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  1. Processo de pedido de visto para Nicolas Psilos, Ernesto Cohen Obadia, Peter Madis, Antonios Tsampadonis, Spyridon Macris, S. M. Mavrillanakis, Georges Caclamanos, Ch. Komninos Komninidis, Nicolas Milonas e Gerassimos Xenos

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Madrid para Nicolas Psilos, de nacionalidade grega e residente em Espanha, com destino à Argentina. Sem informação de atribuição de visto. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Madrid para Ernesto Cohen Obadia, de nacionalidade grega e residente em Espanha, com destino à Argentina. Sem informação de atribuição de visto. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Madrid para Peter Madis, de nacionalidade grega e residente em Espanha, com destino à Argentina. Sem informação de atribuição de visto. Processo ...

  2. Grünberg, Gottfried

    Bestandsbeschreibung 29. Mai 1899 in Beuthen (Niederschlesien) geboren 1915-1917, 1919-1931 Bergarbeiter in Oberschlesien und im Ruhrgebiet 1920 Kämpfer der Roten Ruhrarmee, Funktionär der Roten Hilfe und des RFB 1928 Mitglied der KPD 1930/1931 Mitglied der KPD-UBL Aachen 1931 Emigration in die UdSSR 1931-1933 Bergmann im Donezbecken 1933-1935 Studium an der Kommunistischen Universität des Westens und an der Lenin-Schule 1937-1939 Teilnahme am Spanischen Bürgerkrieg, u. a. Führer einer Pionierkompanie im Bataillon"Jaroslaw Dombrowski" der XIII. Internationalen Brigade, Febr. -Mai 1939 Inter...

  3. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 100 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 100 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  4. Lieberman family looks out an apartment window in Poland

    The family looks out an upper story window with (from left to right) Henryk Kupferman (child cousin), Ella, Magda Kupferman (child cousin) with Thomas and Hanna behind near the window, and Avraham Kupferman (Benedikt's brother in law). Thomas and Hanna seem amazed by what they see.

  5. Kesselring; Mauthausen at liberation

    Kesselring Meeting, Zellam See, Austria, May 8, 1945. VS, occupants of a halted convoy study maps. (The convoy of US vehicles, led by German officer in a German vehicle, attempts to make contact with Field Marshal Albert Kesselring.) MSs, convoy of US jeeps and German jeeps passing camera. VS, convoy pulls into hotel area. MLS, train pulls into railroad station at Saalfelden. CU, Nazi insignia. INTs (underexposed footage), meeting between German Gen. Westphal and other officers. Field Marshal Kesselring, Bertchesgaden, Germany, May 10, 1945. MSs, CUs, Field Marshal Albert Kesselring with Ma...

  6. Selected records from North African colonies

    This collection contains documents pertaining to the treatment of Jews in French North Africa, particularly in Algeria, and the expropriation of their property by Vichy officials. Topics include the "Jewish question," antisemitism, the establishment of camps, refugees from Spain and/or from the International Brigades, the local Jewish community in Algeria, Jews from France, and the commune of Ain Temouchent. Also included are police reports on the general condition of Jews in Algeria, correspondence concerning the 1941-1942 census of the Jewish population; the famous pogrom of Constantine i...

  7. Lubov N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lubov N., who was born in Zvenigorodka, Ukraine in 1921. She recalls her family's poverty; attending a teacher's course in Tulสนchin; teaching Russian and German in Zvenigorodka; German invasion in June 1941; ghettoization in September; forced labor; her father's shooting; witnessing her mother's brutal murder by a Ukraiinian with German sanction; transfer to a concentration camp; slave labor building roads; learning of mass killings from escapees and local Ukranians; having to sort the victims' clothing; local villagers providing them with food, without which they wo...

  8. Karl S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Karl S., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1928. He recalls attending Jewish and public schools; German invasion in September 1939; anti-Jewish regulations and violence; his father being killed in a round-up in November 1939; his mother's job in a hospital; attending clandestine schools; ghettoization; forced labor in a shoe factory; hiding during the children's round-up; deportation with his mother to Auschwitz in summer 1944; assignment to the former Zigeunerlager (Gypsy Lager); transfer to Wu?stegiersdorf in November; slave labor digging trenches; escaping a mass s...

  9. Julius C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Julius C., who was born in Katowice, Poland in 1929. He recounts his father was Jewish and his mother Catholic; his father's family's disownment, although his grandmother visited them occasionally; his father not attending medical school due to antisemitism (he became a university professor); fleeing during German invasion; separation from his father; reunion six months later; his father obtaining false documents; visiting the Krako?w ghetto with his father; his father's mother living with them; their escape during a raid (his grandmother was caught); placement in a m...

  10. Mathilde C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mathilde C., who was born in Rhodes (then Italy) in 1927. She recalls learning fascist ideology; her sister's emigration to the Congo in 1939; many other Jews leaving; deportation with her family by boat to Piraeus, then by train from Athens to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her family; the shock of learning of the gassings; occasionally seeing her brother; difficulties with veteran prisoners and communication (they did not speak Yiddish); learning her brother had been killed; transfers to Landsberg, Kaufering, and Bergen-Belsen; slave labor; liberation by Britis...

