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  1. Part 1 excerpt from Police Yearly Retrospect 1938

    Title card: “11. März 1938. Der große nationale Umbruch in Österreich.” Title card: “Abends, nach dem im Rundfunk verkündeten Rücktritt der Regierung Schuschnigg, kam es zu großen spontanen Freudenkundgebungen in den Straßen Wiens.” Crowds of people yelling, smiling, cheering. Most of them are doing the Nazi salute. Some are holding swastika flags, others are holding torches. City lights can be seen in the distance. Title card: “12. März 1938, - um ½ 2 Uhr früh. Vom Balkon des Bundeskanzleramtes wird die neue nationale Regierung Seyß Inquart proklamiert.” Flashlights show men in long coats....

  2. Hitler Youth

    Brief shot of Karl Doenitz follwed by a one man torpedo in the water. A man wearing a Ritterkreuz gets out of a small submarine. Scenes from the Pacific: Japanese pilots in the cockpit (staged); bombing ships; conference with Allied soldiers somewhere in the Pacific. Narration is Japanese. 03:05:47 CUs of German soldiers in battle. Good CUs of faces. Overhead shot of a large group of Hitler Youth boys who have volunteered for the war effort [Kriegsfreiwilliger]. The leader of the ceremony announces that 70% of the boys from the class of 1928 have enlisted. Deutsche Wochenschau eagle on screen.

  3. Serafina and Bola Friedler papers

    The Serafina and Bola Friedler papers comprise documents and photographs concerning Serafina and Bola Friedler, a mother and daughter from Borysław, Poland (now Boryslav, Ukraine) who survived the Holocaust after being liberated from Auschwitz in 1945. Among the documents collected by the Serafina and Bola are Red Cross identification cards issued to them after their liberation, an autograph book used by Bola while living at the Bad Reichenhall displaced persons camp, correspondence, and documentation of Serafina’s role as a witness in the trail against Nazi high official, Fritz Hildebrand ...

  4. Werner Loval papers

    Contains photographs, school records, letters of reference, identification documents, and other material relating to Werner Loval's childhood and education in Bamberg, Germany, and his family's immigration to Ecuador.

  5. Dezső Kertész papers

    Collection consists of a series of documents, relating to Kertész's service in the Austro-Hungarian army during World War I, and as a reservist following that war, his conscription as a forced laborer in the early 1940s, his later exemption from such work, and his role as a teacher at a Jewish secondary school in Budapest.

  6. Teresa Ciarkowska Schmitz papers

    Contains five photographs of a family, appear to be pre-war or wartime, including wedding portrait and portraits of child. Also includes one document, handcopied and notarized in 1993, from record book for 1943-1944, documenting a ceremony that took place in the Heart of Jesus Catholic parish in Warsaw in May 1943, perhaps for baptism or confirmation of Teresa Elzbieta Ciarkowska.

  7. "A Rejected Stone: My Life"

    Memoir by Ben-Zion Schuster, originally of Jezierzany, Poland (Ozeri︠a︡ny, Ukraine), entitled "A Rejected Stone: My Life." The memoir is a printed draft from November 1990, and translated from the Yiddish by Professor Robert Moses Shapiro. The memoir describes Ben-Zion’s prewar family life in a shtetl, his studies at a yeshiva in Łuck, Poland (Lutsk, Ukraine), his wartime experience under Soviet and Germany occupation, the fates of his family members, his postwar experiences in displaced persons camps, and his immigration to the United States. 279 pages.

  8. Selected records from the Central State Archives of St. Petersburg, Russian Federation

    Contains records of the St. Petersburg City Evacuation Commission related to the evacuation of the Soviet civilian. It includes various lists of the evacuees, correspondence of local authorities regarding evacuation, reports and plans for evacuation etc. Also contains small collection of correspondence files of the representative of the Jewish Distribution Committee ( Joint) in Petrograd ( 1923-1925) related to the assistance provided by this organization to Jewish communities in Moscow, Kiev, Odessa etc.

  9. Secret and confidential records Secretos y Reservados

    This collection contains confidential reports from various Argentinean government agencies and political offices to the Argentine Ministry of the Interior, including the Ministry of Foreign Relations, various provincial Governor's offices, the national police, the Ministry of War, the Postal and Telegraph Service, the Ministry of Agriculture, and others. Also includes records pertaining to Jewish immigration (both legal and illegal) to Argentina and other Latin American countries, the Jewish colonization movement, Nazi activities in Patagonia and other parts of Argentina, and communications...

  11. German forced laborers in Lithuania in 1942

    Forced (or foreign) laborers from the occupied territories (Ostarbeiter) being transported from Russia into the Reich, to Tilsit , in the formerly Russian-controlled part of Lithuania (Tilze, now Sovetsk, Russia). Filmed by an anonymous soldier. Shows the train station where the laborers are registered, deloused, and fed (this is the border station at Krottingen in Eastern Prussia, a sign is visible in the delousing segment, now Kretinga in Western Lithuania). Shows the administrative apparatus of the German forced labor system, as well as the people from the occupied territories. Includes ...

