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  1. Institutul de Istorie Orală - Oral Interviews

    • Oral History Institute Cluj-Napoca Oral Interviews
    • Institutul de Istorie Orală Cluj-Napoca
    • 006593-01
    • English
    • The oral archive contains interviews recorded on various formats: magnetic tapes, audio cassettes (60 and 90 minutes), VHS and HS videotapes, digital recordings.

    The collection includes 1756 oral history interviews. Of these, about 90 relate to the Holocaust (55 to the Holocaust in northwestern Transylvania and 33 to the fate of deported Roma in Transnistria). The Institute of Oral History in Cluj Napoca has developed several oral history projects over the last 25 years, dealing with the following topics: holocaust in northwestern Transylvania, World War II, anti-communist resistance in Romania, ethnic and religious minorities, everyday life under communism , the 1989 revolution, the war in Afghanistan, gold mining etc. There have been several proje...

  2. The Benjamin Tenenbaum (Tene) collection: testimonies of child survivors of the Holocaust

    The GFH Tenenbaum collection includes hundreds of unedited testimonies of Holocaust survivor children, collected in 1946 and 1947 in Poland and Germany. Some eighty of the testimonies were published in his book "One of a City and Two of a Family". However, as Tenenbaum himself admitted, they were edited, and carried some bias in favor of Zionism and the USSR. The GFH collection holds about 650 unedited testimonies in Russian, Polish and Yiddish. The material has been fully catalogued, indexed and scanned. For further information, see Cohen, Boaz. “The Children’s Voice: Postwar Collection of...

  3. THE LENA KUECHLER-SILBERMAN COLLECTION

    • 13 stories of children written by Lena with her evaluation of their condition. • 4 testimonies and a memoir of children who were in Lena's children's home. • Postcards and letters Kuechler wrote to Edith Zierer, a former child in Kuechler's children's house. • Letters written by Kuechler to Frances - Zipora Schaff (Fanka Beder) a former child in Kuechler's children's house. • 2 files with items belonging to children who were in Lena's children's home. • 2 files with different items: Biographical essay, recommendation, notes, personal documents, newspaper articles, excerpts from manuscript...

  4. Zbierka XII: Dokumenty memoárového charakteru

    • Collection XII: Memoir documents

    The collection contains primarily memories of the period 1938 - 1945, with most of the documents dating from 1944 when the Slovak National Uprising broke out in Slovakia. The memories of the uprising come from direct participants and from the secondary sources. The collection contains not only memories of the battles but also of the atrocities perpetrated against the civilian population by the forces of Nazi Germany and the forces of the wartime Slovak state and Hlinka's Slovak People's Party. Another part of the collection are testimonies concerning the prisoners in concentration camps. Th...

  5. Ferenc Erős Collection

    The interview transcripts and the related personal data sheets were given to the Voices of the 20th Century Archive and Research Group by Ferenc Erős and András Kovács in 2012. The physical files are kept in the Vera and Donald Blinken Open Society Archives (OSA). The audio recordings have been lost.

  6. Szilágyi-Pető Collection

    In 2011, 35 interview transcripts were deposited at the 20th Század Hangja Archive and Research Group. These include ten family group discussions, sometimes with two to four people, and several individual interviews recorded independently, i.e. without the involvement of other family members. The total length of the existing transcripts is approx. 1,800 typed pages. In the conversations, family stories are told, usually starting from the parents' youth to the time of the interview, focusing on the war and the Holocaust. In almost all cases, the interviewee's various illnesses are discussed ...

  7. Kemény István Collection

    The collection includes around two dozen interviews in which the Roma genocide is mentioned. The collection, which consists of 283 documents, is about the research that was done on the Roma communities in 1971. Most of the documents are transcriptions of interviews, but the collection includes some studies too. The interviews are based on discussions which were recorded on tape and later transcribed. When the participants in the project typed the material, their aim was to remain as faithful as possible to the original interviews, so the texts give one the impression of hearing the people s...

