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  1. Vosskamp family

    Title: "Familienfilm der Familie Johann Vosskamp in Duisburg-Meiderich". Second title frame includes text and a caricature of a man with a film camera, "Aufnahmen: Hans Vosskamp". Graphic of the Vosskamp family tree in 1936. The family included 8 children, 4 girls and 4 boys, as well as 24 grandchildren. Closeups of the elders introduced in title cards: Father (Johann Vosskamp) and Mother (Mathilde Schmidders) at their home, in the house and in the garden. The grandchildren enter the frame and surround the elder couple sitting in chairs. 01:02:44 Edith, the donor (b. 08/22/1929), is the lit...

  2. Eichmann Trial -- Session 1 -- Preliminary objections by Defense Counsel

    Session 1. Begins as the court debates the relevance of the Eichmann letter. Dr. Servatius claims the letter is important to his case whereas Mr. Hausner asserts that the letter is irrelevant to the trial. The Judges discuss this matter amongst themselves. After much deliberation, the Judges make the first court decision: "We accept letter T/2 as an exhibit without expressing an opinion as to its value as proof." Hausner continues his speech by responding to Servatius's complaint regarding the lack of witnesses for the defense. Servatius previously stated that his case is hindered by the tr...

  3. Tibor P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Tibor P., who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia in 1921. He describes participating in Zionist organizations; the influx of Austrian refugees in 1938; German invasion; obtaining false papers in 1940; anti-Jewish laws; compulsory service in a Slovak forced labor battalion in Sva?ty? Jur in 1941; learning his parents were deported in June 1942; returning to Bratislava in March 1943; escaping to join the Slovak uprising in Banska? Bystrica in August 1944; being wounded; fighting in Donovaly in September; surrendering in October; escaping with his friend to Banska? B...

  4. District Court in Radom Sąd Okręgowy w Radomiu (SORd) (Sygn. GK 281)

    The collection contains selected files of criminal trials conducted in the District Court in Radom during the years 1945-1969. These trials pertain to crimes committed against Jews and Poles in Poland during the German occupation. Trials were based on the Decree of August 31, 1944 ( “Sierpniówka”), issued by the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (PKWN), concerning the punishment of Nazi criminals guilty of murders and persecution of civilians and prisoners of war, and the punishment of traitors to the Polish Nation. “Sierpniówka” was one of the world's first legislation on liability for ...

  5. Rosenbaum family papers

    The Rosenbaum family papers consist of correspondence and documents related to the attempts of Ernst Rosenbaum, who immigrated to England in 1936, to bring his family, one by one, from Germany in 1938-1939. Includes correspondence with family members and immigration officials, testimony regarding Kristallnacht, and a preprinted postcard sent from Theresienstadt (Terezin) in 1944 sent to one of the Rosenbaum's cousins. Also includes an autograph album with entries mainly dating 1906-1908 but also an entry written by Eva Rosenbaum prior to joining her father in England. Includes information r...

  6. Boris G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Boris G., who was born in Skalat, Poland in 1922, one of three brothers. He recounts his mother's death when he was six; living in an orphanage; working for an aunt; Soviet occupation; German invasion in 1941; one brother being killed; fleeing to Kharkiv, then Krasnodar; working on a collective farm; draft into the Soviet army in Rostov; postings in Stalingrad and Beketovka; participating in the battle of Stalingrad; an acquaintanceship with Nikita Khrushchev; commanding several hundred soldiers; interrogating captured Germans; liberating Auschwitz; entering the cathe...

  7. Holleuffer, Joachim-Albrecht von

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Joachim-Albrecht von Holleuffer 20.03.1921 in Emden Schulbildung: 1927 - 1931 Volksschule 1931 - 1939 humanistisches Gymnasium mit Reifeprüfung 1953 - 1955 Fernstudium an der Akademie für Welthandel (ohne Abschlussprüfung) Beförderungen: 01.02.1940 Seekadett 01.07.1940 Fähnrich zur See 01.07.1941 Oberfähnrich zur See 01.06.1942 Leutnant zur See 01.12.1943 Oberleutnant zur See 01.09.1956 Kapitänleutnant (Berufssoldat) 29.09.1960 Korvettenkapitän 22.06.1964 Fregattenkapitän 25.03.1968 Kapitän zur See 01.11.1972 Flottillenadmiral 01.10.1975 Konteradmiral gleichz...

