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  1. Dienststelle für besondere Versorgungsaufgaben des Bundesministeriums für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Forsten

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Nach Gründung der Bundesrepublik wurde die zum 1. April 1949 errichtete Dienststelle für Sonderverpflegung des Vereinigten Wirtschaftsgebietes (DfS) wurde durch Erlaß vom 14. Aug. 1951 in Dienststelle für besondere Versorgungsaufgaben des BML (DbV) umbenannt. In ihren Aufgaben trat rechtlich keine Änderung ein. Tatsächlich aber befand sie sich, nach Überwindung der Lebensmittelnot, bereits weitgehend in stiller Abwicklung, das die zentrale Schulspeisung bereits mit dem 1. Juli 1950 beendet war. Allerdings wurden auch einige neue Aufgaben übernommen, so Lebens...

  2. Oswald R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Oswald R., who was born in a Polish village near Żywiec in 1922, the older of two brothers. He recalls learning German; attending a local school; cordial relations with non-Jews; being sent to live with an aunt in Bielsko-Biała to attend a better school; graduating from high school; moving with his family to Żywiec; participating in Akiba; fleeing toward Kraków during the German invasion; his parents returning home (he never saw them again), but sending him and his brother away from German-occupied areas; finding an Akiba group in Lʹviv; his assignment smuggling ot...

  3. Zvi Griliches photograph collection

    The collection consists of thirty photographs relating to Zvi Griliches' childhood in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania and after World War II in the DP camp in Feldafing, Germany, and Israel.

  4. Rosenberg and Mosler families papers

    The collection documents the families of Elsie Mosler (born Ilse Rosenberg in Hamburg) and her husband, Claude Mosler (born Klaus Mosler in Berlin). Both families fled Germany due to antisemitic persecution by the Nazis during the 1930s. Biographical material includes Hermann Rosenberg’s German army papers from World War I, birth and marriage certificates, a diary written in German and English kept by Elsie as a teenager, report cards of Ernest Mosler, and Claude Mosler’s United States Army papers. Photographs primarily document pre-war family life and travel in Europe and wartime life in N...

  5. Jakub G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jakub G., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1929. He describes his assimilated family; German invasion in 1939; his father fleeing east (he never saw him again); ghettoization; crowding and starvation; working as an errand boy for the Judenrat; hiding with his mother and brother in an attic overlooking the Umschlagplatz during round-ups; moving when they were seen; hiding in a bunker during the ghetto uprising; deportation to Majdenek after they were discovered; separation from his mother and brother during selection (he never saw them again); hiding to avoid useless ...

  6. Michesław G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Michesław G., who was born in Kraków, Poland in 1923, one of two children. He recounts his father's business transporting coal; their poverty; his sister's birth in 1930; assisting in his father's business; antisemitic harassment by Poles; German invasion; a futile attempt to flee east; working with his father delivering flour for the Germans; ghettoization; he and his father smuggling goods while making deliveries; both being interrogated and beaten but not confessing; their release; passing as a non-Jew outside the ghetto (he spoke perfect Polish and was blond); ro...

  7. Zbiór fotografii z II wojny światowej 1939-1945

    Na "Zbiór fotografii z II wojny światowej 1939 - 1945" składają się 433 fotografie: Bukowskiego, Fikusa, Szymborskiego oraz autorów nieokreślonych. 191 zdjęć oznakowanych przez autorów (pieczątki imienne, adnotacje odręczne o czasie i miejscu wykonania zdjęcia), 242 zdjęcia autorów nieokreślonych. Do około 30% zdjęć zachowały się negatywy. Wyselekcjonowano 27 zdjęć stanowiących kopie zdjęć publikowanych w wydawnictwach albumowych, książkowych itp. Wśród autorów zdjęć pojawiają się nazwiska T. Bukowskiego ps. "Bończa" (116 zdjęć, J. Szymborskiego (45 zdjęć), E. Fikusa (8 zdjęć), S. Zdziarska...

  8. Buhl, Franz Peter und Josephine

    Inhaltliche Charakterisierung Vorbemerkung Franz Peter Buhl wurde am 21. September 1809 als Sohn des Papierfabrikanten Franz Buhl (1779 - 1844) in Ettlingen/Baden geboren. Beim Tode seiner Mutter Barbara, geb. Jordan aus Deidesheim/Rheinpfalz, gelangte er 1830 in den Besitz eines Weingutes in Forst bei Deidesheim, das er durch die Heirat mit seiner Kusine Josefine Jordan 1836 auf die Deidesheimer Gemarkung ausdehnen und neben dem seines Schwagers Ludwig Andreas Jordan zu einem der größten in Deutschland arrondieren konnte. Im Vormärz wurden die Häuser Buhl und Jordan in Deidesheim bevorzugt...

  9. Tania R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Tania R., who was born in Vilna, Poland, in 1928. She recounts living in Smorgonʹ; her family's affluence; childhood antisemitic harassment; attending a Tarbut school; Soviet occupation in September 1939; expropriation of their home and business; German invasion in June 1941; fleeing east; staying with relatives in Lebedevo; returning with her mother and sister to Smorgonʹ; her mother's return to Lebedevo, then to Smorgonʹ with her brother (her father had been killed); ghettoization; slave labor in a German officer's home; the Judenrat's refusal to supply lists for th...

  10. Family poses for the camera

    Reel 1. Multiple sequences showing the entire family (including the visiting Louis and Harry Sommer, Hermann Klein, and Jacob Grossman) posing for the camera, probably in Humenne, Slovakia. Family members (well-dressed) take turns walking towards the camera in a street/alley. Dark shots in a field. Man holds up his pocketwatch. More posed shots around an automobile. 00:03:50 The children play near a home. 00:04:52 Family at the farm, landscape, herding sheep. More portraits. Children blow kisses, wave, and try to feed the animals. The family continue to take turns for posed shots.

