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Language of Description: Hebrew

  1. Emil and Erich Beamt letters

    Consists of copies of letters written by Erich Beamt and his brother, Emil Beamt, president of the Jewish community of Prostějov, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic), during the period from 1939 to 1942. The letters describe the sorrows and anxiety felt by the Beamt family members as they witnessed the Nazi advance during the early years of World War II and the family's strong desire to emigrate to Canada, the United States, or South America before their deportation.

  2. Drážďanská banka

    • Dresdner Bank
    • NAD 1335
    • DB
    • Národní archiv
    • 1335
    • English
    • 1871-1944
    • 1.32 linear meters of documents are processed and inventoried, 0.03 linear meters of documents are non-processed and inaccessible.

    The collection consists of minutes of the Executive Board of Dresdner Bank from October 1931 to December 1943. Furthermore, the collections consists of suggestions of the Board (May 1938 - December 1940), minutes of the meetings of the Directors of the Liquidation Commission (April 1935 - May 1938), minutes of the General Assembly (1870-1930), minutes of the Board (1871-1943), minutes of Committee Meetings (1914-1938) and minutes of the Executive Committee (1938-1943). The most relevant Holocaust-related material is the collection of minutes of the Executive Board of Dresdner Bank from Octo...

  3. Wadja K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Wadja K., who was born in Granice, Poland in 1896. He recalls the first World War; Germans confiscating food in 1915 and 1916; working on road construction; his family's move to Z?elecho?w; working briefly in Warsaw; returning home; working with his father making leather boots; marriage; six weeks compulsory army service; participation in the Jewish Worker's Party; and attending their night school classes. Mr. K. describes emigrating to Luxembourg in 1928 to escape antisemitism; visiting his parents in Poland in 1935; assisting his brother to emigrate to Argentina (an...

  4. Jewish Religious Community of Slaný

    This fonds contains the community's statutes including amendments (1865–1896), protocol registers, meeting minutes, election records, personnel records, authority notifications, various correspondence, financial and tax files, synagogue seats records, documents relating to the construction of a synagogue, a list of synagogue objects, the 1898 statutes and records of the local burial society, burial lists, and fragmentary files relating to the local Jewish school and several Jewish associations. The fonds also includes a large collection of documents from 1939–1945 relating to the racial per...

  5. Foreign Office: General Correspondence, FO 371

    Contains correspondence relating to persecution and atrocities against Jews; refugees from Germany and Austria; disturbances in Palestine; the formation of a Jewish fighting force; immigration issues; German war criminals, and files on the conditions for Jews in occupied Europe including, Germany, Slovakia, Italy, Hungary, Iraq, and Poland.

  6. Oral history interview with Joseph Grenfell

  7. Anna T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anna T., who was born in Poland in 1919. She recalls German occupation in 1939; her family's deportation in 1942 (she never saw her parents again); mass killings and round-ups; deportation to Krychow; escaping with two others; receiving shelter and food from Jews in a village; escaping to the woods during mass killings of the Jews; hiding in a barn with assistance from a Polish family; joining Jewish partisans; liquidation of the partisans; hiding in the woods with several others; and liberation by Soviet troops. Mrs. T. describes returning to her hometown; reunion wi...

  8. Henry G Plitt: Copy papers

    This collection of copy papers documents, in part, the life of Henry G Plitt, focusing, in particular, on his involvement in the capture of Julius Streicher and Robert Ley.

  9. Petain's Trial; Military parade

    21:18:36 (NR 361) Trial of Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, July 23-24, 1945. German film of Petain and Hitler meeting and shaking hands at Montoire. Petain and Goering meeting and shaking hands. MLS, Petain arrives by car, steps out, and lifts his hat. Petain and wife arrive by car and enter Fort de Montrouge prison building. INT views of cells in which Petains will live. Crowds attempting to enter court building. INT courtroom, Marshal Petain enters and sits down. Justices of the Court, President Mongibeaux, and Solicitor Gen. Mornet enter courtroom. Great excitement as Prosecuting Advocate...

  10. Starosta Grodzki i Powiatowy w Lublinie Der Kreishauptmann und Stadthauptman in Lublin-Land (GK 699)

    Notifications about the deaths of Poles imprisoned in concentration camps (including KL Lublin, KL Auschwitz, KL Ravensbruck), prisoner-of-war camps and prisons (prison in Lublin).

