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  1. Private film of Nazi officers' party in occupied France

    Handmade title card: “Referat Film der Propaganda-Abteilung Frankreich.” [Film section of the Propaganda Department of France.] Title card: “Am Mittwoch den Mai 14 1941” [Wednesday, May 14, 1941] On this day, roughly 3600 Jewish men were arrested and forced from their homes in Paris. "PAF" INTs, formal event/party. Nazis from the Propaganda-Abteilung Frankreich in uniform sitting around, the focus is on two men in particular, one who is wearing circular glasses. (1:44) Title card: “Der Kontra-punkt” [The counterpoint.] Back of bald-headed Nazi. Men and women are sitting around a large room,...

  2. Hana A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hana A., who was born in Vilna (then Russia) in 1915. She recalls her marriage in 1936; her daughter's birth in 1939; Soviet occupation; German invasion; ghettoization; her husband being taken away (she never saw him again); a Polish neighbor who gave her food for her daughter; mass killings in Ponary, which included her mother and some siblings; a round-up of children, including her three-year-old daughter (she never saw her again); deportation with her sister and niece to Kaiserwald, then six months later to Dundangen; transfer to Dachau, then Bergen-Belsen; liberat...

  3. Henryk L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henryk L., who was born in Warsaw, Poland. He recalls his older brother's emigration to the United States; German invasion; he and his brother being drafted; his unit ending up in Lwo?w under Soviet occupation; returning to Warsaw to help his parents; their move into the ghetto in 1940; his parents' deaths; starvation, typhus, and daily deaths; smuggling his niece out of the ghetto in 1943; going in and out of the ghetto using false papers with assistance from Polish friends; smuggling his girlfriend and her sister through the sewers to a hiding place on the Aryan sid...

  4. Henri M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henri M., who was born in I?zmir, Turkey in 1924. He recounts his family's move to Clichy, France in 1926; relatives emigrating to Saint-Brieuc; participating in Boy Scouts; German invasion; fleeing with his parents and brother to Saint-Brieuc; returning home after two months; anti-Jewish restrictions; smuggling himself to Moissac, in the unoccupied zone, with assistance from a non-Jew; living in a home organized by Jewish scouts (EIF); forming lifelong friendships, including his future wife; his brother's arrival; his parents living nearby; receiving false papers fro...

  5. William L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of William L., who was born in Liptovsky? Mikula?s?, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1911. He recalls his father's death during World War I; his mother's orthodoxy; a sister's emigration to England; attending schools in Pies?t?any and Topol?c?any; apprenticeships in Dunajska? Streda and Filakovo; marriage in 1939; his son's birth; service in the Czech army; visiting his mother (he never saw her again); returning to Filakovo; anti-Jewish laws; losing his job; deportation to a labor camp in 1943 (he never saw his family again); forced labor on a farm, a munitions factory in P...

  6. Margo S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Margo S., who was born in Debrecen, Hungary in approximately 1930, one of four children. She recounts antisemitic harassment; her brother's draft into a forced labor battalion; German invasion in 1944; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; her father's deportation; round-up to a brick factory; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her mother and sister; remaining with another sister; their separation; volunteering to move corpses to join her sister; their transfer to Allendorf; slave labor in a munitions factory; sabotaging a bomb so it would not deton...

  7. Loni K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Loni K., who was born in Essen, Germany, in 1913. Mrs. K. recalls illegally emigrating to Holland in mid-1933; working as a servant and a legal secretary in Amsterdam; German occupation; her mother and sisters' emigration (her father was deported in 1942 and died in Theresienstadt); imposition of antisemitic restrictions; protection from deportation because she worked for the Joodse Raad; transport to Westerbork in mid-1943; transport to Theresienstadt in February 1944; working in a coffin factory; and details of her arrival at Auschwitz in May 1944. She tells of tran...

  8. Dounia S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dounia S., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1920, one of three children of Russian émigrés. She recounts her family's assimilated lifestyle; a happy childhood; attending public school and a music conservatory; becoming a Belgian citizen in 1936; attending theater school; working as a comedian; German invasion; fleeing with her family to Saint-Gaudens, France; living for several months in La Barthe; returning home via Paris; her father registering them as Jews, despite her misgivings; leaving home, thinking it too dangerous to stay; living as a non-Jew elsewher...

  9. Scheer, Reinhard (Admiral)

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Scheer, Reinhard (30.9.1863 - 26.11.1928) Admiral geb.: 30.9.1863 in Obernkirchen gest.: 26.11.1928 in Marktredwitz 22.4.1879 Eintritt in die Kaiserliche Marine als Seekadett; SMS Niobe; Marineschule; SMS Renown; SMS Friedrich Carl; SMS Hertha 15.6.1880 Fähnrich z.S. 16.11.1882 Leutnant z.S. 14.11.1882 Marineschule Nov. 1883 SMS Mars; II. Matrosen-Division 22.4.1883 SMS Bayern 3.10.1883 SMS Bismarck; Einsatz in Ostafrika und Ostasien 15.12.1885 Oberleutnant z.S. 24.7.1886 Rückkehr aus Ostasien; II. Matrosen-Division 10.4.1893 Kapitänleutnant 28.9.1897Dezernen...

