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  1. Selected records of the Amerikadeutsche Kameradschaft (NS 41)

    Contains records created by and concerning the Amerikadeutsche Kameradschaft, a German-American friendship society designed to aid reverse immigration back to Germany and aid in German propaganda efforts.

  2. Harry Iticovici collection

    Consists of copies of personal documents and identification papers of Harry Iticovici, originally of Bucharest, Romania, born 6 June 1922.

  3. Ety Moncarz Rosinski photograph collection

    Collection of four pre-World War II photographs taken in Brussels, Belgium.

  4. Jewish pogroms in Ukraine, 1918-1924. Documents of the Kiev Oblast’ Commission for Relief to Victims of Pogroms (Obshetskom) (Fond 3050)

    The collection contains records of several major departments of the Kiev Oblast’ Commission for Relief to Victims of Pogroms (Obshetskom). Records relate to variety of activities of this public organization for relief to victims of pogrom in Kiev region as well as Eastern and Central Ukraine.The bulk comprises correspondence with public and government organizations, reports on the activities of regional representatives of the commission, communication with other organizations (e.g. Kultur Liga, JOINT, ORT, OZE, and others), lists of pogrom victims, minutes of board meetings, questionnaires,...

  5. Selected records of the Schutzstaffel (NS 47)

    Contains partial files and fragmentary records of the Schutzstaffel Oberabschnitte, Abschnitte, Standarten, Sturmbanne, and Stürme.

  6. Marguerite Birnbaum collection

    Contains post-war photographs of Marguerite Birnbaum with her parents on the streets of Belgium. Marguerite was hidden child in an abbey in Limbourg with the help of Father Armand Elens; Father Elens' sister, Marie-Josephe Dincq, took 7-8 month old Marguerite and raised her for the next two years until the family was reunited in 1945. Marguerite's parents also survived the war in hiding in Belgium.

  7. Selected records from the Fonds Maurice Moch collection

    Contains documents pertaining to Jews in France during and after the war, as well as information pertaining to the organization and operation of the French Consistoire Central.

  8. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Var

    Contains records pertaining to the surveillance and persecution of Jews, Roma-Sinti, and Gays in the Var region of Mediterranean France.

  9. Dachau camp, postwar

    Pan of Dachau camp EXTs: buldings through barbed wire fence, Building B, dirt road, moat, Tower B, barracks.

  10. Annexation of Austria; Munich Pact; German invasion of East and West; Territorial expansion

    Part 2 of GERMAN language version [corresponds to NARA reels 3 & 4] Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg addressing government, speech in progress. Schuschnigg replaced by Arthur von Seyss-Inquart in Austria, riding in automobile, waving to crowd. CU, transcription of Goering's conversation with Keppler. In city street, Nazis round up civilians, slowly closing in on them with horses and police, man carried away. Nazis marching in streets, heiling, waving flags. Crossing Austrian border, over bridge LS, lifting up pole, Austrians with big grins. "21 May 1935" Annexation text superimposed...

  12. Dov Katzovich and Shimon Fiks collection

    Consists of CD-ROM and one DVD-ROM related to the Holocaust experiences of Mr. Dov (Boris) Katzovich, originally of Glubokoye, Poland, and one DVD-ROM related to the Holocaust experiences of Mr. Shimon Fiks (1912-2004). The DVD-ROM contains an oral history interview with Mr. Fiks, in Hebrew, conducted on August 16, 1997. The CD-ROM contains scanned images of letters written by Mr. Dov Katzovich to his future wife, Doris Shapiro, partisan leaflets he printed, copies of his wartime photographs and medals, and an English language translation of his memoir, and the DVD-ROM contains information ...

  13. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Alpes de Haute Provence

    This collection contains material pertaining to Jews residing in the Alpes de Haute-Provence, and to the administrative procedures for arresting and holding Jews in internment camps there. The prewar Department of the Basses-Alpes had no Jewish population, but became a refuge for Jews fleeing the Occupied Zone in the North for the Italian-occupied (before November 1942) portion of the South. The citadel of Sisteron became an internment camp, and Jews were kept under house arrest in several communes (rural districts).

  14. Trophy (German and other) records from the collection of the Soviet State Extraordinary Commission to Investigate Crimes Committed by Nazis and their Allies on the territory of the USSR during WWII (Fond 7021, Opis 148)

    Contains diverse military records and directives of the German Army, orders, personnel lists, addresses, appeals and correspondence of the Nazi civil and military administration on the occupied territories, anti-Soviet and anti-Jewish propaganda, records related to the organizations of interrogations of the German POW by the Soviet intelligence services (SMERSH), Soviet partisan warfare and its suppression, treatment of the Soviet POW, and the like.

  15. Jewish settlers move into new houses

    French intertitle. Jewish families move into a collective farm (kolkhoz) in the Kolkhida region of Georgia. High angle shot of a line of trucks on the road. Portraits of two older Jews. Men move furniture onto the trucks. The lead truck has a portrait of Stalin (?) on the front grill. Families arrive at their new homes and unpack their possessions.

  16. Foreign Address and Occupation Index

    Consists of index cards (Form G-153) completed by all immigrants to the United States aged 18 to 65 (except those who were housewives or children between 1940 and the date of their immigration) who either: (1) Naturalized after October 1, 1957 in which case, the card will be stamped “NATZ; (2) Arrived after September 1957; (3) Adjusted status to permanent resident after September 1957; or (4) Entered as conditional entrants admitted under Sec. 203(2)(7) of the Immigration and Nationality Act. These index cards indicate all dates and addresses of foreign residence from January 1940 to Januar...

  17. "Blut und Ehre"

    Consists of one small book, 78 pages, entitled "Blut und Ehre: Lieder der Hitler-Jugend," published by the Deutscher Jugendverlag in Berlin and printed by Drud der Spamer A. G. in Leipzig, Germany, in 1935. The book contains lyrics to Hitler Youth songs and also contains a printed "handwritten" message from Hitler Youth leader Baldur von Schirach.

  18. Liberation of Ozarichi and Minsk

    Wounded people, mostly children, are taken off a train that was intercepted on its way to Ozarichi, a concentration camp in Belarus. They are placed on a cart by Soviet soldiers. Soviet investigators inspect corpses lying in the snow. They perform an outdoor autopsy of sorts on a dead child. Shots of survivors at the camp. Liberated people struggle down the road. Interior scenes of the sick being treated in a hospital. Barbed wire around camp (still Ozarichi?). Scenes of German-occupied Minsk. Germans regulate traffic and check papers of civilians in cars. German soldiers break into a house...

  19. Prayer book

    Collection consists of a prayer book imprinted on front cover "vom Bethaus im IX. Bez. Wien" and "zur Erinnerung an die Confirmation" and inscribed inside "an die Confirmation der Alice Goldschmied 3 June 1900"; published 1895, Prague; in German and Hebrew. The book was found by the donor while he was working for the Viennese Jewish Community circa 1941/1942. The prayer book was found in a subterranean storage room and kept with donor through deportation to Theresienstadt concentration camp and liberation. It was found among other religious books such as a Pentateuch most likely rescued fro...

  20. Stendal, Germany, information and photograph album

    Consists of one photograph album consisting of pre-war photographs of residents of Stendal, Germany. This album was discovered in the stable behind the house of Jenkel Denemark in Stendal. The stable was used as a gathering point for the Jews of Stendal before they were deported from the city in 1942. Also includes information about Jenkel Denemark and a history of the Jews of Stendal.