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  1. Fett, Kurt

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners 1. Biographische Angaben geb. 05. Mai 1910 in Mörchingen gest. 17. Juni 1980 in Essen 2. Militärische und beruflicher Werdegang 2.1 Ausbildung / Dienst in Reichswehr und Wehrmacht 01.04.1928 - 30.09.1929 Eintritt als Offizier Anwärter in das Inf. Rgt. 15 in Giessen 01.10.1929 - 30.07.1931 Ausbildung als Fahnenjunker-Fähnrich in Infanterie-Schule Dresden 01.12.1931 - 30.09.1935 Leutnant im Inf. Rgt. 15, im gleichen Rgt. Zunächst Mobilmachungsarbeiter, dann Bataillons-Adjutant, Kompanieführer (zum Leutnant befördert, 01.10.1932) 01.10.1935 - 30.09.1938 Regiment...

  2. Naval Historical Team der US-Navy

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Das „Naval Historical Team" war eine Einrichtung der US-Navy unter Zuständigkeit des Director of Naval Intelligence (Marine-Nachrichtendienst). Nach der Berlin-Krise hatte Admiral a.D. Conrad Patzig von den Amerikanern den Auftrag erhalten, einige geeignete Personen für dieses Arbeitsteam auszusuchen. Das Naval Historical Team trat am 9. April 1949 in Bremerhaven zusammen und umfaßte fünf festangestellte deutsche Marineoffiziere unter der Leitung von Generaladmiral a.D. Otto Schniewind. Zum Team gehörten Vizeadmiral a.D. Friedrich Ruge, Vizeadmiral a.D. Hellm...

  3. Schutzhaftlager Hohnstein

    Die Sammlung enthält : Korrespondenz über Misshandlungen und Gerichtsverfahren diesbezüglich, Namenlisten ehemaliger Häftlinge (Haftzeiten: 3/1933 - 12/1936), Namentliche Aufstellungen über verstorbene Häftlinge (Todesdaten: 28.03.33 - 19.02.34), Fragebogen ehemaliger Häftlinge zu Hohnstein und anderen Lagern (Haftzeiten: 1933-1936) Geschichte des Schutzhaftlagers Hohnstein 1933-1934: vgl. http://www.gedenkplaetze.info/index.php/deutschland/34-lkr-saechsische-schweizosterzgebirge/136-hohnstein-ehemaliges-schutzhaftlager-hohnstein [letzter Zugriff: 01.03.2013]

  4. Aranka S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aranka S., who was born in Berehovo, Czechoslovakia in 1930 to a family of six children. She describes prewar family life; her grandmother's unwillingness to leave home; her father's mobilization into a Hungarian labor battalion; learning her sister and grandmother were sent to a ghetto and Auschwitz; her older sister's deportation to Poland with her husband and child; her mother's journey to Poland in an unsuccessful attempt to find them; ghettoization in a brick factory; her mother's efforts to create stability and comfort, and to help others; trying to be a child a...

  5. Polish Army on the East Armia Polska na Wschodzie (A.VIII)

    Contains selected records concerning KL Auschwitz, KL Stutthof and other concentration camps, as well as testimonies of witnesses. Also included are documents from Headquarters, Department V, Ethnic Minorities, concerning Jews in the Polish Army and evacuations from Russia (1943).

  6. Hila B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hila B., who was born in Jędrzejów, Poland in 1919, the seventh of eight children. She recounts her family's move to Łódź when she was six months old; their orthodoxy and relative affluence; participating in Gordonyah and Maccabi; her father's death in 1936; working to help support the family; marriage in March 1939; her brothers' and husband's military draft; German invasion; return of three brothers and her husband; visiting her injured brother in Skierniewice; his return; several of her siblings moving to Warsaw and her mother to Piotrków Trybunalski; joining ...

  7. Maria J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maria J., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1918. She describes her father's tannery in Dobczyce; cordial relations with non-Jews; living in Podgo?rze; participating in Akiba, a Zionist organization; marriage in 1937; German invasion in 1939; her husband's imprisonment as a spy (he was in the Polish military); his release after paying ransom; leaving her son with her parents in Dobczyce; working for the underground in Krako?w; ghettoization; obtaining a job distributing food rations, then as a waitress for German soldiers; secretly leaving the ghetto to visit her son...

  8. Kurt Weinberg: Family and business papers

    This collection comprises the papers of the Weinberg family, cigar manufacturers of Werther, North Rhine-Westphalia : business papers- including contracts, consigment notes, accounts, tax details, loan contracts, land register entries for the property of the Weinberg family; family papers including marriage agreements, wills, powers of attorney, correspondence 

  9. Maria Madi diaries

    Consists of seventeen bound volumes containing diaries written by Dr. Maria Madi, a non-Jewish female physician living in Budapest, Hungary, between December 1941 and September 1945. In the diaries, which are handwritten in English, Dr. Madi describes what she is hearing about the war, about propaganda in Hungary, and about missing her daughter, who immigrated to the United States in 1939 and started a family. After the German invasion of Hungary in March 1944, Dr. Madi describes constant air raids, intense deprivation, and what she knows and sees of the ongoing persecutions against Jews. S...

  10. XIII. Armeekorps

    Chef d. Gen.St.: Chefsachen November 1939 bis Mitte Mai 1940. KTB Ia: August bis Oktober 1939, für die Zeit vom Oktober 1939 bis Juli 19 1941 nur Anlagen, KTB Juli 1941 bis Dezember 1942, Februar 1943 bis März 1944. KTB Qu.: Februar 1940 bis September 1942, April bis Dezember 1943 sowie Versorgungsbefehle und Besondere Anordnungen für die Versorgung, 1939. TB Ic: Februar 1940 bis Februar 1941, Januar bis September 1942, Februar 1943 bis März 1944, Bericht über den Einsatz in Polen und Ic-Nachrichtenblätter, 1939. TB IIa: Juni bis September 1940, März bis Dezember 1941 und Mai bis Juli 1942.

