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  1. Samuel W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Samuel W., who was born in Częstochowa, Poland in 1923, one of three children, to a Russian mother and a Jewish father. He recounts his mother's conversion to Judaism; attending a Hebrew school; his family's move to Warsaw; attending school; moving to Radość; German invasion; enlisting in the Polish military; moving with his battalion, ending in Chełm; being injured in a train bombing; hospitalization in Lublin; returning to Radość; traveling with his mother to join his father in Opatów in January 1941; his mother obtaining papers as a non-Jew; ghettoization; sn...

  2. Norman S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Norman S., who was born in 1927 in Kolbuszowa, Poland, the youngest of nine children. He recounts his family's poverty; attending public school and cheder; antisemitic harassment; working in his father's store; attending yeshiva in Tarn?ow; German invasion; fleeing to Krako?w; arrest en route to the Soviet zone; escape; traveling to L?viv; arrest while returning home; escape; returning home; one brother serving on the Judenrat; his family's deportation to Rzeszo?w; ghettoization; retrieving his family; working for the Judenrat and in the ghetto hospital; arrest of the...

  3. Daniel L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Daniel L., who was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1933, an only child. He recounts his family's affluence; cordial relations with non-Jews; a large and close extended family; attending Jewish school; Soviet occupation; German invasion; ghettoization; his father working in the transport system; telling Germans his parents were out when they hid during round-ups; hiding during the childrens' round-up; capture; escape with his father's help; deportation with his parents to Stutthof; separation from his mother (he never saw her again) when they were sent to Landsberg, then,...

  4. Moshe M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Moshe M., who was born in Sevluš, Czechoslovakia (presently Vynohradiv, Ukraine) in 1923, the oldest of eight children, two of whom died before the war. He recounts his father's trade as a barrel maker; attending a Czech school; extreme poverty; moving to Secǒvce; their improved situation; attending a Slovak school; working with his father from age thirteen; building a machine to improve their process; antisemitic harassment; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; Hungarian occupation in 1938; his father's military draft; visiting him in Uz︠h︡horod; his release several ...

  5. Chaim O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chaim O., who was born in Sosnowiec, Poland, one of six children. He recalls attending Polish school and cheder; antisemitic violence; participating in No'ar ha-Tsiyoni; he and his siblings spending summers with their grandmother in Miecho?w Charsznica; German invasion; briefly fleeing to Charsznica, then returning in late winter; forced labor locally; one sister being taken to Krako?w; a round-up in fall 1942; a mass killing; transfer to a field near S?omniki; a child's birth; selection with his father and brother for transfer to P?aszo?w; their escape to Charsznica;...

  6. Ralph A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ralph A., who was born in Essen, Germany in 1927 and raised in Recklinghausen. He recalls cordial relations with non-Jews; attending a Jewish elementary school; antisemitic harassment in the German high school; arrest of his father and uncle and vandalizing of their home on Kristallnacht; confiscation of their business; release of his father and uncle ten days later; his uncle's emigration to Palestine; anti-Jewish restrictions; attending a Jewish school in Cologne; his bar mitzvah in 1940; deportation with his family to the Ri?ga ghetto in 1942; his transfer to Kaise...

  7. Joseph H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph H., a Catholic, who was born in Paliseul, Belgium in 1917, one of two sons. He recounts his mother's death in 1921; living with an aunt in Bastogne; attending school in Boullion (his neighbor was Léon Degrelle); living in Sugny; enlisting in the military in 1936; assignment to barracks in Liège; marriage in June 1939; German invasion; his wife fleeing to England; brief capture as a prisoner of war; returning to Antwerp; recapture; forced farm labor in Meldorf; release; joining his father in Bastogne; repairing radios to provide access to the BBC; hiding membe...

  8. Dov N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dov N., who was born in Nové Zámky, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovkia) in 1930, the fifth of six children. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; cordial relations with non-Jews; attending a Jewish school; Hungarian occupation in 1938; increasing antisemitism; his bar mitzvah; German occupation in March 1944; draft of his father and brother into a Hungarian slave labor battalion (they did not survive); ghettoization; deportation with his family to Auschwitz/Birkenau in June; a prisoner advising him upon arrival to say he was eighteen; separation from his mother, brother...

  9. Yvonne P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yvonne P., a non-Jew, who was born in Havré, Belgium in 1912. She recounts her father becoming an invalid in World War I; completing teacher training in 1930; her father's death in 1933; marriage in 1935; moving to Antwerp in 1938; participating with her husband in anti-fascist activities; his military draft; German invasion on May 10, 1940; fleeing to Havré; her husband's return; participating in the Resistance; hiding using false papers; visiting her husband in Tertre; his arrest in December 1941 and execution in February 1942; hiding with a friend, then with an a...

  10. Maďarský kráľovský policajný kapitanát v Košiciach

    • Hungarian Royal Police Capitanate in Košice

    Fonds contains documents of the Hungarian Royal Police Capitanate in Košice (Kassa), including many documents related to the anti-Jewish measures of this security body during the period (1938-1944). Besides the documents on the so called check of the citizenship of specific Jews, expulsion of Jews trying to escape from Slovakia or search for persons who refused to enter the army there are also documents on the history of Jewish ghetto in Košice (Kassa), and the transit camp in the brick factory. This includes documents on the investigation of the smuggling of food into the brick factory cam...

