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  1. Stamm family papers

    The Stamm family papers consist of correspondence and lists documenting Anna and Gustav Stamm, their immigration to the United States in 1939, and Silbermann and Stamm family members and friends they left behind in Berlin and Frankfurt am Main. The correspondence describes loneliness; employment and health issues; hopes and plans for immigration to America, Brazil, Australia, and Shanghai; requests for financial help; gratitude for packages; and the birth of a baby boy. A 1939 list details the contents of one of the suitcases Anna Stamm brought to America, and a photocopy of a 1942 Theresie...

  2. Leopoldine Staud Muliar divorce documents

    Consists of extracts of minutes taken by a clerk for the Justice of the Peace in Paris, France's Ninth Arrondissement and a divorce decree issued by a court in Vienna, relating to the divorce of Leopoldine Staud Muliar and Mosche Muliar. The extract of minutes, taken in October 1938, was used by Moische Leib Muliar to immigrate to the United States, and it describes the place and date of his birth. The divorce decree dates from March 9, 1940, and it describes how the Nuremberg Laws and Moische's immigration to the United States had influenced Leopoldine Muliar to seek a divorce from Moische...

  3. Skiing vacation in Austria

    A group of skiers prepares to ski down a hill. Longer shots of the group from the bottom of the hill.

  4. Israel S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Israel S., who was born in Munka?cs, Czechoslovakia (now Ukraine) in 1929. He recalls his religious family and happy childhood; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish measures; escaping deportation to Poland; German invasion in 1944; evacuation with his family to a brick factory; separation from his mother and sisters upon arrival at Auschwitz (he never saw his mother again); two weeks in Birkenau; separation from his father upon transfer to Mauthausen; forced labor in a coal mine in Melk; a prisoner saving him during an accident (he was seriously injured); assistance from...

  5. Javno tužilaštvo Socijalističke Republike Hrvatske

    • The State Attorney office of the Socialist Republic of Croatia

    The Public Prosecutor's Office was established in 1945. The Law on the Public Prosecutor's Office was adopted after the promulgation of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1946, and the Public Prosecutor's Office of PRC acted as an organ of public prosecution in the country. Collection holds 9 boxes of the Indictment Ante Pavelic-Andrija Artuković, from 1951 for their extradition. Besides the text of the statutory provisions of the ISC there is evidence, testimony and statements of surviving camp inmates, lists of interned and murdered Jews, etc. Researchers of the Hol...

  6. Gewerkschaftsprüfungsausschuß, Düsseldorf

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • Z 36-II
    • German
    • Schriftgut 69 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 4,3 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners In der Britischen Zone wurden im Jahre 1948 drei Ausschüsse für die Prüfung von Rückübertragungsansprüchen für von den Besatzungsmächten beschlagnahmte Vermögenswerte der aufgelösten NSDAP und ihrer Gliederungen, insbesondere zur Durchführung der Kontrollratsdirektive Nr. 50 vom 29. April 1947 (Amtsblatt Kontrollrat, S. 275) gebildet. Die Vermögenswerte waren zumeist den nach 1933 aufgelösten Gewerkschaften und Konsumgenossenschaften entzogen und von der NSDAP und ihren Organisationen übernommen worden. 1. Allgemeiner Organisationsausschuß (AOA) mit Sitz in C...

  7. Büro der Ministerpräsidenten des amerikanischen, britischen und französischen Besatzungsgebietes

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • Z 12
    • German
    • 1948-1950
    • Schriftgut 165 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 5,4 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Vgl. Beständeübersicht. Literatur u.a.: Walter Vogel, Westdeutschland 1945-1950, Teil I; Büro der Ministerpräsidenten des amerikanischen, britischen und französischen Besatzungsgebietes. Dokumente betreffend die Begründung einer neuen staatlichen Ordnung in der amerikanischen, britischen und französischen Besatzungszone, Wiesbaden 1948.- Empfehlungen des Organisationsausschusses der Ministerpräsidenten-Konferenz über den Aufbau der Bundesorgane, Wiesbaden 1949 Walter Strauß, die gesamtdeutsche Aufgabe der Ministerpräsidenten während des Interregnums 1945-1949...

