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  1. Fira Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Fira Z., who was born in Shpola, Ukraine in 1925. She recalls observing Jewish holidays; attending Ukrainian school; joining Komsomol; German occupation; her family's evacuation attempt; returning when Germans overtook them; forced labor; her father's non-Jewish friend arranging to hide her brother with relatives (he survived); selections and round-ups; her father's arrest and incarceration in a labor camp near Zvenigorodka; a German policeman warning her about an upcoming mass killing; fleeing to Zlatopolʹ with her mother; obtaining a false birth certificate; escapin...

  2. Agnes Balint personal accounts of WW2 in Hungary

    This collection contains the personal papers of Agnes Balint describing her experiences as a Jewish woman at the time of the Nazi occupation in Budapest during the Second World War.The papers submitted to Yad Vashem in support of her nomination of her rescuers being named "Righteous amongst the Nations" (1725/2), she provides details of her rescue, her life in hiding, the siege of Budapest, the support she obtained from friends that enabled her to survive the war and her escape to the country.Also included is an eyewitness testimony of the German occupation and liberation of Budapest (autho...

  3. Flight, a boxed set of 12 lithographs from the International Rescue Committee on the theme of refugees and rescue

    A portfolio of original art prints, limited edition 73 of 250, published in 1971 by the International Rescue Committee to raise funds for the organization's mission to aid and rescue refugees. In 1964, Varian Fry, IRC's founder, began to assemble a portfolio of works from artists whom he had helped bring to the United States during the Holocaust. The project, themed to reflect the plight of refugees, was completed in 1970, four years after Fry's death. Each work represents the artist's vision of the Greek warrior, Aeneas, as he flees the burning city of Troy, described by T.S. Eliot as: "th...

  4. Selected records from archival collection of the National Archive of Moldova related to the History of the Jewish communities of Bessarabia

    The collection contains records related to the history of the Jews and Jewish community in Bessarabia ( Moldova) before WWII. The bulk of this collection are records of the regional and district government agencies (preturas and primarias) related to various aspects of the economical, educational, political activities of the Jewish population residing in Bessarabia during the interwar period.( 1918-1940). The collections consists of general records and individual files related to the taxation of the Jewish-owned business and shops, certificates allowing Jews to open private businesses, resi...

  5. Pre-war manuscripts of masters theses Prace magisterskie napisane przed 1939 rokiem (Sygn.117)

    Contains 64 masters theses submitted in the 1930s at the University of Warsaw and the Institute of Jewish Studies on subjects connected with Jewish history, culture and religion. Professor Majer Bałaban (1877-1942 in Warsaw getto) was a tutor to most of them, along with professors: Stanisław Arnold (1895-1973), Mojżesz Schorr (1874-1941), Bronisław Gubrynowicz (1870-1933), Jan Korwin- Kochanowski (1869-1949), Józef Ujejski i Stefan Czarnowski. Several professors and most of the students, authors of these works, were killed in the Holocaust.

  6. Martha Bernstein collection

    The Martha Bernstein collection includes photocopies of material originally created in the 1940s relating to the wartime experiences of the Bernstein and Heumann families. Included in the collection is correspondence from Therese Heumann, Martha Bernstein's oldest sister, letters between the Bernstein and Blakenstein families, poems written by Benjamin Blankenstein, a fourteen-page diary written by Helene Blumenfeld, and documents issued in Westerbork and Theresienstadt.

  7. William C. Alston Jr. papers

    The William C. Alston Jr. papers consists of handwritten notes relating to the Mauthausen concentration camp, dated May 17, 1945; a booklet giving visitor directions to Mauthausen concentration camp and Gusen concentration camp; a handwritten note giving permission to visit a former Nazi concentration camp; a news article describing war-time activities of the U.S. 45th Infantry Division in Aschaffenburg, Germany; a photocopy of an American army medical corps identification card for Alston; and a photocopy of a letter from Alston sent to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1993 wh...

  8. Marion L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marion L., who was born in Amsterdam in 1938. Mrs. L.'s first specific memory is of her family being picked up by the Nazis and their deportation to Westerbork. She recalls that her family spoke Dutch in their home; that she always understood German but never heard Yiddish; and the secret language which she and her twin brother spoke in the camps. She relates her parents' ability to cope and describes conditions in Westerbork where the family stayed for about one year. She remembers playing there and that life revolved around the arrival and departure of trains. She t...

  9. Ungerer, Werner

    Bestandsbeschreibung Im April 2013 hat Frau Irmgard Ungerer dem Bundesarchiv die persönlichen Unterlagen ihres Ehemannes Dr. rer. pol. Werner Ungerer zur Übereignung angeboten. Ungerer hatte Wirtschaftswissenschaften studiert, bevor er als Konsul, Botschafter und Diplomat mit verschiedenen Ämtern für das Auswärtige Amt in Bonn und die Europäischen Gemeinschaften in Brüssel betraut wurde. Nach der Pensionierung war er für drei Jahre Rektor des Europa-Kollegs in Brügge und anschließend als Dozent an der Universität Bonn tätig. Seine persönlichen Unterlagen wurden persönlich im Juni 2013 am da...

