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  1. Records of the Regierung des Generalgovernment (R 52)

    Contains records from Bundesarchiv, R 52, relating to various activities of the administration of the General Gouvernement between 1939-1945.

  2. Simon H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Simon H., who was born in Salonika, Greece in 1910. He describes the prewar Jewish community; his widowed mother's efforts to support five children; his Jewish and secular education; leaving school in 1920 to support himself as a barber's assistant, then a barber; being drafted and discharged; his marriage; and the birth of his two daughters. Mr. H. relates the historical background of the German invasion of Greece; anti-Jewish measures; ghettoization and deportation; "volunteering" in Lancut in order to save his family (they perished); working as a barber; his relati...

  3. Street scenes in Krakow, Poland 1936

    Train station in Poland, people hurrying along the platform, one orthodox Jew hurries along, the rest of the travelers are dressed in contemporary clothing. The camera is fixed on the platform, soldiers pass by, two orthodox priests pass by, and a porter carries their luggage. Cut to the streets of Krakow, many people moving about, lots of activity, a religious Jew carrying a large parcel walks down the street, a peasant woman carrying a large pack on her back walks behind him, they both turn and enter a building (unmarked). 01:00:42:21 A prototype train car is being tested. CU of the opera...

  4. German Panzer convoy moves through Russia; bomb destruction

    Reel 1: 00:14:34 German military convoy moving through Russian countryside. Several shots of burning buildings. CU of a bombed tank in a hole. Reel 2: 00:15:43 German Panzer convoy moving into a town. Several shots from different angles of a group of Russian soldiers under German guard. Local Russian townspeople gathering in city square. Russian peasants loading belongings onto wagons. German soldiers taking cover. Burning building. CU of Russian local. German soldiers running down a road, fighting, shooting next to buildings. Men standing next to a truck looking up into the air, presumably...

  5. Bronia R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bronia R., who was born in Turek, Poland in 1926. She recounts German invasion; remaining home with her mother when her family unsuccessfully tried to escape to Russia; being forced to watch a public hanging; ghettoization; transfer to Inowrac?aw in 1940 in her sister's place; slave labor digging canals; deportation to Auschwitz in 1943; jumping off a truck on the way to the gas chambers and returning to a barrack; working for Telefunken in Langenbielau; transfer on open train cars via Bergen-Belsen and Mauthausen to Salzwedel; and liberation by United States troops i...

  6. Oral history interview with Frank Wallis

  7. Klose, Alfons (Oberstleutnant)

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Lebensdaten: geb. 21. Sept. 1900 in Berlin, gest. 17. Dez. 1985 in Lenggries Werdegang: 21. Juni 1918: Eintritt als Kanonier im II. Rekrutendepot Fussartillierie 6 14. Dez. 1918: Entlassung 16. Jan. 1919: Wiedereintritt als Kanonier im III. Rekrutendepot Fussartillerie 6 27. Jan. 1919: Kanonier, 2. Battierie 2./s. Artillierie-Abteilung 2. Okt.1920: Kanonier, 3. Batterie 2./s. Artillierie-Abteilung 2. Jan.1921: Kanonier, 6. Batterie 6./Artillerie-Regiment 21. Mai 1921: Oberkanonier, 6. Batterie 6./Artillerie-Regiment 1. Juli 1922: Gefreiter, 6. Batterie 6./Art...

  8. Selected records from the State Archives in Gorzów Wielkopolski

    Contain selected records from files of the towns Brójce, Pszczew and Gorzów Wielkopolski, created during the pre-war period, as well as in the first years of WWII. The materials from 1933-39 refer to the election of the Jewish community (list of members of the community in Gorzów), religious schooling, holidays and Jewish graveyards. Records from the period after 1939 relate to anti-Jewish orders, as well as press cuttings and personal questionnaires related to Kennkarte (from the town of Pszczew).

  9. Joseph P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph P., a Catholic, who was born in Bonheiden, Belgium in 1924. He recalls his father's death in 1935 from World War I injuries; German invasion in May 1940; fleeing to France; returning to Belgium via Poperinge; seeing Hitler and other high German officers there; visiting his grandmother in Arlon to obtain food; hiding a Jewish family in 1942; having them leave when exposure was imminent; joining the Resistance; broadcasting to the British from a clandestine radio in their home; arrest on January 3, 1944 with his brother, sister, and mother; separation from his br...

  10. Imrich H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Imrich H., who was born in Prešov, Czecholslovkia (presently Slovkia) in 1923, the youngest of three children. He recalls cordial relations with non-Jews; a wonderful childhood; antisemitism beginning in 1938; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; his father's death from illness in 1940; expulsion from school as a Jew in 1941; keeping a diary; hiding after deportations started; obtaining false papers as a Slovak; moving to Bratislava in June 1942; finding a job; living with a family (they did not know he was Jewish), then in his workplace; visiting his parents in Sabino...

  11. Fanny K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fanny K., who was born in Pilipets, Czechoslovakia in 1922. She recalls her father traveling as a shochet; many older brothers and sisters; Hungarian occupation; her brothers' draft into Hungarian labor battalions; regulations forbidding Jews to run stores; helping her sister secretly run a store; brief arrest; hiding with relatives in another town; returning home and hiding; ghettoization; a forced march to Khust; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from everyone but one sister; seeing her brother once from a distance; slave labor in a weaving mill; attempting to ob...

