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  1. Deutsche Umsiedlungs-Treuhand Gesellschaft m. b. H Verbindungsstelle Lemberg German Resettlement and Trust Society Office in Lviv Niemieckie Towarzystwo Przesiedleńczo-Powiernicze z o.o. Placówka Łącznikowa we Lwowie (Sygn. 643)

    Circulars, instructions, correspondence related to displaced persons: files of property, settlements, employment, and permissions to stay in the Generalne Gubernatorstwo (GG). Includes records of real estate administration and personal files of displaced persons.

  2. Selected records of the Presidium of the County Council in Starachowice Prezydium Powiatowej Rady Narodowej w Starachowicach (Sygn. 2682)

    Records related to Jewish properties after the WWII in Starachowice region. Includes notary deeds, court decisions, and correspondence.

  3. The city governor office in L’viv Der Stadthauptmann in Lemberg (Sygn. 540)

    Consist of selected records of the Stadthauptmann office in L’viv. Included are ordinances, circulars, reports, German personnel files, lists, correspondence, regulations, announcements, and financial books of taxes related to German population, Ukrainian police, ownership of properties, abandoned Jewish properties, and taxes.

  4. Tony Carbone collection

    Photographs of a deportation action in Russia, Jewish children, Germany military activities, and a landscape.

  5. Shanghai register of Polish citizens from 1934-1941 Szanghajski rejestr obywateli polskich z lat 1934-1941

    Shanghai Ledger contains the records on Polish citizens kept by the Consulate of Poland in Shanghai in 1934-1943. The ledger was the supporting administrative tool for the diplomatic outpost as well as for the citizens, who settled in a given consulate jurisdiction. Based on the ledger, Polish citizens were able to apply for various documents and compensation. They could also be found more easily by their relatives and were able to get through all the formalities at the consulate faster. The ledger records the experiences of the citizens listed and the material evidence of the care and help...

  6. Playing outdoors in early summer 1938

    June 1938. Antonín and Michaela in the garden in Brno, Hlínky 18, bright red tulips. Michael on the balcony of the family home. Michaela pulls her brother in a toy car, the nanny helps. The children play with a toy castle doll-house with the red/white flag. 01:02:00 A woman walks from the house along the garden path. Garden furniture. The children play outdoors. Slow pan of the gardens. Woman (possibly the sister of Michael, Berta Freudenfeld, or her daughter, Lilli?) and teenage boy in dark suit (grandson of Berta, Gustav Landsmann, died in Auschwitz) closes the garden gate. 01:03:12 Vever...

  7. Travelogue of Rome

    Castle Films. "The World Parade" "Modern Rome" 1940? Travelogue of Rome with Mussolini, Fascist-era architecture, and large scale athletic exercises. Includes classic monuments and the Vatican.

  8. Selected records of the County Council in Końskie Powiatowa Rada Narodowa w Końskich (Sygn. 629)

    Correspondence regarding Jewish properties, 1945 and a register of abandoned Jewish properties, 1947.

  9. Children ride a carousel and play in the gardens

    The children ride the carousel in June 1941. They lounge outdoors on the porch at Bítýška and pose for the camera. 01:02:13 Ducks wade in a small stream on the property. Michaela and Antonin watch with the boy, Milan Jubánek, the (grand)son of the housekeeper’s family in Bítýška. 01:02:35 They sit on a wall together and smile for the camera. EXTs, grounds of summer cottage at Bítýška and the home. The children play in outdoors and pick flowers. Two dogs join the kids, CUs of the German shepherd. End 01:04:24

  10. Hitler Youth; American homefront activities

    Army-Navy Screen Magazine #50. 16mm film made for soldiers and war workers including two segments. "William L. Shirer Talks About The Hitler Youth" Lengthy segment about the Hitler Youth hosted by William Shirer, with footage of youth and how they were trained and raised for war. "By Request" shows images of the US homefront, a German mini submarine, and a woman singing in a radio studio. Includes Flatbush, New York; Fox Theater, Henry Street NYC; Baseball.

