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  1. Alexander H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alexander H., who was born in Poland in 1919, the oldest of seven children. He recounts living in Łódź; moving to Sompolno when he was seven; attending public school; his family's participation in the Bund; apprenticing to a tailor; working in Łódź; German invasion; returning home; daily forced labor; traveling with his sister to Łódź, Warsaw, then to Soviet-occupied Białystok; working in Vaŭkavysk until Germany invaded the Soviet Union; walking to Homelʹ; separation from his sister en route; traveling to Kazanʹ, Azerbaijan, Ekaterinburg, then Türkmenabat; dra...

  2. Saul C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Saul C., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1925. He recalls his family's relative poverty; attending Bund summer camps; German occupation; the family's move to Cze?stochowa; forced labor in the ghetto; transformation of the ghetto into labor camps (his mother, sister, and one brother were deported to Treblinka); hiding during a round-up; capture and escape; rejoining his father in the camp; separation from his father; escaping with a friend; building a bunker in a forest; hostile Polish partisans (AK); returning to camp because he feared death; denunciation; imprison...

  3. Julia S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Julia S., who was born in Velyikyy Bychkiv, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1925, one of eleven children. She recounts Hungarian occupation; a brief trip to Budapest; an older brother's draft into a slave labor battalion and an older sister's emigration to Belgium; transfer with her family to the Ma?te?szalka ghetto; deportation four weeks later to Auschwitz; separation from her parents and siblings; finding one sister and a cousin in the barrack; sharing food; visits from her younger brother; selection of her sister and cousin for death; the Blocka?lteste light...

  4. Joseph S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph S., who was born in M?awa, Poland in 1920. He recalls his family's move to Busko-Zdro?j in 1928, then Krako?w in 1931; membership in the Bund; distributing anti-German leaflets; German invasion; escaping to L'viv in the Soviet zone; German invasion in 1941; being injured during an anti-Jewish riot during which many Jews were killed; help from Polish nurses; obtaining permission to join his family in Cze?stochowa; a beating when he was identified as a Jew at the Krako?w railroad station; living with his family in the Cze?stochowa ghetto; deportation of his paren...

  5. Toby F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Toby F., who was born in Chernyt?s?i?a?, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1926. She describes celebrating Shabbat and holidays; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in 1941; having to provide gold and wheat to the Germans; ghettoization in Brody; returning with her sister to Chernyt?s?i?a? (her parents and other siblings stayed behind); separation from her sister, who returned to Brody; her mother's arrival after the liquidation of the ghetto (her father, brother, and two sisters had been killed); hiding in the forest and with non-Jews; occasionally meeting her mot...

  6. Etta S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Etta S. who was born in Miskolc, Hungary in 1921. She recalls her father's work for the Jewish community; his scholarliness and extensive library; attending a private Jewish school; apprenticing at a fashion salon in Miskolc, then Budapest, and at the same time, attending a private city college and Jewish student organized classes (MIEFHOE); German invasion in March 1944; a death march to Innsbruck, then train transfer to Ravensbrück; the humiliation of having her head shaved; a veteran prisoner advising her; slave labor in a Siemens factory; losing her faith in God;...

  7. Ilse W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ilse W., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1915. She recounts her father's service in World War I; her parents' prosperous businesses; celebrating Jewish holidays with her large and close extended family; destruction of their synagogue on Kristallnacht; arrest and immediate release; her brother's emigration to Palestine and her sister's to England in 1939; obtaining visas for Shanghai; traveling to Genoa to board a ship; being prevented from leaving by the outbreak of war; marriage; internment with her mother in San Fele and Potenza (men were interned elsewhere); her...

  8. Roney H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Roney H., who was born in Boryslav, Poland in 1928. She recalls attending public school; Soviet occupation in 1939; losing their house as capitalists; German invasion in 1941; hiding during a mass killing perpetrated by Ukrainians; hiding during subsequent round-ups and mass killings; ghettoization; hiding for three weeks with non-Jews outside the city; returning to the ghetto; a mass killing in which her brother (eight years old) and cousin (two years old) were killed in a local slaughterhouse; hiding with her mother with the same non-Jews (her father continued to wo...

