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  1. Eric S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eric S., who was born in Cologne, Germany in 1921. He recounts his family's affluence; antisemitic harassment; his father's large, extended family; his death in 1929; living with his maternal grandparents in Crailsheim in 1932; his bar mitzvah in 1934; his grandmother's death; beatings by an antisemitic teacher; the Nuremberg laws negative impact on the family business; their move to Stuttgart in 1936, thinking it would be better in a large city; being sent to boarding school in England in November 1936; several family visits through summer 1938; an American industria...

  2. Gabrielle S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gabrielle S., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1933. She recounts her father's family pharmacy; emigration to Amsterdam in 1938, intending to flee to Argentina; German invasion; expulsion from school; attending a Jewish school; anti-Jewish restrictions, including wearing the yellow star; disappearances of teachers and students after round-ups; learning two of her grandparents in Germany committed suicide rather than being deported; notice for deportation to Westerbork; giving her teddy bear to a non-Jewish friend (she returned it after the war); vermin, poor sanitar...

  3. Adam S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Adam S., who was born in Warsaw, Poland (then Russia) in 1905. He recounts growing up in ?o?dz?; his family identifying themselves with Polish, not Jewish culture; his brother's execution and his father's imprisonment during the Russian Revolution; obtaining a degree in electrical engineering; retuning to Warsaw; employment by the government beginning in 1931; increasing antisemitism; German invasion; evacuation with his wife and daughter to Romania due to his employment status; volunteering for the Polish military in France; separation from his family; German invasio...

  4. Lore B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lore B., who was born in Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany in 1925. She recalls her father's death in 1935; expulsion from public school due to anti-Jewish restrictions; her mother's and other relatives' arrests on Kristallnacht; their release; attending a Jewish school in Mannheim; deportation with her mother, younger sister, grandmother, and other relatives to Gurs in October 1940; her sister's placement in a children's home; her grandmother's death; transfer to Rivesaltes in March 1941; observing Yom Kippur; release to a hotel in Marseille; deportation to Les Milles i...

  5. Margaret F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Margaret F., who was born in Gablonz, in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1908. She recounts her marriage in 1932; an affluent life in Reichenberg; her daughter's birth in 1933; a friend warning them of the German occupation of Sudetenland; fleeing to Prague with her husband and daughter in September 1938; living in Uvaly; her daughter attending Jewish school; their escape to Uhersky? Brod, Nitra, and Budapest in February 1940; traveling to Kaposva?r; brief arrest with her husband after crossing the border; traveling to Zagreb; living in Mitrovica for two months; obta...

  6. Anneliese R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anneliese R., who was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1910. Ms. R. tells of her close, non-observant family; successive moves between 1914 and 1921; studying languages and history of art at Berlin University; switching to archaeology in 1932 after returning from a summer in Italy; studies at the German Archaeological Institute in Rome after Hitler's accession to power; receiving her doctorate in 1936; and training as a nurse in Geneva when she could not find a teaching position. She recalls her roommate's arrest before Hitler's visit to Rome in 1938; having to stay with ...

  7. Esther G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Esther G., who was born in Kishinev, Romania (presently Chișinău, Moldova) in 1924, one of four children. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; attending public school; Soviet occupation; her twin's death in 1939; her father's death in 1940; German invasion; fleeing with her mother and brothers; walking for three months; separation from her older brother; living a week with a Ukrainian villager; Romanian soldiers confiscating her mother's valuables; arrival at Berezivka; finding her older brother; transfer to Domanevka, then Bogdanovka; hearing shots from a mass kill...

  8. Josif P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Josif P., who was born in Derventa, Yugoslavia in 1924. He recalls cordial relations between the Serbs and Jews; his father's observant Judaism and acts of charity; inclusion of Derventa in Croatia (a German ally) in 1941; anti-Jewish restrictions and terrorism by the Ustas?a; deportation with his family to Zagreb; returning to Derventa; his mother's bribe resulting in his release from a month's imprisonment; escaping to Banja Luka; traveling to Italian-occupied Split using false papers and bribery; resistance activities; joining partisans in the Mosor Mountains after...

  9. Hélène K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hélène K., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1925, an only child. She recounts antisemitism after the Anschluss; her father's arrest; his departure for Antwerp; illegally entering Belgium with her mother to join him; attending a Flemish school; fleeing when Germany invaded in 1940; arrest in Tournai; release with her mother; going to Brussels; learning her father had been killed by Belgian soldiers as a suspected spy; hiding with non-Jews; deciding not to enter a Catholic institution, not wanting to be separated from her mother; distributing leaflets for the underg...

  10. Lisa F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lisa F., who was born in Ungvar, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Uz?h?horod, Ukraine) in 1909. She recalls living in Vienna and Budapest; the family's move to Berlin in 1922; her parents encouraging her political interests; participating in socialist groups; the Nazi ascent to power; crossing a Nazi picket line during the anti-Jewish boycott in April 1933; her parents' emigration to Prague; remaining in Berlin to continue her political activities; producing and distributing anti-Nazi leaflets; joining her family to live in Prague from 1933 to 1935; marriage to a ...

