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  1. Shnayderman family photograph collection

    The Shnayderman family photograph collection, circa 1930s-1941, consists of photographs of Reveka Shnayderman (Riva, 1922-1941), Sofiya Shnayderman (1924-1941), Dvosya Shnayderman (1929-1941), Dora Shnayderman (1910-1941), and her children Fima (1930-1941) and Gitya (1935-1941) Shnayderman. Also include two photographs that Reveka Shnayderman sent to Dora Shnayderman (1910-1941), while attending school in Kamenetsk Podolsky. All perished in the Holocaust.

  2. Gertrud K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gertrud K., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1923. Mrs. K. recalls a comfortable life; strong Jewish identity; watching mass demonstrations when the Germans marched in; the plundering of her father's business two days later; ransacking of their home; and public humiliation of her father. She remembers Kristallnacht; her father and one brother's arrest; her other brother hiding; several weeks later her father's letter from Dachau; receiving permission to leave on a Kindertransport to Scotland; reluctance to leave with her father in prison; and begging a Gestapo offic...

  3. Sarah W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sarah W., who was born in Kovno, Lithuania in 1905. She recalls moving to Antwerp with her family; her mother's death; attending Hebrew school; marriage in 1927; her son's birth in 1928; moving to Luxembourg where her husband was a rabbi; German invasion in 1940; anti-Jewish measures; fleeing to Paris with her husband and three children; traveling by train through Spain to the Portuguese border; futile attempts to enter Portugal with assistance from the Joint; returning to France; internment with her family in Bayonne; her son's bar mitzvah in a local synagogue; trave...

  4. Hella D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hella D., who was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1924. She recounts her parents' divorce in 1929; moving with her mother to Berlin; returning to her father in Amsterdam in January 1939 (her mother moved to London); placement in an orphanage (her father's wife did not want her); working in a hat shop; visiting her father and his three children; German invasion; nursing training at a Jewish hospital; obtaining false papers; she and a friend escaping a round-up at the hospital; moving to another Jewish hospital; hiding during round-ups; a friend's offer to contact the...

  5. Charles T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Charles T., who was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia in 1927. He tells of his mother's United States citizenship (she was born in Chicago); his family's affluence; attending a Jewish gymnasium; vacationing in Italy in summer 1938; traveling to Switzerland prior to returning home in October; his mother traveling to the U.S. on citizenship matters; German occupation; his father's and uncle's arrest in April; he and his younger brother living with relatives; spending seven months on a Zionist training farm; learning his father and uncle were in Dachau; an uncle in the U.S. a...

  6. Arthur K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Arthur K., who was born in Kielce, Poland in 1920 to a family of ten children. He describes growing up in a Jewish neighborhood; antisemitic incidents; his father's death in 1934; German invasion; working in the ghetto kitchen; separation from his family for transfer to Skarz?ysko-Kamienna in May 1942; forced labor at the HASAG ammunition factory; psychological support from his friends upon learning his family had been deported to Treblinka; train transfer to Cze?stochowa, then to Buchenwald in 1944; assistance from a Polish political prisoner; volunteering to work in...

  7. Rita K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rita K., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1935. She recalls being in their summer home when Germany invaded; living in the Piotrko?w ghetto; hiding with her sister outside the ghetto with assistance from family friends in 1941-1942; returning to her parents in the ghetto; cleaning up after the ghetto's liquidation; transfer with her family to a labor camp in 1943; separation from her father during a selection; deportation to Ravensbru?ck with her mother and sister in 1944; her mother stealing potatoes for them, without which they would not have survived; their transf...

  8. Death cards from the Ghetto of Warsaw Karty zgonu z Getta Warszawskiego (Sygn. 201)

    The collection contains 10,055 certificates of deaths fulfilled and signed by the Jewish doctors in the Warsaw Ghetto for the office: “Wydział Statystyczny Zarządu Miejskiego w mieście Warszawie” (Statistical Department of the Council of Warsaw) for the statistical purposes and census records of the City of Warsaw. Certificates of deaths contain following information: the last, first and second name, the year of birth, the place of birth, the father's, and mother's name, the address, the date of death, the number of the death certificate, the marital status, the occupation, the citizenshi...

  9. Steven H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Steven H., who was born in Amsterdam in 1938. Mr. H. tells of his parents' flight from Germany in 1936; the gradual round-up of Jews in Amsterdam after the German occupation; and the failed escape attempt of Mr. H., his parents, and his twin sister in 1943. He relates the family's deportation to Westerbork in the summer of 1943 for two months; his father's successful effort to have them released; the arrest of his mother, himself and his sister one week later; their return to Westerbork; and his father's voluntarily joining them. He tells of his father's bribery to tr...

  10. Selected records of unpublished studies on World War II Opracowania niepublikowane dotyczące II wojny światowej (Sygn. 1230)

    Published and unpublished studies, copies from the press, excerpts from publications, manuscripts and typescripts of memories, maps related mainly to the situation in occupied Poland and the activities of the resistance during World War II. Includes lists of destroyed villages, of execution sites in Warsaw, lists of underground organizations operating in the territory of Poland during the occupation, of members of the Polska Partia Robotnicza (PPR), Gwardia Ludowa (GL) and Armia Ludowa (AL) killed or murdered during World War II, and lists of prisons in Germany end occupied countries, memor...