  9. Fred S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fred S., who was born in Stawiszyn, Poland in 1923, one of six children. He recounts his family's poverty; working at fifteen; participation in Betar; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; deportation to Kalisz in 1940; transfer to Koz?minek; deportation of all children including his younger siblings (they were killed); deportation with his brother and father to Poznan?-Schweiningen; slave labor unloading coal; public hangings; trying to obtain soup for his father from a cousin (he refused); his father's selection in 1942 (he never saw him again); transfer with h...

  10. Paul S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paul S., who was born in Gvozdets, Poland (presently Hvizdet?s??, Ukraine) in 1916, one of nine children. He recounts attending school; Polish military draft; antisemitism in the military; German invasion; capture and incarceration as a POW; release; returning home, which was under Soviet occupation; German invasion; ghettoization; transfer to Kolomyi?a? ghetto; forced labor for the Wehrmacht; escaping (his family was killed); living in the Tolstoye ghetto; meeting his future wife; acquiring weapons; escaping from another forced labor camp; hiding in various places wi...

  11. Magda S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Magda S., who was born in Pavlovo, Slovakia in 1928, one of six children. She recalls her family's orthodoxy; moving to Svali?a?va; a close and large extended family; two brothers dying from illnesses; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions, including rejection from high school; German occupation in spring 1944; forced relocation to a brick factory in Mukacheve; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her immediate family; slave labor with several cousins in Canada Kommando; smuggling clothing and food they found to friends; the Sonderkommando upris...

  12. Judah N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Judah N., who was born in 1912. Rabbi N. recalls serving as the senior Jewish chaplain in the European theater of operations in Paris; appointment as advisor to General Eisenhower on Jewish affairs; observing Dachau in August 1945; leading high holiday services in Frankfurt for survivors and Jewish soldiers; meeting with residents of Feldafing displaced persons camp; reporting to Generals Eisenhower and Smith, suggesting improvements; helping transfer survivors to Fo?hrenwald; UNRRA administration of Landsberg; accompanying David Ben-Gurion from Paris to Frankfurt, Ze...

  13. Bela M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bela M., who was born in Sharkowshchyna, Poland (presently Belarus) in 1931, the oldest of three daughters. She recalls her father was a Lubavitch Hasid; attending a Jewish school, then Polish school; antisemitic harassment; Soviet occupation; German invasion; ghettoization; a group escape; separation from her family; walking to Pastavy; her father finding her and bringing her to the Glubokoye ghetto; rumors of liquidation; a non-Jew hiding her family; returning to the ghetto when it became too dangerous; hiding in a bunker; escaping when the Germans bombed them (her ...

  14. Michael R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Michael R., who was born in Teaca, Romania in 1932. He recounts his large, extended family's orthodoxy; moving to Maros-Va?sa?rhely (Ti?rgu-Mure?s); Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish measures; his father's conscription into a Hungarian labor battalion in 1943 (he never saw him again); ghettoization in January 1944; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in May 1944; assignment with his uncle to the Zigeunerlager (Gypsy Lager); sudden disappearance of the Romanies; learning his mother had been killed; transfer to the children's camp; work assignments collecting garbage and ...

  15. League of nations: papers re refugees

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This microfilm collection of documentation deals with the role of the League of Nations, in particular with regard to the problem of Jewish refugees in Nazi Germany, c1938-1939. The papers include minutes, agenda, reports and memoranda of the Refugees Committee of the League of Nations.Documentation on the role of the League of Nations Refugee Committee with particular regard to the fate of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany including the following.Memorandum re treatment of refugees in Great Britain,...

  16. Parlamentariska undersökningskommittén ang flyktingsärenden och säkerhetstjänst

    • State commission on the treatment of refugees and the intelligence service
    • Sandlerkommissionen
    • Riksarkivet
    • Parlamentariska undersökningskommittén ang. flyktingsärenden och säkerhetstjänst. YK 984.
    • English
    • 1945-1947
    • 57 volumes of textual records.

    The archive contains 57 volumes of archive documents from the commission's assignments during the period 1945-1947. The series Personakter till anmälningsdiariet (F: 2) contains 390 files containing reports and other documents with information about refugee cases reported by aid organizations and private individuals because they were treated incorrectly by the authorities when they tried to come to or stay in Sweden as refugees. Many of these were Jews. There is an index of the files in volume C: 1. A selection of the reported cases is also summarized anonymously in the commission's report ...

