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  1. Chaja V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chaja V., who was born in Maarsbergen, Netherlands in 1941. She notes having no memories of her early childhood and relates her experiences which she learned from others: being the fourth child; separation of her family in hiding; being placed with a non-Jewish family in Leiden in 1943; arrest of her rescuers in 1944; her incarceration in Westerbork, Bergen-Belsen, and Theresienstadt; being found by her mother after the war; recuperating in Switzerland in 1946; learning her father was killed as a resistant; extreme poverty; emigration to Israel in 1961; studying in Au...

  2. Chamber for Arts and Culture and Subchambers Reichskulturkammer und ihre Einzelkammern (R 56)

    Contains records from Bundesarchiv R 56 relating to various activities of the Reichskulturkammern and subchambers (Chamber for Arts and Culture and Subchambers); spans the years 1933 to 1944.

  3. Chamber for disciplinary actions Selected files from the collection : Disziplinarkammer (of the Bezirksvervaltungsgericht Berlin) (A Pr. Br. Rep. 031-04)

    Contains trials against Jewish people or related to Jewish matters. Also includes records relating to private and professional relationships to Jews; bribery on behalf of Jews; provision of public benefits for Jews; Jewish medical doctors; false statements about the ethnic background; patronage of Jewish-owned businesses; providing shelter to Jewish people; unauthorized respectful treatment of Jews; financial business with Jews; unauthorized promotion of Jewish employees; sharing residence with Jews; and tolerance of race defilement.

  4. Chamber of Commerce 376-15 Gewerbekammer

    Selected records of the Gewerbekammer (Chamber of Commerce). The collection covers the following areas of activity of the Chamber of Commerce: internal affairs (organization, elections, reporting), involvement of the Chamber of Commerce in authorities and administrations, relations with other organizations, meetings, business development, trade and labor law, training and examination, insurance, employment, market, transportation, tax and customs, finances and credit, metrology, justice, construction, health, sports and statistics.

  5. Chamber of Commerce (Fond 212)

    Contains selected records from Fond 212, including draft correspondence regarding Jewish savings.

  6. Chamber of Industry and Commerce Selected files from the collection "Industrie- und Handelskammer" ( A. Rep. 200-02)

    Contains records relating to financial transactions of the metal industry. Includes also information about several press agencies and different companies with specialization in the production of cigarettes, umbrellas, chemical products, and perfume.

  7. Champs de Mars at the Paris Exposition

    The Champs de Mars in Paris during the 1900 Paris Exposition. Women stroll with parasols. People walk. Two women stroll with umbrellas. Stone wall. Large crowd. Building. Base of the Eiffel Tower. Building. People stroll with parasols.

  8. Chamysz family photograph collection

    The collection contains pre-war photographs of brothers Jacob, Josef, and Samuel Chamysz and their families in Lwów, Poland (present day Lviv, Ukraine). Also included is a letter with multiple authors dated 27 April 1921.

  9. Chana and Amatzia Tzirin papers

    The collection includes postcards sent by Chana Sara Pronska from Grajewo and by Yosef Fichman in Swiniuchy (currently Pryvitne, Ukraine) to son Arie (Leib) Fichman, in Tel Aviv, to his bride Chava Pronska, and to Chava’s mother and Chana Sara’s sister, Rachel and Mordechai Pronski in Tel Aviv as well as photographs sent by family in Poland to relatives who immigrated to Palestine. Mate and Feige Fichman, Klara Jastrzab, Rachel and Chava Jastrzab, and other unidentified relatives are included in the photographs.

  10. Chana Ann Moszkowicz Wittenberg collection

    The collection primarily consists of post-war photographs related to Ann Wittenberg (born Chana Moszkowicz in Chrzanów, Poland) and others in the Landsberg displaced persons camp. Also included is a 1988 copy of her Polish birth certificate.

  11. Chana B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chana B., who was born in Chop, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine), in 1931. She tells how her family and other Jews were affected by the Hungarian occupation in 1938 and, using the Jewish holidays to define her chronology, she vividly recalls her experiences of the German occupation. She also recalls her deportation, with her family to the Uz?h?horod (Ungva?r) ghetto, where she was separated from her father, and her deportation to Auschwitz, where she was separated from her mother but managed to be "adopted" by a cousin, the first of many older women who cared for he...

  12. Chana Batista collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of Chana Batista and her family during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  13. Chana Brava photograph collection

    The photographs depict memorials and memorial services to victims of the Holocaust in Lithuania and the mass burial of Holocaust victims by perpetrators and bystanders.

  14. Chana Bravo papers

    Contains six photographs, mostly of a memorial site in former Soviet Union where 8,000 Jews were murdered by Nazis in August 1941.

  15. Chana G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chana G., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1917, one of eleven children. She recalls her family's affluence; German invasion; some of her brothers fleeing to the Soviet zone; ghettoization; forced labor sorting possessions of deportees; smuggling herself to Brzeziny with her mother; returning to the ?o?dz? ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from her mother (she never saw her again); transfer to Bad Kudowa; slave labor in a munitions factory; recurring dreams of her father; a beating which resulted in permanent deafness in one ear; receiving extra food from ...

  16. Chana Meller documents

    This collection includes documents issued in Vienna, 1947, confirming that Chana Meller (b.1901 in Poland) was deported from Vienna to Minsk on 31 August 1942; a document, dated 28 February 1947, issued by the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien, noting the date of her deportation and that there was no record of her return to Vienna; and a document issued by the Polizeidirektion Wien confirming that she had been registered as moving from her former residence in Vienna when she was deported to Minsk in 1942.

  17. Chana Pergerycht Wandersman collection

    The collection consists of a leather satchel, correspondence, and photographs relating to the experiences of Chana Pergerycht Wandersman in Parschnitz labor camp in Czechoslovakia during the Holocaust, and in Feldafing displaced persons (DP) camp in Germany after the Holocaust.

  18. Chana S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chana S., who was born in Kalisz, Poland in 1922. She recalls her older sister; a large extended family; increased antisemitism beginning in 1932; her sister's husband's military draft; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; fleeing to Warsaw with her parents, sister, and her children; ghettoization; her sister's family escaping; her father's death; observing Janus Korczak leading his orphanage to deportation; hiding during round-ups; separation from her mother (she never saw her again); caring for a child; surrendering during the uprising when they were burned ou...

  19. Chana S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chana S., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1923. She describes having to leave school when war broke out; her family losing their prosperous business; ghettoization in 1941; deportation with her family to P?aszo?w; slave labor in salt mines; the deportation of her father to Mauthausen, her mother to another camp, and she and her sister to Auschwitz in 1943; and their agreement to meet in Krako?w after the war. Mrs. S. recalls three months in Birkenau; conditions of hunger, deprivation and illness; transfer to a camp in Czechoslovakia with her sister; liberation by S...

  20. Chana S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chana S., who was born in Da?browa Go?rnicza, Poland. She recalls attending business school in Sosnowiec; German invasion; volunteering for forced labor in 1941 so her sister would not have to go; slave labor in Gru?nberg; assistance from the camp elder and a neighbor from home; a death march to Bergen-Belsen in winter 1944/45; an aborted escape attempt; a beating; not reporting deaths in order to obtain additional rations; contracting typhus; liberation (she was not conscious); returning to Poland seeking relatives (only two cousins survived out of her family of 200)...