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  1. Barbie Trial -- Day 17 -- Discussion of the chain of command in the Lyon Gestapo; a witness testifies

    13:36 President Cerdini calls the session to order; asks that the accused present himself; Barbie refuses to appear; Cerdini calls on the bailiff to compel the accused to appear 13:37 The bailiff reads the names of the witnesses scheduled to give testimony in the session 13:39 Cerdini suspends the session while the bailiff goes to Barbie to compel him to appear 14:02 Cerdini calls the session to order; the bailiff reads Barbie's statement that he refuses to appear 14:05 Prosecutor Klarsfeld asks that the Floreck Report be read into the court proceedings: Vergès had referenced the report in ...

  2. Records of the Jewish community and Jewish Committee in Bielsko-Biała Akta Gminy Wyznaniowej i Komitetu Żydowskiego w Bielsku-Białej (Sygn.308)

    Contains records of the Jewish community in Bielsko-Biała, Poland. Most valuable is the cemetery book with entries of all funerals since the day of the opening of the graveyard in 1949. Also contains original statutes of the Jewish organizations from Bielsko-Biała, Jewish birth registers, Jewish diaries, name lists of Jewish soldiers, name lists of Jewish survivors, lists of Jewish properties, photographs from the Jewish orphanage, photographs and a chronicle of the sport club, Maccabi, in Bielsko-Biała.

  3. Barbie Trial -- Day 4 -- Drugs and fascist organizations in Bolivia

    16:08 Lawyer Nordmann and witness Gustavo Sanchez discuss the drug problem in Bolivia and the neo-Nazi group "Grooms of Death," as well as Barbie's contacts with various fascist organizations. 16:21 Barbie's impact on repressive methods in Bolivia.

  4. Dunson family at Christian mission; church picnic

    At the Kiamichi Mountain Christian Mission in Nashoba, Oklahoma, where Harold Dunson and his family were sent as missionaries in 1947. MS, man in cowboy hat, swinging rope in front of a large US mailbox on a wooden post. Name on box reads: "Harold L. Dunson." MLS, panning shot, cinderblock church and courtyard. VS, children, women at church picnic. Children filing out of Church hall. Also teenagers, posing for group portrait. VS, youth racing on a lawn, sack races, three-legged races, etc.

  5. Markov-Grinberg photograph of a smiling female peasants and a baby in a wheat field

    Photographic print created in 1935 by Mark Markov-Grinberg, depicting an official, idealized version of Soviet women farm workers. Markov-Grinberg was a Soviet Jewish photographer, World War II correspondent, and major Social Realist photographer during the Stalinist era of the 1930s-1940s. He worked for major newspapers and journals, including TASS. Markov-Grinberg was a war correspondent during the Soviet-Finnish War from 1939-1940 and, in 1941, was drafted to fight in World War II. While a soldier, he continued his work as a photographer and army correspondent. After the war, he returned...

  6. Prayer book

  7. Edith Monique Schneidman papers

    The papers consist of seven photographs and two documents relating to the Saias family and their experiences in France before and during World War II and documenting Louna and Issac Saias' [donor's parents] deportation to the Drancy transit camp and then to Auschwitz concentration camp.

  8. Henri Clogenson collection

    Consists of one manuscript, in German, regarding Langenstein-Zwieberge, a subcamp of Buchenwald, entitled "Erinnerung an Langenstein-Zwieberge Aussenlager von Buchenwald" by Paul Le Goupil and Roger Leroyer. Also includes the testimonies, in French, of Henri Clogenson, a survivor of Langenstein regarding his experiences in the Holocaust, including his experiences in Auschwitz.

  9. Rivka Avichail papers

    The papers consist of 28 photographs and one transit pass issued to Regine Gartenlaub [donor] relating to the experiences of Rivka Avichail before World War II and during World War II while she was in hiding.

