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  2. Motke Zaidel and Itzak Dugin

    Motke Zaidel and Itzak Dugin are survivors of Vilna. They tell the story of their extraordinary escape from the Ponari camp, digging a tunnel for months, where the dogs that caught them backed away whimpering because the men smelled of death. The interview took place over two days in the forest of Ben Shemen (an Israeli forest resembling Ponari) and in Mr. Zaidel's apartment in Peta'h Tikva with the family of Zaidel. FILM ID 3782 -- Camera Rolls 2-4 -- Foret Ponari CR2 Lanzmann, Zaidel and Dugin meet in a forest in Israel which resembles the forest of Ponari, next to Vilna. Before the war t...

  3. Pery Broad

    Pery Broad spent two years as a guard in Auschwitz Birkenau. Broad voluntarily wrote a report of his activities whilst working for the British as a translator in a POW camp after the war. The Broad Report corroborates extermination installations and the burning of corpses. This interview was filmed in 1979 with a hidden camera, known as a Paluche, which caught fire. FILM ID 3438 -- Camera Rolls 1A -- 02:00:18 to 02:12:29 Lanzmann and Broad begin the interview by discussing the recently presented television miniseries, Holocaust. Broad states that he can face the past, but cannot dominate it...

  4. Processo de pedido de visto nos passaportes de três grupos de refugiados de Zurique, Marselha e Amesterdão

    Albert salomon, de nacionalidade holandesa, com destino à República Dominicana. Visto recusado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros para Paula Lindberg Salomon, de nacionalidade holandesa, com destino à República Dominicana. Visto recusado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros para Max Bruck, de nacionalidade não identificada, com destino à República Dominicana. Visto recusado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros para Bertha Ehrlich, de nacionalidade não identificada, com destino à República Domin...

  5. Sioma and Tonia Bialer Lechtman papers

    Contains photographs and documents relating to Vera Lechtman's parents, Sioma and Tonia Bialer Lechtman, before World War II in Vienna, Austria, and in Łódź, Poland; their immigration to Palestine in 1936; and their subsequent immigration to Europe in 1938. Includes photogaphs of Sioma Lechtman in the Gurs concentration camp in France, where he was interned after fighting in the Spanish Civil War.

  6. Processo de pedido de visto para empregados da Companhia de Rio Tinto, Ltd.

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Huelva para Augustin Joseph Vivian Arnold, de nacionalidade britânica e residente em Espanha, com destino a Portugal. Sem informação de atribuição de visto. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Huelva para Suzane Maria Honorina Arnold, de nacionalidade britânica e residente em Espanha, com destino a Portugal. Sem informação de atribuição de visto. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Huelva para Elizabeth Marie Louise, de nacionalidade britânica e residente em Espanha, com destino a Portugal. Sem i...

  7. Ministère des Finances. Archives de Carl Requette, liquidateur du Commissariat belge au rapatriement

    • Ministry of Finance. Carl Requette Archives, liquidator of the Belgian Repatriation Commission

    The documents in this fonds are either the specific products of Carl Requette's activity as liquidator or copies and original documents collected by him to serve as debt instruments or documentation. They come from the archives of the Belgian Commission for Repatriation (C.B.R.) as well as files transmitted by the Ministry of Public Health concerning Minister Marteaux's "hospital re-equipment" operation. Within its limited volume, the fonds has a considerable documentary value. It shines a light on Carl Requette's work as liquidator, but also that of the C.B.R. By including the documents th...

  8. Processo de pedido de visto para 99 estudantes egípcios

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Vichy para Mahamed Hosny Abbas, de nacionalidade egipcia e residente na França, com destino ao Egito. Visto autorizado com condicionantes. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Vichy para Abdel-Fattah Abdel-Moneim Abdel-Baki, de nacionalidade egipcia e residente na França, com destino ao Egito. Visto autorizado com condicionantes. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Vichy para Mahmoud Afifi Abdel-Karim, de nacionalidade egipcia e residente na França, com destino ao Egito. Visto autorizado com condi...

  9. Franz Suchomel

    Lanzmann interviewed Franz Suchomel, who was with the SS at Treblinka, in secret at the Hotel Post in April 1976. This was the first interview Lanzmann filmed with the newly developed hidden camera known as the Paluche, and he paid Suchomel 500 DM. In the outtakes, Suchomel provides further details about the treatment of Jews at the camp, as well as a more ambivalent memory of his experiences than is apparent in the released "SHOAH". FILM ID 3753 -- Camera Rolls 1-2 Lanzmann asks Suchomel to describe his arrival at Treblinka and Suchomel tells of his shock at finding himself with seven othe...

  10. Fake diamond ring bartered to save the life of a Jewish family

    Finger ring made by Abraham (Bumek) Gruber in 1942 using crystal and nickel to simulate a diamond ring. In 1943, Bumek was working as a butcher at the oil refinery camp Galizien in German occupied Poland with his wife Blimka and daughter Liba. That summer, the Germans took Blimka and Liba, and other Jewish families, and executed them in the Bronica forest. Bumek planned to give himself up in the next Aktion, but he met Tusia and her 4 year old daughter Fela and formed a bond that changed his mind. He decided to go into hiding with them in Mlynki Szkolnikowe, where his family had once lived....

