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  1. Thekla Samuel papers

    The Thekla Samuel papers contain documents relating to Thekla Samuel, a Jewish nurse from Cologne, Germany who sought refuge from Nazi persecution in Belgian Congo in 1938. At the time of increasing hostility towards Jews, Thekla fled Germany by marrying her pen pal, German born watchmaker, Erich Samuel who lived in Elisabethville, Belgian Congo. Included among her papers is correspondence from friends and family in Germany, primarily from her father, Moritz Bamberger, and papers documenting her travel preparations including a fiancée visa request filed by Erich, her ship passage informatio...

  2. Kampfgruppe gegen Unmenschlichkeit e.V. (KgU)

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • B 289
    • German
    • 1949-1958
    • Schriftgut 30 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 2,3 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Die Kampfgruppe gegen Unmenschlichkeit (KgU) bildete sich 1948 auf Initiative von Rainer Hildebrandt und mehreren Vertreter aus Jugendverbänden im amerikanischen Sektor von Berlin. Als Zielsetzung nannte Hildebrandt die "Aufklärung aller Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit, gleichviel, wo und durch wen sie begangen werden, Aufbau eines Suchdienstes zur Feststellung des Schicksals der in der Sowjetischen Besatzungszone Deutschlands verhafteten oder verschleppten Personen; Unterstützung aller sich mit politischen Mitteln gegen das in Mitteldeutschland herrschen...

  3. Eichmann Trial -- Session 104 -- Cross-examination of the Accused re: Hungary

    This tape begins in the middle of the proceedings of Session 104. Attorney General Gideon Hausner questions Eichmann about comments Eichmann made to Wilhelm Sassen regarding his inability to keep up with the pace of deportations in Hungary. Hausner cites quotes in which Eichmann compared the deportation in Hungary with the ease of those in Denmark and Holland, referring to the Jews of Hungary as being offered to them like "sour beer." This section duplicates footage found on Tape 2181. The footage is edited at 00:03:30, skipping a lengthy section in which Eichmann is cross-examined about hi...

  4. Manus D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Manus D., who was born near Katowice, Poland, in 1921, the fourth of five children. He recounts his family's move to Katowice in 1932; their affluence; attending a Jewish school; fights with non-Jews; participating in a Zionist youth group; attending a lecture by Jabotinsky and Zionist summer camp; he, his parents, and younger sister joining his brother in Warsaw in late August 1939; meeting Janusz Korczak; German invasion; he, his parents, and younger sister joining relatives in Sosnowiec; establishing an agricultural commune in cooperation with the Judenrat and its ...

  5. Processo de pedido de visto para Luitjen Bredius, Dirk Brons, Willem Jan Jonker, Johannes Marius Zijdenbos, Albert Schimmel, Johannes Nicolaas Dekker, Arie Tol, Nicolaas Van der Wagt, Maarten Hoogendam, Johannis Heijman, Klaas Pauwel Vos, Gerrit Dingeman Westra, Hendrik De Rooij, Adriaan Wilemse Louwers, Clasinus Stolk Adrianus, Casper Adam van Soeren e Jacobus Johannes Iversen Christiaan

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Roterdão para Luitjen Bredius, de nacionalidade holandesa e residente nos Países Baixos, com destino a Portugal. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Roterdão para Dirk Brons, de nacionalidade holandesa e residente nos Países Baixos, com destino a Portugal. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Roterdão para Willem Jan Jonker, de nacionalidade holandesa e residente nos Países Baixos, com destino a Portugal. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulad...

  6. Documentation of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAF) in the Soviet Union

    Description of the collection : Official Committee documentation, testimonies of survivors, Red Army soldiers, underground members, lists of Jewish victims, notices and announcements, investigative reports against Nazi criminals, survey reports, letters, radio broadcasts, articles and photographs. There are three main collections in the records group:A. Documentation regarding the Holocaust from the"Black Book", including valuable testimonies, diaries and memoirs that were processed for literary presentation and others that were only published partially, testimonies and memoirs regarding th...