  12. Aprónyomtatványok gyűjteménye

    • Collection of Placards and Other Small Printed Material

    The collection holds placards, leaflets, fliers and other kinds of printed material created by various organizations and institutions, mostly by Hungarian right-wing and extreme right-wing parties and movements before and during World War II, including the Arrow Cross Party and several national socialist and race protectionist organizations. Besides, the publications and various kinds of printed material, including placards and brochures issued by the Holocaust Memorial Center and its predecessors between 1990 and 2010 are also held in this collection.

  13. Debora K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Debora K., who grew up in Prijedor, Bosnia, one of five children. She recalls attending university in Belgrade in 1934; marriage to a non-Jewish Serb in 1936; living in Smederevska Palanka; her son's birth; German invasion in 1941; partisan activities with her husband; their arrest; traumatic separation from her husband; transfer to a Belgrade prison, then Banjica; interrogations and beatings; transfer of Jewish prisoners to Zemun (Zajmiste) in December 1941; sharing food and clothing with Romani prisoners; becoming ill; assistance from fellow prisoners; her husband a...

  14. Rachel W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rachel W., who was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1938. She recalls her father being taken away when she and her mother were out; her mother taking her to non-Jews to live, then, shortly afterwards, to a convent in Brussels; abusive treatment because she did not eat well and wet her bed; occasional visits from her mother; asking to leave and not being told why she had to stay; her mother taking her out in order to illegally enter Switzerland; being caught by Germans at the border; a stranger paying the Germans to release them; living in a Jewish pension in Switzerland; r...

  15. BOROD (BORODITSKY), Sam and Layah = Canadian Jewish Servicemen Memoir and Pioneer Women Na'amat

    Diary written while a World War II soldier, in a small notebook, also available in digital format; comprising 33 out of the approximately 127 pages of scanned materials, which also include newsclippings and photographs. CD of the digital copies of the diary and other documents, as initially received and scanned by Tatiana Jour in the context of her Russian Jewish Archives Project. It was noted at the time of the donation to the Archives that further materials on UNRAA (postwar aid to refugees) and Na'amat could be donated by the Borods at a later date. Added in 2007: Materials in prose, poe...

  16. Processo de pedido de visto para Ludwig Uhlfelder, Samaras, mulher de Samaras, Gianikas, Kapolos, Papaioanou, Papadias, Halos, Livadas, Marinos, Ketehis, Bilalas, Antoniou e Saidman Maurycy

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Atenas para Samaras, de nacionalidade grega, com destino à Rodésia. Sem informação de atribuição de visto. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Atenas para mulher de Samaras, de nacionalidade grega, com destino à Rodésia. Sem informação de atribuição de visto. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Atenas para Gianikas, de nacionalidade grega, com destino a Portugal. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Atenas para Kapolos, de nacionalidade grega, com destino a Po...

  17. Processo de pedido de visto para Johannes Bastruh, Charles Chappel, mulher de Charles Chappel, Harriet Dalbey, Edith Martin, Asla Thompson, Irene Cook, Elizabeth Lindsay, Susan Spoolstra, Mary Schroeder e William Stoltzeus

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Nova Iorque para Johannes Bastruh, de nacionalidade dinamarquesa, com destino ao Congo Belga. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Nova Iorque para Charles Chappel, de nacionalidade não identificada, com destino não identificado. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Nova Iorque para mulher de Charles Chappel, de nacionalidade não identificada, com destino não identificado. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Nova Iorque para ...

  18. Anti-Axis pin calling for the extermination of Axis rats

    Anti-Axis pin-back button distributed in the United States during World War II. The button compares the leaders of Germany, Italy, and Japan to rats and calls for their extermination. The name under the Japanese face, referred to as Togo, may refer to Shigenori Tōgō, who was Minister of Foreign Affairs at the beginning of the war. The name may also be a misspelling of Tojo, a reference to Hideki Tojo who was Prime Minister of Japan during the war and a more popular target of American propaganda. After the Japanese surprise attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and Germany’s declaratio...

  19. Ganter-Gilmans, Hans-Paul

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners geb. 30. Apr. 1917 in Wien, gest. 20. Jan. 1955 in Berlin, CDU-Politiker, Stellvertreter des Ministers für Außenhandel und Innerdeutschen Handel 1925-1929 Mitglied der Roten Falken Österreich, 1929-1933 SPD, 1933-1935 Handelshochschule in München und Wien, 1935 Dipl.-Kaufmann, 1935-1938 Volontär und Verkäufer in Wien, 1938-1939 Tätigkeit in der elterlichen Firma in Berlin, 1939-1941 Wehrmacht, 1941 vor einem deutschen Kriegsgericht in Paris wegen "Wehrkraftzersetzung" zu einem Jahr Gefängnis verurteilt, 1941-1942 Haft, 1942-1944 Ein- und Verkäufer in Köln, le...

  20. Eva G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva G., who was born in Breslau, Germany (presently Wroc?aw, Poland) in 1928. Ms. G. recounts her father's parents were Jewish, but he had been baptized, and her mother was a German Christian; their divorce in 1935; joining the Bund Deutscher Ma?del (BDM); her father's arrest in 1938 for marrying a non-Jewish German; his release and emigration to Bolivia in 1940; her paternal grandmother's deportation to Theresienstadt (she never saw her again); expulsion from the BDM and school in 1942 due to the Nuremberg laws; mandatory domestic work for a year; assignment to a lab...