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  1. Czech recruits swear allegiance to Hitler

    Somewhat dark shots of German officials saluting Czech recruits. The officials watch as the recruits sign an oath of allegiance to Adolf Hitler as Protector of Bohemia and Moravia according to a decree of 8 March 1940. CU of the oath reveals that it is written in both Czech and German.

  2. Selected records from the archives of the Alliance Israélite Universelle

    The collection deals with the general situation of Jews in various countries, including relations with the local government, antisemitism, immigration, emigration, proselytizing by Christians and Muslims. Countries represented in order of preponderance of material include North Africa and the Middle East, including the former Ottoman Empire, countries situated in Eastern and Central Europe, and “The Rest of the world and small countries.” Also contains documents of Jonathan Thurz (1895-1976), a Polish-born Zionist leader who settled in Casablanca in 1927, which includes information about Je...

  3. Records of the Jewish Cooperative Bank in Poland, Lwów branch

    Contains records related to the financing of the Jewish cooperatives and ofJewish craftsmen. The collection also includes various financial records (accounting and registry books, accounting reports etc), annual reports, audits, minutes of the board meetings, etc.

  4. Playing in the garden in prewar Poland

    Hanna, in flowered coveralls, is walking about this wooded area in Knihinin playing with a slightly older girl.

  5. Fascist recruits from various countries

    Sequence of images of SS volunteers from several countries. The shots change quickly from one location to the next so the time codes given may not be entirely accurate. Estonian SS volunteers at roll call (induction?). Men in civilian clothes and in uniform. CU of a patch on one man's arm that reads "Estland." An older officer wears a cap with a Death's Head insignia. 01:05:29 Ukrainian volunteers stand at attention holding banners. Men holding banners, one written in Ukrainian flanked by two banners with SS insignia. Men, some of them in native dress, march down the street holding swastika...

  6. Selected records from the archive of the Nation's Memory Institute (Ústav pamäti národa) in Bratislava, Slovakia

    Contains court records concerning offenses committed during the war. It also has lists of members of the Hlinka Guard and Hlinka Slovak People’s Party in various localities, and a few name lists of members of the Democratic Party. The localities include: Myjava, Skalica, Nová Baňa, Banskaá Štiavnica, Martin, Komárno, Dunajská, and Dolný Kubín.

  7. Boris Samoilovich Duberstein papers

    This collection contains nine photocopied documents including an autobiographical statement, personal letters, official documents, and an application form.

  8. Children with their grandfather on the terrace of their home in prewar Poland

    An older man, Grandfather Filip Lieberman, holds a young Hanna and eventually a young Thomas. They are babies. In washed out footage, you can see them standing in a playpen.

  9. Estate of Rubin Soldaner, Raisa Dayan collection

    Collection of post-war documents, newspaper articles, and photographs of Rubin Soldaner, who was interned in the Auschwitz and Gross Rosen concentration camps. Papers document his postwar experiences in Poland, France, and ultimately in the United States. Includes naturalization certificate and restitution paperwork.

  10. Wanda Wojick papers

    Collection consists of documents and one map likely related to a Polish underground group.

  11. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Cantal

    This collection contains records from the Prefect’s Office, under headings “Foreigners”, “Jews”, “War Damages” and “Internment and Shelter”. It includes local objections to use of the thermal bath resort of Chaudes-Aigues as an internment site for Jews (under house arrest), correspondence concerning foreign Jewish refugees, Jews’ response to a call to work at Organisation Todt construction sites, and reports on war crimes committed during the war, including those concerning Jews.

  12. "Les condamnées des Sections Spéciales incarcérées à la Maison Centrale de Rennes Déportées les 5 avril, 2 mai, et 16 mai 1944"

    Consists of one manuscript, entitled "Les condamnées des Sections Spéciales incarcérées à la Maison Centrale de Rennes Déportées les 5 avril, 2 mai, et 16 mai 1944," by Yves Boivin. The manuscript contains research concerning women deported from Rennes in the département of the Ille -et-Vilaine, many of whom were non-Jews and were not members of the resistance. The CD contains name lists, testimonies, and statistical analyses.

