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  1. Drawing

    1. Josef Nassy collection
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    1. Josef Nassy collection
  3. Drawing

    1. Josef Nassy collection
  4. Drawing

    1. Josef Nassy collection
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    1. Josef Nassy collection
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    1. Josef Nassy collection
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    1. Josef Nassy collection
  8. Die Moorsoldaten The Soldiers of the Moor

    1. "Music of the Holocaust" web exhibition

    The 5,000 inmates of the Börgermoor concentration camp, mostly political prisoners, labored in the wetlands near the Dutch border, extracting peat (a fossil fuel) from the marshy soil. To add to their ordeal, Nazi guards would force the prisoners to sing cheerful songs during their two-hour march to and from the moor. A group of prisoners retaliated by writing a song that truthfully reflected the workers' situation. Introduced in August 1933, The Soldiers of the Moor, with its catchy melody and evocative lyrics, became an immediate hit among camp inmates. The camp guards also enjoyed the so...

  9. Sarah W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sarah W., who was born in Kovno, Lithuania in 1905. She recalls moving to Antwerp with her family; her mother's death; attending Hebrew school; marriage in 1927; her son's birth in 1928; moving to Luxembourg where her husband was a rabbi; German invasion in 1940; anti-Jewish measures; fleeing to Paris with her husband and three children; traveling by train through Spain to the Portuguese border; futile attempts to enter Portugal with assistance from the Joint; returning to France; internment with her family in Bayonne; her son's bar mitzvah in a local synagogue; trave...

  10. Ernest H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ernest H., who was born in Munich, Germany in 1921. He describes his assimilated and wealthy family background; antisemitic incidents at school; his father's belief that Hitler's rise to power would not last long enough to impact them; the Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses on April 1, 1933; completing his education in Switzerland; visiting his parents for the last time during the summer of 1938; internment in a Swiss camp after the German invasion of France in 1940; being chosen by a Joint representative for emigration to the Dominican Republic; and traveling via Fran...

  11. Kate F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Kate F., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1914, the only child of a government official. She recalls her family's assimilated lifestyle; graduation from school in 1933; a teacher avoiding racial questions on Mrs. F.'s final oral exam; deteriorationg conditions; teaching German for a year in Paris; studying comparative literature at the Sorbonne; visiting her parents in Berlin; seeing broken glass the morning after Kristallnacht; her parents' emigration to Paris to join her; and transport to Gurs as an "enemy alien." Mrs. F. recounts her release after the Germans occ...

  12. Henri K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henri K., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1916. He recalls growing up in Strasbourg, France; becoming a French citizen and a mechanical engineer in 1937; a visit with his sister in New York during officer training on the MS Lafayette; army enlistment; posting to Lebanon and Syria; defeat by Germany; and demobilization in Marseille in December 1940. Mr. K. remembers joining his family in Pe?rigueux; becoming a surveyor in Lyon; anti-Jewish regulations; arrest while attempting to escape to Spain with a brother and his sister's children; a one month jail term; learn...

  13. [Communist Pamphlets, Germany 1927-1934]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains four leaflets released between 1927 and 1934 in Germany by various Communist and social democratic groups and parties. The typewritten leaflet by the Communist Party of Germany (KPD)/Young Communist League of Germany (Kommunistischer Jugendverband Deutschlands, KJVD) in 1934 calls its readers to boycott the fundraising activities organized by the Nazi government within the framework of the “Winterhilfswerk des Deutschen Volkes” (Winter Relief of the German People). The second leaflet is undated and was created by the “Allgemeine Arbeiter-Union/Freie Arbeiter-Union (Syndika...

  14. Anti-Jewish activities from Spring 1942 till July 1942

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains several reports regarding anti-Jewish activities from Spring 1942 till July 1942 in many different countries. Each report is based on the situation and activities of one specific country but the structure for each report is the same. It always starts in Spring 1942 and within a timetable till July 1942 the anti-Jewish activities are listed. Each report ends with a summary of the data given. These chronological surveys are given for Germany, Belgium, Lithuania, Albania, Poland, Spain, Russia, Latvia, Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Czechoslovakia (Bohemia and ...

  15. Garda de Fier

    • Iron Guard

    Founded in 1927

    The Garda de Fier was a fascist and anti-Semitic movement in Romania, whose members were known as ‘Legionnaires’. Originally established in 1927 under the name ‘legion of the Archangel Michael’ and organized into paramilitary units, the Garda de Fier soon became a mass political movement. It was officially dissolved in 1933, but continued to function, even receiving the third largest number of votes in Romania’s 1937 election. During the mid-1930s the Garda de Fier also established ties with the Nazi regime in Germany. In 1938, Romania’s King Carol II again outlawed the Garda de Fier. Nonet...

  16. Ruth D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ruth D., who was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1924. She recounts her mother was British; having three older siblings; attending private school until her mother's death in 1934; participating in the Zionist youth groups Mizrachi and Maccabi; German invasion; fleeing to France with her family, an aunt, uncle, and their two children; a non-Jewish farmer sheltering them for three weeks; staying in Lille six weeks; traveling to Paris, Bordeaux, and Bayonne; obtaining visas to Venezuela; emigration to Havana via Spain; and arrival in the United States in September 1941. Ms. ...

  17. Charlotte K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Charlotte K., who was born in Osnabru?ck, Germany in 1909. She recalls the family move to Dortmund in 1911; food shortages after World War I; attending a boy's school in order to matriculate at university; membership in a nationalistic youth group; obtaining a Ph.D. at the University of Berlin; dissertation research in England; working one year in the United States; studying French in Paris in 1932; her close friendship with Hannah Arendt; observing the Nazi anti-Jewish boycott; her father's anti-Nazi sentiments; marriage to a Jew in Paris; her son's birth in November...

  18. John W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of John W., a Dutch Seventh-Day Adventist, who was born in approximately 1910. He recalls being taught great respect for Jews by his father, a minister; living in Paris in 1940; German invasion; moving to Lyon; joining Amities chre?tiennes, an underground organization to save Jews; organizing a network to assist Jews to escape to Switzerland; his arrest in 1942; torture and interrogation in front of Klaus Barbie; release for lack of proof; involving his friends and family in the network; his father's arrest in Holland for speaking against the Nazis; smuggling American pi...