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  1. Fanny S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fanny S., who was born in Paris, France in 1925, one of six children. She describes attending public school; cordial relations with non-Jews; taking care of her two younger siblings; evacuation with her family to Maine-et-Loire and Louroux-Be?connais when the war began; their return to Paris after German occupation in 1940; expulsion from school due to anti-Jewish laws; her youngest brother and sister being hidden by a non-Jew they had met in Louroux-Be?connais; arrest of her mother and two siblings in the Ve?lodrome d'hiver round-up; neighbors suggesting they hide; h...

  2. Shmuel Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shmuel Z., who was born in Kraków, Poland in 1928, one of two children. He recounts attending a Mizrahi school; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; forced labor in a tobacco factory; moving with his family to a village; slave labor constructing an airport; forced relocation to Krzeszowice, then moving to the Kraków ghetto; a non-Jewish friend assisting them; continuing to work at the airport; smuggling potatoes into the ghetto; his father's German boss hiding them during round-ups; separation from his family when he was sent to Płaszó...

  3. Simon Steil collection

    The Simon Steil collection consists of photographs and documents from the collection of Simon Steil, originally of Antwerp, Belgium. After being separated from his family, who were deported, Simon went into hiding, eventually living with the Henrard family in Perwez, Belgium, where he remained throughout the wartime and immediate post-war period. After the war, he went to an Orthodox children's home in Antwerp run by Jonas Tiefenbrunner. The collection includes a photo album containing photographs of groups of children at the children's home; pre-war Steil family photographs; wartime and po...

  4. Siemon, Gustav

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners während der sowjetischen Kriegsgefangenschaft 1942-1945 Mitglied des NKFD und Mitbegründer des BDO, Abteilungsleiter für Kultur im Ministerium für Volksbildung in Mecklenburg 1945-1948, Initiator der Bildung der NDPD in Mecklenburg, Chefredakteur und Verlagsleiter der "National-Zeitung" 1955-1961, Leiter der Abteilung "Gesamtdeutsche Arbeit", dann der Abteilung "Parteiorganisation/Personalpolitik in der NDPD 1961-1971, Vorsitzender des Bezirksvorstandes Cottbus der NDPD 1972-1984, Rentner Bestandsbeschreibung 20. Juni 1918 in Lippoldsberg geboren Ostern 1932-...

  5. Soviet Lviv, Ukraine

    Narration identifies Lvov (Lwow, Poland, Lviv, Ukraine). City views. There are shots of extravagant mansions juxtaposed with shots of run-down shacks, as well as small houses of higher quality. Workers move into new apartments; one pastes a poster of Stalin to his wall. Trams, many driven, as noted by the narrator, by women. One passes a monument to Adam Mickiewicz, the great Polish poet. Candy factory. Moving (panning and tracking) shots through market streets, high angles, extensive coverage. Shots of monuments, church and monks (appears to be a monastery), police officers. 00:45:01 Woman...

  6. Чернігівська міська управа, м. Чернігів Чернігівської області

    • Chernihiv city board, city of Chernihiv, Chernihiv region
    • Chernihivska miska uprava, m. Chernihiv Chernihivskoi oblasti

    Local administration documentation can contain information connected to the Holocaust in the area. Titles and sizes of the selected files potentially related to the subject: File 1. Printed orders, decrees and announcements of the Ortskommandantur and city board about organizing of district boards, village elders and their tasks, tax payments, and other issues, 33 pages. File 2. Orders within city board about list of staff members, hiring and dismissal of servants. Memo from Baran-Butovych regarding releasing POWs from the camps, dwellers of Chernihiv and nearby villages, 43 pages. File 3. ...

  7. Regierung der Pfalz, Kammer des Innern und der Finanzen

    Staatsrechtliche Gegenstände: Königliches Haus, Landesgrenzen, Auseinandersetzungen mit Nachbarstaaten, Wahlen. Verwaltung und Organisation: Regierung, Regierungsgebäude, Landrat der Pfalz, Aktenextraditionen, Archivwesen, Beamte, Personalsachen, Ernährungsreferat, Statistik.- Bezirksämter, Distriktsgemeinden und -räte, Kommunalverbände.- Städte und Gemeinden (Gemarkungsgrenzen, Gemeindewesen [auch Rechtsstreitigkeiten], Gründung von Ludwigshafen). Justizverwaltung: Gerichte (auch Gebäude), Gefängnisse (auch Gebäude), Notariate. Polizei und öffentliche Sicherheit: Paßwesen, Vereine, öffentl...

