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  1. Alfred Munzer collection

    The collection consists of a teething ring rattle and a barrel relating to the experiences of Alfred Munzer who, as an infant, survived in hiding in The Hague, Netherlands, during the Holocaust.

  2. Alfred N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Afred N., who was born in Thessalonikē, Greece in 1919, the third of ten children. He recalls cordial relations with non-Jews until the mid-1930s; celebrating Jewish holidays; military service; hospitalization for frostbite; returning home; military recall when Germany invaded; returning home from defeat; anti-Jewish restrictions; continuing contact with non-Jewish friends; joining his family in the Baron de Hirsch quarter; deportation to Birkenau; separation from the women and children; remaining with his brother's brothers-in-law; having to move corpses; a French s...

  3. Alfred Neil Kramer collection

    Contains genealogical information regarding the donor's family, the Kramlats and the Gelbers.

  4. Alfred Nowack collection

    Collection contains Alfred Nowack's emigration ticket, sailing from Lisbon to the United States (undated); "Kinderausweis" with a red "J" stamped in the upper left hand corner, issued 15 March 1939; and "Affidavit in Lieu of Passport" issued by the Counsulate of the USA in Marseille to allow Mr. Nowack to travel to the United States, 7 August 1941.

  5. Alfred Philipp collection

  6. Alfred Rosenberg's "Myth of the Blood" presented at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 483) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 9, 1946. Rear views, prosecution presents evidence of Alfred Rosenberg's "Neo-Pagan Myth of the Blood" to the court. The counsel also discusses the looting of art objects in Nazi-occupied countries, which was a part of Rosenberg's dealings. LS, prisoners' dock during attorney's address to the court.

  7. Alfred Rossner and other managers at work behind-the-scenes

    “1942” Alfred Rossner, the SS-appointed German manager of a textile factory in Bedzin, Poland, answers the phone at his desk and writes down some notes. Rossner protected and saved some Jewish workers and has been named a "Righteous Gentile" by Yad Vashem. 00:37 Mr. Rossner rides on the back of a horse-drawn carriage on a country road, smokes a cigarette and looks out towards a field and back at the camera. Slow pan of the carriage and horse. 01:05 Jewish men at work in an office, filing papers and logging data in a notebook, CUs of man with Jude star. CU, woman at work, writing. Another Je...

  8. Alfred S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alfred S., who was born in Vienna, Austria, in approximately 1913. He recounts his father's death in 1925; working with his mother; pervasive antisemitism; deportation to Dachau; forced labor; observing Jewish holidays; transfer to Buchenwald six months later; release due to his future wife obtaining a ticket for Shanghai; selling his ticket because he would not leave his future wife; marriage; emigration to Milan; leaving for Palestine from Sicily; arrival in Bangha?zi?; incarceration under Italian occupation; being returned to Italy; imprisonment in Naples; transfer...

  9. Alfred S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alfred S., who was born in Mannheim, Germany in 1921. Mr. S. describes his family's strong sense of German identification and patriotism; the appearance of Nazis and antisemitism in his school; his growing sense of Jewish identity; alienation from his parents due to their refusal to recognize the danger of antisemitism; and participation in Jewish youth groups including Hashomer Hatzair. He recalls his father's death in 1934; non-Jewish friends protecting him from police; voluntary transfer to a Jewish school in 1936; attending the ORT school in Berlin from 1937 onwar...

  10. The Alfred Schwarzbaum Collection

    Alfred Schwazrbaum has been called a "one man aid and rescue operation". The GFH Schwarzbaum collection holds hundreds of documents, including letters and postcards sent to Schwarzbaum from Poland and from Jews living outside Poland, asking him for help or inquiring about relatives in Poland, receipts for parcel deliveries and correspondences with Jews in Poland and elsewhere.

  11. Alfred Spiess

    Alfred Spiess was a prosecutor of the Treblinka trial. He talks about the reorganization of the camp and gas chambers. FILM ID 3895 -- CR 1-4 Lanzmann asks Spiess how he felt when he was given the task of conducting an investigation for the Treblinka trial. Spiess says the trial presented many challenges; one primary concern was how to care for the witnesses. He created a model of the camp to be used for reference throughout the trial since, unlike other camps, Treblinka had been almost entirely destroyed. They created a sketch of the camp which Franz Stangl claimed was 100% accurate. In al...

  12. Alfred T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alfred T., who was born in Konya?r, Hungary in 1920. He recalls antisemitic harassment in school; attending gymnasium in Debrecen; joining a brother in Budapest in August 1936; apprenticing to a window-designer; attending art classes; gymnastics training; working as a window-designer; changing his name to conceal he was Jewish; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in October 1940; transfer to Belgorod on the Soviet front in November 1941; removing mines and corpses; execution of every tenth prisoner when two prisoners escaped; capture by Soviets in January 194...

