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  1. Suzanne N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Suzanne N., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1930. She recalls her comfortable, assimilated family; her father's law practice; the outbreak of war; an influx of Jewish refugees; a non-Jewish doctor helping her father avoid service in a forced labor battalion; deportations of Jewish, non-Hungarian citizens; German occupation in 1944; anti-Jewish measures; her father obtaining false papers for them; hiding in a client's apartment; Allied bombings; moving to the basement; her father's murder on January 3, 1945 when he was searching for a safer place; moving with her ...

  2. Suzanne R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Suzanne R., who was born in Hungary in 1924. Mrs. R. describes prewar life in the large Jewish community of Debrecen; the gradual encroachment of antisemitism, which reached its peak after the German occupation in 1944; the formation and liquidation of the Debrecen ghetto; and her deportation, with her family, to Auschwitz. She tells of her arrival at Auschwitz; the physical and psychological conditions there, where she worked in the kitchens; a brief reunion with her father; and her selection, with several female relatives, for the labor camp in Allendorf. In Allendo...

  3. Suzanne R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Suzanne R., who was born in Paris, France in 1933, the daughter of Hungarian-Czech immigrants. She recounts visiting her mother's large family in Hungary where she learned Hungarian; speaking Yiddish at home; learning French in school; her father leaving for a year fearing the Germans; her mother working as a seamstress; her father's return; his arrest in May 1941; receiving his letters from Beaune-la-Roland; anti-Jewish harassment and restrictions; learning of a round-up July 1942; hiding with Mamie, a non-Jewish customer of her mother; being sent by herself to anoth...

  4. Suzanne T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Suzanne T., who was born in Vishnevo, Poland in 1920. She recounts being reared by her aunt in Svir? after her mother's and grandmother's deaths; attending school in Vilna; Soviet occupation; living with her father in Vishnevo; German invasion; hiding with a non-Jewish farmer; returning to the ghetto to save her uncle; forced labor in Ziezmariai and other camps; public executions; deportation to Stutthof; separation from her aunt upon their arrival; obtaining extra food and sharing it with her friends; and escaping with her friends during a death march. Mrs. T. descri...

  5. Suzanne Ullmann papers

    This collection comprises papers of the Ullmann family including correspondence received by Rudi and Lenke Ullmann in the UK from Lenke's mother Regina Brueck née Reisner, aka 'Lill Mama' (Little Grandma), 1939-1942 (with introduction and notes on individuals) 1878/1; poems by Regina Brueck, 1910-1940s, 1878/2; a long letter written by Regina Brueck to her daughter, Heddy, detailing the family's experiences in Budapest during the war, c1945, 1878/3; account by Suzanne Ullmann of life during the war in Budapest, 1878/4 

  6. Suzanne W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Suzanne W., who was born in Mannheim, Germany in 1919. She recalls expulsion from public school due to antisemitism; attending a private school; leaving in 1938 to join an aunt in the United States; efforts to bring over her family; her older brother joining her around 1940; her younger brother living with an aunt in Belgium, then returning to Mannheim immediately after their parents were deported to Gurs (he went to an orphanage in Frankfurt); receiving some correspondence from her parents; losing contact during the war; learning after the war that her parents had be...

  7. Suzanne Weil collection

    Collection of photographs and documents pertaining to Suzanne Weil's pre-war and wartime experiences in Slovakia and Hungary. Ms. Weil [donor] was in hiding in the countryside in Slovakia using a false identity and in 1944 escaped to Budapest where she was sent to Bergen Belsen on the Kasztner transport. Included is a pre-war photo album which belonged to Jan Weil, a photocopy of a list of Kasztner Train passengers, photocopy of a report of testimony of one of Kasztner's witnesses, daily report of what happened in Bergen Belsen (in Hungarian) by Eugene Kolb, and a photocopy of "accusations"...

  8. Suzanne Weiss collection

    Research materials consisting of copies of archival documents from the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act by Suzanne Weiss, concerning the deportation hearings for Jonas Lewy, Weiss' uncle; transcripts of interviews conducted by Weiss with 11 survivors of the Piotr Trybunalski ghetto; various published articles by Weiss on this topic; an audio interview with Felix Lasky; and the written memoir of ghetto survivor Charles Kotkowsky.

  9. Suzi W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Suzi W., who was born in 1928 in Znojmo, Czechoslovakia (presently Czech Republic), an only child. She recounts a very happy childhood until age ten; attending public school; cordial relations with non-Jews; German occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; a friend warning her father to flee; moving to Brno; her parents' arrests; living with an aunt; her aunt's arrest and suicide; living with another aunt; attending a Jewish school; participating in Tehelet Lavan, including their summer camp in 1940; her parents' release; deportation with them to Theresienstadt in January...

  10. Suzy G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Suzy G., who was born in Paris, France. She recalls a close and large extended family; her father serving in the military; her mother's miscarriage during the German invasion in 1940; visiting her father in the hospital after he was wounded; remaining with her grandmother when her mother hid with a non-Jewish policeman; her mother's return; her father's discharge in Limoges; she and her mother joining him using false papers; protection by non-Jewish neighbors; being sent away to hide with non-Jews; being moved several times; visits from her mother; seeing the smoke af...

