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Item type: Archival Descriptions

  1. Looft (Louft) family. Collection

    This collection contains pre-war passport photos from Looft (Louft) family members, including Marcus Looft, his brother Mozes Louft, his sister Betsy Louft and their mother Braine Bolda; pre-war holiday photos; a pre-war school picture including Marcus Looft; wedding photos of Marcus’s best friend Maurice (unidentified); a wedding photo of Betsy Louft and Maurice Poznanski; post-war family pictures of Marcus Looft with his wife Constance Van Beek and their daughter Liliane; post-war family photos of hidden child Mina Poznanski (alias Louft, adopted Bols); a photo of Mozes Louft’s tombstone;...

  2. Oberkommando der Heeresgruppe H (Oberbefehlshaber Nordwest)

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Das im Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv befindliche Schriftgut der verschiedenen Heeresgruppen stammt im wesentlichen aus Rückgaben aus den USA nach 1962. Bestandsbeschreibung Es sind nur vier Akten überliefert, eine des Heeresgruppenintendanten, eine des Generals der Pioniere und zwei des Oberbefehlshabers, wovon eine nach der Kapitulation entstanden ist. Kriegstage bücher und Tätigkeitsberichte sind nicht überliefert. Erschliessungszustand Findbuch Zitierweise BArch RH 19-XIII/...

  3. Steenberg, Sven: Sammlung zur Wlassow-Bewegung

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Lebensdaten: Sven Steenberg war der Künstlername des deutsch-baltischen Schriftstellers, Drehbuchautors und Juristen Arthur Doellert 1905 in Riga geboren; verstorben 1994 1941 bis 1945 war Doellert im Feldzug gegen die Sowjetunion als Dolmetscher und dann Sonderführer (Z), als Dolmetscher mit Sonderaufträgen, im Stab der 2. Panzerarmee eingesetzt. Zuvor wurde er als Dolmetscher im Stab der 293. Infanterie-Division verwendet. Bestandsbeschreibung Die Sammlung wurde im Mai 1978 vom Bundesarchiv erworben. Die darin enthaltenen drei Tonbänder mit Interviews der Z...

  4. Mende, Gerhard von: Sammlung zu den ostvölkischen Freiwilligen in der deutschen Wehrmacht

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Lebensdaten: Gerhard von Mende geb.12. Dezember./ 25. Dezember 1904 in Riga; verstorben 16. Dezember 1963 in Düsseldorf deutschbaltischer Professor. Als Russlandforscher hatte er sich während der NS-Zeit rassenideologisch auf die „turko-tatarischen (sowjetasiatischen) Völker" spezialisiert (Turkologe) und in der frühen Nachkriegszeit sein Wissen in den Dienst der Bundesrepublik gestellt. 1941 wurde von Mende Referatsleiter im Reichsministerium für die besetzten Ostgebiete (RMfdbO) und für den Kaukasus zuständig war, zunächst Abteilung I 5 „Kaukasien", später ...

  5. THE HERSH SEGAL COLLECTION

    The collection contains the following materials: 1. 85 questioners with testimonies of children. In each questionnaire the children were required to write down their names, place and year of birth and also share their experiences during the war. Because the children were deported to different places in Transnistria it is possible to form a comprehensive picture of the camps and ghettos in Transnistria. (85 testimonies, handwritten original in Yiddish [with Hebrew translation]). 2. Two Booklets with a selection of 25 testimonies in Yiddish [Written in Hebrew letters]. (120 pages, Handwritten...

