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  1. Fonds CCIB Divers – Correspondance.

    Ce fonds contient principalement la correspondance du CCIB, du président du CCIB et d’autres responsables, relative à diverses thématiques. On y trouve les lettres reçues mais aussi des copies des lettres envoyées. On notera notamment de la correspondance relative à l’entrée en fonction de personnel et de ministres officiants, aux comptes, des échanges avec les communautés israélites du pays, de la correspondance relative à l’enseignement, aux écoles israélites à Bruxelles et Anvers, à la reconstruction de la communauté dans l’immédiat après-guerre, aux réceptions et événements organisés pa...

  2. Immigration to Israel

    Notes from NCJF documentation: A group of people await the arrival of relatives and friends at the dock in Haifa. While they wait they share their stories. They represent the many different groups who came to Israel and the various and difficult adjustment problems they all faced, from those shared by the Yemenite Jews to those who came from Europe. The film is introduced by blowing the shofar, marking the beginning of the year 5721. "THEODORE HERZL" ship docks in Haifa, Israel. Immigrants getting off ship with nothing but "a lump in their throat and hope in their heart." People waiting for...

  3. Carolina Taitz papers relating to the Rīga ghetto

    Includes letters exchanged between Carolina Taitz and her sister, Berta Knoch, during the Holocaust along with English translations prepared for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Taitz. The letters discuss conditions of living and forced labor in the ghetto in Rīga, Latvia. Also included is the survival testimony of Carolina Taitz. The testimony describes her escape from the Rīga ghetto and her life in hiding.

  4. Harry D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry D., who was born in Ri?ga, Latvia in 1928. He recalls a comfortable life as the only child of two members of the intelligentsia (his father was a concert pianist and music teacher); attending Jewish schools; drastic changes after Soviet occupation; German occupation in 1941; Latvian anti-Jewish violence; ghettoization; his grandfather's disappearance during a round-up; and taking his mother's advice to say he was older in order to accompany his father (he never saw her again). Mr. D. describes work in an SS hospital; arrival of German Jews; execution of Jewish p...

  5. Karpfen family papers

    The Karpfen family papers primarily consist of letters from the Karpfen family in Janczyn, Poland (now Ivanovka, Ukraine, near Peremyshlyany) to Jack and Ruth Karp in New York between 1927 and 1941. The letters emphasize the difficulties they experience in their small town; thank Jack for money orders, packages of clothing, and newspapers he sent; and request more money and newspapers. In his final letter, Jack’s father writes that his mother goes to sleep holding their granddaughter’s baby picture. The correspondence files also include letters from Ruth’s family, the Katzensteins. The coll...

  6. Camp Amersfoort, Netherlands

    MS Group of thin men with shaved heads in a poorly lit hall, German officers walking by [VQ: extremely poor, grainy, hardly visible]. Large pile of ropes, inmates de-tangling ropes. Men look malnourished and sick. Pan of men in white uniforms, Nazi officers, and people in suits (some are Red Cross officials) standing next to barbed wire. They are posing for camera, joking, and smiling. CU of inmates standing very still, looking exhausted and thin with patched numbers on their camp uniforms and armbands: CONTR AB [VQ: deteriorates again, jumpy, film appears damaged]. 03:26:33 Inmates cleanin...

  7. Emilia S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Emilia S., who was born in ?o?dz? Poland in 1938. In addition to information included in a previously recorded testimony (HVT-330), Mrs. S. recounts her father leaving Poland; ghettoization of her relatives; her mother obtaining false papers from a priest in Mroczkowice; moving to Warsaw; her mother smuggling food to her parents and parents-in-law in the ghetto; an aunt sending her seven-year old cousin from the ghetto to live with them; moving to Krako?w; spending weekends with her aunt and uncle who were living as non-Jews in Bochnia; her baptism; her mother sending...