  8. Lillian Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lillian Z., who was born in 1928 in Czechoslovakia. She recalls Hungarian occupation; conscription of men for forced labor; German invasion; her brother's illness and death; transfer with her extended family to the Munka?cs ghetto in April 1944; transport to Auschwitz in May; separation from her family; a pregnant woman whose baby was killed shortly after its birth; transfer to Gelsenkirchen; a German who helped the prisoners hide during an air raid; transfer in September to Soemmerda; a six-week death march in March 1945; disappearance of the guards; and liberation b...

  9. Jacob G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacob G., who was born in ?osice, Poland in 1896. He recalls entry into the family business; World War I; successful business affairs; marriage in 1927; the births of three children; acquiring and hiding gold; the German invasion; brief Soviet occupation and return of the Germans; continuing his business until 1941; ghettoization; hiding with family members in the attic during deportations; the capture of his older son and daughter; sending his brother-in-law's family to hide with a farmer in Konstantinow; bribing a Polish policeman to take his wife and younger son th...

  10. Beatrice P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Beatrice P., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1926. She recalls antisemitic harassment of her brother; moving to Warsaw in 1932 or 1933, then to Brussels; German invasion; anti-Jewish measures; hiding with her family in 1941; obtaining false papers; capture with her brother by Germans in Besançon while fleeing to Switzerland in 1942; their release by an officer because she resembled his daughter; returning to hide with their parents; a German raid; her escape (she never saw her family again); assistance from a non-Jewish neighbor; hiding briefly with a non-Jewish ...

  11. Ada A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ada A., who grew up in Krako?w, Poland. She recounts cordial relations with non-Jews; membership in a Zionist youth group; German invasion; her father fleeing east; learning he was killed; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization with her mother and grandmother in March 1941; her grandmother's death; slave labor in a munitions factory; transfer with her mother to P?aszo?w in March 1943; separation from her mother (she never saw her again); transfer to Auschwitz/Birkenau; assisting a friend; transfer to Lichtewerden; slave labor in a textile factory; liberation by Sovie...

  12. Okresný ľúdový súd v Modrom Kameni

    • District People´s Court in Modrý Kameň

    The fonds contains several files pertaining the persecution of Jews at the territory of Slovakia (1938-1945) as well as Hungary (1938-1945). Two separe case files pertain the so called aryanization of Jewish enterprise property in Modrý Kameň and Zvolen. Another file pertains the hiding of Jewish property in Modrý Kameň. There is also a case file with the infromation on denunciation of Jews who were in hiding Dolny Tisovik and their arrest in January 1945. One of the files pertains the former Hlinka Guard dignitary in Modrý Kameň and contains his notes with drafts of the orders. There is al...

  13. Rosette G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rosette G., who was born in Paris, France in 1938. She remembers living in a non-Jewish neighborhood; her father's military service; being in a basement during an air raid; being sent to live on a farm with non-Jews in Vaulandry; nightly visits from her father who worked in a nearby labor camp; his failure to visit one night (she never saw him again); her mother's visit (she remained in Paris); hiding during German searches; reunion with her mother after the war; their return to Paris; placement in a Jewish children's home in Barbizon; learning Jewish customs and reli...

  14. Swimming; family takes a train in June 1940

    Eva is slightly older now, her hair in braids, she walks towards the camera with her mother Lilly and another young boy holding her hand. They play with a small terrier dog. The dog runs through a field. Large building. A girl jumps over a rope. Others practice handstands, backbends and cartwheels on the grass. The group picks up the little girl with braids. 01:02:37 Intertitle “Svábhegy 1940. Julius~ augusztus.” (film slightly damaged) Toy sailboat in water. People go down a water slide. Eva cries, and then relaxes on a float with a young boy. Everyone plays in the water. CU of Eva stickin...

