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  1. Alexander G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alexander G., who was born in Nové Mesto nad Vahom, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Slovakia) in 1914, one of four children. He recounts his father leaving when he was only a year and a half; their abject poverty; joining his brother in Bratislava in 1928 as a barber's apprentice; playing on a Maccabi soccer team; military draft in 1936; postings in Piešt̕any and Solivar; discharge in 1939; formation of the Slovak state which promulgated anti-Jewish laws; arrest by Hlinka guards in 1942; incarceration in Žilina and Vhyne; working as a barber; liberation by par...

  2. International Military Tribunal Proceedings

    Mimeographed testimony and evidence, relating to the trials of alleged German war criminals at Nuremberg. The Hoover Institution Archives has a collection of documents from the Nuremburg Trials, but it is not complete and not indexed. You should consult the published sets of Nuremburg documents. One set, in 42 volumes, contains the proceedings of the trials and documents relating to them (such as evidence, interviews). One set, in 23 volumes contains only the proceedings. Both sets include indexes. Below are the citations to these sets, which use the official name of the entity that conduct...

  3. Maksymilian Wolfsthal collection

    Consists of a memoir by Maksymilian Wolfsthal about his experiences in the ghetto in Lʹvov, Poland (now Lʹviv, Ukraine) and in Janowska, his deportation to Bergen-Belsen in 1943, and life in Bergen-Belsen. He began the diaries on October 3, 1945 after his emigration to Belgium. The memoir is in two volumes, with volume one covering June 21, 1941--September 1942, and volume two covering October 1942 until his liberation from Bergen-Belsen.

  4. Police headquarters in Jihlava 1932-1942 Policejní ředitelství Jihlava 1932-1942 (B 74)

    Aryanization and anti-Jewish measures in Jihlava. List of Jewish-owned firms and companies in Jihlava; list of Jewish-owned apartments and houses in Jihlava; report of a boycott of German products by the Jewish community in Jihlava.

  5. Photographs from Radom Fotografie z Radomia (Sygn. 265)

    Contains various photographs (the size of passport photos) submitted with applications for identity cards to the Jewish Councils in Radom (Judenrat). The office of the Jewish Councils in Radom was created on November 28, 1939, mainly to execute the German administrative regulations concerning the Jewish people. In February 1941, the Council started to issue the identification cards to the Jews, as ordered by the German authorities. A part of these photographs survived in the archives of the Żydowski Instytut Historyczny in Warsaw, Poland. The identification of people on the photographs is s...

  6. Photo Archive Collection

    Stored in the Photo Archive Collection of the Jewish Museum in Prague are several thousand photographs taken between the start of the 1940s and the present day. This includes negatives of various materials and dimensions (from glass plates to colour film) as well as positive prints, of which several thousand (predominantly glass plates and medium format negatives on artificial stock) document the life and activity of the war-time Jewish Community in Prague under the administration of the occupation authorities. Another major unit comprises documentation of Jewish areas in Bohemia, which has...

  7. Youth of the Netherlands! Waffen-SS recruitment text only poster that urges Dutch youth to help the Germans fight the Russians

    Waffen-SS recruitment poster issued in August 1941 in German controlled Netherlands asking young Dutch men to join the German Army in order to defend against the Jewish Bolshevik threat. Germany launched Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union, on June 22, 1941. This was their biggest military operation of the war and there was an increased need for soldiers throughout the Germany Army.

  8. Kreishauptmann Jedrzejów records (Sygn.159)

    Contains information about administrative, economic, and propaganda matters in Jedrzejów, Poland. Also contains situation reports and monthly reports (Lageberichte and Monatberichte), submitted to the General Gouverner's office in Kraków, concerning the political and economic situation in Jedrzejów. The reports range in date from December 1940 to October 1941.

  10. Fritz Gross: Unpublished writings

    The papers in this collection are evidence of the eclectic interests and significant output of the Austrian emigré writer, Fritz Gross. These volumes of original typescript writings include numerous short dramas; anthologies of poetry; essays on a wide variety of subjects and biographical sketches of famous people.

