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Language of Description: German
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  1. Struthof concentration camp; replacement training

    Concentration Camp, Struthof, Germany, December 2, 1944. LS, Pan, wire enclosed building of concentration camp. CUs, details of charged barbed wire fence. CUs, urns used for ashes of victims. Seq: US soldier examines crematorium, blood stained coffin, and gas chamber. CU, autopsy room. (Note: This camp was used by the Germans for political prisoners from Belgium and France.) Replacement Training, Alsdorf, Germany, December 3, 1944. MSs, soldiers of the 29th Division Replacement Training Center on obstacle course. Men advance across open field in attack formation. MSs, officers study maps of...

  2. Jacques B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacques B., who was born in Poland in 1933. He recalls living in Warsaw; vacationing in Otwock when the Germans invaded; fleeing to Sarny with his parents; Soviet occupation; attending school until the German invasion in June 1941; fleeing with his parents to Siberia via Kobyzhcha; living with his mother in Turksib and Dzhambul from the end of 1941 until 1946 (his parents were divorced); observing people starving to death; repatriation to Wroc?aw with his mother; pervasive antisemitism in school; joining the youth section of the Bund; and emigration with his mother to...

  3. Okresní soud Hlinsko

    • District Court in Hlinsko / NAD 204

    The fonds contains documents of the court administration of the Hlinsko district. Jewish affairs can be found in the following documents: inheritance files (files marked A, D, IV) 1850-1949, index of estates, registers of estates. Also relevant are the files relating to the declarations of death (file marked M) 1946-1949, guardianship files and registers (files marked E, P) 1924-1949.

  4. Simon B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Simon B., who was born in Berlin in 1909. Mr. B. recalls his family's close relationship with the non-Jewish family who lived in the apartment above his; his father's military service during the first World War; quitting school in order to help his ailing father with the family business; his attempt to emigrate to Israel; and the totally transformed attitude of his German "friends" after 1933. He describes anti-Jewish measures to which he was subjected; Kristallnacht; hiding from the police; being smuggled, with his wife, into Belgium, and arranging for his parents to...

  5. George Jacob Rosney: Copy war time correspondence

    War time correspondence between George J Rosney, who enlisted with the British Liberation Army, and his relatives.Includes correspondence between George J Rosney stationed with 3rd Regiment of the Royal Horse Artillery and his uncle Ludwig Mayer and cousin Hans Mayer in London (1944-1945) (1663/1-2); details of his search for his parents after the end of the war who were murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp and diary of a visit to Terezin (Theresienstadt) concentration camp where his parents were taken before being transported to Auschwitz (1945) (1663/3); correspondence by George Rosne...

  6. Barth, Richard

    Bestandsbeschreibung 10. November 1882 in Ilmenau geboren 1897-1901 Buchdruckerlehrling 1901 Mitglied des Verbandes der Deutschen Buchdrucker 1903 Mitglied der SPD in Kiel, seit 1946 der SED 1907 als verantwortlicher Redakteur am Aufbau der sozialdemokratischen Zeitung "Thüringischer Volksfreund" in Sonneberg beteiligt 1909-1929 Übersiedlung nach Berlin, verantwortlicher Redakteur beim "Vorwärts" 1920 Betriebsratsvorsitzender beim "Vorwärts" 1929 - 1933 2. Vorsitzender des Verbandes der deutschen Buchdrucker, Stadtverordneter in Berlin 1933-1945 Teilnahme am antifaschistischen Widerstandska...

  7. Inspektion der Marineflieger (L In 8) / Inspektion des Seeflugwesens (L In 8) / General des Seewesens der Lw.

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Die Akten stammen aus Rückführungen aus den USA und Großbritannien an die Dokumentenzentrale des Militärgeschichtlichen Forschungsamtes. Von dort wurden die Akten 1968 an das Bundesarchiv, Abteilung Militärarchiv abgegeben. Diese Akten waren bisher im Sammelbestand RL 4 (Ausbildungsdienststellen im Reichsluftfahrtministerium, mit Inspektionen und Waffengeneralen) zusammengefasst. Zur besseren Darstellung der einzelnen Provenienzen der Inspektionen und Waffengenerale wurden neue Bestände angelegt. Zitierweise BArch RL 16-8/...

  8. Postwar: Verdoner children playing

    Otto Verdoner, now at least 6 years of age, playing in the family yard, postwar with his sister Francisca Verdoner. The three Verdoner children were hidden children during the war. This footage was shot shortly after the children were reunited. Their mother, Hilde, is not present, she was deported to Auschwitz and died during the war. CU, Yoka sitting in a club chair in the house doing schoolwork. The three children are also playing with another young girl, possibly a neighbor or a relative. VS, MS, CUs of the children playing ball in the yard. Francisca and Otto climb up to a roof top and ...

  9. Alexander K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alexander K., who was born in Sighet, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Romania) in 1909. He recalls his family's prominent printing business; their affluence; attending a Hungarian gymnasium, then Romanian, when Sighet became part of Romania after World War I; his bar mitzvah; marriage in 1941; his son's birth; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; visits home; bringing food to fellow prisoners; escape; providing friends with false papers; German occupation in 1944; deportation of his wife, son, mother, and sisters (all were killed except one sister); hosp...

