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  1. Tibor F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Tibor F., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1933. He recalls his parents' divorce; living with his father and visiting his mother and sister; German invasion; hiding with his father's friends in a Swedish protected house; being sent to his mother due to lack of food; being accosted on the street when returning to his mother in the ghetto; assistance from non-Jews; hiding with his mother in a basement during round-ups; liberation by Soviet troops; his mother arranging for him to go to Germany with assistance from a Zionist organization; participating in Zionist grou...

  2. Paul O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paul O., who was born in Hajdu?hadha?z, Hungary in 1924, the oldest of four children. He recalls thinking a German-Jewish visitor was exaggerating stories of persecution; meeting his future wife in Debrecen; rabbinical studies in Budapest; draft into a Hungarian forced labor battalion in 1944; remaining with friends from rabbinical school; serving on the Russian front; escaping with his friends; rejoining his unit when he realized escape was impossible; feigning illness to be sent back to Hungary; return to the front lines when his ruse was discovered; changing his pa...

  3. Reichsvereinigung Eisen

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Bestandsgeschichte Der ins Bundesarchiv gelangte Aktenbestand stellt nur ein Bruchstück des Gesamtschriftgutes der RVE dar. Es muss davon ausgegangen werden, dass große Teile der Überlieferung beim Brand des Dienstgebäudes in Berlin-Wilmersdorf am 30. Apr. 1945 vernichtet wurden. Ein kleiner Teil der Akten der RVE gelangte 1952 zusammen mit Unterlagen der Wirtschaftsgruppe Eisenschaffende Industrie aus vom Ministerial Collecting Center über das Bundeswirtschaftsministerium ins Bundesarchiv. Mit dem Sammelzugang aus den USA im März 1960 gelangte die Reihe der ...

  4. Rahmlow, Hans-Joachim (Kapitänleutnant)

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners geb. 18.10.1909 in Striegau; gest. nach 1941 in britischer Kriegsgefangenschaft; Dienststellungen: 1.4.-30.6.1928 II. Schiffsstammdiv. der Ostsee; 1.7.-15.10.1928 Segelschulschiff "Niobe"; 16.10.1928-3.1.1930 Kreuzer "Emden" Ausb.reise; 4.1.-3.4.1930 II. Schiffsstammdiv. der Ostsee; 4.4.1930-30.3.1931 Marineschule Kiel; 31.3.-31.5.1931 Torpedo- und Nachr.Schule; 1.6.-6.8.1931 Schiffsart.Schule; 7.8.-3.9.1931 Sperrversuchskdo.; 4.-30.9.1931 Torpedo- und Nachr.Schule; 1.10.1931-24.10.1932 Linienschiff "Hessen", Div.Lt.; 25.10.-15.11.1932 Küstenart.Schule; 16.11...

  5. Julien Bryan Collection compilation

    Compilation of newly preserved footage from the Julien Bryan Collection at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shown during a Museum public program on April 16, 2004. Scenes include: -Georgia, Caucasus Mountains, 1933 -Russia, 1936 -Krakow, old market square & Jewish quarter, Kazimierz, 1936 -Krakow, old market square & Jewish quarter, Kazimierz, 1936 -Warsaw, city center & Jewish quarter, 1936/37; Krakow, main market square, 1936/37 -Katowice (main city of Upper Silesia), Poland, 1936/37; Gdynia, Poland, 1936/37; Danzig, 1936/37; Warsaw, Poland 1936/37 -Polish countrysi...

  6. Moellendorff, Wichard v.

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • N 1158
    • German
    • Nachlässe 192 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 2,5 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Friedrich Zunkel, Industrie und Staatssozialismus. Der Kampf um die Wirtschaftsordnung in Deutschland 1914-18, Düsseldorf 1974 Unterstaatssekretär im Reichswirtschaftsministerium (1918-1919), Präsident des Preußischen Materialprüfungsamtes (1923-1929) Georg Otto Wichard von Moellendorf Ingenieur, Materialforscher, Wirtschaftstheoretiker, Wirtschaftspolitiker 03.10.1881 (Hongkong) - 04.05.1937 (Berlin) Vater: Otto von M., Zoologe und Konsulatsdolmetscher, später Konsul Mutter: Betty geb. Blau Erste Ehefrau, 1902: Elisabeth (Lis) Erdmann Tochter Hedda * 1904; S...

