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  1. Albert Perlin letter

    Contains a letter written by Albert Perlin (donor's maternal grandfather) during WWII to his daughter, Rosalie Perling Podol, and her husband Elliott (donor's parents).

  2. Albert R. Sabaroff papers

    The collection consists of 2 pieces of scrip from Theresienstadt in Czechoslovakia, a newspaper obituary for George Silver, and a newspaper article from November 15, 1942, about George Silver.

  3. Albert Rapp postcard

    The postcard was written by Albert Rapp in Buchenwald concentration camp to his wife, Matilde Rapp, in Frankfurt, Germany. In the postcard, he asks his wife not to worry and assures her that he is fine. He asks her to send him a package containing stockings, handkerchiefs, an undershirt, a jacket, a piece of soap, a toothbrush, and various other supplies for himself and his brother, Arthur, who was also incarcerated. Last, he asks for information regarding their dealings with the United States consulate in Stuttgart, Germany.

  4. Albert Rosenberg papers

    The Albert Rosenberg papers is comprised of materials collected by Albert Rosenberg of the United States Army Psychological Warfare Division during his deployment to Europe during World War II. The bulk of this collection is comprised of the original Buchenwald Report typescript prepared by Albert, his Intelligence team, and Eugen Kogen in May 1945, along with numerous testimonies and statements contributed by former prisoners. Correspondence related to the creation of this report is also included in this collection, some of which is between Rosenberg, his colleagues and superiors regarding...

  5. Albert S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Albert S., who was born in Győr, Hungary in 1930, the youngest of seven children. He recalls attending Jewish school; antisemitic harassment on the streets; moving with his family to Budapest in 1939; his brother's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; four of his siblings emigrating; German occupation in March 1944; anti-Jewish laws, including wearing the star; his father being caught in a round-up (they never saw him again); learning to forge false papers; forging papers for his mother and himself as non-Jews; selling false papers to support themselves; hi...

  6. Albert Schiff photograph collection

    Consists of twenty-two original prints taken after the liberation of Dachau, Buchenwald and Mauthausen concentration camps.

  7. Albert Speer at arms factory

    Group of German soldiers approaches factory workers eating at bench. Worker talking to group of soldiers as heavy object moves by on chain in FG and then out of furnace, officers watch. Good MSs of production process as molton hot object is molded. Soldier passes out cigarettes to workers standing next to him. Albert Speer in suit and overcoat, bareheaded, speaking to workers by whom he is surrounded. Speer facing camera. Workers standing and perched on deck above ground level, listen, CUs of various workers. Good long shot of men standing on ground level and those leaning over balcony of s...

  8. Albert Speer Gives Award news

    Part 3, Albert Speer heads delegation walking into munitions factory, good CU, large crowd of workers listens to him. He is completely surrounded by workers on bombed factory floor. Puts ribbon around neck of award recepient and shakes his hand, walks out thru crowd, lots of kids among workers.

  9. Albert Speer testifies at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 248) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, June 20, 1946. MS, Dr. Hans Flaschner speaking, pan to Speer answering. MS, Thomas J. Dodd and Robert H. Jackson of the US prosecution talking to others in the courtroom during recess. MS, Jackson speaking to British officer. MS, Dodd conferring with US officer. MLS, Speer standing alongside witness box eating candy before being sworn in. Shot of Lawrence administering oath. MS, Flaschner at stand. CU, Justice Lawrence at bench. Pan from Maxwell-Fyfe at table to Dodd, Jackson, and Gen. Rudenko. Pan, spectators in gallery, mostly US soldiers.

  10. Albert Speer testifies at Nuremberg Trial; Herman Priess testifies

    05:35:24 (Munich 248) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, June 19, 1946. Albert Speer is sworn in. Pan from Speer to Dr. Hans Flaschner, his lawyer, speaking. Chief Justice Geoffrey Lawrence corrects Dr. Flaschner on a point. MS, Speer testifying. 05:39:21 (Munich 245) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, June 18-19, 1946. Former SS general Herman Priess testifying.

  11. Albert Steiner: Extracts from Terezin diary

    Excerpts of a diary kept by Albert Steiner during his time at Terezin (Theresienstadt) ghetto (1667/1) and family photograph (1667/2).