  11. Americans fight in World War I

    Miscellaneous Film 50 / Signal Corps / U.S. Army. Reel 4. 01:27:12 "Behind the lines long range guns swell the storm of destruction" US artillery in fields, troops, firing with camouflaged vehicles, smoke rising in the distance. More weapons firing, equipment. 01:29:30 "The famous 75's in action at Le Cotes de Forinent, September 27, 1918" Men set off weapons, CUs. 01:30:24 "The tanks advance to do their bit" Views of tanks moving in the fields with soldiers nearby, smoke. 01:32:27 "Shelling an ammunition dump" Weapons fire. 01:33:04 "Every man on his toes - amid the roar of guns and whine ...

  12. SA in Rhine country

    Titles are all in German. Title: "Parade in the mountains". SA march across a country bridge; trucks full of Nazis drive across the bridge. A few children run alongside the trucks. The camera moves closer and follows one truck full of SA men as they salute. Title: "S.A. march in the Nazi stronghold of Waldbroel." A crowd watches an SA parade down the street. Nazi banners hang from windows. Closer view of participants in the parades, including a focus on the flags they are carrying. Men in white shirts carry a sign that reads "NSBO," which stands for the Nationalsozialistische Betriebszellen...

  13. Nora Orchan collection

    The Nora Orchan collection includes a autograph book that Nora carried with her during her emigration with her siblings from Germany to Israel in 1938. Autographs and entries date 1935-1941 and include poems and drawings as well as diary entries, perhaps by Nora. The collections also includes pre-war photographs of Nora and her family.

  14. If my heart didn't break then

    Jean Beller's memoir describes Jean's childhood and adolescence in Poland; her experiences as a student of elementary education in Tel Aviv, Palestine; her return to Poland before the outbreak of World War II; conditions inside the ghetto in Łódź, Poland; her experiences with Chaim Rumkowski; her work as a kindergarten teacher and as the head of an orphanage in the ghetto; her attempts to hide when the ghetto was evacuated; the death of her parents and a brother; her deportation to Auschwitz and other concentration camps; and her life in the United States after the war.

  16. Documentation from the archives of the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1927-1947

    Documentation from the archives of the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1927-1947 In the collection there are various files created by Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (on each file the Code Number "33" appears, [an indication of] documents pertaining to the Jewish Question). Also in the collection: Files pertaining to the legal status of the Romanian Jews (already in 1927); propaganda material; correspondence with Romanian diplomatic delegations abroad and foreign delegations in Romania; reports concerning the activities of Jewish organizations outside of Romania (mainly in the Un...

  17. Ernst W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ernst W., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1910, an only child. He recalls attending school until 1924; his father losing his business during the hyperinflation; harassment by and street fights with Nazis; joining the Zionist group Hechalutz; agricultural training in Neuendorf to prepare for emigration, seeing no future in Germany as a Jew; his girlfriend's emigration to the United States; his emigration to Palestine in 1937; getting his parents out in 1939; his father's death a year later; his marriage; his son's birth in 1940; learning of the camps and exterminati...

  18. Sylvia L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sylvia L., who was born in 1933, an only child in an orthodox family. She recounts living in Czernowitz, Romania; attending kindergarten; one year of Soviet occupation; German invasion; ghettoization; forced transfer to Murafa; her father hiding during a round-up of men for forced labor; Soviet liberation; returning home; finding their house had been ransacked; her father's draft into the Soviet military; attending school; emigration with her parents to Israel in 1950; marriage in 1952; and emigration to the United States in 1956. Ms. L. discusses hardships and suffer...

  19. Government in exile (Fond 103)

    Contains correspondence, reports, and name lists. Material relates to underground movements, war crimes, murders of Serbs in Croatia, establishment of the War Crimes Commission in Yugoslavia, name lists of Croatian, Albanian and Hungarian war criminals. Some documents originate from the United States Department of State and the United Nations War Crimes Commission (UNWCC).

  20. Diaries by Dr. Aharon Zwergbaum concerning the journey of Jewish emigrants from Bratislava (Slovakia) via Haifa (Palestine) to Mauritius

    Contain a diary by Dr. Aharon Zwergbaum. He traveled on December 1, 1939 from Prague to Bratislava, embarked on September 3, 1940 on the steamship "Helios," transferred in Tulcea, Romania onto the ship "Atlantic" and traveled to Haifa, Palestine where the British authorities arrested the Jewish refugees and deported them to the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. The diaries consist of various contributions by different authors and artists who were on the refugee transport, such as reports, poems, caricatures and illustrations, hand-drawn maps, and photographs that chronicle the voyage...