Excerpts from Michael Kuball's documentary "Soul of a Century," with narration (sound quality is bad). The first scenes show the demolition of the Dortmund synagogue in October 1938. A handwritten title reads: "Where the good Dortmund beer is brewed (Dortmund Union Brewery), October 1938". Cut to Hitler Youth marching in Hamburg, 1941, and then to the battleship Bismarck firing a salute. Another title ...

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Compilation of footage on wartime Lwow, including the Lwow pogrom in 1941. Scenes show Jews being rounded up and beaten. 01:00:05 to 01:04:52 RG-60.3121 Ukrainian Central State Archives of Film, Photos & Sound, 2440 R.1 (1939) 01:04:54 to 01:06:12 RG-60.3122 Ukrainian Central State Archives of Film, Photos & Sound, 2440 R.2 (1939) 01:06:14 to 01:15:04 RG-60.3112 Liberation of Ukrainian and Belorussian ...

Silent film with French intertitles. Synagogue of Demijevka after it has been destroyed. The Torah has been desecrated. VS, all stills, of the INT of the synagogue, Torah scrolls are unspooled on the ground, the Jewish male elders are picking up the pieces, image of the altar turned upside down, etc. "Des juifs tues et assassins" "Des victimes jetees au Dnjepr par les bandits. Meschigorie (Dep. de ...

Surveys Nazi anti-Jewish ideology and indicates three periods of antisemitic persecution: from 1933 until the Nuremberg Laws; 1935-1938, marked by progressive worsening and physical attacks; and deportations which started with the expulsion of the Polish Jews in October 1938 and the "Kristallnacht" pogrom. Focuses on the pogrom and quotes from proceedings of a conference of Nazi leaders on 12 November ...

The collection consists of five photographs of corpses possibly killed in a pogrom in Stanisławów, Poland (now Stanislav, Ukraine), as well as an envelope used to store the photographs.

Wolf Vova Werba (later Zeev Raveh) was born on May 23, 1923, in Maniewicze, Poland (Prilesnoye, Ukraine) to Shlomo, born in 1893, and Miriam Mancia Cyrulnik, born in 1896. Shlomo had three brothers: Hershel Zvi and Schmuel Baruch, who immigrated to Argentina and Israel, and one sister, Zitka, married to Arie Farbman. Miriam had four siblings: Menachem Mendel, Shikl, Lejbl, and Cipora. Shlomo and Miriam ...

236 pages. : illustrations. ; 22x27 cm.

Contains a photograph portrait of large group of people, inscribed on verso in ink: "I / People from Kielce (Dad's Home City) / after war / This picture is from Kielce Poland before the pogrom, they / all were kilt (sic) in the pogrom / 1946 Kielce," created in Kielce, Poland, early 1945; and an identity card issued to Lejzor Rajz (donor's husband), August 1945, in the Feldafing displaced persons camp, ...

Wallace A. Witkowski was born in 1928 in Kielce, Poland, to a Polish Catholic family. His father was a chemical engineer, and his mother was a teacher. The Germans occupied Kielce in 1939. Wallace witnessed pogroms against Jews in 1942. Wallace was active in the resistance, acting as a courier between partisan groups. In 1946, in liberated Poland, Wallace witnessed the Kielce pogrom. He emigrated to ...

Fonds consists of various documents collected by the employees of the Scientific Institute: documents of different Vilnius city and Vilnius region Jewish public organizations and institutions; Jewish community documents, correspondence with Jewish communities abroad; documents of activities of educational institutions, Jewish theatres, printing houses, trade unions; documents regarding pogroms in Byelorussia ...

<p>Correspondence re the history of Jews in Poland with special reference to the blood libels of Tarnobrzeg and the 1946 Kielce pogrom. Also included is a copy translation of the historical files of Tarnobrzeg<br /></p><p>This collection of copy correspondence between Michael Honey, a Polish born Jew, and a number of correspondents, deals with Polish antisemitism with special reference to the blood ...

On November 7, 1938, a Jewish teenager, Herschel Grynszpan, fatally shot a German diplomat in Paris. Within three days anti Jewish violence erupted throughout Germany, initially incited by local Nazi officials, and ultimately sanctioned by the decisions of Hitler and Goebbels at the pinnacle of the Third Reich. As synagogues burned and Jews were beaten in the streets, police stood aside. Men, women, ...

Pt. 1 (pp. 1-176), "Geographic and Historic Background", contains a historical essay on the Holocaust in Romania and Romanian-annexed Transnistria. Deals with the antisemitic policies of Antonescu's regime in 1940-44; pogroms in Romania before it entered the war (e.g. in Dorohoi and Bucharest), the pogrom in Iaşi in June-July 1941, and pogroms in reconquered Bessarabia and northern Bukovina; deportations ...

NEMYRIV (Nemirov): Fifth Anniversary. Pioneers. 250 children, some homeless, survivors of pogroms. Shtetl view, VS, children painting and drawing with an instructor's guidance. Images of metal tools, furniture, paintings and drawings, clothing. The children's work is displayed on walls in a makeshift gallery type setting. There are also sculptures in stone, in the round and in relief. Several framed ...

Information on Silviu Brucan b. 1916, d. 2006; Married Alexandra Sidorovici; General prosecutor in the postwar trial of the Romanian war criminals. With his wife, a member of the Communist Antifascist Resistance movement in Romania. After the WW II, he was deputy editor in chief of Scinteia, newspaper of the Romanian Communist Party. He was the first Romanian ambassador to the U.S. and the U.N. in ...

Contains records of the Federation of Union of Jewish Communities and the O.S.E. Bucharest branch relating to its relief and aid activities for Jews who were deported to Transnistria and those in Greater Romania. Also contains name lists of Jews originally from Transylvania and interned to the USSR, lists of orphaned children and the victims of the Iasi pogrom, the World Jewish Congress (WJC) in Romania ...

Consists of one memoir, 99 pages, entitled "The Brown Terror," by Dr. Otto Schorrman, originally of Tarnopol, Poland. He describes the arrival of the German army and the first Tarnopol pogrom, life in the Tarnopol ghetto, and life in hiding.

Testimony, 14 pages, typescript, from Ruth Sien (born Rachele Faust), of Cranbury, NJ, originally from a village near Rzeszow, Poland. Describes German occupation of Poland, hiding in farms and forests, posing as a Gentile, and survival through war, liberation, pogroms, immigration to U.S.