  11. Collection of Max Lowenthal who served in the Department for Jewish Restitution in Germany, Headquarters of the US forces in the US 0ccupation Zone in Germany

    The collection contains: Postwar documentation from the time of the US occupation of Germany regarding reparations for Jewish cultural property looted during World War II, 1945-1947.The main documentation: - Monthly reports by the Offenbach Archival Depot, Office of Military Government, Greater Hesse, Economics Division, regarding Jewish cultural property that was collected;- Letters, memos, reports and similar documents regarding questions concerning the restitution of Jewish cultural property collected in the US 0ccupation Zone in Germany; - Correspondence between Max Lowenthal (as US Gov...

  12. Postwar Jewish Community Vienna collection

    Records relating to the Jewish community Vienna in the immediate postwar period, including telephone and address books; electoral registers; correspondence with international organizations and individuals; case files; reports; questionnaires; financial records, and lists of survivors relating to searches for individuals, restitution, care of Jews, missing persons, Jewish refugees and DPs.

  13. Emanuel A. and Lily A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Emanuel A. and his wife Lily A. Mr. A. was born in Thessalonike?, Greece in 1916. He recounts studying medicine in Athens; membership in the Communist Party; joining the EAM resistance after German invasion; organizing the rescue of Jews with others, sending them to Greek islands, Turkey, and Palestine; assistance from Greeks and the Orthodox Church; joining partisans in the Parnethas Mountains in September 1943; treating the wounded; liberation in October 1944; returning to Athens in April 1945; learning his sister and parents survived by hiding in Macedonia; resumin...

  14. Photograph of Fani Birnberg Ross

    The photograph depicts Fani Birnberg Ross in Radom, Poland, on May 12, 1943. Caption on verso in German: "Gearbeitet Bei Herr Reiners, Kastnanen Ache 7/5, Radom Doppler - Niedermann." At the time this photograph was taken, Fani Birnberg Ross, a Jewish woman, was posing as an Aryan and working for an SS physician.

  15. Levana O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Levana O., who was born in Iași, Romania in 1931. She recalls expulsion from Catholic school due to anti-Jewish laws; arrival of German troops prior to Soviet invasion in 1941; a round-up by German and Romanian soldiers; release of the women and children; returning home with her mother (she never saw her father again); hearing shooting; seeing corpses loaded onto trucks the next day; continuing to attend school; moving to Bucharest with her mother in winter 1942/1943; returning to Iași that spring; attending high school; returning to Bucharest in 1944; liberation by...

  16. In the Wake of War in Germany

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 18, No. 392, Part 3. Release date, 04/23/1945. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: "Germany in Ruins" Duisburg, Limbourg, Osnabruck, and Munster are entered. The streets are filled with hills of broken buildings and wreckage. Mayors try to rally their citizens. The pathetic Volksturm - the home guard - surrenders, to join the thousands of combat troops previously captured. Frantic, hungry civilians break into ruined stores and stalled trains to steal food and clothing. "German Atrocities" Allied armies free thousands of slave laborers - both men and wom...

  17. Collection of the Polish passports of the Jewish immigrants to Palestine, deposited in the Polish consulate in Haifa Kolekcja polskich paszportów żydowskich emigrantów do Palestyny zdeponowanych w polskim konsulacie w Haifie (Sygn.123)

    The collection contains 3747 passports of Jews, Polish citizens, that had emigrated to Palestine before the war, aiming to settle there. Most of them are with photos. Some of them with group photos, as each passport was made up for entire family.

  18. Selected records from the Nikolaev Oblast Archives

    Contains lists, reports, and other documents relating to the fate of Romanian and Ukrainian Jews deported in the Golta district of Transnistria (Ukraine). The paper portion of the collection contains lists of Jews interned in the ghetto in Slivina, Ukraine (between the Dniestr and Bug Rivers).

  19. William M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of William M., who was born in 1924, and served with the United States Army Air Forces in World War II. He recounts military draft; deployment to Britain in January 1943; being shot down over Germany in March 1944; crashing in the North Sea; capture by the Germans; transfer to Rotterdam; imprisonment in Amsterdam; transfer to Frankfurt, then a prison camp in Wetzlar; beatings and interrogations; transfer to an asylum near Frankfurt, then back to Wetzlar two weeks later; train transport to Krems; receiving Red Cross packages; being treated by a dentist for injuries stemmi...

  20. Bernice B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bernice B., who was born in Strzemieszyce Wielkie, Poland in 1925, the oldest of five children. She recalls pervasive antisemitism; German invasion; expulsion from their house; hiding during round-ups; ghettoization; forced factory labor; deportation to Neustadt in 1942 (she never saw her family again); transfer after three years to Flossenbu?rg, then Bergen-Belsen; liberation; returning home seeking surviving family; leaving when she found no one; living in Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp; marriage in 1946; her son's birth; and emigration to the United States. M...