  11. Sketchbook of drawings created by a former concentration camp prisoner

    Sketchbook created by Adolf Frankl, depicting scenes from multiple concentration camps. It was likely created after the war, as a way for Adolf to process his experiences during the Holocaust. Adolf was living in his hometown of Bratislava with his wife, two children, and a large extended family, when the city became part of the Nazi puppet state of Slovakia in May 1939. When World War II began in September 1939, the family’s interior design store was confiscated and Aryanized. Adolf was able to continue working for the new owner, and received documentation protecting him and his family fro...

  12. Sobibor - Wlodowa (SOB)

    Interviews with local Polish people around Sobibor, Poland, including long sequences of a Catholic mass in Wlodowa. Lanzmann asks about the Jews in Wlodawa before the war and inquires how non-Jewish residents got along with the Jews. Includes shots of the Sobibor camp and environs. FILM ID 4674 -- White 15 Sobibor Gare CU, elderly woman and man sit indoors at the Sobibor train station. “Sobibor” sign. Local people sit on benches outside waiting for train. A train pulls into the station. End clapperboard: SOB 1. 01:03:03 Passengers look out the windows of the railway cars as the train depart...

  13. Henryk Gawkowski and Treblinka railway workers

    Henryk Gawkowski was a locomotive conductor at the Treblinka station and estimates that he transported approximately 18,000 Jews to the camp. He drank vodka all the time because it was the only way to make bearable his job and the smell of burning corpses. He describes the black market and the prostitution that developed around the camp. This interview also includes conversations with several other Polish witnesses who were railway workers. FILM ID 3362 -- Camera Rolls #4-7 -- 01:00:00 to 01:13:26 Gawkowski and a Polish choir sing "W mogile ciemnej ?pij na wieki," a Gregorian-chant style fu...

  14. Green knapsack used by a Hungarian Jewish man in forced labor

    Large, two pocket rucksack used by Elek Brust while a forced laborer from 1941 and 1943-1944 in Hungary. He then used it while living in hiding with his family during the German occupation through February 1945. Elek was a manufacturer and prominent member of the Jewish community in Budapest where he lived with his wife Lilly and young daughter Eva. In 1941, Jewish males were required to do forced labor service and Elek was sent to a labor camp. Lilly obtained his release a few months later with black market papers. In 1943, Elek was again drafted, and not released until March 1944. On Marc...

  15. Processo de pedido de visto para funcionários da Sofina

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros para Helmut Bachrach, de nacionalidade alemã, com destino a Portugal. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros para Moritz Bachrach, de nacionalidade alemã, com destino a Portugal. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros para Anna Rosenbaum, de nacionalidade alemã, com destino a Portugal. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em...

  16. Processo de pedido de visto para 106 executantes da Orquestra Filarmónica de Berlim

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Berlim para Hans Ahlgrimm, de nacionalidade alemã e residente na Alemanha, com destino a Portugal. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Berlim para Bernhard Alt, de nacionalidade alemã e residente na Alemanha, com destino a Portugal. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Berlim para Gerassimos Avgerinos, de nacionalidade alemã e residente na Alemanha, com destino a Portugal. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Berlim para Eric...

  17. Processo de pedido de visto para 112 pessoas da Orquestra Filarmónica de Berlim

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Berlim para Gerhard von Westermann, de nacionalidade alemã, com destino a Portugal. Visto autorizado com condicionantes. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Berlim para Dr. Drewes, de nacionalidade alemã, com destino a Portugal. Visto autorizado com condicionantes. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Berlim para Johann Ahlgrimm, de nacionalidade alemã, com destino a Portugal. Visto autorizado com condicionantes. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Berlim para Bernhard Alt, de ...

  18. NSDAP Main Archive

    The Hauptarchiv was set up primarily as a depository for source material on which historians of the future would draw to write the history of the party. Its emphasis, therefore, lay on the years between 1919 and 1933. Material going back as far as 1890 was collected, however, to encompass the political and ideological forerunners of National Socialism, and although the spotlight was on the party itself, considerable importance was attached to parallel nationalist “voelkisch” movements and political opponents – for example, the entire files of the Deutsche Demokratische Partei were taken ove...

  19. John Pehle - Allies

    John Pehle discusses the War Refugee Board, U.S. policy and inaction, the Riegner cable of March 1943, Rabbi Wise and the rally at Madison Square Garden, antisemitism, the bombing of Auschwitz, the International Red Cross, and the Vatican. FILM ID 3259 -- Camera Rolls #38-42-- 01:00:18 to 01:07:31 Roll 38 01:00:19 John Pehle exits his house, which is located in a wooded area, and walks around his yard. The camera pans out to reveal more of the wooded surroundings. Pehle walks around the woods and collects small branches. It is fall or early winter and dead leaves cover the ground. 01:03:13 ...

  20. Simha Rotem and Itzhak Zuckerman

    Simha Rotem and Itzhak Zuckerman talk about their involvement in the Jewish combat organization in the Warsaw ghetto and the Warsaw ghetto uprising. The interview with both men takes place at the Ghetto Fighters House in Israel on October 4, 1979. Mr. Rotem was interviewed separately in his apartment in Jerusalem on October 6, 1979. FILM ID 3745 -- Camera Rolls 1-4 Lanzmann says they are standing outside of the Ghetto Fighters House. Lanzmann has brought a model of the Warsaw Ghetto to reference when describing the uprising. Rotem joined the Jewish Combat Organization in 1942. He worked at ...