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Raymond Berr, French Jewish, was born in 1888. Right out of the school, he became professor of geology at the Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne. He served in the First World War and afterwards became CEO of Kuhlmann and in 1933, Managing Director and Executive Vice President. In 1940 he was no longer allowed his position at the company and for a few months in 1942, he was arrested but later released. ...

Reel 1: German troops swear loyalty to Hitler. Shows panormaic views of the countryside, mountains, people harvesting crops, German cities, a cathedral, steel mills and coal mines. Shot of German colonial post and troop reviewing there. German troops advancing in WWI, and Generals Hindenburg and Ludendorff. Maps show powers arrayed against and allied with Germany in WWI, the extent of German advances ...

'Japan: Profile of a Nation' is a cornucopia bringing readers reliable and accurate information on virtually every aspect of Japan the nation and its people. The range of topics is remarkable, offering a gold mine of facts about corporate culture, women in the labour force, cram schools, karaoke, comics, to name but a few, as well as more wide-ranging issues such as international relations, foreign ...

Jan Jakow Szelubski was born on March 25, 1916, in Lida, Lithuania (now Belarus) to Tuwia and Miriam Szelubski. His older sister, Jochewed, immigrated to Palestine in 1935. In 1938 Jan was drafted into the Polish army and served in Vilna, Poland. A short time before the end of his military service, World War II broke out, and Jan fought with his unit near East Prussia. On September 24, 1939, his unit ...

The Urząd Wojewódzki Śląski w Katowicach (Silesian Voivodship Office in Katowice) undertook its activity on the basis of a decree of the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (Polish Committee of National Liberation) from August 21, 1944 on the procedure of appointing the authorities of the general administration of the first and second instance, in January 1945. The internal organization of the reactivated ...

During World War II, 32,260 Americans were held as prisoners of war of the Japanese. Thousands were shipped to do forced labor in the factories, shipyards, & mines of Japan--at the specific request of major Japanese companies. For more than 50 years, this story has gone untold--until now. Combining investigative research, personal interviews with more than 400 ex-POWs, excerpts from POW diaries, & ...

16:07 The next witness, Mrs. Raymonde Guyon, presents herself to the court and is sworn in; the witness describes her participation in the dissemination of clandestine Resistance newspapers during the war, while in high school and then university; her fiancé at that time met law professors who were involved in the Resistance and they both became formally involved through these professors; she describes ...

Relates to Winfield Rosenberg's experience and the experiences of some of his American Jewish comrades at Stalag IX-B, Bad Orb, Germany, and at Berga an der Elster, a Buchenwald subcamp. There also is some information about a death march involving Rosenberg and other American prisoners of war, and their subsequent liberation by the 90th Infantry Division.

The collection consists of eight photographs and one copy print of the Mauthausen concentration camp near Vienna, Austria, at the time of liberation. The photographs were compiled by Ray Buch, a sergeant in the United States Army who assisted in overseeing the reburial of victims at Mauthausen after the war.