  6. Korrespondenz v.a. der Nachkriegszeit, auch die Entnazifizierung betr. und private Korrespondenz

    1. Nachlass Theophil Wurm

    Enthält u.a.: - Dankschreiben zu verschiedenen Betreffen; u.a.: Der Frauenkreis Stuttgart-Münster an W., betr. einer Danksagung und der Bitte, sich für die Ehrerhaltung der im Krieg gefallenen Söhne einzusetzen, 18.6.1947; Schreiben von Friedrich Wilhelm von Bissing an W., betr. die Mitteilung seines Freispruchs und Dank für den Fürspruch W.'s, Oberaudorf am Inn Oberbayern 4.2.1948 - Versch. Korrespondenzen die Entnazifizierung und Wiederbesetzung versch. Kirchenämter betr., Entlastungsschreiben/ Persilscheine und andere Betreffe an die alliierten Regierungen, u.a. Entwurf eines Schreibens ...

  7. War Crimes and Retribution

    1. World Jewish Congress
    2. Institute of Jewish Affairs

    Contains mostly country-by-country files pertaining to individual war crime and retribution cases. This subseries contains background materials and related information as well, including files on searches for Holocaust witnesses and witness testimony, together with war crimes trial correspondence. Of particular interest are the files on war crimes and atrocities in individual communities in Poland, as well as the section on the Nuremberg trial proceedings and cases. Box C149. Folder 17. Legal definitions and cases cited, "A" - "B.", undated Box C149. Folder 18. Legal definitions and cases c...

  8. George and Katie Frankfurter papers

    1. George and Katie Frankfurter collection

    The George and Katie Frankfurter papers include documents relating to the experiences of Kato Ritter (later Katie Frankfurter) and her husband, Gyorgy Frankfurter (later George), who both survived concentration and slave labor camps. Documents relating to Kato include a handwritten list of items requested by Kato and her family in the Budapest ghetto from an uncle in Budapest, a personal account written on scrap paper while interned in Auschwitz-Birkenau and Peterswaldau labor camp, and correspondence relating to her immigration to the United States in 1951. The collection also includes pos...

  9. Felix and Flory Van Beek correspondence

    Collection of documents, correspondence, receipts and papers relating to Holocaust survivors Felix Levi and his wife Flory (later known as Felix and Flory Van Beek) in Rotterdam, Netherlands to friends and family including Felix's brother Hugo and Theo in Buenos Aires, Montevideo, and New York; bound in binder; dated 1946-1948; in German, Dutch and English.

  10. Dog tag identification issued to a Jewish medical officer, 2nd Polish Corps

    Dog tag with his name, birth date and place, and blood type issued to Dr. Edmund Lusthaus, a medical officer in the 2nd Polish Corps, a unit of the British Armed Forces during World War II. Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, and seventeen days later, the Soviet Army invaded from the east. Lusthaus was captured and taken to a camp for Polish prisoners of war in Novosibirsk, Siberia, where he served as a physician. When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, Polish POWs were released to join the fighting. Lusthaus joined the volunteer Polish Army of the East, known as Anders Army...

  11. Hersh Smolar - Minsk ghetto

    Hersh Smolar, was the editor of a Yiddish daily newspaper. After the war began, he became a leading member of the resistance in the Minsk ghetto and the commissar of a partisan group operating in the Belorussian forests. He discusses conditions in the ghetto and resistance activities. FILM ID 3376 -- Camera Rolls #1-3 -- 01:00:07 to 01:30:17 Hersh Smolar was an editor of a Yiddish daily paper in Bialystok and left for Minsk by foot in June/July 1941 to get out. [The Germans advanced into Minsk on June 28, 1941, blocking all roads for evacuation]. He found Minsk abandoned by the Russian gove...

  12. Double-door railroad freight car with brakeman’s cabin of the type used to transport victims throughout the Nazi camp system

    1. Institute of National Remembrance collection

    Association type 2 (A2), Gedeckter (G, covered) freight wagon owned by the Deutsche Reichsbahn (DR, German National Railway), one of several types used to transport victims through the Nazi camp system and to killing centers during the Holocaust. The car, numbered 31599, is a 15T (rated to carry 15 tons), equipped with a brakeman’s box, making it a Karlsruhe class wagon. The cars continued to be used after World War II, and as parts on the cars degraded, they were replaced with others from a variety of manufacturers. A2 railcars were produced from 1910-1927, and were originally used to tran...

