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  8. Centre de documentation juive contemporaine relating to the treatment of the "Jewish question" in France

    Contains photocopies of two documents, "Weitere Behandlung der Judenfrage in Frankreich" and "Judenfragen in Frankreich und Ihre Behandlung," which contain information about the treatment of the "Jewish Question" in France; German nationals responsible for the execution of the Nazi plan; Jewish community history in France prior to 1941; and Jewish organizations operating in France until 1941.

  9. Trunk sent to an Austrian Jewish youth after he fled

    Trunk sent to Rudolf Lappe, 19, who fled Chemnitz, Germany, for Great Britain not long after Hitler was appointed Chancellor in January 1933. Rudolf left without any prior preparation in order to get out before the borders were closed in April 1933. Later that year his father sent him this trunk with clothing in it. His father was imprisoned on racial grounds. He was released after several weeks, but was not allowed to practice his profession of law. He emigrated to England in May 1939. Rudolf returned in 1948 to the Soviet occupied zone.

  10. Germans fighting in Kiev; city views; burning town

    Reel 1: 00:42:40 Kiev railway station, exterior and platform view. Postal signs. Portraits of Engels and Marx. Shot of a post box. Downtown Kiev scenes, including ZUM Department Store. Men work on constructing a bridge. Damaged buildings. Reel 6: 00:45:05 Buildings burning (set on fire by Ukrainians), probably September. The wounded are bandaged inside a building (poor quality). 00:46.17 Russian prisoners cook soup in bathtubs. Russian women and children huddle on the ground in front of a building. German soldiers walk towards a village that is engulfed in flames, various shots of the villa...

  11. Dana I. Alvi memoir

    Relates to Dana Alvi's experiences as a child in Warsaw, Poland during World War II; her family's involvement in protecting and hiding Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto; the activities of her uncle, Wladyslaw Wisniewski, in helping Warsaw's Jewish population; the events of the Warsaw Uprising; the Soviet occupation of Warsaw; postwar internment in a displaced persons camp in Eschwege, Germany.

  12. Bachrach and Steinhardt families collection

    Photographs and biographical materials documenting the experiences of Enny Bachrach and her husband Siegfried Steinhardt. Photographs include WWI images of Louis Bachrach, Enny’s father, in his battalion and in a field hospital, and later undated images of various family members. Biographical materials include birth certificates for Siegfried Steinhardt, Enny Bachrach, Evelina Steinhardt, and two immigration documents issued to Enny Bachrach from civil authorities in Eisenach, Germany and the Bolivian consulate in Hamburg. Also included is a Jewish wedding certificate (ketubah) for Enny and...

  14. Nadia Gould collection

    The memoir describes her parents' families; her childhood in the French countryside; the German occupation of France; her and her mother's escape to join her father in unoccupied France; her family's escape from Marseille, France, to Portugal via Spain; her immigration to the United States and reunion with her parents; her assimilation into American culture and her activities while in high school and in college; and some of her experiences afterwards. The collection also includes picture postcards illustrated with Gould's art work depict both geometric and human forms.

  15. Gejza S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gejza S., who was born in Dolný Kubín, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Slovakia) in 1909, the oldest of nine children. He recounts brief service in the Czech military; moving to Žilina after enactment of anti-Jewish laws, then to Bratislava; marriage in 1941; his son's birth in 1942; his father's death; his mother sending him, his family, and his siblings to Budapest to avoid deportation; separation from his wife while saving their son; posing as a Catholic after German invasion; traveling to Stupava after liberation; and remarriage. Mr. S. notes his faith was...

  16. The beginning of Sam Stammer's life as written by him in German

    Describes Samuel Stammer’s (Dornfeld, Austria, 05 Jul 1905 - ) childhood in Austria and life in the Free City of Gdansk (Danzig); his experiences as a Polish soldier during the German invasion and as a prisoner-of-war; his transport to and experiences in Nazi concentration camps and ghettos (including: Majdanek, the Lowicz ghetto, the Warsaw ghetto, the Miedzyrzec ghetto; Auschwitz-Birkenau, Sachsenhausen, Mauthausen, Schlier Redl-Zipf, and Ebensee); the death of family members at Treblinka; his work counterfeiting American and British money for the Nazis; his liberation and being a displac...

  17. From Bialystok to Brooklyn

    Describes Sara Lew's childhood in Poland; her internment in the ghetto in Bialystok, Poland, and many concentration camps including Majdanek, Blizyn, Auschwitz, and Krakow (Kratzau); the death of family members; and her post-Holocaust experiences as a displaced person in Europe and after her immigration to the United States in 1950. It also includes poems and vignettes in English and Hebrew about Auschwitz, her parents and their values, liberation, and people Sara knew.

  18. Henry Holland collection

    Contains United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) child welfare reports, 1946 Jan.-1946 June, relating to psychological evaluations of children and youths at Föhrenwald displaced persons camp. Also includes a 1988 memoir by Henry Holland entitled "Second Chance." The memoir contains information about Holland's childhood in Kusnica (Kushnitsa, Ukraine) and Bergszasz in Hungary; his experience in a Hungarian labor battalion during World War II; his escape from the labor battalion and return to Hungary after the war; his witness to Jewish ghettos while working in Hungar...