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Language of Description: Dutch

  1. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 10 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 10 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.

  2. Verdoner children

    MCU, Yoka Verdoner hamming it up for the camera. Hilde Verdoner feeding her son Otto who is seated in his high chair at the table. Otto begins to feed himself as well. CU, Francisca Verdoner seated at the table, drinking milk that was poured for her, and eating. She smiles and plays for the camera. VS, CUs, Otto eating and drinking milk, playing "peek-a-boo" for the camera. More shots of Otto eating.

  3. Rabinowitz family photographs

    Collection of photographs related to the experiences of the Rabinowicz family from Gorlice, Poland, who fled to Lwów before being deported to a labor camp near Novosibirsk. After their release in 1942 they moved to Kuybyshev, then to Jambul (today Taraz) in Kazakhstan. After the war the family returned to Poland before moving to the Heidenheim displaced persons camp; eventually they immigrated to Israel in July 1949.

  4. Deutscher Kleinempfänger [German small radio] produced in Nazi Germany

    Deutscher Kleinempfänger [German small radio] manufactured by G. Schaub in 1938. The radio was produced to help spread Nazi propaganda. It was made to sell at a low cost, so the majority of people could afford it. It lacked shortwave reception to make it difficult to receive foreign broadcasts. The radio was nicknamed Goebbels’ Schnauze [Snout], referring to the Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, who often addressed the public through radio.

  5. Abraham O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham O., who was born in Bia?ystok, Poland, in 1914. He describes the German occupation of Bia?ystok; the ghettoization of Bia?ystok and the round-ups of Jews that began several weeks later; building bunkers to hide from the Germans; and the routine Aktions and selections that characterized life in the ghetto. He discusses the liquidation of the ghetto, when he and his family went into hiding in a bunker; the formation of a small ghetto around the bunker; and the development of community life within this ghetto despite the difficult conditions. Mr. O. also relates ...

  6. Lewis S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lewis S., who was born in London, England in 1911 and emigrated to New York with his family in 1917. He recalls becoming a dental technician; serving in the military during the war in that capacity; obtaining a job in 1945 working in ORT schools in displaced persons camps in Europe to train dental technicians; working through UNRRA; living in Pasing, Germany; establishing many schools including in Feldafing, Landsberg, and Heidelberg; improving diet and conditions in DP camps whenever he could; meeting Germans who claimed they knew nothing of concentration camps in sp...

  7. Copy documents re the bombing of Schwarzheide concentration camp

    Copy documentation re the bombing of Schwarzheide concentration camp including various short articles on the subject; details of the units employed in the bombing raids; maps of the camp and environs;correspondence with archives re relevant holdingsGerman and English 

  8. Amtsgericht (District Court) of Stod

    The archive fonds contains archival records resulting from the activity of the Amtsgericht (District Court), which operated in the area of the judicial district of Stod during the German occupation, where also inhabitants of Jewish lived. Especially files with call No. EhR of the Heritage court, writings with call No. HRA and HRB of the Commercial register can be recommended for further inspection. It can be presumed that the Jewish-related matters could also be found in files with others call numbers. Searching can be simplified by preserved lists of names and registers kept for the indivi...

  9. Hermann Zutraun papers

    The collection documents the wartime experiences of Hermann Zutraum and his family, who survived the Holocaust in Ankara, Turkey. Included is a Red Cross inquiry from Hilde Strassburger to Martha Pick, Hermann’s wife Alice Murzynski’s aunt; a postcard sent to Martin Gabrielski in Berlin, Germany, from Hermann Zutraun in Ankara; and an envelope sent to Hermann’s aunt Else Zutraun in Berlin from Ankara.

  10. Defendants talk in dock at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 425) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, December 7, 1945. Prisoners enter courtroom in groups, take their places, greet each other and talk. The prisoners enter in the following order: Hermann Goering, Karl Doenitz, Rudolf Hess, Erich Raeder, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Baldur von Schirach, Wilhelm Keitel, Fritz Sauckel, Hjalmar Schacht, Hans Fritzsche, Walther Funk, Constantin von Neurath, Julius Streicher, Albert Speer, Wilhelm Frick, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Hans Frank, Franz von Papen, Alfred Rosenberg, Alfred Jodl (similar to scene in Story 2799, Film ID 2341).

