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  1. 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 ...

  2. 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 ...

  3. 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.

  4. Items of the Belgian police force. Collection

    This collection consists of: the uniform (trousers, belt, jacket and cap) worn by the Mechelen police corps in 1931-1951 (probably the Interbellum); a war-time white helmet worn by the Antwerp police corps; a black helmet worn by the Antwerp police corps from the First World War until 1942; a white helmet worn by the Deurne police corps from 1942 until the 1960s; a cap introduced by the German occupying authorities and worn by the Antwerp police corps in 1940-1944; a file with documents on the Mobile Police Brigade in Mechelen, 1943-1944.

  5. Factory scenes, Katowice, Poland 1936

    Katowice, Poland, 1936. CU, worker takes off his mask as he exits the zinc refinery. MLS, camera pans down the refinery smokestack to reveal the entire refinery in the valley, full pan of the valley, and then back into the mine, miners hacking away at the rocks with pick axes. Shots of bubbling molten ore at 01:01:55:00. The workers leave the refinery, and head off to the church. More shots inside the mine, the cars full of zinc ore, etc. VS of the women sorting the good pieces from the bad. EXT, the miners emerge from the mine, head into another building at the refinery. 01:04:54:00 Worker...

  6. Edith W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edith W., who was born in Balka?ny, Hungary in 1931. She recounts her father's rabbinical position in several towns in Czechoslovakia including Jels?ava; anti-Jewish laws including expulsion from their town after Hungarian occupation; living in Rejc?kov; the births of several siblings; exclusion from school; deportations; her family's exemption because other exempted Jews needed a rabbi; deportation of her grandmother in 1942; her mother obtaining Hungarian passports for them; her mother smuggling a younger brother to relatives in Hungary (he did not survive); moving ...

  7. Perla B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Perla B., who was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1925. She recalls her mother had converted from Catholicism to marry her father; their affluence and orthodoxy; destruction of their apartment during German bombing in April 1941; assistance from Serb friends; her father registering as a Jew (her mother was exempt as a born Catholic and she was exempt due to her age); her father's incarceration in Topovske Šupe; visiting him there; his deportation in November (they never saw him again); her mother obtaining documents proving her family had been Catholic for 200 years,...

  8. Alliance of Concentration Camp Survivors, Vienna KZ-Verband Wien

    Contains 14,087 membership applications and their respective case files of Austrian former concentration camp inmates. The KZ-Verband (Association of Concentration Camp Survivors) in Vienna collected these applications from concentration camp survivors. The membership in the KZ-Verband was crucial in getting a formal recognition as a victim of Nazi persecution and compensation from the Austrian government. Approximately 75% of the collected cases pertain to political victims while the remaining 25% (approximately 3,750 cases) pertain to Jewish victims of Nazi persecution. The association fo...

  9. Frants Hvass private collection

    This collection contains records relating to the occupation, 1940-45, the concentration camp Theresienstadt, notes and correspondence, 1928-75, as well as personal memories.

  10. Lustig and Katz family collections

    Consists of identity cards, documents, and correspondence related to Albert and Erna Lustig, originally of Mannheim, Germany. Includes paperwork related to the Lustigs' emigration to the United States in 1938 and the emigration of their young daughters, Ilse and Lilly, in 1939, who had been staying with relatives while their parents were establishing themselves in the United States. Also includes documents related to family friend Ludwig (Lutz) Katz, also of Mannheim, who met and married fellow German-Jewish refugee Gertrud Rosenthal in New York in 1943. Includes documents related to life i...

  11. Charles A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Charles A., who was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1917. He describes his father's work as an engineer constructing church cupolas; attending a private gymnasium; restrictions on Jewish participation in government; Lithuanians organizing mass killings of Jews immediately prior to the arrival of German troops; and the return to the Jewish community of the bodies of twenty-three girls who had been rounded-up, including his girlfriend. Mr. A. details life in the ghetto from 1941 to 1944: the round-up and disappearance of community leaders, including his father; election of...

  12. Chackelis Kibarskis

    Apyraše įrašyti autoriaus mokslo darbai (autoreferatas, straipsniai, paskaitos, pranešimai, tezės), recenzijos, pastabos, kalba, mokslinės ir visuomeninės veiklos dokumentai: Vilniaus miesto Terapeutų mokslinės draugijos darbo ataskaitos, mokslinių darbų sąrašai, susirašinėjimo su asmenimis ir įstaigomis dokumentai, autoriaus surinkti dokumentai, nuotraukos.