  8. Groppe, Theodor (Generalleutnant)

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Generalleutnant Theodor Groppe Lebensdaten 16.08.1882 geboren in Trier als Sohn von Eduard Groppe, Verlagsbuchhändler, und Anna Groppe, geb. Haas 28.04.1973 verstorben in Trier Werdegang 1892-1900 Besuch des Königlichen Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasiums in Trier 25.04.1900 Eintritt in das 2. Lothringische Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 131 in Metz als Fahnenjunker 18.10.1900 Fähnrich 18.08.1901 Leutnant 01.08.1908-30.09.1910 Adjutant des I. Bataillons 01.10.1910-30.09.1913 Kriegsakademie in Berlin 01.10.1913-25.04.1915 Regimentsadjutant 31.08.1914 Eisernes Kreuz II. Klas...

  9. Selected records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish Republic : Polish Diplomatic Legation in Vienna Poselstwo Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Wiedniu (Sygn. 453)

    Reports, studies, and other materials related to the condition of national minorities in Poland and beyond Poland, including Ukrainians and Polish Jews. Also includes materials about antisemitic riots, quotas at universities, activities of antisemitic organizations, condition of refugees and internees, as well as social relief for them organized by the Polish and International Red Cross. Other selected materials concern ritual slaughter, allowances for Jews, taking care of Polish citizens in Switzerland, passport documentation, as well as correspondence related to searching for individuals ...

  10. Eichmann Trial -- Sessions 48 and 49 -- Testimony of Perla Mark and Dr. T. Lowenstein Lavi; Romanian documents

    Session 48. Testimony from Perla Mark who describes the burning of the main synagogue in Czernowitz and the murder of Jews including her husband, the town's chief rabbi. Mark gives an account of the deportation of her son and brother to Theresienstadt. She states that her brother died in Theresienstadt and that her son was sent to Auschwitz, where he was forced to play cello in the camp orchestra. Begins in the middle of testimony from Theodor Löwenstein. The witness speaks in Hebrew. Löwenstein describes the physical measures against the Jews in Romania including the pogroms in Jassy, Bess...

  11. Hand carved wooden clogs found in Dachau concentration camp by an American soldier

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn78330
    • English
    • a: Height: 8.875 inches (22.543 cm) | Width: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Depth: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) b: Height: 8.375 inches (21.273 cm) | Width: 3.375 inches (8.573 cm) | Depth: 2.375 inches (6.033 cm)

    Handmade wooden clogs found by 22 year old Aubrey G. Kincheloe, an American soldier, in Dachau concentration camp after liberation between May 3-8, 1945. Aubrey was a private first class in the 45th Infantry Division, 179th Infantry Regiment, Company C. He entered combat in January 1944, in Italy, and fought in southern France and, in 1945, advanced into Germany. On April 29, the 45th Division liberated Dachau concentration camp, while Aubrey and the 179th Infantry Regiment were attacking Munich. On May 3, Aubrey and his regiment were sent to Dachau to guard and administer the camp. Aubrey ...

  12. Album

    Adolf Hitler - Bilder aus dem Leben des Führers [Adolf Hitler - Pictures of the Life of the Führer), a cigarette card album with 188 b&w and colored colored mounted cards, an encomium by Hermann Goering; text by Joseph Goebbels and others. Cigarette cards were a popular collectible item in Germany beginning about 1920. Large albums with text, but no pictures, were published for each series and the cards were collected to be added as illustrations. The album for this series has text and photo captions that tell the story of Hitler's life from birth in 1899, to his 1933 appointment as Cha...

  13. Henri K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henri K., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1926. He recounts his parents' and their siblings' emigration from Poland during World War I; speaking Yiddish at home; a priest espousing antisemitic ideas during religious instruction in public school; German invasion; fleeing with his family to Revelles, France; after three months, round-up with other non-citizens in Cape la Hague for six months; internment in Rivesaltes; release in February 1942 due to his Parisian aunt's bribes; returning from Vierzon to Brussels, using false papers; his sister's deportation (he neve...