  15. Dutch civilians; ferry boats

    Sign reads: "Monnikendam 7.2, Amsterdam 21." Dutchman in wooden shoes and black bloused pants walks toward camera. Two young Dutch girls in aprons pose for camera. Other Dutch civilians in native costumes are photographed sitting at side of street. Men in black cloaks and black caps. Jeep Toluca pulling weapons carrier on green country road. Jeep on what appears to be a ferry boat, sign reads: "Rikswaterstat." DC3 flies over. VS of Red Cross vehicles on a ferry boat, bombed out bridge in BG. VS of bridge from ferry boat.

  16. Anna S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anna S., who was born in Minsk, Belarus in 1930. She recounts living in Bielsk; not knowing she was Jewish until German invasion; her father's draft into the Soviet army; traveling with her mother to Minsk; fires and chaos; their journey to relatives in Dorogobuzhskii?; a brief visit from her father; traveling to Gorky (Nizhnii? Novgorod) as the Germans advanced, then to Astrakhan?; living with a non-Jewish family for one year; German bombings; fleeing to Tashkent; assistance from the Bukharan Jewish community; living in Kattaqurghon; returning to Minsk in 1944; wide-...

  17. Deutscher Frauenrat

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • B 211
    • German
    • 1951-1975
    • Schriftgut 132 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 7,4 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Der Deutsche Frauenrat wurde am 8. Dezember 1951 in Frankfurt/Main als "In "Informationsdienst für Frauenfragen" gegründet. Zu den 14 Gründungsverbänden gehörten u. a. die Arbeitsgemeinschaft Katholischer Frauen, die Deutsche Angestellten Gewerkschaft (DAG), der Deutsche Akademikerinnenbund, der Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund, Hauptabt. VII - Frauen, der Deutsche Hausfrauenbund und die Evangelische Frauenarbeit in Deutschland. Der Informationsdienst war ein loser Zusammenschluß eigenständiger Frauengruppen, der sich als ein Dienstleistungsorgan für den Austausch ...

  18. Leo Weinrieb: My many lives

    Photocopy of a transcript, 63 pages, of several interviews conducted by Elizabeth Conant with Leo Weinrieb, originally of Poland, but who survived the Holocaust while in hiding in the Netherlands. Interviews were recorded in 2009 and 2010 in Willliamsville, NY, and were subsequently transcribed by Kathleen Hume, under the title "Leo Weinrieb: My Many Lives."

  19. Hannah H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hannah H., who was born in Sosnowiec, Poland in 1924. She recalls attending public school and business school; celebrating Jewish holidays; German invasion; ghettoization with her family in the Srodula section; forced labor; hiding in a bunker during round-ups; her brother being caught and killed; foregoing an escape opportunity to save her parents from deportation (they were not released); deportation to Auschwitz in 1944; being shaved and tattooed; slave labor in a munitions factory; transfer to a German camp in January 1945; liberation by the Red Cross in April; tr...

  20. Bankierskantoor Lissa & Kann

    Het uitbreken van de Tweede Wereldoorlog had ingrijpende gevolgen voor NV Bankierskantoor van Lissa & Kann. Toch overleefde het bankiershuis de oorlog, zij het niet langer als zelfstandig bankierskantoor, maar in het bezit van de firma Hope & Co. Op 5 juni 1940 werd een drietal overeenkomsten gesloten, namelijk tussen J.H. Kann en Hope & Co., tussen J.H. Kann en Lissa & Kann en tussen Hope & Co. en Lissa & Kann. De reden dat J.H. Kann, enig aandeelhouder, zijn gehele aandelenbezit verkocht aan Hope & Co, was zijn debetpositie bij het bankierskantoor. In de overee...