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  1. Summer 1942 in Veverská Bítýška: gardening and canoeing

    Summer 1942 in Veverská Bítýška, Michaela and Antonín outdoors in a vegetable garden, corn stalks, gardening. Shows an elderly couple (friends of father Michael Eckstein from Brno, probably a lawyer with his wife) and the family of the Czech housekeeper, Milan Jubánek (born in 1935) and his younger brother Laďa Jubánek (born 1942, the baby at 01:07:18). Michaela and Antonín walk on a log with a little dog. Ducks. Michaela, Antonin, the elderly man, and the nannies walk along a dirt road. Cows. The group hikes, climbs over rocks, in the forest. The nanny tosses a handbag in the air and feeds...

  2. Selected records of the District Commission to Investigate Nazi Crimes in Bydgoszcz Okręgowa Komisja Badania Zbrodni Niemieckich w Bydgoszczy (GK 170)

    Testimonies, protocols, reports, correspondence and other materials relating to crimes committed in Bydgoszcz, Starogard, Serock, Wejherowo and other places in 1939-1944, exhumation protocols in Serock and identification of victims, materials regarding General Hildebrand and others, statistics of executions carried out on Poles and Jews.

  3. Gerald Rosenstein collection

    Collection of documents, correspondence, and a family book [Stambuch] illustrating Max and Sophie Rosenstein and their children Ernst, Hans, and Gerhard who immigrated to the Netherlands from Bensheim, Germany. Included in the collection are documents surrounding Ernst, who fled to Palestine in the 1930s and then was killed in Action while a soldier for the British. Also included are materials illustrating the experiences of Max, Sophie and Gerhard who were deported to Theresienstadt camp in the Czech Republic. Max and Gerhard were then deported to Auschwitz concentration camp and its subca...

  4. Selected records of the Court of Appeals in Warsaw Sąd Apelacyjny w Warszawie (GK 227)

    Contains selected files of criminal trials conducted by the Court of Appeals in Warsaw during the years 1947-1951. These trials pertain to crimes committed against Jews and Poles in Poland during the German occupation. Most of investigation were discontinued. Trials were based on the Decree of August 31, 1944 (“Sierpniówka”), issued by the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (PKWN), concerning the punishment of German criminals guilty of murders and persecution of civilians and prisoners of war, and the punishment of traitors to the Polish Nation. "Sierpniówka" was one of the world's first...

  5. Arthur Goldberg collection

    Photographs and a document of Arthur Goldberg illustrating his experiences as an Army Medic (pharmacist) in the 139th Evacuation Hospital of the US Army. Photographs (copy prints) were taken in the Ebensee slave labor camp in Austria; document distributed likely by the US Army; photos taken by Arthur.

  6. Mossad LeAliyah collection

    Four photo albums (approximately 540 photographs) and a typewritten report document the activity of a representative of the "Mossad LeAliya" (Institute for Immigration) in Iran, Turkey, and Israel in the late 1940s to early 1950s in preparation for bringing Jews to Israel. The information documents an investigative journey from Tehran, Iran, to Haifa, Israel. Includes printed reports: "The Suez Canal of the revolution: outlines of the history of the Communist Movement in Iran,” dated 7.8.1951 (Hebrew); Prisoners of Zion in Eastern European countries, from the establishment of the state to t...

  7. Landesgericht Eisenstadt: NS-Verfahren

    Postwar court records of Nazi-related cases in the state court in Eisenstadt, Austria.

  8. Americans tour cities in Europe and Russia before World War II

    Touring Europe before World War II, probably in the year 1930. Home movies by an unknown American cameraperson. Consists of two 14" reels which contain short 16mm rolls spliced together. Includes segments of rare Kodacolor (lenticular) film. The Americans travel by bus, boat, and train across Europe with stops in England, Scotland, Norway, Sweden, Finland to Russia, Belarus, Poland, Austria, Switzerland, and Italy. Reel One begins in Michigan with a ferry trip to Canada where the group of Americans board the SS Athenia ship. Folks play games on the ship. Icebergs. (10:35) Docking at the har...

  9. "Cabinet of the Jewish Culture of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences" from the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine (Fond 190)

    Consists of archive of the Jewish folk culture collected by the Cabinet of the Jewish Culture of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. The collection includes Jewish folk songs, proverbs, aphorisms, fairy tales, musical scores and other folk materials collected by the Cabinet of Jewish Culture and its predecessors institutions (e.g. Institute of Jewish Proletarian Culture). Includes also correspondence of Moisey Beregovsky, head of the folklore section and his staff members, with collectors and performers of Jewish folklore, notes from the ethnographic expeditions to collect Jewish folklore un...

