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  1. Sonja B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sonja B., who was born in Pozarevac, Serbia in 1922, one of seven children. She recalls one brother's death; moving to Belgrade about 1929; her brothers' illegal communist activities; their escapes due to neighbors' warnings that police were coming; active participation with her sisters in Hashomer Hatzair; destruction of their home in the German bombardment on April 6, 1941; briefly fleeing; returning and staying with neighbors; orders to register as Jews; her brothers refusing to do so; registering with her mother and sisters; partisans providing false papers and hi...

  2. Sonja DuBois collection

    Collection of objects and photographs relating to Sonja DuBois' experiences as a hidden child in the Netherlands. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  3. Sonja Kirschener collection

    Consists of 41 photographs, mainly pre-war, of the Kaiser family in Germany, as well as wartime and post-war photographs taken after the family fled to Shanghai, China. Also includes three copies of the Shanghai Jewish school newspaper, "The Oracle," 1947.

  4. Sonja Lange: work permit

    Work permit for the Jewess, Sonja Lange, issued by the balloon works department of the Zeppelin Airship Company, Berlin,German 

  5. Sonja M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sonja M., who was born in Berlin in 1925. She recalls antisemitic harassment in school; expulsion; attending a Jewish school; refusing a place on a kindertransport to remain with her parents; forced factory labor; her parents' deportation; hiding with her future husband (his job for the Jewish Kultusgemeinde provided protection and influence); deportation to Theresienstadt in June 1943 due to his influence; marriage by a rabbi; a Red Cross visit; deportation to Birkenau in October 1944; transfer ten days later to Freiberg; slave labor in an airplane factory; civilians...

  6. Sonja M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sonja M., who was born in Krevo, Poland in 1922. She recalls her four brothers; attending public and Jewish schools; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in 1941; transfer to the Oshmyany ghetto; slave labor with two cousins in Kena in 1943; transfer with her younger brother to Kais?iadorys; a partisan attack; transfer to Kovno, then Stutthof; a beating for trying to smuggle food to her friends; a death march in January 1944; liberation by Soviet troops; recuperation in a Soviet military hospital in Ciechocinek; meeting her future husband; traveling to Byshkov, ...

  7. Sonja Milner collection, 1944-1945

    The photographs depict Schneiur and Shlomo Trabska dressed in Polish Army uniforms, their cousin of who was a rabbi, and Siegfried Mendel from Gniewkowo, Poland.

  8. Sonja S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sonja S., who was born in Hamburg in 1927 to a Jewish father and Catholic mother. She recalls living in Duisburg; her mother's death; living with her maternal great-aunt in Hamburg; moving back with her father, brother and stepmother in Berlin in 1936; destruction of her father's store on Kristallnacht; her father's deportation to Poland; seeing her father once at the border; his escape; her parents placing her and her brother in a Catholic orphanage (she had been baptized) to wait for a kindertransport to England; her parents' escape to Holland and Belgium; the outbr...

  9. Sonja Schulmann Schwartz collection

    The collection consists of documents, publications, and a brief case relating to the experiences of Hirsch Schulmann.

  10. Sonja Speyer Echt papers

    The collection documents the pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences of Sonja Speyer Echt, originally of Guxhagen, Germany, including her childhood in Guxhagen, immigration to the United States in February 1938 on a Kindertransport, and her efforts to receive restitution from Germany. Included is her German passport, a copy of her birth certificate, a wartime postcard from her family in Guxhagen, genealogy notes, One Thousand Children reunion materials, restitution claims, and photographs. The photographs include depictions of Sonja, her sister Rita, Berta, and family tombstones.

  12. Sonnenmark family correspondence

    Correspondence between members of the family of Robert Sonnenmark, of Prossnitz, in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (Prostějov, Czech Republic). Most of the letters are from Robert, while he was imprisoned at Buchenwald, addressed to his wife, Marta and daughter, Miriam in Prossnitz, and dated from October 1939 to March 1940. Many of these letters were forwarded by Marta to her father and brother in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, who added their own comments in the margins and forwarded them to Peter Sonnenmark, the son of Marta and Robert, who was living in Palestine. Other correspondence in...

