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  1. Jüdische Gemeinde Erfurt

    Contains records concerning laws on Jews; records on the organizations Keren Hayessod, and Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Gotha; protocols of the Elders of Zion in German; financial and political reports.

  2. Jüdische Gemeinde Köln collection

    Contains records from the Jewish communities in Köln. Includes undated deportation lists; death registers at the Israelisches Asylum 1932-1942; Gestapo card files and name lists, 1939 and 1943; records relating to the refugee camp on Blankheimer Str.,1945-1946; postwar letters and reports about persecutions of Jews, 1946-1960; postwar reports about many subjects including restitution, name lists, confiscation of property; and family document collections.

  3. Chana Brava photograph collection

    The photographs depict memorials and memorial services to victims of the Holocaust in Lithuania and the mass burial of Holocaust victims by perpetrators and bystanders.

  4. Oral history interview with Gertrude Gottfried

  5. Lithograph of Israel from Arthur Szyk’s visual history series of the United Nations

    Postwar lithograph by artist Arthur Szyk depicting a visual representation of the history of Israel. Arthur Szyk was a Polish-Jewish artist who fled Nazi-controlled Europe for London in 1937, and eventually immigrated to the United States in 1940. He started his career in book illustration and was considered one of the greatest modern practitioners of the art of illumination. His widely published caricatures made him one of the most famous political satirists during World War II. In 1945, he was commissioned by Canadian philatelist Kasimir Bileski to create illustrations for a series of sta...

  6. German siege of Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 1939

    The site of a downed plane-wreckage is visible on the hillside, where one Polish soldier is showing the journalist something that came from this plane, another Polish soldier is climbing down the hill to join them. 01:01:53:14 CU: journalist and Polish soldier, soldier demonstrates how one of the guns on the plane would have worked. More CUs of this wreckage, and cleanup, the camera pans from the site of the downed plane to the surrounding buildings that look almost brand new (this location may be one of the outlying suburbs of Warsaw that Julien Bryan refers to in his book "Siege"). The me...

  7. Modern Poland before World War II

    English intertitles. Film taken prewar. Bridge. City streets and important buildings in Warsaw. A modern country: pedestrians reading newspapers, posters advertising arts and culture, vendors, trams, tall buildings, man with balloons and schoolchildren, storefronts. Cherished old quarters of Poland with ornate signs. Marketplaces - women selling flowers. City parks - women with baby carriages, CUs. High-rise apartment buildings and other modern housing structures. Jewish quarter, including arched street made famous by Roman Vishniac, geese transported in a wooden cart, the market in Krakow,...

  8. Jüdische Gemeinde Hamburg collection

    Contains community records of five main Jewish communities in Germany: Münster, Oldenburg, Detmold, Lippe, and Lübeck. It includes correspondence with the Centralverein, the Reichsvertretung, and other organizations; and records relating to financial and social welfare matters within these Jewish communities.

  9. Selected records of the Departmental Archives of the Aisne

    Documents from the following prefectures: Préfecture régionale, Préfecture de l'Aisne, Sous-préfecture de Soissons, and Sous-préfecture de Château-Thierry. Contents include: repressive measures against Jews and Jewish companies; name lists of Jews by citizenship; list of Jewish companies; reports of the Prefect; deportations of non-French Jews; lists of Jews who could not be located; German orders and their implementation; secret societies; war crimes and war criminals; German atrocities; police reports; the concentration camp of Rotallieu; application of the October 1940 law; economi...

  10. Selected records of the Departmental Archives of Ariège

    Contains administrative records related to the internment camp in Le Vernet, France. Also contains records related to German war crimes committed in France and records related to Jews seeking refuge in France after 1936.

  11. Saved by a Sting How one Jew Survived Five Concentration Camps

    Contains information about Henry Orenstein's participation in the "scientists commando," a phony unit of chemists, mathematicians, and engineers formed by German scientists seeking to elude the draft.

  12. Ministry of Internal Affairs. Administration of towns in Thrace, 18th and 19th railway (Fond 705)

    Contains selected records concerning the railroad including directives, correspondence, and reports on personnel, maintenance, security, and incidents including violence.

  13. Amusement park

    Windows of houses. Street sign: "Theodor von der Pfordten Str." Amusement area, building: "Im Gelsheimer Krug". Train trolley, Germans eating. Castle in mountains, train in FG, river, fast train, mountainside.

  14. Ghetto in Dabrowa Gornicza and Bedzin

    Jews walking on sidewalk, nicely dressed, past storefronts, CUs. Funny angle up, Jewish star on clothes of boy and his dad. Policeman passing quickly close to camera. Large group of many smiling women with Jewish stars close together, elevated camera angle. CU, pan CU to more faces. Wider shot, big crowd on street in front of building. Pan up brick building to window with bars, three men lean heads out window. CU men from elevated angle. Serious-looking man, grim woman, two boys smiling awkwardly at camera, man with beard. Crowd on street, CU. Crowd walking, smiles and excitement. Men arm i...

  15. Nazi propaganda

    CU, book. CUs "Der Stuermer".

  16. Staged (comic) sequence in Zakopane

    A comic sequence of an individual dressed in a furry bear costume who teases passersby on the streets of Zakopane in central Poland. CU of the bear hiding in bushes along the roadside. A young girl in traditional central Polish dress walks by on cue, and the bear jumps out of the bushes, feigning to attack the young girl. The girl laughs and plays along. Two takes of this action. The bear then proceeds to walk into the center of the road, and approach two men on a horse drawn cart. The bear plays with the cart and the horse, attempting to get the horse to move, eventually the driver of the ...

  17. Juhn family documents

    Contains documents pertaining to the Juhn family's Holocaust experiences, including: identity cards; telelgrams; and certificates concerning Lygmiut Horszowski, Zigmund Horsovseky, Willy Hass, and Adolf Hass.

  18. Selected records of the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs

    Contains records relating to repatriation of prisoners of war, aid to refugees including materials regarding the High Commissioner of the League of Nations, the Nansen Office, and Nansen refugee passports; proceedings and reports of the Intergovernmental Refugee Committee and of the Evian Conference; help to refugees from various countries; post-war refugee help; Swedish police reports on Danish Jews in Malmö, Hälsingbor, and other towns; Swedish diplomatic correspondence on refugee questions; and press clippings of the Ossietzky affair from 1936 to 1937.

  19. Large Nazi banner with swastika acquired by an American soldier

    Large red Nazi banner with mobile swastika brought back from the war by Ernie Pels, a soldier in the United States Army in Europe during World War II (1939-1945).

  20. Leningrad

    Map showing Leningrad and Tichwin (Tikhvin). German soldiers dragging large artillery shells on a sled through the snow in a forested area. They load the shells into a howitzer and fire at a structure that looks like a factory. A fast-forward section which soldiers load guns, hit the ground, fire, then hop up and repeat the sequence. More shooting across the snowy landscape, including with a machine gun. A contingent of Waffen SS troops, clad in white snowsuits and helmets, advance on the Soviet position. German troops using flamethrowers in a nighttime firefight. Daytime again; more shooti...