Amateur footage shot by a Wehrmacht soldier somewhere in the USSR. German artillery fires upon wooden houses in a Russian village. CUS (dark) of toldiers loading howitzers. 00:43:01 Nice shots of German troops advancing across a field toward the smoldering village. Camera pans across the Russian countryside as prisoners are marched into the fields. Two Soviet soldiers stand at gunpoint with their hands ...

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Documentation of the local government authorities in the Dnipropetrovsk region, 1941-1942
 
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 - Decision by the Dnipropetrovsk municipality regarding the function and the composition of the Judenrat;
 - Orders by the commander of the Security Service in Dnipropetrovsk, regarding the Security Police in Dnipropetrovsk and the registration of dangerous ...

The Chernihiv regional commission on the history of the Great Patriotic War focused on collecting documents and evidence about various aspects of the German occupation regime; thus, some of the following files potentially relate to the history of the Holocaust: File 14. Chronological reference book about temporary occupation of locations in Chernihiv region by German-Fascist invaders, and liberation ...

Berlin street scenes with posters affixed to a pillar; bicycles (very brief). Probably Charlottenburg district where the Vishniac family lived on Pariserstrasse.

File 1 at the Inventory 2 of the collection contains reports and statements about atrocities of the German occupiers and material damage caused by them in Kirovohrad region during the occupation: P. 8 - Statement of the Soviet Extraordinary Commission about the murder of the Jewish population in Kirovohrad by the German occupiers; P. 21 - Statement of the Soviet Extraordinary Commission about the murder ...

Drill. Rifle shooting, march through French village, shoemaker, mail delivery

Born in Russia in 1897, Roman Vishniac was a biologist by training, having earned a doctorate in zoology and a medical degree from Moscow universities and a doctorate in Oriental art from the University of Berlin. For many years he was prevented from working in any of those fields because of war, revolution and political persecution. He instead pursued a career in microphotography, the photographing ...

(LIB 6276) Former POW hospital complex now occupied by American troops from the 666th Medical Collecting Company. The CUs of patients are former Soviet soldiers. Malnourished former prisoners of war stare at camera from hospital beds. CU of emaciated body. 00:00:27 Wounded man with amputated leg lies crying in bed. CU of injury. Former prisoner still in striped uniform in bed. 00:01:00 Hospital complex. ...

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Missal given to Jacques Lajbman by Father Philippe Laurent Cleeremans (1878-1944) while he was in hiding in the Belgian village of Tourinnes-St. Lambert.

Intertitles appear in Yiddish and English. CU, elderly woman with scarf around head. "Polish Peasant Types" "Grandpa" MCU, old man with girl.

Contains photographs (33) and copy of typescript text (6 pages), describing a visit made by the donor to his parents' ancestral village in Poland in 1985 to seek traces of the Jewish cemetery and other buildings.

Discusses the role of Aulus-les-Bains, a small thermal resort in the French Pyrenées, as a detention center for Jews between 1942-43. In 1942 the Vichy government assigned 587 Jews, mostly refugees who had arrived in France in 1940 and found shelter in Haute-Garonne, to live in the isolated village. The Jews also included prisoners from the camp in Gurs and persons arrested while crossing over to ...

Contains an oral history interview with Yakov Gincherman, ten black and white photographs, and a newspaper article pertaining to the memorial at the Jewish cemetery in the village of Nafartav to the thousand Jews shot by German fascists, 1941 September 14.

Inv. 1, file 8. Order of occupation authority on supply of meat by population, including requirements for Jews and orders regarding animals belonging to Jews. Inv. 1, file 9, 17, 23, 270, 274, 278, 283, 286 - information on the socio-economic directions of the persecution of Jews. Inv. 1, file 9, 17, 23; file 236, p. 7; file 237, p. 21; file 238, p. 11; file 240, p. 4-5; file 246, p. 17; file 247, ...

Universal Newsreel, Vol. 10, No. 712, Part 2A. Release date, 10/19/1938. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: "Germans Take Over Sudeten" Czechoslovakia. Almost on the heels of the Czechs as they withdraw from areas ceded to Germany by the Four-Power Accord, the German leader and his troops take over, inspecting former Czech defenses and feeding hungry refugees. Czechs depart from the Sudetenland ...

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Testimony, handwritten, eight pages, Russian, by Fanya Vaisman (Weisman), of Chicago, in June 1994. Originally from a village (Shpikov) in Vinnitsa district, Ukraine, Vaisman describes experiences in Pechora camp and Shargorod ghetto, as well as hiding in forest after escape.

Pomeranian village on the River, Lute boy gets a beating, barefoot, Kashubians in the district of Bütow, Industry, landscape, agriculture, watermill

Consists of four photographs pertaining to donor's life in prewar Budapest. The donor survived the war using false name of Marishka Lenart in the village of Rakocz Ligett, Hungary.

Testimony, typescript, four pages, describing Katz's experience in a village near Kassel, deportation to Riga in 1941, the Kaiserwald and Stutthof camps, liberation, migration to US Zone of Germany, and eventual unification with family of sister and immigration to US.

Orders of district administration; minutes of general meeting; information on harvesting of agricultural products; accounts of workdays; information on the amount of land in rural agriculture; profit and expense orders; lists of villagers; lists of persons deported to work in Germany. Inventory 1, file 2. Letter of gebietskommissar to the district head of the town of Pliskiv and elder of village of ...

Officer training course Prien, Chiemsee, chess game, excursion, sunbathing, rowing. 10:05:45 Knight cross holder, igloo building (exercise for Russia), snowball fight with women. 10:16:40 Title: "Poland 1940/41" Horses, Polish village, riders, everyday life, guns, Draw well. 10:24:16 Soldiers with young dogs, eating, riding column, guns, laughing young woman.10:30:00 Medical vehicle, winter, "patch ...