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  1. Seeligmann family papers

    The collection consists of identification photographs of members of the Seeligmann family and documents relating to the Seeligmann family who fled from Berlin, Germany, to Tianjin, China, in 1939.

  2. The remembrance

    Consists of the transcript for the oral history video "The Remembrance" by Norman Feld. "The Remembrance" concerns the experiences of the Feld family in Poland as they attempted to escape Nazi persecution during the Holocaust. The bulk of the transcript contains information on Feld family genealogy and the emigration of family members to the United States after World War II. The oral history interview was conducted with Norman Feld's father, Stephen Feld, his uncle, Mel Feld, and his aunt, Estelle F. Nadel.

  3. 157th Infantry Association records relating to the liberation of Dachau

    Contains information about the liberation of Dachau on 29 April 1945 by the 42nd and 45th U.S. Infantry Divisions. Additionally, donor Felix Sparks provides background on Dachau and his recollections of its liberation and aftermath (e.g., encounter with General George S. Patton Jr. over threatened courts martial of 45th Infantry Division members in connection with events during liberation). Also included are re-created excerpts of unit daily journals during the time of Dachau liberation with explanatory notes added by Sparks.

  4. Michael V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Michael V., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1936. He relates his family's long history in Hungary; his father's successful career as a textile businessman; the impact of anti-Jewish laws; his father's compulsory service in a Hungarian labor battalion and subsequent disappearance (he never saw his father again); German occupation in 1944; moving into a building designated for Jews; good relations with non-Jews; learning of deportations; obtaining false papers of protection from the Swiss consulate; living in a Vatican protected house; escaping a round-up of reside...

  5. Crayon drawing of a green leaved wreath with purple flowers made by a young girl while living in hiding

    Crayon drawing made by Betty Julia Ensel while she was living in hiding in the Netherlands. It depicts a wreath of green leaves and purple flowers. When Germany occupied the Netherlands in May 1940, three year old Julia lived in Amsterdam with her parents, Rose Marie Schink, who was not Jewish, and Guy Weinberg, who was Jewish. Rose Marie hid twelve Jews in the attic of her house in Blaricum and was in contact with the Dutch resistance movement. Julia attended school under her mother's maiden name in order to avoid suspicion about her Jewish ancestry. Julia, her mother, and all of the Jews ...

  6. Isaiah L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Isaiah L., who was born in Rozwado?w, Poland in 1906. Mr. L. describes his family of seven children; his father's plan to assist the children to obtain an education despite their poverty; attending dental school; and hearing a speech by Vladimir Jabotinsky in 1928 urging Jews to emigrate to Palestine. He recalls the Russian occupation followed by the German; being helped by numerous Ukrainian friends and patients to hide, with members of his family and alone, in many places, including the forest and a pig sty; running a clinic in a ghetto under the auspices of the Jud...

  7. Liebauthal Textile Works, Fischer and Co., GP, Libavské Údolí

    The fonds contains documents from the Liebauthal textile factories of Fischer and Co., Libavské Údolí from 1938 to 1950. Since these are documents of the Aryanised company, originally Noë Stross joint-stock company, United Textile Factories in Libavské Údolí and Bělá pod Bezdězem, a large number of documents are related to Jewish history. Matters pertaining to Aryanisation, its circumstances and its consequences are located mainly in part I. of the fonds. These include mainly Aryanisation contracts from 1939, transfers, buy-offs and payouts of shares in connection with the Aryanisation proc...

  8. Records of the Deutsche Strafanstalt Nowy Wiśnicz (Sygn. 109)

    Contains information about the general administration of the German prison in Nowy Wiśnicz, Poland, including the treatment of Jewish prisoners, the sentencing of prisoners, and matters relating to prison staff. In addition, the collection contains information about agriculture, economics, and air defense in the General Government region.

  9. Chana S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chana S., who was born in Da?browa Go?rnicza, Poland. She recalls attending business school in Sosnowiec; German invasion; volunteering for forced labor in 1941 so her sister would not have to go; slave labor in Gru?nberg; assistance from the camp elder and a neighbor from home; a death march to Bergen-Belsen in winter 1944/45; an aborted escape attempt; a beating; not reporting deaths in order to obtain additional rations; contracting typhus; liberation (she was not conscious); returning to Poland seeking relatives (only two cousins survived out of her family of 200)...

  10. M.41.GAOOMog - Documentation from the State Archive of the Public Organizations in the Mogilev Region

    M.41.GAOOGO - Documentation from the State Archive of the Public Organizations in the Mogilev Region History of the State Archive of the Public Organizations in the Mogilev Region The regional Archive of the Communist Party was established in Mogilev in March 1940. Before its establishment, the responsibility for the conservation of the Communist Party documents was imposed on the History Department starting in 1925, and as of 1927 the responsibility was imposed on the Communist Party Archive of the Mogilev region. During the period of the Great Patriotic War (World War II), the documentati...