  12. Hashomer Hatzair World Headquarters Representation in Palestine (RG 1.2-ה)

    Contains correspondence, and letters of the top leadership of the Hashomer Hatzair in Palestine with the offices in various countries such as France, Belgium, Israel, England, Austria, Chile, and Morocco. Includes action reports, newspapers, and other documents concerning activities of Jewish communities, organization of the pioneer conferences, colonies, kibbutzim, trainings, immigration, refugees from Germany, and the Hashomer Hatzair union branches in Galicia. Also contains records pertaining to the youth movements Maccabi and Keren–Hashomer; the National Conference, 1932; the Chief Coun...

  13. Brenner and Levenstein family collection

    Consists of 36 photographs taken of the Brenner family, originally of Riga, Latvia, between 1920-1940. Includes photographs of trips, weddings, and family gatherings. Also includes two letters, one written by Arthur Levenstein, undated in English, regarding immigration issues, and one letter written by Bella Levenstein to her aunt "Lienka," probably when Bella was about 10 years old. Also includes a drawing of three women and a house, drawn by Libin Levenstein. Also includes photocopies of correspondence and official documents in Latvian, Hebrew, and Yiddish. The entire Levenstein family pe...

  14. Selected records from the Central State Archives of Historical-Political Documentation in St. Petersburg, Russian Federation

    Contains records related to the partisan warfare and situation in Saint Petersburg (Leningrad) region, activities of the underground regional Committee of the Communist Party. Also contains a small collection of the captured German records and publications, German flyers and posters. Includes records of the Jewish population (statistics, EvSekt︠s︡ii︠a︡ records, working plans and reports) pertaining to the history of the Jewish population of the region before WWII (1920s-1930s).

  15. Aylah Rottenberg collection

    Consists of copyprints and copies of correspondence from the collection of Aylah Rottenberg, originally of Tel Aviv. Includes copyprints depicting Ambassador James Grover McDonald with Ms. Rottenberg and correspondence, dated 1949, between them.

  16. Archive of the Federation of Swiss Jewish Communities (SIG) Schweizerischer Israelitischer Gemeindebund (SIG)

    Pertains to the activities of the Federation of Swiss Jewish Communities (SIG). Contains records relating to immigration and emigration of Jews; to the rescue of Jews from Nazi-occupied areas of Europe; care of the refugees’ financial needs; founding of the Hilfe und Aufbau commission, which goal was to support and rebuild the ravaged, remaining Jewish communities in Europe and to assist stateless Jewish Holocaust survivors with emigration to Palestine, Israel, and to other destinations.

  17. Judit Schichtanz collection

    Photo album and documents relating to the Schichtanz family's experiences in Hungary before, during, and after WWII. Included are images of Judit Schichtanz at her First Communion after her mother Ella and she converted to Roman Catholocism in 1941; baptismal certificate for Judit Schichtanz; pre-war photographs of Judit's father Lorand, who was later deported to a Hungarian forced-labor battalion in 1944 is presumed to have perished in Mauthausen.

  18. Ernest Lowe collection

    The Ernest Lowe collection consists of documents and photographs related to the wartime experiences of Ernest Lowe (born Ernst Loewy/Löwy), who was born in Volenice, Czechoslovakia and raised in Vienna, Austria. Includes pre-war school documentation and report cards, documents related to his 1939 immigration to the United States, and family photographs of Ernest Lowe, his wife Valerie, and the extended Loewy family. Also includes oral history transcripts of interview with Valerie Ernei Lowe, who spent the war in hiding in Slovakia, and with Marianne (Mimi) Lowe Cahn, Ernest's sister, who im...

  19. Administration of KL Lublin Administracja KL Lublin

    Contains records of the KL Lublin Administration on prisoners and staff: the orders of chief officers, statistics of prisoners, reports of transports of prisoners, death notices, name-lists of transported prisoners, card files, lists of labor commands and prisoners who died in the camp, lists of prisoners hired by the German Arms Works on Lipowa St. in Lublin, documents on deliveries of Zyklon B, correspondence regarding contacts with the trade enterprise in Reich III, reports of the number of camp staff, and personal files of SS officers. Also contains card files listing goods taken from p...

  20. "My Story--the Holocaust"

    Contains of a memoir, 13 pages, entitled "My Story--The Holocaust" by Marcia Krause, originally of Łódź, Poland. In the memoir, Mrs. Krause recounts her memories of her childhood in Łódź, internment in the Łódź ghetto, and deportation to Auschwitz. From Auschwitz, Marcia, with her sole surviving family member, her sister Helen, was deported to a concentration camp near Hamburg. From Hamburg, the sisters were deported to Bergen-Belsen, where they were liberated. Also includes several articles by and about Marcia Krause and a photograph of Mrs. Krause at an unknown Holocaust memorial.