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  1. Sofiia Y. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sofiia Y., who was born in Raygorodok, Ukraine in 1922. She recalls attending schools in Yanushpolʹ and Tetërka; Soviet authorities destroying the local synagogue; her brother's death during the famine; German invasion; forced labor; forced relocation into dilapidated apartments; non-Jewish friends bringing them food; escaping a mass shooting in September 1941 with assistance from non-Jews; hiding for two days; learning her parents had survived; slave labor clearing snow from roads; she and her father escaping liquidation of all the Jews in a mass killing (her mother...

  2. Sohl, Hans-Günther

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • N 1462
    • German
    • 1985
    • Nachlässe 1 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 0,2 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners geb. am 2. Mai 1906 in Danzig Abitur und Studium in Berlin, Dipl.-Ing.-Examen, 1932 Bergassessor-Examen, Praktikant bei den Stinnes-Zechen in Essen, 1933 Rohstoffdezernat von Krupp, 1935 als Leiter; zu Beginn des 2. Wltkrieges Vorstand der Vereinigten Stahlwerke AG, später stellvertretender Vorsitzender. Nach 1945 eineinhalbjährige Internierung, Entlassung 1947, dann Liquidator der Vereinigten Stahlwerke im Ressort Demontage und Dekartellisierung. Nach dem Tod Fritz Thyssens 1951 Manager Thyssen-Tochter und Miterbin Anita Gräfin Zichy-Thyssen. 1953 Vorstand d...

  3. Sohn-Rethel, Alfred

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • N 1492
    • German
    • 1936-1990
    • Nachlässe 100 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 4,2 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Alfred Sohn-Rethel (1899-1990), Nationalökonom, marxistischer Philosoph und Wirtschafts- und Industriesoziologe 4.1.1899 geboren in Neuilly sur Seine (heute zu Paris gehörig) als Sohn des Kunstmalers Alfred Sohn-Rethel 1907 Übersiedelung nach Deutschland, zuerst in Düsseldorf als Pflegesohn des Industriellen Ernst Poensgen, ab 1912 bei den Eltern in Berlin 1917 Abitur in Lüneburg 1917 Immatrikulation in Nationalökonomie an der Universität Heidelberg Juni-Dez. 1918 Militärdienst (Heimatdienst im „Reservelazarett J", München) 1919 Studium abwechselnd in Berlin ...

  4. Sokolski-Gruszka family. Collection

    This collection consists of photos of Adolphe Sokolski, his wife Sosia Gruszka and their three daughters Jacqueline, Arlette and Francine, as well as newspaper clippings regarding the 70th anniversary of the anti-Jewish raid in Douai and Lens, France (11 September 1942), during which the family was arrested.

  5. Sol and Arlene Sturm collection

    Contains six postcards and two envelopes from letters written to donor's mother, Helen Schreiber, in New York City, from Herman Schreiber and his wife, Netta Horowitz-Schrieber of Stanisławów, Poland, dated 1939-1941.

  6. Sol and Sylvia Horwitz visit family in Bessarabia, 1936

    In 1936, Sol and Sylvia Horwitz traveled to their hometowns in Bessarabia and visited Paris, Berlin, Romania (Chernovitz, Falesht, Beltz, Tulcea, Ismail), and Vienna. They documented their journey on 8mm film and each kept a travel log, in which Sol discussed his growing anxiety and concern over the current state of his homeland, while Sylvia described the townspeople and their cultural customs. Sylvia returned to NY on July 6, 1936, sailing on the SS Queen Mary from Cherbourg, France. Sol stayed in Vienna for medical training and arrived separately in NY on November 2, 1936. 0:00 Bustling ...

  7. Sol Brivik photograph collection

    Collections consists of 16 photographs depicting members of the Brivik family from Kaunas, Lithuania; all of whom were taken from the Kovno ghetto and executed.

  8. Sol E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sol E., who was born in Nyi?rba?tor, Hungary in 1928. He recalls attending religious school and yeshiva; anti-Semitic incidents; weekly forced labor from 1940 through 1944; German occupation; transfer to the Simapuszta ghetto for two months; deportation to Birkenau; praying in the train with his father, whom he never saw again; transfer to Auschwitz, then Monowitz; religious observances; the death march to Gleiwitz in January 1945; a friend saving him from execution; transport to Buchenwald; Czechs throwing food into the train; becoming more hopeful upon learning his ...

  9. Sol E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sol E., who was born in a Polish village and raised in Gorlice. He recalls a large and close extended family; working for a wholesale food business; learning English, anticipating emigration to join relatives in the United States; German invasion; forced labor; ghettoization; starvation; non-Jewish farmers bringing them food; selection with his brother for deportation to P?aszo?w; slave labor for Siemens; hospitalization for typhus; working as a nurse; sharing extra food with others; working for Krupp; separation from his brother (he never saw him again); transfer to ...

  10. Sol F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sol F., who was born in Cluj, Romania in 1907. He describes his mother's struggles to support the family after his father's death; becoming a dancer; deteriorating conditions for Jews from 1941 onward; forced labor on the Russian front in 1942; one family visit; transport to Auschwitz; beatings and hunger; and transfer to Longwy-Thil, France where he worked approximately one year. He describes a forced march; working in a salt mine at Heilbronn; transfer to Dachau, then Passau; desertion by SS guards; foraging for food; exchanging clothes with a German soldier; receiv...

