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  1. Okresný ľudový súd v Prešove

    • District People´s Court in Prešov

    The fonds contains files of the District People´s Court in Prešov which was one of the retributive courts of post-WWII Czechoslovakia. Besides the files which contain the info on the political and military events during the period 1938-1945 this fonds contains files with info on various forms of persecution of Jews during the respected period, including several files on Aryanization of Jewish property, deportation of Jews living or hiding in various parts of Eastern Slovakia (Prešov, Mrázovce, Veľká Breznica, Vyšný Hrabovec) from Slovakia in 1942. Several of these files pertain former membe...

  2. Okresný ľudový súd v Sabinove

    • District People´s Court in Sabinov

    Fonds contains files of the District People´s Court in Sabinov which was one of the retributive courts of post-WWII Czechoslovakia. Besides the files which contain the info on the political and military events during the period 1938-1945 in Sabinov and its vicinity, it contains the file pertaining the persecution of Jews living in Sabinov district with various testimonies of survivors on deportation of Jews from the district in 1942, and the activities of former state representatives and Hlinka Guard members in Sabinov. Fonds also contains the file pertaining the persecution of Jews living ...

  3. Getuigen Verhalen, Geallieerde Bombardementen in Amsterdam Noord op de Fokkerfabriek in juli 1943, Interview 01

    1. World War II
    2. Getuigen Verhalen

    De heer De Jong is zestien jaar bij het begin van de oorlog. Zijn vader is schipper. Moeder is huisvrouw met een sociale rol in een buurt vol armoede en werkeloosheid. De Jong zit op de R.K. Mulo en gaat daarna werken bij de Rijksverzekeringsbank. Een van zijn zusjes is bellemeisje bij een dokter, wiens praktijk door een bom op 17 juli 1943 wordt getroffen. Dat zusje komt om en wordt teruggevonden in de Zuiderkerk. De Jong krijgt voor de begrafenis 14 dagen uitstel van vertrek naar Duitsland, waar hij het laatste deel van de oorlog in Berlijn dwangarbeider is. Hij maakt daar ook geallieerde...

  4. Third Reich: Personal accounts

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This collection comprises two deposits whose relationship to each other is not known. The first consists of correspondence and reports concerning participants in two famous acts of protest during the Third Reich: the Rosenstrasse Protest in which the (mostly) Aryan partners of a specially segregated group of Jewish prisoners protested at their detention by the Nazis in a former welfare office for the Jewish community in Berlin, 1943; Das Sovjet-Paradies Aktion in which 500 Jews and Germans were arres...

  5. Eleanor Hess: family papers

    This collection of papers documents the life of a German Jewish refugee to Great Britain, Eleanor Hess, and, in part, the lives of family members. The papers include emigration and citizenship papers of her grandfather Emil, c1870s; certificates and First World War army records of Julius, her father; and correspondence from Eleanor and her brother, Herbert, in Brazil, to their mother, c1950s. In addition there is an unpublished memoir of Eleanor, which describes the life of a Jewish girl in Nazi Germany and the experience of emigration to a foreign land.

  6. Rosa Mintz: papers concerning British Red Cross relief work

    This collection contains the personal papers of Rosa Mintz, a relief and welfare worker with the British Red Cross Society who was stationed in the UK and Germany between 1945-1949.Papers Including reports and correspondence (1765/1-2) relating to Rosa Mintz' work in Germany and lists of kit to be returned on termination of contract. Also included are British Red Cross honorary certificate and contract of employment, driving permits, diary and personal account of her time as a relief worker (1765/5) as well as photographs.

  7. Erich and Magdalena Schulhof: family papers

    This collection consists of the family papers of Erich and Magdalena Schulhof, a Jewish family who fled Berlin after they were forced to sell their business due to the increasing Aryanisation of Nazi-Germany in the late 1930s.Personal papers including the couple's school reports and qualifications; birth, death and baptism certificates; naturalisation certificate; passports; papers relating to Erich Schulhof's work and the family's restitution claim; correspondence with family and friends; family portraits and copy of the family history. Also included are the papers of their children and th...

  8. Arno Jacobius: personal correspondence

    This collection contains the personal correspondence of Arno Jacobius, a Jewish boy from Berlin who arrived in England on a Kindertransport in May 1939, aged 14. His stepbrother Roman Gärtner and his uncle Leo Levy emigrated separately to England. Arno's mother, Johanna Jacobius, however perished at Auschwitz concentration camp.Personal correspondence of Arno Jacobius including letters from his mother, his stepbrother Roman Gärtner, his uncle Leo Levy from Kitchener camp in Kent, and other relatives and friends. The correspondence concerns Arno's new life in Scotland, the anticipated e...

  9. Schulim Schatzberg: Personal papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of Schulim Schatzberg, a Jewish dentist from Vienna who was forced to emigrate with his family to England in 1939 as he was persecuted for being Jewish.

    Personal papers of Schulim Schatzberg including papers relating to his military service in the First World War, qualifications and work references, marriage certificate, certificate of residence ('Heimatschein'), letter from the Office of the Reichsminister of the Interior imposing restrictions on him practising dentistry, copy of a letter sent from Dachau concentration camp, and photographs of Sc...

  10. Family life in Pirna, Germany

    DIE PIRNSCHEN - AUGUST 1936. This film shows Manfred "Fred" Hess at home with his wife Trude and two daughters Ursula and Luise. WITH FORK AND KNIFE. CUs, Luise eating. AFTER DINNER, LITTLE TEARS AND LITTLE TUNES. The children play with their father in the living room. Albert Günther Hess (AGH) is teaching the girls piano and playing the guitar for them. DIE ZUHOERERIN (VON EINEN TONKRANK EILINOPERATEUR). CUs, Trude. ANOTHER OPINION. CUs, Luise singing. END OF ACT.

