Universal Newsreel, Vol. 17, No. 278, Part 2. Release date, 03/20/1944. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: "Nazi Prisoners Work" Michigan. Nazi prisoners of war volunteer for forest duty in the north woods. Warmly clothed, they work like beavers. Then they devour their food, and return to the recreation rooms for checkers, ping pong and music by a German band. Other parts of newsreel ...

The Harry and Clare Lerner papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, printed materials, reports, memoranda, and subject files documenting Harry Lerner’s work as UNRRA director of Displaced Persons centers in Stuttgart, Hof, Rehau, and Vilseck, Clare’s work alongside him, and their marriage. Biographical materials include assignment and travel orders issued to Harry and Clare Lerner ...

Notes taken from NCJF documentation: A day in the life of a Histadrut worker, people taking care of different aspects of life on a farm. View of fields, new buildings going up, young man working in the fields, woman feeding chickens, more people in the field, people from different countries "a new society rooted in the old soil of Palestine", view of unidentified city. Purim festival in Tel Aviv, parade, ...

German troops in the port of Piraeus. Arms for the Germans are unloaded from ships. Aerial shot of POWs in a camp with 10,000 prisoners. CUs of prisoners, described by the narrator as "helpers" from all over the world that the English have impressed into service, and who are now happy that the war is over for them. CU on Indians, Arabs, and a native New Zealander. More shots of the men, focusing on ...

The scene opens on a big Red Cross flag in a cavernous room. The narrator says that this is the Red Cross center in Geneva. The camera pans down to show rows and rows of filing cabinets, where volunteers work with index cards in the file drawers. Signs indicate the departments for various countries. Workers in the correspondence section, where letters to and from prisoners and their relatives are routed. ...

Reconstructs Etty Hillesum's life and views, as expressed in her diary and letters, written between 1941-42, when she worked as a volunteer at the Westerbork internment camp. Deals with her philosophical foundations, ethical attitudes, religious beliefs, relation to literature, and testimony concerning life in the camp. Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-167) and index. 169 pages : illustrations ...

Geschiedenis van de gereformeerde vrouwenorganisatie die werd opgericht om de spaaractiviteiten ten bate van de Vrije Universiteit te organiseren. Met lit. opg., reg. 159 p. : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Willy Furlan-Horst was born June 16, 1896 in Trieste. He was Roman Catholic and lived and worked in Vienna as a film director. In December 1939, he was arrested in Poland. In March 1943, he was sent to Dachau, where he was the kapo of his barracks. His prisoner number at Dachau was 45086.

Unrestricted access is allowed

Joseph G. Fogg (Cleveland, Oh., 1920 - Moreland Hills, 1992) was as a volunteer ambulance driver for an American Field Service unit attached to the 8th British Army, and served from 1942 to 1945. He witnessed Bergen-Belsen concentration camp shortly after liberation

Fonds consists of a genealogy of the Landau family and the Sheinfeld Family, compiled by Jerrold Landau, a baseball trophy presented by AJ Freiman, Israella Singers documents, Ottawa Jewish Community Foundation documents, Talmud Torah School documents, Beth Shalom documents, and a framed "First Distinguished Service Award" presented to the people at the Chevra Kadisha (1980). Folder 1: Landau and Sheinfeld ...

"From the followers of Haj Amin Al-Husseini, the Arab leader who met with Adolph Hitler in November 1942, to Balkan Muslim volunteers for the Waffen SS during World War II, fascism's heady brew of extreme nationalism and racism has seduced peoples across all races, religions, and classes. Now widely reviled, fascism became the dominant political force in Western Europe throughout the 1930s and into ...

File 1. Policy guidelines for "cultural" events. Reports on cultural activities (most of the documents in German). 2.09.1942-1.04.1944. 219 pages. File 2. Article by Bykovich in "Commonwealth in-arms" newspaper for volunteers (No. 2 from 11.12.1944) entitled "The Destruction of the center of the bandit movement in Crimea. Release of the civilian population from prison." International information for ...

