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  1. Hedy W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hedy W., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1905. She recalls studying piano at the conservatory; marriage in 1928; the births of two sons; the Anschluss; anti-Jewish regulations; her husband's imprisonment in Dachau for a year; transferring funds to Switzerland; obtaining Yugoslavian papers (his parents were Yugoslavs) resulting in her husband's release; traveling via Koprivnica to Zagreb, where they remained for two years; German invasion; fleeing to Split; returning to Zagreb; obtaining Bolivian papers; crossing from Sus?ak to Abbazia (now Opatija) in Italian terri...

  2. Cukier and Cohen families papers

    The collection primarily consists of correspondence of brothers Max Cohen and Charles Cohen, both of whom immigrated to the United States before World War II from Poland, from their nephews Jakub Cukier and Shmul Cukier. Early letters concern Max’s attempts to help Shmul immigrate to the United States in the early 1920s. Postwar letters from Jakub inform his uncle Charles that he and his older brother served with the Polish Army, were imprisoned, and that his parents and older brother all perished in the Holocaust.

  3. Vatikáni követség iratai, 1920-1944

    • Records of the Hungarian Embassy in the Vatican, 1920-1944

    The Hungarian Embassy in the Vatican was established in 1920 and represented the Hungarian state at the Holy See. It was neither a representative of the Hungarian churches, nor of the Roman Catholic Church and was therefore not a person belonging to the Church. He was sent by the Head of the Hungarian State and worked for the Foreign Ministry. The Ambassador was accredited at the Papacy, had to be reaccredited by each new Pope and had a canonical adviser as his aide. His main role was to represent the church policies of the Hungarian government, prepare the visits of Hungarian statesmen and...

  4. Esther Simpson correspondence and papers

    The main collection (items 1-1437) comprises Esther Simpson's personal papers, certificates, photographs, press-cuttings, miscellaneous documents, and correspondence to and from Esther Simpson, as received from her. Another large collection (15 boxes) of similar material from among her possessions, received after her death, remains unsorted and unlisted. Small collections received subsequently from other sources have been numbered - 1438-82, 1483-1501, 1502-33 - and are itemized in the handlist. The items date between 1918 and 1997.

  5. Gerhard B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gerhard B., a Romani. He recalls moving with his family from Silesia to the Sudentenland in 1937 or 1938; posing as non-Romanies (they dyed their hair red) as they performed in many places until 1942; arrest in Karlsbad in 1942; escaping to hide in Austria and Bavaria; and receiving assistance from German performers. Mr. B. describes fleeing from Nazi authorities with his sister and her baby, walking 400 kilometers during the night, hiding by day, and receiving help from many Czechs. He discusses his strong Romani identity; helpfulness of Jews to Romanies; conveying h...

  6. Joseph Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph Z., who was born in Vienna in 1918. He describes his childhood and youth, relating instances of antisemitism; the political situation in Austria before the Anschluss; the German occupation of Austria (which forced him to leave medical school); his subsequent training in tailoring and English and work in his father's tailor shop; his emigration to the United States via Paris and London with his parents and two younger sisters; and his service in the American army (he was drafted in 1942) interrogating German prisoners.

  7. Werner Rüdenberg: correspondence

    The correspondence consists of bundles which contain carbon copy letters of Werner and Anni Rüdenberg arranged chronologically by date of authorship with original letters from the respective correspondents by date of receipt. This is a relatively large collection of correspondence, a much of which covers Germany during the Nazi period. Yet, according to a sample reading, it appears that very little, if any, of the content documents the experiences of this Jewish family under the Nazis. It seems to be concerned overwhelmingly with the affairs of the family and friends and the experiences of ...

  8. Council of the Jewish community of Kaunas, Lithuania (Fond 1231)

    The collection consists of records of the Council of the Kaunas Jewish community in Lithuania, reflecting different aspects of the activities of the Jewish communities of Kaunas during the inter-war period and at the beginning of World War II. The collection includes correspondence with local and government authorities, the Ministry of Jewish Affairs, local Jewish communities across Lithuania regarding budget, tax collection, salaries of Jewish community officials, and their election. Also contains records related to Jewish schools; minutes of meetings; annual reports; budget proposals; car...

  9. Maurice Smith militaria collection

    Scope and content: Collection is comprised of memorabilia received or collected by Maurice Smith while performing military service in Italy and the Netherlands. Collection is divided into three series: Artefacts [between 1939 and 1945], Correspondence, photograph (1945) and Publications and ephemera (1944–1945).

  10. Albert Ganzenmueller

    As chief of the German Reichsbahn, Albert Ganzenmüller was responsible for the employment of deportation trains. In July 1942, he wrote a letter to Karl Wolff describing the deportation trains from Warsaw to Malkinia to Treblinka. Claude Lanzmann talks about the letter by Ganzenmueller in a short recording in French. FILM ID 4605 -- Ganzenmueller 1-6 Chemin de Fer

  11. Funeral and procession; ritual slaughter; synagogue

    Elaborate funeral: Body lying in state, many plantings and flowers, guards. Taking up the width of the street, the funeral procession includes Jewish police, rabbis in robes, horse-drawn hearse, mourners with banners. At cemetery, lowering casket, service, shots of mourners (three rabbis chanting, one woman completely draped in black). Microphone can be seen on left side, briefly, held above the mourners and grave markers, 01:59:24. Synagogue service: Worshippers pray. Torah is removed from the ark, men kiss it, then read from it. Shochet: In kosher style, kills chicken while woman watches ...