  13. Pin commemorating a Hungarian Jewish Holocaust survivor’s receipt of the Congressional Medal of Honor

    1. Rubin and Huntly families collection

    Pin-backed button commemorating Tibor Rubin's receipt of the United States Congressional Medal of Honor on September 23, 2005. He received the award 55 years after first being nominated by fellow soldiers. Tibor earned the medal for extraordinary heroism in battle, and his efforts to help save the lives of 40 fellow prisoners of war during the Korean War (1950-1953). Tibor’s actions during four months of battle and 30 months of imprisonment were shaped, in part, by his experiences as a Holocaust survivor. In November 1940, when Hungary became an official German ally, 11-year-old Tibor lived...

  14. Leon and Rebeka Ilutovich collection

    1. Leon and Rebeka Ilutovich collection

    The Leon and Rebeka Ilutovich collection focuses on the wartime experiences of Leon Ilultovich in Poland, Lithuania, Japan, and Shanghai, China. Materials in the collection include correspondence, visas, travel documents, medical records, identification records, newspapers, printed notices, ephemera, photographs, and photograph albums. The collection also includes photographs of the Ilutovich, Lindenbaum, and Landau families in Poland. The collection contains extensive biographical materials relating to Leon Ilutovich. These materials include identification documents, school records, medica...

  15. Plastic eyeglass frames, temple and lenses worn by a Jewish concentration camp inmate

    1. Karl Schlesinger collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn43733
    • English
    • a: Height: 1.875 inches (4.763 cm) | Width: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) b: Height: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm) | Width: 4.250 inches (10.795 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) c: Height: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Width: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) d: Height: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) | Width: 5.000 inches (12.7 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm)

    Eyeglass frames, temple, and lenses worn by Karl Schlesinger while a prisoner in several concentration camps from May 1939, when he was 22, until April 1945. As he was processed for prison, a German civilian warned him not to wear his glasses so he hid them in his hands. The eyeglass bridge was repaired by a German civilian working in one camp. By May 1939, Karl had fled Nazi Germany for Belgium. He was imprisoned twice by the Belgians, first as an illegal Jewish refugee, then as a German spy. He was sent to a military hospital in France and when Germany occupied that country in June 1940, ...

  16. Silver-plated cup made in a slave labor camp and later engraved with Kato Ritter's name

    1. George and Katie Frankfurter collection

    Silver-plated cup made in Peterswaldau slave labor camp where Kato (Ida) Ritter was a slave laborer from 1944-1945. She made timing devices for explosives. The timers would be placed in plastic covers attached to these decorative cups which held the explosives. People would want to pick up the cups, and removing the lid triggered an explosion. Kato was able to take one with her upon liberation. The cup was engraved in 1989 with a bible verse, her prisoner number, part of her name, place of birth, and the places and dates where she was imprisoned. Kato's husband, George, chose the Hebrew ins...

  17. Small linen square with an embroidered boy and a bird recovered by Kato Ritter from her neighbors

    1. George and Katie Frankfurter collection

    Small, embroidered linen square depicting a boy and a bird 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 linen square to the Oppels to safeguard prior to their deportation during World War II (1939-1945). It was embroidered 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)....

  18. Small linen square with an embroidered girl recovered by Kato Ritter from her neighbors

    1. George and Katie Frankfurter collection

    Small, embroidered linen square depicting a girl holding a box 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 linen square to the Oppels to safeguard prior to their deportation during World War II (1939-1945). It was embroidered 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, Slovak...

  19. Embroidery sampler depicting a woman and a cat recovered by Kato Ritter from her neighbors

    1. George and Katie Frankfurter collection

    Embroidery sampler 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 sample 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). F...

  20. Large embroidered white pillowcase with scalloped edges recovered by Kato Ritter from her neighbors

    1. George and Katie Frankfurter collection

    Pillowcase 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 pillowcase 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). From ...