  12. Albert Süsskind collection

    This collection contains a transcript of Albert Süsskind's report and related correspondence to the Australian High Commissioner of the UK on the conditions on board the HMT Dunera, on which internees and prisoners of war were transported to Hay internment camp in New South Wales, Australia, from England in 1940. Süsskind requested an investigation into the material damage and humiliating treatment endured by the internees on board the ship and payment of compensation. Also included is his identity card for commercial travellers.

  13. Albert V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Albert V., a non-Jew, who was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1921, one of five children. He recalls his family's antipathy to Germany due to his father's four years as a prisoner-of-war in World War I; attending boarding school in Blankenberge for five years, then teaching there beginning in 1936; German invasion in May 1940; draft into the Belgian military; release after capitulation; a government job in Brussels; one brother going into hiding when drafted for forced labor in Germany; mapping German bunkers for the underground; fleeing with a friend in May 1942, intendi...

  14. Albert Wesley Barthelmes letter

    Contains a copy of a three-page letter written by Albert Wesley Barthelmes to his parents about the liberation of a concentration camp.

  15. Albert, Gina, and Kurt K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Albert K., who was born in Poland in 1903; Gina K., who was born in Vienna in 1909; and their son Kurt K., who was born in Vienna in 1937. Married in Vienna in 1937, Mr. and Mrs. K. describe their pre-war life in Vienna; the birth of their son; and the German invasion and conditions under German occupation. They tell of their flight from Vienna to Antwerp, where they remained until the German occupation of Belgium; their arrest in Antwerp; and an aborted attempt to deport them to Poland, which landed them instead on a farm in Belgium. They relate being sent back to An...

  16. Alberto I. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alberto I., who was born in Rhodes, Italy (presently Greece) in 1927, one of ten children. He recounts three brothers and a sister emigrating to Congo; the early deaths of two younger siblings; cordial relations with local Greeks; attending a Catholic school; participating in fascist activities; enactment of Italian anti-Jewish laws; expulsion from the Fascist party and school; attending a Jewish school; destruction of their house in an Allied bombing; German occupation in 1943; a deportation order for all Jews; the Turkish consul saving Jews with Turkish citizenship;...

  17. Albin F. Irzyk collection

    Albin F. Irzyk, Sr.’s personal account of his unit's liberation of the Ohrdruf concentration camp. He was the Battalion Commander of the 8th Tank Battalion, 4th Armored Division, Third Army on April 4, 1945 when the discovery was made.

  18. Albin family photographs

    Consists of 28 photographs of the funeral of Frieda Neska Gold Albin; the photographs, taken in Riga, Latvia, in 1936, show religious ritual life. Also includes captions and caption translations.

  19. Albin W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Albin W., who was born in Opato?w, Poland, in 1914, the oldest of three children. He recounts attending a Jesuit high school; becoming a civil engineer in Warsaw; German invasion; his brother's death in the infantry; fleeing to Lut?s??k, in the Soviet zone; teaching mathematics in Sofii?vka; German invasion; being compelled with others to dig a large trench; a mass killing at the trench; escaping into the forest; obtaining weapons to join the Soviet partisans; blowing up German trains; working as a non-Jew in Lut?s??k, then teaching in Rivne; liberation by Soviet troo...

  20. Albini, Franz Joseph Freiherr von

    Bestandsbeschreibung Vorbemerkung Franz Joseph Freiherr von Albini (1748-1816) wurde in St. Goar am Rhein geboren und trat nach vollendeten Rechtsstudien zu Pont à Mousson, Dillingen und Würzburg und zweijähriger Praxis am Reichshofrat zu Wien, als Hof- und Regierungsrat des Fürstbischofs von Würzburg in die politische Laufbahn. 1774 wurde er Kammergerichtsassessor, 1787 Reichsreferendar und dann Hofkanzler und Minister des Kurfürsten von Mainz, wohnte 1797 dem Friedenskongress zu Rastatt bei und stellte sich 1799 an die Spitze des Mainzer Landsturmes. 1802 war Albini Direktorialgesandter a...