  10. Yehuda Avisar papers

    The Yehuda Avisar papers consist of biographical and military materials, correspondence, creative writing, and photographs documenting Avisar’s activities as a Company Sergeant Major (CSM) in the 1st Camouflage Company of the Royal Engineers, Central Mediterranean Forces (CMF). Biographical and military papers include Avisar’s service and pay book and discharge book and a movement order. Correspondence includes letters among Avisar, E. Aronov, Yisrael Karmi, and others discussing the war. Creative writing includes skits, poetry, songs, and essays documenting the cultural life of Avisar’s mi...

  11. Gertrud B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gertrud B., a Romani. She recalls childhood in Prussia, then Danzig; arrest and incarceration in a camp; deportation by cattle car to Auschwitz at age fifteen; the trauma of being tattooed; becoming ill; nine weeks in the infirmary; her sister feigning an injury to join her; being thrown on a pile of corpses; her sister retrieving and nursing her; her father playing music for the barrack elder; transfer to Flossenbürg after two years, then Graslitz; forced labor in a munitions factory; severe punishments and beatings (she shows her scars); liberation by United States...

  12. Aleksandar A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aleksandar A., who was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1930. He recounts his parents' divorce in 1937; living with his father; good relations with his mother; learning he was Jewish when he was expelled from school in 1940; fleeing with his father to a village during German invasion in April 1941; his father's employment as an architect in another village; the residents' promise to protect their identity; his mother's arrival; their arrest by Chetniks; the torture of other prisoners; German orders to report to Belgrade; his father's transfer (he never saw him again); ...

  13. Isaac Mevorah collection

    Consists of discharge papers documenting Isaac Mevorah's release from Dachau in 1945 and a photograph of a Maccabi soccer team in Salonika, Greece circa 1936.

  14. Josef Berman collection

    Contains thirty-eight letters sent by Josef Berman to his wife Maria Brodskaya. These letters span the years of 1941-1945. Also included are three photocopied letters from Maria to Josef spanning the years of 1944-1945. The letters span the period of 1941-1945. Primary content pertains to details of Josef Berman's service in the Soviet Army, and his wishes for the welfare of his family evacuated from Kiev during the war.

  15. Records of the Institut für Deutsche Ostarbeit (Sygn.113)

    Contains information about German annexation of Polish land through the years; German colonization in Poland and Eastern Europe; "race science"; population statistics for Kraków, Poland, through the years; birth statistics for several Polish towns and villages; activities of Einsatzgruppen; statistics for Catholic churches in the Kraków area; and the history of the Polish nobility from circa 1300 to circa 1600.

  16. Armand H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Armand H., who was born in Paris, France in 1927. He recalls his older brother's bar mitzvah; his younger brother's ritual circumcision in 1934; attending public school; temporary evacuation with other children during the "Phony War"; German invasion in May 1940; anti-Jewish restrictions and propaganda; rumors of a round-up in summer 1942; his father making a hiding place in their apartment; hiding with his father and older brother the night of July 15 (they thought women and children would not be taken); arrest with his mother and younger brother in August; his relea...

  17. Powiatowa Rada Narodowa w Trzciance

    Protokóły posiedzeń rady z 1946 roku; 2 j.a.

  18. Barbie Trial -- Day 17 -- Victims testify

    14:54:11 Fernand Hahn speaks about prison, SS, and explains that during his deportation to Dachau on in June 1944, Barbie identified himself by name to prisoners at the station saying they would never come back. Hahn says he had not seen Barbie clearly enough to be able to recognize his face after 43 years. 14:55? But he says he remembered Barbie, speaking in French while in a group of German soldiers, as saying that the war was lost for Germany, but that he had put aside "booty" and had a plane ready to take him to South America. 15:16 Judge Cerdini asks Hahn how he could be sure the man w...

  19. Nazi propaganda: home front

    Intertitle: "Ein Film vom Arbeitseinsatz und der Gefolgschaftsfuersorge in Heeresbetrieben" [A film about work's employment and staff's welfare in army firms] This documentary begins with graphics showing the German civilian workforce in Army firms in 1939 and 1943 and highlights the rise of women's involvement. It stresses the importance of a female workforce for 'wrestling for Germany's future'. A 'typical day' is shown: a worker's camp situated in a beautiful landscape, housing in modern buildings, working in healthy conditions, living conditions 'like at home', 'real comradeship' betwee...

  20. Ruth H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ruth H., who was born in Warsaw, Poland. She recalls German invasion; fleeing with her family to Soviet-occupied Brest; her father returning to Warsaw; rejoining her father, followed by her older sister; her mother's and younger siblings' transfer to Siberia; ghettoization; hiding during round-ups in 1942; her father arranging to send her and her sister to a convent through a Polish business acquaintance; having to return to Warsaw in the spring of 1944 because they did not have identification papers; her father's friend hiding them with a policeman; their deportation...