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  1. Orna B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Orna B., who was born in W?oc?awek, Poland in 1928. She recounts joining Hashomer Hatzair; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions and violence; deportations starting in December; her family traveling to Warsaw; staying in Krako?w and Tarno?w; her grandfather's murder in June 1942; ghettoization; forced labor; hiding in a bunker during round-ups; her father convincing Amon Goeth to bring them to P?aszo?w; a sadistic public hanging; her father providing extra food; their transfer to Wieliczka; transfer to Auschwitz/Birkenau with her mother (she never saw her father a...

  2. Orphanages, children’s homes.

    File 44-2 contains, among others, circulars regarding the organisation of vacations for orphans (years 1945-1946) in Belgium.

  3. Orphans of Buchenwald; Ex-Prisoners Coming Home

    (LIB 7016) Orphans of Buchenwald, Buchenwald, Germany, June 19, 1945. LS, large crowd at Buchenwald outdoors on hillside. UNRRA official (woman) handing out papers. 01:46:51 Lilly Engelman (from Hungary and previously at Auschwitz) with the bandage on her face, prepares to board the train to Switzerland. Her sisters, Renee and Piri, appear later in this footage. Children at Buchenwald concentration camp are divided into small groups by UNRRA personnel. MS, American military truck taking the orphans to railroad cars. CUs, climbing off truck with belongings/luggage. US soldiers present. LS, w...

  4. Orphans of Buchenwald; Ex-Prisoners Coming Home

    (LIB 7016) Orphans of Buchenwald, Buchenwald, Germany, June 19, 1945. LS, large crowd at Buchenwald outdoors on hillside. UNRRA official (woman) handing out papers. 03:23:16 01:46:51 Lilly Engelman (from Hungary and previously at Auschwitz) with the bandage on her face, prepares to board the train to Switzerland. Her sisters, Renee and Piri, appear later in this footage. Children at Buchenwald concentration camp are divided into small groups by UNRRA personnel. MS, American military truck taking the orphans to railroad cars. CUs, climbing off truck with belongings/luggage. US soldiers prese...

  5. Orpo bei SSPF Litauen (Kaunas), Fond R-683/1, 2

    Contains orders; educational materials; personnel files; lists of arrested persons, of Communist Party members, and of Jews working for the Sipo and SD Commander in Vilnius; telegrams about the activities of Soviet paratroopers in Poland; reports on partisan activities and lists of wanted partisans; index cards of surveyed persons; and publications.

  6. Orpo Kommando Kaunas, Fond R-1018/1

    Contains information on police personnel and orders, the rights and duties of police in occupied areas, and the Kaunas concentration camp.

  7. Országos Közellátási Hivatal ügyosztályainak iratai (1940-1945)

    • Records of the National Public Supplies Office (1940-1945)

    In Hungary, a Minister without Portfolio for Public Supplies (közellátás) was appointed in 1940. The major aims of creating such a new position was to exert increased state control and improve the organization of the economic life of the country, assure that foreign trade was beneficial for military as well as civilian purposes, and to have an uniform control and administration of the food supply as well as that of other public necessities. In order to help the work of the Minister without Portfolio, a National Office for Public Supplies (Országos Közellátási Hivatal) was organized. The Tra...

  8. Országos Zsidó Helyreállítási Alap iratai

    • Records of the National Jewish Rehabilitation Fund

    The National Jewish Rehabilitation Fund dealt with issues of restitution and compensation in Hungary. This collection contains decrees, studies, correspondence, memorandums, notes and background materials of the Rehabilitation Fund. It includes the correspondence of the National Jewish Rehabilitation Fund with a host of Hungarian Jewish individuals, with various Hungarian state authorities and other institutions regarding compensation and restitution. Individual claims that Hungarian Jewish survivors submitted to the Elhagyott Javak Kormánybiztosa (the Government Commissioner for Abandoned ...

  9. ORT Photo Collection.

    This fonds contains photographs from the photo collection of the ORT headquarters in London. The photographs depicting ORT activities in Belgium bear the reference code “ORT/PH 22”. There are 97 photographs and 8 photo albums in total related to Belgium (see photos [ORT/PH] 22/001 to [ORT/PH] 22/105). The large majority of the material relates to ORT work in Brussels and Antwerp; there is 1 photo album concerning the “Farming school” (hachsharah center) in Kessel-Lo (22/007). We firstly note pictures/albums on classes organised for both children, young men and adults concerning dressmaking ...