  11. Selected records of the Presidium of the Municipal Council in Chmielnik Prezydium Miejskiej Rady Narodowej w Chmielniku (Sygn. 2447)

    Records of the Jewish properties abandoned after war in Chmielnik, Poland. Included are official correspondence of the city council, rent registers, and registry books of individual properties with information about their previous Jewish owners.

  12. Selected records, Obóz Koncentracyjny Sachsenhausen Konzentrationslager Sachsenhausen (GK 137)

    Files and waybills to KL Sachsenhausen from various camps and places, personal files of prisoners, periodic reports, 1941-1942 regarding camp crew: ceremonies, training and others matters.

  13. Children play in their room in Brno

    November 1938. Antonín with a knit cap and suitcase on the gravel walkway in the garden of the family home in Veverská Bítýška (Note from Antonin: “October 1938 departure from Bítýška”). INT, Antonín and Michaela play indoors in the children’s room in Brno, putting the dolls to bed. Dark shots, Antonín plays with a toy car on the floor. 01:01:54 More INTs of children’s room, with projected lights. Antonín and Michaela ride on toy stuffed animals. 01:02:16 Antonín in the vestibule with jacket and hat, he carries postmail and a newspaper. Michaela washes and hangs laundry in a sunlit room. Sh...

  14. Search Bureau For Missing Persons Album

    Lot 139. Album of personnel. Search bureau for missing persons (May 1946) Search Bureau For Missing Persons, album containing fifty-three original snapshot photographs, each captioned with name and departmental office. Compiled by the Jewish Brigade personnel attached to the Bureau. Dedicated to Col. J.R. Bowring, founder of the Bureau. ff. 24. Original printed stiff wrappers.

  15. Morton Adell collection

    Photos and documents of Morton Adell, Regional Director of Northern Greece for the American Joint Distribution Committee in the years immediately after World War II. Includes photographs of the desecration of the Salonika Jewish cemetery; images of a postwar children's Chanukah party; letters; and a JDC report entited "Jewish Education in Greece," by Alfred Cohen, dated October 1946.

  17. Bernard S. Barr photographs

    The Bernard S. Barr photographs include two photographs of Barr during World War II; photographic negatives of the liberation of Dachau, including images of Barr at the camp, along with corresponding prints; and stereoscopic photographs from the 1937 “Reichsparteitag der Arbeit” Nazi propaganda series. The propaganda photographs are numbered 38, 55- 56, 58-61, 64-72, 74, 77, 96, 98-100. They were part of a compilation issued by Raumbild-Verlag Otto Schönstein with photographs by Heinrich Hoffmann and text by Pitter Gern.

  18. Polish Workers' Party. Central Committee and Districts Polska Partia Robotnicza. Komitet Centralny i Obwody (Sygn. 1314)

    Protocols, instructions, appeals, ideological programs, correspondence, reports, diplomatic telegrams, lists of members and other records of the Central Committee of the Polska Partia Robotnicza (KC PPR) and its regional branches in Poland.

  19. Selected records of the Communal Council in Nagłowice Gminna Rada Narodowa w Nagłowicach (Sygn. 1662)

    Questionnaires and correspondence on events of historical significance in the commune of Nagłowice for 1939-1945. Includes description of WWII events and German atrocities against Polish and Jewish people, deportation of 123 Jews to the ghetto in Jędrzejów, mass murder of four Jewish families by Germans in Ślęcin, underground movement, and a role of the Catholic church in helping war victims.

  20. SS Presentation plate

    SS presentation plate made in the Allach porcelain factory. The plate was brought home from WWII by Dr. George Tilden Novinger, who worked in the Dachau concentration camp after liberation, and served in the US Army from February 1944 – March 1946. The Allach porcelain factory was one of the SS's first industrial enterprises, under the direct control of Heinrich Himmler. The factories were sub-camps of Dachau concentration camp, with camp inmates supplying the forced labor.