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  1. 24 drawings from the concentration camps in Germany Print

    One of a set of twenty-three prints of drawings created by George Zielezinski

  2. Processo de pedido de visto para Georges Cools, mulher de Georges Cools, filhos de Georges Cools, Hugghe, John Cornet, Robert Noel, Srª. Noel (nascida Burnay), Gohr, Dutrieux, Delmotte, Gabriel, Parmentier, Vancoille, Shienon, Vanganservinkel e Burnell

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros para Georges Cools, de nacionalidade belga, com destino a Portugal. Sem informação de atribuição de visto. Processo de pedido de visto ao Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros para mulher de Georges Cools, de nacionalidade belga, com destino a Portugal. Sem informação de atribuição de visto. Processo de pedido de visto ao Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros para filhos de Georges Cools, de nacionalidade belga, com destino a Portugal. Sem informação de atribuição de visto. Processo de pedido de visto ao Ministério dos Negóci...

  3. Papers of L.J. Stein

    Syria Family correspondence, predominantly to Stein from his parents and his sister Agatha, c.1898-1919, including letters from Palestine, 1918-19, and while travelling in the Middle East, 1918. Other correspondents include Sir Moses Montefiore, Albert Hyamson, Israel Sieff, S.Landman, Lucien Wolf, S.Goldberg, Abraham Tulin, S.Adler, Robert Henriques and Joseph M.Proskauer, c.1913-65. Correspondence about an edition of the Weizmann letters, 1966-8. Papers relating to Stein's time at St Paul's School and at Balliol College, Oxford; papers relating to various societies including the Oxford Un...

  4. Grigoriĭ D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Grigoriĭ D., who was born in Sunai, Belarus in 1922. He recalls living in a rural area; cordial relations with non-Jews; completing high school in Grozovo; attending the Polytechnic in Minsk; his father's arrest in 1938 as a spy because he had siblings in western nations (he was executed); his sister's medical practice in Lenino; German invasion in June 1941 while he was in Slutsk; joining his mother, sister, and brother in Lenino; obtaining a Soviet machine gun; giving it to partisans; solidarity in the ghetto; escaping with his brother with assistance from non-Jews...

  5. Jewish refugees celebrate Purim in the Philippines, 1940

    "A Children's Party" shows Alex and Corinne Frieder and their children at a Purim celebration on March 24, 1940 at Mariquina Hall in Manila, the land donated by President Quezon for Jewish refugees. Many of the people at the party are German and Austrian Jewish refugees who were given visas to come to the Philippines. Children dressed in costumes at outdoor party, eating cakes. 01:00:41 Adults converse. Alex Frieder, wearing a white suit, smokes a cigar. Children and adults mingle and eat. 01:01:06 Cantor Joseph Cysner with camera around his neck leads a parade of costumed children to a mak...

  6. Hanukkah menorah with fish shaped feet that was used in the Tarnow Ghetto

    Hanukiyah used in the Tarnow ghetto between March 1941 and September 1943. This Hanukiyah is an industrial menorah similar in design and composition to several made by Johannes Rominger in Stuttgart, Germany. A Hanukkah candelabrum holds eight candles for the eight nights of Hanukkah; the ninth candle is the Shamash [attendant] that is used to light the other candles. Because of their religious significance, the Hanukkah lights cannot be used for everyday needs, such as providing light. Traditionally, menorah refers only to the original seven branched lamp that stayed lit in the Temple; the...

  7. Naftali W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Naftali W., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1924, one of six children. He recalls beatings by non-Jews; visiting grandparents in Se?dziszo?w; German invasion; returning home; his father's departure for Soviet territory; his family's return to Se?dziszo?w; incarceration in a forced labor camp; escape; his father's return; ghettoization; a round-up; selection with one brother (he never saw his family again); transfer to the Rzeszo?w ghetto; deportation to Mielec without his brother; a privileged position; receiving food from a German engineer and Polish civilian work...

  8. Onderzoek - Portugese Joden

    Het archief bestaat hoofdzakelijk uit onderzoeksvoorstellen, correspondentie, aantekeningen, concept-hoofdstukken en kopieën van archiefstukken en boek- en tijdschriftartikelen.

  9. Selected records from the District Office of Liquidation in Kielce Okręgowy Urząd Likwidacyjny w Kielcach (Sygn. 336)

    Correspondence and reports of the District Office of Liquidation in Kielce. Included are records of abandoned property that belonged to Jews before World War II, and German deserted property.

  10. 24 drawings from the concentration camps in Germany Print

    One of a set of twenty-three prints of drawings created by George Zielezinski

  11. Michael J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Michael J., who was born in Konin, Poland in approximately 1925, one of six children. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; antisemitic harassment in public school; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; a public execution; transfer in cattle trains to the Ostrowiec S?wie?tokrzyski ghetto; smuggling food and supplies into the ghetto; a round-up in 1942 (two siblings hid and were caught); his parents' deportation; remaining in the smaller ghetto with his brother; his brother's escape (he was killed with the partisans); obtaining weapons for the underground; forced la...

