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  1. Children ski outside their vacation home in prewar Poland

    Winter scene, snow covers most of the ground. Hanna is bundled up. She and Thomas strap on their snow skis. They get some help from her father Benedikt. Slowly they work their way along a path and down a slight slope, falling once.

  2. Rita W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rita W., who was born in Mukachevo, Czechoslovakia in 1924. Mrs. W. recalls living in a Czech colony in the Carpathian mountains with very few Jews; high school membership in a Zionist organization; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish measures; her father assisting Polish refugees; his arrest and return six months later; his stories of Hungarian brutality; ghettoization in April 1944 for four weeks; and deportation to Auschwitz. She recounts her arrival to an unknown place, but sensing danger; one sister giving her baby to their mother (that sister survived); another si...

  3. Joseph H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph H., a Catholic, who was born in Turnhout, Belgium in 1922. He recalls moving to Brussels after middle school; attending an elite Catholic school; German invasion; fleeing briefly to France; working for the Red Cross; meeting members of the Resistance; working as a resistance courier; arrest in May 1944; incarceration in Antwerp; transfer to Buchenwald, then shortly thereafter to Dora; working in the hospital where he could help many other prisoners; transfer to Ellrich; public hanging of a prisoner who had cannibalized a corpse; transfer to Oranienberg; evacuat...

  4. Kesselbauer, Günther und Ruth

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners geb. 3. Juli 1921 in Nietleben/Saalkreis, gest. 21. Okt. 2009, Dozent für Wirtschaftsgeschichte; Leiter des Archivdepots Coswig 1927-1937 Volks- und Mittelschule in Halle/Saale, 1937-1939 Lehre als Elektromaschinenbauer in Halle-Büschdorf, 1939-1945 Kriegsfreiwilliger, 1940 verwundet in den Niederlanden, 1942 Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz, Kriegsbeschädigung 100%, 1944 1. Heirat, 1945 Elektromaschinenbauer in Heidenau und Dresden, 1945-1948 Elektromaschinenbauer in Halle-Büschdorf, 1946 SPD, dann SED, 1947 Kreisparteischule der SED Dieskau/Saalkreis, 1948 A...

  5. Students of private Jewish school (Goldschmidt School), Berlin

    Berlin, Germany. Brief glimpse of Goldschmidt Jewish Private School classroom interior, female students, including a very short view of Trudi Goldschmidt (profile, blond), daughter of the school's founder, Dr. Leonore Goldschmidt. Outside the school during a break. Students relaxing, moving around yard. Students entering school. Close side views of many faces of adolescent age students, looking at the camera as they pass by. Classroom interiors, girls seated at desks. Girl in plaid dress stands to approach blackboard (we have identified her current name as Margot Segall). Jüdische Privatsch...

  6. Hausser uniformed SA toy soldier with swastika armband

    SA [Sturmabteilung] uniformed toy soldier manufactured by O. & M. Hausser in Ludwigsburg, Germany, between 1930 and 1943. It was purchased by Hans Pauli in Nuremberg, Germany, at an unknown date before 1991. Hausser made realistic toy soldiers and figurines to scale from a trademarked mixture called Elastolin. During the 1930s, figurine sets accurately representing NSDAP (Nazi Party) leaders and organizations were popular collectibles. The SA was a Nazi Party paramilitary organization, also called Brownshirts, founded by Hitler in 1920, and led by Ernst Rohm. Stormtroopers were known fo...

  7. Valentina S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Valentina S., a non-Jew, who was born in Brest-Litovsk, Russia (presently Brest, Belarus) in 1912. She recounts her family's evacuation to Chuhuïv, then Z︠H︡ytomyr, in 1914; her father's death resulting from Russian army service in World War I; pleasant childhood memories; her grandmother hiding Jewish neighbors during pogroms after the revolution; working in an orphanage during the famine in 1933; marriage in 1934; the arrest of Jewish doctors during purges in 1936-1937; German invasion in June 1941; her husband's military draft (he was killed during the 1941 offens...

  8. Starosta Powiatowy w Radomiu

    • Kreishauptmann Radom Land
    • Radom County Governor

    W skład zespołu wchodzą akta: 1. Urząd Spraw Wewnętrznych (m.in. wytyczne w sprawie polityki administracyjnej w GG, schematy organizacyjne władz nadrzędnych, dane o zniemczeniu nazw miejscowości i ulic, raporty, dane dotyczące przesiedleń ludności polskiej i żydowskiej, sytuacji polityczno - społecznej w powiecie, akta do dziejów ludności niemieckiej polskiego pochodzenia, dane o działalności polskich organizacji opiekuńczych.); sygn. 1-34. 2. Urząd do Spraw Policyjnych (m.in. dane o organizacji władz policyjnych, materiały dotyczące zabezpieczenia polskiej ewidencji, doniesienia o napadach...

  9. Rafael and Nelly Brenner family papers

    The Rafael and Nelly Brenner family papers consist of advertisements, photographs, printed materials, and store catalogs documenting the Brenner family’s photograph supply stores in Cologne, their expropriation under the Nazi regime, the establishment of their store in Rome, their escape to the United States, the establishment of their store in Washington, DC, and Leo Brenner’s store in Haifa.

  10. Veronica F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Veronica F., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1919. She describes her father's conversion from Judaism to a Methodist sect; ambivalence concerning her religious identity; anti-Jewish laws in 1938; attending university in Scotland; converting to Presbyterianism; returning to Hungary at her parents' behest; marriage to a Jew; her husband's forced service in a labor battalion in September 1940; his release after six months; her son's birth in May 1943; German occupation in 1944; her husband's deportation; help from Christian friends in hiding her son in a foster home...

