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Cross examination of Walter Funk. MS in courtroom at Nuremberg Trial as Walter Funk, president of the Reichsbank, is cross examined by US Prosecutor Thomas Dodd. Closer shot of Funk in witness chair guarded by MP, answering questions. Another LS of courtroom as Funk is on stand, questions by Dodd are about the loot taken from concentration camp prisoners and conquered countries and put into the Reichsbank ...

In 1938 and 1939, Shaul and Yitzhak Goskind of Warsaw-based Sektor Films produced six short films about urban Jewish communities in Poland. One, about Łódź, is lost. The other five-on Bialystok, Cracow, Lwow, Vilna, and Warsaw-have survived and are now called "Five Cities." These low-budget 35mm films were made for Landsmanshaften groups in America for fundraising purposes. On the eve of war, the Goskinds ...

Sound is a bit scratchy at certain points. Crowds of people at the annual Kaziukas craft fair in Vilna. Horses stand on muddy ground. Vendors sell round pretzel-like bread (Kaziukas bread?). A woman with a fur collared coat buys strands of the round bread from a smiling vendor. CUs of nicely decorated cookies and sugar hearts. Visitors to the fair look at paintings, caged birds, rocking horses, and ...

Contains photographs depicting the Wassertail family in Rajcza, Poland.

A labour organizer, Maurice Silcoff was involved with various labour unions, including the Milliners and the Capmakers Unions. After World War II, he was the union delegate sent to the DP camps to select workers for Canada. Born in Dublin in 1908, Maurice Silcoff worked in the capmaking industry in Montreal and eventually became a labour leader in the textile industry. After World War II, he was the ...

The fonds contains deeds, law books, official books and documents from the fields of economics, culture, church, politics, construction, etc. It contains the following materials on the history of Jews: after 1848 - buildings, expansion land operation of Jewish enterprises: textile factories of the Mahler, Bauer, Stiassny, A. B. Musil, and Löwy & Drucker families, the Roth steam mill. First World War ...

<p>This collection comprises the personal papers of Harold Jackson (formerly Hans Hermann Josephy).</p>

Vera Bier (née Dahl) was born in Aachen in 1921. Her school education was disrupted by Nazi-legislation which prevented Jews from attending state schools. After being forced to leave her school in Spring 1937 she went to an English-Jewish college in Cologne until the school was shut after the November pogroms in 1938, leaving her without qualifications for further university education. Vera Bier emigrated ...

Consists of letters written to Samuel and Paula Butterklee from their parents, Norbert and Mina Butterklee, from 1938-1942. Norbert (Nissen) and Mina (Menie) Butterklee, of Vienna, Austria, sent their children, Samuel and Paula, to the United States to escape Nazi persecution. Though they attempted to obtain visas for themselves, Norbert and Mina were unsuccessful, and perished during the Holocaust. ...

Walter Hausner (April 24, 1914-February 5, 2003) was a member of the Austrian amateur film society in Vienna. His father, Ferdinand (1883-1957) owned a firm for fabrics and fashion articles with factories in Vienna and Jihlava, Czechoslovakia with business partner Siegfried Furst. Walter’s mother, Wilhelmina Bloch, died from cancer in 1937. Walter and Ferdinand managed to leave Vienna together just ...

Photocopied documents related to the experiences of the Warschau family at the Feldafing DP camp from 1949-1950, including the birth certificate (original) of daughter Martl, 1949.

Soldiers digging a ditch (unclear), plane flies over field. 01:05:26 Betty Hausner with baby Tony in Liverpool 1946. Baby in stroller. 01:06:12 Family sitting in grass, posing for the camera. Franz, the man in suit with glasses smoking, switches places with the other man, and the family poses again. Brief shots of an opera/theatrical play, three actors in costume.