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  1. Business travel in Mindanao

    Walter Rauscher travels to Mindanao as the Manila representative for Levy & Blum, Inc.

  2. John Butzke family collection

    The collection consists of a teddy bear, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Hans (later John) Butzke and his parents Julius and Netty before and during the war in Vienna, Austria, and in Panama and the United States following their 1940 immigration.

  3. Military parade honoring Pilsudski

    Title: "Warsaw, Poland. Military Parade in Memory of Pilsudski." MSs, CUs, parade in streets of Warsaw with Polish soldiers on horses, cannons, and soldiers on bicycles.

  4. Socialists and Communists demonstrate in Treptow

    Socialists and Communists demonstrate in Treptow. Many good close shots, among brass band, among crowd, of speaker, etc.

  5. Records of the commune Wałowice County Rawski located in Niwna Akta gminy Wałowice powiatu Rawskigo z siedziba w Niwnej (Sygn.1106)

    General correspondence of the commune Wałowice, including the registration of Jewish inhabitants, regulations related to Jewish families deported from Germany and Warsaw, and statistics of local properties, farms, and household goods. Also includes registers of Polish people murdered and arrested.

  6. War atrocities; exhumation of bodies

    War Atrocities, Dortmund, Germany, April 30, 1945. INTs, sick and tubercular slave laborers in hospital beds at former German concentration camp. MSs, US doctors and medics care for the sick. CUs, doctor treats severe head wound. CUs, various sick prisoners, many with wounds and bruises. The majority of the prisoners are emaciated. Exhumation of Bodies, Landwehr (sp?), Germany, April 30, 1945. HSs, MSs, CUs, former Nazi Gestapo agents and civilians remove bodies of murdered political prisoners from mass grave. MSs, entrance to cave where prisoners were held before their assassination. CUs, ...

  7. UJA appeal for refugees overseas needs

    The Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) endorses United Jewish Appeal (UJA) and American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) executives' appeal to bring DPs from Europe to Palestine or to the USA. Footage of liberation of camps. An appeal to raise money for displaced persons. Shows footage of a number of organizers and fundraisers, and speaks of an assembly in Atlantic City, NJ to raise one million dollars. Features founders of the UJA, JDC, United Jewish Fund, etc. Footage of Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg is interspersed with speeches given post war to US audiences.

  8. Charlene Schiff papers

    The collection primarily documents the postwar experiences of Charlene Perlmutter Schiff, originally of Horochów, Wolyn Poland (Horokhiv, Ukraine), including her life in the Föhrenwald and Bensheim displaced persons camps (DP camps) and immigration to the United States in 1948. Included are documents, correspondence, and photographs. Documents include a United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) immunization card, notes, a copy of a legal document, and songs and poems. One poem, “I Remember” was written in 1985 and read by her at a Holocaust memorial service at Fort Bel...

  9. Nazi speeches and music

    The eight recordings include: -Hitlerjugend: Eine Dokumentation ueber Jugenderziehung im Dritten Reich von Horst Siebecke -Macht ohne Moral: Eine Dokumentatoin ueber Heinrich Himmler und die SS -Triumph of the Will: A Sound Documentary of the 1933 Party Day, Marches, Speeches, Ceremonies -Joseph Goebbels: das Dritte Reich und seine Propaganda -Hitler's Inferno in words, in music 1932-1945 -Hitler’s Inferno vol. 2: Marches, Songs, and Speeches Nazi Germany - WWII -Deutschland im Zweiten Weltkrieg [Germany in the Second World War] -Deutschland aus der Asche: Originalaufnahmen aus den Jahren 1...

