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  1. Chil E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chil E., who was born in Poland in 1924, one of two children. He recounts his family traveling to Palestine in 1925, but staying in Belgium when his mother was hospitalized for two years; living in La Calamine, then Brussels; active participation in the Jewish Scouts; German invasion; joining the Resistance; round-up in 1942 to Breendonk, then Malines; deportation to Sakrau; transfer to Anhalt, Myslowice (Fu?rstengrube), Graslitz, Reichenbach, Faulbru?ck, Annaberg, Birkenau, Niederorschel, then Langenstein; various slave labor assignments including in a mine, a quarry...

  2. Songs recorded in Henonville DP camp

    Spool 06. 22 min. Psychologist David Boder recorded interviews in displaced persons camps in France, Germany, Switzerland and Italy in 1946. His wire spool recordings were deposited at the Library of Congress and later transferred to tape in 1995. USHMM located this lost recording with songs of Henonville in 2017. "Songs of Henonville" was recorded in Henonville, France on September 13, 1946. Songs include: 1. "Dos yidishe lid" (The Jewish Song) by Anshel Schorr and Sholom Secunda (USA, 1926). Performed in Yiddish as "Golus-lid" (Exile Song) by Dzhuel [Joel] Prizant. 2. "Aheym" (Homeward). ...

  3. 17. SS-Panzergrenadier-Division "Götz von Berlichingen"

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Die Masse der Unterlagen stammt aus einem 1988 bei Bad Tölz von Schatzgräbern entdeckten Bodenfund. Es handelte sich bei diesem Bodenfund im wesentlichen um das vollständige Kriegstagebuch des Ia der Division, das im Mai 1945 vergraben worden war. In Zusammenarbeit mit der Truppenkameradschaft der Division wurden die Unterlagen 1989 vom Bundesarchiv erworben. Weitere Schriftgutsplitter stammen zum Teil aus Rückführungen aus den USA. Bestandsbeschreibung Wie bei allen anderen SS-Divisionen liegt auch bei dieser lediglich eine bruchstückhafte Überlieferung...

  4. Hoernle, Edwin

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners geb. 11. Dez. 1883 in Cannstatt (heute Stuttgart), gest. 21. Juli 1952 in Bad Liebenstein, Agrarwissenschaftler, KPD-Politiker, 1904-1909 Studium der Theologie, Philosophie und Geschichte in Tübingen und Berlin, 1909-1911 Privatlehrer und freier Schriftsteller in Berlin, 1910-1915 SPD, 1912-1915 Chefredakteur verschiedener SPD-Zeitungen, 1916 Spartakusbund, 1917 Verhaftung und Strafkommando wegen Verbreitung der 'Spartakusbriefe', 1918/19 Mitglied des Stuttgarter Arbeiter- und Soldatenrates und Chefredakteur der 'Roten Fahne', 1919 Haft auf der Festung Ulm un...

  5. Out of the Hell of Minsk into the 'Paradise' of Theresienstadt Aus der Hölle Minsk in der 'Paradies' Theresiendstadt

    Includes a copy of a German-language printed version of "Aus der Hölle Minsk in der 'Paradies' Theresiendstadt" by Dr. Karl Loewenstein, accompanied by an undated English translation ("Out of the Hell of Minsk into the 'Paradise' of Theresienstadt") completed by Bernard Ahrend. The article is Loewenstein's account of events in Theresienstadt during his imprisonment. Among the things described are the deportation of Jews from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia to the camp, the role of the SS in the camp administration, the "self administration" of the Jewish elders, the treatment of chi...

  6. Bronia B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bronia B., who was born in Os?wie?cim, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Poland) in 1914, the second of five children. She recounts her family moving to the Netherlands, then Berlin due to World War I; moving to Katowice in 1928; participating in Zionist organizations; vacations in Zakopane; returning to Os?wie?cim; her older brother's emigration to France; German invasion; fleeing with her mother to L?viv; Soviet occupation; one brother joining them; returning to Os?wie?cim to rejoin her father, sister, and one brother; forced relocation to the Sosnowiec ghetto; h...

  7. Documentation of the Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture from 1938-1944, regarding the confiscation of Jewish owned land in various villages and towns in Hungary

    Documentation of the Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture from 1939-1944, regarding the confiscation of Jewish owned land in various villages and towns in Hungary The files in this collection were created in the Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture from 1938-1944. The original documents are now located in the Magyar Országos Levéltár (Hungarian National Archives) where they were copied for Yad Vashem. The Ministry of Agriculture files are arranged according to the towns in Hungary and include the official documents which were accumulated as a result of the promulgation of the laws against the Jew...

  8. Selected records from the Sąd Okręgowy w Częstochowie (SOCz), (Sygn. GK 236)

    Selected records of trials at the district court in Czestochowa, 1945‒1966, for crimes by the Germans and their collaborators. Prosecutions based on the Decree of August 31, 1944 (Sierpniówka) of the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (PKWN, Polish Committee of National Liberation), one of the world's first laws on liability for crimes of World War II. Decree also applied against former partisans of the anti-Communist Armia Krajowa, or Home Army, whom Stalinist propaganda portrayed as collaborators.

  9. Šeinė Sideraitė

    Autorės mokslo darbai (disertacija, straipsniai, pranešimai), atsiliepimai, recenzijos, užrašai; asmens, mokslinės, tarnybinės ir visuomeninės veiklos dokumentai: mokslo baigimo diplomas, pažymėjimai, darbo licenzija, autobiografijos, charakteristikos-rekomendacijos, prašymai kelionėms į užsienį, autorės gautų apdovanojimų dokumentai, stažuočių, konferencijų, seminarų pažymėjimai, sertifikatai, įsakymai, pažymos apie paskyrimus, perkėlimus tarnyboje, komandiruotes, endokrinologijos tarnybos Lietuvoje organizavimo, skydliaukės tyrimo, veiklos Respublikiniame priešstruminiame komitete dokumen...

