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  1. GIBEROVITCH, Myra : Contributions of Montreal Holocaust Survivor Organizations to Jewish Communal Life

    The sound portion of the collection consists of 49 audio tapes, 1987-1990. There are transcripts of many of the interviews. The other textual records consist of background materials for her M.A. thesis, "The Contribution of Montreal Survivor Organizations to Jewish Communal Life" (McGill School of Social Work, 1988), with information on key participants from Canada's large community of Holocaust survivors. The collection includes issues of The Voice of Survivors (magazine), 1963, 1966 and Voice of Radom (magazine), 1980-1987.

  2. The Gideon Hausner Collection: The prosecutor in the Eichmann Trial, 1960-1965

    In the Record Group there is a collection submitted to Yad Vashem by Gideon Hausner, the prosecutor in the Eichmann Trial. The Record Group includes protocols from the Eichmann Trial, files of documentation gathered by the prosecution in preparation for and during the trial, correspondence between the prosecution and various bodies, as well as newspaper clippings regarding the trial. The Record Group also includes a detailed psychological opinion regarding Eichmann.

  3. Gideon Poraz Posner collection

    The collection consists of pre-war and post-war depictions of the Posner family, including Salomon Posner and his wife Sabina Posner, and their daughter Ester Tusia Posner, both of whom perished during the Holocaust. Also includes photographs of Salomon's son Gideon (b. 1948) and his second wife Janka Raduszycka.

  4. Gijsbertus Nicholaas Van der Bijl papers

    The Gijsbertus Nicholaas Van der Bijl papers consists of a permission card for bathing, 1944; a displaced persons identification card issued by the Allied Expeditionary Force for "Nich. V.D. Byl." [Gijsbertus Nicholaas Van der Bijl], undated; a photograph of Gijsbertus Van der Bijl at age 24, 1938; and two studio portraits of Van der Bijl as a child, August 2, 1926 and 1932.

  5. Gijsbertus V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gijsbertus V., a non-Jew, who was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands in 1915. He recounts attending school until age twelve; working for the Holland-America Line on ships, traveling many places; in 1939 working in a Rotterdam restaurant; German bombardment in 1940; losing his job due to the massive destruction; baptism as a Jehovah's Witness in June 1940; working as a preacher in Haarlem; arrest in Heemstede; incarceration in Scheveningen; his refusal to cease proselytizing in order to obtain his release; three months in solitary confinement; deportation to several prison...

  6. Gilbert and Beatrice Paul papers

    The papers consist of certificates, identification cards, and correspondence relating to Gilbert and Beatrice Paul and their experience during and after the Holocaust.

  7. Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus collection

    Consists of photographs, copyprints, identity paperwork, publications, and typed proceedings related to the work of Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus to bring 50 children (later referred to as "the 50 Children") from Vienna to the United States in 1939. Includes photographs and copies of the trip and arrival of the children, original identity paperwork (including visas and passports) for the children, and publications and typed proceedings related to the 1939 and 1940 Brith Sholom annual conference. Also includes a wartime story handwritten by Ellen Kraus (daughter of Gilbert and Eleanor) about her...

  8. The Gilbert Collection: Documentation written by senior Nazi war criminals in detention during the Nuremberg Trials

    In the collection there are interviews with these Nazi leaders and officials, as well as essays and manuscripts written by them while they were imprisoned during the trials. Among other items in the documentation:- Hans Michael Frank, Governor of the Generalgouvernment, who described his experiences and personal encounters with Hitler; - The diary of Rudolf Hess, Hitler´s deputy in the Nazi party, written during his imprisonment in England and notes he prepared for a declaration before the trial;- Article by Alfred Rosenberg regarding the persecution of the Jews; - Bibliographical notes by ...

  9. Gilbert H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gilbert H., who was born in Paris, France in 1941. He speaks of his parents, who emigrated to France from Warsaw; his father's arrest and deportation to Auschwitz in 1941; his mother's arrest seven months after his birth; hiding with his grandparents in Parisian suburbs with assistance from French non-Jews; his grandfather's arrest and deportation to Auschwitz; fleeing with his grandmother to Lyon; hiding in a small town near the Swiss border; his grandfather's return after liberation; and emigration with his grandparents to Argentina after they learned his parents ha...