The article revisits the role of Italians in the Holocaust in the light of recent historiography and by applying the category of genocide to the hunting, arrest and deportations of the Jews in Italy in 1943-1945, under the German occupation and during the Republic of Salò established by Mussolini. Special attention is given to the ideological context of radical antisemitism, initiated by the introduction ...

Documentation belonging to the gendarmerie unit in the Khoyniki district, 1942-1943
 
 The Collection includes primarily reports and instructions from the Gendarmerie Headquarters in Zhitomir, as well as instructions from the (Gebietskommissar) district commissioner in Reytschitza and correspondence of the unit, particularly with the regional Gendarmerie Headquarters in Reytschitza. The material ...

Nederlandse Militaire Missie en het Militair Bureau van het Gezantschap in Pretoria > WERKZAAMHEDEN > Steun aan achtergebleven verwanten van militairen. > Correspondentie betreffende de regelingen inzake de betaling door de Nederlandse en Britse overheid van uitkeringen aan verwanten van militairen, in dienst bij de Koninklijke Landmacht en gedetacheerd bij de "Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve"

Songs from the repertoire of the 2 Korpus Polski (Anders' Army) Performing Ensemble. Privately recorded in Rome, Italy, 1945. Side A: Czekam (piosenka dla lotnika) [I am waiting (song for an aviator)] Music: Henryk Wars Words: Ref-Ren (Feliks Konarski) Vocalists: Renata Bogdańska; Filip Ende. Performing ensemble of the 2 Korpus Polski: Wydział Dobrobytu Żołnierza (Polish 2nd Corps, Soldier Welfare ...

Mass rally of Légion des Volontaires Français [Legion of French Volunteers against Bolshevism] in Paris. Crowds outside the Vélodrôme d'Hiver. A group of women enter the building. Prominent attendees include Ambassador de Brinon, Colonel Edgar Puaud and Capitaine Jean Bassompierre. Overhead shot of the crowded stadium. Banners read "Il faut des actes de soldat" and "Le combat seul conduit à la vie." ...

Map of the Eastern Front, indicating Warsaw, Breslau, Kattowitz, Litzmannstadt, and other locations. German soldiers on the Eastern Front in deep blowing snow. Low aerial shot of German soldiers in East Prussia. German and Soviet ships in battle on the Baltic Sea. Scenes from the defense of Breslau: CU of a notice from the City Commandant, Krause, ordering all men, women, and children over the age ...

Documentation of Jews in Fellabach and Waiblingen, 1933-1945
 
 The collection is located in the Archive of the city of Waiblingen, in Record Group 363 (divided into secondary record groups 363.1 and 363.2), in the private archive of the Riesle family in Waiblingen. From this collection, documents of Mrs. Deicher, the grandmother of the head of the family that donated the collection, were ...

Gertrude Katz was Dr. Henry Morgentaler's friend, confidant, and co-worker in the Committee for Neutral Schools, and in taking abortion out of the criminal law. Pro-choice advocate Dr. Morgentaler (1923-2013) was one of the first Canadian doctors to perform vasectomies, to insert intrauterine devices, and to provide birth control pills to unmarried women. Beginning in 1969, he opened eight abortion ...

Reproduction is allowed upon permission by the archives administration

This collection of material relates to the 50^th anniversary of the Kindertransporte, which saved some 10,000 German, Austrian and Czech Jews from the Nazis in 1938/9. The bulk of this collection consists of press cuttings some of which (1347/9-13) are personal accounts including testimony from former Kinder, members of welfare organisations in GB, and helpers who accompanied the children.<br/><br/>Note ...

Grete Mayer was born on 24 October 1901 in Frankfurt am Main, the daughter of the Jewish businessman Willy Mayer. She graduated from the Schiller-Schule, Frankfurt, then the Handelsschule, Frankfurt with a certificate. After jobs in an old people's home and as a book-keeper in a bank she began a career in social work as a volunteer in the Jewsh community and in 1928 graduated as a social worker with ...