  11. Deutsche Jugendpresse e.V. - Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft jugendeigener Medien

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Der Deutsche Jugendpresse e. V. (DJP) wurde am 19.2.1967 in Bonn-Bad Godesberg von Mitarbeiter jugendeigener Medien gegründet. Sie löste die Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Junge Presse ab, deren Mitglieder sich zerstritten hatten. Die DJP ist die Selbstorganisation jugendeigener Medien in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. In ihr sind rund 10.000 junge Medienmacher über die 16 Landesverbände organisiert. Sie schreiben für Schülerzeitungen und Studentenmagazine, sie fotografieren oder layouten, sie machen Internet-Magazine oder drehen Videofilme. Die DJP veranstaltet ...

  12. Eichmann Trial -- Session 109 -- Submissions of additional evidence and Vrba's affidavit

    Session 109. Attorney General Hausner discusses the translation of the word 'sonderbehandlung.' Whether or not this affects the testimony of the witness Krumey is discussed. 00:04:42 It becomes apparent that the exhibit has not been submitted by the Defense, and Dr. Servatius argues that parts of it are advantageous and other parts detrimental to the Defense. The Judges discuss this with each other at length. We cannot hear what they are saying. The affidavit concerns Krumey's statement on the Lidice Children. 00:13:58 The Judges ask a question about a Czechoslovak translation, one of the m...

  13. Walter Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Walter Z., who was born in C?esky? Te?s?i?n, Czechoslovakia in 1927. He recalls his father's local prominence; Polish annexation of the city in 1938; German invasion; his father's appointment as head of the Judenrat and working with Moshe Merin to smuggle children out of the area; deportation with his family in June 1941; removal from the train in Sosnowiec due to Merin's influence; his deportation to Sakrau a year later; a beating by Polish Jews for working too hard; transfer to Brande; a privileged position (about which he still feels guilty) due to his father's nam...

  14. Harry W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry W., who was born in Bez?ovce, Czechoslovakia in 1916. He tells of moving to Uz?h?horod in 1920; attending public and Hebrew school; the beauty and peace of their Shabbat observance; being stabbed by another boy in an anti-Semitic incident; studying at the Yeshivas in Mukachevo and Bratislava; and leaving in 1938 because of the Hungarian occupation of his hometown. He describes being drafted into a Hungarian labor battalion; working in many places in Hungary, Yugoslavia and the Ukraine; harsh conditions and lack of food; working in Budapest where he could leave t...

  15. Court of the First Instance in Łódź Sąd Grodzki w Łodzi (Sygn. 2390)

    Selected files of the records so-called “Zg”. Records relate to declaring someone dead or issuing a death certificate. This includes persons who perished during the Soviet or, mainly, Nazi occupation: including persons arrested either by Soviets or Germans, deported to the USSR or the Third Reich, sent to concentration camps, murdered in ghettos or in other places of extermination. The files (app. 5-20 pages) contain an application declaring the death of a person, testimonies of witnesses filled out on standard forms, correspondence and sentences of the court. That entry enabled one to subm...

  16. Kommandeur der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD Radom, Aussenstelle Petrikau (Sygn.168)

    Contains reports, orders, lists, circular letters, leaflets, and various other documents relating to the activities of the Petrikau (Piotrków Trybunalski) branch of the Sicherheitsdienst in Radom, Poland. The records also contain information about sabotage in the Piotrków area; crimes against Volksdeutsche; combatting partisans ("bandits"); Polish anti-German and communist propaganda; and illegal and underground newspapers in circulation in Poland during the war.

  17. Marian F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marian F., who was born in Warsaw, Poland, the youngest of seven children. He recalls graduating from gymnasium; studying piano at the conservatory; German invasion in September 1939; fleeing with his brother, sister, and her husband to Soviet-occupied L?viv; graduating from conservatory; German invasion in June 1941; returning to his family in the Warsaw ghetto; playing in a ghetto orchestra; forced labor outside the ghetto; smuggling food; his father's disappearance in August 1942 (he never saw him again); deportation of his mother and sister in January 1943; obtain...

  18. Antonia K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Antonia K., who was born in Worms, Germany in 1925. She recounts moving to her maternal grandparents' home in Nentershausen when she was eighteen months old; moving to Bunzlau (presently Bolesławiec) eight years later when her mother married a rabbi; anti-Jewish discrimination at school; the synagogue burning and her stepfather's brief deportation to Dachau on Kristallnacht; plans to join her maternal uncle in Palestine; traveling to Amsterdam to join her stepbrother while awaiting travel documents; German invasion; obtaining $425,000 from maternal relatives in Switze...

  19. Selected records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish Republic : Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Opole (Oppeln) Konsulat Generalny Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Opolu (Sygn.482)

    Correspondence and reports related to antisemitic attacks and special regulations for Polish Jews issued by German authorities in Silesia, and letters from the Jewish community in Łódź and the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs protesting antisemitic attacks.

  20. Family takes trips; Jewish doctor's office sign

    01:01:00 Roll 34. Hanna and her mother walk around the town of Meersburg, Baden-Württemberg, in Southern Germany. Church. 01:02:01 Hotel sign with a Star of David hanging from it. The family drives in the countryside and stops by a gas station. They visit an outdoor market and Schloss Meersburg. Town square. Sheep. Hanna's parents consult a map for directions. MS, Otto's reflection as he films the back of one of the car lights. 01:09:07 Roll 35. View from a streetcar in a city. City workers shovel snow, construction. A sign outside of Otto's office reads, "Dr. Otto Plaut," located on Gottsc...