  7. Bundesamt für Bauwesen und Raumordnung.- Organisationsunterlagen

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • B 167-ORG
    • German
    • Sammlung 145 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 0,0 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Das BBR ist eine Bundesoberbehörde und anerkannte Forschungseinrichtung im Geschäftsbereich des Bundesministeriums für Verkehr, Bau- und Wohnungswesen. Das BBR wurde zum 1. Januar 1998 durch Fusion der Bundesbaudirektion (BBD) und der Bundesforschungsanstalt für Landeskunde und Raumordnung (BfLR) durch Bundesgesetz errichtet und zum 1. Januar 2004 um die Bundesbauämter I und II der Oberfinanzdirektion Berlin erweitert. Die Geschichte der Bundesbaudirektion reicht bis 1770 zurück, als Friedrich II. in Preußen mit der Gründung des Oberbaudepartements die Bauver...

  8. Eichmann Trial -- Session 11 -- Israeli police interrogation of Eichmann

    Session 11. Court is not in session. Camera focuses on the prosecution as they discuss among themselves. The Judges enter and there is a blip at 00:04:13. An audio reel of Eichmann's pre-trial interrogation (in German) is being played. Following a blip at 00:06:43, the court translates the recording into Hebrew/English which discusses child deportation in 1942. During the interrogation, witness Avner Less presents Eichmann with a document concerning child transports. Eichmann's reponse is choppy, and he claims a faulty memory. District Attorney Gideon Hausner requests the tape be played fro...

  9. Witold F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Witold F., a non-Jew born in Pleszew, Poland in 1915. He recalls attending school in Chorzo?w, a military academy in Warsaw, and teaching in Silesia; German invasion; military service in Krako?w; being captured by Germans in Tomaszow Lubelski; attempting escape to Czechoslovakia using false papers; incarceration in Krako?w's Montelupich prison; and inclusion in the second transport to Auschwitz in 1940. Mr. F. describes camp life in detail; friends helping him to obtain a job, which included access to many areas; receiving and writing letters home (he shows them); obs...

  10. Leopold K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leopold K., who was born in Peremyshli?a?ny, Poland in 1918. He recalls his family's history as famous klezmer musicians; attending a multi-ethnic school; studies in L'viv; friendships with non-Jews; Soviet occupation; German invasion; escape east; returning home after Germans overtook them; formation of the ghetto and Judenrat; working in a hospital; a mass killing which included his father; building a bunker under their house; hiding in an outhouse, which still haunts him, and in the bunker; receiving food from non-Jewish friends; reluctance to escape from the ghett...

  11. HAHN, Professor Dr Otto (1879-1968)

    Typescript text in German entitled 'Beziehungen zu Nichtariern' ('Relationships with non-Aryans'), dated Jul 1945, relating to the treatment of Hahn's Jewish friends and colleagues in Germany, 1933-1945.

  12. Akta gminy Wola Wereszczyńska w Urszulinie

    • Files of the commune of Wola Wereszczyńska with the seat in Urszulin

    Księgi ludności stałej - Jagodno, Urszulin, Aleksandrówka, Wytyczno, Zawadówka, Wujek, Nowe Załucze, Zabrodzie - 1901 (sygn. 0a-e); dokumenty do ksiąg ludności stałej wsi Jagodno z lat 1865-1925 (sygn. 175-179)działy: Ogólno-Organizacyjny - przepisy i zarządzenia, sprawy organizacyjne, zebranie i urzędowanie, protokoły: sesji rady, posiedzeń prezydium, komisji, sesji sołtysów, zebrań gromadzkich; kontrole wewnętrzne, majątek gminy z lat 1946-1954 (sygn. 1-35); Finansowo-Budżetowy - budżety gminy, sprawozdania budżetowe, dochody, wydatki i konta budżetowe, inwentarz gminy, wykazy gospodarstw...

  13. Chaia G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chaia G., who was born in Kraśnik, Poland in approximately 1933. She recounts having very few memories of life before the war; her close relationship with their Polish maid; German invasion; fear during round-ups; her family hoarding food and burying valuables; her father, brother, and two uncles entering Budzyń; her father arranging for her to live with their maid in a nearby village; denouncement; incarceration in the Kraśnik synagogue; a Jewish official securing her release; hiding in a pigsty owned by her father's friend, then again with her maid; imprisonment ...