  14. Skladanowsky, Max

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • N 1435
    • German
    • 1866-1966
    • Nachlässe 302 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 2,1 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Max Skladanowsky (1863-1939) war ein in Berlin geborener Erfinder und Wegbereiter des frühen Films in Deutschland. Nach seiner Ausbildung in einem photographischen Atelier und einer Werkstätte für Glasmalerei stellte er zusammen mit seinem Vater Carl (1830-1897) so genannte "Nebelbilder" her. Hierbei handelt es sich um handbemalte Glasdiapositive, die mithilfe des Projektorentyps "Laterna Magica" vorgeführt wurden. Die Bilder täuschten dabei aufgrund wechselnder Beleuchtung oder einfacher mechanischer Effekte eine Bewegung vor. Diese Kunstwerke bildeten die G...

  15. Eva Mills: family papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of Eva Mills and her mother Gertrude Najman. Eva was sent to England on a Kindertransport in 1938 whilst her parents fled Germany separately aiming to reach Palestine. Eva's father, Jankiel Najmann, managed to get to Haifa in 1944 after spending several months at Ferramonti di Tarsia internment camp in Italy. Her mother, Gertrude Najmann, became a prisoner at Semlin concentration camp in Yugoslavia. She survived and was released in May 1942. Gertrude was unable to leave Yugoslavia until the end of the Second World War when she joined her husband ...

  16. Van Beylen-Beirnaert family. Collection

    This collection contains : the poetry album of Frieda Beirnaert with drawings created by her Jewish classmates Rosa Seewald and Miriam (Maria) Hauser in 1942, as well as autographs of several British soldiers who signed the album after Liberation ; a table cloth given by a Jewish family to concierge misses Huyskens for safekeeping during the war, who presented it to Frieda Beirnaert as a wedding gift in 1949 ; a post-war newspaper clipping regarding the city of Antwerp and the persecution of its Jewish population ; a book entitled “Antwerpen”, which was owned by Frieda’s uncle Marcel Beirna...

  17. Eichmann Trial -- Session 107 -- Eichmann explains his oath to the Party

    Session 107. Tape starts midsentence when Eichmann is asked what his opinion was concerning the Nazi outlook that the Jews must be removed from Germany. (Footage duplicated from Tape 2195.) Eichmann says that he never thought about it, which the Judge quickly disputes. The tape is interrupted by a slate at 00:03:32 and resumes with Eichmann explaining that he had to not make waves in his position in the Reich. 00:04:41 Tape is interrupted again by a slate and resumes with the same footage. Eichmann insists he worked as a low-ranking official in the head office of Reich Security and regrette...

  18. Eva S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva S., who was born in Czechoslovakia, one of seven children. She recounts her oldest sister's death prior to her birth; being raised by her grandmother when her mother was ill; her mother's death; cordial relations with non-Jews; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; her eldest sister's emigration to the United States; her father's failed efforts to emigrate; harsh treatment from neighbors and former friends; her father's draft into forced labor; each child living with one of her mother's sisters; her father's return; reuniting of the family; German occupa...

  19. Müller, Georg von (Admiral)

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Georg von Müller, Admiral Geboren am 24. März 1854 in Chemnitz, gestorben am 18. April 1940 in Hangelsberg November 1889 Heirat mit Elisabeth Luise von Montbart; März 1900 Erhebung in den erblichen Adelsstand Militärischer Werdegang (Auswahl) Mai 1871: Eintritt in die Kaiserliche Marine; August 1878: Ernennung zum Leutnant zur See; Mai 1879: Kommandierung zur Torpedowaffe; 1882-1884: Auslandsreisen nach Westindien und Südamerika auf S.M.S. „Olga" und S.M.S. „Blücher"; November 1884: Statistisches Büro der Admiralität; Mai 1885 - März 1886: Militärpolitische B...

  20. P.75 - Rachel Minc collection

    P.75 - Rachel Minc collection Rachel Minc (born in Lodz, Poland, in 1899 and died in 1978) is a Polish-born French Jewish educator and writer who worked for the rescue of Jewish children during the Second World War. She studied educational psychology and pedagogy in Berlin, and then in the Scandinavian countries, where she met the anti-fascist pedagogue Minna Specht, founder, with Leonard Nelson, of the German resistance movement to Nazism, the Internationaler Sozialistischer Kampfbund (ISK). This movement was banned by the Nazis in 1933 and after the war allied with the German Social Democ...