  7. German siege of Warsaw, Poland 1939

    CUs of belongings amid rubble. These belongings are all that remain for the Poles featured here who have been displaced from their homes by the German air attacks. MS, camera pans another destroyed interior- this time it is a church (discussed in the book "Siege" (1940)) The priest is inside taking things out of the sacristy, trying to salvage the relics, etc, several people mill about outside. CU of a young girl with a dog in her arms, this is the same girl that was seen in Story 3982 on this tape - USHMM Film ID 3003. 01:15:41 VS of destruction to a cemetery, CU of another corpse. CU of a...

  8. Ben L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ben L., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1922. He recalls anti-Jewish violence; attending rabbinical school to please his mother; his father's death in 1938; German invasion; ghettoization in 1940; a work assignment outside the ghetto; trading valuables for food to Polish smugglers; his mother and younger brother being smuggled out (he never saw them again); not escaping in order to protect his sister; hiding in a bunker during the uprising; discovery; deportation to Treblinka; selection for transfer to Majdanek after a few days; transfer a few months later to Auschw...

  9. Myer C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Myer C., who was born in Zdolbunov, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1928. He recalls his large and close extended family; Soviet occupation in 1939; expropriation of the family business; German invasion in 1941; a mass shooting of Jewish men; ghettoization; slave labor; his mother's escape, then his with his brother, father, and a girl when the ghetto was liquidated in October 1942; hiding with farmers they knew, as well as in bunkers and the forest for two years; some separations from his family; contacts with Jewish and non-Jewish partisan groups, although not joining...

  10. Peter H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Peter H., who was born in 1920 in Hannover, Germany. He recounts his parents' divorce; being raised by a Catholic governess; his bar mitzvah; anti-Jewish laws; expulsion from school in 1936; apprenticeship in a Jewish-owned chemical factory; the factory's expropriation; losing his job; studying chemistry privately in Berlin; working as a chemist; Kristallnacht;, obtaining visas with his mother and brother at the American Consulate in Hamburg; visiting relatives in Cologne and Amsterdam; emigration to the United States in 1939; learning his father had emigrated to Thai...

  11. Colette T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Colette T., who was born in France in 1932. She describes growing up in Rouen in a very assimilated family (she did not realize she was Jewish); her father's service in the French military; fleeing to Agen with her mother and brother after German invasion; learning her father was a prisoner of war; returning to Rouen; shame at having to wear the yellow star; an empathic teacher; arrest with her mother and brother on January 15, 1943 despite their status as family of a war prisoner; deportation to Drancy; transfer to Beaune-la-Rolande; return to Drancy; a rabbi who org...

  12. Okresný ľudový súd v Nových Zámkoch

    • District People´s Court in Nové Zámky

    The fonds contains files pertaining to the persecution of Jews in Nové Zámky and surrounding area which belonged to Hungary in 1938-1945 but contains also files pertaining to the persecution of Jews at the territory of Slovakia (1938-1945). Several files contain the information on the so called Aryanization of Jewish property. There are case files on the denunciation of Jews during the deportaion of Jews from Hungary. Several files pertain to the deportation of Jews from Hungary and activities of various individuals against Jews during deportations. Number of files pertains to the Arrow Cro...

  13. Leonard D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leonard D. who was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1925. He recalls his parents both had relatives in Europe; ceasing to hear from them in the late 1930s; being drafted into the Army immediately after high school graduation; training in the 21st Armored Infantry Battalion; reassignment to the 11th Armored Division; sailing to England; landing in France in October 1944; fierce fighting through Europe; liberating Mauthausen on May 5, 1945; his and his fellow soldiers' state of shock at the condition of the prisoners; the piles of corpses all over, the pervasive stench; ob...

