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  1. Auswanderungsfragebögen, P und S - Z

    1. Fürsorgezentrale der IKG Wien, Auswanderungsabteilung

    Auswanderungsfragebögen, alphabetisch nach Familiennamen geordnet, Buchstaben P und Buchstaben von S bis Z Fragebogen für Auswanderer (Angaben: Name, Geburtsdatum, jüdische Abstammung, Familienstand, Auswanderung weiterer Familienmitglieder, Auswanderung von Familienangehörigen seit dem 23. März 1938, gestellte Auswanderungsanträge von welchen Familienangehörigen, Auswanderungsziel, voraussichtliches Auswanderungsdatum, Lösung der Schiffskarte bei welcher Schifffahrtsgesellschaft, Beruf, geplante Tätigkeit im Ausland, Staatsangehörigkeit, ab wann ständiger Wohnsitz in Österreich, Höhe des J...

  2. Dokumentation zum Schicksal der Juden in Deutschland 1933-1945

    Bestandsbeschreibung Die Zeitgeschichtliche Sammlung „Dokumentation zum Schicksal der Juden in Deutschland 1933 - 1945" gelangte 1969 in das Bundesarchiv und bildete die Quellenbasis für die Herausgabe des „Gedenkbuches - Opfer der Verfolgung der Juden unter der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft 1933 - 1945". Seit 1960/61 bestand auf Initiative der Gedenkstätte Yad Vashem in Jerusalem ein diesbezüglicher Auftrag des BMI an das Bundesarchiv unter Einbeziehung des Internationalen Suchdienstes des Roten Kreuzes in Bad Arolsen (ITS). Im Gegensatz zum Bundesarchiv befinden sich im ITS zah...

  3. Bequest Peter Gingold

    Peter Gingold was born in Aschaffenburg on March 8, 1919. His family was Polish and Jewish and he grew up in Frankfurt (Main). There, he completed a commercial apprenticeship at a big music retail business in 1930. He joined the union Zentralverband Deutscher Angestellter (ZDA) (Central Association of German Employees) and in 1931, the Kommunistischer Jugendverband Deutschlands (KJVD) (Communist Youth League Germany). In 1933, Gingold was arrested in a SA raid. With the help of friends, he fled via the Saarland to Paris where his family had already emigrated some months before. He proceeded...

  4. Axen, Hermann

    Bestandsbeschreibung 6.3.1916 in Leipzig geboren 1932 Mitglied des KJVD, Mitglied der UB-Leitung Leipzig Nov. 1934 Verhaftung und im Oktober 1935 Verurteilung durch das OLG Dresden wegen Vorbereitung zum Hochverrat" 1935-1937 Inhaftierung im Zuchthaus Zwickau 1938 Emigration nach Frankreich/Paris 1940-1942 Internierung, u.a. in Le Vernet, und Auslieferung an die Gestapo Aug. 1942-1945 Inhaftierung im KZ Auschwitz, ab Jan. 1945 im KZ Buchenwald, Leiter der illegalen Lagerleitung in Auschwitz und Mitglied der illegalen KPD-Leitung in Buchenwald Okt. 1945-Febr. 1946 Leiter des Jugendausschusse...

  5. Inge Deutschkron

    Inge Deutschkron, a German Jew who appears only briefly in Lanzmann's completed film, witnessed the increasing persecution and violence in Berlin, including the promulgation of the Nuremberg Laws and Kristallnacht. Her father escaped to England but she and her mother remained behind and went into hiding in 1943. Lanzmann interviews her in a coffee house in Berlin in which she remembers seeing a "Jews Not Wanted" sign during the Nazi years. FILM ID 3420 -- Camera Rolls #1-3 -- 01:00:08 to 01:33:06 CR 1 Inge Deutschkron sits in a café speaking with Lanzmann. She expresses feeling strange, sin...

  6. Namiestnik Rzeszy w Okręgu Kraju Warty w Poznaniu [Der Reichsstatthalter im Reichsgau Wartheland Posen]

    • akta administracyjne (materiały dot. działalności i organizacji urzędu: plany organizacyjne, podziały czynności; korespondencja i wytyczne w sprawach sprawozdawczości; wykaz urzędów niemieckich w Okręgu Kraju Warty; sprawy dot. polskiego i żydowskiego majątku na terenie Kraju Warty: zestawienia majątków ziemskich należących do przedstawicieli różnych grup narodowościowych; komasacja małych gospodarstw polskich w powiecie Wieluń; rozporządzenia, wytyczne, okólniki i korespondencja dot. konfiskaty mienia Polaków i Żydów; sprawy dot. kwestii narodowościowych: zestawienia ludności według grup...

