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Language of Description: English

  1. Oral history interview with Oscar Trief

  2. Protectorate Police Batallion "Mähren" Prapor protektorátní policie Morava (B 303)

    Consists of the Kriegstagebuch (war diary) of the Protektoratspolizei-Batallion "Mähren," May 11, 1943 to January 29, 1944 and the Arrestbuch (prison log book) of the Protektoratspolizei-Batallion "Mähren," March 8, 1943 to February 6, 1944.

  3. Edmund F. Franz papers

    The Edmund F. Franz papers consist of records Franz collected while serving as the chief administrator of the U.S. Army's War Crimes Branch in Wiesbaden, Germany. The records include reports and English translations of statements and interrogation interviews with German war criminals, prisoners of war, and other witnesses recorded by U.S. Army investigators in 1945 in preparation for the Nuremberg trials. Some of the English materials are accompanied by German versions. The papers also include official U.S. Army photographs depicting scenes of atrocities at Buchenwald and Nordhausen concent...

  4. Irene G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irene G., who was born in Warsaw. She describes Polish antisemitism and anti-Jewish legislation; the German occupation; the arrest and disappearance of her father; and the establishment of and life in the Warsaw ghetto. She relates being smuggled out of the Warsaw ghetto into L?vov; her move to Brody, and her departure from there upon its ghettoization; living as a non-Jew with her mother, first in Przemys?l, then in a nearby town; and her sustaining hope that her small cousin would survive. Mrs. G. also tells of her liberation by the Russians; her postwar return home...

  5. Martha E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Martha E., who was born in Kazimierz Dolny, Poland in 1937. She recounts her family's affluence; German invasion; fleeing to the Soviet Union; living in Siberia; her aunt joining them; privileged status because her mother was a pharmacist; moving to Bukhoro; attending school; her father's two-year imprisonment; returning to Warsaw after the war; reunion with a cousin; moving to Munich; antisemitic harassment; moving to the Bremen displaced persons camp; emigration to the United States with assistance from HIAS; attending school; and marriage to a survivor.

  6. Archiv obce Řevnice

    • Archive of the Municipality of Řevnice / NAD 248

    The municipality archive originated from the activities of municipal administrative bodies. It contains deeds, official books, file material, and accounting material. Information on Jews can be found in the following documents: inv. no. 53 List of inhabitants 1851; inv. no. 57 List of inhabitants; inv. no. 66 List of issued laborers' books 1885–1920; inv. no. 78 Register of door-to-door salesmen 1898–1924; inv. no. 153 Refugees - support 1938–1939; inv. no. 154 Jews 1928–1945; Archive of the municipality of Řevnice - appendix I inv no. 9 Jews (possession of real estate) 1853.

  7. Eugen and Gertrude Schwarz family papers

    The Eugen and Gertrude Schwarz family papers consist of identification documents, affidavits, documents, and photographs relating to the Schwarz family. Also included is Ilse Weinberger's memior entitled "Story of My Life," a letter from Ilse to Vera Frankel, and a photograph of Ilse Weinberger, the maid of honor, at Eugen and Gertrude Schwarz's wedding, June 29, 1932.

  8. Nazi propaganda about Jews living in ghetto and disease

    Antisemitic propaganda film showing living and housing conditions in a Jewish ghetto in Poland (probably the Warsaw ghetto), typhus patients, and measures against the spreading of lice. Reel 2: Ghetto scenes (in Warsaw, according to Bundesarchiv annotation). Workers disinfecting clothes in large cage. 00:27:54 Man shaving heads and beards, clipping pubic hair. Very thin man seated, with glasses. Man in white coat. 00:28:22 Clothes removed from steamer. 00:28:44 Naked men and boys, very thin, in showers. Man (wearing glasses) in shower, soaping. Washing pubic areas. 00:29:20 Pan of children ...

  9. Henri D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henri D., who was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1930, one of three children. He recalls his family's affluence; attending a Jewish school; German bombardment on May 10, 1940; his parents paying and collecting all their debts; their flight with his uncle's family to Dunkerque, Paris, then Lacanau Océan; attending school; his father and uncle obtaining visas; traveling to Portugal; departing from Lisbon to the United States a month later; and joining relatives in New York. Mr. D. discusses the importance of luck to his and his family's survival; learning in the 1980s th...

  10. Willi E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Willi E., a Romani, who was born in East Prussia, Germany in 1927. He remembers traveling and performing prior to Hitler's ascent to power; racial laws requiring them to live in barracks in 1937-1938; persecution of Jews; deportation of young Romani men; his deportation to a prison camp in Bia?ystok; witnessing a mass killing of Jews in Brzesc Litewski (Brest); deportation to Auschwitz in 1943 (his mother and two siblings were gassed); slave labor; transfer to Bergen-Belsen in 1944; liberation by British troops in 1945; searching for relatives; marriage; and postwar h...

