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  1. Simone G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Simone G., who was born in W?oc?awek, Poland in 1931. She recounts vague memories of her parents and older brother; going to live with an aunt in Paris in 1936 (she never saw her family again); German invasion; her uncle's draft into the French military; his return; her aunt arranging to send her to an orphanage; learning her uncle had been deported; living with a family in central France, posing as a non-Jew; reunion with her aunt and uncle after liberation; living in Septeuil; returning to Paris; their emigration to the United States in 1957; marriage; and her child...

  2. Simone LePort testimony

    Contains a typewritten oral history of Madame Simone LePort concerning her experiences in the French resistance during World War II.

  3. Simone Molin collection

    Contains 22 documents pertaining to the awards granted by French, British and American authorities to Simone Molin (a.k.a. Simone Benoist, or Madame Veuve Garaud) for her activity in the French resistance and for saving airmen of the Allied Forces and Jews during World War II; related correspondence; and 4 black and white photo prints showing Simone Molin.

  4. Simone Weil Lipman papers

    The Simone Weil Lipman papers consist of biographical materials and photographs documenting Lipman’s work rescuing Jewish children with the Œuvre de Secours aux Enfants (OSE) in Rivesaltes, Poulouzat, and Châteauroux during the Holocaust and caring for child survivors at the le Petit Monde children’s home near Paris after the war. Biographical materials include identification papers and education and employment records in Lipman’s assumed name (Simone Werlin) and attestations documenting her work rescuing and caring for Jewish children with the OSE at Rivesaltes and Châteauroux during the H...

  5. Simonne Youkobovitch Wodka collection

    Contains an invitation for the 1946 wedding of Simonne Youkobovitch (donor) and Pierre Wodka.

  6. Simons, Walter

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • N 1504
    • German
    • 1923-1934
    • Nachlässe 6 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 0,0 laufende Meter

    Zitierweise BArch N 1504/...

  7. Simonson and Schreiber families: family histories

    This collection contains autobiographical accounts of Alfred Simms and the family histories of the Simonson and Schreiber families and their ancestors.Autobiographical accounts of Alfred Simms and the family histories of the Simonson and Schreiber families and their ancestors. Also included are the funeral address and biography of Hans Schreiber, Alfred Simms uncle, who did not return from a temporary visit to Switzerland in 1938 and survived by getting married to Swiss national in 1942.English

  8. Simson Klein collection

    The collection contains Simson's and Mary's letters to each other and to the authorities on the subject of Simson's interment on the Isle of Man as an enemy alien. There are also some digital copies of photographs of the Kleins.

  9. Sinclair

    "Upton Sinclair to Run for Governor," California. Upton Sinclair, noted author explains what he hopes to accomplish if elected. VCU, Sinclair. NOTE: Footage preceding this story from 01:38:07 - 01:38:45 is unrelated News Flashes.

  10. Sinclair speaks

    "Upton Sinclair Explains his 'Epic Plan'" Pasadena, CA. Upton Sinclair explaining his plan to end poverty in California.

  11. Sindermann, Horst

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners KJVD (1929), UB-Leiter in Dresden; Inhaftierung 1933, 1935-45; KPD/SED (1945/1946); Chefredakteur an verschiedenen Zeitungen (1945-1953); Leiter der Abt. Agitation und Propaganda beim ZK der SED (1954-1963); Mitglied des ZK (1963-1989), Mitglied des Politbüros (1967-1989) des ZK der SED; 1. Sekr. der SED-BL Halle (1963-1971); Präsident der Volkskammer (1976-1989); Vorsitzender des Ministerrates (1973-1976); Stellv. Vors. des Staatsrates (1976-1989) Bearbeitungshinweis Vorläufiges Verzeichnis Zitierweise BArch NY 4594/...

  12. Singer 13 sewing machine with a fiddle base used by a tailor in a sealed ghetto

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn522553
    • English
    • 1939-1945
    • a: Height: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) | Depth: 6.000 inches (15.24 cm) b: Height: 2.875 inches (7.302 cm) | Width: 25.625 inches (65.088 cm) | Depth: 18.875 inches (47.943 cm)

    Singer sewing machine with wooden table top used by Smil Wagner, a tailor from Suceava, (S. Bukovina) Romania. In 1941-1942, Smil and the other Jews of his town were deported to the Shargorod (Sharhorod) ghetto in Romanian occupied Ukraine. Smil was allowed to bring his sewing machine. He made and repaired garments for the local Ukrainian population in exchange for food. Smil was able to leave the ghetto after the region was retaken by the Soviet Union in 1944.

  13. Singer family collection

    The collection consists of a brick from the wall around the synagogue in Celldömölk, Hungary which was bombed down by the Germans and a curtain embroidered by Ilona Waldhauser which she took to the ghetto in Csorna and was taken from her there by locals. Ilona's daughter saw it in a window in Csorna after the war and it was returned to her.

  14. Singer family collection

    Photographs and negatives documenting the lives of Ludwig Singer of Uzhhorod (Ukraine) and his wife Atalia Rosenheck of Nadwórna, Poland (Nadvirna, Ukraine). Includes depictions of family life in Nadwórna and Jerusalem, Ludwig's opera performances, and various friends and relatives. Negatives are housed separately.

  15. Singer family collection

    This collection contains correspondence regarding the rescue of three generations of the Singer family, Jewish business people from Vienna who emigrated to Australia via England in 1939. E A Harris and his wife, Jimmy Deyong from London as well as Henry Caminer from Sydney helped the family to obtain permits.Correspondence and copies of the landing permits. 

  16. Singer family papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Elsa and Paul Singer, along with their daughter Eva Singer, including their flight from Vienna, Austria in 1938, Paul’s internment in the Meslay du Maine internment camp, and their immigration to the United States from Paris in 1940. Included are biographical and identification documents, immigration paperwork for the Singers and Paul’s brother Georg and his wife Leopoldina Nemelka Singer, a small amount of wartime correspondence, and photographs. The biographical material includes birth and marriage certificates, report cards, docum...

  17. Singer family papers

    The papers consist of four photographs of Estera Singer [donor], her father, Friedrich, and her sister, Sandra, in the Esslingen, Wasseralfingen, and Feldafing displaced persons samps in Germany as well as two identification cards issued to Friedrich and Estera Singer in Wasseralfingen DP Camp and one affidavit issued on behalf of Friedrich Singer.

  18. Singer style Soviet treadle sewing machine and table of the type used in Kovno ghetto

    Treadle sewing machine produced in the Singer factory in Podolsk, Soviet Union (Podol’sk, Russia), which was nationalized following the Bolshevik October Revolution in 1917. The machine is mounted to a wooden table, which served as both work surface and storage container for the machine and sewing accessories. This mass produced machine was very durable and affordable. This specific machine was in use in Lithuania until the late 1990s. This type of machine would have been used by Jewish forced laborers in the Kovno (Kaunas) Ghetto in German occupied Lithuania. There were about forty worksho...

  19. Singing on Horst Wessel Platz

    A huge crowd gathered on Horst Wessel Platz in Berlin sings folk songs. The narrator says that the event, and others like it, was organized by a Berlin radio station. The camera focuses on a choir of Hitler Youth and League of German Girls members singing. The crowd then whistles the tune.

  20. Sinia A. Holocaust testimony