  10. Heinrich Stern collection

    The Heinrich Stern collection contains primarily immigration documents related to Heinrich and Charlotte Stern. Heinrich was a lawyer who was arrested on Kristallnacht and sent to Buchenwald. He was released after his wife obtained travel permits, and the couple immigrated to Bolivia, where they lived until they moved to the United States in 1944. Documents include visa applications, identity cards, police documents, letters of recommendation, and other documents needed to immigrate. Other various items include the certificate Heinrich obtained to be a notary and practice law, his disbarmen...

  11. Jacob R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacob R., who was born in Dobromyl?, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Ukraine) in 1906. He recalls speaking Yiddish and German at home; his mother's death; his father's service in the first World War; abuse by Russian forces; becoming part of Poland after the war; antisemitism; moving to Berlin in 1926; the emigration of two siblings to Palestine; living in Ostende and Antwerp; expulsion because he was Polish; moving to Barcelona; burying dead from the civil war; moving to Paris in April 1939; German invasion; traveling to Orle?ans, Bordeaux, and Toulouse; arrest ...

  12. Leonhard, Susanne

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • N 1522
    • German
    • 1949-1970
    • Nachlässe 32 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 2,1 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Lebenslauf 14.06.1895 geboren in Oschatz (Sachsen) 1915-1920 Mathe- und Philosophiestudium in Berlin/Göttingen 1916 Mitglied im Spartakusbund 1918 Heirat mit Rudolf Leonhard 1921 Geburt des Sohnes Wolfgang Leonhard 1919-1925 Mitglied der KPD 1920-1921 Leiterin der Presseabteilung der sowjetischen Botschaft in Wien 1922 publizistische Tätigkeit in Berlin 1933 Berufsverbot durch die Nationalsozialisten 1935 Emigration nach Schweden, dann in die UdSSR 1936-1948 Verhaftung durch den NKWD und Gefangenschaft im Arbeitslager Workuta und Sibirien 1948 Übersiedlung na...

  13. Jews in Kazimierz in 1940 before the establishment of the ghetto

    In color, inside Kazimierz (the Jewish neighborhood of Krakow), Jews wear armbands with the Star of David. Men peer at camera from a shop entrance in BG. Pan of public announcement poster in Polish signed by Schmid (Bekanntmachung LXII was published on May 10, 1940). [Schmid served as Stadthauptmann of Krakow from February 21, 1940 to March 31, 1941; the ghetto was formed on March 3, 1941.] Red Cross YMCA poster. Good CUs of children, one barefoot. Tram, bookstore, and other shops show street activity. Horse and buggy. Street scenes with pedestrians and shuttered shops. 01:18:05 A Jewish ma...

  14. Aharon A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aharon A., a prize-winning, internationally recognized author, who was born in Zhadova, Romania (presently Ukraine) in 1932, the only child of an affluent family. He recounts the family move to Chernivt︠s︡i shortly after his birth; their assimilated life style; his gentle, loving, and privileged childhood until age eight; speaking German and Yiddish; Soviet occupation; fear of exile to Siberia; German invasion; hearing gun shots from his bed in their country home; hiding in nearby fields; reuniting with his father who told him his mother and grandmother had been kille...

  15. Raphael E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Raphael E., who was raised in Lyon, France. He describes the formative influence of participating in scouting; fleeing with his older brother after German invasion in 1940; returning to Lyon after the armistice; graduating from technical school in 1942; participating in Resistance activities through the scouts; working with Sixie?me and Organisation juive de combat; fabricating false documents; arrest in January 1944; imprisonment in Montluc; torture during interrogations; transfer to Drancy; meeting and falling in love with his future wife; deportation to Auschwitz; ...

  16. Ministerstwo Informacji i Dokumentacji rządu RP na emigracji

    Sygn. 1-47 - Władze naczelne RP na emigracji Sygn. 48-150 - Polskie Siły Zbrojne w Wielkiej Brytanii Sygn. 151-171 - Polskie Siły Zbrojne w ZSRR Sygn. 172-199 - Polskie Siły Zbrojne w czasie walk w Europie Zachodniej Sygn. 200-229 - Okupacja niemiecka na ziemiach polskich Sygn. 230-237 - Fotokopie ulotek propagandowych Sygn. 238-242 - Działalność kulturalna Sygn. 243-267 - Varia

  17. 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...

  18. Blanket from Foehrenwald displaced persons camp

    Blanket bought by Charlene Schiff with cigarettes which she received in Joint Distribution Committee packages during her internment at Foehrenwald diplaced persons camp, near Munich, Germany.

  19. Arno S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Arno S., who was born in Berlin in 1920, the youngest of four children. He recalls moving to a village where his father built a chemical factory; learning in 1932 that his father was Jewish (his mother was not); seeing a boycott of Jewish stores in 1933; attending gymnasium in Eberswald; his brother beating a student who made antisemitic remarks to them; his close relationship with his Latin teacher; his father moving to Vienna where he had a girlfriend; observing antisemitic signs while on a bicycle trip with his sister in 1935; auctioning their house in 1937 when th...

  20. Litman family papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of the Litman family of Zalishchyky, including their survival in Tovste and Jarosław, Poland with the use of false identification papers. Included are false identification papers identifying Olga Litman and her daughters Halina and Eva as Catholics with the last name Lityński, a work permit for Olga to work at a German military camp in Jarosław, DP identification cards, post-war British military papers of Ignacy Litman, marriage certificates, documents used for restitution, clippings, and photographs. The photographs consist of pre-war and ...