  11. Συλλογή Αμίρ Μωύς

    • Amir Moys Collection
    • Syllogi Amir Moys

    A collection of 1.100 photos related to the postwar life and activities of the Jewish Community in Thessaloniki and a small collection of documents related to the local Jewish Community. The photos concern social and religious events of the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki, mainly from 1960’s and 1970’s. The photographs were shot by Panos Tsiftsis, who maintained photo studio on Tsimiski Street. The photos were sold and distributed by Amir. The collection contains also some personal documents of Amir, as well as invitations and announcements of the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki.

  12. German victory at Kiev

    "The Great Encirclement in the Ukraine" Map showing Kiev and surrounding areas, where a great German victory occurred on September 26, 1941. A triangle appears on the map around Kiev as the narrator describes the size of the area and the defeat and surrender of five Soviet armies. Footage of German soldiers and tanks taken during the "decisive hours of the battle." Quality somewhat grainy and contrast-y. Destruction, vehicles burning, burning oil in the streets. Masses of damaged war material. Troops and tanks moving across a field. German antiaircraft gunners aim and shoot down a Soviet pl...

  13. Hans N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hans N., who was born in Hannover, Germany in 1921. He describes his youth in an assimilated and comfortable family with a strong Germany identity; little or no antisemitism prior to Hitler's rise to power; the dramatic change and his efforts to avoid drawing attention to himself as a Jew; expulsion from his sports club; hearing of concentration camps; expulsion from school in 1936; working for a non-Jewish acquaintance; and non-Jewish friends who assisted in his emigration. He recalls two Americans who also helped; his parents accompanying him to New York in 1937; at...

  14. Erika F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Erika F., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1937. She describes her older sister and extended family; her father's draft into a forced labor battalion; no contact with non-Jewish children; receiving help from a non-Jewish aunt; living in a Swedish safe house; escaping a round-up; hiding with her non-Jewish aunt; observing corpses and destruction in the streets; Soviet liberation; learning of her father's death; her mother's remarriage to an Auschwitz survivor; moving to Baj; her affection for her stepfather; the Hungarian Revolution of 1956; her stepfather's death;...

  15. Recovery activities sponsored by the Economic Cooperation Administration

    The Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA) was a U.S. government agency set up in 1948 to administer the European recovery program (Marshall Plan). EXT man on a horse-drawn mower in a field. Men clear grass by hand with scythes. Farm building and truck. Women hoeing. CU women stop to talk. Men load hay onto a truck. Truck drives away. Courtyard with men moving large sacks. Men and women work on farm machinery and bag grain. (04:09) Slate reads “DAY 3 EXT 1 ECA.” CU root vegetables. Three horses pull a cart full of root vegetables as a man walks alongside. Truck dumpsload of root vegetabl...

  16. Robert Sejwacz Collection

    Contains one postcard with a photograph of the donor, Robert Sejwacz, and his mother Freida Sejwacz. The photograph was taken in Paris to send to Robert's father Walek, who was in the French army awaiting combat. Another copy of the photograph was sent to Walek, and had an inscription on the back.

  17. Georgia, Caucasus Mountains, circa 1933

    Horseback riding in mountains, a group of men and women together at a table on a terrace, eating. LS of country home, nurses seated at a table on the terrace, examining the woman, they ask her questions, write down her responses, etc. They seem to be bourgeoisie on vacation in the mountains. ** This reel has an incorrect title, because the can for this reel was mislabeled; this is actually footage from the early 1930s, shot in Georgia, in the Caucasus Mountains.

  18. Jack P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack P., who was born in Koniecpol, Poland in 1915. He speaks of prewar family life; moving as a boy to the larger town of Częstochowa; his family's flight after the German occupation in 1939; and their return a short time later to the beginning of ghettoization. He relates his and his brother's flight to Russian occupied territory and his return to Częstochowa in 1941 to be with his parents. He discusses life in the ghetto; the liquidation of the Częstochowa ghetto; his selection for slave labor in factories in the remaining "small ghetto"; his unsuccessful attemp...

  19. Morris K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Morris K., who was born in Pruz?h?any, Poland. Mr. K. describes the Russian occupation, after which he was made the manager of a department store; the German occupation of Pruz?h?any; the Judenrat and confinement in a ghetto; and a confrontation between German officers and partisans which led to the liquidation of the ghetto and Mr. K's deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau. He details his injury during an enemy bombing and his subsequent narrow escape from the crematoria; the death march to Mauthausen; slave labor in Melk; his liberation from Ebensee; brief visits to Ger...

  20. Soroca County Tribunal

    • Tribunal judeţean Soroca
    • Сорокский уездный трибунал
    • Sorokskiy uyezdnyy tribunal

    Charges of the residents of Soroca county violating public order; crarges of assisting in escaping of arrested persons; cases on accusations of intelligence activities in favor of the USSR; cases on speculation in foreign currency; cases on accusations in embezzlement; cases on charges of false denunciation; cases on charges of insulting the Romanian nation; cases on charges of illegal border crossing from the USSR to Romania; a case on expropriating the property of a citizen, repressed by the Soviet power et al.