  11. Adele B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Adele B., who was born in Bełchatów, Poland in 1925, the oldest of three sisters. She recalls her large and close extended family; German invasion; working in a factory producing German uniforms, her father thinking it would keep her safe; her deportation with other factory workers to the Łódź ghetto in 1942; deportation to Auschwitz in 1944, then to another camp a few days later; slave labor in a munitions factory; a forced march and train transport to Theresienstadt in April 1945; others helping her because she was one of the youngest; helping a dying friend by g...

  12. Eva Webb: personal papers

    Personal correspondence and autobiographical account of Eva Webb. Also included is correspondence relating to her war compensation claim, confirmation of the death of Heinrich Poper by Theresienstadt Martyrs Remembrance Association and letters from her father.

  13. Manufacturing locomotives/trucks; Shipyard; Inspecting factory/artillery

    Reel 4: (Symphonic audio track in part of reel) 07:17:00:17 "20 Jahre Lokomotiv und Kraftwagenbau bei Krupp." ; "Lokomotivbau" ; "1919 Die erste Lokomotive" Decorated locomotive is paraded through streets. 07:17:45:11 "1939 Die 2000. Lokomotive" Workers at Krupp manufacture locomotives. Men in suits exiting railroad car. HAS, locomotive traveling on track. 07:19:19:05 "Kraftwagenbau" Trucks are manufactured in a Krupp factory. 07:19:34:09 "Der Fuehrer besucht den Krupp-Stand auf der Deutschen Automobil-Ausstellung" Hitler visits the Krupp display at an auto show. Seen looking, talking with ...

  14. Emergency Rescue Committee collection

    The Emergency Rescue Committee collection documents the efforts of Varian Fry in assisting three of the more than 1,500 refugees he helped escape while living in France from 1940-1941. As a member of the Emergency Rescue Committee, Fry was sent to Marseille, France, to assist in the escape of prominent intellectuals and artists who were living in recently German-occupied France. The correspondence and cables concern Max Ernst, Elena Frank, and Wilhelm Herzog, in addition to a list of clients for the Emergency Rescue Committee that were living in various countries in 1943. The Emergency Resc...

  15. Goering interrogated at Nuremberg Trial re. Jewish Question

    (Munich 58) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, March 20-22, 1946. LS, prisoners in dock during questioning. Robert H. Jackson is heard interrogating Hermann Goering about which Nazis were more "radical against the Jews" than he was. Goering answers in German and indicts fellow Nazis. 01:10:08 Hess gestures with fingers and hand up towards Goering as he testifies. 01:10:52 Prosecutor asks "What about Heydrich?" Goering replies, making reference to Heydrich and Himmler. LS, courtroom with Goering in the stand guarded by 2 MPs. 01:11:33 Jackson states, "Let us go through the public acts wh...

  16. Archief van het Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken: Afdeling Binnenlands Bestuur, (1870) 1879-1950 (1957)

    • Nationaal archief
    • 2.04.57
    • Dutch
    • 1879-1950
    • 149.1 meter; 2874 inventarisnummers

    De afdeling Binnenlands Bestuur was belast met het toezicht op de bestuurlijke en financiële organisatie van de provincies, gemeenten en waterschappen. Onder Binnenlands Bestuur viel ook de verantwoordelijkheid voor de handhaving van de openbare orde en veiligheid. Na de opheffing van de afdeling Armwezen in 1875 kreeg de afdeling ook het toezicht op de armenzorg (waaronder ook de zorg voor krankzinnigen) en na de opheffing van de afdeling Medische Politie in 1901 ook het toezicht op de volksgezondheid. Beide beleidsterreinen gingen echter in 1910 over naar de nieuw opgerichte afdeling Armw...

  17. Akta miasta Rozwadowa

    • Files of the town of Rozwadów

    The collection contains i.a. the breakdown of the assets belonging to Jews (1941), rent and apartment ledgers, a register of abandoned real estate, and a ledger in which are recorded expropriations of former Jewish assets.

  18. Mark Liwszyc, 1915-2003, Selected Memoirs

    Consists of one typed memoir, 72 pages, entitled "Mark Liwszyc, 1915-2003, Selected Memoirs," written by Mark Liwszyc, originally of Ostrog, Poland (currently, Ostorh, Ukraine), and compiled by his daughter, Edith. The memoir is written in three sections. Section one includes the history of the Jewish community of Ostrog and Mr. Liwszyc's memories of his own childhood. Section two covers the period of 1939-1941, including the Soviet occupation of Ostrog, traveling to Lwow to continue his education, working as a teacher in the Soviet schools, the German invasion in 1941, and being forced to ...

  19. Moses K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Moses K., who was born in Drohobych, Ukraine (then Poland) in 1918. He recalls leaving public school after third grade due to anti-Semitic treatment; working at odd jobs; visiting an uncle in Lv?iv after his bar mitzvah; traveling a circuitous route for months to Palestine with assistance from people in Constant?a, Budapest, Salonica, and I?zmir;imprisonment in Acre for illegally entering Palestine; transfer to a prison in Jerusalem; his release through the intercession of a rabbi; working for the British; stealing arms for the Haganah; working in several places; and ...

  20. Edgar Duchin: working papers re refugees from Nazi Europe

    Readers need to book  a reading room terminal to access this digital content This collection of papers relating to the fate of refugees from Nazi Europe was part of the working papers of Edgar Duchin (formerly Duchinsky), a solicitor who worked on behalf of refugees. A number of organisations dealing with the problems of refugees are represented. The papers at -/5 which document his activities viz representing the interests of individual refugees and his presence on a number of committees involved in similar work are testament to his commitment to the cause of refugees.