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  1. Association of the Racially Persecuted Zväz rasovo prenasledovaných

    Membership files for the organization, which consisted of, and document the experiences of, Jewish Holocaust survivors in post-war Czechoslovakia, 1945-1950.

  2. Ernst Schlochauer papers

    Certificates, correspondence, memoir, typescript texts, clippings, and ephemera, primarily related to the educational career of German emigre Ernst Schlochauer, after his immigration to the United States in 1941. Includes notes, syllabi, clippings, programs, and correspondence from his years a student at Queens College and Princeton University, and later material from when Schlochauer was a faculty members at Queens College. Extracurricular activities are documented in materials related to Jewish organizations he participated in during his student days, and programs and notes from plays he ...

  3. Rocket testing

    Color film on the rocket testing site Peenemünde, Heinrich Himmler, several test launches of V2

  4. Luftwaffe

    Luftwaffe unit, Me 109E, light anti-aircraft gun, trucks, laughing officers in the snow, Alps, boat party, Innsbruck, Luftwaffe Panzer, Romania (?), Women visit squadron, Schiffer piano, doctor, cow slaughtered, Russia, Russian civilians, food, Luftwaffe, Dam in Russia, camel. North Africa: 01:53:47, 01:54:00 and 01:54:35 ELT Adolf Dickfeld 02:01:26, 02:03:28 and 02:03:50 Schwerterträger Günther Rall

  5. Hitler youth Austria

    Recordings from a HJ / Jungvolkauf march in the Innkreis in Austria. 00:03:50 - 00:04:02 color: Innkreis 1938 00:05:16 - 00:05:21 filming man 00:06:42 - 00:08:18 color: teasing with girls in dirndls; Soccer game 00:08:24 - 00:09:28 boy runs into the camera 00:09:32 - 00:10:22 railroad

  6. Koenig family papers

    The Koenig family papers primarily contain letters to Anna Sobel and Max Koenig from the Koenig family in Pasieczna, Poland (now Pasichna, Ukraine) and the Sobel family in Sołotwina, Poland (now Solotvyn, Ukraine). Also included are wedding and bris invitations of Max and Anna, and emigration instructions from the American Consulate in Poland.

  7. Avraham Slitinsky letters

    Consists of more than 300 letters and several paper items written by soldier Avraham Slitinsky, while he served in the Jewish Brigade of the British Army in Eindehoven, Delft, Brussels, Antwerp, London, Italy and other places in Europe. Written to his wife Michal who lived in Tel Aviv, the letters describe life in the British Army and Europe. Some of the topics mentioned in the letters insclude a dispute between British officers and the Brigade soldiers concerning raising a Hebrew flag in the camp; first encounters with Jewish refugees; several letters from Germany with descriptions of Germ...

  8. 257th Infantry Division moves through Poland

    With German intertitles. Scenes filmed by Lieutenant Edgar Forsberg of the 257 German Infantry following the collapse of the Polish army on October 6, 1939. “Mit dem Stab der 257. Inf. Div. im Krieg (ein forbfilm)” “Ausbildungsbilder in Döberitz.” Soldiers ride in on horse drawn wagons, bringing in weaponry. Soldiers crawl through a field. More soldiers in wagons bringing in supplies. 10:00:42 “Lübbenau” “Gesprengte Grenzbrucke bei Myslowitz.” A wooden bridge over a small river. A collapsed bridge. Man rides a bike in town. “Im Schloßpark Krzeszowice.” Landscape. Soldiers walk along a road....

  9. Unused Star of David badge

    Unused Star of David badge with Jude for Jew of the type that the Jewish population of German speaking countries was required to wear during the Holocaust.

  10. Deutsches Jungvolk; KdF parade; Rothkirch in Vienna; Czech border; Refugees; Invasion of Poland

    Deutsches Jungvolk [German youngsters in the Hitler Youth - DJ] Young boys aged 8-14 in training, laughing, bugle, outdoor drills, eating, tent camp with flags. 10:07:40 Boys return to city with rucksacks, hop on streetcars. 10:07:53 Crowds gather for DJ demonstration outdoors near Berlin, boys drumming, tents with DJ flags, family members observe the boys' activities, wrestling. 10:09:30 The boys prepare to march in a parade, bugles with DJ flag. 10:10:28 Count Rothkirch sets up ladder with film camera for demonstration in Berlin. Pan, Brandenburg Gate with banner: "Fuehrer befiel wir folg...

  11. Romania; Hungary; Transylvania

    Romania 1944. Bridge. Mud. Roma camp. Romanian military. Bucharest radio report, swimming, car. Petroleum area. Hungarian border. Transylvania. 03:00:00 - 03:57:09 Same as M 2573 (http://www.archiv-akh.de/filme/2573#1).

  12. Samuel Chalupovitsch diary

    The collection consists of a diary kept by Samuel Chalupovitsch while he was in the Finnish Army fighting the Soviet Union on the Eastern Front during the Continuation War. The diary covers 1942-1943 and is written in Swedish. Topics include daily life in the military, universal human values, the progress of the war, and his observance of mitzvot. Collection includes English translation.

  13. Selected records related to the history of the Jewish community of Plovdiv

    Records of the Jewish Community in Plovdiv, Bulgaria: files on inspections of the Plovdiv district school; correspondence with the Police Directorate and rural municipal governments in the county; mutual and voluntary exodus of Greeks, Turks, Vlachs and Jews, deserters in the Romanian and Turkish army; annual and monthly reports on the status and activities of the administrative office at the Regional Police Department, Plovdiv in 1941-1944; files of the Jewish companies in Plovdiv; commercial cases for bankruptcy; confidential correspondence with the Council of Ministers-sector "Civil and ...

  14. Oral history interview with Ruth Kohner

  15. Ciechanowiecki and Miller families photograph collection

    The collection contains prewar photographs of Chaim Yaakov Ciechanowiecki and Hinka Miller, and their families in Poland; postwar photographs in a displaced persons camp in Cremona, Italy; and modern color photographs of family members.

  16. Ralph McComb photograph collection

    Contains postwar photographs of Buchenwald, and wartime photographs of Merxhausen mental hospital and ruins in Germany. Taken by donor's father, Ralph McComb, Second Lieutenant with the 58th Medical Battalion.

  17. SS Police in France

    SS-Polizei-Verband [SS Police Association] in France, Paris, various private recordings "Leben als Besatzungsmacht" [Life as Occupying Power], arrest operation. Brief color sequence at 01:04:00.

  18. Selected records from the State Archives of the Western-Kazakhstan Region in Uralsk

    Records related to the evacuation of civilians.

  19. San Remo; USA voyage aboard the "Bremen"; Olympics

    Consulate in St. Remo, southern villa. "Bremen" on a trip to the US, passengers, swimming pools on board, etc. Life on board, bull fight Steamer "Albert Ballin" charges, Hamburg, (14. 8. 1931), beach life, Parade Reichswehr, relocation, Frankfurt, open-air swimming pool, Olympics, Hitler enters the stadium with officials,

  20. Jewish community in Żychlin Gmina żydowska w Żychlinie (Sygn. 111)

    Records of the Jewish community in Żychlin: lists of advance payments, lists of remittances paid for medical treatments, payment of shares to a communal fund, books of share payers and a list of community members.