  14. Tighina County Tribunal

    • Tribunal judeţean Tighina
    • Тигинский уездный трибунал
    • Tiginskiy uyezdnyy tribunal

    Correspondence on administrative issues; correspondence on mobilization issues; the case of Sura Gesser who is incriminated with the distribution of communist leaflets; disclosure cases of underground communist organizations; documents “in the Jewish language” about the activities of the 'Maccabi' society in Kaushany; correspondence about the moral and political mood of the population in Tighina district; Communist propaganda charges; the case against Ion Odobash for wearing the badge of the Jewish organization "Trumpeldor"; charges for wearing fascist swastika; cases of the distribution of...

  15. Országos Zsidó Helyreállítási Alap iratai

    • Records of the National Jewish Rehabilitation Fund

    The National Jewish Rehabilitation Fund dealt with issues of restitution and compensation in Hungary. This collection contains decrees, studies, correspondence, memorandums, notes and background materials of the Rehabilitation Fund. It includes the correspondence of the National Jewish Rehabilitation Fund with a host of Hungarian Jewish individuals, with various Hungarian state authorities and other institutions regarding compensation and restitution. Individual claims that Hungarian Jewish survivors submitted to the Elhagyott Javak Kormánybiztosa (the Government Commissioner for Abandoned ...

  16. Vera G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Vera G., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1929. She describes her childhood in an affluent family; German invasion in 1944; closure of the Jewish school; being spat upon the first time she wore the yellow star; having to move to a building designated for Jews only; all people over seventeen being taken away, leaving her in charge of many children; help from a non-Jewish woman; her father and sister returning; her father placing her sisters in different hiding places; moving to the ghetto with her father; his continuing search for her mother; obtaining Swiss passpo...

  17. Jacob B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacob B., who was born in Il'nitas, Czechoslovakia (now Ukraine) in 1922. He recalls moving to a small village in 1927; attending yeshivoth in a nearby town in Slovakia and in Munkacs; difficulties returning home after Hungarian occupation in 1938; abusive behavior by the police; increasing anti-Jewish restrictions; dealing on the black market to support his family; changing his last name to escape arrest; compulsory service in a Hungarian labor battalion from 1943 onward in O?zd, Moha?cs, Pe?cs, Koma?rom, and Budapest; efforts to observe the dietary laws; harsh condi...

  18. Chaim F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Chaim F., who was born in Trochenbrod, Poland (presently Sofii?vka, Ukraine) in 1909, one of six children. He recounts his father's emigration to Argentina and subsequent death; his mother supporting them; receiving money twice a year from his mother's two brothers in the United States; working with his uncle, then on his own from age seventeen; marriage at twenty; the births of five children; draft into the Polish military in 1931; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in June 1941; mass killings by Ukrainians, including his mother, sisters, and their children; ...

  19. Records of the Comité Central Israelita del Uruguay (CCIU)

    Records of the Central Jewish Committee of Uruguay. Including are minutes of meetings of the Board of Directors, correspondence, Committee regulations and publications, newspaper clippings and copies of a bulletin "Mensaje", as well as records of the Association for the Defense against Anti-Semitism.

  20. Selected records of the city Ruda Pabianicka Akta Miasta Ruda Pabianicka (Sygn. 223)

    Minutes, resolutions, regulations, statistics, indexes of inhabitants, correspondence and ordinances of the town of Ruda Pabianicka (today a district of the city Łódź). Contains records of the local slaughter house and artisan guilds related to trade and craft of the 1930s. Majority of records consist of statistics of the town dwellers, books of permanent inhabitants and their properties, indexes and books of control of migration. Extensive lists of Jewish people of 1939-1940 are located in the File 434a.