  11. Mala Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mala Z., who was born in Kalisz, Poland in 1920. She recalls a comfortable childhood; attending Catholic school; her father's death in 1936; active participation in Hashomer Hatzair and Maccabi; antisemitic incidents; preparing for emigration to Israel to a kibbutz; German invasion; fleeing to Warsaw; meeting Mordecai Anielewicz; returning to Kalisz; her mother's refusal to flee; helping to move a kibbutz from Wohyn?; traveling to Warsaw, posing as a Volksdeutsche; escaping to L'viv in the Soviet zone; Zionist activities; deportation to Siberia in 1940; forced labor; ...

  12. Annette E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Annette E., a non-Jew, who was born in Belgium in 1921, the second of six children. She recalls living in Rixensart, Schearbeek, and Brussels; her parents' communist beliefs; housing German and Spanish refugees, including Jews; participating in a socialist group; German invasion; clandestine socialist meetings evolving into a Resistance group; hiding Jews; arrest in June 1942 with her father and one brother; incarceration in St. Gilles, Aix-la-Chapelle, Essen, and Düsseldorf; deportation to Ravensbrück in December; remaining with two Belgian women and their enduring...

  13. Wilfrid Israel Papers

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This microfilm collection of Wilfrid Israel's papers consists of copies of original essays, memoranda, private papers etc covering such subjects as the Weimar Republic, the rise of national Socialism, German Communist and Socialist parties and trade unions, the Jewish refugee problem. Also a fairly comprehensive collection of the 'Political Group Papers' (1941-1943) from the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Committee on Reconstruction. The papers in this collection relate to his activities a...

  14. Charles Singer: Correspondence re victimisation of academics in Nazi Germany

    This microfilm collection of correspondence documents the concerns of the distinguished academic, Charles Singer and colleagues, in relation to the restrictions on academic freedom in Nazi Germany and in particular the discrimination against non-aryan professors during the Heidelberg University Jubilee celebrations, 1935.

  15. Adler family: official personal documents

    Collection of official personal documents, correspondence and press cuttings of members of the Adler family who emigrated to the UK in 1936. Includes certificates of birth and death, speeches, work references, certificates of naturalisation, passports, marriage certificates, declaration of acquisition of British nationality and school reports of Bruno and Meta Adler (1664/1), Erich and Ursula Adler (1664/2), Moritz Israel and Elise Mecklenburg (1664/3), and Feist and Betty Landau (1664/4).

  16. Kurt Paucker: Memorial Service

    This collection contains transcripts of speeches held at the memorial service for Kurt Paucker on 26 April 1980.Papers including speeches by Arnold Paucker; Werner Henle, Ph.D mentor at the University of Pennsylvania, colleague and friend; and Jan Vilcek and Clifton A Ogburn, colleagues and friends. The speech by his brother tells the story of their bourgeois upbringing in the Weimarer Republic in Berlin before their education was interrupted in Nazi Germany and the family was torn apart by the Jewish persecutions

  17. Renate Klapper: Personal papers

    This collection contains the papers of Renate Klapper, a Jewish girl from Berlin who was sent to England shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War to escape Nazi persecution whilst her family died at Auschwitz concentration camp.Personal papers including her school certificates (1684/1), wartime correspondence with her mother sent via the British Red Cross Message Bureau (1684/2), honorary membership certificate of the Royal College of Midwives (1684/3), two photocopies of her will (1684/4), two copies of her death certificate (1684/5), valuation documents of two properties in Ger...

  18. Joseph and Mary Rath: personal papers

    Personal papers including family correspondence and official documents collated in preparation for emigration such as work references, birth and school certificates, Josef Rath's medical certificate and confirmation of adoption, Mary Futterweit's Heimatschein and passport and a Kitchener Camp transit pass.It also includes papers and publications relating to Josef Rath's military service such as Pioneer Corps training notes British Army release book and certificate, bank notes ('Quittungen') issued at Theresienstadt concentration camp photographs (see photo archive).In addition there are pos...

  19. Hans Schmoller: Family papers

    This collection contains the personal correspondence and papers of Hans Schmoller.Papers containing correspondence from Hans Peter Schmoller to his parents, Hans Israel and Marie Schmoller (1690/1) and other family members and friends, ranging from the time of his studies in London in the early 1930s to his emigration to Morija, Basutoland (now Lesotho) in 1938 and subsequent internment in Ganspan camp in 1939; detailed accounts by his parents of the persecutions and worsening conditions for Jews in Nazi Germany particularly after the November pogroms; and his parents' incarceration at Ther...

  20. Jacob Wuehl: Family correspondence

    This collection consists of letters received by Jakob Wühl in London from members of his family, German speaking Jews of Polish nationality, who lived in Leipzig. Also included is correspondence between other family members. The family became victims of the 'Polen-Aktion', a series of expulsions and deportations in the earlier stages of the Holocaust. These events precede the November pogroms and never attracted much international attention despite the brutality involved. The collection thus highlights an early phase of the persecution of Jews which seems largely forgotten and overshadowed ...