  17. Civilförsvarsstyrelsen

    • Swedish Civil Defence Board
    • Krigsarkivet
    • Civilförsvarsstyrelsen
    • English
    • 1944-1986
    • 467 linear meters of mainly textual records.

    Among the documents are letters to and from authorities, correspondence, activity reports, as well as documents relating to the operations in Lübeck and in camps in Sweden. The documents also include reports from inspections of refugee camps. In one of the archive's series (D), there are registers of refugees (and survivors). In another series (F 7), there are a large number of documents regarding the reception and initial care of survivors from concentration camps in Nazi Germany who were evacuated to Sweden in 1945. In these documents, there are also details about the conditions in the va...

  18. VS 400 Fédération des Institutions internationales, 1949 1950 VS 401 - Union internationale des Ligues féminines catholiques, 1949 - 1950 VS 402 - Canadian Arts Council, 1949 VS 403 - Union des Invalides de guerre russes résidant en Belgique, 1949 -1950 VS 404 - Comité intérimaire des Organisations consultatives non gouvernementales, 1948 - 1950 VS 405 - Centre quaker international de Genève, 1948 - 1950 VS 406 - Association catholique internationale des Oeuvres de Protection de la Jeune Fille, 1949 VS 407 - Union libérale mondiale (Liberal International), 1949 VS 408 - Fédération mondiale pour la Santé mentale (World Federation for Mental Health), 1949 - 1951 VS 409 - Slovak Central Social Committee, 1950 VS 410 - Mouvement suisse pour la Fédération européenne (Sozialhilfe der Europa-Union), 1949 VS 412 - Free Citizens of Yugoslavia, 1949 VS 413 - International Committee of Political Refugees and Displaced Persons in Germany, 1949 -1951 VS 414 - Assemblée mondiale de la Jeunesse (World Assembly of Youth), 1949 -1950 VS 415 - Norwegian Refugee Committee (Europahjelpen 1949 - 1950 VS 416 - Polish Catholic Organisation in Holland, 1949 VS 417 - Service d'Entraide familiale (Rév.Père Pire) 1949 - 1951 VS 418 - British Council of Churches, 1949 VS 419 - Self Help for Emigres from Central Europe, 1949 VS 420 - Central Committee of Liberated Jews of Bavaria, 1947 VS 421 - Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, 1949 VS 423 - Service international de Recherches. Service de Recherches d'Enfants (International Tracing Service and Child Search Branch), 1947 - 1951 VS 424 - International Council of Women , 1949 - 1951 VS 425 - Serbian National Defense Council of America 1950 VS 426 - Croix-Rouge suédoise, 1949 VS 427 - Union des Intellectuels réfugiés, 1949 VS 428 - The Refugee's Housing Society, 1949 VS 429 - Centre d'Orientation sociale des Etrangers, 1949 VS 430 - Czechoslovak Federation of the Saved Political Prisoners, 1949

    1. Organisation internationale pour les réfugiés
    2. L'ORGANISATION INTERNATIONALE POUR LES REFUGIES (O.I.R.)
    3. III ARCHIVES DU SIEGE CENTRAL DE GENEVE REPERTORIEES SUIVANT LE CENTRAL REGISTRY SYSTEM DU 1ER AOUT 1950
    4. Organisations bénévoles
    5. II. Organisations bénévoles n'ayant pas conclu d'accord avec l'O.I.R.

  19. Chancellerie du Premier Ministre. Cabinet du Premier Ministre et Secrétariat du Conseil des ministres.

    Ce fonds contient des dossiers du Cabinet du Premier Ministre, de diverses Commissions et du Secrétariat du Conseil. Le chercheur y trouvera notamment les dossiers suivants : n°17 : Réparations allemandes aux victimes belges du nazisme ; n°50 : Commission interministérielle chargée d’étudier le problème des Réfugiés politiques en Belgique et personnes déplacées ; n°52 : Comité ministériel restreint pour la répartition des réparations allemandes aux victimes belges du nazisme ; n°185-195 : Victimes des deux Guerres.