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  1. Manfred Greiffenhagen lyrics

    Consists of typescript texts of seven poems and song lyrics written by Manfred Greiffenhagen while he was imprisoned in the Theresienstadt concentration camp, plus one text attributed to Leo Strauss. The typed texts are entitled "Marsch der Kadermaedel," "Die Juden on Bergen-Belsen," "Transport," "Die Ochsen," "Ich singe tief..," "Es War Einmal," and "Kasernenlied." Also includes a poem entitled "Als ob-," which was written by Leo Strauss. Some of the lyrics list that music has been written by Martin Roman.

  2. 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.

  3. Doni and Anna S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Doni S., who was born in Minsk, Russia, in 1900, and moved to Poland after the Revolution, and his wife Anna S., who was born in 1915. Mrs. S. describes how they met and married; Mr. S. describes his untroubled prewar life in Poland. They tell of their transport as slave laborers, along with their two small children, to Luban; the murder of their eighteen year old daughter, who had remained with her grandmother; their flight to the forest; and their life in hiding there, where they lived for two years with their two surviving children. They note they were hiding with ...

  4. Magyar Lapok [Newspapers]

    Selected issues of the antisemitic newspaper Magyar Lapok published in Oradea,Transylvania, 1936-1940. It was a successor of Erdélyi Lapok.

  5. Edward Stern collection

    This collect comprises mostly the personal papers of Edward Stern with reference to his school record, his employment history and his army record; also included are papers pertaining to his wife, Ellen and his father and mother, Heinrich and Erna.

  6. Bárdossy László miniszterelnök iratai

    • Personal Files of Prime Minister László Bárdossy

    László Bárdossy (1890-1946) was a diplomat, politician, foreign minister and then Prime Minister of Hungary between 1941 and 1942. He introduced the so called Third Anti-Jewish Law in 1941, which closely resembled the racial definitions of the Nuremberg Laws, banning marriage as well as sexual intercourse between Jews and non-Jews. The infamous massacre of Kamenets-Podolsk in 1941 took place during his time in office when the deportation initiated by Hungarian authorities led to the first Nazi mass murder with over 10 000 Jewish victims. Moreover, Hungary entered the war against Yugoslavia ...

  7. 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.

  8. Shmul and Szajndla Borensztajn collection

    Collection of photographs, documents, and correspondence relating to Shmul Borensztajn, from Warsaw, and Szajndla Lojwasser Borensztajn, from Izbica (donor's grandparents), who fled German-occupied Poland to Soviet territory with their children, Zygmunt, Jakob, Hershel, and Fela, along with Shmul’s parents, Sender and Chava Borensztajn. Zygmunt joined the Mir Yeshiva and reached Shanghai; Jakob was sent by the Soviets to Archangelsk, where he died. The rest of the Borensztajn family were deported to a forced labor camp in Siberia. Shmul and Szaindla were married in the camp with a ketubah, ...

  9. 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.

  10. 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...

  11. 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...

  12. 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 ...

  13. 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 ...

  14. 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...

  15. 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...

  16. 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-...

  17. 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.

  18. 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...

  19. 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.

  20. 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.