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  3. Day 25 International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg (Set B)

    1. Sound recordings of the Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal (Set B)

    Day 25 - Wednesday, January 2, 1946. Col. Storey on the Gestapo and its activities. Defense counsel for Kaltenbrunner interjects. Col. Storey continues about the Gestapo. Lt. Harris covers the case on the SD.

  5. Madeleine D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Madeleine D., a Roman Catholic, who was born in Strasbourg, France in approximately 1923. She recounts attending Catholic school; German occupation; relocation with her family to Pe?rigueux for a year; returning home; working for an agency which enabled her to smuggle food, clothes and papers to French and English POWs for the underground; arrest in Saarebourg in 1942 and interrogation by the Gestapo; transfer to Schirmeck a month later; slave labor; the prisoners in her barrack surreptitiously praying at night; hospitalization; a prisoner-doctor smuggling her food; r...

  6. Susan M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Susan M., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1925. She describes her happy childhood as a performer in a successful children's theatre; her parent's divorce; her rejection from the art academy due to the Jewish quota; the nonchalant attitude of the Jewish community until the German occupation in 1944; anti-Semitic legislation; hiding with her father with the aid of his non-Jewish fiancee; the establishment of the ghetto; and the reign of the Hungarian Gestapo. She relates working as a nurse while hiding on false papers; being recognized by a non-Jewish friend who tu...

  7. Renate K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Renate K., a non-Jew, who was born in Stargard in Pommern, Germany (Stargard Szczecin?ski, Poland after 1945) in 1922. She recalls the important contributions of Jews to the community; cordial relations with the local Jews; her father helping a fellow Jewish physician emigrate in 1935; Gestapo threats against her father for his efforts on behalf of Jews and other victims of the Gestapo; and his succesful efforts to hide another Jewish family and arrange for the escape of their child to South America. Mrs. K. recalls replacement of local officials by Nazis; her marriag...

  8. Komendant Policji Bezpieczeństwa i Służby Bezpieczeństwa dla Okręgu Warszawskiego (GK 106) Selected records of the Der Kommandeur der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD für den Distrikt Warschau Der Kommandeur der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD fur den Distrikt Warschau (GK 106)

    Anonimous denunciations to Gestapo mostly related to Jews in Warsaw, training of Jewish policemen in Warsaw ghetto and lists of policemen, various ordinances and reports, daily orders of Der Kommandeur der Sipo und SD for 1940, files on illegal trade carried out by Jews, files of investigations against Germans suspected of accepting a bribe, maintaining contacts with Polish women, illegal trade and other.

  9. White bead rosary on a chain with a cross

  10. "Ruthie's Story"

    Consists of one memoir, entitled "Ruthie's Story," written by Ruth Meta Samson Bamdas, originally of Germany, about her Holocaust experiences. She describes her childhood in Germany and her training in Switzerland as a baby nurse. When she returned to Germany, she was told to report to the Gestapo, was warned to leave the area, and went to the Polish border. She and her aunt were able to obtain visas in 1937 or 1938 for England where she got a job. In 1945, she immigrated to the United States and reunited with her mother. Includes copies of family photographs.

  13. Testimony regarding Kristallnacht and Dachau

    Consists of one typed testimony, 10 pages, unsigned, written most likely in late 1938 or 1939, by an anonymous author, regarding the experiences of the author after being arrested on Kristallnacht and imprisoned in the Dachau concentration camp. The author describes the Gestapo search of his apartment, his arrest, and gives extensive detail about life in Dachau at this time. Wendy Wallace [donor] found this testimony in the home of Miss Mundell Doolittle.

  14. Model built by the rescuer of his house where 32 Jews lived in hiding

    Model of his house built by Staszek Jackowski, a Christian man, who hid 32 Jews there for 1 1/2 years. The model lifts to expose the hiding place in the basement. Jackowski built the model for Ruth Gruber in 1967. The hiding place was built in the basement of a house which was 2 blocks away from Gestapo headquarters.

  15. von Schuschnigg family papers

    1. Kurt von Schuschnigg Sr. collection

    The papers consist of an identification card ("Kennkarte") issued to "Dr. Kurt Auster" [donor's father] by the Gestapo in Munich, Germany, as he was being transferred to Sachsenhausen concentration camp on December 4, 1941, and a police residence record ("Anmeldung") issued on January 7, 1944, in Sachsenhausen concentration camp to "Kurt v. Schuschnigg, son of "Dr. Auster" [donor].

  16. Weiss family papers

    The papers consist of a list sent from Malines concentration camp by Karl Weiss, Dorothea's father, to Madame Dujardin who saved Dorothea and her sister from deportation by the Gestapo, a good conduct certificate (Führungszeugnis) issued to Berta Weiss, Dorothea's mother, a letter sent to Karl Weiss by the police in Berlin, Germany, a re-issued birth certificate, and a family wedding photograph.

  17. Anna Hoffman identification card

    Contains a Belgian identity card for Anna Hoffman. Anna Hoffman was born on March 2, 1891 in Cernauti, Ukraine, and was arrested by the Gestapo in Brussels, Belgium, on March 3, 1943. She was sent to the Malines transit camp and deported by the 20th convoy to Auschwitz where she was gassed on arrival.

  18. Lilka Elbaum papers

    The papers consist of 325 photographs and copyprints as well as certificates and identification cards from the ghetto in Biała Rawska, Poland, and Skierniewice, Poland.

  19. Eta Chinkes photograph collection

    The collection consists of four black and white portrait photographs. The photographs depict Wolf Szczekacz; his wife, Bala Sczcekacz; and their daughters, Pola and Dosia Szczekacz.

  20. Martin M. Rieger family collection

    Various documents about extended Rieger family, including one file regarding settlement of estate of Levi Riess with Emilie Rieger as beneficiary; studies of Max Martin Nathan as architecture student at Technical University of Stuttgart, including correspondence from German student union questioning his plans to make a trip abroad to study architecture; a summons from the Gestapo in Stuttgart (1938); correspondence (via Red Cross) between Max, after his arrival in St. Louis, and his father, N.M. Nathan, first in Hamburg, then in Theresienstadt; and between Max Nathan and other family member...