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  1. Zipporah S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zipporah S., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1938. She tells of German occupation; her family's move to the Bochnia ghetto; her father buying false papers; being smuggled into Hungary with a paid guide; registering as Christian Polish refugees; receiving help from a Hungarian woman (she did not know they were Jews); moving to Budapest; the woman arranging for her, her sister, and cousin to live in a Swedish convent while her parents remained in hiding (no one knew they were Jews); liberation by Soviet troops; reunion with her parents; moving to Prague; emigrating t...

  2. Nathan Rohloff photograph collection

    The collection consists mainly of photographs of the activities of Nathan at the displaced persons camp in Neustadt in Holstein, Germany. Some photographs in the collection are of his activities in the Boy Scouts and of his family. Also included is a postcard with a drawing of a fleur-de-lis and the words "Esi Modrs" underneath as well as the pre-printed name of a Latvian scouting organization.

  3. Norbert L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Norbert L., who was born in Danzig, Germany in 1922. He recalls his parents' orthodoxy; the rich Jewish life in Danzig; anti-Jewish restrictions following the ascent of the Nazis to power; expulsion from school; attending an ORT school in Berlin; hiding during Kristallnacht; returning to Danzig; fleeing with his family to Belgium and London in 1939; emigrating to the United States; being drafted into the army in 1943; participating in the liberation of Paris; and his postwar life. Mr. L. notes many family members perished in the Holocaust; visiting Danzig with his wif...

  4. Akta miasta Rembertowa

    • Files of the town of Rembertów

    1929-1939 - plan ulic, projekty techniczne budynków częściowo przekazane z okresu przed utworzeniem miasta przez gminę Wawer. 1939-1944 - księgi podatkowe, księgi wymiaru kontrybucji, księgi właścicieli nieruchomości, księgi chorych Miejskiego Szpitala Zakaźnego w Rembertowie. 1944-1950 - protokóły z posiedzeń Miejskiej Rady Narodowej oraz sprawozdania z działalności tejże, Komisja Porozumiewawcza Stronnictw Politycznych na której posiedzeniach dyskutowane były rozdziały mandatów radnych miedzy działające partie polityczne i organizacje społeczne, na zebraniach Komisji Kontroli Społecznej o...

  5. Jacov S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacov S., who was born in Thessalonike?, Greece in 1912. He recalls attending an Italian school; marriage; the birth of a son; working as a barber; German invasion in 1941; six months in a forced labor camp; returning home; deportation of his family (none returned); his deportation two months later to Auschwitz/Birkenau; disbelief upon learning of the crematoria; transfer to Warsaw; slave labor clearing rubble in the former ghetto; liberation by Poles during the 1944 Warsaw uprising; working as a barber for the partisans; posing as a non-Jew in a small village after t...

  6. Paula K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paula K., who was born in K?odawa, Poland in 1924. She recalls German invasion in 1939; German soldiers severely beating, then killing the rabbi and others; expulsion from their home; non-Jews providing food for her family; twenty months in a forced labor camp; being beaten by a guard; crocheting for civilian workers to earn extra food; a Polish woman who often assisted her; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; hiding injuries to avoid selection; an SS woman who gave her extra food; transfer to Czechoslovakia in late 1944; sabotaging their work in an airplane factory; a...

  7. Maps and graphics. Banned books and music

    Maps and graphics. Map of France, Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Prussia, Soviet, Ukraine, Rumania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and Italy. Graphics showing radio broadcast signals, the press, local Nazi parties, and trade pressure. CUs, Germany, Ukraine, "The Partition of Czechoslovakia". CUs of forbidden books, including Schnitzler, Kant, Wassermann, Einstein, Napolean, Zweig, and Remarque. CU, Mendelsohn's Wedding March music. [Apparently outtakes similar to footage used in March of Time issue, Inside Nazi Germany.)

  8. Hashomer Hatzair Buenos Aires Office (RG 35)

    Contains correspondence and letters of the Hashomer Hatzair leadership, Israel Rappaport, Meir Sal, Rotem Eliezer, Ariel Said, Sandra Tz'mh, Pesach Zskin, Hao Senkman, Shlomo Slutzky, Avery Fisher, Enrique Zvika, Shani Haim, Daniel Geller, Diana Niimark, and Dario Teitelbaum (founder of the Ken headquarters, i.e. "nest"). Also includes various advertisements, and other records regarding a construction site in Santa Fe, Argentina, and a collection of articles about missing persons in Argentina during the "Dirty War" from 1976 to 1983.

  9. Rosel B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rosel B., who was born in 1916 in Warsaw, Poland. Mrs. B. describes her family's move to Berlin; visits to her grandparents in Poland; attending a Jewish school; their highly cultured lifestyle; warnings about Hitler from 1928 onward; attending secretarial school; forced sale of the family business; her engagement in 1936; marriage in Berlin; emigration to Amsterdam; and the birth of her daughter. She recounts German invasion; betrayal by their housekeeper; receiving a notice for deportation; fleeing with her husband and daughter, via Brussels and Bordeaux, to Nice; b...

  10. Processo de pedido de visto para C. M. Ogston-Davidson, J. F. Bond, D. C. Booth, E. A. Crist, A. A. Glen, D. Hamilton Smith, T. E. Spence Han e I. J. W. Edwards

    Processo de pedido de visto pela Embaixada Britânica ao Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros para C. M. Ogston-Davidson, de nacionalidade britânica, com destino ao Reino Unido. Sem informação de autorização de visto. Processo de pedido de visto pela Embaixada Britânica ao Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros para J. F. Bond, de nacionalidade britânica, com destino ao Reino Unido. Sem informação de autorização de visto. Processo de pedido de visto pela Embaixada Britânica ao Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros para D. C. Booth, de nacionalidade britânica, com destino ao Reino Unido. Sem inf...