  8. Pető family in summer 1939

    Kodak Safety film logo. Hungarian titles throughout. “1939. nyara” “Jancsi 3 éves.” János plays with a tricycle. János and Marika with their grandmother, Zseni Krausz (she died in Auschwitz). They visit a park and look at the river. Men play tennis. Nice close shots of the family and friends at leisure in summer, swimming, drinking, eating cake. Includes shots of Pető and his good friend Endre Kardos, among others. The young people in tennis outfits joke and play wrestle in the city. Two men change a flat tire. Tennis match with spectators. 06:09 Workers repair the roadways. Streetcar and o...

  9. Ed H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ed H., who was born in Stanislav, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1929, an only child. He recalls attending Hebrew school; his grandmother joining them from Nazi-occupied Austria; Soviet occupation in 1939; his father's draft into the fire brigade; German invasion in 1941; ghettoization; forced labor; a mass killing; narrowly escaping with his mother from a round-up (his grandparents were deported); returning to find his father had been shot; his mother making contacts with non-Jews when they worked outside the ghetto; smuggling themselves out of the ghetto with assista...

  10. Israel G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Israel G., who was born in Piotrków, Poland in 1930. He recounts living in Łódź; attending a Jewish school; German invasion in September 1939; immediately fleeing with his mother and grandfather to Lublin; his father's arrival; their return to Łódź; joining their family in Piotrków; ghettoization in October 1939; Germans murdering his grandparents; slave labor with his father in the Hortensia glass factory (his father paid for him to work there and "changed" his age to eighteen); confinement to the factory during round-ups; his mother's deportation; returning to...

  11. Vorläufiger Reichswirtschaftsrat

    Bestandsbeschreibung Vorläufiger Reichswirtschaftsrat (VRWR) und andere wirtschaftliche Interessenvertretungen: Funktion, Aufgaben und Organisation des VRWR 1919-1934 (88), Tätigkeit des VRWR, Vorstand, Plenum 1920-1934 (40), Zusammensetzung und Zusammenarbeit mit anderen zentralen Einrichtungen 1919-1933 (121), Bezirkswirtschaftsräte als geplanter Unterbau des VRWR 1920-1933 (12), sonstige Berufs- und Interessenvertretungen 1920-1934 (25), Wirtschaftsparlamente im Ausland 1920-1936 (3) Wirtschaftspolitischer Ausschuss, Wirtschaftspolitik: Sitzungen des Ausschusses 1920-1932 (46), wirtschaf...

  12. Gerhard C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gerhard C., who was born in Fraustadt, Germany (presently Wschowa, Poland) in 1920, an only child. He recalls attending gymnasium; expulsion due to antisemitic restrictions; antisemitic violence; his father's imprisonment and transfer to Berlin; moving there with his mother; his father's release; attending school; working for a sign company; his father's reluctance to emigrate thinking his status as a decorated war veteran offered protection; deportation with his parents to the ?o?dz? ghetto in 1941; transfer three days later to Poznan (he never saw his parents again)...

  13. Gürtner, Franz

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • N 1530
    • German
    • 1870-1938
    • Nachlässe 35 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 0,5 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Franz Gürtner war deutscher Jurist und Reichsjustizminister zur Zeit der Weimarer Republik und des Nationalsozialismus. Gürtner wurde am 26. August 1881 in Regensburg als Sohn eines Lokomotivführers geboren. Nach dem Abitur studierte er Rechtswissenschaft an der Universität München und war ab 1909 als Staatsanwalt tätig. Gleichzeitig wurde er ins Bayerische Justizministerium berufen. Ab 1912 erfüllte Gürtner zusätzlich die Funktion eines Amtsrichters. Seine juristische Karriere wurde 1914 durch die Teilnahme am ersten Weltkrieg unterbrochen. Gürtner kämpfte a...