  10. Drawing

  11. German radio communications; Gen. Zorn and German military prepare for advance

    Reel 1: 00:00:00 Klappe 2-Lo 55: German soldiers swinging in a double swing with others looking on. Officers looking at orders. Soldiers walking through a field, with one soldier operating a radio(?) in a trench. Two Russian soldiers surrendering to a German soldier, with their hands raised. The German soldier looks at their papers. German soldiers firing a machine gun as other soldiers advance. Military vehicles moving through a town as soldiers mill around. CU of a soldier holding a map gesturing to other soldiers. German soldiers enter a house to search it. Klappe 4-Lo 57: Several differ...

  12. Postwar court records relating to the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki

    Consists of 3,737 court cases from the Court of Thessaloniki, minutes of meetings, reports based on minutes, reports of the court reporters, etc. Records relate to petitions to the court by Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, either seeking approval for a formation of a relatives' council and the appointment of a committee "on behalf of those absent in Poland" or legal confirmation that their relatives, lifetime residents of Thessaloniki named in their petitions, have been killed in Birkenau or Auschwitz, or died on the way there.

  13. Selected records from the Kansallisarkisto (Finnish National Archive)

    Contains correspondence of the Jewish Congregation of Helsinki, primarily concerning aid to Jewish refugees and Soviet Jewish POWs in Finland. Also contains documents created by the Finnish State Police, the Finnish Ministry of Justice (Oikeusministeriö), and Finnish Prime Minister T.M. Kivimäki, all related to Jewish refugee issues and aid.

  14. Moshe Aurbach photograph collection

    The collection consists of 22 photographs documenting the life and experiences of Moshe Aurbach and his family in Będzin, Poland, before, during, and after the Holocaust as well as his time spent in Gersfeld displaced persons camp near Fulda, Germany, after World War II.

  16. Barbie Trial -- Day 6 -- An expert testifies

    17:33 Cerdini presents Streim with four documents previously presented to the court, relating to the UGIF and Izieu raids, and asks his professional opinion as to their authenticity. He replies that he has previously studied copies of these documents, and these originals are indeed authentic; comments on the February 11 Telex 17:43 Cerdini asks Streim to evaluate Barbie's signatures on the documents, and whether the presence of his signature makes him responsible for their contents 17:47 Cerdini asks whether, in Streim's opinion given the documents in hand, the Izieu and UGIF raids were the...

  17. Agro-Joint colonies of Tartar and Biukonnlar

    LS of building structures in Tartar settlement, passed on the way to the group's next stop. The intertitle points out how "backward" the colony is in comparison to the modern settlements. LS of group of Tartars standing in front of a cottage. At the Biukonnlar Colony, Morris Troper stands beside a glass blower and inspects glassmaking tools. Four such glass blowing factories were organized by the Agro-Joint in 1933.

  18. My Story of Life in Italy During the Holocaust

    Consists of one memoir, 15 pages, entitled "My Story of Life in Italy During the Holocaust," by Liliana Briefel, originally of Naples, Italy. The daughter of a Jewish father and a Christian-born mother, Liliana's mother and father arranged for Liliana and her siblings to be baptized as Catholics (and for their baptisms to predate1938) in order to protect them from anti-Jewish measures. In the memoir, she also describes the events surrounding the arrival of Allied troops. Also contains one videocassette of a Yom Hashoah service in which Ms. Briefel presented her story.

  19. Selected records from collections of the Iaşi branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Contains records relating to aryanization, authorization for Jews to travel, authorizations for Jews to engage in commerce, statistics, lists of Jewish persons who were evacuated to Transnistria, wartime and postwar censuses of Jews, confiscation of Jewish property, forced labor of Jews, citizenship issues, and surveillance of the Iron Guard by the government. Includes selected files from the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Iaşi; Prefecture of Police of Iaşi; five territorial police districts of Iaşi; the Prefecture of Iasi district; the mayorship of Iaşi; and the Royal District of th...

  20. Album regarding the liberation of Spittal (Stalag XVIII)

    Consists of one spiral bound album presented to Louis Margel from the "War Prisoner's Aid of the Y.M.C.A." The album contains photographs of the liberation of the Spittal, Austria, prisoner of war camp (Stalag XVIII) and of life in the Spittal displaced persons camp.