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  1. van Leeuwen and de Groot family photographs

    The van Leeuwen and de Groot family photographs consist of pre-war and post-war photographs of Rachel (Chellie) van Leeuwen, her sister Elly, and their parents, Isaac van Leeuwen and Judith Degroot, in the Netherlands. The photographs are accompanied by photocopies with identification information provided by the donor's family.

  2. Ludwigslust: Germans reburying corpses; graves; service

    (LIB 6389) Remnants of Nazism, Ludwigslust, Germany, 7 May 1945. MCUs, townspeople walking past pits containing bodies of former slave laborers/prisoners who died from malnutrition and torture. VS, German civilians digging graves and reburying concentration camp victims. MCUs, MSs, Maj Gen James M Gavin, 82nd ABN Corps and other US officers attending burial ceremonies. CUs, Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish chaplains speaking at ceremony. CUs, Gavin and other US soldiers. Burying victims. MSs, body lying in grave as earth is shoveled over it. Germans burying victims, grave markers. More shot...

  3. Mass funeral service, Neuenberg; UNWCC visit to Buchenwald

    (LIB 6133) Atrocity, Neuenburg, Germany, April 29, 1945. Seq: Civilian population gathers for reburial of slave laborers killed by the German SS troops. Wooden coffins are carried by women and men to lawn of government building. CUs, faces and bodies of murdered victims. VS, procession of men carrying bodies in open coffins marches through streets. (LIB 6114) Buchenwald Concentration Camp, near Weimar, Germany, April 26, 1945. Seq: United Nations War Crimes Commission officers visit camp site. Group tours camp. Included in those photographed are Mr. Oldham, Australia; Mr. Stavropoulos, Gree...

  4. Aaron W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aaron W., who was born in Mie?dzyrzecz, Poland in 1914. He describes his family and their brush business; ghettoization; forced labor; mass killings and deportations including family members; being hidden for a short time by a volksdeutsch whom his brother paid; transport to Majdanek; encountering his brother who was killed soon after; transfer after three months to Auschwitz where he spent time in Birkenau and Monowitz; becoming seriously ill; efforts of one doctor to help him recover; undergoing surgery without anaesthesia; dreaming of his mother for which he credit...

  5. Morris B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Morris B., who was born in Zambro?w, Poland in 1926. One of three brothers, he describes his large, extended family; German occupation in September 1939, followed by Soviet occupation; his continued school attendance; German invasion in June 1941; anti-Jewish restrictions; his father's round-up by German troops (they never saw him again); collection of all Jews in August; mass killing of the elderly outside of town and ghettoization of the remainder; forced labor; transfer in November 1942 to an abandoned Polish army barrack; his escape and discovery one week later; a...

  6. Grazi konzulátus iratai, 1928-1945

    • Records of the Hungarian Consulate in Graz, 1928-1945

    Records of the Hungarian Consulate in Graz, the capital of the federal Austrian state of Styria contain considerable material concerning Hungarian Jews, especially from the months following the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany in March 1938. The bulk of the material documents the efforts of Hungarian authorities to secure the assets of the Hungarian Jews living in Nazi-occupied Austria. These records include various registries and reports concerning the property of the Hungarian Jews in Styria, documents on German-Hungarian negotiations on the wealth of Hungarian Jews and other anti-Je...

  7. Dr. Friedrich Walter Forster collection

    The Dr. Friedrich Walter Forster collection consists of a photocopy of Forster’s German handwritten memoir of his Holocaust experiences, an English translation of the memoir, and a brief essay written by Forester's nephew Sandro Lane. The memoir describes Dr. Forester’s 1941 deportation from Vienna, Austria to Poland by the Gestapo. In Zakrzowek, Poland he continued his work as a physician before being deported to series of forced labor camps including Budzyn and Miękisz. He was sent to the Flossenbürg concentration camp in 1944. Towards the end of the war, he was sent from Flossenbürg to D...

  8. Selected records from the National Archives in Prague relating to Roma

    Selected records related to administration of penal camps and labor camps; gendarmerie administration of the so-called "Gypsy problem"; Roma camps; deportations; Jews, Romani, and Russian populations in Danzig and East Prussia; and persecution of Roma peoples. Also included are documents with statistical and evidential data derived from investigating the Roma population, and documents recording pro-fascist legislation relating to persecution of Roma.

  9. George G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of George G., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1922. He describes being the oldest child of three in a traditional family; the family move to Poznan?; anti-Semitic incidents in public school and law school (he attended for only three months due to the outbreak of the war); returning to ?o?dz? in September 1939; ghettoization in 1940; forced labor managing a clothing factory; H?ayim Rumkowski's role; starvation and epidemics; round-ups, first of the sick, then of entire areas; buying black market food to enable his family's survival; and mass deportations in 1943. Mr. G....

  10. Yugoslavia during liberation: sports; wounded soldiers; parade; Tito

    Reel 1: Partisan sport event in Belgrade stadium. Soccer game at Belgrade Stadium. Crowds in stands. Army guards in FG. Girls' 100 meter race. Injured girl assisted off track. Man congratulates winners. Crowd cheering.Young Yugoslavian soldiers with machine guns in crowd. Young boys selling soft drinks. Girls finishing race. Winner and runner up. Crowds in stands watch boys' 100 meter race. Attendant at grill selling food. Spectators eating. Beginning and finish of race. Crowd singing at half-time. Soccer game in progress. Refugee children marching to river boat for transport to test camp. ...

