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  1. Solomon Littman collection

    Photocopied documents from the National Archives UK, consisting of the records from the record group TS 26/903, titled "Treasury Solicitor and HM Procurator General: War Crimes Papers. World War II, 1939-194. U.N.W.C.C. Lists of War Criminals. Concentration Camps. Miscellaneous Papers." Most of the material consists of transcripts of depositions filed in cases prosecuted by the British against alleged war criminals, along with supporting documentation, such as lists of personnel at various concentration camps, compiled May - November 1945. Also includes one report from the U.N. War Crimes C...

  2. Solomon M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Solomon M., who was born in Je?drzejo?w, Poland in 1916. He recalls the family farm; attending Polish school and cheder; serving in the Polish army from 1937 onward; German invasion; three months as a prisoner of war; returning home; finding the town ghettoized; volunteering for forced labor in his father's place; six months of railroad work at Se?dziszo?w; transfer to Skarz?ysko-Kamienna; eighteen months in werke C; clandestinely receiving food from non-Jewish workers; transfer to Cze?stochowa in late 1943, then to Buchenwald in mid-1944; clearing corpses from the ba...

  3. Solomon Manischewitz photograph collection

    The collection consists of photographs taken in Zeilsheim displaced persons camp, near Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Most of the photographs depict the students and staff of the Henrieta Szold Hebrew School in Zeilsheim where Solomon Manischewitz taught and the Zeilsheim High School. The collection also includes images of festivities held at Zeilsheim on May 15, 1948, when Israel was proclaimed an independent state.

  4. Solomon Meyer papers

    Contains one letter with envelope written by Solomon Meyer to his wife from Germany, twelve black and white photographs from Buchenwald taken by Solomon, and a copy of a Buchenwald concentration camp report (Headquarters 1270th Engineer Combat Battalion).

  5. Solomon R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Solomon R., who was born in Komarov, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1920. He recalls moving to ?o?dz? when he was seven; working from age twelve onward; German invasion; attempting to reach Warsaw; capture by Germans; train transport to Germany, then back to Poland two weeks later; forced labor in Krako?w; being released; returning to ?o?dz?; ghettoization; frequent shootings; difficulty obtaining food; volunteering for forced labor in Germany so his family would receive compensation; working in Frankfurt an-der-Oder from December 1940 onward; transfer to a factory nea...

  6. Solomon R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Solomon R., who was born in Jerusalem in 1908. He describes traveling to Ulm in 1946, representing the Joint; working with displaced persons, Allied forces, HIAS, and UNRRA; providing food, religious services and supplies, schools, and recreational activities to displaced persons in camps and in the area; cigarette rations functioning as currency; diverse political and religious groups; relations with local Germans, non-Jewish eastern European refugees, and Allied personnel; and the efforts of army chaplains to raise morale.

  7. Solomon S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Solomon S., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1923. He recounts attending Hebrew and public school; joyful religious observances; antisemitic incidents; German invasion; fleeing 300 miles east with his father; returning when the Germans overtook them; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; the ghetto's liquidation in 1943; transfer to P?aszo?w; working in a factory next to Oskar Schindler's; punishment for fasting on Yom Kippur; Schindler saving a Jew from execution; visiting his mother and sister in P?aszo?w; his parents' deportation (he never saw them again); pub...

  8. Solomon S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Solomon S., who was born in Charsznica, Poland in 1926. He describes the town, his family and education; fleeing to a farm during the German invasion; increasingly harsh conditions; a mass shooting in September 1942; transport to P?asow with his father and cousin; frequent killings; their escape to the Krako?w ghetto, then Charsznica; and his father (whom he never saw again) sending him to a labor collection to escape transport. Mr. S. recalls moving between P?asow and the ghetto; surviving several times due to help from friends and a Jewish kapo; transfer to Mauthaus...

  9. Solomon S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Solomon S., who was born in Zago?ro?w, Poland in 1917. He recalls antisemitic harassment, particularly at Easter; the deaths of his parents; living with a sibling in Siedlce; one brother's emigration to the United States; rabbinic training in Warsaw; serving in the Polish military starting in April 1938; retreating to Deblin and Kovel?; disbanding of his unit; returning to Siedlce; anti-Jewish regulations; smuggling himself to Vilnius; Soviet occupation; living in S?iauliai; obtaining a visa for Japan; traveling to Vladivostok, then Ko?be-shi; involuntary transfer to ...