  11. Central British Fund for Germany Jewry. Agreement.

    Contains a printed legal form from the Central British Fund for German Jewry, four pages, spelling out the relationship between the Central British Fund and those who would act as guarantors to bring persecuted Jews from Germany to the United Kingdom. Undated, circa 1933-1939.

  12. JDC relief efforts for Jewish DPs

    Notes taken from NCJF documentation: Israel, people on ship and on dock, waving, smiling, people disembark, kiss as family members reunited. Max Fisher and Lou Pincus talk. Marseilles, Jews board ship. Nameless city, plane (alludes to Russia). Naples, plane. Geneva, woman at switchboard. Jewish Agency in Jerusalem. LS, Jerusalem, men in office, discussing, planning. Two men read teletype, phone calls between offices, nurses, food, ambulance, housing, bulldozer. Naples and Marseilles, emigration preparation, ship at dock, ship sets sail. Bus, man in office at phone, back to teletype, Planes ...

  13. Destruction in Berlin; Truman at Gatow airfield

    MCU, Berlin woman picking up firewood, wrecked cannon and bomb damage in BG. Bomb damage around Tiergarten. MLS, woman picking up stick for firewood. Bomb damage and debris. Civilians on bicycles. More bomb damage, civilian traffic. Wrecked vehicles, burnt-out car. Bomb damage, sign: "You are now leaving British Sector." Five star automobile passes camera. Sec. Byrnes shaking hands with civilians and general. MS, officer directs C-54 to parking place at Gatow. MS, President Truman disembarks C-54. President talking to Russian officers, walking in crowd. MS, President's car. Activity at Gato...

  14. Gizella K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gizella K., who was born in Budapest in 1907. She recalls her affluent childhood; pervasive antisemitism; her mother managing the family factory after her father's death; marriage; a daughter's birth; divorce and remarriage; her mother and daughter visiting the United States in 1939; difficulties getting them back after the war began; her second daughter's birth in 1943; learning her younger brother was killed in a forced labor battalion; her husband coming home almost nightly from his forced labor; placing her daughters in a convent; getting the younger child back; G...

  15. Sonia M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sonia M., who was born in Dolginovo, Poland, near Vilna. Mrs. M. describes working in a labor camp near her town after the war's outbreak; the slaughter of one thousand people in her town in 1942; and a second massacre, in which her mother was killed. She recalls life in the town's ghetto; her and her father's escape; and their joining partisans hiding in the woods. She recounts scouting enemy movements for the partisans; liberation in 1944 by the Russians; and her return home, where she found only one surviving sibling of four. Mrs. M. relates her psychosomatic respo...

  16. Черкаська біржа праці, м. Черкаси

    • Cherkasy Labour Registry Office, city of Cherkasy
    • Cherkaska birzha pratsi, m. Cherkasy

    Local administration documentation can contain information connected to the Holocaust. Titles and sizes of the selected files potentially related to the subject: File 1. List of employees and workers of the occupation bodies, establishments and organizations in Cherkasy. List of graduates from Cherkasy school for medical assistants. April-November 1942, 74 pages. File 2. List of employees and workers of the occupation bodies, establishments and organizations in Cherkasy. May 1942 – March 1943, 79 pages. File 3. List of employees and workers of the occupation bodies, establishments and organ...

  17. Personal archives of Maximilian Goldstein, researcher and collector of Jewish art

    Consists of personal documents of Maximilian Goldstein, including birth certificate, correspondence with relatives, friends and colleagues, catalogs of art exhibits, drafts of publications, and research papers.

  18. Ilona Foldes papers

    The Ilona Foldes papers consist of English and Hungarian versions of Foldes’ memoir, “The Unknown Destiny,” a postwar photograph of Ilona Foldes, a prewar photograph of her first husband, Arthur Révész, and three prewar and wartime photographs of their son, Paul Révész. The papers also include a clipping about the 1976 Hungarian film “Kísértet Lublón” (“Haunted Lublon” or “The Phantom on Horseback”) based on Mikszáth Kalman’s serial novel. The clipping was found among the photographs, and although its relationship with the photographs is unclear, it is considered part of the collection.

  19. Hilde G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hilde G., who was born in Boppard, Germany in 1926. She recalls a comfortable childhood; attending a Catholic school until 1936, when the nuns could no longer guarantee her safety; her older sister attending school in Cologne; her parents' decision to send her to England; her mother accompanying her to Spain (her father wept at their departure in Cologne); living with a Jewish family in Nottingham; attending private school; working for her foster parents from age fourteen due to the labor shortage caused by the war; hearing from her parents in 1941 after a two year si...

  20. Coal factory; workers

    Mining factory. INT, very dark, man fuels fire. Men shovel into the fire. A train with bars of coal drives by. The coal mining compound, INTs, EXTs, LS. CUs, signs warning of electricity and gas. Shots of the machinery and process and workers. 01:08:10 People boarding a train. Men sitting outside on break, smoking. Men at their lockers preparing to leave.