  13. Criminal police records on Jews, and on Sinti and Roma (A Pr. Br. Rep. 030-02-02/03)

    Contains the records of the Criminal Police Berlin (Kripoleitstelle) concerning Jews, Roma, and Sinti.

  14. World War I veterans parade in the Saarland

    MS, multiple takes of men and women gathered around a tour bus (picture quality is poor), a man sells souvenirs (this could be another day-trip taken by the WWI veterans from the 172nd Regiment from Duisburg). Side view of Weidemann and his wife at a cafe table. The tour makes a short stop in Trier for repairs. Roll call in a field in Saarlouis, Germany. Bundesfuehrer Vorwald and other officials are greeted (after the Saar was reintegrated into the German Reich in 1935). Vorwald raises the regiment flag, then raises his arm before a large crowd, also heiling. Parading in Saarlouis with swas...

  15. Phillip Drell collection

    Publications and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Philip Drell [donor], sergeant attached to the Special Motion Picture Coverage Unit, Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force from June 6, 1944 to May 8, 1945. Collection includes a series of publications and newspapers circa 1930s and 1940s [list below]; letter written by donor from Paris, dated May 15, 1945, addressed to his “Folks” describing in brief detail seeing the newly liberated concentration camp Dachau in Germany; hand-inscribed note asking Parisian photography to develop and process donor’s film for news med...

  16. Schermeister family vacationing in Snekkersten, 1929

    An indoor shot of the donor's great grandparents, Leopold and Franzisca Cohen. They exit the door to their vacation home in Snekkersten, along with Bernhard (donor's grandfather) and his sister. The extended family on the lawn. The three girls, Lis (donor's mother), Jeanne, and Inge, eat ice cream with Bernhard's mother (Hana Schermeister). Various family members pose for the camera.

  17. Brombart and Lewin families photograph collection

    Collection of photographs documenting the life of the Brombart and Lewin families in Poland and Belgium during the Holocaust era.

  18. Hungary Werfen ("Gold") Train and other selected U.S. documents related to Hungary

    Contains documents from various U.S. government agencies about the “Gold Train” or “Werfen Train,” which members of the Arrow Cross Party and officials of the Hungarian National Bank packed with looted Jewish valuables (mostly from Miskilc, Pecs, and Gyor) and sent across the border into Austria in March 1945. (This was not the only such train.) Although some items were pilfered en route, the U.S. Armed Forces captured most and stored them in a warehouse in Austria. U.S. personnel and agencies pilfered (or “borrowed” without returning) further property, and the remainder has been the subjec...

  19. Celebrating May Day in Vienna

    May 1 (or the day before). Maypoles at Schwarzenbergplatz. Hotel Imperial. Shell Motor Oil Company headquarters on Schubertring (Schwarzenbergplatz #16). 01:04:40 Heinrichshof building on Opernring (opposite Opera House). 01:04:44 Flagship store "Backhausen & Soehne". 01:04:48 The Museum of Art History on Museumsstrasse. 01:04:54 Heldentor (Burgring) dressed with Nazi insignia and "Ehrt die Opfer der Arbeit". 01:04:59 Austrians, three women on bench, congregate at decorated Heldenplatz. SA erecting maypole. Unknown man (probably same as man in Prater garden with boy at 01:03:56) talking...

  20. Sidney Moskowitz collection

    Contains correspondence between Luba Lewin (donor's mother) in Vienna, Austria, and Samuel Moskowitz (donor's father) in New York and Washington, DC. Includes photographic portraits of Luba Lewin and Samuel Moskowitz, dated 1945-1946. Luba was born in Krasnik, Poland and survived the Holocaust on false papers as Regina Wisniewska. Samuel was an American soldier serving in Vienna, and the two fell in love. Luba awaited her immigration permit in Vienna and the two corresponded extensively until she arrived in the US in November 1946. Luba and Samuel married and built their family in Washingto...