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Selected records from the following departments of the Regierung des Generalgouvernements (General Government) in Poland: 1. The Department of Internal Administration (Haubtabteilung Innere Verwaltung), which includes records relating to matters such as the organization of the Sonderdienst and Baudienst; religious denominations and national minorities; registry books of the Jewish population in the ...

Robert Sejwacz was born on November 13, 1934 in Paris, France, to parents Walek (b. 1906) and Freida (b. 1915). Robert's parents had emigrated from Poland to France where his father worked as a tailor. Although he was foreign born, Walek volunteered to serve in the French Army and was taken as a prisoner of war following capitulation in June 1940. Walek was ultimately released and returned to his family ...

Reel 3 opens to find Mayor Nettelbeck sitting at a large table with his advisers. He reads an ultimatum he has received from the French. While some of the councillors recommend capitulation, Nettelbeck again argues that they must stand and fight, and he delivers a patriotic refusal to surrender to the French envoy. Napoleon is furious when he hears of the tiny city's insolence and promises that Kolberg ...

Digital copy available as collection KD_00100 at Kazerne Dossin

In this ten minute film, Julien Bryan, the last neutral reporter remaining in Poland on September 1, 1939, records the horror and confusion of Warsaw during the German attack on Poland. Through actual footage taken during the siege, Bryan poignantly describes the frightening chain of events that finally resulted in the capitulation of Warsaw and Poland. During the early stages of the blitzkrieg, civilians ...

This collection contains four pictures portraying members of the Kosterich family, including: Max Kosterich, Hedwig Goldschmidt, Walter Joseph Kosterich, Manfred Kosterich, Oskar Kosterich and Hans Kosterich.

In April 1941, during World War II, the Independent State of Croatia came into being, backed by Fascist Italy (where most Ustasha lived during the 1930s, as they were anti-royalist Yugoslavia in the inter-war period) and Nazi Germany. A month later, large sections of Dalmatia were annexed by the Kingdom of Italy (in the Governatorato di Dalmazia), with the rest being formally left to the Independent ...

Hours after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Japanese forces launched a devastating attack on U.S. troops in the Philippines. In May 1942, after months of battle with no reinforcements and no hope of victory, the remaining American forces, holed up on the tiny island of Corregidor, suffered a humiliating defeat, and 11,000 fighting men became prisoners of war in the largest American capitulation since ...

Raya-Ginette Karesenty was the youngest of 5 children of a well-off Sephardic family, born in Oran, Algeria in January, 1925. The family lived in Paris between 1930 and 1940, when part of the family returned to Algeria after the capitulation of France to the Germans in June, 1940. Her father remained in Paris to care for an ailing brother and was later deported to Auschwitz. The Karsenty Family was ...