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  1. Transporteinheiten Todt/Speer

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Bestandsgeschichte Unterlagen von der einstmals riesigen Organisation Todt sind so gut wie kaum überliefert. Die in West-Berlin nach 1945 sichergestellten Materialien wurden bereits 1947 der Oberfinanzdirektion Hamburg übergeben und dort mit anderen OT-Unterlagen vereinigt. Aufgrund einer Anordnung der britischen Militärregierung führte seit August 1948 die Finanzbehörde der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg die Abwicklungsgeschäfte der ehemaligen OT. 1957 wurden aus Hamburg Unterlagen der Organisation Todt, welches auch Materialien der Transporteinheiten Speer e...

  2. Pommerin, Reiner

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners - Geboren 17. Juni 1943 in Rees am Rhein, Eltern: Erich Pommerin (Kaufmann), Hildegard Pommerin (geb. Ebeling) - Familienstand: verheiratet mit Ulrike Pommerin M.A. (geb. Pieper, Heirat am 13. Mai 1988), 1 Sohn (Frederic, geb. 19. April 1999) Schulischer und Wissenschaftlicher Werdegang: - 1951-1954: Volksschule Aerzen, Hameln und Kempen am Niederrhein - 1954-1961: Gymnasium-Thomaeum (Kempen am Niederrhein, kein Abschluss) - 1965: Prüfung zum Abschluss der Mittelschule beim Prüfungsamt für Fremden- und Ergänzungsprüfungen in Hamburg - 1965-1969: Abendgymnasiu...

  3. Zentrum für Nachrichtenwesen der Bundeswehr

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Nachrichtengewinnung und Aufklärung - einschließlich der Auswertung - sind wesentliche Voraussetzungen für die militärpolitische und militärische Handlungsfähigkeit der Bundeswehr in Frieden, Krise und Krieg sowie bei Einsätzen im erweiterten Aufgabenspektrum. Aufgrund der Veränderungen im sicherheitspolitischen Umfeld und - daraus resultierend - einem erweiterten Sicherheitsbegriff hatten sich der Informationsbedarf und das Interessenprofil des Bundesministeriums der Verteidigung und der Streitkräfte in den zurückliegenden Jahren deutlich verändert und erwei...

  4. Drawing of a couple in hiding reading a Bible

    1. Jacob Barosin collection

    Drawing depicting Jacob Barosin’s experiences while interned or living in hiding in southern France from June 1940 to August 1943. In June 1933, Jacob and Sonia Barosin (previously Judey) immigrated illegally to Paris, France, in order to escape the anti-Jewish laws passed following the appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany in January. Jacob voluntarily enlisted in the French military following the 1939 German invasion of Poland. In May1940, Germany invaded France, Jacob and Sonia were arrested as enemy aliens, and Sonia was transported to Gurs internment camp. On June 2, Jac...

  5. Jacob Barosin drawing of men standing near the fence in a labor camp

    1. Jacob Barosin collection

    Drawing depicting Jacob Barosin’s experiences while interned or living in hiding in southern France from June 1940 to August 1943. In June 1933, Jacob and Sonia Barosin (previously Judey) immigrated illegally to Paris, France, in order to escape the anti-Jewish laws passed following the appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany in January. Jacob voluntarily enlisted in the French military following the 1939 German invasion of Poland. In May1940, Germany invaded France, Jacob and Sonia were arrested as enemy aliens, and Sonia was transported to Gurs internment camp. On June 2, Jac...

  6. Pencil drawing

    1. Jacob Barosin collection

    Drawing depicting Jacob Barosin’s experiences while interned or living in hiding in southern France from June 1940 to August 1943. In June 1933, Jacob and Sonia Barosin (previously Judey) immigrated illegally to Paris, France, in order to escape the anti-Jewish laws passed following the appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany in January. Jacob voluntarily enlisted in the French military following the 1939 German invasion of Poland. In May1940, Germany invaded France, Jacob and Sonia were arrested as enemy aliens, and Sonia was transported to Gurs internment camp. On June 2, Jac...

  7. Pencil portrait of an elderly man by Jacob J. Barosin

    1. Jacob Barosin collection

    Pencil portrait drawn by Jacob Barosin while he was in southern France from June 1940 to August 1943. In June 1933, Jacob and Sonia Barosin (previously Judey) immigrated illegally to Paris, in order to escape the anti-Jewish laws passed following the appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany in January. Jacob voluntarily enlisted in the French military following the 1939 German invasion of Poland. In May 1940, Germany invaded France, Jacob and Sonia were arrested as enemy aliens, and Sonia was transported to Gurs internment camp. On June 2, Jacob was transported to Langlade, to s...