  14. Albert D., Chai?m D., and Henri D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of brothers Albert D., Chai?m D., and Henri D. who were born in Kozienice, Poland, in 1917, 1919, and 1923, respectively, to a family of five children. They recall their family's orthodoxy; participating in Betar; antisemitism in school; German invasion; briefly fleeing to a nearby village; hiding during round-ups for forced labor; ghettoization; Chai?m's and their father's transfer to work in Pionki; their father's return; Chai?m's marriage to Pola D.; Albert's and Henri's deportation to Pionki concentration camp (they never saw their parents and younger sister again); ...

  15. Lavoslav Schick (Šik) collection

    Personal papers of Lavoslav Schick (Šik). The collection consists of several hundred of his manuscripts, articles, speeches, reports, and extensive correspondence with individuals and organizations throughout Europe. Lavoslav Schick was a prominent Zagreb lawyer, killed in the Jasenovac concentration camp. He was a Zionist, but of the kind who did not wish to actually leave for Palestine themselves, and a well-known public figure in Zagreb’s inter-war period. Zagreb’s Jewish history cannot be told without talking or examining of his work.

  16. Fishel Y. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fishel Y., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1921, one of four children. He recounts his father's bakery; German invasion; fleeing with his family to his paternal grandparents in Rejowiec; Germans compelling them to work; smuggling themselves into the Łódź ghetto two months later; working in his father's bakery; one brother's deportation in September 1940; his deportation to Grunow three days later; slave labor building the Reichsautobahn; adequate food, access to showers, and clean barracks (better conditions than the ghetto); corresponding with his brother through...

  17. Material relating to Ernst Chain and Anne Beloff-Chain

    This collection contains material relating to German-born biochemist and Nobel Prize winner Ernst Chain and his wife Anne Beloff-Chain.Personal papers including press cuttings, announcements and an invitation to a family event, programmes for the scientific colloquium at Hoechst AG and anniversary of the births of Paul Ehrlich and Emil von Behring in 1954, and 'Formeln und Tafeln zum Preisvortrag von Prof. E. B. Chain - Zur Entwicklung der Chemotherapie bakterieller Erkrankungen'. Also includes a guide to the Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum, and 'Sudhoffs Archiv für Geschichte der Mediz...

  18. Freie Deutsche Jugend Westdeutschlands

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • B 242
    • German
    • 1949-1953
    • Schriftgut 20 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 0,2 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Die Freie Deutsche Jugend (FDJ) in Westdeutschland gründete sich nach Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges in den westlichen Besatzungszonen. Eine erste Gruppe war im Dezember 1945, noch vor der Gründung der FDJ in der Sowjetischen Besatzungszone Anfang 1946, in Düsseldorf entstanden. Vorläufer der FDJ bestanden bereits in den 1930er Jahren in Paris und Prag unter jüdischen und kommunistischen Exilanten und während des Zweiten Weltkriegs in Großbritannien. Das Zentralbüro in Düsseldorf leitete bald nach seiner Rückkehr aus der Sowjetunion 1949 Josef Angenfort (1924-2...

  19. Janka C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Janka C., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1920, the older of two sisters. She recounts her family's move to Vienna in 1921; their assimilated lifestyle; attending public school; anti-Jewish harassment; the Anschluss; immediately deciding to emigrate to Belgium; traveling to Cologne; living with a Jewish family for several months; arrest when attempting to illegally enter Belgium; imprisonment in Aachen; release a week later; entering Belgium on her third attempt, with assistance from a man she had met in prison; arriving in Antwerp via Liège and Brussels in Oct...

  20. Paul M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paul M., who was born in Be?dzin, Poland in 1920. He recounts attending school in Piotrko?w and Warsaw; antisemitic harassment and beating by fellow students; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; burning of the synagogue; ghettoization; forced labor; arrest and beating by the Jewish police; his workshop director securing his release; his brother's deportation; working in another factory; being denounced as a saboteur; arrest; transfer to Katowice; a beating; hospitalization; recruitment by Armia Ludowa; release with his factory director's assistance; smuggling h...