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  1. Prison in Kielce Więzienie w Kielcach (Sygn. 186)

    Prison daily orders and ordinances, circular letters of the Minister of Justice, files concerning the staff of the prison, finances, budgets, food supply for inmates, economic matters, transport of prisoners, health care, prisoner-professional workers, escapes and disciplinary violations of the prisoners, personal files and registers of the prisoners.

  2. Village, shops, winter, probably prewar

    Possibly Poland, car, rural landscape from the window of a moving vehicle or train. Two boys walk through a doorway. INT, bedroom. Two boys with a man and woman. Snow-covered forest, bare trees. ECU of a boy's face. Snowy landscape with a wide open field. Houses. Dog plays in the snow, shot through a wrought-iron fence. Someone pumps water from the well in town. A man steps out of a doorway: “Amiod flaszkorx. KAWA; HERBATA; PRZEKASKI.” An elderly man with a cane exits shop door, followed by two women. The man with the cane approaches the camera. The woman with the polka dot dress (seen befo...

  3. Factory of iron goods "Korenblum" in Końskie Fabryka Wyrobów Żeliwnych "Kronnenblum" w Końskich (Sygn. 615)

    Financial records and payroll of the S. Kronenblum factory in Końskie. Included are financial balances, inventory books, payrolls, lists of the factory assets compiled after the invasion of the Red Army on December 31, 1944, and a detailed situation plan of the “Kronenblum” facility in 1:000 scale.

  5. Hans Frank and the children at Schoberhof

    Michael on a tricycle at Schoberhof in wintertime. 02:20:59 Extended CUs of family members, including Brigitte (02:21:17) and Hans (02:21:36). Teenage Sigrid balances a vase on her head. The family acts out a scene: they look for grandmother and excitedly welcome her to their home at Schoberhof in the mountains. Happy family, hugging. Children play and pose for the camera, good CUs. 02:24:16 In summertime, a party/celebration with relatives. The kids play outdoors and pose for camera. Hans Frank with Brigitte and Michael take a walk with their dog. 02:24:56 At Schoberhof, Hans runs towards ...

  6. Selected records of the Voivodeship Office in Kielce Urząd Wojewódzki Kielecki II (Sygn. 305)

    Diverse documentation from the Voivodeship Office in Kielce, records related to: identification of dead corpses of people who died during the World War II, war graves, removal of gravestones from pavements, security matters (assaults on Jews in the postwar period, including the Kielce pogrom of July 4, 1946 and other antisemitic riots), registers of war damages, changes of surnames, giving names to the children with unknown parents, the matters of Jewish religious associations, lists of graveyards and synagogues, lists of people of non-Catholic denomination in individual counties, various m...

  7. Oral history interview with Haya Bluma Newman

  8. Prague uprising, April-May 1945

    “Václav Kostelecký. Květnová revoluce 1945.” AGFA logo. Picture reportage from Prague at the end of WW2 filmed by Vaclav Kostelecky from April 30 to May 16, 1945. View of the Prague Castle from a hillside. Mr. Kostelecky inspects a camera. Prague Castle and the top of the Church of Saint Nicholas. Intertitle: “30. duben 1945” April 30, 1945 Prague Castle and a building, perhaps the former headquarters of the Wehrmacht (?). Czech police officer speaks with a German soldier. Street. Car. The Royal Castle. Pan, Prague rooftops, cloudy, the Nazi flag hanging on the castle. A military truck with...

  9. Sara and Shlomo Peled collection

    Contains a ketubah [Jewish marriage contract] of Sara Peled and Shlomo (Salomon) Feld Peled in the Föhrenwald displaced persons camp, dated June 30, 1946.

  10. Chava Elovik collection

    Collection of documents, photographs, and correspondence documenting Jozef and Paulina Sciezynski (Stieglitz) [donor’s parents], their children, Mira, Ewa (donor), and Dan, extended family and friends in Poland, Hungary, Romania, Soviet Union, Iran and Palestine. Ewa Elovik survived as one of the “Tehran Children.”