  10. Akta gminy w Ludwinie

    • Files of the commune of Ludwin

    Karta A: lata 1898-1914 - protokoły zebrań wiejskich - 2 j.a. okres międzywojenny - sprawy budżetowe - 1 j.a. okres okupacji - sprawy budżetowe, sprawozdania rachunkowe - 2 j.a. okres PRL - sprawy organizacyjne, księgi uchwał, kontrola wewnętrzna, protokoły posiedzeń gminnych rad narodowych, ich prezydiów i zarządów gminnych, sprawy osobowe i personalne, budżety gminy, sprawy rolnictwa, szkolnictwa, hodowli, aprowizacji, finansowe, podatkowe, sprawozdania rachunkowe - 65 j.a. Karta B: ewidencja i kontrola ruchu ludności, XIX-1953, 20 j.a.

  11. Jewish district in Krakow

    Kazimierz, the predominantly Jewish area of Krakow, filmed by Julien Bryan. Men inside arched shop entrance. Various shots and CUs of people, with many Orthodox men on street, walking, talking, avoiding camera. Mixture of other people mingling and on the move. Market stall selling poultry in the main square in Kazimierz, synagogue in background. Market stalls and vendors. Street scenes, balloons, shops. Funeral procession for Marja Steinberger. Market scenes. Archway in alley. Various CUs Yeshiva boys, ECUs, smiles and laughter, talking to each other.

  12. Trial of Reichstag fire-setters; art exhibition; French POWs

    05:03:07 Title: "Verhandlung gegen die Reichstags-Brandstifter am Tatort. Senatspraesident Dr. Buenger eroeffnet im Hauptausschuss-Saal des Reichstages die Sitzung." Berlin. Reichstag building, dome, meeting room. The accused Reichstag fire-setters entering courtroom, public standing. Chief Judge Dr. Buenger (president of the Senate) presides over the trial (original sound). LS Reichstag. Proceedings continue, including listening to accusation and hearing evidence. Good lighting contrasts. Judge in formal robe. Spectators. Witnesses are admonished by Buenger (speaking for a long time). 05:0...

  13. American military moves through Germany

    Reel 13: (1945) Germany; Air trip to England; Remagen Street scenes, soldiers marching, gathering in the road amongst crowds of civilians. Church. Planes landing in a field, soldiers conversing next to trucks in the airfield (possibly, the Frankfurt airstrip). Soldiers at leisure outside a home (temporary HQ?), play with a small dog, open a metal trunk, and wave to the camera from trucks. Nice CUs of men. Street scenes and views from moving vehicle. In town, soldiers talk with civilians and children, and hang a sign, "534 QM GP". They pose for the camera. Two soldiers in front of the home p...

  14. Solomon H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Solomon H., who was born in Wielun?, Poland in 1913. He recounts the deaths of his father and brother; a sister and brother emigrating to France; marriage in 1938; German invasion; fleeing; being shot; transfer to Tomaszo?w Mazowiecki, then ?o?dz?; reunion with his wife; returning home; ghettoization; having his wife smuggled to the Cze?stochowa ghetto when she became pregnant (their son did not survive long); escaping to join her during the ghetto's liquidation; assignment to HASAG-Pelzery; a privileged position as a foreman; arrival of Jews from ?o?dz?; communicatin...

  15. Raphael Lemkin papers

    This collection of Raphael Lemkin's papers documents his intense interest in the subject of genocide. The originals are held at the New York Public Library, from which the text of the following catalogue was obtained. The papers largely document Lemkin's intense interest in the subject of genocide. With the exception of a draft of his autobiography, Unofficial Man, the collection contains very little personal material. The correspondence is both incoming and outgoing, with public officials, newspapers, academics, and religious groups. It relates to Lemkin's struggle for support for the rati...

  16. Account of Nelly Wolffheim's experience

    Typescript, annotated, incomplete, account of Nelly Wolffheim's experience running the last remaining Jewish Kindergarten school in BerlinGerman 30 pages 

  17. Rationalisierungs- und Innovationszentrum der Deutschen Wirtschaft e. V.

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Am 10. Juni 1921 wurde das Reichskuratorium für Wirtschaftlichkeit in Indu Industrie und Handwerk in Berlin gegründet. Die Initiative ging vom Wirtschaftsministerium aus, die Gründerväter waren Carl Friedrich von Siemens und der VDI. Mit dem Aufbau der nationalsozialistischen Wirtschaftsordnung veränderte sich die Struktur des RKW grundlegend. Das RKW wurde nach dem Führerprinzip umgebaut, d. h. von einer Selbstverwaltungsorganisation mit Vereinsstruktur in eine hierarchische, straff geführte und an das Reichswirtschaftsministerium direkt angebundene Organisa...

  18. Ludwig H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ludwig H., who was born in Gru?nberg, Germany in 1902. He describes moving to Breslau, then Dortmund where he spent his youth and young adulthood; anti-Semitic incidents prior to the war; arrest in 1933 by three Nazis; imprisonment with his dog; the return of his dog by the S.A. to Mr. H.'s mother; his own release after eight days with a document certifying his imprisonment; and escape with his brother to Paris, where he was allowed to remain because of the document which proved he was a victim of religious persecution. He recalls working for a banker; his marriage in...

  19. The Frank family at Schoberhof

    At Schoberhof, the Frank family with relatives. CUs of the family - a baby, young boy, and slender woman in a swimsuit. The Frank children Sigrid and Norman play and pose in costumes outdoors with Nanny Sophie. 02:19:47 Nazi flag waving, EXTs. Slow pan and LSs of Schoberhof.

  20. Felix Rosenthal papers

    The collection includes typescript memoirs and essays written by Felix Rosenthal describing his childhood in Germany, his emigration from Germany in 1933, his stay in Italy and eventual immigration to the United States, and his service in the United States Army as a “Ritchie Boy” during World War II. The collection also contains other essays and reflections from Felix’s experiences in the Army, including during his time serving with occupation forces in Germany from 1945-1947.