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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Dutch

  1. Erna S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Erna S., who was born in Lich, Germany in 1913. She recalls attending high school in Giessen; visiting relatives in Ludwigshafen when Hitler came to power; her parents' business being ruined due to antisemitism; traveling to Venice in 1934, realizing there was no future in Germany; moving to Rotterdam three weeks later, then to Amsterdam; her father's death in 1936; her mother and siblings leaving for the United States by 1938; and her emigration to join them. Ms. S. notes her brother was beaten by Nazis and briefly incarcerated in a concentration camp before she went...

  2. Dachau camp, postwar

    Munich and Dachau circa 1947. Title. Pan of several dozen dump carts- carts have two wagon type wheels and are numbered, made of wood planks. (0:57) Large sign: ‘WAR CRIMES ENCLOSURE DIRECTORY’ listing several areas including the West gate, War Crimes Court Area, Post Hospital, Officers Club and others. Directory for the Main Gate area which includes the Post Headquarters, Post Library, Crematory, Billeting Office and others. (1:03) EXT of Dachau camp showing the main gate, a wall with barbed wire, empty streets. (1:20) P.W. Discharge Center, a two story building with a watch tower. Sign po...

  3. Zsidók anyagi és vagyonjogi ügyeinek megoldására kinevezett kormánybiztosság iratai

    • Records of the Government Commissioner’s Office for Solving the Material and Financial Affairs of the Jews

    The Holocaust was not only the largest genocidal operation in 20th century Hungarian history but also a gigantic campaign to systematically rob the wealth of Hungarian Jewry. In Hungary, the Europe-wide campaign of robbery usually referred to by the name of Aryanization had various initiators and a large segment of benefactors in society while it was also planned as a state-directed and -controlled process. In June 1944, a Government Commissioner’s Office for Solving the Material and Financial Affairs of the Jews was newly established. As of July 23, Albert Turvölgyi, who until then served ...

  4. Liberation of Buchenwald

    Liberation of Buchenwald, the Nazi concentration camp in Germany. MCUs, Trucks lined up outside of camp, French prisoners getting out and standing beside trucks, waiting to go home; trucks leaving camp with prisoners waving and signing. HASs prisoners walking around camp and courtyard. MCUs, MSs, pile of corpses, funeral wreaths of pine and ribbon hanging on each side of window. MLS, MS, flags erected by Czechoslovakian prisoners; memorial made by prisoners and erected in memory of the 51,000 dead from the KLB (Konzentrations Lager Buchenwald). MCUs, prisoner behind barbed wire sleeping on ...

  5. Alice S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alice S., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1913, the youngest of three children. She recalls many injured veterans from World War I; active participation in a Zionist youth group, despite her parents' disapproval; completing studies at a private gymnasium, then medical school; her older brother and sister emigrating to join relatives in the United States; pervasive antisemitism; the Anschluss; the transformation of most Austrians into Nazis; the non-Jewish superintendent of their building protecting them during a round-up; emigration to the United States; training a...

  6. Черкаська народна районна поліція, м. Черкаси

    • District People's Police, city of Cherkasy
    • Cherkaska narodna raionna politsiia, m. Cherkasy

    Local auxiliary police documentation can contain information connected to the Holocaust. Titles and sizes of the selected files potentially related to the subject: File 1. Lists of policemen and other employees of the district police; lists of employees and workers of establishments and enterprises in Cherkasy that were eligible to use electricity, 1942-43, 43 pages. File 2. Lists of policemen; receipts they obtained for arrested persons and confiscated money, statements and certificates regarding bicycles registered; report for the administrative and economic expenses, etc. Not dated. 40 p...

  7. Selected records from the National Archives of Tunisia

    Contains records of the Jewish community of Tunisia pertaining to the spoliation of its members by the German authorities from December 1942 to April 1943 and subsequent efforts to recover confiscated assets. These records include reports detailing the chronology and extent of the spoliation of Jews in Tunisia by the SS as well as the attempt by the French colonial authorities from 1944 to 1947 to compel the Jewish community to compensate its own members for damages wrought upon them by the Germans. The most significant document in this group of records attests to the destruction of the so-...

  8. Gezantschap te Frankrijk (Parijs), 1866-1940

    • Nationaal archief
    • 2.05.102
    • Dutch
    • 1870-1945
    • 44.5 meter; 1767 inventarisnummers

    De Frans-Nederlandse betrekkingen in de negentiende eeuw liepen om verschillende politieke redenen niet echt soepel. Door het Franse protectionisme had Nederland weinig kansen voor uitbreiding van de handel, totdat in 1885 een nieuw handelsverdrag werd gesloten tussen beide landen. Deze en andere ontwikkelingen weerspiegelen zich in het archief van het Gezantschap te Frankrijk. Het bevat o.a. stukken betreffende een staatsbezoek dat president Falliéres van Frankrijk aan Nederland bracht in juli 1911 en een staatsbezoek aan Frankrijk van koningin Wilhelmina in juni 1912, het aandeel van Nede...

