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  1. Sola B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sola B., who was born in Basel, Switzerland, in 1911 and moved with her family to Berlin, Germany, in 1920. Mrs. B. describes her childhood and family life; her many non-Jewish friends; increasing anti-Semitic behavior and legislation; the deportation of her father, a Polish Jew, in 1938; rescuing her father-in-law from Sachsenhausen; being smuggled, along with her husband, into Antwerp; her life in the United States; and her attempts to educate her children as to the meaning of her experiences. Mrs. B. also discusses her feelings regarding the possibility of a recurr...

  2. Solange N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Solange N., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1921, one of two children. She recalls her family's comfortable and assimilated lifestyle; German invasion; briefly fleeing with her family; confiscation of her father's company; a German offering to take them elsewhere before ghettoization; joining relatives in Radom; ghettoization; a non-Jew hiding her mother during inspections (she did not have a work card); their transfer to Pionki; slave labor in a munitions factory; deportation of her father and brother (she never saw them again); communicating with her father (he wa...

  3. Sold family correspondence

    Contains letters written by Szymon and Hinda Sold in Lwow, Poland, to their daughter Regina Sold Bauer and son-in-law, Dr. Artur Bauer in Palestine. In 1941 they left Lwow and moved to Stryj to avoid deportation to Siberia. The last communication was dated July 3, 1942 and was sent via Red Cross to Dr. Artur Bauer in Petah Tikva, Palestine.

  4. Soldiers awarded; soldiers dance; scrapping of downed German airplane

    Titles: "Soviet newsreel / 78 / August 15, 1941"/ "Glory"/ "To brave defenders of the Homeland"/ "Presiding chairman of the Supreme Court of the USSR Comrade Kalinin gives out awards and medals" Several MS of Kalinin shaking hands with and presenting awards to soldiers. Tracking LSs of battleships. CUs naval officer and several soldiers. Titles: 01:12:00 "N Squadron, our brave Falcons"/ Film-reporting from the front lines" LS Soviet plane camouflaged by trees. LS attentive audience of Soviet soldiers. ELS crowd of soldiers gathered around Cossack dancers. Cuts between LS soldier dancing and...

  5. Soldiers celebrate

    EXT, soldiers clowning around outside of their barracks. Soldiers eat, sing, dance, pretend to be bull fighters, and generally have a good time.

  6. Soldiers eating; at leisure

    Soldiers line up and receive food. They pose next to a boxcar that says “15 Fin USA Bound.” A sign for Thionville. Soldiers eat at Camp Boston in Reims, France. Children wave at the camera. Soldiers play cards and smoke cigarettes. Scenes at Camp Boston.

  7. Soldiers in France; Gigant aircraft in development

    German soldiers in France, meal distribution, Namur station. Compiegne, Ruinen station, electric locomotive. French prisoners. 07:49 Poland, winter, village, rubble, Warsaw. Horses. Tanks. Zichenau. 16:28 1940/41 Leipheim and Obertraubling military airfield, development of the Messerschmitt "Gigant" ["giant"]. Towing with three He 111s, star-launch missiles, giant with six engines. Landing, takeoff at Eggemühl. Rudolf Hess, Theo Croneiss, the directors Rakan Kokothaki and Hentzen. Hanna Reitsch.

  8. Soldiers on leave in Paris

    Three day pass to Paris. Les Invalides, the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, a bridge over the Seine, bouquinistes, more shots of the Seine, Notre Dame again, the Louvre, the Tuileries, the obelisk at Place de la Concorde, Grand Palais, Haussmann-style buildings, Champs Elysées, Arc de Triomphe and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Opera Garnier, Place Vendôme, Rue de Rivoli, Trocadero, the Eiffel Tower, a woman with baguettes, Hotel Bayard (American Red Cross HQ), street scenes of civilians and soldiers.

  9. Soldiers relax at the French Riviera

    In color, the coast of the French Riviera comes into view from the plane. Street scenes on the Riviera. Murray poses in front of the beach. People sunbathing on rock beaches. “Positively no whistling or stamping allowed.” Various shots of the Riviera from different perspectives. American flag waving. Murray on a boat. More coastline scenes on the beach. Murray in a canoe. Street and beach scenes of civilians. Grass. Planes take off. View from mid-flight on the return to Pilsen.

