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  1. Eckstein children play at home in Brno

    May 1938. Michaela plays on the balcony of her home in Brno, Hlínky 35, with flowering plants next to the toy kitchen, red toy car, dolls, and books. Michaela holds an umbrella, and walks toward the camera. Her brother Antonín joins and they snack on pretzels. 01:02:12 Antonín and Michaela with sun-hats smile and play outdoors in the yard at Hlínky 35. Spring flowers in bloom. Michaela pushes a toy baby carriage along the gravel walkway. Antonín crouches and digs with a trowel in the sandbox (father Michael sits on the white bench behind and smokes a cigar). 01:02:57 Dark-haired woman in re...

  2. Selected records of the commune Wąchock Akta Gminy Wąchock (Sygn. 2698)

    Minutes of meetings of the Commune Board, a list of owners of farming land, and statistics of land taxes.

  3. Selected records of the County Office in Końskie Starostwo Powiatowe w Końskich (Sygn. 1107)

    List of 108 persons registered in the Council of Elders of the Jewish Community in Końskie, February 28-April 28, 1941.

  4. Provincial Council in Kielce Wojewódzka Rada Narodowa w Kielcach (Sygn.306)

    List of places in Poland of executions by Germans and mass graves during WWII, correspondence regarding identification and care for the war graves; contracts of land lease, correspondence, and protocols related to abonded Jewish properties. Includes the transfer of a Jewish farm in Opatów for the needs of Junior High and High School, and a list of other Jewish lands transferred for lease to school and private citizens, etc.

  5. Selected records of unpublished studies on World War II Opracowania niepublikowane dotyczące II wojny światowej (Sygn. 1230)

    Published and unpublished studies, copies from the press, excerpts from publications, manuscripts and typescripts of memories, maps related mainly to the situation in occupied Poland and the activities of the resistance during World War II. Includes lists of destroyed villages, of execution sites in Warsaw, lists of underground organizations operating in the territory of Poland during the occupation, of members of the Polska Partia Robotnicza (PPR), Gwardia Ludowa (GL) and Armia Ludowa (AL) killed or murdered during World War II, and lists of prisons in Germany end occupied countries, memor...

  6. Oral history interview with Leo Anspach

  8. Selected records, Obóz Koncentracyjny w Buchenwaldzie Konzentrationslager Buchenwald (GK 127)

    Orders of the camp commandant, statistics, alphabetical list of refugees, interrogations of prisoners, personal files, list of clerical prisoners, transport lists, Effektenkammer files, lists of deceased prisoners, daily reports of the camp hospital, name lists of prisoners numbers: 43001-51000; 59001-121400; 128401-140068; a fragment of the personal files of Polish prisoners who arrived at the camp in April 1945, card files of prisoners No. 1-1201; Veraenderungsmeldungs (reports on changes in the number of prisoners in the camp).

  9. Selected records of the County Office in Pińczów Starostwo Powiatowe Pińczowskie (Sygn. 2309) : Wybrane materiały

    Files related to Jewish affairs, correspondence and regulations regarding Jewish religion and lists of Jewish cemeteries.

  10. Selected records of the Brandenburg State Archives

    Consists of police reports about the activities of different political groups and congregations, including Jewish communities or individuals, deportations of foreign citizens, implementation of Nuremberg laws for Jewish population of the region, lists of Jews in Potsdam as to October 6, 1942. Includes reports on the Jewish congregations in Prenzlau-Wriezen.

  11. Posterunek Żandarmerii w Żyrardowie Gendarmerie Posten Żyrardów (GK 657)

    Reports, correspondence, interrogation’s protocols regarding work and events with the intervention of the gendarmerie. Includes personal files of the gendarmes.

  12. Felix Kasprzak collection

    Contains two copies of an undated personal narrative written by donor’s father, Felix Joseph Kasprzak, an American born in New Jersey who moved to Poland in 1933 with his Polish-born mother so he could attend school. Living in Pabianice, after the German invasion of Poland, Felix fled to Warsaw and then back to Pabianice. He was eventually arrested and imprisoned in concentration camps and, according to his writings, was able to leave German occupation and return to the United States in 1942. His writings also describe bombings and chaos that ensued as the Germans bombed Poland. The two acc...

  13. Landesgericht Eisenstadt: NS-Verfahren

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

  14. Paris 1945

    Three rolls: Paris 1 (18:22) Paris 2 (17:09) Paris 3 (10:35)

  15. Selected records of the Municipal Council and Municipal Government in Łódź Miejska Rada Narodowa i Zarząd Miejski w Łodzi (Sygn. 222)

    Reports, correspondence, registers, declarations, financial reports, statistics, application and permits relating to survivors of the war, Jews and Poles. Includes documents on medical assistance for returning and repatriates, the fate of real estate belonging to Jews before the war (so-called abandoned property), population statistics, permits for running and liquidating Jewish enterprises, construction and activity of the Jewish theater, matters of Jewish religion (choice of rabbi, ritual slaughter). In addition, includes documents from various associations and organizations: the Health P...

  16. Selected records of the County Starosty in Łask Starostwo Powiatowe Łaskie (Sygn. 2112) : Wybrane materialy

    Register of passports and foreign travel permits containing name, surname, purpose and date of departure, also applies to persons of Jewish origin.

  17. 1944 news roundup: Rome fall to the Allies; D-Day

    News documentary with intertitles produced for the home movie market by Castle Films Productions. "The News Parade" 1944. "Rome! Falls to Allies" Soldiers shoot mortars/artillery into the hillsides. "Determined American Tank and Infantry columns move in a final thrust toward the gates of the Eternal City!" Military convoy. Shells falling near an Allied soldier. Soldiers on a hillside firing rifles and shoulder artillery. Soldiers attacking a farmhouse using rifles and tossing grenades. In a narrow city alley- explosion in a building causes soldiers to drop. Officers and large artillery on a...

  18. Selected records of the commune Kazimierza Wielka Akta gminy Kazimierza Wielka (Sygn. 2227)

    Lists of voters (with accurate personal data) to the municipal council from 1933-1934, minutes of the council meetings from 1934-1936 and 1937-1945; the book of tribute (tax) from 1941-1942; lists of voters for the Sejm (Polish Parliament) and Senate from 1928; various documents related to issuing and the register of ID cards; population control books and the index to the register of residents of the commune from 1931-1938.

  19. Edward Kossoy collection Akta Edwarda Kossoya (Sygn. 2633)

    Archives of Edward Kossoy (Jewish lawyer and publicist) consists of his education records, university diplomas, emigration and naturalization, official and private correspondance, fragments of memoirs of the victims, materials regarding German crimes, the chronicle of German capitulation, reports of the Sicherheitspolizei (SiPo) from Polish teritories, press clippings, articles and other publications, and numerous documents related to his private life. Includs biographies of clients, a letter from Andrzej Olechowski to Donald Tusk (2009), correspondence with Norman Davis (1993, 2002-2005), ...

  20. Association of former Participants of the Fight for Freedom of Spain (Dąbrowszczaków Association) Związek byłych Uczestników Walk o Wolność Hiszpanii (Związek Dąbrowszczaków) (Sygn. 1485)

    Records of the Związek Dąbrowszczaków (Association "Dąbrowszczaków" related to participation of Polish people in the civil war in Spain, 1936-1939. Includes reports, statutes, correspondence, minutes, financial books, and poems, list of members and their families, personal files of participants of the civil war in Spain, photographs, ID cards and other documents. Many of the fighters were Polish citizens of Jewish origin.