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  1. Collection of testimonies of disabled soldiers of World War II Zbiór relacji inwalidów II wojny światowej (Sygn. 1702)

    Collection consists of the memoirs of disabled ex-servicemen from Poland, related to their experiences during World War II and the German occupation of Poland. The volume of individual accounts ranges from a few to several dozen pages. Many cases include personal questionnaires. The main subjects included in the memoirs are: the campaign of September 1939, the Polish Resistance movement, the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, forced labor and imprisonment in concentration camps and prison camps for NCO’s and soldiers in Nazi Germany.

  2. OSE home for Jewish boys

    OSE (Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants) home for Jewish boys in Ecouis, France. The teenage boys had been liberated from Buchenwald just three months prior. The boys dance. 00:02:46 The boy carrying a suitcase is Israel Meir Lau. The teenage boys engage in sports, visit the city and some board a bus and wave goodbye, perhaps emigrating to Palestine or other places. A memorial service/parade and display of models the boys made in a woodworking class. They socialize with girls and build a fire.

  3. Sardine address label

    Label with pre-printed destination address of Lager Birkenau Bei Neubrunn and a typed name, Edita Weissova. One of a set of four Lisbon pre-printed sardine address labels from Gremio dos Exportadores de Conservas de Peixe for registered shipping to different concentration camps including Bergen-Belsen, Lager Barneveld, and Birkenau bei Neubrunn.

  4. Artillery practice; aircraft demonstration

    “Zingst - Luftübungen 1938.” Bombing exercises in Zingst. Soldiers practice with artillery in a field. They fire and reload an 88mm anti-aircraft gun. Clouds appear in the sky as the shells explode. Materials cascade from the sky. Plumes of smoke rise off the field in the horizon. Planes fly overhead, a demonstration. Large clouds of smoke rising from the earth from bombs dropped by the planes above. Soldiers stand to the side and watch. A house goes up in flames, black smoke rising off of it. 10:06:03 Hitler descends a staircase, followed by Göring and Erich Raeder and more Nazi officials....

  5. Beach; fire brigades; carnival; parades; Bremen ship

    Klappholttal, island of Sylt. Infantry. Luftwaffe. Fire brigades. Berlin in 1935. Stralau draught. Berlin radio tower. Reinhold Tiling’s rocket. Slapstick routine. Child in uniform. Train. Shepherd Launching of the SMS “Bremen”.

  6. Oral testimonies of Lilly Malnik and Nesse Godin

  7. Reich party day, Nuremberg

    Reich Party Day in Nuremberg, Day of the Wehrmacht, 1936 or 1937. Soldiers engage in military maneuvers. 10:15:44 Arrival on the stage of Goering, Rudolf Hess, military men, Martin Bormann, SA- Obergruppenfuehrer Wilhelm Brueckner. Hitler at the podium in the Zeppelinfield, upper commander of all armed forces greeting Hitler as they pass by, Hitler greets with salute. (Film runs much too fast) - parade, marching band, Army. Pan of Hitler and the officers and functionaries standing behind the stage, among them SA group leader Wilhelm Brueckner appears large in FG. 10:17:33 Large marching ban...

  8. Robert Bogart collection

    Color glass slides of the proceedings of the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany taken by Robert Bogart (donor's father) who as a US Army Signal Corps photographer; copy photographs of the Stroop Report photographs; photo of the Nuremberg Trial taken by a fellow photographer.

  9. The Red Army in Berlin

    Bomb damage in Berlin, Russian invasion, burning house, rubble, Brandenberg gate with red flag

  10. Pogrom in Zloczow, July 1941

    Brief panning shot of water and the shore. The next scenes show the Zloczow pogrom, which took place from July 1 - 4, 1941. Before the Soviets retreated from Zloczow, the NKVD murdered several hundred civilians at Zamek prison. Many of those killed were Ukrainian nationalists, but some Jews and Poles were also murdered. The bodies were buried in four mass graves. After the Germans occupied Zloczow, the Jews were blamed for the murders and a pogrom ensued. Corpses litter a muddy, grassy area. These are most likely the bodies of those murdered by the NKVD. A crowd of bystanders, including bot...

  11. De Kadt family home movies

    Willie de Kadt and another toddler play with a tricycle outdoors, they plant a Dutch flag; one pets a sleeping dog and smiles at the camera. Dutch newsprint announcing the opening of a new factory in De Rijp, Netherlands.