  11. Selected reords of the city Przedbórz Akta miasta Przedborza (Sygn. 520)

    Minutes of sessions of the Municipal Council of Przedbórz, budget records, files related to electionS (including lists of voters), diverse lists and statistics, lists of estates and housing matters, records of lands, fees/fares and taxes (including those for the synagogue), construction matters, recruitment to the army, and applications for identification cards, and many other matters. Included are files of the Jewish Community that survived from 1940-1942 (call No 578-582), and a list of estate owners.

  12. Metal Star of David template

    Template for a Star of David used to create cloth badges to be sewn on clothing.

  13. The German Gdansk

    Once upon a time under the Kurenwimpel, Als wir den Plön banden, historic land along the Vistula

  14. Red Army; German prisoners of war

    04:28 Locals and military in Humpolec (a town southeast of Prague in Czechoslovakia), some in windows, line stairway. Women at the top of the stairs with bouquets before men in suits and girls in traditional costume. The Red Army rolls through town, people welcome them, excitedly waving to the soldiers in the cars driving by. Military trucks and tanks on a dirt road. Soldiers on horseback. A dead man lies on the street. Wreckage of military truck. A large group of soldiers sits on the ground at a camp of German prisoners. Newly captured men walk with their hands up; Czech pick at debris in ...

  15. Melania Weissenberg papers

    The collection includes a diary, in Polish, written by Melania Weissenberg from 1942-1944 while hiding in Dabrowa Tarnowska with an older Jewish girl. The collection also includes pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of Molly and her family and a letter written by Molly's cousin Bina, dated September 11, 1942.

  16. Selected records of the Court of the First Instance in Bodzentyn Sąd Grodzki w Bodzentynie (Sygn. 1157)

    Repertoria, indexes, and correspondence relating to court trials of Jews from Bodzentyn. The repertoria and indexes contain information such as the date of the trial, the name of the plaintiff and defendant, a brief description of the subject of litigation, the date of the verdict, etc.

  17. Americans visit Netherlands, Bavaria, and Croatia on a Mediterranean cruise; Nazi flags and posters in Bavaria

    Reel 32. European trip to pick up Dr. Pfister's daughter, Maja, after her junior year in Germany, including a Mediterranean cruise in 1934. Waterside town - the island of Marken, the Netherlands. House on stilts. The dock. People with baskets outside of a small marketplace, with a sign that reads, “Dutch Silver…” Men relax outside building next to that shop. The sign above reads, “Costumes and curiosities.” Women walk about along the pathway. A woman and a young girl. The young girl pushes a small baby carriage. Two men walk by. Laundry drying on a line. A girl holds the hand of a smaller y...

  18. Aid of Poles for the Jewish people during the Nazi occupation. Collection of files Pomoc Polaków dla ludności żydowskiej w okresie okupacji hitlerowskiej-zbiór akt (Sygn. 1521)

    Questionnaires related to aid of Poles for the Jewish people during the Nazi occupation. Questionnaires were prepared and collected by Związek Bojowników o Wolność i Demokrację (ZBoWiD) throughout Poland during the late 1960s.

  19. Self portrait by George Byfield given to an Australian solicitor

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn600868
    • English
    • a: Height: 14.750 inches (37.465 cm) | Width: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) b: Height: 15.625 inches (39.688 cm) | Width: 15.625 inches (39.688 cm) | Depth: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm)

    Self portrait by Gyorgy Beifeld (George Byfield) given as a gift to H.W. (Peter) Tebbutt, an Australian solicitor. Beifeld was deported from Budapest, Hungary, in March 1944 to Auschwitz concentration camp. He was later transferred to Dachau where he was liberated by American troops of the 7th Army on April 19, 1945.

  20. Local Nazi Festivity: Waterfalls

    Civilians, German, Croatian/Bosnian Officers