  10. Hedwig Ems memoir

    Consists of a memoir written in 1947 by Hedwig Frank Ems, originally of Halle, Germany. The memoir, which is in the original German and accompanied by an English translation, describes Mrs. Ems' experiences when she was deported at age 73 from Berlin to Theresienstadt. Mrs. Ems describes life in wartime Berlin, the constant threat of deportation, her deportation in late October 1942, and life in Theresienstadt. She describes life in Theresienstadt in great detail, including death, disease, inspections, and witnessing the mass transports out of the camp. In February 1945, she received notice...

  11. Stoops-Cleymans family. Collection

    This collection contains a pre-war photograph of the kosher restaurant and delicacies shop "Ringer" in Brussels and photo of an unidentified (Jewish?) woman, a friend of the donor's mother.

  12. Landrat (District Councillor) of Opava

    The fonds represents one of the basic resources for the history of the administrative district of Opava during the period of occupation. It is an important resource in the study of the political, administrative, national, economic, social, cultural and educational conditions in the district of Opava in the years of 1938–1945. The Jewish issues are explicitly related to by the following documents: the Aryanisation of Jewish businesses from the years of 1939–1941 (inventory no. 381), list of Jewish writers and authors-emigrants from Nazi Germany (inventory no. 404), instructions to arrest Jew...

  13. Ministry of Foreign Affairs : Martial law, arrests and internment (Group 84.A.21a-b)

    Records relating to martial law in Denmark during the WWII, including: announcements, reports from police districts and local authorities, as well as records relating to arrests of hostages, including lists of arrested Danes and releases, and seizures of buildings and property.

  14. Mala K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mala K., who was born in Chrzano?w, Poland in 1924. She recalls a close extended family; her father's death in 1938; German invasion; ghettoization; forced labor in a military uniform factory; a cousin pulling her from one side to the other during a selection; deportation with her cousin and sister to Oberalstadt; a foreman giving her cake; slave labor in a factory, then digging tunnels; liberation by Soviet troops; returning home; learning an uncle had survived; living with him in Katowice; emigration to Israel in 1951; marriage; and emigration to Germany in 1953, th...

  15. Bessarabian National Education Directorate

    • Directoratul Ȋnvaţǎmîntului şi Cultelor şi instituţiile subordinate
    • Бессарабский директориат народного образования
    • Bessarabskiy direktoriat narodnogo obrazovaniya

    Documents of the 4th male gymnasium in Chişinău for 1917-1922 academic years: students' report cards; statements for the payment of salaries to teachers; minutes of meetings of the pedagogical council; minutes of meetings of the examination commissions; schedule exams for students of private Jewish gymnasiums; certificates of graduation (including certificates issued to Yitzchak Alterman, to David Weinberg, to Moses Goldstein, to Ioyl Fihtman, to Srul Holovaty, to Aron Orinshteyn, to Benjamin Perelman, to Nuhim Weinstein, to Jacob Wexler, to Branagh Goldstein, to Maria Glazer, to Ber Greenb...

  16. Playfully fighting over cigarettes

    "Where are the Cigarettes?" Home movie of Albert Günther Hess (AGH) and his wife Ilse clowning around and fighting over the "last" cigarette. Titles throughout reading: WHERE ARE THE CIGARETTES?; AFTER TWENTY MINUTES; A BIG ROW; K.O. (KNOCKOUT); THE GENEROUS WINNER.

  17. American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors collection

    This collection contains numerous testimonies and memoirs, poems, songs, and various other materials written at the behest of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council during the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors convention in April 1983. Includes also copy of documents, photographs and newspaper clippings related to the life of the Holocaust survivors during the World War II. The materials include information about life in the ghettos, and concentration camps, episodes of emigration, and liberation of the concentration camps during World War II.

  18. Isbary, Gerhard

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • N 1463
    • German
    • 1946-1968
    • Nachlässe 72 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 2,7 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Professor, Mitarbeiter der Bundesforschungsanstalt für Landeskunde und Rau Raumordnung; Lebenslauf 15.05.1909 in Berlinchen geboren 1928 Abitur an der Oberrealschule in Frankfurt/Oder 01.01.1934 Hauptredaktion des Handwörterbuches für das Grenz- und Auslanddeutschtum in Kiel 01.01.1931 Eintritt in die NSDAP 08.08.1931 Austritt aus der NSDAP 28.10.1935 Promotion in Frankfurt/Main in den Fächern Geographie, Geologie und Geschichte 01.01.1940 Aerologe der Luftwaffe 16.04.1945- 23.11.1945 amerikanische Gefangenschaft 01.03.1946- 21.07.1952 selbständiger Landwirt ...

  19. DPs boarding truck

    Displaced persons getting onto truck, boy with a guitar being lifted onto truck, female servicewoman nearby. Children on truck waving goodbye to camera. Side view of truck.

  20. Herman Fischer papers

    The Herman Fischer papers consists of correspondence, photographs, identification documents, and affidavits relating to the relatives of Herman Fischer. The correspondence was sent from Hungary, Austria, German, and France to Herman Fischer in Detroit, Michigan. The affidavits of support were issued by Herman Fischer on behalf of his relatives and friends. Some of the correspondence is between Herman Fischer in Detroit and the American Consul General in Switzerland regarding issuing visas before, during and after World War II. The photographs were taking in Detroit, Michigan, and during a t...