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  1. Betty G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Betty G., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1914. She recalls a comfortable life; frequently hearing antisemitic remarks; attending a Jewish school; marriage; German invasion; her husband's mobilization; anti-Jewish laws; receiving messages from her husband; escaping with her sister to join him in Soviet-occupied Baranavichy in February 1940; separation from her sister (she never saw her again); arrest with her husband in June; a six-week journey to Siberia; forced labor in a remote camp; freezing conditions and hunger; being freed when Germany attacked the Soviet Uni...

  2. Miriam K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Miriam K., who was born in Albigowa, Poland and moved to Cologne, Germany in 1919, after her father's death. She recalls her grandfather's textile factory; attending a commercial high school; employment with agencies which helped Polish Jews emigrating west through Germany; working for Hilfsverein der Juden in Deutschland in 1936, providing assistance for German Jews; and the difficulties emigrating from Germany at that time. She recounts receiving notification of expulsion to Poland in October 1938; receiving permission to remain in Germany; Kristallnacht; being allo...

  3. Lori S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lori S., who was born in Linnich, Germany, in 1922. Mrs. S. speaks of her family's longstanding local prominence; the Nazi boycott of her father's department store; the family's move to Sittard, Holland, in 1934; German invasion in 1940; anti-Semitic measures; ignoring friends' advice to hide; and her family's internment in Westerbork in November 1942. She details camp regimen; her father's anguish at working for the camp Jewish police; naivete? about the destination of departing transports; transfer to Terezi?n in September 1944; separation from her parents and broth...

  4. Kurt and Trude S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Kurt S., who was born in 1904 in Oelde, Westphalia, and his wife Trude S., who was born in Wiesbaden. Mr. S. recalls that his family was the only Jewish one in the neighborhood; antisemitism during high school; passing his law exams in 1928-1929; the boycott of Jewish businesses; losing his job as a result of the Nuremberg laws; and taking a new job in Wiesbaden where he then met Mrs. S. Mrs. S. speaks of her childhood memories and religious observance; nationalist protest in 1930; and anti-Jewish actions in 1934. Mr S. describes his arrest during Kristallnacht and th...

  5. Rosel B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rosel B., who was born in 1916 in Warsaw, Poland. Mrs. B. describes her family's move to Berlin; visits to her grandparents in Poland; attending a Jewish school; their highly cultured lifestyle; warnings about Hitler from 1928 onward; attending secretarial school; forced sale of the family business; her engagement in 1936; marriage in Berlin; emigration to Amsterdam; and the birth of her daughter. She recounts German invasion; betrayal by their housekeeper; receiving a notice for deportation; fleeing with her husband and daughter, via Brussels and Bordeaux, to Nice; b...

  6. Hlavnoslúžnovský úrad v Šali II.

    • Főszolgabíroi hivatal Vágsellye

    The fonds contains files of the Chief Constable´s Office in Šaľa (Vágsellye). The majority of files pertaining to the Jewish community consists of files pertaining to businesses, licenses and license-owners lists. The fonds also contains files pertaining to the revision of licenses of Jews, limitations of Jewish entrepreneurs, or files concerning the internment of Jews and the police surveillance. Some files reflect Jewish refugees from Slovakia. Another files concern the Jewish ghetto established in the town of Šaľa as files pertaining to the movable property of Jews that remained in this ...

  7. Jüdisches Zentralarchiv des Burgenlandes (Jewish Central Archive of the Burgenland)

    Records of seven former Jewish communities of the Austrian state of the Burgenland, which were disbanded after the annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany. The material consists of official correspondence, protocols of Jewish community board meetings, marriage, birth and death records, decrees, Jewish community records, school records, tax records, military records, records pertaining to Jewish organizations and officials, and other documentation.

  8. Polish Committee for Assistance to War Victims in Bern (Switzerland) Polski Komitet Pomocy Ofiarom Wojny w Bernie (Szwajcaria) (Sygn. 138)

    Files related to the assistance of Polish citizens in Switzerland, Romania and Italy, provided by the Swiss Legation in Bern, Swiss Legation in Bucharest, and the Swiss Legation in Florence, Milano,Trieste, Turin, Venice, and Rome. Includes correspondence, list of benefits payments, reports, notes, and other documents.