  11. Diaries of Wilhelm Hollitscher

    This set of manuscript war-time diaries from an Austrian Jewish refugee provide a unique insight into a refugee's life and his interpretation of national events. A number of enclosures were found loose within the diaries. These have been catalogued separately [1277/16] with a note of their place of origin. Hollitscher begins his English diaries by remembering his last days in Vienna, but soon turns to a discussion of the political news of the day. In this case a secret meeting between Hitler and Mussolini. Hollitscher is furious about Hitler's treachery, abandoning South Tyrol as a gift to ...

  12. Fokschaner family: personal papers

    Readers need to book a reading room terminal to access this materialThis collection consists of the personal papers of the Fokschaner family, Rumanian Jews from Czernowitz (Chernivtsi, now Ukraine).Family papers including the papers and authenticated copies of papers of Max and Sarina Fokschaner (1728/1-2), Otto and Erika Fokschaner (1728/3-5), Erich Lupul and Else Fokschaner (1728/7), Wolfgang Fokschaner (1728/6), Karoline Fokschaner, Johanna Fokschaner (1728/8) and Klara Löwner (1728/5). Documents include certificate of Palestinian naturalisation; affidavit in lieu of passport; nationalit...

  13. Toch and Korn families: personal papers

    This collection consists of the papers of the Toch and Korn families, Jewish refugees from Vienna. Whilst the children Erika and Harry Toch emigrated to England and Palestine, respectively to flee Nazi persecution, their parents Wilhelm and Margarethe Toch were deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp from where only their mother returned. Erika got married to Polish refugee, Salman Korn, in 1941 whose papers and correspondence are also included.Included are correspondence and papers from Theresienstadt, Deggendorf DP camp as well as Kitchener and Mooragh internment camps; school repor...

  14. Stefanie and Walter Simon and Max Auerbach: family papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of Walter and Stefanie Simon and Stefanie's father Max Auerbach, Jewish refugees who were forced to flee Germany in the mid 1930s because of the increasing difficulties in earning a living.Personal papers including Max Auerbach's school reports, qualifications, death certificate, two Iron Cross medals (1914-1918) and internment badges; Stefanie Simon's identify cards and passport, CV, school reports and qualifications,  birth, marriage and naturalisation certificates as well as photographs, internment badge and family history report; and Wal...

  15. Erich and Fanny Walter and Pilpel: family papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of Erich and Fanny Walter (née Pilpel) and those of her father Emil Leon Pilpel and sister Charlotte Smith (née Pilpel).

  16. Terfus family: personal papers

    This collection comprises the papers of Michael and Charlotte Terfus, Jewish refugees from Berlin who fled Nazi persecution in March 1939. Charlotte's parents and Michael's sister were unable to emigrate and were later deported to concentration camps where they perished.Personal papers including Michael Terfus' qualifications and work references, medical certificate, copies of marriage certificate, military service papers such as official record of Army service, prayer book for Jewish sailors and soldiers, British Legion membership card, Ex-Service (N.B.) Association membership card as...

  17. Kupfer family: papers

    This collection contains the papers of the Kupfer family, former Jewish refugees from Germany.Family papers of the Kupfer family including papers relating to the family's restitution claims and pensions (1849/1-2); personal documents such as Erich Kupfer's birth certificate, qualifications, work references and conduct certificates, US immigration affidavit, military papers as well as Ruth Kupfer's criminal record certificate, UK certificate of registration and friendship book ('Poesiealbum') (1849/3). Also included are personal papers and war-time correspondence (1942-1943) of Karl and Selm...

  18. Адресне бюро Черкаської української охоронної поліції, м. Черкаси

    • Address Bureau of Cherkasy Ukrainian Schutzpolizei, city of Cherkasy
    • Adresne biuro Cherkaskoi ukrainskoi okhoronnoi politsii, m. Cherkasy

    Local administration documentation can contain information connected to the Holocaust. Titles and sizes of the selected files potentially related to the subject: Inventory 1. Selected file titles: File 2. Correspondence with district police, district board and other bodies of the German occupation authorities about issuance of passports to the city and district population. January-July 1942, 106 pages. File 3. Lists of the plenipotentiaries of the district board, correspondence with the police about people who had fled from the labour camp and those who had violated passport regulations. Pe...

  19. Newborn child welcomed into the Frank family

    EXTs hospital in Munich (where Brigitte Frank gave birth to each of her 5 children), snow on ground. Hans Frank steps out of a car with license plate reading: "IIA - 23818." INTs, CUs of newborn child, possibly Brigitte (Gitty) born in January 1935. Family members pose with mother Brigitte and baby - Lily (Hans Frank's sister) on left. Nurses. Flowers in the room. On the sidewalk with a tram behind, the children - Sigrid and Norman - push the baby in a pram, with mother Brigitte and a nanny. Sigrid mimics the cameraman. INT shots of woman holding newborn child.

  20. Jewish Equilibrium Propaganda poster of Churchill and FDR on a Jewish controlled seesaw

    1. Serbian antisemitic poster collection

    Antisemitic propaganda poster issued in German occupied Serbia in the fall of 1941. It has caricatures of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill sitting on a makeshift seesaw balanced on a globe, controlled by a giant caricatured Orthodox Jew. The poster was created for the Grand Anti-Masonic Exhibition held in Belgrade from October 22, 1941, to January 19, 1942. The exhibit focused on the alleged Jewish-Communist-Masonic conspiracy to achieve world domination. Jews were portrayed as the source of all evil, which had to be destroyed, along with Jewish controlled countries, such as the ...