  10. MFS 12 Bezirksverwaltung für Staatssicherheit Neubrandenburg

    • Bundesarchiv-Stasi-Unterlagen-Archiv Neubrandenburg
    • MFS 12 Bezirksverwaltung für Staatssicherheit Neubrandenburg
    • German
    • 1941-1943
    • 33 Vorgänge innerhalb der Klassifikationspunkte 2.2 Auswertungs- und Kontrollgruppe, 3.2.4 Ministerium des Innern, Deutsche Volkspolizei, 4.2.3 Politische Repression insbesondere in Staatsapparat, Kirche, Kultur, Sport, Oppositionsgruppen 4.3.2 Ausspähung und Verfolgung, 4.4 Allgemeine Sachablage, 5.1.1 Untersuchungsvorgänge, 5.2 Staatsanwaltschaften, 7.6 Neustrelitz bzw. 7.9 Röbel.

    Informationen über NS-Funktionäre; Ermittlung gegen einen Funktionshäftlinge des Konzentrationslagers Sachsenhausen wegen der Misshandlung von Mithäftlingen, gegen SS-Angehörige, und Aufseherinnen der Konzentrationslager Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Dachau, Ravensbrück, Sachsenhausen und dem Lazarett Hohenlychen.

  11. Anna Teitelbaum. Collection

    This collection contains: copies of three photos taken in 1941 right before public parks in Antwerp became non-accessible for Jews, showing the girls attending fifth grade at the local primary school (Stedelijk Onderwijsgesticht voor meisjes nr. 1) at Lange Leemstraat in Antwerp, including Anna Teitelbaum, her best friend Eliane Russinger and their Jewish class mates Ruth Wenger (not deported), Eveline Kohn (deported), Annette Grossfeld (deported), Felicie Gruszow (not deported), Suzanne Spingarn (not deported) and Paulette Liliane Buschel (deported) ; a copy of three pages from Anna Teitel...

  12. The Jewish quarter and cemetery in Prague

    Prague, the facade of a large clock tower. The facade of the Church of Our Lady Before Tyn. A street in Prague's Jewish quarter. The exterior of Prague's Maisel synagogue, and the surrounding street activity. A street sign reads "Jidelna Hirsch Bilkova 19," or "Hirsch Cafeteria". The old Jewish cemetery, CU of a gravestone shows engraving in Hebrew script.

  13. Fire brigade exercise with beautiful shots of ancient fire engines

    Brown house in Munich, fireman with trumpet, runs and blows the trumpet "fire alarm" Text panel: "The Rabenstein fire brigade, from the good old days! Here is a test alarm: the dying noon is burning!" (In Chemnitz-Rabenstein.) Firefighter sprays foam on the wall of a factory building,

  14. Jewish family in prewar Budapest

    The Nash family in Budapest in 1932.

  15. Herbert Kraus collection

    The collection consist of photographs and photocopies of records documenting Dr. Kraus’s work as the deputy chief of the Medical Corps of the People’s Liberation Partisan and Volunteer Army of Yugoslavia.

  16. Ministry of Interior-Transport cards of Jews Ministerstvo vnútra. Transportné karty Židov

    45,826 registration cards of deported Slovak Jews, 1942. Each card pertains to one deported person. Each card measures 10,5 x 7, 5 cm. The cards are arranged by last name in alphabetical order. Cards contain the following information: surname, first name, year of birth, place of birth, last domicile in Slovakia, date of deportation/transport, place from which the transport departed, number of the transport, and notes.

  17. Photographic print of Jewish children in Warsaw

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn613485
    • English
    • overall: Height: 13.940 inches (35.408 cm) | Width: 10.880 inches (27.635 cm) pictorial area: Height: 13.000 inches (33.02 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm)

    Gelatin silver print depicting two children standing on a street in Warsaw, ca. 1935-38.

  19. Men at a logging factory

    Men in traditional dress roll a log onto a large pile. These are all felled trees. Six men labor to get it going. They finally get it there and look at the camera. Brief glimpse of the children in dark winter coats at 02:05:36.

  20. Richard J. Lembach letter from Dachau

    Letter and envelope sent by PFC Richard J. Lembach who served in the Medical Corp, 1st Battalion, 47th Infantry, United States Army, and who was posted at Dachau after the liberation of that camp in 1945. In the letter, dated August 9, 1945, and addressed to Anne Lembach in Milwaukee, Lembach described what he saw in Dachau and what he heard had happened to the prisoners there.