  7. Więzienie w Radomiu

    • Deutsche Strafanstalt Radom
    • Gefängnis Radom
    • Prison in Radom

    Arkusze ewidencyjne więźniów (uporządkowane w ramach poszczególnych liter alfabetu)

  8. Zbiór materiałów do dziejów ludności żydowskiej w Łodzi. 1939-1944

    • Collection of materials on the history of the Jewish population of Łódź

    Na zbiór dokumentów administracji getta łódzkiego składają się m.in.: - materiały ogólne urzędu: obwieszczenia i zarządzenia Przedstawiciela III Rzeszy w Kraju Warty, biuletyny niemieckiej administracji miasta Łodzi 1940-1944; - sprawozdania, raporty miesięczne 1942; - spisy zatrudnionych w administracji z 1941-1942 r., przydziały dla Sonderkommando SS w Chełmnie nad Nerem oraz dla uczestniczących w akcjach specjalnych 1942-1943; - sprawozdania finansowe administracji getta 1941-1944; - korespondencja ogólna z urzędami niemieckimi i z kancelarią Rumkowskiego 1940-1941; - meldunki gestapo o ...

  9. Eichmann Trial -- Session 41 -- Witness Dr. Grueber re: knowing Eichmann during the war and concentration camps

    Session 41. Dr. Servatius complains that the numerous witnesses from abroad fall within various courts, and that it would take too much time to attain all of these witnesses, their affidavits, and their testimony. They list the witnesses whose addresses they do not yet have. That court will make the request to the German courts, and Dr. Servatius says that his assistant will attempt to do just that. Attorney General Hausner requests that the Defense be instructed to supply the names of all of the witnesses to be questioned, as it is becoming global. The Judges agree. Dr. Servatius says that...

  10. Embroidered tea cozy used by Austrian Jewish refugees to store family correspondence

    1. Goldstein family collection

    Tea cozy used in Belgium by Regina Goldstein, the mother of twin boys, Bruno and Jack, to store correspondence and documents written by Goldstein family members in Debica and Opole, Poland, who were unable to escape their German occupied country. Most of them did not survive the Holocaust. Bruno and Jack were 6 years old at the time and used some of the letters for drawing paper. Their family fled Austria in 1939. Their father was deported to Gurs internment camp after the German occupation of Belgium in May 1940. The family avoided deportation in 1942,but at the end of 1942, their mother c...

  11. Ratafia family papers

    1. Tema de Ratafia collection

    The Ratafia family papers primarily relate to the post-war experiences of Tema, Lazarz, George, and Helene Ratafia in Poland and France. The collection includes biographical papers, immigration documents, publications, and photographs. There is some material related to relatives the Ratafia family of Warsaw, Poland as well as Tema’s family, the Ginzburgs of Wilno, Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania). The biographical material includes birth certificates, passports, marriage certificates, and immigration and naturalization papers. Tema’s papers include documents regarding her false name and Chri...

  12. Fritz Gluckstein papers

    1. Fritz P. Gluckstein collection

    The Fritz Gluckstein papers include identification papers, permits, and immigration papers for Fritz Gluckstein, a certificate documenting his father’s receipt of a World War I veteran’s medal, two photographs of Fritz Gluckstein and his family, and an announcement for the first Passover seder held in Berlin since 1932. Fritz Gluckstein materials include a 1942 report card; 1942‐1944 permits and notices documenting Gluckstein’s employment, release from the Rosenstrasse holding camp, use of the S‐Bahn, and exclusion from military service; and authorization, identification, and travel papers ...

  13. Barbie Trial -- Day 14 -- Witnesses testify

    13:42 President Cerdini calls the session to order; asks that the accused present himself; Barbie refuses to appear; Cerdini calls on the bailiff to compel the accused to appear 13:43 The bailiff reads the names of the witnesses scheduled to give testimony in the session 13:45 Cerdini suspends the session while the bailiff goes to Barbie to compel him to appear 14:12 Cerdini calls the session to order; the bailiff reads Barbie's statement, explaining that he refuses to appear; one of the witnesses scheduled to appear has not responded to contact attempts, and is not present 14:16 President ...

  14. Josef Kohout/Wilhelm Kroepfl papers

    1. Josef Kohout/Wilhelm Kroepfl collection

    Contains correspondence, camp vouchers, identification cards, certificates, court documents, and diary fragments relating to the imprisonment of Josef Kohout at Flossenbürg concentration camp (persecuted as a homosexual); attempts by his parents, Josef and Amilia Kohout, to visit him in the camp; his participation in a death march and liberation by American troops; and the reversal of criminal charges against him after World War II.