  9. Pratiche relative alla campagna razzista, Questura Pesaro e Urbino Practices relating to the racist campaign, Pesaro and Urbino Police Headquarters

    Selected records concerning the discrimination and persecution of foreign and Italian Jews in the precincts of Pesaro and Urbino. Include records relating to: race investigations, revocation of citizenship of people of Jewish race Anti-Jewish racial policy; land registry; Montenegrins and Dalmatians Jews to be interned, registration of Jews in the province of Pesaro-Urbino", dated 10/12/1938, prohibition of licensing of businesses and any economic activities of Jews; registration of national and foreign Jews to be arrested, 1943; and collection of any information related to movement of Jews...

  10. Waldapfel family papers

    The Waldapfel family papers include correspondence, immigration documents, and photographs documenting Irma Waldapfel, her children Valerie, Max, and Karoline, and their Waldapfel and Fischer relatives. Correspondence includes postcards sent from Czechoslovakia to Irma, Valerie, and Karoline during the interwar period and letters Irma and Karoline sent from Vienna to Valeria and Max in New York. Immigration documents consist of a Queen Mary passenger list and handwritten notes documenting Irma’s and Karoline’s itinerary from Vienna to Cherbourg to New York. Photographs depict Irma, Karoline...

  11. Wyższy Dowódca SS i Policji Wschód Der Höhere Schutzstaffeln (SS) und Polizeiführe Ost (GK 901)

    Consists of collection of orders of the Reichsführer-SS regarding the forced labor of Polish workers, 1939-1944, the organizational decree no. 1, 26 June 1942 regarding activities of police authorities in occupied Poland, set of guidelines for general matters, a daily order no. 46 regarding the transfer of officers to other positions, 1943; name lists of associates of SS-Obergruppenführer Krüger , and officers of the WD office, as well as names of civil and military administration institutions, and a name list of Polish and Ukrainian police in the General Government, 1940-1944. Includes a c...

  12. Records of the Comité Central Israelita del Uruguay (CCIU)

    Records of the Central Jewish Committee of Uruguay. Including are minutes of meetings of the Board of Directors, correspondence, Committee regulations and publications, newspaper clippings and copies of a bulletin "Mensaje", as well as records of the Association for the Defense against Anti-Semitism.

  13. Records of the Escuela Integral Hebreo Uruguaya

    Records of the Escuela Integral Hebreo Uruguaya (Uruguayan Hebrew Comprehensive School). Including are proceedings of the Executive Committee, lists of graduates, general meetings, and lists of active partners.

  15. Schlesinger Hostel: papers

    This collection comprises original papers and correspondence which documents the establishment and maintenance of a refugee children's hostel in Highgate, London, 1938-1939. The papers offer a valuable insight into the processes and issues relating to such an enterprise. Two of the former children produced a documentary reader comprising copies and translations of much of the material in the archive (1625/1). It also includes copies of documents from Ilse Jacobsohn's (later Ilse Henry) own file. The personal files of the other children are not open to the public.

  16. Suzanne Ullmann papers

    This collection comprises papers of the Ullmann family including correspondence received by Rudi and Lenke Ullmann in the UK from Lenke's mother Regina Brueck née Reisner, aka 'Lill Mama' (Little Grandma), 1939-1942 (with introduction and notes on individuals) 1878/1; poems by Regina Brueck, 1910-1940s, 1878/2; a long letter written by Regina Brueck to her daughter, Heddy, detailing the family's experiences in Budapest during the war, c1945, 1878/3; account by Suzanne Ullmann of life during the war in Budapest, 1878/4 

  17. Hahlo family collection

    The collection contains vital records, identity papers and other personal papers of members of the Hahlo family, principally Peter Hahlo. In addition there are interviews with Peter and Fay Hahlo conducted by their son, Gerry, as well as the memoirs Georg Hahlo wrote for his children and family photographs.

  18. Edward Stern collection

    This collect comprises mostly the personal papers of Edward Stern with reference to his school record, his employment history and his army record; also included are papers pertaining to his wife, Ellen and his father and mother, Heinrich and Erna.

  19. Dresner family collection

  20. 'The Cedar Boys', Waddesdon collection

    This collection contains mostly copy papers and photographs pertaining to the Steinhardt family, Waddesdon Manor and the Flersheim-Sichel-Stiftung.Audio interview with the donor, Helga Brown, who describes how she and her family lived in Frankfurt am Main in the 1930s; that her father ran the Jewish orphanage school, Philanthropin, having been forced out of his teaching post at a state school; how her sister persuaded the UK branch of the Rothschild banking family to support and fund the relocation of the boys to Waddesdon Hall, Buckinghamshire; how Julian Lyton played a key role in the pro...