  11. Jan Jozef Gasior papers

    The collection consists of an identification card and certificate issued to Jan Josef Gasior, originally of Dukla, Poland, confirming that he was a persecuted Pole who was imprisoned in Auschwitz and Buchenwald from 1942-1945. A photograph of Gasior and his second wife, Maria Grzesik, is also included.

  12. Jack Moses papers

    The Jack Moses papers consist of correspondence, identification papers, and photographs documenting Jack Moses, his family’s immigration to the United States, his military service during and after World War II, and the fate of relatives who remained behind in Europe. The bulk of the collection is comprised of Nazi-era newspapers and booklets. The collection also includes an SS membership booklet and a Nazi Party membership booklet for unrelated men.

  13. Meyer family collection

    The Meyer family collection consists of documents, photocopies, social reports, and a photograph illustrating the experiences of Lotte (née Weil), Ernest (Ernst Meijer), and Bob Meyer (b. 1939) during the Holocaust in the Netherlands and their subsequent immigration to the U.S. in 1948. Original U.S. Naturalization Certificates for Ernest and Lotte Meyer conferred on 4 May 1953 are included as well as restitution claims, a medical evaluation regarding Lotte Meyer, and a social worker report regarding Bob Meyer that requests recognition and assistance as a victim of persecution under the Net...

  14. Abraham B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham B., who was born into a religious home, one of seven children, in Krako?w, Poland, 1924. Mr. B. tells of the sudden outburst of antisemitism in 1935 and of his discouragement at the sight of his father's defeatist attitude after a period of incarceration following the outbreak of the war. He describes his family's evacuation from Krako?w to a small neighborhood; their move back to the city; his unsuccessful attempt to escape from a 1940 deportation order; and his three years of forced labor in an airplane factory in Mielec and conditions in the slave labor cam...

  15. Janet B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Janet B., who was born in Berlin in 1935 of a Jewish mother and a non-Jewish father. Mrs. B. details her childhood memories of antisemitism; the divorce of her parents so her father could join the German army; and her friendship with a German boy with whom she went places where Jews were not allowed. She tells of her and her mother's arrest following the death of her father on the Russian front; her brief return home for provisions, enabling her to destroy possessions and leave a bucket of urine and excrement to be tripped over by anyone who entered the apartment to l...

  16. Armeeoberkommando 2

    Chef d. Gen.St.: Chefsachen von Oktober 1939 bis Juli 1944. Ia: KTB/TB von Oktober 1939 bis April 1944 (Anlagen bis September 1944). OQu.: KTB von Oktober 1939 bis September 1944. Ic: TB von Februar 1940 bis September 1944 und Lageberichte aus 1939/40. IIa: TB von Oktober 1940 bis März 1941und von Juni 1941 bis September 1944. III: TB von Mitte Oktober 1939 bis September 1943 IVa: TB von Mitte Oktober 1939 bis September 1944 IVb: TB: von Mitte Oktober 1939 März 1940 und von Mitte Mai 1940 bis September 1944 IVc: TB von Mitte Oktober 1939 bis September 1944 IVd: TB von Mitte Oktober 1940 bis...

  17. Fiches de recensement des anciens prisonniers et déportés 1946-1948

    Cet inventaire résulte de la fusion des versements 19830423 et 19900435. Au lendemain de la Libération, le Ministère des Prisonniers, Déportés et Réfugiés a entrepris, en collaboration avec le Service national des Statistiques, d'effectuer un recensement des anciens prisonniers et déportés. En vue de ce recensement, neuf types de fiches ont été établis : Ces fiches devaient être remplies par les mairies sous la dictée des familles, sauf les fiches de type 3, pour lesquelles il est demandé qu'elles soient remplies de préférence par l'intéressé. Aussi, l'identité de la personne qui a fourni l...

  18. Janet A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Janet A., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1935. She remembers the outbreak of war; fleeing east with her parents and baby sister; remaining in Vinniki when her father joined the Polish army; returning with her parents from Soviet to German-occupied Poland; an unsuccessful escape attempt from the Nowy Targ ghetto; her sister's death; her parents placing her with a non-Jewish nursemaid; several weeks later visiting her parents in the Krako?w ghetto (she never saw her mother again); her father acquiring the birth certificate of a deceased Polish child for her; living ...

  19. Nathan G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Nathan G., who was born in Guttenberg, New Jersey in 1913. He recalls growing up in a liberal orthodox home in Brooklyn and Minneapolis; active participation in labor Zionist organizations including editing "Jewish Frontier"; visiting Israel and Europe in 1938; speaking publicly in the United States about the Nazi danger; induction into the Army in 1943; one year's training in Mississippi; landing in Marseille in December 1944; moving through France into Germany; encountering a train of prisoners who had been headed for Dachau; visiting Buchenwald in May 1945; talking...

  20. Processo de pedido de visto para Marta De Martorell, Guglielmo De Martorell, Maria Biolska, Karolina Zybevk Plater, Victor Van der Reis, Wojciech Turowcki, Enrico Estanislau Pfeffer, Arcari Garibaldi, Lucia Garibaldi e Ferdinando Becker

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Roma para Marta De Martorell, de nacionalidade italiana, com destino a não identificado. Visto recusado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Roma para Guglielmo De Martorell, de nacionalidade italiana, com destino a não identificado. Visto recusado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Roma para Maria Biolska, de nacionalidade polaca, com destino a não identificado. Visto recusado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Roma para Karolina Zybevk Plater, de nacionalidade polaca, co...