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Language of Description: German
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  1. Gustav Laabs and Lettre Becker

    RG-60.5025 Hidden camera interview with Gustav Laabs, who drove a gas van at Chelmno. Lanzmann is challenged by two neighbors after Laabs refuses to open the door to his apartment. Additional rolls contain industrial scenes and footage of a truck in transit. The truck was manufactured by the company Saurer, which also manufactured gas vans during the war. Multiple takes show Lanzmann reading a letter written by the engineer Dr. Becker in which Becker details the operation of a gas van. FILM ID 3824 -- Laabs CR#4-7 Maison Chelmno CR4 Germany filmed from the rear window of a moving vehicle. C...

  2. Gustav Müller papers

    The Gustav Müller papers contain correspondence, notices, and questionnaires related to the restriction of Jewish activities in German-occupied Czechoslovakia. The records document the dissolution and liquidation of Gustav Müller’s business, the relinquishment of his business license and his and his wife’s drivers’ licenses, instructions to sublet part of his apartment, rules about long-distance telephone use and the ownership of typewriters and bicycles, a Civilian Air Raid Protection ID card for his wife, and a notice that he had taken a course on anti-aircraft defense.

  3. Gustav R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gustav R., who was born in Darmstadt, Germany in 1929. He speaks of his childhood in pre-war Germany; differences in the attitudes of his parents towards Judaism; the rise of Nazism in Germany; his father's arrest and imprisonment in Buchenwald in the wake of Kristallnacht; the difficulties encountered by his family in attempts to leave Germany; the family's eventual emigration to the United States after spending one and one-half years in Cuba; and the influences his wartime experiences had on his later life, particularly on his relationship with his children.

  4. Gustav Rauner collection

    The collection consists of a sewing machine and accessories relating to the experiences of Gustav Rauner and his family, originally from Germany, during the Holocaust when they lived under assumed identities in France, and after the Holocaust when they emigrated to the United States in 1946.

  5. Gustav Rosenduft collection

    Volume of songs printed in a Canadian internment camp

  6. Gustav S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gustav S., who was born in a Romanian village near Chernivt︠s︡i in 1925, the oldest of three children. He recalls antisemitic harassment in the local school; attending school in Chernivt︠s︡i; Soviet occupation; confiscation of his family's house and business; their move to Chernivt︠s︡i in 1940; German and Romanian invasion in June 1941; anti-Jewish violence and restrictions; ghettoization; deportation to a former military barrack near Ataki in November 1941; entering the Mogilev-Podolskyi ghetto; hospitalization for typus for several months; his mother's death; his yo...

  7. Gustav Spitzer letters

    The Gustav Spitzer letters contain correspondence sent to Gustav Spitzer while he was living in Chicago from 1938-1939. The letters come from Vienna and Prague, all from Jewish citizens with the same surname of Spitzer. Though they have no relation to Gustav, they are requesting that he assist them in granting them affidavits so they may immigrate to the United States. The letters show the desperation and discrimination that Jews were facing at this time in Austria and Czechoslovakia, that they would explore any possibility to escape their conditions.

  8. Gustav Steiner collection

    The collection consists of a set of toys relating to the experiences of Gustav Steiner who was deported from Prostejov, Czechoslovakia, and killed during the Holocaust, and to the postwar experiences of his cousin, Maud Michal Beer.

  9. Gustave J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gustave J., who was born in Cologne, Germany in 1923, the oldest of five sons. He recounts his father was a rabbi; attending a Jewish school; his father leaving for France in spring 1933 due to antisemtism; being sent to live with relatives in Prague; joining his family in Strasbourg in September; leaving for Vichy when war began in 1939; his father's three month internment as an enemy alien; German invasion in May 1940; internment in Montluc?on; release; traveling to Limoges; joining his family in La Chartre; deportation orders in November; escaping to Monte?limar; l...

  10. Gustaw Alef Bolkowiak - Warsaw

    Gustaw Alef-Bolkowiak (Bolkoviac) addresses the tension between Polish and Jewish resistance movements and the question of Polish antisemitism. He talks about arms in the Warsaw ghetto, the Bund, the Zegota Council to aid the Jews of Poland, Poles who hid Jews, and Communist partisans. FILM ID 3373 -- Camera Rolls #1-4 -- 01:00:00 to 01:18:05 Note: There is no transcript for Rolls #1-4 (it is either nonexistent or missing). Lanzmann says he wants to talk about Bolkowiak's involvement as a leader of the Communist Resistance movement in the Warsaw ghetto and describes that he is particularly ...

