German soldiers in field. Sign "Achtung Minen Lebensgefahr" warning about mines. Various views of men on the front, fences. Minefields. Cemetery. Ruins. Soldiers shave, cook, rest. 10:19:19 Pak at street. Local French town in ruins. Germans pass on horseback, tanks. Roadside gravesites. Monument. 10: 21:13 French bunker. More graves of German soldiers who died on June 15, 1940). Destroyed village, ...

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Leib Tencer was born on June 6, 1910 in Ozduticz, Poland to Abraham and Gitel (nee Krantz) Tencer. His education began in Vilna but he received his Teacher's Diploma in Lutzk, Poland. In 1941, while in Russia attending and education conference, the Soviet Union entered into the war with Germany. Tencer, stranded in Russia, taught for some time before working in a coal mine to avoid the dangerous politics ...

Magyar Híradó 814. The intertitle reads, “MUNKASZOLGÁLATOSOK. Vitéz Fábry Daniel tábornok megetekintette a make talajvíz-mentesítõ munkálatokat. M.F.I.KISS E.” The forced labor battalions march, following their General (?) Daniel Fábry. Their arms swing in unison. CUs of soldiers' faces as they walk by the camera. They go to work digging a large rectangular ditch. Men carry off wheelbarrows full of ...

Includes bibliographical references (v. 1, pages 621-633) and indexes. 2 volumes : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

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 ...

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'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 ...

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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.

Raymond (Ray) Buch (1920-2010) was born in New York City to Ukrainian immigrants, Ludwig (1893-1962) and Mary (nee Straub, 1896-1939) Buch, and was raised on a farm in New Jersey. Ray had four siblings: June (1925-c. 2005), Mary (b.1930), Gloria (1932-2002), and Francis (1934-2011). After completing high school, Ray worked as a construction carpenter until he was drafted into the United States Army ...

Geschichte des Bestandsbildners - Geboren 9. November 1915 in Hamburg, evangelisch, verheiratet, zwei Kinder - 1935-1945: Offizier der Kriegsmarine - Minensuchstreitkräfte im Ärmelkanal - Dienst an Bord der Kreuzer Nürnberg, Leipzig und Emden - Ausbildungsoffizier für Offiziersnachwuchs - 1948-1947: GMSA (German Mine Sweeping Administration) - 1948-1952: Beamter in der Finanzverwaltung - Sprachkurse ...

Morris Kornberg was born in Przebr̤z, Poland on Jan. 6, 1918. He was the youngest of seven children in a strictly Orthodox family. When the Germans invaded Poland in 1939, he was forced to work. He lived in a ghetto and worked in a factory. Morris was imprisoned in Klonskie, a prison in Poland, taken to Radom, Poland, and then to Jawischowitz, a subcamp of Auschwitz in Poland. He worked in a coal mine ...

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 ...

Titles: "Soviet newsreel / 17 / Moscow / March 1944"/ "Directed by I. Kravchunovsky"/ "The sixth session of the Supreme Court Ukraine, USSR" High-angle ELS pan across Kiev. ELS courtroom INT, large portrait of Stalin centered in frame. Audience. MS, CU of Nikita Khrushchev addressing courtroom from podium. Courtroom. Title: 04:22:35 "On liberated Soviet ground" Workers rejuvenating factory. ELS of ...

Lilli Eckstein (now Stern) was born on November 1, 1921 to Gustav and Bertha (Speier) Eckstein. The lived in Heldenbergen, Germany, near Frankfurt am Main, where her father ran a business that had been in the family for generations. She had one brother. In 1937, after the Ecksteins were forced to sell their home and their business was Aryanized, they moved to Frankfurt. On Kristallnacht, Lilli's father ...

Introduction: The Bunker's afterlife : cultural production in the ruins of the Cold War / Luke Bennett ; Vile incubator : a pathology of the Cold War Bunker / Matthew Flintham ; Sounds from the Bunker : aural culture and the remainder of the Cold War / Louise K. Wilson ; 'Mines are the dead spaces' : a discussion of Bunker's work's atmospheres, limits and routines / Becky Alexis-Martin, Katherine Sandys ...

Within the AFL (American Federation of Labor) in the early 1930s a strong minority faction evolved, advocating the organisation of workers in the basic mass-production industries. John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers of America led this faction in forming a Committee for Industrial Organization in 1935. This group (changing its name in 1938 to Congress of Industrial Organizations) immediately launched ...

David Klipp was born on July 9, 1905, in Skudy (Skuodas), Lithuania. On January 17, 1940, David was forced out of his apartment and was brought to the ghetto in Łódź, Poland. In spring 1944, the Germans decided to destroy the Ghetto. On August 28, 1944, he was transported to Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. He was on the same transport as Chaim Rumkowski and Leon Rosenblat. He was then selected ...

"Historians have seen their field transformed by the digital age. Research agendas, teaching and learning, scholarly communication, the nature of the archive-all have undergone a sea change that in and of itself constitutes a fascinating digital history. Yet technology's role in the field's development remains a glaring blind spot among digital scholars. Adam Crymble mines private and web archives, ...