  14. Samuel W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Samuel W., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1913. He recalls attending a Polish school; cordial relations with non-Jews; picketing of Jewish stores; German invasion; being arrested with Poles and Jews in early September 1939; detention at Gestapo headquarters, then Montelupich prison; release of the non-Jewish prisoners; transfer to Troppau; encountering Gustaw Morcinek, a prominent Polish writer; transfer to Sachsenhausen some two years later; separation of Jews; a sadistic barrack commander; loss of toes due to severe cold; relations between prisoner groups; slave...

  15. 10. SS-Panzer-Division "Frundsberg"

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Die überlieferten Schriftgutsplitter stammen aus Rückführungen aus den USA. Bestandsbeschreibung Wie bei allen anderen SS-Divisionen liegt auch bei dieser lediglich eine bruchstückhafte Überlieferung vor. Kriegstagebücher oder Tätigkeitsberichte liegen nicht vor. Erschliessungszustand Vollständig erschlossen Zitierweise BArch RS 3-10/...

  16. Leokadia W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leokadia W., who was born in Sosnowiec, Poland in 1918 and grew up in Nowy Korczyn. She recalls working in her brother's textile factory in ?o?dz?; her mother's death in 1938; German invasion; a temporary move to Warsaw; joining a resistance movement after hearing of the mass killing of an entire village including her brothers; serving as a resistance courier; returning to Nowy Korczyn thinking it safer in a small town; disagreements between the Judenrat and resisters; hiding with a non-Jewish friend during an aktion in 1942; and obtaining false papers as a Pole. Mrs....

  17. Louis G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Louis G., who was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1925. He recounts his uncle's murder by Brownshirts; moving to Paris with his parents and brother in 1933; attending school; German invasion; fleeing to Lugagnac in June 1940; moving to Cahors; their internment in Agde; their release; living in Montpellier; their futile attempt to enter Switzerland in November 1942; returning to live with a Jew in hiding in Montpellier (his brother and parents went to Saint-Martin-Ve?subie); obtaining real identity papers in Limoges; arrest in Nice; having to report to the police weekly;...

  18. Processo de pedido de visto para Nikiforos Georgiades, Eugenie Kowarsky, Alexandre Kowarsky, Ernest Magnani, Philipp Vander Sluis, Renato Bacchi, Cesana Biee, Georges Kosztolànyi, Catherine Kosztolànyi (nascida de Gaman), Ivan Grosz, Else Haas, Leopold Haas, Eugenia Lansberg e Henryk Lansberg

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Paris para Nikiforos Georgiades, de nacionalidade grega e residente em França, com destino não identificado. Sem informação de atribuição de visto. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Paris para Eugenie Kowarsky, de nacionalidade letã e residente em França, com destino a Portugal. Sem informação de atribuição de visto. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Paris para Alexandre Kowarsky, de nacionalidade letã e residente em França, com destino a Portugal. Sem informação de atribuição de visto. Proce...

  19. Doba-Necha Cukierman collection

    Consists of original and photocopied wartime documents, dated April 1942 to December 1943, between Doba Necha (Zajfsztajn) Cukierman and her friends and family, including correspondence conducted under false names. Includes correspondence from Doba-Necha's brother Boruch, letters to the Prokop family who took over Doba's husband Szyja's fruit business, and between Doba (using her false name Zofia) and Szyja (using his false name Janek). Also included is a pamphlet and photograph of the Głusk Jewish Cemetery, where Doba's parents were murdered and a drawing created by Doba-Necha of the barn ...

  20. FDR's first inaugural

    Universal Newsreel Vol. 5, No. 125, Part 1. Release date, 03/04/1933. Presidential inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt (32nd president of the US) [first sound pictures ever shown of a presidential inauguration]. Shots include Roosevelt and Hoover riding, with congressional escort, down Pennsylvania Avenue; Mr. Roosevelt reciting the Oath of Office at the Capitol; the stirring inaugural address; the inaugural parade down Pennsylvania Avenue. Inaugural parade: Several scenes along Pennsylvania Ave. made from the street. Crowds; women and children sitting on curb; people on the roofs of hous...