  12. Werner G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Werner G., who was born in Breslau, Germany (presently Wroc?aw, Poland) in 1920. He recalls antisemitic harassment in school; participating in socialist Jewish youth movements; his father's incarceration in Buchenwald; leaving school to help support his parents; an aborted attempt to escape to Czechoslovakia in 1936; traveling to Amsterdam via Luxembourg with assistance from a Jewish organization; his parents' emigration to Bolivia; his mother obtaining a Bolivian visa for him; emigration to join them; participating in anti-Nazi movements; his career as a publisher an...

  13. Peter Ornstein memoir

    Consists of one memoir, 30 pages, "Peter's Story: Surviving Auschwitz and a Death March," by Dr. Peter Ornstein, originally of Vienna, Austria. In his memoir, he describes wartime Vienna, being entrusted to neighbors as his mother and future stepfather had immigrated to China (with the intention that Peter and his two sisters would follow), and in 1939, to a convent when it became too dangerous. In 1942, they were relocated to a building used to collect potential deportees, but were released because their paternity (and thus degree of Jewishness) was questioned. In February 1944, Peter was ...

  14. Hermann Maas and Paul Rosenzweig: copy correspondence

    This is a collection of post-war copy correspondence between Hermann Maas, a German protestant minister, and two siblings, Jewish 'Mischlinge' emigrés, whom Maas helped to save from the Nazis.

  15. Földművelődésügyi Minisztérium, Általános iratok (1889-1944)

    • General Records of the Ministry of Agriculture (1889-1944)

    Besides the anti-Semitic laws introduced in Hungary in the late 1930s and early 1940s that were of a more general scope, there was also a more specific initiative to reduce the involvement of Jews in the sphere of agriculture with the aim of excluding them from the Hungarian soil. This drive found its major legal expression in law XV. of 1942, also called the fourth Jewish law. The collection titled General Records of the Ministry of Agriculture (1889-1944) contain the papers that were created during the operation of the chief departments of the Ministry of Agriculture. The papers have been...

  16. Funeral procession; Autobahn opening; bridges; parade in Rome

    05:37:40 Funeral of Abbey Schachleitner in Munich. "The entire Munich population is there." Long line of people; clear, sunny day. Floral wreaths. Exiting chapel with casket, funeral procession, SS marching. Gauleiter Wagner speaks at the cemetery about how the Abbey was "a believing Catholic and at the same time a fanatic National Socialist." Crowd heiling. Presenting memorial wreath on grave. (sync sound) 05:39:06 Opening of the Autobahn section Dresden-Merane. Rainy day. Hitler with entourage, greeting crowd, heiling, speaking, praises the achievement of the Autobahn and its workers. ".....

  17. Selected records of the Court of the First Instance in Nowe Miaste on Pilica Sąd Grodzki w Nowym Mieście nad Pilicą (Sygn. 1837)

    Court civil cases of the post-war period in Poland. The cases relate to Jews who were inhabitants of Nowe Miasto nad Pilicą and include records of possession, reconstruction of acts of marital status (certificates of birth, marriages and deaths), finding dead persons, and cases of inheritance.

  18. David L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David L., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1920. He speaks of his happy childhood, religious education, and Zionist activities. Noting prewar, wartime, and postwar antisemitism, he describes the German occupation; the ghettoization of Warsaw; and conditions and daily life in the ghetto. He recalls his escape from the railroad station while awaiting deportation; the desperation and fear alternating with resignation that characterized his life in hiding on the Aryan side in Warsaw and its suburbs for the next year and a half; his marriage, while in hiding, in May 1943;...

  19. Selected records from National Archives in Prague. Ministry of Interior, London, MV-L (JAF 828)

    Contains records relating to confiscation of Jewish properties, charges against Nazi leaders. Includes index cards and material on deportations mainly from Terezín (Theresienstadt), Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic).

  20. Reményi-Schneller Lajos pénzügyminiszter iratai, 1938-1944

    • Records of Finance Minister Lajos Reményi-Schneller, 1938-1944

    The Hungarian Ministry of Finance was headed by Lajos Reményi-Schneller (1892-1946) between 1938 and 1944, i.e. Reményi-Schneller served in this position in the successive governments of Darányi, Imrédy, Teleki (his second term), Bárdossy, Kállay, Sztójay, Lakatos and Szálasi. Reményi-Schneller even held the position of economic superminister (gazdasági csúcsminiszter) in the governments of Teleki, Bárdossy and Kállay. His policies were strongly in favor of Nazi Germany during the war years. In 1946, he was sentenced to death and executed as part of the Sztójay-trial. The collection contain...