  13. Zakład Karny we Wronkach

    • Strafanstalt Wronke
    • Penitentiary in Wronki

    1 Administracja więzienna 1895-1944 35 j.a. 2 Akta personalne więźniów kat. A 1936-1948 4028 j.a. 2.1 Wystąpienia przeciw Niemcom w 1939 r. 1939-1944 599 j.a. 2.2 Zdrada państwa i nielegalne organizacje 1940-1948 500 j.a. 2.3 Nielegalne posiadanie broni 1939-1944 68 j.a. 2.4 Nielegalne posiadanie radia 1939-1943 73 j.a. 2.5 Szpiegostwo 1940-1943 10 j.a. 2.6 Sabotaż 1939-1943 18 j.a. 2.7 Opór wobec władzy 1939-1944 27 j.a. 2.8 Ucieczka z getta, więzienia lub obozu 1939-1942 34 j.a. 2.9 Pomoc dla jeńców, więźniów i zbiegów 1939-1944 253 j.a. 2.10 Pobicie Niemców 1936-1944 99 j.a. 2.11 Antynie...

  14. Mühlenstelle

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • B 214
    • German
    • 1944-1976
    • Schriftgut 164 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 10,8 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Die Mühlenstelle wurde als bundesunmittelbare Anstalt des öffentlichen Rechts im Geschäftsbereich des BML nach dem Getreidegesetz vom 4. Nov. 1950 errichtet (BGBl. I S. 721, in der Fassung vom 24. Nov.1951 BGBl. I S. 900). Sie war zunächst für Qualitätskontrolle und den Abbau einer unwirtschaftlichen Überkapazität bei der Getreidevermahlung sowie die Kennzeichnung von Mahlerzeugnissen zuständig. Nach Inkrafttreten des Mühlengesetzes vom 27. Juni 1957 (BGBl. I S. 664 ) bzw. des Mühlenstrukturgesetzes vom 22. Dez. 1971 (BGBl. I S. 2098) wurde ihr Aufgabenbereic...

  15. Nurses with young patients

    Dormitory-style room full of young children in beds and nurses. Nurses read. The children listen, look at the pictures, and play with toys in bed. Girl runs out to balcony, a nurse follows. LS of pond and trees. The nurse and the patient look out at the view together and chat. Patient is wheeled down a hallway, the plaster cast on her leg is cut off. She practices walking without her cast and gets a piece of candy. Child writes on a paper with a Christmas tree on it. Children bundled up on deck chairs outdoors on a balcony. A nurse helps tuck them in. They close their eyes or read. Brief sh...

  16. Grunia M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Grunia M., who was born in Lysyanka, Ukraine in 1924. She recalls moving to Zvenigorodka with her family; attending Ukrainian school; German occupation; forced labor; torture and mass shooting of Jewish men; forced labor in a German hospital; transfer to a labor camp with her mother and two sisters; public executions; quarry work; escaping to Popivka with her younger sister with assistance from non-Jews; leaving her sister with a non-Jewish friend in Petrivka; obtaining false papers; fleeing to Tarashcha; imprisonment; release due to a non-Jewish friend vouching for h...

  17. Generalgouvernement Amt des Distrikts Radom (Sygn.100)

    Contains information about the staff and operations of the various departments and divisions of the General Government’s district office in Radom, Poland, including the Internal Administration office, the Justice Department, the Economic Division, the Food and Agriculture Department, the Labor Department, the Building (construction) Department, the Price Controls office, the Forestry Department, and the Finance Division. Also included is information about factories and concentration camp facilities in the Radom district.

  18. Akta gminy w Gołębiu

    • Files of the commune of Gołąb

    okres międzywojenny - sprawozdania rachunkowe - 1 j.a. okres okupacji - sprawozdania rachunkowe - 1 j.a. okres PRL - protokoły posiedzeń gminnych rad narodowych, ich prezydiów i zarządów gminnych, sprawy osobowe i personalne, sprawy rolnictwa, hodowli, majątkowe, podatkowe, sprawozdania rachunkowe, akcja osiedleńcza i pomoc sąsiedzka, budownictwa, pożarnictwa, budżety gminy - 66 j.a.

  19. Attività dell'Unione delle Comunità Israelitiche Italiane fino al 1933

    • Activities of Union of Italian Jewish Communities untill 1933
    • AUCII fino al 1933

    The above mentioned series are important since they can document the situation in Europe, the flee of Refugees, the necessity to recover them; beside that, the series "Demografia e Statistica; anagrafe" can be important to know the situation before the census of Jewish population, of immigrant population, and the total amount of italian and foreign Jews before the 1938 racial laws

  20. Selected records of Archives départementales de l'Aude

    Contains alphabetical name lists of various categories of French Jewish, foreign Jewish, and non-Jewish refugees including political refugees and Spanish, German, and Austrian refugees; administrative and other documents concerning the internment camps Bram, Couiza, and Rivel; the prison at Limoux, France; Vichy government and instructions and regulations regarding refugees in labor groups and refugees in internment camps; documents and reports of the local Sûreté; documents regarding "secret organizations," the resistance, and communists; registers of persons killed by the Germans; and r...