  11. Canadian "Nail" Hitler board and card game with packaging

    1. David Heck collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn37273
    • English
    • 1939
    • a: Height: 8.500 inches (21.59 cm) | Width: 11.500 inches (29.21 cm) b: Height: 24.875 inches (63.183 cm) | Width: 25.000 inches (63.5 cm) c: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm)

    "Nail" Hitler is an anti-Nazi wartime card game, with an illustrated game board, instruction sheet, and envelope that was made in Canada in 1939. The game board features a center caricature of Hitler; players roll dice to advance around the game route which includes a section called the Chamberlain Umbrella and a No Man's Land. Players are to supply their own deck of cards and chips.

  12. Memorial to Kiev School No. 77 collection

    Contains personal letters, official documents, biographical and autobiographical statements, poems, application forms, school transcripts, and newspaper clippings from both students and teachers of Kiev School Number 77. Some of the documents pertain to students who graduated from the school in either 1939 or 1940, and concern their civil and military service to the Soviet Union during the Second World War. Items regarding the teachers mainly concern arrests made during the 1937-1938 Stalinist Purges. Series I contains the documents from four main students of School No. 77 in Kiev: Pavel Yu...

  13. And behind: THE JEW Poster of a gloating Jewish businessman plotting to promote the war

    1. Gary and Nina Wexler collection

    Anti-Jewish poster that was displayed in the Grand Anti-Masonic Exhibition in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (Serbia), from October 22, 1941, to January 19, 1942. It depicts a Jewish businessman engaged in a conspiracy with Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States to provoke war against Germany. The poster was printed in several languages and distributed in the occupied countries to promote the idea that Jews were manipulating the Allied Powers. The exhibit focused on the alleged Jewish-Communist-Masonic conspiracy to achieve world domination with the intent to increase hatred against o...

  14. Eichmann Trial -- Session 114 -- Closing statement of the Defense

    Session 114. The courtroom is empty, and people mill about. 00:05:26 Judges enter, telling Dr. Servatius to continue. He speaks in German, the tape is interrupted before it is translated. 00:08:06 Tape jumps, Servatius says that Geshke and Winkelmann had precedence over Eichmann where relevant. Servatius says that the SS orders were meant to be followed, regardless of Eichmann's orders. 00:10:29 Tape is interrupted by a slate. The implementation of the extermination is questioned. Servatius says that orders did not arrive through Eichmann's office, and any complaints, if there were any, wen...

  15. Defendants plead not guilty; Jackson opens the Nuremberg IMT

    War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, November 20, 1945. MSs, Tribunal enters courtroom. MLS, German attorney makes statement to court and Lord Justice Geoffrey Lawrence is heard advising the defendants that they may consult with their lawyers. Justice Lawrence stresses that provisions according to Art. 24 will be followed by the court. Apparently, this refers to the fact that defendants, in their final statement, could only plead "guilty" or "not guilty," but otherwise would not be allowed to make any statements. The defense had complained that the defendants had only been informed about ...

  16. Sentencing Frank, Frick, Streicher, Funk, Schacht, Doenitz at Nuremberg Trial

    Sentencing of Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany, October 1946. MLS, and MS, prisoners as verdict against Hans Frank is read. Frank is guilty under counts three and four [screen goes black for a few seconds]. There is a dispute with Himmler mentioned about the type of legal system in Germany. Shots of defendants as French Justice speaks about Wilhelm Frick (in French). Frick is guilty under counts two, three, and four, providing the political history, then saying that he knew about the systematic murder of old, weak, sick people, but did not take action to stop it. Justice Geoffr...

  17. Theresia Bauer papers

    The Theresia Bauer papers consist of genealogical books, identification papers, and apprenticeship, military, and accounting records documenting the Bauer family of Horitschon (Austria) and the Koller family of Neckenmarkt (Austria), Theresia Bauer’s participation in the Bund Deutscher Mädel, and Stefan Bauer’s captivity as a Soviet POW after World War II. Theresia Bauer documents include a genealogical book and a picture of Theresia with other Bund Deutscher Mädel girls at a political event in the village. Stefan Bauer documents include a genealogical book, two apprenticeship diplomas, an ...

  18. Gina Rappaport memoir

    Consists of a copy of a memoir, 4 pages, written by Gina Rappaport of Kraków, Poland, immediately after her liberation in April 1945. In the memoir, Gina describes her memories of the German occupation of Kraków, her family's decision to flee to Tarnów, Poland, the actions of the summer of 1941, the family's deportation to Bergen-Belsen, and their liberation in April 1945.

  19. Records of the Mayor of Budapest (BFL IV. 1402-1429)

    Collection contains correspondence, meeting minutes, applications, decisions, letters of denunciation, and other documents. Topics include the military, commerce, public health, and transport; the Jewish community and Zionist organizations; citizenship and residence questions; appointments, dismissals, and retirements; disciplinary actions; charitable work; and the confiscation and redistribution of Jewish property.

  20. Nazi, Mauthausen, Belsen, and Auschwitz war criminals tried

    World in Film. Issue no. 43 (1948) 03:30:14 "NUREMBERG AND MAUTHAUSEN." Mauthausen trial: March -- May 1947. Title: "Zwei Prozesse: Nuernberg und Mauthausen." LS, Chief US Prosecutor Robert H Jackson speaking. Pan, prisoners box showing Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, at first trial. German voice over Jackson's, as he details how "a thousand Kaltenbrunners," "a thousand Saukels," etc - were at work within the Nazi organizations. MCUs, Gruber, Grand, Green, SS men standing trial. Pan of Mauthausen criminals. Seated in court, they are compelled to remove shoe laces, etc. to prevent suicide atte...