi anti-Soviet propaganda

    Reel 2 This feature film dramatizes the evils of the "bolschewistische Weltvernichtung"[Bolshevik destruction of the world] using the tools of the Soviet secret police GPU and the Comintern to spread anarchy and chaos. Peter Assmuss, a Baltic German student in Riga in the summer of 1939, is innocently drawn into the net of a high-ranking GPU agent Nikolai Bockscha and forced to participate in killing a dissident Armenian national leader in Kovno. Peter hides in Rotterdam with the ethnic German Irina, the secretary of the killed. Eventually they are caught and tortured by the GPU in the cell...

  17. Airship

    Views from INT airship. Aerial shots of rivers, countryside, lakes. 01:03:49 Group of boys looking out observation tower windows. More aerial views. Night scenes, lights. Car driving on highway (NJ 40 N). People gathered to greet airship landing in Lakehurst, NJ at Naval Air Center. Many wearing white caps, together holding a large metal pole. This may be one of the ten commercial transatlantic passenger flights of the LZ-129 Hindenburg Zeppelin taken in 1936. 01:06:37 Man with white cap (sailor?) waving to camera. 01:06:54 Group waving to camera, arms in the air. MS, Naval air center, INTs...

  18. Theatre program and antisemitic cards

    Contains three cards with antisemitic drawings of Jews; and an opera program which originally contained an insert instructing the audience to remain seated until the Führer and his party left the theater (insert now missing).

  19. Agro-Joint activities in Jankoi

    MS, tractor pulling large diameter pipe as men watch. The director of factory, Mr. Rappaport, shows Morris Troper the working tags of the employees. CU of the guard who stands at the entrance to the factory. Slow pan of the grounds and buildings of the factory. LS of bare-chested men digging a building foundation? LS Jewish worker repairing a well-shaft pipe. MS and CU of Jewish worker as they repair a tractor. MS of two vounteer firemen in white caps with their equipment.

  20. Selected records of the sub-district of Pecica from the Arad Branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Contains records from the sub-district of Pecica, including records relating to various state-owned Jewish goods and goods that were confiscated by the Centrul Naţional de Românizare (CNR).