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  1. Mina K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mina K., who was born in Kaunas, Lithuania, one of two children. She describes her family's orthodoxy; meeting her future husband while studying in Paris in 1939; returning home; Soviet occupation; traveling to Yugoslavia via Odesa, Moscow, and Zemun; marriage in Novi Sad; living in Belgrade; her husband's military draft; following him to Sarajevo, Trebinje, then Zupcě, where his parents lived; her husband's return; serving as a medic with the partisans; fighting Italian troops; treating a wounded Italian soldier; capture by Chetniks; transfer to Italian custody; imp...

  2. William B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of William B., who was born in Vilna, Poland in 1927. He recalls his immediate family's secularism; his mother's family's orthodoxy; his father's career as a military officer; attending Polish schools; antisemitic harassment; weekly Hebrew lessons; his father's departure when the war began and his return; brief Soviet occupation; Lithuanian independence; favorable conditions for his family; his father's reluctance to emigrate to the United States; spending a summer with relatives in Kaunas; exposure to Jewish life; Soviet occupation; his father's arrest and release; fina...

  3. Maria J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maria J., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1918. She describes her father's tannery in Dobczyce; cordial relations with non-Jews; living in Podgo?rze; participating in Akiba, a Zionist organization; marriage in 1937; German invasion in 1939; her husband's imprisonment as a spy (he was in the Polish military); his release after paying ransom; leaving her son with her parents in Dobczyce; working for the underground in Krako?w; ghettoization; obtaining a job distributing food rations, then as a waitress for German soldiers; secretly leaving the ghetto to visit her son...

  4. Alfred B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alfred B., a non-Jew, who was born in the Schaerbeek section of Brussels, Belgium in 1917. He recalls frequent visits to relatives in Paris and Normandy; attending school, then university, in Brussels; strong anti-Rexist feelings, resulting in active participation in a liberal student group; military enlistment; call-up in 1939; German invasion; capture; transfer to Emmerich; assistance from the Red Cross; forced labor in Alt Garge and Fallingbostel; a German official taking him to his home in Hannover; release; returning home; attending university; working with the r...

  5. Miriam B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Miriam B., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1935. She recalls German invasion; her father's flight to Lida in the Soviet zone; joining him with her mother; German invasion in June 1941; ghettoization; removal, with her parents, from a group being herded to a mass killing; being hidden with a non-Jewish woman; her parents retrieving her; returning to the ghetto; their escape into nearby forests with partisans in fall 1942; partisan military actions; German attacks; hunger, cold, and frequently changing locations; fear of losing her mother; establishment of a partisan ...

  6. Mary L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mary L., who was born in Zagreb, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (now Croatia) in 1910. She recalls the beginning of World War I; her father's military service; living in Vienna from 1916 to 1918; the family's move to Berlin in 1926; working for an insurance company; Hitler's ascent to power; losing her job due to anti-Jewish laws; the anti-Jewish boycott in April 1933; returning to Zagreb; studying English in Britain in 1935; marriage to a Catholic; German invasion in April 1941; moving to the United States Consulate where her husband worked; anti-Jewish measures; denuncia...

  7. Elisabeth F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elisabeth F., a Catholic, who was born in Dorinne, Belgium in 1915. She recounts few memories of World War I; attending school in Natoye, Namur, and Brussels; marriage in 1936; her son's birth in 1937; her husband's military draft in 1939; fleeing with her parents and son to Murviel-lès-Béziers after German invasion; her husband's combat death; never attending mass again; living with her sister in Spontin; working for the Resistance through a former teacher; hiding and moving downed Allied pilots; imprisonment in St. Gilles for three weeks in November 1940; arrest w...

  8. Records of the Chief Constable of the Tiszafüred District, 1893-1944

    • Tiszafüredi járás főszolgabírájának iratai, 1893-1944

    The majority of the records of the Tiszafüred administrative district from the period 1938-1945 were lost or destroyed. The relevant parts that remained include the fragments of presidential and mobilization records that hold information on administrative measures against non-resident aliens and foreigners, internment and custody, registration, expulsion of Jews, supervision of Jewish organizations and institutions, military labour service, citizenship cases, implementation of anti-Jewish laws and decrees, the supervision and activities of extreme right-wing political parties and organizati...

  9. Vacationing in Italy, 1929; parade

    Well-dressed woman walks around a manicured sculpture garden. Pan of a large building, terrace and mountains behind. 0:46 Pan of a café terrace; a string ensemble plays, waiters smile for the camera. 1:12 Well-dressed woman walks down the steps of a large building, walks towards the camera. 1:38 Views of a large sculpture, mountains in the distance. Children, group of women walk in front of a guarded fortress. 2:27 Pan of a café terrace, cars, bicycles pass by. Pan of a rooftop pool, women sit, drink at umbrella tables. A group plays in a fountain in the pool. Another pan of the pool. 3:57 ...

  10. Selected records from the State Archive of South Kazakhstan Region in Shymkent, related to the evacuation of civilians during WWII

    Selected records related to evacuation of the civilian population to Shimkent region in Kazakhstan during WWII. It includes information about resettlement, employment, provision of food supplies and medical assistance to the evacuees by the local Soviet and Communist Party authorities. The collection also includes various lists of evacuees who arrived in Shimkent region in 1941-1942 as well as statistical reports and correspondence files.