  8. Akta gminy w Końskowoli

    • Files of the commune of Końskowola

    Karta A: okres międzywojenny - protokoły posiedzeń i uchwał władz gminnych, budżety, rolnictwa, podatkowe, majątkowe, finansowe, księgi biercze, inwentarzowe - 10 j.a okres okupacji - zarządzenia władz okupacyjnych, przemysłu, wykazy strat wojennych. oświaty i kultury - 12 j.a. okres PRL - protokoły posiedzeń gminnych rad narodowych, ich prezydiów i zarządów gminnych, budżety gminy, księgi protokołów, sprawy rolnictwa, hodowli, przemysłu i handlu, oświaty i kultury, zdrowia i opieki społecznej, bezpieczeństwa i porządku publicznego, ewidencji i kontroli ruchu ludności, budowlane, aprowizacj...

  9. Loebell, Friedrich-Wilhelm v.

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • N 1045
    • German
    • 1904-1931
    • Nachlässe 27 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 0,5 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Chef der Reichskanzlei (1904-1909), preußischer Minister des Innern (1914-1917) 17.09.1855 geb. in Lehnin, Kreis Zauch-Belzig, als Sohn des Rittergutsbesitzers Robert von Loebell 1874 Abiturientenexamen an der Ritterakademie Brandenburg Studium der Rechtswissenschaften in Straßburg und Leipzig 1879 Regierungsreferendar in Potsdam 1883 Assessorexamen 1884 Landrat des Kreises Neuhaus/Oste Nov. 1884 Eheschließung mit Margarethe Friederike Pauline von Flottwell 1889 Landrat des Kreises Westhavelland in Rathenow 1898 - 1900 Mitglied des Reichstags (Deutsch-Konserv...

  10. Barbie Trial -- Day 15 -- Two civil parties testify

    17:22 President Cerdini calls the next civil party, Mr. Isidore Friedler, to the stand; Mr. Friedler presents himself to the court 17:23 The civil party testifies; Mr. Friedler was living in Belgium with his extended family when the Nazis invaded in 1940; they fled for the French free zone, but he was arrested and sent to the Agde work camp before volunteering to go to Germany as a laborer; he worked in Poland as a translator before being allowed to return to France; upon his return to France, he sought to gain entry into the Resistance, and was arrested by the French police and sent to Com...

  11. Etta and Josef Kurz family papers

    Documents, correspondence, and photographs (65), related to the experiences of the family of Josef and Etta Kurz, and their daughter Helen (donor), in Lwów, Poland, prior to World War II, during the war, and in their immigration to the United States after the war. Includes pre-war financial and business records related to the family owned business and property in Lwów, false identification documents used by Etta Kurz during the German occupation of Poland, immigration and citizenship documents, pre-war family photographs, and post-war photographs of the Kurz family, and various friends th...

  12. March of Time -- outtakes -- Lidice; Terezin; Religious procession

    1150 U (03:21:12): Lidice, Czechoslovakia. Commemoration of the destruction of Lidice by Germans who killed all men of the village. LS, crowd gathered on the emplacement of Lidice which had been leveled by the Germans. Place is marked with a cross and a crown of thorns. Shots taken between the Czech and Russian emblems surmounting the respective flags. BG, the official tribune decorated with flags of the allied nations. Speeches made by dignitaries, crowd listening. LS, end of ceremony. LS, Terezin, cemetery, death camp for political prisoners in Bohemia. Women tending the tombs. FG, a roug...

  13. Jack B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack B., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1930. He recounts his father's career as a concert violinist; attending public school; piano lessons; German invasion; ghettoization; forced labor in factories; relatives dying of starvation and disease; deportation with his parents and younger brother to Auschwitz/Birkenau in summer 1944; separation from his mother and younger brother (he never saw them again); remaining with his father; their transfer to Gleiwitz; slave labor digging ditches; his father's death in November; a death march to Blechhammer; liberation by Soviet...