  10. Solomon Surowitz collection

    Consists of one brown placard dated 11 April 1947, Dachau, presented to Mr. Solomon Surowitz, a prosecutor at the Buchenwald trial from New York, NY; states that the group will always remember the dead of Buchenwald. Collection also contains one bound copy of "An information booklet on the Buchenwald concentration camp case: the United States of America v. Josias Prince zu Waldeck et al. : to be heard at Camp Dachau, Germany, 11 April 1947" (published in Dachau, Germany; 47 pages with signatures of participants in the back).

  11. Solomon Zynstein papers

    Consists of photographs, scrapbook pages, loose documents, and newspaper clippings mainly related to Solomon Zynstein's life and work in the Bamberg displaced persons camp, particularly his work directing Yiddish Theater in Bamberg. Includes photographs, programs, and newsclippings about performances, as well as documents related to Zynstein's work as a journalist, including brief notes on the International Military Tribunal (the Nuremberg trials).

  12. SOLOMON, Michel

    Manuscripts. Published essays and articles. Poems. Correspondence. Documentation and research for books. Magazines. Clippings. Cassettes of interviews.

  13. Soltz family photographs

    Contains pre-war photographs of Eishyshok [Eišiškės, Eisiskes; Lithuania].

  14. Soltz family photographs

    Contains two family portraits from Eishyshok [Eišiškės, Eisiskes; Lithuania], of Baila Leibnitz and Fanushka Soltz.

  15. Some of my experiences during the Holocaust 1939-1945

    Contains George Freshman's typewritten memoir, four pages, describing life in Grojec, Poland before and after the German invasion; conditions in the Grojec, Warsaw and Bialobzegi ghettos; his deportation to Auschwitz concentration camp and subsequent transfers to Radom concentration camp, to Weihingen, Unterrichsingen Unterriexingen and Kochendorf labor camps, and to Dachau concentration camp where he was liberated by American troops on May 8, 1945; his postwar return to Poland; and his emigration to the United States in 1949.

  16. Sommer and Bloch family papers

    The Sommer and Bloch family papers primarily document Ralph Sommer, a Jewish refugee who was imprisoned in the Camp des Milles internment camp and later was a member of the French resistance and the French military. Another major portion of the papers contain correspondence from Fred Hanauer, who was a cousin of Ralph's living in the United States and who coordinated efforts with other family members in assisting relatives imprisoned in concentration camps in Europe. Included in the collection is correspondence, identification papers, military papers, and travel visas. The Sommer and Bloch ...

  17. Sommer family papers

    Consists of pre-war, wartime, and post-war correspondence sent to and from Julius Sommer of Frankfurt, Germany, as well as Sommer's own wartime reflections of his own experiences. Includes letters written to his son Richard in the United States and son Alfred in London, his reflections on the British consular officer, Smallbones, who assisted Jews in Frankfurt in the wake of Kristallnacht, including Sommer, who immigrated to the United States in February 1939. Also includes correspondence between Alfred and Rosemary Sommer in London to Alfred's parents in the United States, 1938-1941, inclu...

  18. Sonderbeauftragter des Reichsverkehrsministeriums für Ausweichwerke

    Bestandsbeschreibung Schriftwechsel, technischen Zeichnungen 1944-1945 (7). Zitierweise BArch R 4310/...

  19. Sonderdienst Seehaus der Deutschen Auslands-Rundfunkgesellschaft Interradio AG

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners 1940 Übertragung der von verschiedenen Dienststellen noch bei Kriegsbeginn wahrgenommenen Aufgaben eines Rundfunk-Abhördienstes auf den "Sonderdienst Seehaus" (benannt nach seinem Sitz im "Seehaus" in Berlin/Wannsee). Er war zuständig für die Nachrichtenbeschaffung und -auswertung durch das Abhören ausländischer Sender. Ab 1941 wurde er an die Deutsche Auslandsrundfunkgesellschaft Interradio AG angeschlossen. Unterstellt war er zunächst nur dem Auswärtigen Amt, ab 22. Okt. 1941 auch dem Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda mit den Außenstellen...

  20. Sonderedition "Deutsche Einheit"

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • B 136-ANH.
    • German
    • 1989-1990
    • Schriftgut 16 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 1,1 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Aufgaben und Organisation: Nach Art. 65 GG, der in entsprechenden Formulierungen der Geschäftsordnung der Bundesregierung (BReg.) ausgeformt wurde, bestimmt der Bundeskanzler (BK) die Richtlinien der Politik und trägt dafür die Verantwortung. Darüber hinaus hat er auf die Einheitlichkeit der Geschäftsführung der BReg. hinzuwirken. Formal lassen sich die Funktionen des Amtes wie folgt beschreiben: -Unterrichtung des BK über die laufenden Fragen der allgemeinen Politik und die Arbeit in den Bundesministerien, -Vorbereitung der Entscheidungen des BK und Beachtun...