  12. Wedding and honeymoon of HJ leader

    Film shows the marriage of HJ leader Friedrich Nowak on July 1, 1939 in Linz, followed by the honeymoon to Rab (F) and a trip with "KDF" to Carinthia. 00:04:08 - 00:15:19 Honeymoon Linz, HJ guide on the island of RAB in Yugoslavia, nude bathing, b / w and color, summer 1939. 00:15:22 - 00:17:37 Ober-Micheldorf. Vacation 1940, beautiful basket stroller, Friedrich Nowak. 00:19:39 - 00:20:03 Ferry across the Weissensee, Carinthia.

  13. Melania Weissenberg papers

    The collection includes a diary, in Polish, written by Melania Weissenberg from 1942-1944 while hiding in Dabrowa Tarnowska with an older Jewish girl. The collection also includes pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of Molly and her family and a letter written by Molly's cousin Bina, dated September 11, 1942.

  14. Maneuvers in Pottenstein

    Private film: German soldiers in Pottenstein. With German titles. "Wer kommt wohl dort des Weges her? Es ist Oberleutnant Rothe mit seiner Radfahrer.Kompanie" ["Who is coming from there on the way? It is Lieutenant Rothe with his cyclist.Company"] Soldiers on bicycles approach the camera. Soldiers dismount, run into the area, build machine guns. 10:00:40 "MG in Stellung" ....

  15. Selected records of the District Court in Łódź Amtsgericht in Litzmannstadt Sąd Obwodowy w Łodzi (Syg. 899)

    German court cases of the District Court in Łódź, Civil Department, relating to the confiscation of Polish and Jewish property, Germanization of Polish children, sending youth to the Reich for forced labor, as well as personal data of the Nazi officials, which was useful for the investigation of the Main Commission for Investigation of Nazi Crimes, especially the Commission of Łódź. Majority of records relete to Germanization of Polish children in Łódź. The collection is incomplete and lack of general files, as well as repertories and indexes of cases, it consists only records of one of fiv...

  16. Holiday at the sea, battleships, parade at Fascist Italy (color film)

    German home movies. Holiday. At sea, battleships, parade at Fascist Italy, Russian campaign, mud period, Shooting of partisans, Wehrmacht soldiers costumed as angel and Santa Claus, Christian procession near Würzburg (color film), Rothenburg

  17. Campaign in France; Ruins/ghetto in Warsaw; Slave laborer

    Exercise in the Eifel tower. Campaign in France: bunker. Paris - revue with performers. 10:24:05 Poland: column, ruins, ghetto in Warsaw, Vistula Bridge, old market, palace square. 10:28:04 Adolf Hitler Platz, ruins in Warsaw. 10:33:38 Sign: Jewish residential area, no entry. 10:35:05 France, construction of a bridge. French prisoners return home Tank. 10:51:29 Soldiers with full suitcases (towing luxury goods). Funeral 10:57:47 hanging Russia. Grave with coffins. 11:07:30 emaciated slave laborer

  18. Robert Yanda Sr. photograph collection

    Contains post-liberation photographs of a concentraion camp; images produced by the U.S. Army Signal Corps, or mass produced US Army photos, labeled on verso by Robert Yanda, Sr. and hand-dated May 1945. Includes an envelope inscribed "Robert Yanda Sr... Save / German concentration camp pictures / Alvin Johnson took these..."

  19. Nazi officials tour Polish countryside

    German military truck with diamond insignia on city street. License plate reads: WH 701975. Women in luxurious coats and Nazi officials tour Poland, maybe the Tatra mountains with its park headquarters in Zakopane. Frank's wife, Brigitte, wears a fur coat and headscarf. Hans Frank and Brigitte sit indoors and listen to someone speak about a natural spring or flame encircled with iron railing. 01:12:34 Pan of the Polish landscape and a spa village. A friend chases a goat. 01:13:17 Group of Nazi officials (men and women, including Hans and Brigitte Frank) tour outdoors. The man in uniform is ...

  20. Konskier and Sierota families photograph collection

    Contains a photo album compiled and captioned by Abram Konskier, “In memory of the time after liberation in 1945 in Poland, and the time in Würzberg Stuttgart, Germany 1949.” Includes images of friends and family in Poland, displaced persons camps in Germany, and in the United States, including Abram's sister Fela (donor's mother) with her husband Mendel Sierota and daughters Blima and Basia; captioned in German. Collection also includes loose photographs of assorted friends and family; some captioned in Polish.