  10. Solf, Wilhelm

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • N 1053
    • German
    • Nachlässe 164 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 2,1 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Wilhelm Heinrich Solf, Kolonialpolitik. Mein politisches Vermächtnis, Berlin 1919 Eberhard von Vietsch, Wilhelm Solf. Botschafter zwischen den Zeiten, Tübingen 1961 Gouverneur vn Samoa (1900-1911), Staatssekretär des Reichskolonialamtes (1911-1918) und des Auswärtigen Amtes (1918) Lebenslauf 5. Okt. 1862 Geboren in Berlin als Sohn des Kaufmanns und Stadtverordneten Hermann Solf 1881 Abitur am Großherzogl. Gymnasium in Mannheim 1885 Promotion zum Dr. phil. (Indologie) an der Universität Halle/Saale Tätigkeit an der Universitätsbibliothek Kiel und am Orientalis...

  11. Soli G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Soli G., who was born in Šilutė, Lithuania in 1928, the youngest of three children. He recounts moving to Kaunas in 1933; enjoying his large extended family; attending a local school; antisemitic harrassment; transfer to a Jewish school; Warsaw refugees living with them after outbreak of war in 1939; Soviet occupation in June 1940; a social relationship with the Japanese consul Chiune Sugihara and his wife; his family obtaining documents from him to emigrate; German invasion in June 1941 preventing their departure; briefly fleeing to Jonava; hiding with a farmer; wi...

  12. Solidarität mit Namibia

    Zitierweise BArch SGY 46/...

  13. Solly Border diploma

    Solly Border's diploma in chemical engineering, awarded to him from the Polytechnic University in Iași, Romania in 1957.

  14. Solly I. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Solly I., who was born in Ryki, Poland in 1930 to a Hasidic family. He recalls his four sisters; isolation from the outside community; speaking only Yiddish; pervasive antisemitism; German invasion; briefly fleeing to Z?elecho?w; returning home; his father arranging his and one sister's escape to hide with a non-Jewish farmer; having to leave the farm; living with a cousin in De?blin; their escape during the liquidation; a farmer catching his sister (he never saw her again); wandering the forest for six months; entering the camp in De?blin; living with his aunt; publi...

  15. Solomon Baicovitz collection

    Consists of typed testimony, 10 pages, written by Solomon Zalman Baicovitz, originally of Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania. He describes pre-war antisemitism, the establishment of the Kovno ghetto, and life in the ghetto, including witnessing several aktions. He created a hiding place and managed to hide his mother and daughter from an aktion in March 1944 before successfully placing his daughter in hiding outside the ghetto in May 1944. In July 1944, he was deported to Dachau. In April 1945, he was sent on a death march from which he escaped, and was liberated on April 29, 1945. He reunited with ...

  16. Solomon Benedictovich Telingater collection

    Contains the photocopied book Solomon Benedictovich Telingater: Notes About My Father, written by V. S. Telingater and published in Moscow in 2008.

  17. Solomon Bogard collection

    The collection primarily consists of post-war photographs and some newspaper clippings, mainly capturing liberation, that were collected by Solomon Bogard, an American GI during WWII.

  18. Solomon family papers

    Correspondence, in German and Russian, of Harry Solomon (Chaim Salomonowitz), 1897-1950, with family members in Liepaja, and Riga and Vilnius, including a long series of letters from his wife, Jenka/Jenny, 1910-15; correspondence with and about other members of the family as refugees from Russia, including letters from Novi Sad (Serbia), 1921

  19. Solomon G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Solomon G., who was born in Nowogrodek, Poland, near the Russian border, in 1920. He describes family and community life before the war; life under Russian occupation; the establishment of German rule and the ensuing anti-Jewish legislation; round-ups and mass killings of Jews, including most of his family; and his confinement to a ghetto in his city. Mr. G. recalls the liquidation of the ghetto, during which most of the inhabitants were deported, and those remaining, including himself and his sister, were interned in two concentration camps established in the city. H...

  20. Solomon Goldman collection

    Consists of post-war photographs showing Jewish DPs celebrating the declaration of the state of Israel, a photograph of Solomon Goldman [donor] speaking to a group of men, Innsbruck university certificates for Szlama Goldman, IRO immunization records for Schlama and Sonia Goldman, and a letter of recommendation for Slama Goldman from the Innsbruck American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. The collection also contained Solomon Goldman's doctoral dissertation, "Education Among Jewish Displaced Persons; The Sheerit Hapletah in Germany, 1945-1950", which was transferred to the USHMM Library...