  8. Autobiographical texts and documents in the archive of the Theodor Kramer Gesellschaft (TKG)

    Memoirs, memories and life history records by Paula Arnold, Margit Bartfeld-Feller, Bridget Bogard, Daisy Davidow-Bermann, Jolan Dehner, Bruno Frei, Peter Freund, Josef Friedler, Hans Friedmann, Alfred Frisch, Carry Hauser, Karl-Hans Heinz, Ferdinand Kaiser, Leo Katz, Valentin Pollak, Hans Schauder, Robert Schwarz, Willi Sheridan,Irene Spiegel, Gerda Spiegler and Walter Stein; Biographies of Heinz Carwin, Otto Koenig, Josef Luitpold Stern, Isa Strasser; Sketches by Tamar Radzyner; Radio scripts by Willy Miksch; Letters by Fred Bondi, Fritz Brügel, Walter Fischer, Therese Harpner, Gerda Hoff...

  9. Zbierka spomienkových prác

    • Collection of memorial works

    The collection of memoirs in the Military Historical Archive was created from the memoirs obtained from the Military Historical Institute in Bratislava and from the archive's own collection activities since the archive was founded in 1994. The authors of the memoirs are mainly military persons who served in the Austro-Hungarian army and in the Czechoslovak legions during the First World War, in the Czechoslovak army in 1918-1939, in the Slovak army in 1939-1945, in the Czechoslovak army after 1945, and especially the participants of the Czechoslovak domestic and foreign resistance in the ye...

  10. Notársky úrad v Jablonove nad Turňou 1939 - 1944

    • Notary Office of Jablonov nad Turňou 1939 - 1944
    • Szádalmási Körjegyzőség 1939 - 1944

    The agenda of the Notary Office of Jablonov nad Turňou holds records of the local administration in the period between 1939 and 1944, including various archival sources on the Anti-Jewish measures, the persecution of Jews, and the Aryanization of Jewish property in the territory of ňAbov-Turňa County in 1944. Most of the documents on Anti-Jewish persecution might be found in the boxes n. 15 - 18. As for these files, one might find here inventories of closed Jewish artifacts, lists of apartments owned by Jews until April 1944 in Jablonov nad Turňou, and documents regarding the property left ...

  11. Okresný ľudový súd v Kráľovskom Chlmci 1946 - 1947

    • District People´s Court of Kráľovský Chlmec 1946 - 1947

    The agenda of the District People´s Court of Kráľovský Chlmec holds more than 400 personal files of those who after WWII had a trial at the District People's Court of Kráľovský Chlmec during 1946 and 1947 due to their activities between 1938 and 1945. These documents contain information about certain forms of persecution of the Jewry, and the Roma people, as well the activity of the political opposition to wartime government taking place in the territory of the Kráľovský Chlmec District and the city of Kráľovkský Chlmec.

  12. Okresné živnostenské spoločenstvo v Rožňave 1884 - 1952

    • Tradesmen Association of the Rožňava District 1884 - 1952
    • Rozsnyói Járási Ipartársulat

    The archival collection of the Tradesmen Association of the Rožňava District contains materials regarding Jewish industrialists and tradesmen who inhabited mainly Rožňava and other localities of the Rožňava District. Seven boxes of the collection are related to the period between 1938 and 1944, including various documents on anti-Jewish persecution and the Aryanization of Jewis property. The collection records preserve documents regarding the the abolition of Jewish business certificate in 1939 and 1940, as well as archival sources concerning the fate of companies or factories that were pre...

  13. Notársky úrad v Malej Ide 1939-1945

    • Notary Office of Malá Ida 1939-1945

    The agenda of the Notary Office of Malá Ida holds records of the local administration of Malá Ida and four other villages in the period between 1939 and 1944, including materials on the Anti-Jewish measures, the persecution of Jews and the Aryanization of Jewish property in 1944. The archival collection contains the minutes of the city council of Malá Ida from the years 1939 – 1944 in which various documents regarding the Anti-Jewish measures have been preserved. For example, in box n. 15 documents on the Aryanization of the property of Jewish families have been preserved. Furthermore, the ...

