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  1. Krupp ammunition plant; Alliance of Axis countries; Invasion of Yugoslavia and Greece

    Title: "Hitler Pays Tribute to Krupp 13 August 1940" Hitler visits the Krupp ammunition plant. Hitler pays tribute to Gustav Krupp von Bohlen. MS Hitler shakes hands with Krupp as officers look on. Hitler talking to and gesturing to civilian in dark suit as officers look on. Large crowd of factory workers cheer and salute as Hitler walks past them toward camera, then steps up into car and remains standing. Title: "Signing of the Military-Economic Alliance by Germany, Italy and Japan 27 September 1940" Hitler welcomes delegates at the signing of the Germany-Italy-Japan alliance. LS Group of ...

  2. Buchenwald, Nordhausen, Hadamar, Ohrdruf

    High pan of camp, barracks, open square. Survivors getting water from tank/truck, washing in canal, eating, cooking, pots, some are prisoners of war. Men eating. Fighting over food. Celebrating liberation. Posing for group photograph. "All Polish Greet the Fraternal American Army" on building. Men walking, waving, getting on trucks. Swastika chain link. Familiar faces of liberated men. Man with glasses, smiling, waving. Along road, striking at Germans passersby. Man with cane beating another, smashing windows. Captured Germans. Released women, cross on backs. Women cared for by medics, sick...

  3. Lilka Elbaum papers

    The papers consist of 325 photographs and copyprints as well as certificates and identification cards from the ghetto in Biała Rawska, Poland, and Skierniewice, Poland.

  4. Hitler with Nazi officials; Hitler's 55th birthday; Aftermath of July 20, 1944 bomb plot; People's Court & Judge Freisler

    Title: "1944" Hitler confers with leaders. 04:17:16 Title: "55th Birthday of Hitler 20 April 1944." Berlin scenes; Hitler and high Nazi officials, military officers, including Keitel, Doenitz, Zeitzler, Goering, others. 04:19:04 close view of (L to R) Himmler, Warlimont, Hitler, Fegelein. 04:19:09 Title: "Conferences after Hitler's Escape from Bombing Plot 20 July 1944." Mussolini arrives by train at FHQ, Hitler's greets him with left-handed shake, Goering present. At Hitler's HQ in the Eas, Nazi leaders greet the Fuehrer to congratulate him on surviving the attack: Ribbentrop, Bormann, Him...

  5. Herman and Dwora Flamholc papers

    The Herman and Dwora Flamholc papers consist of two photographs of Herman Flamholc, Dwora while he was a refugee in Kara-Balta, Kyrgystan; a postcard sent from Ewa Chawa Flamholc, Dwora's aunt, in the ghetto in Warsaw, Poland, to Salek Flamholc in Chett, Siberia; a certificate that Dwora attended a Jewish school in Charkov, Ukraine; and two certificates of repatriation from the Soviet Union to Poland for Dwora and Herman Flamholc.

  6. Fred Thieberger collection

    Contains a copy of "Heeresgruppe Nord im Jahre 1942: Kampf an der Front Wiederaufbau im besetzten Gebiet" and a photocopy of the Nuremberg Directory 1996 compiled in conjunction with the Nuremberg Reunion.

  7. Fritzler family papers

    The Fritzler family papers consists of biographical materials and emigration and immigration files documenting Walter, Agnes, and Geoffrey Fritzers education and work experiences in anticipation of their emigration. The collection also includes photographic material of Walter, Agnes, and Geoffrey. Biographical materials include a birth certificate for Geoffrey, marriage certificate for Walter and Agnes, and a death certificate for Agnes. This series also includes a Declaration of Inheritance from Geoffrey Fritzler. Emigration and immigration files include education and work papers Walter an...

  8. Hitler comes to power

    "Herbst 1932". Reports on activities and policies of the Nazis in Germany 1921-1933 (poor sound quality, fades in and out). 01:14:02 "1933" "Hitler's First Speech as Chancellor 30 January 1933" Title: "Goering, Named Prussian Minister of Interior by Hitler, Outlines His Program February 1933." Goering seated, speaks to camera, outlines program. Title: "Election Day in Bavaria, 5 March 1933." MCUs of citizens coming in and out of the election booth. Title: "Gewerkschaftshaus." VS of German soldiers and workers milling about the entrance way to a building. Title: "Election Day in Berlin, 5 Ma...