  13. Alfred Traum papers

    The Alfred Traum papers consist of identification papers, a report card, family correspondence from Elias and Gita Traum in Vienna to their children in London, family photographs from Vienna, England, and Palestine, and a brief personal narrative documenting the Traum family from Vienna, and the family’s separation when Alfred and his sister, Ruth, were sent to England on a Kindertransport in 1939 and their parents were killed three years later in the Holocaust. Alfred’s personal narrative describes his memories of leaving his parents, staying with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Griggs of London thro...

  14. Alfred W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alfred W., who was born in Fu?rth, Germany in 1908. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; their strong German identity; cordial relations with non-Jews; attending Henry Kissinger's bar mitzvah; joining the family manufacturing business; serving on the town council; resigning after the Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses in April 1933; helping Jews emigrate; observing the synagogues burning on Kristallnacht and arrest by a former colleague; incarceration overnight in Nuremberg; helping a rabbi climb into the train, thus saving his life; internment in Dachau; assistance from...

  15. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The documents were collected by Dr. Wiener and his assistants from the early 1930s, during the war and its aftermath, until the late 1970s. As they constitute the library’s core, these documents were the first to be digitized and accessible online. They include the correspondence and decrees of various Nazi agencies, documents from concentration camps, and documentation of the activities, the life and the fate of Jewish associations, communities, and individuals before, during and after the Holocaust.

  16. Algava family collection

    The collection consists primarily of photographs of pre- and postwar life, predominantly in Greece, and the recorded testimonies of Allegra and Henricos Algava, which were conducted by the donor, their son Andreas Algava, a child survivor.

  17. Algemeen Geneesherenverbond.

    In dit bestand vinden we twee dossiers “Médecins emprisonnés, déportés et décédés des suites des faits de guerre” (nr. 2578) en “Médecins victimes de la guerre” (nr. 2579), resp. voor de periode 1945-1946, 1948, 1957 en 1940-1945. Beide dossiers hebben betrekking op artsen, aangesloten bij het Algemeen Geneesherenverbond, die omwille van de antisemitische politiek van de bezetter vervolgd, gedeporteerd en/of vermoord werden. Het gaat om naoorlogse briefwisseling met aangesloten federaties en verenigingen, met het oog op het bekomen van meer informatie over de artsen die tijdens de oorlog zi...

  18. Algemeen Secretariaat. Overdracht 1992.

    Dit bestand bevat o.a. een aantal stukken met betrekking tot de omzetting en uitvoering van anti-Joodse bepalingen van de bezetter door het Ministerie van Financiën, zoals circulaires (nr. 27), dossiers met betrekking tot het verwijderen van Joodse ambtenaren in openbare dienst (nr. 391), maatregelen genomen tegen Joden (nrs. 402 en 416), arrestaties van Joden (nr. 520). Daarnaast vinden we ook dossiers terug in verband met de naoorlogse sekwestratie van Duitse overheidsorganen, bezettingsdiensten, bedrijven, …

  19. Algemene Diamantbewerkersbond van België.

    We vermelden hier in de eerste plaats de twee ledenboeken, die een uitzonderlijke bron vormen voor de sociale geschiedenis van de diamantsector of genealogisch onderzoek. Het gaat om registers waarin leerling-diamantbewerkers werden ingeschreven, met vermelding van naam en familienaam, geboortedatum en –plaats, woonplaats, werkgever bij wie men in de leer ging, … Bij nagenoeg alle namen staat in de boeken eveneens een foto ingeplakt. Nr. 29.86 heeft betrekking op inschrijving van leerlingen bij “fabrieken niet in regel” (1932-1935); het tweede register onder nr. 29.87 betreft leerlingen ing...

  20. Algemene Documentatie – algemeen.

    In deze algemene fiche van het bestand “Algemene Documentatie – Documentation Générale” sommen we relevante archiefstukken op die om verschillende redenen niet in een aparte fiche zijn opgenomen. R.184/tr.109.359/2 beslaat 9 ordners (1940-1944) en bevat fiches van Belgen (wellicht ook uit Polen afkomstige Joden) die voor de Organisation Todt moesten werken en verzekerd werden door de ziekenkas van OT West te Saarbrücken en Saarbrücken-Campagne. R.497/tr.31.259 (1944) bevat het register van aanklachten tegen het Devisenschutzkommando. In r.184/tr.87.542/89 (1940-1944) vinden we documenten op...