  13. Sonner family fonds

    • Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre
    • RA010
    • English
    • 1916-2007
    • 17 cm of textual records91 photographs : prints44 photographs : negatives1 album (circa 65 photographs : black and white prints)8 electronic records (tifs)5 audio cassettes2 drawings2 x-rays2 videocassettes1 object

    The collection consists of vital records, administrative documents, original drawings, publications, educational certificates, academic papers, photographs, correspondence, letters of reference and audio-visual testimony relating to the life and work of Eric and Rose Sonner. Records detail the vital statistics, career history, education, travels and emigration efforts of the family from the late 1940s until the mid-2000s. Collection consists of the following series: Terezín (1942–1945); Prague (1946–1949); Academic works (horticulture) (1947–1950); Correspondence and ephemera (1949–2000); V...

  14. Sonstige zentrale Dienststellen und Einrichtungen der SS

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Bestandsgeschichte Der Bestand NS 48, 1983 unter der Bezeichnung Statistisch-wissenschaftliches Institut des Reichsführers-SS angelegt, wurde 1989 durch Schriftgutsplitter einer Reihe weiterer SS-Provenienzen erweitert, die bis dahin in den Sammelbeständen Kleine Erwerbungen (NS 20), NS-Splitter sowie SS-Schule Haus Wewelsburg (NS 32 III) verwahrt wurden. Neu hinzugekommen sind bei der Neubearbeitung Unterlagen, die dem Bundesarchiv 1997 durch das Deutsche Institut für Vormundschaftswesen e.V. in Heidelberg übergeben wurden. Es handelt sich hierbei um eine Ka...

  15. Sonstiges

    • 3
    • German
    • 1925
    • Papier. Umfang nicht bekannt

  16. Sontag, Kurt (Marinedekan)

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Marinedekan / Probst, Stationspfarrer der Marinestation Ostsee Bestandsbeschreibung Druckschriften, verschiedene Erinnerungs- und Tätigkeitsberichte, Ausarbeitungen zur Geschichte der Wehrmachtseelsorge im Zweiten Weltkrieg Vorarchivische Ordnung Der Ordnungszustand des Evangelischen Kirchenamtes, das den Nachlass im Jahre 1981 übergab, wurde weitgehend beibehalten; einzelne Archivalien wurden in den bestand RM 26 transferiert. Zitierweise BArch N 616/...

  17. Sontheimer, Kurt

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • N 1577
    • German
    • 1956-2005
    • Nachlässe 53 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 0,8 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners geboren am 31. Juli 1928 in Gernsbach, Baden; verstorben 16. Mai 2005 in Murnau am Staffelsee deutscher Politikwissenschaftler Studium der Politikwissenschaften und Geschichte in Freiburg im Breisgau, Erlngen, Kansas City und Paris, 1960 Habilitation an der Universität Freiburg im Breisgau ab 1960 professor an der Pädagogischen Hochschule in Osnabrück, 1962 Otto-Suhr-Institut an der Freien Universität Berlin 1969-1993 Professor für Politische Wissenschaften an der Geschwister-Scholl-Institut an der Universität München 1968-1983 Mitglied des Präsidiums des Deu...

  18. Sonya B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sonya B., who was born in 1923 in Poland, one of five children. She recounts her family's move to Zheludok when she was six; attending a Jewish, then Polish school; antisemitic harassment; Soviet occupation; attending school in Lida; joining the Komsomol; one brother's draft into the Soviet army; German invasion; fleeing east; ghettoization in Dyatlovo (Dzi︠a︡tlava); work caring for a baby, then forced labor building roads; joining the ghetto underground with her brother; hiding in a bunker with her father; escaping to the forest with a friend; assistance from a non-J...

  19. Sonya Lishansky collection

    Consists of one photographic print showing a group of eleven boys and girls seated together in two rows for a class picture, Gomel', Belarus.

  20. Sonya O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sonya O., who was born in Nowogro?dek, Poland (presently Navahrudak, Belarus) in 1922, one of five children. She recounts a pleasant childhood in an affluent family; attending gymnasium; Soviet occupation; confiscation of their business and home; acceptance to medical school; German invasion; deportation of her grandparents; ghettoization; working in the ghetto hospital; one brother being killed; conversion of the ghetto to a forced labor camp; remaining with her family; her younger brother starving to death; round-up of her mother and sister, then of her father a wee...