  12. Celia R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Celia R., who was born in Czechoslovakia in approximately 1921, one of ten children. She recounts her family's affluence; moving to Ti?a?chiv; participating in Mizrachi; Hungarian occupation; moving to work in her sister's store; moving the store to Ti?a?chiv; traveling to Budapest on business; German invasion; returning home; ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; hospitalization; transfer to Reichenbach; slave labor in a factory; treatment by a Russian doctor; Allied bombings; a death march to Porta Westfalica; transfer four weeks later to Salzwedel; libe...

  13. Josef and Josefine Schmitz papers

    The Josef and Josefine Schmitz papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, emigration files, photographs, and restitution files documenting their lives in Břeclav, Vienna, Brno, and Tel Aviv; their emigration from Czechoslovakia to Palestine in 1939 with their daughter Judith; and their efforts to recover their property and receive restitution after the war. Biographical materials include birth, marriage, and health certificates; school records; and identification and military papers documenting Josef, Josefine, and Judith Schmitz along with correspondence and forms documentin...

  14. Schneider, Erich

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Generalleutnant Erich Schneider Lebensdaten 12.08.1894 geb. in Biedenkopf 03.08.1980 gestorben in Wiesbaden Dienstlaufbahn 14.07.1915 Leutnant (Patent v. 10.12.1913) 01.09.1923 Oberleutnant 01.04.1928 Hauptmann 01.11.1934 Major 01.08.1937 Oberstleutnant 01.01.1940 Oberst 01.01.1943 Generalmajor 01.07.1943 Generalleutnant Dienststellungen 07.08.1914 Fußartillerie-Rgt. 13 01.10.1917 1. Garde Fußartillerie-Rgt. 01.12.1918 Rgt. Adjutant Fußartillerie-Rgt. 24 01.10.1920 Reichswehr Artillerie-Rgt. 13 19.08.1922-31.03.1928 Art. Rgt. 5 1923-1928 kommandiert zur techn...

  15. Peter H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Peter H., who was born in Spišská Nová Ves, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1935, an only child. He recalls his secular household; having to wear the yellow star; former friends harassing him; his father's deportation to Majdanek in 1942 (he never saw him again); deportation with his mother to Nováky in July 1943; release in the fall; living in Nitra; imprisonment with his mother and grandparents in Prešov in fall 1944; deportation to Ravensbrück; separation from his family; finding his grandfather in another block; sharing his bread with him; assistance ...

  16. Efraim F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Efraim F., who was born in Dubrovitsa, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1922, the oldest of five children. He recounts attending a Tarbut school, then gymnasium in Rivne; participating in Hashomer Hatzair, Betar, and Mizrachi; Soviet occupation; interrogation by the NKVD due to his Zionist activities; German invasion; fleeing to Koret︠s︡ʹ; forced labor for the German army; returning to Rivne; forced labor clearing bombing rubble; a non-Jewish friend hiring him to tutor her children and giving him her husband's birth certificate; hiding in her attic during a mass killing ...

  17. Hauptamt für Technik/Reichswaltung des Nationalsozialistischen Bundes Deutscher Technik

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Bestandsgeschichte Grundstock des Bestandes bilden Akten, die im Feb. 1959 vom amerikanischen Berlin Document Center an das Bundesarchiv abgegeben wurden. Einen ersten nennenswerten Zuwachs erhielt der Bestand 1991 durch 22 Akten aus dem ehemaligen NS-Mischbestand. Die bei der Erstbearbeitung 1959 ausgesonderten Akten der Provenienz NS-Bund Deutscher Technik, Gauwaltung Oberdonau, Linz wurden 1991 an das Österreichische Landesarchiv Linz abgegeben. Im Zuge der Bearbeitung der Unterlagen des 1994 in die Verwaltung des Bundesarchivs übergegangenen Berlin Docume...

  18. 24 drawings from the concentration camps in Germany Print

    One of a set of twenty-three prints of drawings created by George Zielezinski

  19. Gminna Rada Narodowa w Suchowoli powiat Sokółka

    Zarząd Gminny: Wymiar danin komunalnych, spis podatników, rok 1939, sygn. 1, Dział Ogólno-Organizacyjny - protokóły posiedzeń GRN, Zarządu, zebrań sołtysów, kontrola, charakterystyka stanu ludnościowego i gospodarczego gminy, działalność Gminnego Komitetu Opieki Społecznej, budowa linii kolejowej, lata 1946-1950, sygn. 2-12, Dział Finansowo-Budżetowy - budżety, sprawozdania rachunkowe, podatek gruntowy, lata 1945-1950, sygn. 13-25, Dział Gospodarki Gminnej - roboty drogowe, parcelacja majątku, spisy rolne, lata 1946-1949, sygn. 26-28, Dział Administracji Społecznej - organizacja szkół, rok ...

  20. Tenth Party Congress; Sudetenland; Munich Pact

    Title: "Tenth Party Congress 5-12 September 1938" Hitler addresses Congress. Title: "Hitler Declares Policy With Respect to Sudetenland 26 September 1938" Title: "Munich Pact 29 September 1938" The Munich Pact is signed. Title: "Occupation of the Sudetenland 1 October 1938" Citizens of Sudetenland greet German soldiers.