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  1. Gertrude S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gertrude S., who was born in Wuppertal, Germany in 1914, the oldest of two sisters. Ms. S. recounts her father serving as a physician in World War I; vacations in Bad Kreuznach; seeing Hitler speak at a rally; exclusion from university attendence because she was Jewish; being sent to live with relatives in Amsterdam in 1932; becoming engaged to a German refugee; returning to Germany for her wedding in December; her father and grandfather losing their ability to earn a living due to anti-Jewish laws; her parents and sister joining her in Amsterdam; her son's birth; her...

  2. Gertrude S. Ogushwitz collection

    Contains photocopies of a deportation list of Hungarian women taken to Auschwitz concentration camp and computer print outs of genealogical information for Janka and Etelka Weisz.

  3. Gertrude Schneider

    Gertrude Schneider was a Viennese Jew deported with her family to the Riga ghetto. The interview, which also includes Schneider's mother and sister, covers topics such as the perception of Viennese Jews by Latvian Jews, sex and pregnancy in the ghetto, and the March 26, 1942 deportation Aktion. At Lanzmann's urging, the women sing several Yiddish songs they learned in the ghetto. FILM ID 3221 -- Camera Rolls #3,4,5 -- 01:01:00 to 01:26:41 CR 3: A few seconds of a street scene in New York, then Dr. Gertrude Schneider is shown sitting on her couch. Lanzmann asks her why she wrote her book abo...

  4. Gertrude Tausinger: family papers

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access this digital materialThis collection contains the family papers of Gertrud Tausinger, a Jewish refugee from Vienna who emigrated with her husband to the UK via Prague in 1939. The couple's business and that of her parents were seized shortly after Austria was annexed into the German Third Reich and they were forced to emigrate. Personal papers including birth, baptism, marriage and death certificates; passports, "Heimatschein", ID and membership cards; tax clearance certificate; "Abstammungsnachweis" certificate; alien registration c...

  5. Gertrude Wellisch: Correspondence re emigration

    Correspondence relating to the establishment of a guarantor for Gertrude Wellisch, an Austrian Jewish refugee, including letters between various agencies and the prospective guarantor.

  6. Gertrude Winter collection

    Gertrude Winter collection of drawings, documents, notebooks, correspondence. Gertrude Winter was born on February 28, 1905. She was a first-and second grade teacher for girls at the "Volksschule der Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde Wien," which was located in the Castellezgasse in Vienna. The school was closed in the summer of 1941. The content of the collection includes drawings, poems and essays. There are also nine notebooks with between 22-48 pages of writing. In addition there are 11 photographs of the students and teacher. Altogether 35 of the children can be identified by their names. ...

  7. Gesamtverband Deutscher Antikommunistischer Vereinigungen

    Writings, reports, and clippings, relating to the international communist movement and to Jews.

  8. Gessner returns to ruins in Egypt

    Men rowing a boat along a river. A young boy stands on rocks, looking at the camera. Other boys float along in small boats. Some swim through the water. People on the banks of the river walk past, looking at the camera. A boy jumps from a wall into the water and swims towards the boat. 01:07:19 A man looks at the Aswan Dam from ground level. Water forcefully runs through the dam. Gessner’s friend on top of the dam points outwards. Another boy jumps into water. Young children use hand paddles to move their small boats along in a line formation through the water. 01:08:17 Gessner? rides a don...

  9. Gessner visits ancient ruins in Egypt

    Ancient ruins in Egypt, possibly part of the Karnak Temple complex. Huge columns with Egyptian inscriptions and figures. A young girl leans against the ruins. WS camera pans right on the ruins. An obelisk rises from the ruins. Various desert hills and cliffs. 01:01:45 The Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut. People, piles of rubble, and wagons. People holding baskets walk around on uneven terrain. A man uses a pickax to hack away at the earth. 01:02:29 Colossi of Memnon, the giant stone statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III. Two cows rotating a wheel followed by a young unclothed boy holding a w...

  10. Gessner visits Italy

    In Pompeii, three men, two in uniform and one in a suit outside of the entrance. The building reads “ENTRATA IN POMPEI”. 01:02:53 A man in a suit (friend of Gessner) walks along the entry road to Pompeii. 01:03:01 Gessner faces the camera and takes a photo before walking up the road and waving for the his friend to follow him. The friend stands in the ruins of the basilica at Pompeii. 01:03:15 Gessner in the ruins of the basilica. 01:03:25 Sign reads “TEMPLUM APOLLINIS”, the Temple of Apollo. Gessner stands on a block next to a colonnade, bronze sculpture. The other man walks across elevate...

  11. Gessner visits Moscow

    Gessner enters a doorway through two Red Army soldiers after one looks at his papers. 01:05:40 WS of the House of the Unions [Дом Союзов] in Moscow, Russia. Sign beneath reads ““Всесоюзный Съезд Советских писатепей”[All-Soviet-Union Meeting of the Soviet Writers].Three other banners hang from the building with quotes from Maxim Gorky Писатели- Это Инженеры Человеческих Душ [Writers are Enginеers of Human Souls]. 01:05:48 Gessner walks through a doorway again, pulling out his papers to show to the soldier. He looks back at the camera and flashes his papers. A young boy and girl talk to each ...

  12. Gestapo and murder of Jews discussed at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 458) US Prosecutor Col. Robert G. Storey tells of the Gestapo's part in Germany's attack on Poland ("attack" on the Gleiwitz radio station) and how the Gestapo and SD murdered thousands of Jews in occupied countries. CU, chart indicating the number of Jews murdered in the Baltic States and parts of Russia and Poland. Side view of Tribunal as Chief Justice Geoffrey Lawrence announces adjournment of court. LS, Tribunal, spectators, and others standing up and leaving courtroom.

  14. Gestapo Brno (B 340)

    Investigative and arrest files as well administrative records of the Gestapo Brno. The investigative and arrest files concern mostly Czech individuals arrested on a variety of charges such as making anti-German remarks, listening to foreign radio broadcasts, sabotage, malingering, anti-social behavior, possession of arms, miscegenation, and other charges. The records also contain documentation pertaining to Gestapo actions against Czech resistance groups and Jews, the disbandment of Czech organizations, the confiscation of properties and assets, and situation reports including from Czech in...

  15. Gestapo Düsseldorf Geheime Staatspolizei-Staatspolizeileitstelle Düsseldorf (RW 0058)

    Case files of individuals arrested by the Gestapo in the Rhine Land region, consisting of questionnaires, protocols, internments and dismissals, Schutzhaft orders, arrest orders, flyers, photographs, and biographical information with particular focus on the Communist Party in Germany and associated political organizations (Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands (KPD), Kommunistischer Jugendverband Deutschlands (KJVD), Kampfbund gegen den Faschismus, Roter Frontkämpferbund (RFB), Revolutionäre Gewerkschaftsopposition (RGO), Rot Sport, Aufbruch-Arbeitskreis, Ringbolschewisten); the Communist move...

  18. Gestapo Headquarter Vienna : Daily Reports Gestapo Leitstelle Wien : Tagesrapporte

    Contains the daily arrest reports of the Gestapo Vienna, the originals of which are held by the Dokumentationsarchiv des österreichischen Widerstandes (DÖW) and the Bundesarchiv Berlin.

  19. Gestapo HQ Berlin: copy order re dissolution of B'nai Brith, Berlin

    Copy order from the Gestapo Headquarters, Berlin, to the chair of the B'nai Brith, Berlin, stating that B'nai Brith will be dissolved forthwith and that all the organisation's property will be confiscated (19 Apr 1937) copy nd