  10. ORT Photograph collection.

    The “ORT Photograph collection”, a part of the larger American ORT records collection, contains several folders with photographs depicting ORT activities in Belgium. We note the following folders, often holding several pictures: nr. 1004 “Offices of the Committee for Assistance to Jewish Refugees” (Brussels, pre-1940), nr. 1005 “Feeding refugees at the Committee for Assistance to Jewish Refugees” (Brussels, pre-1940), nr. 1006 “Shabbos in Joint Distribution Committee-supported home” (1947), nr. 1007 “Students at work in trade school” (Antwerp, post-1945), nr. 1008 “Children’s home maintaine...

  11. ORT vocational schools

    A film about the ORT vocational schools in the US Zone of Germany. Introduction by Jacob Oleiski, US zone director of ORT, including English subtitles. VAR scenes of survivors in vocational training programs. Men and women working on machinery, furniture making, sewing, women's clothing, etc. in Landsberg, Germany. 22:09:31 Max (Mordchai) Rubin, a chemistry teacher at ORT Munich, is visible, along with his student Adi Rubin (Ribon) at 22:09:37. ORT UNRRA Vocation School sign. MCU young men entering building. Oleiski speaking again, with English subtitles.

  12. Orthodox Gemilas Chesed Association tzedakah box

    Wall mounted / desk placed tin tzedakah charity container of the Orthodox Gemilas Chesed Association, Budapest, with a plaque depicting the "Biró Daniel" Orthodox Jewish Hospital. On the 14th January 1945, a special unit of the Arrow Cross Party Militia raided the hospital. During the attack, approximately 150 patients, doctors and nurses were present at the hospital. Almost all of them were executed, and their corpses were burnt on the spot. The building was later demolished.

  13. Orthodox Jews in Biecz, Poland

    In Biecz, Poland, 1936, pan of town, street scenes, CUs Jewish boys, including Mendel Halpern on left at 00:09:43 and 00:09:45 (boy with curls). Town hall, Orthodox Jews. Fast pan of shops, streets, pavillion, Jews, the boy Mendel Halpern (00:10:10), Hebrew writing on building EXT, Library. More pan of the village.

  14. Ortlepp, Fritz

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Fritz Ortlepp wurde am 08. April 1897 in Neustadt (Orla) geboren als Sohn von Hermann Ortlepp, Oberkassenvorsteher, und Klara Ortlepp, geb. Schulze. Am 15. November 1924 heiratete er Elsa Eulenberg, geb. 26. Juni 1900. Während seiner Tätigkeit beim VEB Carl Zeiss veröffentlichte Ortlepp den Aufsatz „Zweck und Bedeutung der Bildsammlung bei Betriebsarchiven" (Archivmitteilungen Jg. 1952 Nr. 2) und verfasste eine unveröffentlichte dreibändige „Chronik der Optik" (860 Seiten, 1953-54), welche im Carl Zeiss Archiv Jena vorliegt. Nach seiner Verhaftung am 2. April...

  15. Ortsgruppe Douala in der Landesgruppe Kamerun der NSDAP-Auslandsorganisation

    Zitierweise BArch R 175-VII/...

  16. Ortskrankenkassen in Metz, Reichenberg und Zoppot

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Die Akten der AOK Zoppot gelangten 1945 mit anderen Unterlagen nach Flensburg und wurden der dortigen Stadtverwaltung zur Aufbewahrung übergeben. 1947 wurden diese Dokumente durch einen Erlass des Finanzministers des Landes Schleswig-Holstein an das dortige Landesarchiv übergeben. Vom Landesarchiv aus kamen die Unterlagen schließlich am 14. September 1953 zum Bundesarchiv. Ein großer Teil der älteren Überlieferung (vor 1939) der Allgemeinen Ortskrankenkasse Zoppot liegt im Staatsarchiv Danzig (Archiwum Pañstwowe w Gdañsku Oddzia³ w Gdyni). 41,54 lfd Akten sin...

  17. Oscar A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Oscar A., who was born in Bulgaria in 1911. He recalls his family's French identity; attending school in Sofia; studying in Paris; marriage to a Jewish convert in 1938; mobilization in 1939; his parents' and sister's emigration to Paris; capture in a battle in 1940; escaping to Paris with help from a German rail official; moving to Nice; his daughter's birth; arrest with five family members in 1943; his wife's release as a non-Jew (their daughter was not arrested); deportation to Auschwitz via Drancy; selection for forced labor in Buna/Monowitz (I.G. Farben) with his ...

  18. Oscar and Lillian Stempler Foundation collection

    Contains an album of postcards, envelopes, postage stamps and other items with accompanying captions.

  19. The Oscar and Miriam Lifshutz papers

    A letter and news article relating to the fates of some members of the donor's family during the Holocaust.

  20. Oscar Dulitzki collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of Oscar Dulitzki during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.