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  1. Homefront activities in Washington, DC

    News documentary with intertitles and English narration produced for the home movie market by Castle Films Productions. "The News Parade" 1942. "Washington in Wartime" Street scenes in Washington, DC and the Lincoln Memorial. Civilians mixed with soldiers and war workers. President Roosevelt at Union Station. Secretary of State Cordell Hull greets foreign statesmen. U.S. Information Building. US Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. gives short speech Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Donald M. Nelson- Office of Personnel Management. Paul V. McNutt- War Manpower Commission. War Department...

  2. Irving Rubenstein collection

    Contains carbon copies of reports recorded in Mauthausen. Includes copies of a nine-page confession of Franz Ziereis, former commandant, detailing daily murder and mistreatment of Mauthausen inmates [per Ziereis] persecuted by other high-ranking Nazi officials, and a with note to his wife including details of atrocities at other camps. Also includes a report, including a handwritten note on the last page, conveyed by inmate and victim Wladislaus Czaplinski, a physician in the camp who was interned in the Camp from 1940 through liberation. His statement details the murder of thousands of pri...

  3. Morck and Mayer families papers

    The Morck and Mayer families papers include documents relating to the prewar life and immigration of Anneliese Morck (later Anne Martin) and the extended Morck and Mayer families from Frankfurt am Main and Heidelberg, Germany. Identification and immigration documents relating to Hugo, Alice, Anne, and Heinz Morck include German passports, certificates of registration for the United Kingdom, certificates of naturalization for the United States, affidavits, visa documentation, packing lists, and passenger booklets for the SS President Harding. Identification and immigration documents relating...

  4. 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.

  5. 422nd Night Fighter Squadron collection

    Contains 12 photographs taken by a soldier in the 422nd Night Fighter Squadron stationed in Belgium. Includes images of damage to an unidentified city, and post-liberation photographs of survivors in an unidentified concentration camp.

  6. Jules Graff collection

    Two copy photographs showing the interior and exterior of the mobile darkroom used by Jules Graff, who was photographer for the 333rd Regiment.

  7. Emil and Martha Feigenbaum collection

    Two albums related to Emil and Martha Feigenbaum's emigration from Berlin, Germany, and their arrival in the United States. The materials cover the pre-war, war, and post-war periods and include documentation of the efforts to save Emil's parents, Meier and Flora, both of whom perished in the Holocaust.

  8. Komendant Policji Bezpieczeństwa i Służby Bezpieczeństwa dla Okręgu Warszawskiego (GK 106) Selected records of the Der Kommandeur der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD für den Distrikt Warschau Der Kommandeur der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD fur den Distrikt Warschau (GK 106)

    Anonimous denunciations to Gestapo mostly related to Jews in Warsaw, training of Jewish policemen in Warsaw ghetto and lists of policemen, various ordinances and reports, daily orders of Der Kommandeur der Sipo und SD for 1940, files on illegal trade carried out by Jews, files of investigations against Germans suspected of accepting a bribe, maintaining contacts with Polish women, illegal trade and other.

  9. Kreisgericht Steyr: NS-Verfahren

    Postwar court records of Nazi-related cases in the district court in Steyr, Austria.

  10. Selected records of the Special Criminal Court at the Warsaw Appeal District located in Łódź Specjalny Sąd Karny na Okręg Apelacyjny Warszawski z siedzibą w Łodzi (GK 209)

    Contains selected files of criminal trials conducted in the Special Penalty Court in Warsaw, seat in Łódź during the years 1944-1946. 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 o...

  11. Selected records of the Polish Red Cross from the Łódź Voivodeship Szczątki zespołów akt Polskiego Czerwonego Krzyża z terenu województwa łódzkiego (Sygn. 900)

    Consists of correspondence, lists, questionnaires and protocols from the files of the Polish Red Cross, Information Office in Łódź. Includes a list of deceased civil citizens and fallen soldiers in the Łódź region, personal surveys of fallen and buried people in the Łowicz county, 1939-1942 ("Grób Polski"); exhumations and lists of killed in the Łowicz county; lists and information about the fallen and missing, lists of graves, and list of foreigners residing in the city of Piotrków,1932.

  12. 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...

  13. Namiestnik Rzeszy w Okregu Kraju Warty w Poznaniu Selected records of the Der Reichsstatthalter im Reichsgau Wartheland Posen Der Reichsstatthalter im Reichsgau Wartheland Posen (GK 62)

    Correspondence relating the employment of Poles by Germans, mattaers of NSDAP party, statistics on various nationalities, resistance movement, church matters, displacement of Poles and Jews, extermination of civilians, racial policy, and gremanization of Polish orphans in Kalisz and Kirchdorf. Includes a register book with names of Poles, Jews and Russians murdered by gendarmerie and Gestapo, 1939-1945 (Wieluń, Wieruszowa, Ostrzeszowa, Pajęczno), and a name list of prisoners from the labor camp in Wąsowo, Poland.

  14. Philipp Kanner papers

    Contains approximately 60 letters and documents that belonged to Philipp Kanner, the secretary of the Ferramonti di Tarsia camp after it came under the auspices of Allied forces in September 1943. Includes a notebook with duplicates of 56 notices handwritten by Kanner to the Welfare Committee of the camp with food orders, maintenance instructions, notices from the camp police, Kashrut, dwelling, and other notices; most notes are signed by Kanner and a small part is signed by the camp commander. Also includes handwritten and typescript letters and drafts sent to and from Kanner, including Ka...

  15. Brukner and Grinberg families papers

    Consists of documents, photographs, and restitution papers related to Ester Grinberg née Brukner, her husband, Max Grinberg, her sister Irena Dlugosz née Brukner, and their families.

  16. Selected records of the Booksellers' Union, Main Board in Warsaw Związek Księgarzy, Zarząd Główny w Warszawie (Sygn. 163)

    Files of the Verification Commission of the Związek Księgarzy Polskich (Association of Polish Booksellers) to verify activities of the booksellers in connection with Germans during World War II. Includes reports, lists and questionaries with investigative information about the booksellers.

  17. Selected records from the State District Archive in Brno-Venkov

    Records of the District Offices of Brno-Venkov and Tišnov, the District National Committee of Brno-Venkov, the Municipal Archives of Tišnov and Ivančice, pertaining to laws and regulations of foreigners, Jewish passport applications and emigration, the expropriation of Jewish property including lists of Jewish property owners, and anti-Jewish measures. Records also features lists of Jewish refugees in the years 1938 and 1939 from various domestic and foreign locations including from Nazi-annexed Vienna, Austria. Also features post-war lists of Jewish survivors.

  18. Franka and Abram Charlupski papers

    Loose photographs, a photo album, documents, and Wielun Yizkor book prospectus relating to the experiences of Franka Wajntraub Charlupski and Abram Charlupski, both survivors of the Łódź ghetto.

  19. Oral history interview with Joseph Grenfell

  20. Prewar Vienna; President Miklas

    Garden path in Vienna. HAS, city street with Hotel Bristol. Streetcar, crowds. (:45) The Opera House Bustling city life, traffic, people walking around. Tracking shots along busy street, shop signs, pedestrians on sidewalks. "Wiener Werk-statte" "Kartner Kino" "Jakob Rothberger" "Phillip Kornitzer" Naschmarkt. Statue. (4:52) “Phillipp Hof” building on Albertinaplatz (building destroyed on March 12, 1945). Crowds of people walking down the street. "Mercedes Benz" "Nord Deutscher Lloyd Bremen" and other advertising signs affixed to the street lamps. Closer views of pedestrians on a bustling s...