  14. Notársky úrad v Moldave nad Bodvou 1939 - 1945

    • Notary Office of Moldava nad Bodvou 1939 - 1945

    The agenda of the Notary Office of Moldava nad Bodvou holds records of the local administration in the period between 1939 and 1945, including archival materials on the Anti-Jewish measures that were in force during these years. These archival sources are related mainly to the following issues: personal files related to Jewish residents, such as the number of local Jewry in 1939 (211 inhabitants), the list of Jewish doctors in Moldava nad Bodvou, files about the vetting of local doctors in 1939, official documents on Jews who converted to Christianity in Moldava nad Bodvou, as well ass the ...

  15. Gemersko-malohontská župa III. 1920 – 1944

    • Gemer-Malohont County III. 1920 – 1944
    • Gömör-Kishont Vármegye III. 1920 – 1944

    The archival collection of the Gemer-Malohont County (in Hungarian Gömör-Kishont Vármegye) holds records of the county administration from the period between 1920 and 1944. As for the wartime years in 1939 - 1944, it preserves archival materials concerning Jewish life and various files on anti-Jewish measures and the persecution of the Jewish population taking place in the cities and in the countryside of the Gemer-Malohont County. These documents concern mainly the Aryanization of Jewish property. For example, one might find here the inventory of the equipment that belonged to the medical ...

  16. Notársky úrad vo Fiľakove 1888 - 1944

    • Notary Office of Fiľakovo 1888 - 1944

    The agenda of the Notary Office of Fiľakovo holds records of the local administration in the period between 1888 and 1944, including materials on the Anti-Jewish measures during WWII, the persecution of Jews and the Aryanization of Jewish property in 1944. The archival collection contains the minutes of the town council of Fiľakovo, but researchers might find here also the statistics of the economic-social, national and religious life of the local population. Furthermore, the collection contains documents regarding the activity of the Jewish timber merchant, Samuel Grossmann. In box number ...

  17. Miestny národný výbor v Lučenci 1945 – 1960

    • City National Committee of Lučenec 1945 - 1960

    The agenda of the City National Committee of Lučenec contains materials of the city administration in the period between 1945 and 1960. A specific segment of the archival collection preserves documents related to the immediate post-WWII period when Holocaust survivors were returning from the concentration camps and were trying to get back their confiscated real estate and movable property. Furthermore, a relevant part of the collections holds records about the situation of the Jewish religious community and its real estate properties, mainly the building of the synagogue in the post-war yea...

  18. Mestský úrad v Lučenci II. 1938 - 1944

    • City Office of Lučenec II. 1938 - 1944

    The collection holds the records of the city administration of Lučenec between 1938 and 1944. It contains various files regarding the political, economic, and social life of Lučenec during the wartime period. The persecution of the Jewish population is documented in the major part of the collection. Researchers might find in the collection the files of Jewish inhabitants who applied for an exception or their applications for certificates of state affiliation, as well as more documents concerning their trade permits which they have lost as a result os Anti-Jewish measures. An important part ...

  19. Obvodný úrad Miestnych národných výborov v Rimavskej Sobote 1945 - 1950

    • District Office of the Local National Committees in Rimavská Sobota 1945 - 1950

    The District Office of the Local National Committees in Rimavská Sobotá holds records of the local administration of Rimavská Sobota, Tomašovce, Jesenské and Bátka between 1945 and 1950. The fond reflects several aspects of the local postwar political, social, and economic development and everyday life, and as such it preserves materials also about Jewish life after the war in Rimavská Sobota and its surroundings. A great part of the archival collections is related to the immediate post-WWII period when Holocaust survivors were returning from the concentration camps or from hiding, searchin...

  20. Župné mesto Rimavská Sobota 1938 - 1944

    • Rimavská Sobota City with County rights 1938 - 1944