  15. Rosary received by a Jewish child who was converted to Catholicism while in hiding

    1. Sophie Turner-Zaretsky collection

    Child's rosary given to 7 year old Selma Scwarzwald in January 1945 in celebration of her communion. She was living in hiding with her mother as a Polish Catholic under the name Zofia Tymejko and completely adopted this identity. She attended church and, after liberation by Soviet troops, celebrated her First Communion. Selma and her mother, Laura, escaped from the ghetto in German occupied Lvov, Poland (Lviv, Ukraine) after her father was shot by the Gestapo in 1942. They adopted false identities as Catholics and lived briefly in Krakow, then moved to Busko Zdroj. They emigrated to England...

  16. St. Anthony statuette received by a Jewish child who was living in hiding as a Polish Catholic

    1. Sophie Turner-Zaretsky collection

    St. Anthony figurine given to 7 year old Selma Scwarzwald. She was living in hiding with her mother as a Polish Catholic under the name Zofia Tymejko and completely adopted this identity. She attended church and, after liberation by Soviet troops, celebrated her First Communion. Selma and her mother, Laura, escaped from the ghetto in German occupied Lvov, Poland (Lviv, Ukraine) after her father was shot by the Gestapo in 1942. They adopted false identities as Catholics and lived briefly in Krakow, then moved to Busko Zdroj. They emigrated to England in 1948 after there were violent anti-Jew...

  17. Miniature doll's suitcase given postwar to Jewish child who had lived in hiding as a Polish Catholic

    1. Sophie Turner-Zaretsky collection

    Doll's miniature suitcase given to 10 year old Selma (Zofia) Scwarzwald before she left Poland in 1948. Selma, born Jewish, had lived during the war in hiding with her mother as a Polish Catholic under the name Zofia Tymejko and completely adopted this identity. She attended church and, after liberation by Soviet troops, celebrated her First Communion in January 1945. Selma and her mother, Laura, had escaped from the ghetto in German occupied Lvov, Poland (Lviv, Ukraine) in 1942 after her father was shot by the Gestapo. They adopted false identities as Catholics and lived briefly in Krakow,...

  18. Silver plated ashtray with an engraving of Skansen Kronan acquired by a former concentration camp inmate

    1. Sali Berl Bogatyrow collection

    Ashtray acquired by 21 year old Sali Berl circa 1946 in Goteborg, Sweden, while she was recovering from severe malnutrition and typhus resulting from over 3 years as a concentration camp prisoner. When Sali was liberated from Bergen-Belsen on April 15, 1945, she weighed 54 pounds. The Red Cross hospitalized her and then sent her to Sweden to recuperate. On March 15, 1939, Sali’s hometown, Brno, was annexed by Nazi Germany. In September 1941, Sali’s father Herman, a leader in the community, was executed by the Gestapo. In December, Sali’s older brother Leon was deported to Auschwitz, where h...

  19. Brass Hanukiah carried by a German Jewish family who immigrated to Ecuador

    1. Hess, Spier and Steinberg family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn555474
    • English
    • 1937
    • a: Height: 8.250 inches (20.955 cm) | Width: 7.000 inches (17.78 cm) | Depth: 3.375 inches (8.573 cm) b: Height: 2.125 inches (5.398 cm) | Width: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm)

    Hanukiah that belonged to Ruth Spier’s husband Alfred and was carried by his family when they emigrated from Germany in March 1939, to escape persecution. The Hanukiah is lit during the festival of Hanukkah. It has eight candles in line with each other with a ninth candle at a different height that is lit first and then used to light the others. Ruth and her husband Alfred lived in Hannover, Germany, where he taught at a Jewish school. Alfred unexpectedly died of a fever in 1937, leaving behind two young daughters, Elizabeth and Hannah, and Ruth a widow. As part of Kristallnacht, on Novembe...

  20. Bible received by a Jewish girl while in hiding at a Catholic school

    1. Sara Lamhaut Boucart collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn27592
    • English
    • a: Height: 5.750 inches (14.605 cm) | Width: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Depth: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) b: Height: 6.000 inches (15.24 cm) | Width: 3.875 inches (9.843 cm) | Depth: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm)

    Bible and cover given to Sara Lamhaut in December 1943 as part of her confirmation while in hiding at a convent school in Wezembeek-Oppem, Belgium. Sara was born in Brussels in 1931, to Polish parents, Icek and Chana Lamhaut. After Belgium was invaded by Germany in May 1940, Chana and Icek began participating in resistance activities, including covertly printing Jewish newspapers in their apartment. On May 26, 1942, Chana and Icek were taken into custody by gestapo and SS officers. Icek was released, but Chana was imprisoned and tortured for six months in the Saint Gilles prison. She was th...