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  1. Processo de pedido de visto para Adolphe Epéron, Edmond Guyot, Albert Muller, Frederic Scharer, Ernest Maurer, Emile Kauffmann, François Schibli, Paul von Arx, Werner Haldemann, Albert Wartmann, Max Haldemann, Ernest Joray, Ernest Riesen e A. Frederic Hanemann

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Berna para Adolphe Epéron, de nacionalidade não identificada, com destino a Portugal. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Berna para Edmond Guyot, de nacionalidade não identificada, com destino a Portugal. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Berna para Albert Muller, de nacionalidade não identificada, com destino a Portugal. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Berna para Frederic Scharer, de nacionalidade não identificada, ...

  2. Michael R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Michael R., who was born in Wieliczka, Poland in 1911. He describes his childhood; his apprenticeship to a baker in Dzia?oszyce; the German occupation of his town; his marriage in December 1939; and the birth of his child in 1940. He speaks of his forced labor until the liquidation of his town in 1942; his and his family's unsuccessful attempts to hide; his brief stay with his wife and child in a labor camp near Krako?w; and their internment in the Krako?w ghetto, where he and his wife were separated from their child and his mother-in-law and taken to separate labor c...

  3. Janet R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Janet R., who was born in Ostrog, Poland (presently Ostroh, Ukraine) in 1928, the youngest of five children. She recalls a comfortable childhood; Soviet occupation; her father moving to L'vov, fearing deportation to Siberia; German invasion; joining her parents in L'vov; German arrest of her father and brother; their execution; ghettoization; forced factory labor; her mother and nephew disappearing (she never saw them again); obtaining false papers from a family friend; escaping with her sister and sister-in-law; deciding to separate, fearing more risk together; posin...

  4. Henry O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry O., who was born in Hrubieszo?w, Poland in 1923. Mr. O. describes leaving imprisonment in Budzyn? in January 1944, after falsely registering himself and his three brothers as scientists in order to be placed in a special commando in Flossenbu?rg; and the detail itself (documentation of this commando exists at YIVO), which Mr. O. speculates was a sham for those Germans in charge to avoid front line duty. He recalls their transfer by cattle car to P?aszo?w; suffering, beatings, and horrendous conditions there; transfer to Berlin from the Krako?w railroad station w...

  5. Antisemitic cartoon workers were required to post in a factory in German occupied Ukraine

    Antisemitic flier that a Russian woman was ordered by the German occupying authorities to post in a Messerschmitt airplane factory where she worked assembling bombs in the Ukraine region of the Soviet Union. Removal of a posted flier was a serious offense with punitive consequences. The bulletin features a caricature of a fat, richly dressed Jewish man as the "the true and only goal of the Bolshevik "World Revolution." The woman who posted the flier saved a copy because she did not want the world to forget the "difficulties." She kept it hidden behind a wooden picture frame and took it with...

  6. Selected records from the collections of the Vaslui branch of the Romanian National Archive

    Contains records concerning Jewish matters and the policy of local offices toward Jewish questions, including selected records from the mayors' offices of Vaslui and Bŕlad; the prefecture of Vaslui district; the police headquarters of Vaslui and of Bŕlad; the gendarmerie of Vaslui; the Tutova district office of the Centrala Evreilor; and the Jewish Community in Bŕlad. Also included are postwar records of the Jewish Democratic Committees of Vaslui and Bŕlad.

  7. Anna F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anna F., who ws born in Bratislava in 1922, the younger of two sisters. She recounts cordial relations with non-Jews; her family's assimilated lifestyle; her father being forbidden to practice law and their forced relocation to Ivanka pri Dunaji due to anti-Jewish laws; her parents sending her and her sister to enter Hungary illegally; capture in Dudince; incarceration in Krupina then Patronka; avoiding deportation due to assistance from a cousin; release; returning to their parents in Ivanka; obtaining false papers from a German girl who took no payment; staying in B...

  8. Hela V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hela V., who was born in Będzin, Poland in 1927, the youngest of three sisters. She recounts her family's affluence; attending public and Jewish schools; German invasion; her father dying from a police beating; buying food posing as a non-Jew (she was blond); selling family belongings to non-Jews; ghettoization; forced factory labor; her mother's deportation; her deportation to Oberaltstadt; slave labor in a weaving factory; better treatment by a German guard after she knit her a sweater; other guards giving them extra food; a prisoner nurse helping them; assistance ...

  9. Collection of the Amersfoort transit camp in the Netherlands, dated, 1942-1964

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 6094601
    • English, Hebrew
    • Announcement Certification Diary Document Legal documentation Letter List of camp inmates List of murdered persons Official documentation Questionnaire Reports Testimony

    Collection of the Amersfoort transit camp in the Netherlands, dated, 1942-1964 Amersfoort camp was built by the Dutch Army in 1939; following the German occupation in 1940, the Germans started to use the camp as a rest place for the German soldiers; the German authorities decided to expand the camp in 1941 and to turn it into a transit camp, called Polizeiliches Durchgangslager Amersfoort; approximately 35,000 inmates passed through Amersfoort camp during the war, most of them political prisoners, but also Jews, Jehovah's Witnesses, marginal people, people who refused to do labor, hostages,...

  10. Органы местного самоуправления г.Орши и Оршанского района и их отделы

    • Kreis- und Stadtverwaltung Orscha

    Оршанская районно-городская управа Постановления, распоряжения бургомистра и начальника районной управы по основной деятельности и личному составу; сметы доходов и расходов; статистические сведения о работе школ, сведения о наличии жилой площади в г. Орша; акты оценки бесхозного имущества, обследования технического состояния жилой площади; документы о финансово-хозяйственной деятельности, отпуске товаров магазинам города; переписка о выдаче лесоматериалов гражданам, регистрации населения; списки жителей; заявления граждан; анкеты, списки рабочих, ведомости на выплату зарплаты работникам упр...