  9. My meeting with Heinrich Himmler - April 20/21, 1945

    The collection consists of three versions of Norbert Masur's report of his meeting with Heinrich Himmler on April 20-21, 1945. Included is a copy of Masur’s original report in German, a version entitled “En Jude Talar Med Himmler” published in Swedish in 1945, and an English translation completed by Masur’s nephwer, Henry Karger. Masur was a member of the Swedish section of the World Jewish Congress. At his meeting with Himmler, Norbert Masur negotiated the release of 7,000 Jewish women from Ravensbrück concentration camp, and the women arrived in Sweden in April 1945.

  10. March of Time -- outtakes -- Szold funeral; Jerusalem; Shertok

    Crowd of people outside Hadassah Medical Organization. CU entrance. Nurses process for the funeral services of Henriette Szold, founder of the School of Nurses on Mt. Scopus. Towards Jewish cemetery. Shots of road, outside town. Crowd of men. Many people, Jerusalem seen in the BG. View of the mountains over the Dead Sea. Shots from hillside. Church of Nativity in Bethlehem. 06:19:49 Students walk under arcades which go from the library to the new University buildings in Jerusalem. Hebrew University, shot of Jeruslaem, churchs. 06:21:11 Inscription of an old Jewish tomb. La Jaffa gate and Je...

  11. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 50 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  12. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 50 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  13. Joseph Rosen papers

    The Joseph Rosen papers consists of photographs, mostly of concentration camps after liberation with captions in French on verso. Most of the images are copies of widely-published press photos. Also included are two documents in French relating to Joseph Rosen: the first one recognizes him as former concentration camp internee, originally from Czechoslovakia but who had survived Auschwitz and Buchenwald; the second is a certificate of repatriation stating that he was originally from Munkacs, and that his parents were Maurice and Therese (nee Bercovici) Rosen.

  14. Vincent Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Vincent Z., who served with the United States Army in World War II. He recounts speaking fluent Polish; deployment to London; working in a press unit publishing Polish newspapers; contacts with the Polish government-in-exile and Polish resistants; transfer to Paris, then to Germany; visiting Dachau in November 1945; observing the gas chambers and crematorium; speaking with a Catholic priest and other liberated prisoners; working with UNRRA in Bad Nauheim to publish newspapers for the displaced persons camps; and assisting with displaced persons camp education programs...

  15. Inventaris van het archief van Louis Einthoven [levensjaren 1896-1979], 1938-1979

    • Nationaal archief
    • 2.21.231
    • Dutch
    • 1938-1973
    • 0.3 meter; 63 inventarisnummers

    Na een studie rechten in Utrecht werkte L. Einthoven (1896-1979) vanaf 1920 als ambtenaar in Nederlands-Indië. In 1933 werd hij commissaris van politie in Rotterdam. Einthoven was partijloos, maar had sympathie voor autoritaire denkbeelden. Op 24 juli 1940 richtte hij samen met de Groningse commissaris van de Koningin J. Linthorst Homan en de Tilburgse hoogleraar J.E. de Quay de Nederlandsche Unie op. Doel van het 'driemanschap' was het creëren van een krachtige Nederlandse niet nationaal-socialistische organisatie, die een tegenwicht was tegen de NSB en de Duitse bezetter, maar die wel ber...

  16. George M. Kren manuscript

    The collection consists of an unpublished manuscript written by Dr. George M. Kren, a professor of history at the University of Kansas. In the manuscript, George gives an overview of the history of the Holocaust and includes the historiography of various events, including the rise of antisemitism, the Holocaust in various countries, and the operation of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Also included is an extensive bibliographic essay.

  17. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 20 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 20 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  18. Selected records of the County Office of Iłża in Starachowice-Wierzbnik Starostwo Powiatowe Iłżeckie w Starachowicach-Wierzbniku (Sygn. 2680)

    Monthly and quarterly situational reports, correspondence, circulars and lists of abandoned Jewish properties. Includes reports related to activities of the Komunistyczna Partia Polski (Polish Communist Party) and Jewish organizations in Iłża region, and registers of Jewish properties.

  19. M.1.PF - War time Jewish Folklore Collection

    M.1.PF - Documantation on Jewish folklore during the second world war This collection is part of the collections compiled by the Central Historical Commission (CHC) of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the US Zone in Munich (M.1). The CHC collected much material from the Holocaust survivors, including testimonies, documentary material in their possession and more. When the CHC was disbanded, the CHC archive was transferred to Yad Vashem. There are 353 poems/songs in the collection, mostly in Yiddish. Most of the poems/songs were written by inmates of the camps and ghettos during th...

  20. Savska banovina, odjeljak upravnog odjeljenja za državnu zaštitu

    • The Sava County, state security administration unit

    The collection contains reports on the monitoring of prominent political figures (V. Maček, I. Pernar, M. Radic, M. Šuflaj, A. Trumbić); reports of district city police; information on the political situation and events listings of separatist-oriented state and self-government officials, information on the assassination of King Alexander I, the writings about the founding and the combat of illicit organizations of former Croatian Farmers Party members, writings on liquidation of estates and districts bordering with Hungary, inspection of arms and ammunition, the data on foreign citizens, em...