  14. Hauptverwaltung der Reichskreditkassen

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Bestandsgeschichte Ein Teil der Akten der Hauptverwaltung der Reichskreditkassen ist 1952 zusammen mit anderen für die Nürnberger Prozesse ausgewerteten Unterlagen vom Staatsarchiv Nürnberg an das Bundesarchiv abgegeben worden. Von den ursprünglich 320 Bänden sind große Teile als nicht archivwürdig eingestuft und kassiert worden. Dabei handelte es sich überwiegend um Verrechnungsunterlagen, Überweisungen und Kontoauszüge sowie Personalunterlagen bestehend aus Urlaubsgesuchen, Krankmeldungen etc. Im Zentralen Staatsarchiv Potsdam befanden sich bis 1990 21 Akte...

  15. Haim G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Haim G., a prominent Israeli poet, journalist, and filmmaker, who was born in Tel Aviv in 1923. He recounts his parents' emigration from Russia in 1919; their political activism and commitment to leftist, atheist beliefs; tensions due to political conflicts in Palestine; being sent as a child to live at Kibbutz Bet Alfa without his parents; active participation in Shomer ha-tsa?ir and another youth group; attending Kaduri; studying with Yitzhak Rabin and Yigal Allon; writing lyrics and poetry; joining the Haganah and Palmah?; writing songs; learning of the Warsaw ghet...

  16. Liesel A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Liesel A., who was born in Nuremberg, Germany in 1930, one of four children. She recalls their affluence; destruction of their home on Kristallnacht; her father's incarceration and release from Dachau; his telling her she was going to camp before she was smuggled to France by a non-Jewish woman using her own child's documents; placement in a children's home in Paris; German invasion; traveling to Limoges with a group of Jewish children who were being brought to the United States by Quakers; stopping in Gurs so some children could visit their parents; traveling to Madr...

  17. Zygmund L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zygmund L., who was born in Rokitno Szlachekie, Poland in 1903, one of eight children. He recounts his family's World War I experiences; moving to ?azy; marriage; the births of two children; German invasion; fleeing east; sending his wife and children home; traveling toward the Soviet Union; encountering Germans in Wodzis?aw; turning toward home; brief incarceration in Zawiercie; returning home; hiding during round-ups; deportation with his brother to Ottmuth; receiving packages from his wife; transfers to Fu?nfteichen and Marksta?dt; a death march to Gross-Rosen; tra...

  18. List of Jews of the Netherlands, in the Zentralstelle Fuer Juedische Auswanderung (Central Bureau for Jewish Emigration) - Record Group: M.68

    List of Jews of the Netherlands, in the Zentralstelle Fuer Juedische Auswanderung (Central Bureau for Jewish Emigration) - Record Group: M.68 This list has the names of Jews of the Netherlands, arranged according to their place of residence. Each category is arranged in alphabetical order according to the last names. There is additional data regarding last names and first names, and the list includes the person's date and place of birth, address (accurate as of 1941), citizenship, the religious community to whom they belong, profession, family status (G - married, O - single, W - widower), ...

  19. Papers of Chief Rabbi J.H.Hertz

    Personal papers, c.1904-70, including early letters from Hertz's children, Hertz's marriage certificate, British naturalisation papers and other private papers, correspondence of Rose Hertz and other family members, private papers and correspondence of Daniel Hertz, letters of congratulation and condolence, and family photographs. Correspondence relating to Hertz's appointment as rabbi of Adath Yeshuran, Syracuse, and rabbi of the Orach Chaim Congregation, New York, 1893-1913. Private papers and correspondence, 1913-46: correspondents include King George V and the royal family, Herbert Mert...

  20. Destroyed town in Belgium

    Jeep driving through muddy street of severely bombed out town. Civilian digging through rubble with crowbar. Women in winter coats in FG walking down street. Signs reads: "Bastgone." GIs give gift to little girl. Stevens in front of jeep Toluca gives present to little girl (There is a reference that Stevens made in a letter home about giving a Christmas present to a Belgian girl in March, long after Christmas had passed.) Truck pulls into muddy road, in a town that has been devastated by bombs. No buildings are left standing. Sign reads: "keep rollin' Malmady N23, Vielsalm." Pan of flattene...