  11. Svaz protifašistických bojovníků - ústřední výbor, Praha (1945) 1951–1969

    • Union of Anti-Fascist Fighters - Central Committee, Prague / NAD 1063
    • Národní archiv
    • 1063
    • English
    • 1951-1969
    • Textual material 27 linear meters

    The documents of the Union of Anti-Fascist Fighters are an important source of information on the resistance and resistance of the Czechs and Slovaks in 1914-1918, the domestic and foreign anti-Nazi resistance in 1939-1945, including the Jewish resistance, and the victims of racial and political persecution and prisoners of Nazi prisons and concentration camps. The fonds contains, among other things, fragments of the documents of the predecessors of the Union of Anti-Fascist Fighters. These are mainly personnel records, questionnaires, protocols, minutes, documents relating to illegal resis...

  12. Sven Nordström collection

    Consists of documents related to Sven Nordström's claims for restitution as a subject of medical experimentation in Buchenwald and Dachau and his claims for recognition for his post-war role as a Nazi hunter and as a person who discovered Nazi treasure. Nordström petitioned various levels of American government for this recognition and the collection includes his supporting biographical statements.

  13. Sven Sonnenberg collection

    The collection consists of one armband with a blue Star of David worn in the Drzewica ghetto, one yellow badge worn in the Płock ghetto, one coin from the Łódź ghetto, and two photographs.

  14. Švenčionių apskrities policijos vadas ir punktai

    • Police Commander and Police Stations of Švenčionys District

    The fonds consists of documents about confisacation of Jewish property: lists of things and personal belongings (with names of owners mentioned); reports about arrested people, prisoners of war, soviets activists; correspondence with the chiefs of the districts concerning moods of the locals.

  15. Švenčionių apskrities viršininkas

    • Chief of Švenčionys District

    The files concern anti-semitic posters from April 1942 ("Jews are your deadly enemy"); confiscation of Jewish property and adaptation for such property for public use (for example: the synagogue was adapted for police purposes); the report of the chief of the county concerning registration by doctors Aryan origins all cases of deaths of Jews in August 1942; the main instructions for how settlements in the county were to deal with Jews, how they were to forced Jews to work, how they were to confiscate and register private property of Jews from September 1941.

  16. Swaab-Tygel family. Collection

    This collection contains: three pre-war photos of members of the Antwerp sports club Joodse Arbeiders Sportklub or JASK [English: Jewish Workers Sports Club (Antwerp) or YASK], including Philip Swaab and possibly a brother or future brother-in-law called Marcel ; a pre-war group photo of pupils at a school or colony, including Bertha and Eugenie alias Jennie Tygel ; two pre-war photos of Philip Schwaab with friends ; one post-war portrait of Philip Schwaab ; a certificate issued by the Dutch branche of the Red Cross in Switzerland to Philip Schwaab for passing an exam

  17. Swarthmore College Collection

    Pamphlets, bulletins, serial issues, reports, and other printed matter, relating to peace, disarmament, international relations, World War I, the Spanish Civil War, World War II, the Vietnamese War, the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany, civil liberties in the United States, and the espionage case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and Morton Sobell. Collected by Swarthmore College.

  18. Swastika shaped pin commemorating the reintegration of the Saarland with Nazi Germany

    Pin created to commemorate the March 1, 1935, reintegration of the Saar region into Nazi Germany. This German industrial region on the border with France and Luxembourg had been removed from German control and placed under a fifteen year League of Nations mandate by the Treaty of Versailles following the end of World War I. The French controlled the coal mining operations as part of the reparations owed by Germany under the treaty. On January 1, 1935, there was a plebiscite to determine the future of the country and an overwhelming ninety percent of the population voted to reunite with Germ...

  19. Swastikas, flags, posters of Hitler

    Fast cuts, good images. VAR newspaper printing sequence of the Völkische Beobachter; people hanging flags on buildings; VAR Nazi banners and flags hanging on buildings, portraits of Hitler. Brief cuts of rallies and Goebbels, Hess, Goering, speaking. Sequence of trains and planes with banners: "Ein Volk, ein Führer, ein Wille"; "Treue dem Führer." Swastikas strung overhead on street. Optical effects throughout. NOTE: This is propaganda about propaganda.

  20. Swastikas; Boycott of Jewish shops; Parade; Nazi soldiers

    Intertitles: “W L Film- Nr. 3.” “Leipziger Fahresschau,” “Ein Bild-Bericht von Walther Lenger,” “Camera…. Bearbeitung Walther Lenger Projektor….” “1933,” “März 1933: Sieg der nationalen Revolution: Schwarz-weiss-rote Fahnen und Hakenkreuz-Banner wehen überall.” Shot of a grid of Hakenkreuz side by side. A Nazi flag flies in the street. Then the flag of Germany. Flags fly from buildings in Leipzig. A woman eats a spoonful of something. 10:19:16 Intertitle: “1. April 1933. Boykott. Jüdischer Geschafte.” A newspaper reads, “Boykott! Wir Kampfen, bis Juda kapituliert!” There is a cartoon that s...