  11. Sol Goldberg collection

    Consists of a post-war photograph of Sol and Fryda Kleinwachs Goldberg [donor]; photographs of Jews being humiliated in the town square of an unknown Polish town and found by the donor in the Ebensee concentration camp after liberation; one letter to Sol Goldberg from Roman Englander recounting Mr. Englander's remembrance of the death of Poldek Goldberg, the donor's brother; and one short article by Sol Goldberg about Poldek Goldberg.

  12. Sol LeWitt drawing

    Sol LeWitt site specific wall drawing commissioned by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Art in Public Spaces program. "the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Art for Public Spaces Program was established to commission works of artistic merit that address the singularity of the [the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum] and contribute to the visitor's experience of the Museum in ways that are substantial and distinct from the permanent or special exhibitions." [see Ref 2] "Four site-specific works of art, 'Consequence' being among them, were chosen by an independent jury 'c...

  13. Sol M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sol M., who was born in Radzano?w, Poland in 1920, one of eight children. He recalls his family's Hasidism; antisemitic harassment; German invasion in September 1939; anti-Jewish measures; ghettoization in M?awa; public hangings; forced labor; deportation to Auschwitz with a brother and two sisters in November 1942; slave labor with his brother; his brother's murder; praying on Yom Kippur; hearing rumors in July 1944 that Hitler was dead; contact with his sister; learning from her that their younger sister was dead; a death march; transport to Gross-Rosen, Buchenwald,...

  14. Sol P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sol P., who was born in Pu?tusk, Poland in 1924, the oldest of five children. He recalls German invasion; working on a Polish farm until summer 1941; transfer to the Makow Mazowiecki ghetto; replacing his father for forced labor in December; returning home; his father's death from typhus; transfer to Ciechano?w in May 1942; his family's deportation from Makow; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; help from a Jewish woman after he was beaten; transfer to Buna/Monowitz; improved conditions; return to Birkenau when he had typhus; wanting to commit suicide, but not doing so...

  15. Sol P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sol P., who was born in ?uko?w, Russia (presently Poland) in 1907, the oldest of thirteen children. He recounts his successful hardware business; marriage in 1927; the births of five children; increasing antisemitism in the 1930s, including boycotts; German invasion; fleeing with his family to avoid bombings; returning alone two weeks later; hiding with his father and sister from a round-up; brief Soviet occupation; bringing his family back to ?uko?w; German reoccupation in October; anti-Jewish restrictions; random killings; arrest and incarceration in Lublin; release...

  16. Sol R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sol R., who was born in Velikiye Luchki, Czechoslovakia in 1928. He recounts Hungarian occupation; going to work at age thirteen after his father was taken to a forced labor battalion; his father's return; a four-week incarceration with his family in a brick factory; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from his mother and sisters (he never saw them again); his father giving him his bread; separation from his father (he never saw him again); transfer to Mauthausen, then Melk, with his friend Sam; slave labor digging tunnels; assistance from Sam, who had a privileged j...

  17. Sol Rubinstein papers

    Contains correspondence addressed to and from Sol Rubinstein, Cleveland, OH, to family members of Łapy and Łódź, Poland, describing actions being taken against the Jewish populations. Other letters include those written by Sol Rubinstein addressed to a friend in Sokoli, Poland, as well as letters from family members in Haifa and from Nathan Zahavi about attempts to save his Aunt Fradl. Also contains two manuscripts, "Rubinstein-Stolarsky Family History, 1984" and "The Rescue of our Family Survivors." "The Rescue of our Family Survivors" includes translations of much of the family wartime ...

  18. Sol S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sol S. who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1914. He recalls anti-Semitic incidents in public school; becoming a tailor at age thirteen; German invasion in 1939; fleeing with his brother and neighbors to Sandomierz; hiding in the synagogue; transfer to Opato?w after they were discovered; the murder of many Jews; and returning to Krako?w. Mr. S. recounts bodies on the streets; forced labor in coal mines; ghettoization; burying women and babies murdered in the hospital; transfer to P?aszo?w; finding his mother, sisters, and their children there; mass killings; deportation...

  19. Sol S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sol S., who was born in Rokiskis, Lithuania in 1927 and raised in Kaunas. Mr. S. recalls antisemitism as a child; Soviet occupation; German invasion; Lithuanian collaboration; ghettoization; starvation, selections and mass shootings; forced labor at Aleksotas, Kaunas and Marijampole?; deportation in 1944 with his father and brother to Kaufering (his mother and sister were removed from the train near Danzig); aid received from a German foreman; the importance of his father to his survival; and liberation by American troops. He describes finding his brother; returning t...

  20. Sol U. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sol U., who was born in Kalwaria Zebrzydowska, Poland in 1926, one of six children. He recounts his family's poverty; their moving to Romania in 1928, then to Borek Fa?e?ck in 1933; attending cheder in Podgo?rze; antisemitic harassment; German invasion in 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions; forced factory labor; ghettoization in Krako?w; working in Oskar Schindler's factory in 1942; Schindler protecting his Jewish workers when the ghetto was liquidated in March 1943; deportation of Mr. U.'s family (he never saw them again); transfer to P?aszo?w; public hangings; living in...