The fonds consists of six groups of files: confidential files, mobilization files, administrative files, files concerning the misdemeanor, public procurement files, and core personnel files. In all groups of files one can find valuable documents concerning the political, economic and social status of Jews in and around Komárno. For example, the fonds contains the list of merchants and holders of licences, ...

Orientation Film no. 7, Reel 2. International events cause the US to enter into World War II. Dramatizes later European migrations to the US stressing the strength brought to the US by her immigrants. Shows luxury items (cars, radios, etc.) which contribute to US life. Depicts educational facilities, recreational activities (including many sport scenes), and prohibition era scenes.

The fonds of the District Office in Piešťany as the regional state administration body contains the imporant documents on political, economical and social history of Piešťany district in 1938-1945. Many files concern the anti-Jewish policy of the Hlinka Slovak People´s Party regime at the territory of Piešťany district. Several files concern various reports on Jews living in Piešťany, and visiting ...

Selected records from the local offices such as: Legion of Gendarmerie, district police, district prefectures, and mayors' offices located in many localities in Suceava County in the South Bukovina area of Romania. Topics include many aspects of Jewish communities, organizations, societies, measures against Jews, standards for qualifying for Romanian citizenship, denaturalization, and evacuation of ...

It is possible to make copies in accordance with the research rules of the archive.

Digital copy available as collection KD_00190 at Kazerne Dossin

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Ce fonds contient des documents diversifiés provenant de divers services administratifs de la Kreiskommandantur. On notera dans le carton K1 le dossier « Mesures contre les Juifs (05/03/1941) », « Liste des entreprises juives à Liège » ; K2. « Militärbefehlshaber für Belgien und Nord-Frankreich (MBH) Ordonnance portant sur la limitation de la libre circulation des Juifs (29/08/1941) » ; K13 « Pigeons ...

KLAAS EN FRANS DEN HAAN (NL) De broers Klaas en Frans den Haan komen uit een groot arbeidersgezin en moesten al vroeg gaan werken om bij te dragen aan het gezinsinkomen. Ze komen te werken in een emballagefabriek. In de crisisjaren was het moeilijk om aan werk te komen en dat ook te houden. Frans vindt werk in de binnenvaart, maar Klaas wordt al in 1943 opgeroepen voor de arbeidsinzet. De Nazi’s hadden ...

The fonds contains documents of the political administration of the Nová Paka district, official books, file material and accounting material. General files are further divided according to subject groups. The following subject groups are relevant to Jewish issues: Handling period 1903-1936: 5. Church and religious affairs; 8. Police matters; census operators. Handling period 1937-1942: III. Security ...

A film by József Herczog. As an amateur filmmaker, Herczog filmed the streets of Budapest during the German occupation of Hungary in autumn 1944 and captured a record of his salon business, the dedication of the bomb shelter in cellar of the “yellow star house” where he lived and over 50% of the tenants were Jewish, Hungarian soldiers, an evacuation, and bomb damage. Title card: “Filmezte es osszeallitotta: ...

Title: "Soviet newsreel / 59 / 1941 / M. Fidelevoy"/ "Radio address of the USSR's Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars and the People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs, V.M. Molotov / June 22, 1941" MS of Molotov. Voiceover of Molotov speech: "Today at 4 a.m. ... without declaring war, Germany attacked our country ... the attack was perpetrated despite a pact of non-aggression between the USSR ...

Printed inventory at the Researchers´ Room of the archive, Eva Vrláková, 2013.

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Henry (Heinrich) Kalmus (1906-1982) was born in Vienna, and after his studies in that city, he obtained a degree in engineering and moved to Budapest when he was offered a position with the Orion Radio company. In 1938 he left Budapest, first for London, and then he immigrated to the United States, initially living in New York and Chicago, working for Zenith Radio in the latter city. In the late 1940s, ...

Pendant that originally belonged to Magda Lowy. She received it before the beginning of World War II in 1939 and entrusted it to her aunt, Jolie, for safekeeping. Jolie survived the Holocaust by living in hiding in Belgium. In June 1944, 21 year old Magda and her family were deported from Satu Mare, Hungary (Romania) to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in Poland. She and her sister, Elizabeth, were ...

Opening shot of the courtroom. Adolf Eichmann sits in the booth. Lawyers for the defense and the prosecution are seated at their respective desks with their backs to the camera. The judges enter. All rise and Judge Moshe Landau asks Deputy State Attorney Yaacov Bar-Or to proceed. There appears to have been a brief recess after the entering of many documents into the record and the footage picks up ...

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Claude Lanzmann was born in Paris to a Jewish family that immigrated to France from Eastern Europe. He attended the Lycée Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand. His family went into hiding during World War II. He joined the French resistance at the age of 18 and fought in the Auvergne. Lanzmann opposed the French war in Algeria and signed a 1960 antiwar petition. From 1952 to 1959 he lived with Simone ...

Flora Cohen was born on December 3, 1914, in Rotterdam, Netherlands, to Abraham and Alijda (Aleida) Van Beek Cohen. Flora had three older siblings, Izak (1900-1965), Salomon (1904-1981), and Elisabeth (1906-1996), and two siblings who died before she was born, Moses (1901-1901), and Rosina (1902-1903). Flora’s father Abraham was born on January 23, 1874, in Rotterdam, to Isaac and Elizabeth van Lier ...

Orientation Film no. 7, Reel 5. International events cause the US to enter into World War II. Cranes move scraps of metal in a junkyard and protestors carry picket signs saying "Embargo Japan." A sign over a doorway reads, "Mr. Acheson Assistant Secretary of State." Dean Acheson sits at a desk and summarizes the conflicts involved with exporting goods to Japan. 05:22:15 "April 9, 1940." Hitler looks ...

Reel 4 of the English language version of "The Nazi Plan" produced by Twentieth Century Fox with new graphics. Most of this reel consists of German newsreel footage with the familiar German narrator, with an English voiceover. No title. Hitler speaks to the Reichstag. He addresses Roosevelt and says that any rumors of intentions by Germany to attack the US are crude lies. He addresses the British government ...

Painting and frame created by Dr. Samuel Vreedenburg in 1944 while he was living in hiding in the home of his former assistant and her husband, Janny and Willem Blom, in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It is a copy of Van Gogh’s The Zouave and was painted on a pillowcase with a frame made from crib slats. Germany occupied the Netherlands in May 1940 and, in 1942, Samuel and his wife Marianne sent their 9 year ...

Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Peter von Zahn, Rundfunk und Fernsehjournalist Biografie 29.1.1913 Peter von Zahn wird als viertes Kind in Chemnitz geboren. Sein Vater ist der Oberstleutnant Friedrich Paul von Zahn 1918 Umzug nach Dresden 1918-1931 Schulbesuch in Dresden (Vitzhumscshes Gymnasium und Staatsgymnasium), Internat in Meißen (Fürstenschule St. Afra) 1931-1932 Studium der Rechtswissenschaften ...