  9. Selected records of Lucien Lublin related to resistance (CMXXI)

    Contains documents collected and assembled by Lucien Lublin concerning French resistance in general and Jewish French resistance in particular. Also contains documents related to the attitudes of the Roman Catholic Church in France in connection with Jewish persecutions.

  10. Oral history interview with Isaac Kraicer

  11. "Ein neuer Fluchtversuch"

    "Ein neuer Fluchtversuch" is a 25 pages memoir about Max Sternbach's incarceration in Bordeaux, and transport to Bruxelles and Paris.

  12. Selected records from the Lithuanian State Archives

    Contains documents from the Lithuanian State Archives, Vilnius, selectively filmed by Yad Vashem. Included are records from the offices of the Gebietskommissars Wilna-Stadt, of the Vilnius police, and of postwar war crimes trials records.

  13. Safirsztajn and Gold families' photograph

    Black and white image of the Safirsztajn and Gold families taken on the occasion of a family wedding in the United States and a portrait of Rojza Gold Safirsztajn, Rose’s maternal grandmother. Pictured in photograph: last row, left to right: Ajzyk Safirsztajn, unknown, [first name unknown] Gold, unknown, [first name unknown] Gold. middle row, left to right: unknown, [first name unknown] Safirsztajn, wife of Wolf Safirsztajn, Wolf Safirsztajn, [first name unknown] Najmark, [first name unknown] Najmark, [first name unknown] Najmark, Chana Safirsztajn Ickowicz [Rose’s mother], Adek Eizel Safir...

  14. Robert E. Cone collection

    The Robert E. Cone collecton consists of two letters from First Sergeant Joseph Cone, 260th Antitank Division, who participated in the liberation of Ohrdruf and Mauthausen concentration camps, to his wife, Ruth Cone, about liberation.

  15. Hitler and Mussolini; German-Japan pact

    Title: "1942" Title: "A Gift to Hitler February 1942" Title: "Axis Plans at Berchtesgaden 29 April 1942" Hitler and Mussolini confer at Berchtesgaden (1942). Title: "Japanese Submarine Welcomed in German Harbor 30 September 1942" A Japanese submarine is welcomed at a German port. Title: "1943" Title: "Signing of German-Japanese Economic Pact 20 January 1943" Ribbentrop signs pact. Title: "Arrival of Mussolini after his "Liberation" 10 October 1943" Mussolini visits Germany after his rescue from US captors.

  16. Eric E. Kohlhagen's papers

    Contains a letter from Eric Kohlhagen to his cousin in regards to sending affidavits for his parents to come to the United States and a memoir about Eric E. Kohlhagen's experiences in Sachsenhausen, Nordhausen, Bunawitz, Auschwitz, Gross Rosen, and Dora concentration camps.

  17. Selected records from collection LIII, Algeria

    Contains records pertaining to the application of anti-Jewish legislation enacted in Algeria.

  18. Selected records from collection CCVII, Belgium, Ministry of Reconstruction

    Contains records pertaining to Belgian forced labor in Germany, particularly Belgian-Jewish forced labor, and the repatriation of Belgian nationals after the war.

  19. Records of Chief Prosecutor Landmesser of Bromberg (Bydgoszcz)

    The records of Chief Prosecutor Landmesser of Bromberg (Bydgoszcz) consist of correspondence, memoranda, and prisoner lists addressed to the chief prosecutor at the district court in Bromberg regarding plans for the release of certain prisoners in case of regional evacuation in northern Poland in 1944‐1945; a police registration certificate; and a widow’s pension file. Correspondence and memoranda addressed to the chief prosecutor at the district court in Bromberg from the attorney general at the regional court in Danzig and from the boards of prisons and detention center in Bromberg, Danzi...

  20. Andrej Hartmann documents

    Contains a Czech passport issued for Andrej Hartmann, a certificate of native domicile, and a report card.