  11. Municipal Office in Wroclaw Zarząd Miejski Miasta Wrocławia (Sygn.334)

    Contains records relating to social, political and cultural life of the Polish Jews in the Lower Silesia and in Wroclaw. It includes information about the German Jews and Jewish religious congregations. Also contains a list of marriages concluded in 1946, and a deportation list of German Jews from Wroclaw in 1945.

  12. During my childhood Gouache created postwar by a former inmate of a people in a transit camp being loaded on a truck

    Multi-colored gouache created by Maurice Rosen based upon his experiences as a prisoner in Pithiviers transit camp in France.The painting depicts men and women standing on the flatbed of a truck located in front of a barbed-wire fence with soldiers standing nearby.

  13. Emigration Fund for Bohemia and Moravia, Office in Brno Auswanderungfonds für Böhmen und Mähren (B 392)

    Consists of records pertaining to expropriated and liquidated Jewish businesses and real estate, includes individual cases, 1939-1942. The collection also features documentation about the deportation and transports to concentration camps of Czech Jews.

  14. Postwar wedding of a German soldier and American POW

    EXT, couples with flowers walk towards camera to celebrate the wedding of Theo's eldest son Gerald, a soldier for Germany and POW of the Americans. INTs, celebration, gifts, and the couple dancing. Family gathers around the bride and groom for portraits. Woman (bride?) in sequined jacket and top-hat dances with balloons labeled "Ratskeller Steglitz" in the Berlin area. Others dancing drunkenly. Little girl turns and dances and uses potty. Family continues to celebrate. Girl plays outdoors.

  15. Henryk Nirensztejn papers

    The papers consist of photographs and documents regarding Henryk Nirensztejn (born Chaim Goworczyk) and his family before and during the Holocaust in Poland.

  16. Bavarian village; Hitler Youth; Autobahn

    Home in Bavaria. The visiting Americans (the Major Family) and locals dine outdoors. CUs of individuals in the garden. "The Fire Department of Munich rescues a cat" Many specators watch a fireman climbing firetruck ladder to rescue a cat in a tree. 01:14:17 "In the Bavarian Tyrol" (color) EXT, buildings in Bavarian village. Men in traditional Bavarian dress. Decorated maypole for a folk ceremony with swastika symbols at the top. Street scenes, local shops. Hotel Alte Post (Anton Preisinger guest house) in Oberammergau. Bicycles. (changes back to black and white) Group of Hitler Youth with b...

  17. Selected records from the Perguia Regional State Archive

    Contains records from the Prefettura and Questura di Perugia, 1938-46 relating to the racial laws of 1938 and their implementation in Perugia, the deportation of the Jews of Perugia and their efforts after 1945 to reclaim their property and rebuild their community. Also included are 200 files containing personal materials on individuals. The collection also contains records from the province of Perugia and include records from smaller cities, such as Assisi documenting their reaction to the racial laws.

  18. Harry C. Saunders collection

    Contains photocopies of miscellaneous correspondence, publications and photographs which relate to the 1st Platoon, Troop D, 41st Cavalry Recon Squadron Mech., 11th Army Armored Division, liberating Mauthausen, and Harry C. Saunders' recollections of Mauthausen.

  19. Herman F. Reissig memorandum

    The Herman F. Reissig memorandum, dated May 15, 1941, describes the SS Alsina’s departure from Marseille in January 1941 carrying more than 500 refugees en route to the United States and Latin America, its detention in Dakar by the Vichy government, Reissig’s unsuccessful efforts to work with the Vichy, British, and American governments to find a solution for the refugees, and cables received from refugees aboard the Alsina describing their confusion and anxiety.

  20. Yetta G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yetta G., who was born in Poland in 1924, the youngest of ten children. She recounts her father and one brother were butchers; attending cheder; German invasion; hiding with a sister and two brothers in a hole they dug under the floor; her parents being taken (she never saw them again); escaping to the forest; hiding for over three years with a Polish farmer who knew her brother and father; occasionally hiding in the forest when Germans were near; liberation by Soviet troops; her brothers' draft into the Soviet military; marriage; traveling to Che?m, then ?o?dz?; lear...