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  1. Estonia 1941-1945

  2. Records of the Military History Archives of the Military Historical Institute in Prague

    Copied documents (microfiche, photograph copy prints, photocopies) of plans for design and building of a prisoner-of-war camp at Auschwitz, October 1942, from the Zentralbauleitung der Waffen SS, Auschwitz. Copied from Military Historical Institute Archive, Prague.

  3. Louis Satvsky collection

    Louis Satvsky collection consists of photographs and documents relating to the efforts of Otto and Gitla Waga to immigrate to the United States from Vienna, Austria with the assistance of their cousins, the Stravsky family. The documents include letters written to the Stravsky family in the United States requesting assistance in securing an affidavit of support, copies of correspondence with the American consulate in Vienna, copies of documents compiled in support of immigration, and a photograph of Gitla Waga. Also included is a photograph of a young boy, likely Meiloch Waga, who escaped t...

  4. Giovanni Palatucci collection

    Collection consists of four vintage photographs and one document relating to Giovanni Palatucci [donor's maternal uncle].

  5. British enemy

    Reel 1 Michael O'Brien, an Irish rebel leader from Dublin, is hanged in 1903 by the British for subversion and high treason. His eighteen-year-old son, also named Michael O'Brien, is sent to St. Edwards College -- a boarding school specifically aimed at making Irish children 'think English' by tight surveillance and ideological education. There, a fellow student collects information for his uncle at the British Secret Service. As a result, Patrick O'Connor unconsciously betrays Michael's widowed mother for harboring Irish freedom fighters even though he eventually joins the rebels' cause. O...

  6. Oral history interviews of the Sophie Caplan collection

    Collection consists of 88 oral testimonies, conducted in the early 1980s by Sophie Caplan and Konrad Kwiet, with Holocaust survivors who immigrated to Australia before and after the war. Collection includes supporting documentation about interviewees and outlines of each testimony, as well as supporting personal documents such as letters, newspaper clippings, and memoirs.

  7. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Cantal

    This collection contains records from the Prefect’s Office, under headings “Foreigners”, “Jews”, “War Damages” and “Internment and Shelter”. It includes local objections to use of the thermal bath resort of Chaudes-Aigues as an internment site for Jews (under house arrest), correspondence concerning foreign Jewish refugees, Jews’ response to a call to work at Organisation Todt construction sites, and reports on war crimes committed during the war, including those concerning Jews.

  8. Selected records of the Voivodship Office of Warsaw Urząd Wojewódzki Warszawski (Sygn. 475) : Wybrane materialy

    Selected records of the Department of Public Security (1926-1939): weekly, monthly, quarterly situation reports on the activities of political parties, social organizations, nationalities, denominations, trade unions, political organizations. Contains also records on Jewish associations (1920), exemptions from the military service of emigrants to Palestine (1926), regulation on the election of authorities of Jewish religious communes and on rabbis (1930-1931), as well a register of associations and organizations (1920-1935).

  9. Customs Investigation Office Brno Zollfahndungszweigstelle Brünn (D25)

    Investigative files pertaining to the confiscation by the Customs Investigation Office Brno and Gestapo Brünn of assets and valuables of Jews. In many cases, there are arrest warrants issued by the Gestapo for Jews suspected of having fled with their assets or suspected of hiding their assets or having moved their assets abroad in preparation for their emigration. The investigative files feature criminal complaints by non-Jews about their Jewish neighbors, employers and acquaintances whom they suspect of hiding assets, detailed reports about house searches and arrests, interrogation protoco...

  10. U.S. liberators

    Group of U.S. liberators in front of building, posing for camera, some hanging from windows on second floor, civilians pass in FG. MCUs as some liberators are interviewed.

  11. Zoo and snow in Holland

    Abraham at the zoo in the Netherlands, bears and lions. 01:07:53 In black and white, children sled in the snow. Two men pull a heavy load on a wagon.

  12. Eichmann Trial -- Session 95 -- Cross-examination of the Accused

    Footage begins near the end of Session 95. Judge Halevi asks the accused whether Gerhard Boldt, a critic of Hitler, had broken his oath of loyalty by writing after Hitler's death. Eichmann states that he did not but notes that he felt that Boldt had because he criticized Hitler during the war (00:02:06). Halevi continues by asking Eichmann if one is released from their oath of loyalty after Hitler's death (00:03:10). Footage cuts 00:03:33 to 00:04:17. Halevi's question about being released from one's oath is repeated and footage continues without missing any of the session. The accused repl...

  13. Nahum Goldmann

    Born in the Russian Empire (now Belarus) in 1895, Nahum Goldmann received a law degree and PhD from the University of Heidelberg. He was President of the World Jewish Congress from 1948 to 1977 which he founded with Stephen Wise. He was a Zionist activist but was often critical of Israeli public policy. He was instrumental in creating the Jewish Material Claims Conference. Goldmann wrote an autobiography called "Sixty Years of Jewish Life" in 1969. He died in 1982. In this interview shot in Israel, Lanzmann and Goldmann discuss Stephen Wise, when the Jews realized the reality of the Final S...

  15. Maurice Rossel's ICRC visit to Theresienstadt and Auschwitz

    This film features Claude Lanzmann's interview with Maurice Rossel, conducted in 1979 for Lanzmann's epic film "Shoah". Rossel was the Swiss delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Berlin. The central task of the delegates was to visit camps to control the observance of the Geneva Convention and the delivery of aid packages. In an official capacity, Rossel was asked to inspect Theresienstadt, a ghetto where Nazis housed wealthy and socially prominent Jews who were being temporarily spared from execution, in June 1944. Rossel admits that he gave Theresienstadt a cl...

  16. Prague; German troops; Heydrich; Lidice

    [Modern footage of Czechoslovakia throughout film.] Prague streets with German troops marching. Reinhard Heydrich saluting troops. Burning town; Prague castle. 00:07:14: Women transported to camps via train. Lidice leveled; smoke; rubble. 00:13:07: Women carried back to Lidice. Rebuilding Lidice.

  17. March of Time -- outtakes -- Liberation of Paris

    The last days in Paris before the Arrival of US Troops. Street barricades; firing rifles from windows; FFI men rounding collaborators; captured German soldiers; Red Cross workers helping wounded; ceremony at City Hall; raising flag; new Prefect of Police; wounded man; barber.

  18. Maria de Kornfeld collection

    Oral history interview with Maria de Kornfeld

  19. John and Barbara Helman papers

    The John and Barbara Helman papers consist of biographical materials and photographs documenting the Helman and Wiewióra families from Łódź, John and Barbara’s survival of the Łódź ghetto, John’s survival of the Auschwitz and Görlitz concentration camps, and the couple’s postwar marriage and refugee and immigration status. Biographical materials include identification papers, certificates, and correspondence documenting John’s status as a survivor of the Łódź ghetto, Auschwitz, and Görlitz; his marriage to Bronia Wiewióra; her survival of the Łódź ghetto; and the couple’s refugee and immigr...

  20. Giza Wiernik papers

    Papers consist of documents, postcards, and photographs relating to the experiences of Giza Wiernik before World War II in Jamna, Poland, her experiences posing as a Ukrainian woman during the war, and her journey to Israel via displaced persons camps in Germany and onboard the Exodus 1947.