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  1. Basic training, German soldiers in Ukraine

    Basic training in tank reconnaissance, motorcycle riding, German soldiers. Jassy 1944 (Southern Ukraine). Bazooka. Tank mine. German-Romanian. Gen. Radulesci. Dead civilians. Stanca 1944. Panzer IV, counterattack. 01:29:50 - 01:42:00 Same as M 2574 (http://www.archiv-akh.de/filme/2574#1).

  2. Edwin Hinrichs photograph collection

    Collection of photographs captured by Edwin Hinrichs (donor's father) Master Sargeant in the 17th Cavalry Squadron under General Patton, from a German POW, depicting German soldiers during their military operations; c. 1941-1942. Some of the photographs depict concentration camps.

  3. Selected records related to the evacuation of civilians to Armenia during World War II

    Records related to the evacuation of civilians to Armenia during World War II that includes information about resettlement, employment, financial aid, food supplies and medical assistance provided by the local authorities to evacuees and refugees. Includes lists of evacuees arriving to Armenia from various regions of the former USSR, lists of Polish refugees repatriated to Poland and Jews evacuated from various locations, correspondence of the local authorities pertaining to settlement and employment of evacuees and refugees, statistics, reports, lists of communists, etc.

  5. Glee club "Loreley"; excursions around Dresden; daily life

    Ascension Day 1937, pub, bus ride, boat ride, Elbe River, Family in Glossen, Lübben, Dresden

  6. Koenigstein fortress in spring, summer, and fall

    Intertitles read, “Lavabildungen im äusseren Krater des Vesuvs,” “ Palermo: 8000 Leichen in den unterirdischen Gängen des Kapuziner-Klosters bieten -unbestattet-einen schaurigen Anblick,” “Oktober Zirkus Krone hält seinen Einzug in Leipzig.” Another intertitle: “W.L. Film 63.” The words “Kriegsjahre auf der Festung Königstein” over a photo of Walter Lenger in Königstein. Intertitle: “2. Teil.” Walter, in his uniform, with a small camera up to his eye. He steps into a car. He opens the car door and waves as the car drives away. Walter in a convertible driving through the countryside. A dog r...

  7. Hamburg

    Hamburg; ships with German flags, swastikas (agfa-color).

  8. Records of the registry office of the Jewish community in Lutomiersk Akta urządu stanu cywilnego gminy żydowskiej w Lutomiersku (Sygn. 1547)

    Books of the registry office in Lutomiersk, Poland. Selected records contain registry books with data of marriages, births and deaths of inhabitants in Lutomiersk as well as bound copies of annexes.

  9. Fundraising poster depicting the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

    Poster and mailing tube created as a fundraiser for the Committee for the Ghetto Memorial Museum in Montreal circa 1960. The poster features an imagined scene of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by Christo Stefanoff.

  10. Polish troops in Kraków

    Polish Troops, SS, Theodor Eicke, Krakau

  11. Austria 1940

    Private films. Salzburg (partly in color). Austrian lakes in summer. Königssee. St. Bartholomä. Attersee

  12. Glass slides of photographs from unidentified concentration camp, post-liberation.

    Glass slides (8), containing photographic images of scenes in a liberated concentration camp, depicting liberated prisoners in barracks, United States military personnel, and corpses of victims. One image shows a former prisoner with a United States soldier, pointing toward an oven, and another shows an American soldier addressing a group of civilians, presumably German, standing in front of a crematorium. The provenance of these images is unknown.

  13. County Command of the State Police in Końskie. Police Station in Borkowice Komenda Powiatowa Policji Państwowej w Końskich. Posterunek w Borkowicach (Sygn. 1336)

    Police control book of investigations. The book is divided by fourteen sections with the following information: e.g. location, committed crimes, damages; names of victims, their occupation and whereabouts, result of investigations, and how the case was investigated and revealed.

  14. Drunk Nazis; Jews with armbands in Reichshof

    KZ-Bewacher. Men in civilian and uniform (police) - drunken revelry. 10:04:19 Men make fun of Jewish rituals: men put a jacket and tablecloth over their shoulders and head. Gas protection school probably in Knurow. Eastern campaign. 10:13:00 (1942) Russia, winter 1942, place, snow-covered houses. 10:22:41 Generalgouvernement Distrikt Krakau. Reichshof District Authority (Rzeszow). 10:23:28 Street scene from Reichshof, Jews with armbands. 10:23:34 View of the entrance to the ghetto. Street is narrowed by two walls. 10:24:25 "Kino Apollo". German soldiers stand in front of the cinema. "Deutsc...

  15. Philippi family papers

    The collection documents the experiences of Julius and Hedwig Philippi and their daughter Gretel and their immigration to Great Britain shortly after Kristallnacht in 1938. The papers also document the wartime experiences of their extended families in Offenbach, Köln, and Düsseldorf, Germany. Included are identification documents; naturalization certificates; birth, marriage, and death certificates; and family genealogy documents. Wartime correspondence includes letters to Julius from his siblings Klara and Enrico, and correspondence between Caroline Philippi’s husband Karl Ganz and Lord Me...

  16. Arrest of collaborators; Germans leave Prague, May 1945

    The arrest of a Czech collaborator with the Nazis (man wearing glasses). They lead him up to an official building. People hit him on the head. Street activity, pedestrians. Clock at 1:20 PM. Puddles in the street. Quick shots of Prague, a Czech flag. Two men on a motorcycle. German soldiers leaving the city. Covered wagons pulled by horses move through the streets, along with people on foot. Trucks whip around a bend. Dead German soldiers. More military vehicles, soldiers sitting in and on the cars. Fires rage at the edge of a field. Wreckage of tanks and trucks on the road. Dead horse, an ...

  17. Magda Adler autograph book

    Contains an autograph album which originally belonged to Magda Adler.

  18. Dr. Samuel Lipsett photograph collection

    Collection of photographs documenting victims in the Ohrdruf concentration camp shortly after liberation; brought home from WWII by Dr. Samuel Lipsett (donor's father) who was a Captain in the US Army.

  19. Wehrmacht training

    Private film. Military service, May 8, 1939. Wehrmacht training. Appeals, exercise with a gas mask, visit to the Walhalla, southern German town, boat trip, monument. 10:07:01 Run with gas masks 10:07:58 "Legion Condor" Morning exercise, washing, lessons, formal service, inspection of clothes. 10:09:48 End of the recruitment period, marching out of barracks. 10:11:26 On the plane, close-ups of the pilot, aerial photos. 10:14:02 Landing filmed from the inside. 10:14:35 Bicycles ride out, Würzburg. Young woman in fur coat. 10:16:17 Aircraft in the air.

  20. United Credit Society of Merchants and Reality Proprietors, Ltd. in Kielce Zjednoczone Towarzystwo Kredytowe Kupców i Właścicieli Nieruchomości w Kielcach (Sygn. 1392)

    The financial book of one of the Jewish banks in Kielce. Each page of the book contains a description of financial transactions (shares, dividends etc.), of the shareholder and the date of its adoption. In total, the bank had 182 shareholders.