  11. County Starosty in Kielce Starostwo Powiatowe Kieleckie (Sygn. 101)

    Consists of various records relating to Jewish population in Poland, Kielce County: Registers of real estate of Kielce county; situational reports concerning security in the county (Files 203-221, 229-240), and situational reports of the Kielce voivode and other starosts (Files 247-265, 273-297), files on the general political situation in the county (Files 298, 306-309, 310-313), police reports from accidents and events (Files 928-940, 946-947), court activities (Files 941-942), files regarding the activities of political parties (Files 326-337 ), National Party (Files 338), Communist Part...

  12. Cairo Conference; Marines capture Tarawa

    News documentary with intertitles and English narration produced for the home movie market by Castle Films Productions. "The News Parade" 1943. "Allied Chiefs Meet! In Egypt and Persia!" of the Cairo Conference involving Churchill, Roosevelt, and Lady Chiang and Chaing-Kai Shek of China. Film opens in Egypt with shots of pyramids. Churchill, Roosevelt and Chaing Kai- Shek seated with representatives standing behind. Narrator indicates the fate of Japan is being resolved by China, the United States and Great Britain and that strategy is being planned on a unified basis. The war meeting shift...

  13. Siegfried Meyerhof: Family papers

    This collection comprises the mostly 19th century papers of the Meyerhof family including certificates, military service papers, family trees, papers re the synagogue community, Wolfhagen, inheritance certificates, tax records, powers of attorney 

  14. Captain Robert Philip Baker-Byrne: personal papers

    This collection of personal papers documents, in part, the life of Robert Philip Baker-Byrne, formerly Rudolf Philipp Becker, a German Jewish emigrant to Great Britain who, having served in the Pioneer Corps, ended his war time activities working for the British Secret Service, and after the war as a war crimes investigator.

  15. The leader's fight in Holland Miniature "button book" issued for charitable contributions by the Zweites Kriegscilfswerk fur das Deutsche Rote Kreuz

    1. Diane Keeley collection

    Miniature "button book" printed by the Nazi German government and given as a token gift to those who had donated to the Zweites Kriegshilfswerk für das deutsche rote Kreuz. The booklet could be worn on coat buttons as a sign that the wearer had donated to the charity. Found by the donor and her siblings, circa 1950, while they were billeted in the home of a German family when her father was stationed in Germany with the US Army following WWII.

  16. Correspondence and papers regarding Georg August Welz

    This collection of correspondence relates to a letter which Elizabeth Castonier had published in the Süddeutscher Zeitung in August 1958, alleging the culpability of Professor Georg August Weltz, then Professor of X-Ray Physiology at the university of Munich, in war crimes, specifically medical experiments on prisoners to test how their bodies react to extremely cold temperatures. The collection includes a copy of an affidavit by Weltz, dated 1946. 

  17. "Bikur Cholim" Jewish Society for Visitation and Support of the Ill, Graz "Bikur Cholim" Jüdischer Krankenbesuchs-und Unterstützungsverein, Graz (Fond 710)

    1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

    This collection contains office records of the Bikur Cholim: regulations, correspondence, appeals to the Jews of Graz for membership, name lists of members and donors, records of aid to children, and financial accounts. Also included are copies of newspapers “Die Stimme Der Jude” for 1937, and personal papers of the society director E. Grunschlag: personal correspondence with his wife and son. Note: USHMM Archives holds only selected records.

  18. Association of Jewish Merchants and Craftsmen, Vienna Verband der jüdischen kaufleute und handwerker, Wien (Fond 1191)

    1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

    This collection contains various office records of the Association of Jewish Merchants and Craftsmen in Vienna, Austria: correspondence; minutes of board meetings and general meetings of the membership; records pertaining to the association's publication "Die Wirtschaft"; and financial records. Includes also questionnaires about association member’s professions; issues of the Vienna commercial and industrial newspaper and of the Czechoslovakian economic bulletin “Vestnik”; and informational bulletin of the Austrian Chamber of Exports. Note: USHMM Archives holds only selected records.

  19. German Academic Exchange Service in Paris Deutscher Akademisches Austauschdienst, Paris (Fond 132)

    1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

    This collection contains office records of the Paris branch of the Deutscher Akademisches Austauschdienst in Berlin. Included are general correspondence, bills for routine expenses and book and subscription purchases, lists of some German and French exchange students, statistics concerning foreign students in French universities, press clippings concerning events by organizations involved in Franco-German cultural relations, an invitation list created by the German embassy for a 1938 "German Book Week", and other materials. Note: USHMM Archives holds only selected records.

  20. Central Office for Austrian Emigrants, Paris Zentrale Vereinigung österreichischer Emigranten, Paris (Fond 542)

    1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

    This collection contains various documents about the terms of reference of the Central Office, which functioned as a clearinghouse of information for emigrants. Topics include the activities of Austrian expatriates, events in Austria, and the experience of Austrian prisoners in camps such as Buchenwald and Dachau. Types of documents include press clippings, letters, reports, manuscripts, periodical articles and bulletins of the Central Office. Note: USHMM Archives holds only selected records.