  11. Invasion of Denmark

    A harbor in Copenhagen, Denmark, with German ships, troops, and military vehicles. Troops raise a German flag atop a citadel. Germany invaded Denmark on April 9, 1940, meeting almost no resistance from the ill-prepared Danes. German planes fly overhead and drop leaflets stating that the Danish population should view the Germans "not as enemies, but as friends" and that the Germans are only occupying Denmark to protect Danish neutrality. This was the official reason given by the Germans for the invasion; they claimed they were protecting Denmark from an imminent British attack. An expanse of...

  12. U.S. soldiers stateside; providing first aid to German prisoners; war damage in France; refugees load carts; captured Germans; softball

    (b/w) Amphibious landing drill at Martha's Vineyard (1943). U.S. soldiers stand on a beach and load a small artillery piece and a jeep onto an amphibious transport. The jeep hood is marked with a star, and the transport is marked LCV68. The transport takes off. Another boat marked LCV92 comes to shore and soldiers step off. Camera pans across the beach as similar transports arrive. One very large transport, marked 494, lands and unloads trucks and larger artillery pieces. 01:02:07 (color) Military drill (1943). U.S. soldiers in uniform (not battle dress) stand at attention outside camp tent...

  13. Ostrava Jewish Community collection

    This collection contains materials from 83 families throughout the world originating from Ostrava, including: family photographs, as well as images of pre-war Ostrava, including synagogues and businesses, personal papers such as birth, marriage, and death certificates, school records, newspaper clippings, business advertisements, letters, as well as memoirs, genealogy charts, and testimonies documenting pre-war Jewish life in Ostrava, as well as experiences during the war, and in the postwar period, in many cases to the present: including information and photographs of the survivor's famili...

  14. Manski family papers

    The collection documents the pre-war and wartime experiences of Samuil Manski and his family in Lida, Poland (modern day Lida, Belarus). The collection primarily contains pre-war photographs of Samuil, his extended family, and friends. Also included is Samuil’s visa obtained through Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese consul in Kaunas, Lithuania; postcards from Japan; and Samuil’s report cards.

  15. Archivo de Shmerke Kaczerginski

    This collection contains personal papers of Shmerke Kaczerginski (1908-1954), former partisan and collector of Jewish music: i.d. documents, photographs, correspondence, manuscripts, and secondary sources such as clippings and publications about Kaczerginski’s life and work (includes Kaczerginski's book, "Destruction of Jewish Vilna", published in New York in 1947).

  16. Lea Derszowicz memoirs

    The collection consists of two handwritten memoirs written by Lea Derszowicz (née Eberstark) describing her experiences in Poland, primarily in Dzików, Tarnobrzeg, the Dębica ghetto, and the Pustków concentration camp. Her writings chronicle some of her personal background and her family’s experiences during the early years of World War II including life in the Dębica ghetto, forced-labor, relatives searching for family after being separated, dressing as a boy to sneak out of Dębica with the aid of others to procure food to smuggle back in, deportation to Pustków, her brother getting shot f...

  17. Manuel G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Manuel G., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1908. He recalls working as a master weaver; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; starvation; his arrest and trial for smuggling food; forced labor in Radogoszcz and Schieratz; transfer to Auschwitz/Birkenau; organizing a textile factory; arrival of family members in a transport from ?o?dz? (his wife and children had already been killed) in September 1944; saving three of his sisters (the remainder of his family were killed); refusing to select prisoners for death resulting in a severe beating; a prison...

  18. Max G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Max G., who was born in Grenchen, Switzerland in 1920 to Polish immigrants. He recalls participating in Hashomer Hatzair; attending the 1939 Zionist Congress in Geneva as a pageboy; completing medical school in 1945; employment as a physician for UNRRA; assignment to a displaced persons camp for Poles; transfer to Bergen-Belsen in May 1946; gaining the trust of the residents who had difficult relations with the British and UNRRA administrators; working closely with the Jewish Committee and its head, Joseph Rosensaft; working with UNRRA and Joint medical staff and the ...

  19. Michael B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Michael B., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1931. He recounts his father's death when he was a year old; visits to his grandparents in Budapest; the Anschluss in 1938; antisemitic propaganda; his mother withdrawing him from school; their conversion to Roman Catholicism, hoping for safety; futile attempts to emigrate to the United States; traveling to Budapest in spring 1941; German occupation in March 1944; anti-Jewish measures; forced relocation in June; their housemate, Béla Vihar, entertaining the children; Allied bombings; forced labor with his scout troop; hi...

  20. Spruchgericht Bielefeld

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • Z 42-IV
    • German
    • 1946-1949
    • Schriftgut 7437 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 107,0 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Die Aburteilung aller Mitglieder derjenigen Organisationen, die vom Internationalen Militärgerichtshof in Nürnberg für verbrecherisch erklärt worden waren (Korps der Politischen Leiter, Gestapo, SD, SS) war in der britischen Zone Aufgabe von besonderen Spruchgerichten. Spruchgerichtsverfahren fanden zusätzlich zu den in allen Zonen üblichen Entnazifizierungsverfahren statt. Durch Allgemeine Verfügung des Präsidenten des Zentral-Justizamtes vom 1. Juni 1947 wurde für jedes der sechs britischen Internierungslager (Neuengamme, Eselsheide, Staumühle, Fallingboste...