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  1. 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.

  2. Selected records of the commune Pacanów Akta gminy Pacanów (Sygn. 2519)

    The registry of residents of Pacanów, Poland from 1932-1948 with personal and residency information: surnames and names; parents' names and mother's maiden name; date and place of birth; a name of the main tenant and family members; occupation and position, the main source of income; confession; marital status and name of the spouse; attitude towards universal military duty; ID card; nationality; previous place of residence; a legal residence; a date of residence in the commune; the next place of residence; a date of leaving the commune; annotations about penalties; and comments.

  3. Presentation by Celina Rose

  4. Children play in the snow

    Sledding in snow in Brno in February 1940 in front of their home. Antonin and Michaela take turns on the sled in the streets of Brno with their nanny. They play in the snowy gardens behind the home, shoveling snow in toy wheelbarrows, and trudge through the deep snow. 01:01:14 The camerawoman and mother, Toni, films from indoors, note the window pane at the bottom of the frame. On the streets, a nanny throws a snowball at the children, “Benzol” advertisement in the BG. 01:02:56 A man sweeps snow on the roof of the family’s three-story house, showing a rare view of the house from the frontsi...

  5. Paris May 1, 1945

    Roll 0015. Paris City Snapshot on May 1, 1945. Snowy winter day. Few people walking in the snow. Traffic. Armored truck outside a Paris building. Trees and rooftops. Eifel tower and sunnier skies. Father and son have a snow ball fight. Others surround the Eifel Tower, all white promenade.

  6. Selected records of the Court of the First Instance in Grodzisk Mazowiecki Sąd Grodzki w Grodzisku Mazowieckim (Sygn. 1647) : Wybrane materialy

    Selected files of court civil and criminal cases related to repayment of debt, beatings, insulting public officials, embezzlement, theft and other matters. The cases relate to Jews who were inhabitants of Grodzisk Mazowiecki. The files contain personal data about participants of lawsuits.

  7. Selected records of the County Department in Pinczów Wydział Powiatowy w Pińczowie (Sygn. 2310)

    Minutes of meetings of the County Department in Pinczów and Busko on various matters of the Jewish population; a list of the property owners in Pińczów and Skalbmierz, files on social and health care with registration cards of recipients of help, as well as lists of craft workshops, enterprises and trading companies.

  8. Oral history interview with Simon Kagan

  9. Ruins in Italy; American pilot

    Outdoor amphitheater in Italy. Tower and a domed building in the distance. Ruins. (1:13) US soldier posing in front of the ruins. Town on the side of a hill. People walking around covered vehicles. (2:42) An impressive cathedral with many spires along the top. A distinct looking building on the top of a hill, overlooking a body of water. (4:02) US soldiers driving in an open aired vehicle up a winding road. Soldiers hefting large duffels onto a US naval transport ship. Woman smiles and pets a dog. (5:03) A damaged Red Cross vessel on its side sinking into the water. (5:28) Women handing out...

  10. 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...

  11. German soldiers; loading train; command post

    Landscape with trees, powerlines, and a road. Town, church, possibly in France. Crossroads in a path. Sign with an arrow pointing “Befehlsstelle” and “Keimer.” Traveling shots. Checkpoint with a German soldier standing beside. Sign: “Einbahnstrasse.” German military compound. Brief shot of man at a table writing while a German soldier leans over him. Men shoveling beside barrier. German soldier looks directly at the camera. Farming in a field. Traveling on the road. Sign/stone marker: "St. Gabriel 1k Creully 3k" Pan of snowy landscape. (4:26) German officials oversee cars being loaded onto ...

  12. Selected records from the Salzburger Landesarchiv

    Records pertaining to the Nazi office of the Reichsstatthalter in Salzburg, as well as of the Bezirkshauptmannschaften and Landräte. Includes the expropriation records ("VMS Arisierung") for the provincial state of Salzburg, records of the city of Salzburg, records pertaining information on Roma people, camps in Salzburg, labor camps for "asocial "prisoners, Russian labor workers and prisoners of war.

  13. "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...

  14. 1943 news roundup

    News documentary with intertitles produced for the home movie market by Castle Films Productions. "The News Parade of the Year 1943" "Battling the U-Boats!" "Tragedy at Tulon!" "MacArthur's Smashing Offensive!" "Argentina Revolts!" "Allies on the March!" "Bombs Over Hitlerland!"

  15. Selected records of the Investigating judges of the Jędrzejów County of the District Court in Kielce Sędziowie śledczy powiatu jędrzejowskiego Sądu Okręgowego w Kielcach (Sygn. 1358)

    Investigation files relating to the pogrom of Jews in Wodzisław in Nov. 1918. Includes also two investigative cases about communist activities.

  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. Służba Specjalna Batalion Zastępczy w Lublinie SS- und Polizeigericht VI. Zweiggericht Lublin (GK 698)

    Files of criminal investigation against German, Ukrainian and Polish policemen from the Lublin District: Hans Walter, Herbert Christensen, Heinrich Hass, Emil Jess, Karl Kothe, Franz Letzel, Werner Lippert, Michael Marczuk, Franz Pantil, Rudolf Pfau, Alois Repp, Paul Rau, August Reichert, Heinrich Reinwarth, Alfred Ritter, Wilhelm Schuttler, Jacobus von der Speck, Hans Siem, Anton Tyssen, Rudolf Seer, Kurt Zimmermann, Josef Rodz, Wilhelm Rotarmel, Joahnn Jurkiw, Willi Ortmann, Jurij Huzelo, Stefan Schmigel, Vincent Pawlowski, Waclaw Petrol, Jan Opacki, Bolesław Dobrzyński, Mieczysław Cyrank...

  18. Kreisgericht Steyr: NS-Verfahren

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

  19. Selected records of the Grodzki Court in Miechów Sąd Grodzki w Miechowie (Sygn. 1137)

    Court files of civil and criminal cases related to Jewish residents of Miechów region, Poland.

  20. Komendant Policji Bezpieczeństwa i Służby Bezpieczeństwa na Litwie Der Kommandeur der Sicherheitspolizei und des Sicherheitsdienst Litauen (GK 700)

    Correspondence, reports, instructions, interrogations, reports, telegrams of the German intelligence offices about the Polish and Lithuanian resistance movement in Lithuania, Latvia, and the Bialystok region (Bezirk Bialystok), Poland. Includes also a list of Catholic clergy and leading activists of underground organizations.