  11. George Barlaz papers

    The George Barlaz papers include photographs, immigration material, school records, and extensive correspondence relating to George Barlaz and his family’s pre-war life in Russia and Poland, George’s immigration to the United States, his attempts to help his family immigrate to the United States in the early 1940s, and his attempts to locate his family after the war. The collection also includes a diary kept by George from 1913-1921 which includes entries, addresses, and other notes. Series 1 includes pre-war photographs of the Barlaz family including Avraham, Adela, George, Shmuel, and Cha...

  12. Konzentrationslager Herzogenbusch

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Bestandsgeschichte Im Zuge von Rückführungen deutscher Akten aus den USA, die dort nach einem dem Einheitsaktenplan (EAP) der Wehrmacht zu Grunde liegenden Schema alfa-numerisch geordnet worden waren, gelangte der Bestand im Jahre 1962 in das Bundesarchiv. Archivische Bewertung und Bearbeitung Anfang 1963 wurde zunächst ein vorläufiges Findbuch erstellt. Dieses Provisorium wird durch die nunmehr vorliegende Findmittel-Fassung ersetzt. Von einer Zusammenführung der Teil-Bestände von NS 4 in einen Gesamt-Bestand wurde abgesehen. Bestandsbeschreibung Der Bestand...

  13. Irina Aleksandrovna Khoroshunova collection

    The collection contains two items: a photocopy of a typed interview with Irina Aleksandrovna Khoroshunova on April 24, 1982, and a photocopy of a printed version of her personal 1941-1944 diary during the Nazi occupation of Kiev. Ms. Khoroshunova, an ethnic Ukrainian (then 28 years old) provides a detailed account of the events in Kiev under Nazi occupation, including the September 1941 Babi Yar massacre, activities of the Communist underground, shortage of food, Nazi repressions against civilians and her own family.

  14. Day after liberation of Belsen by British 8 Corps; SS overseers

    British MP Daniel O'Shaughnessy and surrendered Hungarian guard on duty at main entrance of Belsen Concentration Camp. Notice on sentry box reads: "Allied Military Commander. Entrance Belsen Camp." Supply truck backs up and German POWs unload flour sacks from truck into warehouse. British RASC men also help unload truck. Blurry shot of a tattooed arm. Two smiling young female inmates, healthy, with soldiers. Sign in Russian on barbed wire reading "Halt! Anyone crossing the wire will be shot!". Series of shots of women behind barbed wire, waving to camera and talking with British soldier in ...

  15. Frieder family at their estate in Manila; children at camp; Jewish refugee family from Europe; Alice's birthday

    Alex and Corinne Frieder's children swim in the pool at their home in Manila. Louise and Edna hold up Alice. Edna poses and shows off for the camera. Edna, Louise, and Alice dance around their mother, seated in a chair. Swans in the second pond in front of the house. Edna, Louise, and other children in costume dance on the tennis courts during dance class. 01:05:35 Large outdoor dinner party at the estate in Manila. People talk and eat ice cream. 01:05:57 American children at Yosemite Camp in Baguio practice giving "Baguio" salutes to the camera. They raise an American flag, perform exercis...

  16. Shimon S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shimon S., who was born in 1930 in Łódź, Poland. He recounts ghettoization; his father's fatal shooting; pervasive hunger; stealing food and coal with an organized group of children; deportation to Chelmno; observing Kommandant Hans Bothmann randomly murder Jews for "entertainment"; his assignment with Walther Burmeister to remove gold teeth and valuables from corpses after gassings; finding his mother's purse among the valuables; a visit by Hans Biebow; Burmeister protecting him from selections; a mass execution in retaliation for an escape; taking and sharing food...

  17. Ada G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ada G., who was born in Radom, Poland in 1925, one of four children. She recounts her family's relative affluence; a large extended family; attending Polish school; cordial relations with many non-Jewish friends; an anti-Jewish boycott of businesses; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; German invasion; fleeing to Skaryzew with her family; returning; anti-Jewish restrictions; a non-Jewish neighbor giving them food; ghettoization; round-up with her brother and sister for forced labor in a munitions factory; living in barracks at the factory (she never saw her parents or ...

  18. Rejonowy Urząd Likwidacyjny w Koninie

    • Local Liquidation Office in Konin

    Sprawy organizacyjne, rejestry nieruchomości opuszczonych, rejestry sprzedaży nieruchomości i ruchomości, repertoria majątku skonfiskowanego osobom VD, repertoria spraw egzekucyjnych, likwidacja urzędu.

  19. Lutz travels with others on a train

    Unknown date. Carl Lutz and a woman sit in a train car. Another woman travels with them. CU, Mother Lutz with the woman. Man with a mustache. Carl and two women look out the window at the passing landscape, pointing at things. Carl puts his arm around his mother. They gesture out the window. Off the train, there are various close shots of the different woman smiling. The mustached man. CU, elderly woman. Carl. He tips his hat several times. They pose in front of a monument with lots of domes. Carl with the elderly woman. He gestures behind him. Group shot. They wear hats and fur coats, and ...

  20. Ziggy S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ziggy S., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1930. He recounts his parents' divorce; living with his paternal grandparents; attending a Jewish school; his father escaping east immediately prior to the German occupation; ghettoization in spring 1940; working in a metal factory; constant hunger; attempts to obtain extra food; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in summer 1944; transfer a few weeks later to Stutthof; volunteering with friends in December when sixteen-year-olds were sought; transfer to Stolp; slave labor on a railway; his group of twenty Polish boys having d...