  8. Jacob Barosin drawing of people waiting in a town square

    1. Jacob Barosin collection

    Drawing depicting Jacob Barosin’s experiences while interned or living in hiding in southern France from June 1940 to August 1943. In June 1933, Jacob and Sonia Barosin (previously Judey) immigrated illegally to Paris, France, in order to escape the anti-Jewish laws passed following the appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany in January. Jacob voluntarily enlisted in the French military following the 1939 German invasion of Poland. In May1940, Germany invaded France, Jacob and Sonia were arrested as enemy aliens, and Sonia was transported to Gurs internment camp. On June 2, Jac...

  9. Jacob Barosin drawing of three people walking

    1. Jacob Barosin collection

    Drawing depicting Jacob Barosin’s experiences while interned or living in hiding in southern France from June 1940 to August 1943. In June 1933, Jacob and Sonia Barosin (previously Judey) immigrated illegally to Paris, France, in order to escape the anti-Jewish laws passed following the appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany in January. Jacob voluntarily enlisted in the French military following the 1939 German invasion of Poland. In May1940, Germany invaded France, Jacob and Sonia were arrested as enemy aliens, and Sonia was transported to Gurs internment camp. On June 2, Jac...

  10. Jacob Barosin drawing of a man hiding from the police

    1. Jacob Barosin collection

    Drawing depicting Jacob Barosin’s experiences while interned or living in hiding in southern France from June 1940 to August 1943. In June 1933, Jacob and Sonia Barosin (previously Judey) immigrated illegally to Paris, France, in order to escape the anti-Jewish laws passed following the appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany in January. Jacob voluntarily enlisted in the French military following the 1939 German invasion of Poland. In May1940, Germany invaded France, Jacob and Sonia were arrested as enemy aliens, and Sonia was transported to Gurs internment camp. On June 2, Jac...

  11. Jacob Barosin drawing of a man sleeping in a labor camp barrack

    1. Jacob Barosin collection

    Drawing depicting Jacob Barosin’s experiences while interned or living in hiding in southern France from June 1940 to August 1943. In June 1933, Jacob and Sonia Barosin (previously Judey) immigrated illegally to Paris, France, in order to escape the anti-Jewish laws passed following the appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany in January. Jacob voluntarily enlisted in the French military following the 1939 German invasion of Poland. In May1940, Germany invaded France, Jacob and Sonia were arrested as enemy aliens, and Sonia was transported to Gurs internment camp. On June 2, Jac...

  12. Jacob Barosin drawing of people looking at bombed building

    1. Jacob Barosin collection

    Drawing depicting Jacob Barosin’s experiences while interned or living in hiding in southern France from June 1940 to August 1943. In June 1933, Jacob and Sonia Barosin (previously Judey) immigrated illegally to Paris, France, in order to escape the anti-Jewish laws passed following the appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany in January. Jacob voluntarily enlisted in the French military following the 1939 German invasion of Poland. In May1940, Germany invaded France, Jacob and Sonia were arrested as enemy aliens, and Sonia was transported to Gurs internment camp. On June 2, Jac...

  13. Watercolor portrait of an elderly man by Jacob J. Barosin

    1. Jacob Barosin collection

    Watercolor painting depicting an older man created by Jacob Barosin in Esbly, a suburb of Paris, in 1947. In June 1933, Jacob and Sonia Barosin (previously Judey) immigrated illegally to Paris, in order to escape the anti-Jewish laws passed following the appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany in January. Jacob voluntarily enlisted in the French military following the 1939 German invasion of Poland. In May 1940, Germany invaded France, Jacob and Sonia were arrested as enemy aliens, and Sonia was transported to Gurs internment camp. On June 2, Jacob was transported to Langlade, ...

  14. Envelope fragment with two stamps acquired by a Roman Catholic Polish youth

    1. Hermanowski family collection

    Envelope fragment with two stamps issued in 1943 by the Polish government-in-exile, while based in London, England, and acquired by Wojciech Hermanowski. These are two of the eight second-issue stamps, which were only valid in friendly and neutral nations, such as Great Britain. The stamps helped raise money for the Ministry of Finance, and were used as propaganda to remind the public that the Polish military was still fighting, even while their territory was occupied by Germany. Wojciech was a Roman Catholic boy living with his parents, Jan and Stanislawa, and his older brother, Andrzej, i...