  11. Maren F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maren F., who was born in Kiel, Germany in 1938, the second daughter of a Jewish mother and non-Jewish father. Her war memories are primarily of bombings and running. She tells of her maternal family's emigration; her father's military service protecting them; her mother wearing a star, doing forced labor, and observing all the laws and regulations; destruction of their home in a 1943 bombing; hospitalization; hiding on a farm; leaving, fearing exposure; returning to Kiel; living in the apartment of evacuees; believing if her father returned, everything would be fine;...

  12. Okresný ľudový súd v Trstenej

    • District People´s Court in Trstená

    Fonds of the District People´s Court in Trstená is not extensive, however, it contains several relevant Holocaust-related documents. It provides with information about various case files pertaining the activities and crimes committed during the period of the Hlinka´s Slovak People´s Party (HSĽS) regime in 1938-1945, including the persecution of Jews in Slovakia. It contains documentation of the trials against some local party dignitaries and members (HSĽS and also Deutsche Partei) who were accused of propagation of the fascism and the ruling regime. Several cases refer to the activities of ...

  13. Akta gminy Stężyca powiat Garwolin

    • Files of the commune of Stężyca

    1915-1939 - podatki, książki meldunkowe, statystyka dot. produkcji rolnej. 1939-1944 - spisy ludności, statystyka podatki, sprawy finansowe 1944-1950 - protokóły z posiedzeń gminnej rady narodowej, zarządu i komisji, akta Gminnego Komitetu "Służba Polsce", zebrania ciał samorządowych, zmiany terytorialne, wybory sołtysów, majątek gminy, budżety, sprawy finansowe, kontyngenty, podatki, drogi i place publiczne, rejestracja bibliotek samorządowych, opieka społeczna, bezrobocie, sprawy emigracyjne, rozdział darów UNRRA, statystyka dot. zniszczeń wojennych, rejestry gospodarstw, wykazy zakładów ...

  14. Collection of materials relating to World War II Zbiór materiałów z lat i dotyczących II wojny światowej (Sygn.271)

    Various materials relating to the World War II, including patriotic and anti-German poetry, prophecies referring to the future of Poland and Europe, an open letter to the General Gub. Dr. Hans Frank, condemning the inhuman crimes of the occupiers (1940), a list of Polish citizens saved from German concentration camps as a result of the action of Count Folke Bernadotte, provisions of German police equipment (Ordnungspolizei, ORPO), and reports of the Haupttreuhandstelle Ost., HTO (1939-1942).

  15. Diary of Nelly Epstein

    The diary of Nelly Epstein includes entries, drawings, clippings, and maps written from January 1, 1935 - January 18, 1943. Nelly began the diary with entries about friends, family, and activities, such as travel, theater, and life in general in Vienna. In the later years, Nelly documented her journey with her husband Emil (Aryeh) Katscher and other young Zionists fleeing on vessels down the Danube River, across the Black Sea, through the Gallipoli Peninsula to the Aegean, and the Mediterranean Sea, and finally landing in Haifa, Palestine. The diary includes illustrations of their journey. ...

  16. Edith F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edith F., who was born in a small town in Czechoslovakia and moved to Mukacheve when she was seven. She recalls her oldest brother's emigration to the United States in 1938; Hungarian occupation; ghettoization in spring 1944; deportation with her family to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation by gender; assignment to Canada Kommando with her mother, sister, and aunt; smuggling food and clothing to others; protecting her mother; observing Jewish holidays; her sister's transfer, then her's, to a labor camp; slave labor in a communications equipment factory; staying with a chi...

  17. Archives du groupe Tractionel (anciennement : Compagnie Mutuelle de Tramways puis Électricité et Traction puis Traction et Électricité).

    Ce fonds est très riche, il se compose de pièces relatives aux organes statutaires et de direction du holding, de pièces relatives aux différents services du holding, de collections documentaires, de pièces relatives aux organes à caractère social où le personnel est représenté, de pièces relatives aux administrateurs et cadres, de pièces relatives aux sociétés filiales. Les dossiers suivants sont de grand intérêt pour notre thématique : n°2609 « Certificat négatif relatif à la réglementation contre les Juifs et délivré par l’administration militaire allemande (1941), dans le cadre de contr...

  18. German educational film: Alfred Wegener and The Greenland Expedition

    This is part three of a three part film of which USHMM has all three parts. (Film IDs 2587, 2591, and 2602). Footage of Alfred Wegener and his crew during his expedition of Greenland. With German intertitles. VS of crew, dogs, and sleds, travelling across and charting this seemingly endless frozen tundra. INTs, igloos, equipment, dogs, snow, crew. Wegener died on this fourth of his Greenland expeditions, and there is footage of his grave site on this reel, marked by a large wooden cross. The film ends with an epithet to Wegener.

  19. Selected records of the City Bodzentyn Akta miasta Bodzentyn (Sygn.126)

    Files of the communal office of Bodzentyn with information about Jews living in the commune. Included are licenses to run industries, lists of landlords (estates and lands), documents related to election to the communal council, tax rates, shares to the firefighting fund, registers of the Bodzentyn region and indexes to the population ledgers, as well as a book of communal resolutions (1910-1938) and a list of births, marriages and death in the synagogue district of Bodzentyn (1923).

  20. Rita M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rita M., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1927. She recalls her parent's Sephardic roots; a happy childhood in an assimilated and wealthy home; anti-Semitic incidents; the Anschluss; her father and brother being forced to wash streets with small brushes; her mother's assault (which later required surgery) and rescue by an Austrian soldier and shopkeepers; one neighbor who protected her family's possessions; hiding in her uncle's house when her mother had surgery; fleeing to Paris via Switzerland, and, after the outbreak of war in France, to Turkey via Bulgaria; atte...