At the initiative of Josef Rosensaft a meeting was held in New York in December 1961 of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp survivors. It was decided at that time that a World Federation of Bergen-Belsen survivors would be formed with associations in all cities where there were numbers of survivors present. As a result, in early 1962, an association was formed in Montreal with Paul Trepman as president. ...

"Extra! - Democracy Faces the Job - Roosevelt's Historic Report!" Sync of FDR's "Four Freedoms" speech. Congress hears FDR on: 1. Threat To America; 2. All-Out Aid To Democracies; 3. Billions In Arms Loans; 4. Four Essential World Aims. FDR speaking: "It is untrue that an unprepared America can hold off the whole world. On appeasement tactics: such a peace would bring us security; we cannot afford ...

Anti-Jewish and anti-Allied forces Nazi propaganda leaflet acquired by Charles E. Pugh while he served as a United States paratrooper in France during World War II. These leaflets were dropped from planes over Paris in late 1943, as part of a German propaganda campaign to raise suspicions against the United States and its part in the worldwide Jewish conspiracy which threatened the safety of France ...

List of PK cameramen. Wide shot of the huge crowd in the Berlin Sportpalast gathered to hear Goebbels' Total War speech. In the speech, Goebbels made repeated reference to the Jews and the danger they supposedly pose for Germany and Europe, but none of this language appears in the newsreel version of the speech. The first part of the newsreel has a voiceover that summarizes what Goebbels says, over ...

This historical feature film begins in 1862 with King Wilhelm I appointing Otto von Bismarck as head of the Prussian government. Since Germany was divided into 35 different political entities and transferred to various principalities, the nation is portrayed as desperately longing for national unity. Bismarck's first political action of dissolving the Prussian parliament because the opposition leader ...

This historical feature film begins in 1862 with King Wilhelm I appointing Otto von Bismarck as head of the Prussian government. Since Germany was divided into 35 different political entities and transferred to various principalities, the nation is portrayed as desperately longing for national unity. Bismarck's first political action of dissolving the Prussian parliament because the opposition leader ...

This collection contains selected related to the operation of the Częstochowa Button Factory, of the late Jan i Stanisław Grosman S.A. Selected units include copies of statutes of the Częstochowa Button Factory Incorp., minutes of stockholders’ assembly meetings, and minutes of meetings and resolutions of the Board. There are also complete payrolls from the years 1928-1940. The files concerning the ...

As he prepared to wage his war of annihilation on the Eastern Front, Adolf Hitler repeatedly drew parallels between the Nazi quest for Lebensraum, or living space, in Eastern Europe and the United States's westward expansion under the banner of Manifest Destiny. The peoples of Eastern Europe were, he said, his "redskins," and for his colonial fantasy of a "German East" he claimed a historical precedent ...

A Castle Films showcase of news events for the year 1948 with English titles: "West's worst floods! Thousands made homeless when swollen Columbia River inundates vast territory!" "Raging torrents devastate Canada's Fraser Valley." "Florida lashed as tropical hurricane roars in from Caribbean!" "Holland's new queen. Wilhelmina, after 50 years of kindly rule, abdicates in favor of her daughter Juliana." ...

The collection consists of contracts signed by the Agro-Joint with the Soviet government for 1924, 1927, 1933, minutes of meetings of the main and field offices, correspondence with agencies, organizations and foreign firms on the purchase and delivery to the USSR of agricultural equipment and supplies; various reports on the work of agronomists in the Jewish settlers' villages, financial plans and ...

Zwi Rosenwein (Cwi) was born to Moshe Baruch (b. 1884, Czestochowa) and Hinda Devorah Rosenwein (née Dudek, b. 1887, Klabuzke) on December 6, 1918 in Czestochowa. The family was very religiously observant. Zwi spent much of his early childhood in a hospital due to various illnesses, but did well in school and joined the Gordania organization. After the German invasion in 1939, he joined a group of ...

While the Nazi party was being condemned by much of the world for burning books, they were already hard at work perpetrating an even greater literary crime. Through new research that included records saved by the Monuments Men themselves -- Anders Rydell tells the untold story of Nazi book theft, as he himself joins the effort to return the stolen books. When the Nazi soldiers ransacked Europe's libraries ...

