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1125 I: The Zionist Congress meets in Tel Aviv to render homage to its president Chaim Weizmann and his laboratory in Rehovot on December 24, 1944. Several hundred delegates representing different Jewish districts in Palestine participate. EXT shots of the cinema where Congress held. Sign reads, "Jane Eyre." Tickets checked. Crowded room of smartly dressed people. Dr. Weizmann makes his way to an armchair, ...

Compilation of footage from the tenure of Pope Pius XI (Pius XII's predecessor) on the occasion of his death. Title onscreen: "Universal Newsreel Vatican City Impressive Scenes Mark the Passing of Beloved Pontiff." Crowds outside the Vatican. Priests and others attend to Pope Pius XI as he lies in his bed. Pius XI visits the king and queen of Italy. 02:01:23 Pope Pius XI on the balcony at the church ...

Dr. Mieczyslaw (Mietek) Dortheimer, born in 1911 in Krakow, Poland, set out to be a lawyer after graduating from Krakow’s Jagiellonian University. When the Nazis marched into Krakow, he fled with his wife and father to Lwow. His father later moved to the Warsaw Ghetto and was subsequently gassed at Treblinka. Later, Dortheimer worked in Tarnow as a factory administrator, on false papers. After the ...

As an occupation German civil administration documentation, the collection contains the following files which are -- or potentially could be -- related to the Holocaust: File 1. Orders, decrees by Reichskommissariat Ukraine, gendarmerie and city board instructions about organization of gendarmerie, registration of anti-Soviet individuals, prohibition to Germans to marry persons of another ethnicity, ...

"Susan Zuccotti narrates the life and work of P?re Marie-Beno?t, a courageous French Capuchin priest who risked everything to hide Jews in France and Italy during the Holocaust. Who was this extraordinary priest and how did he become adept at hiding Jews, providing them with false papers, and helping them to elude their persecutors? From monasteries first in Marseille and later in Rome, P?re Marie-Beno?t ...

The documentary movie depicts the landscapes surrounding the Danube starting in Romania with the town of Turn-Severin located after the 'Iron Gate' and with pictures of orthodox priests and peasant life. Scenes of petroleum wells in the Carpathians, buildings in Bucharest, and the Danube delta located in the Dobrudscha province are shown. From Bulgaria there are scenes of village life and tobacco harvest. ...

Contains reports, bulletins, general correspondence, name lists, "welfare messages," financial records, newspaper clippings, photographs, and various other records relating to the work of the American Relief for Poland from 1939 to 1952. The files of the American Relief for Poland, Lisbon office, contain reports and general correspondence from Florian Piskorski, American Relief for Poland delegate ...

Contains her typewritten memoir describing conditions in the ghetto in Budapest, Hungary; her escape from the ghetto first to a Catholic school where priests were sheltering several otherJews in the basement and later to friends' homes; the Soviet occupation of Budapest; and her reunions with family and friends. Lists of relatives and friends who perished during the Holocaust are included.

Contains information concerning the persecution of Serbs and Yugoslav Jews, atrocities committed by the Ustaša (Ustashi), the forced resettlement of Yugoslavs, and the killing of Orthodox priests.

War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 11, 1946. Dr. Franz Blaha testifying on stand and being cross examined by several defense attorneys. Blaha testifies that in his autopsies, he found several to have died of suffocation, these were high French officers and priests, all well-fed people who had been brought to Dachau in plain clothes. They did not have contact to other prisoners. One defense ...