  10. Collection of materials regarding Nazi crimes in Poland Zbiór materiałów dotyczących zbrodni hitlerowskich w Polsce (Sygn. 1348)

    Selected records of Polish courts and commissions researching Nazi crimes. Consists of protocols and reports examining the area of the former Chełmno concentration camp (Kulmhof am Nehr); investigative files of crimes in Siedlce and the surrounding area; witness testimonies; materials about Nazi perpetrators from the Krosno county; the case file against K. Heinemeyer; sentences for persons cooperating with the German authorities; testimonies of Nazi criminals regarding the Warsaw Uprising of 1944; prosecution files of Nazi criminals at Żyrardów area, and correspondence.

  11. Rabbi Solomon Usher papers

    Consists of postcards received by Rabbi Salomon Usher Schwartzman while living as a refugee in Kobe, Japan. The postcards were authored by Rabbi Schwartzman’s siblings, Laja Kac and Chaim Schwarzman, of Siedlce, Poland, and date to the year 1941. Another postcard is attributed to a friend, Jochiel Bauman. The collection also includes three photographs depicting Rabbi Schwartzman and others in Japan.

  12. Selected records of the commune Mirzec Akta Gminy Mirzec (Sygn. 2692)

    Book of resolutions of the Board of Commune Mirzec, 1932-1939; books of permanent population with an alphabetical index.

  13. Władysław Żeleński Collection-materials for the history of the crimes of Lviv professors in July 1941 Akta Władysława Żeleńskiego-materiały do historii zbrodni na profesorach lwowskich w lipcu 1941 (Sygn. 1941)

    Materials collected by Władysław Żeleński on the mass murder of professors in Lviv committed by Germans in July 1941: Correspondence, protocols of hearings of witnesses and alleged perpetrators, newspaper clippings and other investigative files.

  14. Zoller collection

    Pre-war Municipal Warsaw bonds which belonged to donor's father.

  15. Selected records of the District Commission to Investigate Nazi Crimes in Gdańsk Okręgowa Komisja Badania Zbrodni Niemieckich w Gdańsku (GK 172)

    Contains records on war crimes committed on Poles and other nationalities by Germans during War World Second in Gdańsk region, Poland. Includes testimonies of Albert Forster's (Gauleiter der Reichsgau Danzig-Westpreußen activities, lists of Poles who died in concentration camps or during forced labor in the Third Reich, materials on the gas chamber and mass grave in the Nowy Port in Gdańsk, documents on germanization of Polish children and the “educational camp” in Snopki near Pisz.

  16. Esther Fastowski diary

    Diary written by Esther Fastowski née Binder [donor's mother-in-law], written for her daughter in Yiddish recounting her wartime experiences in Poland starting in 1941. Notebook with metal spiral binder, 17cm x 22 cm, written in ballpoint pen.

  17. Selected records of the County Office of Iłża in Starachowice-Wierzbnik Starostwo Powiatowe Iłżeckie w Starachowicach-Wierzbniku (Sygn. 2680)

    Monthly and quarterly situational reports, correspondence, circulars and lists of abandoned Jewish properties. Includes reports related to activities of the Komunistyczna Partia Polski (Polish Communist Party) and Jewish organizations in Iłża region, and registers of Jewish properties.

  18. Morton Adell collection

    Six page report and cover letter titled “Hanukkah Celebration – December 1946-5707, at the Children’s Welfare and Educational Centre Salonica”

  19. Selected records of the Provincial Court of the capital city of Warsaw Sąd Wojewódzki dla miasta stołecznego Warszawy 1950-1970 (GK 317)

    Contains selected files of criminal trials conducted by the Provincial Court for city of Warsaw. These trials pertain to crimes committed against Jews and Poles in Poland during the German occupation. Most of investigation were discontinued. Trials were based on the Decree of August 31, 1944 (“Sierpniówka”), issued by the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (PKWN), concerning the punishment of German criminals guilty of murders and persecution of civilians and prisoners of war, and the punishment of traitors to the Polish Nation. "Sierpniówka" was one of the world's first legislation on li...

  20. US Certificate of Citizenship holder

    Holder for Hans Rosenbaum's Certificate of Naturalization, dated May 18, 1944.