  11. "Outpost" "Placówka"

    Contains copies of Placówka, a weekly newspaper for “the Polish village” published clandestinely in Warsaw in 1940. Topics include discussions of the war in general including war news in other theaters and U.S. efforts to build a war machine larger than Germany’s; the need for Polish farmers to retain their land at all costs; the efforts of the occupiers to substitute German and Soviet culture for Polish culture; Soviet deportations of Poles; a speech by the Pope; and plans for the postwar period (assuming the defeat of Germany), specifically that Poland should use German lands to solve agr...

  12. Health Insurance Agencies 355-4 Versicherungsbehörden

    Selected records of the Versicherungsbehörden (German Health Insurance Agencies), 1847-1954. Consist of minutes of director's meetings, records of employment of legal advisors, and for civil servant positions concerning German-Jewish community; negotiations between associations of dentists and health insurance companies about contracts and regulations, exclusion of the Jewish Hospital from the treatment of "Aryan" health insurance members, files relating of regulation for care for political prisoners in concentration camps, and compulsory insurance for guards of the concentration camps, and...

  13. תיעוד של בית משפט השלום (Amtsgericht) ב-Plettenberg (ווסטפליה)

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 12421267
    • English, Hebrew
    • Birth certificate Legal documentation Marriage certificate Official documentation Record of deportees Record of murdered persons Record of persecuted persons Record of survivors

    Repertory: Amtsgericht (district court) Plettenberg In the Collection are files including applications to Courts of Law in Westphalia for the recognition of death of local Jews who were deported to the East by the Nazis, and for whom no official Declaration of Death had been given. These applications (requests) were submitted in most part by the relatives of those who had perished, [and] who requested to receive claims for compensation from Germany. The files include the applications including details regarding those who perished and their deportation; correspondence with German authorities...

  14. Notársky úrad vo Fiľakove 1888 - 1944

    • Notary Office of Fiľakovo 1888 - 1944

    The agenda of the Notary Office of Fiľakovo holds records of the local administration in the period between 1888 and 1944, including materials on the Anti-Jewish measures during WWII, the persecution of Jews and the Aryanization of Jewish property in 1944. The archival collection contains the minutes of the town council of Fiľakovo, but researchers might find here also the statistics of the economic-social, national and religious life of the local population. Furthermore, the collection contains documents regarding the activity of the Jewish timber merchant, Samuel Grossmann. In box number ...

  15. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 5 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 5 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.

  16. Register of Bar/Bat Mitzvahs, weddings, funerals in Buenos Aires Crónica Bar/Bat Mitzvá-casamientos-entierros

    This collection documents bar/bat mitzvahs, weddings, and funerals at which Rabbi Hanns Harf officiated, providing a comprehensive resource for vital records of the Comunidad NCI (Nueva Comunidad Israelita)-Emanuel.

  17. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 10 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 10 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. Central Office of DAF Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF). Zentralbüero (NS 5 IV)

    Records of NS-5 IV. Correspondence and reports related to the aryanization of Jewish property; cases of individual Jews; denunciation of Jews, homosexuals, and political dissidents; and antisemitic public announcements.

  19. Lore Tobias photograph collection

    The collection consists of pre-war photographs depicting the Sussmann family of Alsbach-Hähnlein, Germany. Included are depictions of Ludwig Friedrich Sussmann in as a soldier in the German Army during World War I, and several family photographs from 1933-1938. Family members identified include: Ludwig Sussmann, Alfred, Sussmann, Emma Sussmann Weiss, Johanna Sussmann, Siegfried and Lilli Sussmann, Stephen Sussmann and Heinz Sussman. Also included is a depiction of the family home in Alsbach-Hähnlein.

  20. Card files of confiscated Jewish properties from the District of Lublin Kartoteka skonfiskowanych nieruchomosci żydowkich z Dystryktu Lubelskiego (Sygn. 243)

    Contains card files organized in alphabetical order by geographical place name. They contain the following information: date of confiscation; address and description of the property; and name of the Jewish owner. The properties were confiscated by the Germans and administrated by the Treuhandstelle.