  11. Gustedt, Elisabeth v.

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • N 1121
    • German
    • 1910-1969
    • Nachlässe 38 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 1,1 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Schriftstellerin Bestandsbeschreibung Aufzeichnungen über ihren Aufenthalt in Kamerun (um 1910); Tagebuchnotizen (1919-1925, 1932-1936, 1943-1953) und sonstige Unterlgen aus der politischen und literarischen Tätigkeit, u.a. zum Widerstand der Schwarzen Front gegen die NSDAP und über das Lager Moringen (Kreis Northeim). (Stand: 1977) Zitierweise BArch N 1121/...

  12. Gusti and Julius Ackermann collection

    The collection consists of a shofar and cover and a torah binder relating to the experiences of Julius Ackermann and his family and Gusti Mayer and her younger brother August and their emigration to the United States from Hermeskeil, Germany, in 1937.

  13. Gusti Shoval photograph collection

    Contains two photographic prints of Sabina Sheindl Klapholc and Chaim Jakub Klapholc in the Chrzanow ghetto, circa 1941.

  14. Guta Dafner Frydenzon collection

    Collections consists of photographs and correspondence relating to donors family before and during the war, including their time in the Łódź ghetto.

  15. Guta Jean Kryger papers

    The papers consist of documents, correspondence, and photographs relating to Guta Jean Kryger's experiences during the Holocaust and her claims for restitution after her immigration to Canada.

  16. Guta Strykowski collection

    Contains a copy of one report, 15 pages, written by Dr. Peter Ostwald, a psychiatrist at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco on January 18, 1966, to Mr. Klaus Hoefel, a consular officer at the Federal Republic of Germany consulate in San Francisco, regarding the mental health of Mrs. Guta Strykowski (later Cohen, born Weintraub), originally of Vlostrova, Poland. Dr. Ostwald describes Mrs. Strykowski's wartime experiences and relates that she is currently experiencing nightmares, depression, and pain as a result of her experiences in the Łódź ghetto and in the Ausc...

  17. Guta T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Guta T., who was born in Starachowice-Wierzbnik, Poland in 1919. She recalls prewar visits of high German officials; German invasion in 1939; fleeing the city; returning since Germans were everywhere; ghettoization which included Jews from surrounding areas; encouraging others to care for orphans; her daughter's birth in September 1942 assisted by a non-Jewish doctor; giving her daughter to a Ukrainian women who was fleeing to the Soviet zone (she never saw her again); and work in an ammunition factory in Starachowice from October 1942 to July 1944. Mrs. T. recounts a...

  18. Gutachterkommission für Lederhöchstpreise

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Bestandsgeschichte Die Bestände der Kriegswirtschaftsorganisationen des I. Weltkrieges waren in den Jahren 1943 und 1944 zunächst auswahlweise nach Staßfurt und dann unter Einbeziehung der gesamten zunächst zurückgelassenen Bestände und Bestandsteile nach Schönebeck ausgelagert worden. Im Zuge der Nachkriegsereignisse gelangten sie in das Deutsche Zentralarchiv, Abt. Merseburg, wo sie bis 1955 verblieben. Im Juli/August 1955 wurden die Bestände der Kriegsorganisationen des I. Weltkrieges nach Potsdam in das Zentralarchiv überführt. Archivische Bewertung und B...

  19. Gutachterkommission für Schuhwarenpreise

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Bestandsgeschichte Die Bestände der Kriegswirtschaftsorganisationen des I. Weltkrieges waren in den Jahren 1943 und 1944 zunächst auswahlweise nach Staßfurt und dann unter Einbeziehung der gesamten zunächst zurückgelassenen Bestände und Bestandsteile nach Schönebeck ausgelagert worden. Im Zuge der Nachkriegsereignisse gelangten sie in das Deutsche Zentralarchiv, Abt. Merseburg, wo sie bis 1955 verblieben. Im Juli/August 1955 wurden die Bestände der Kriegsorganisationen des I. Weltkrieges nach Potsdam in das Zentralarchiv überführt. Archivische Bewertung und B...

  20. Gute kameraden [Book]

    Children's school book