  15. Hand-carved wooden chain carried to Australia by a Jewish refugee

    Wooden chain carved by Hillel Szajner, of Plauen, Germany, before his death in 1924. Hillel taught one of his sons, Max, how to carve chains from a single piece of wood. While imprisoned in a French transit camp during the Holocaust, Max used this skill to make decorative chains, at least one of which began as a broomstick handle. Max’s wife snuck the chains out of the camp in a loaf of bread. Two of his chains are on permanent display in Israel, at Yad Vashem and Lochamei Hagetaot. Max’s sister, Dora Szajner Faktor, carried their father’s chain when her family immigrated to Australia durin...

  16. Set of five lobby cards for the film “The Last Chance” (1945)

    1. Cinema Judaica collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn692967
    • English
    • .1: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) .2: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) .3: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) .4: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) .5: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm)

    Set of five lobby cards for the film, “The Last Chance,” released in the United States in February 1945. Lobby cards are promotional materials placed in theater lobby windows to highlight specific movie scenes, rather than the broader themes often depicted on posters. The film was originally released in Switzerland under the German title, “Die Letzte Chance,” in May 1945, and won the Grand Prize and the International Peace Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1946. The film is set in German-occupied Italy in 1943, and focuses on three Allied soldiers who escape a prisoner-of-war camp and jo...

  17. Challah cover with an embroidered blue flower recovered by Kato Ritter from her neighbors

    1. George and Katie Frankfurter collection

    Challah cover returned to 20-year-old Kato Ritter by her Catholic neighbors, the Oppel family, in Vilmany, Hungary, in July 1945. Kato’s family gave the challah cover to the Oppels to safeguard prior to their deportation during World War II (1939-1945). It was embroidered by Kato’s mother, Gizella Weissburg Ritter, in prewar Hungary. It was used to cover the two braided bread loaves, challah, at the beginning of a Shabbat meal. Nazi-controlled Germany occupied Hungary in March 1944, and one week later, 19-year-old Kato, her parents, David and Gizella, and her 17-year-old sister, Julianna, w...

  18. Table covering with elaborate whitework embroidery and a crocheted border recovered by Kato Ritter from her neighbors

    1. George and Katie Frankfurter collection

    Table covering returned to 20-year-old Kato Ritter by her Catholic neighbors, the Oppel family, in Vilmany, Hungary, in July 1945. Kato’s family gave the pillow sham to the Oppels to safeguard prior to their deportation during World War II (1939-1945). It was embroidered by Kato’s mother, Gizella Weissburg Ritter, in prewar Hungary. Nazi-controlled Germany occupied Hungary in March 1944, and one week later, 19-year-old Kato, her parents, David and Gizella, and her 17-year-old sister, Julianna, were deported from Vilmany to the Jewish ghetto in Košice, Czechoslovakia (now Košice, Slovakia). ...

  19. Watercolor painting of a domestic scene by Jacob J. Barosin

    1. Jacob Barosin collection

    Painting by Jacob Barosin, depicting a domestic scene in Villiers-sur-Morin, a suburb of Paris, France. In June 1933, Jacob and Sonia Barosin (previously Judey) immigrated illegally to Paris, France, in order to escape the anti-Jewish laws passed following the appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany in January. Jacob voluntarily enlisted in the French military following the 1939 German invasion of Poland. In May1940, Germany invaded France, Jacob and Sonia were arrested as enemy aliens, and Sonia was transported to Gurs internment camp. On June 2, Jacob was transported to Langl...

  20. Watercolor painting of three children by Jacob J. Barosin

    1. Jacob Barosin collection

    Watercolor painting depicting three children, created by Jacob Barosin in 1942. It was likely completed in the spring near the town of Lunel, where Jacob lived and worked on a nearby farm until German forces occupied the area in November 1942. In June 1933, Jacob and Sonia Barosin (previously Judey) immigrated illegally to Paris, in order to escape the anti-Jewish laws passed following the appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany in January. Jacob voluntarily enlisted in the French military following the 1939 German invasion of Poland. In May 1940, Germany invaded France, Jacob ...