  10. Gilbert Leidervarger and Donoff family collection

    The collection consists of eleven hand stamps, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Gilbert Leidervarger, his wife Suzanne, and his in-laws, Lina, David, Robert, Nelly, and Rosette Donoff, when they were active in forgery activities for the French resistance during the German occupation of France in World War II.

  11. Gilberte Guez Khayat certificate

    Certificate of Primary School Studies issued to Simcha Gilberte Guez (donor) in Tunis, Tunisia.

  12. Gilberte W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gilberte W., who was born in Paris, France in 1913. She recounts that her mother was a French Catholic and her father a German Jew; visiting her paternal grandparents in Germany when World War I started; her father's draft into the German military; living in several places including Rastatt, Mannheim, then Magdeburg; attending a convent school; living with her paternal grandfather after her grandmother died; attending Friday night services with him and church on Sunday with her mother; moving to Leipzig, then Vienna; marriage to a Jew in 1935; the Anschluss; obtaining...

  13. Gilda Moss Haber photographs

    Consists of five photographs taken at the White House youth hostel in Great Chesterford, England. Most of the children living at the youth hostel came to England on Kindertransports.

  14. Gilda Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gilda Z., who was born in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland in approximately 1916. She recounts her mother's death when she was a baby; her father's remarriage; moving to Ciechocinek; joyous holiday celebrations; living briefly with relatives in Łódź; German invasion; fleeing with her brother to Soviet territory; seeing her future husband in Brest; exile to a work camp in the Archangelʹskai︠a︡ region of Siberia; imprisonment after a failed escape attempt; traveling with her brother to Tashkent; encountering her future husband again; forced labor; marriage; her son's bir...

  15. Gilden Meyer papers relating to Wöbbelin

    Contain matierals relating to the Wöbbelin concentration camp. They include a speech delivered at the burial service for victims of Wöbbelin on 08 May 1945; copies of the speech by Harry C. Cain, US Army Directory of Military Government (G-5), from the aforesaid booklet; an audiotape version of the speech read by Meyer Gilden; and a color copy of a painting of the memorial at Wöbbelin with Cain's speech inscribed. *See the Meyer Gilden donor file for more detailed information about the painting.

  16. Gilel Storch: copy correspondence and article re Storch's war-time activities

    This collection comprises two separate deposits both made by Hilel (Gilel) Storch, a Latvian Jew and Swedish resident, who helped save the lives of thousands of European Jews during the Nazi era.The earlier deposit (765/1-2) consists of two folders of copy correspondence with enclosures between Storch and two historians, Gerald Fleming and Monty N. Penkower respectively. The later deposit (765/3) is a copy article with translation about the life of Hilel Storch. In order to place the contents of these files in context there followers a brief resumé of Hilel Storch's life and war-time activi...

  17. Gilgil detention camp photos

    Collection of photographs from Gilgil Detention Camp, Kenya, dated 1947-1948. Includes photographs of members of the Etzel (or Irgun) and Lehi organizations while they were detained in Gilgil, Kenya. Images depict theater shows, the synagogue in the camp, a football team, raising the flag of Israel in a sports court, dormitories, detainees near an aircraft upon their return to the country, and more. Some photographs bear ink stamps on verso.

  18. GIMNAZIJA "MATIJA MESIĆ" U SLAVONSKOM BRODU

    • Matija Mesic High School (comprehensive) in Slavonski Brod

  19. Gina Bilander collection

    Album of copy prints of donor's father and his twin brother as well as other family members in prewar Łódź, Poland. Donor's father immigrated to the United States in 1936. He was one of nine children in the family. Original photos of Herman Goering taken in 1945 when donor's father was a Private 1st class member of the 253rd Engineering Corp under General Patton during WWII. Their platoon guarded Herman Goering after his capture in 1945. Photograph of donor's father wearing his army uniform taken in Germany in 1945, signed by donor's father for his wife.

  20. Gina E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gina E., who was born in Grajewo, Poland in 1905. She describes her childhood during and after World War I in Bia?ystok and Warsaw; her family's move to Berlin in 1928; and the institutionalized and legalized discrimination against Jews after 1933. She recounts the mandatory return of most of her family to Poland, including her brother, who was eventually deported to Auschwitz; her mother's hospitalization and eventual deportation; and the role of Berlin's Jewish communal organization in assisting the Nazis. Mrs. E. speaks of her forced labor in a factory; the entranc...