  11. Eva K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva K., who was born in Cluj, Romania in 1936. She describes her close-knit, extended family; moving to Budapest; her father's conscription for forced labor; being sent to her grandparents in Transylvania; returning to Budapest; hiding with neighbors; and capture with her mother when they attempted to escape using false papers. Mrs. K. recounts transfer to a brickyard; separation from her mother while marching to Germany (she never saw her again); another woman caring for her; feeling isolated in Ravensbru?ck because no one spoke Hungarian and she was the only child; ...

  12. Vlček B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Vlček B., who was born in Veľké Kapušany, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1923, one of six children. He recalls a large and close extended family; their orthodoxy; attending yeshiva in Uz︠h︡horod for two years; cordial relations with non-Jews prior to Hungarian occupation; moving with a brother to Budapest in 1942; returning home in 1944; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; factory work in Szentgotthárd; burying Jews who had been killed; assistance from French and Italian prisoners of war; transfer to Feldbach; assistance from Russian workers and...

  13. Selected records of the City of Chmielnik Akta miasta Chmielnik (Sygn. 2129) : Wybrane materialy

    Records relating to Jewish property and its fate after World War II in Chmielnik, mainly in reference to abandoned property. The collection includes official correspondence, descriptions of estates, verdicts of the Court of First Instance, loans and sale of those estates, registration of war damages, birth and death files, and correspondence concerning the matter of searching for individuals who were property owners. Prior to World War II, Jews constituted about 70% of the total population of Chmielnik.

  14. Skiiers; US army maneuvers; West Point

    Skiers on a slalom course, a crowd is watching. This is a race, or competition of some sort as all the skiers are wearing large race numbers on their vests. VS, skiers taking the chair lift up to the top of the slopes. 01:02:04 Oceanside, there is a small wooden dock that juts out from the beach into the water's edge, waves, crashing against the dock, VS waves hitting the shore. MCU flagpole in the sand, camera pans up to show American flag. Large wood frame house on beach front, camera pans house and surrounding beachfront property, including CUs of flowers in bloom. 01:04:13 "Mechanized C...

  15. Paula K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paula K. who was born in Cze?stochowa, Poland in 1924, the oldest of six children. She recalls her father building a bunker prior to the war; German invasion; ghettoization; family members hiding from aktions in their bunker; deportation of many relatives; selling clothes for food; and forced labor in a munitions plant. Mrs. K. recounts episodes when she was almost killed; carrying bombs for partisans; liquidation of the small ghetto when her mother and three siblings were killed; working with her father, brother and sister in HASAG-Pelzery; hiding with her sister dur...

  16. Cipa R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Cipa R., who was born in Nizhneye Krivche, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Ukraine) in 1901. She recalls her family's affluence; their impoverishment after Soviet occupation; German invasion; forced relocation to Mel'nytsya-Podil's'ka; ghettoization in Borschiv; hiding in a bunker with twenty-two people, including her husband, their two children, and other relatives; collapse of the bunker roof resulting in the deaths of fifteen; local Poles hiding her family, a niece, and two cousins; liberation by Soviet troops; living in Borshchiv; assistance from Poles; antis...

  17. American propaganda film to educate US soldiers going to France

    An American propaganda film produced by the U.S. Office of War Information to educate US soldiers before going to France. Some scenes are staged. Reel 2: Shows Nazi, fascist, and Japanese leaders and their followers, including Adolf Hitler, Pierre Laval, Oswald Mosley, Fritz Kuhn, Japanese Emperor Hirohito, Rudolph Hess, Julius Streicher, Joseph Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler, and Benito Mussolini. Flashbacks to World War I show the German Kaiser reviewing troops, French posting mobilization orders, the French taxicab army leaving Paris, scenes of the battles at Verdun and Chemin des Dames, Llo...

  18. Kan family vacationing during summer in Switzerland

    In 2002, siblings Robert F. Kan and Betsy Klein donated this and other films (see more below) that capture vacations, daily activities, and other moments in their Dutch Jewish family's prewar life. They and their parents, Frits Kan and Jeanne (Bloch) Kan, escaped the Nazis by immigrating to the United States in May 1940. Robert's wife, Francisca Verdoner Kan, and her siblings also donated family films. Side view of a bus. Plaque: "Chur - Flims Wald Haus." Jeanne, Robert, and Betsy sit in the bus. People move luggage, seen from the rear of the bus. Robert in a lake wearing a hat and playing ...

  19. Swiatlowski-Koronczyk family. Collection

    This collection contains photocopies of : Berek Swiatlowski's Polish military booklet ; Berek Swiatlowski and Pesa Koronczyk's Polish passport ; a postcard thrown from the Transport X by Berek Swiatlowski on 13 September 1942 ; administrative documents of the Swiatlowski-Koronczyk family ; war-time work permits of Abram Swiatlowski ; pre-war photos of Swiatlowski and Koronczyk family members in Poland and in Belgium.

  20. Margo B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Margo B., who was born in Schkeuditz, Germany in 1925. She recalls attending school in Halle; antisemitic restrictions; her father's arrest in 1938 because he had Polish citizenship; his release provided he emigrate within four weeks; his emigration to Paris; joining him with her younger sister, mother, and uncle a month later; moving to Villeneuve-sur-Lot; attending school; her father serving in the military when war began; his return upon French surrender; obtaining false papers for himself from a military colleague; their family receiving false papers from a non-Je...