Reel 8: Chief US prosecutor Robert Jackson delivers his summation. Courtroom scenes, showing defendants testifying and prisoners' dock, "...to say of these men that they are not guilty, it would be as true to say that there has been no war, there are no slain, there has been no crime." 08:10:04 Sir Hartley Shawcross delivers summation, "This trial must form a milestone in the history of our civilization..." ...

1. Sprawy karne Sd 4 Kls, sygn. 1-312; 1941-1944. 2. Sprawy karne Sd 5 Kls, sygn. 313- 461; 1942-1943. 3. Sprawy karne Sd 4 KMs, sygn. 462-479; 1941-1942. 4. Sprawy karne Sd 5 KMs, sygn. 480-482; 1941-1944 5. Sprawy karne Sd 4 Js, sygn. 283-485; 1941-1941 6. Dopływ do zespołu, opracowany w roku 2011, sygn. 486-526; 1940-1944 [1947].

USHMM has copied from this fonds and describes the copies as follows: Fond 2411, Opis 1, Delo 14: Record of salary payments. 1942-1943 Fond 2411, Opis 1, Delo 15: Schedule of lessons and tests for students in German schools. 1942-1943 Fond 2411, Opis 1, Delo 18: Copies of notices distributed to Volksdeutsche in May-June 1943. 1943 Fond 2411, Opis 1, Delo 23: Instructions of the Reichskommissar, correspondence ...

Inventory 1, files 1, 2, 12, 13, 22. Documents on the use of Jewish labor at the objects related to Hitler's headquarter in the suburbs of Vinnitsa, the eviction of the local population, in particular Jewish, from the city districts, where later the German military and occupation agencies were stationed. Inventory 1, files 12, 18, 22. Documents on activity of the passport registration department of ...

A propaganda film declared as a "documentary film contribution about the problem of world Judaism," in which antisemitic stereotypes are disseminated by the Nazis, including scenes showing: Poland as a nesting place for Judaism; the comparison of Jews with rats; the difference between Jews and Aryans; "international crime"; "financial Judaism"; "assimilated Jews"; the Jewish influence on economics, ...

The fonds’ inventories are systematized according to the structural-chronological principle. Included are directives of the Romanian occupation authorities dealing with restrictive and discriminatory measures with regard to the Jewish population of Transnistria: an order of the Golta prefecture that Jews be sent from the local ghetto to work at the Akmechetka camp (Domanevka district) (1943); copies ...

Digital copy available as KD_00514 at Kazerne Dossin

Part 4 of ENGLISH language version [corresponds to NARA reels 7 & 8] Courtroom scenes, questioning various defendants, showing various views of the courtroom and trial proceedings. Questioning Jodl and von Ribbentrop. Prosecutor asks Goering: "Do you still say that neither Hitler nor you knew of the policy to exterminate the Jews?" Goering: "I already had said that not even approximately did I know ...

Part 4 of GERMAN language version [corresponds to NARA reels 7 & 8] Courtroom scenes, questioning various defendants, showing various views of the courtroom and trial proceedings. Questioning Jodl and von Ribbentrop. Prosecutor asks Goering: "Do you still say that neither Hitler nor you knew of the policy to exterminate the Jews?" Goering: "I already had said that not even approximately did I know ...

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Contains material documenting the experiences of the Mayer family while in French concentration camps and in hiding under false names. Contains a letter from the Rivesaltes concentration camp from father to wife and children (8/25/42) just prior to deportation; the last postcard from a father sent prior to deportation to Germany (9/3/42); the last postcard sent from donor's brother Kurt to mother and ...

As a representative of the Swiss Red Cross in 1944, Maurice Rossel was asked to inspect Theresienstadt. He admits that he gave Theresienstadt a clean bill of health and would probably do so again today. He was also given a tour of Auschwitz, which he did not realize was a death camp. Lanzmann's questioning points to the degree to which Rossel and others were manipulated by the Nazis and to what extent ...