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  1. Lt Colonel Bruce Hinson photograph album

    The collection consists of an annotated photograph album documenting Bruce Rateliff Hinson, MD’s experiences as an army surgeon during World War II. The album covers his entire military career from 1942-1945. It includes depictions of his family; training at Sioux Falls and Atlanta; and overseas posts in England, Brittany (France), Luxembourg, and Germany (Nuremberg, Bamberg, Passau). There are six photographs taken at Buchenwald the day after liberation primarily documenting piles of corpses and building structures.

  2. YMCA in Poland, 1948

    Young boys at the YMCA playing ping pong and boxing.

  3. March of Time -- outtakes -- Jewish refugees, Jewish Brigade in Palestine, Jewish Agency

    Young Jewish refugees, having escaped the Germans, arrived at the Athlit Camp near Haifa wanting to join the Jewish Brigade. 05:13:08 Yellow stars pinned to coats and vests. General shot of the recruiting. 05:13:27 Several young Jews stand before the table to sign up. MS, Jews signing up, Yellow Star of David is apparent. 05:14:28 General shot of young Jews entering the Recruiting Department of the Jewish Agency of Tel Aviv. 05:14:45 CU, sign of recruiting bureau in Hebrew and English. 05:14:58 The Mobile Jewish Brigade of Tel Monte - a special armed Jewish brigade authorized by the English...

  4. Ervin S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ervin S., a non-Jew, who was born in Liberec, Czechoslovakia in 1927. He recalls his family's poverty; his father's communist activities; their anti-Nazi activities; his father's enlistment in the Czech military; his father's arrest by the Gestapo; having to join the Hitler Youth, then the Wehrmacht; capture in Italy by United States troops in February 1945; incarceration as a POW in Livorno and Naples; release in 1947; prohibition from returning to Czechoslovakia because he had served in the Wehrmacht; illegally crossing the border; reunion with his family; and recei...

  5. Thea Wessley: family correspondence

    This collection contains correspondence received by Thea Wessley in England from her family and friends in Austria. Thea Wessley, a Jewish girl from Vienna, was sent to England in 1939 in order to escape Nazi persecution. Her parents, Siegfried and Fanny Deuches, were separated and perished in concentration camps in the Holocaust. Includes English summary.Correspondence sent by her parents as well as her grandfather Hermann Zwicker, and other relations and friends. The correspondence documents the life of an Austrian refugee girl in England, the worries of her parents about her health, educ...

  6. Oberlandrat (Supreme District Councillor) of Prostějov

    The fonds contains documents of administration in the circuit of the supreme district councillor in Prostějov, inter alia lists of Jewish firms and Jewish property. Statistics of Jewish businesses, Aryanization files and also lists of forced administrations have survived here. The fonds is one of the best preserved fonds of the Moravian German offices from the years of the occupation. Here we find these items concerning specifically the Jewish history: Jewish employees – placement of Jews, discovering employment of Jews, statistical questionnaires, overviews 1939–1940; Passports of Jews – d...

  7. Selected papers of Oscar Plisnier

    Contains records of Oscar Plisnier, Secretary General of the Ministry of Finance and a head of the Committee of Secretary-generals (Comité des secrétaires généraux) which was the highest representation of the Belgian administration under German occupation. Includes minutes of the Comité des secrétaires généraux meetings concerning the position and persecution of Jews. Records relate mainly to action on behalf of political prisoners and Jews, layoff of Jewish officers, retribution of Jewish officers, protest against the arrest of Belgian Jews by the occupying power, and actions against Jews,.

  8. Stalinist trials of the Romanian Zionists

    Contains records related to the Stalinist trials of Romanian Zionists. Contains information on Zionist leaders who were under the Securitatea's investigation and the Stalinist trial of Avram Leiba Zissu and Misu Benevenisti. Also includes data relating to the activities of the Centrala Evreilor (Romanian Judenrat) and to World War II and post-war Jewish emigration.

  9. Akta gminy Irena powiat Garwolin

    • Files of the commune of Irena

    Księgi ludności z lat 1896-1954, książki meldunkowe z lat 1951-1954. Z lat 1931-1939 - protokóły z posiedzeń rady, zarządu, statut. Z lat 1940-1942 - kontrola gospodarki gminnej. Z lat 1945-1951 - dział ogólno-organizacyjny - protokóły z posiedzeń, sprawozdania, wykazy radnych, wybory, kontrole; dział finansowo-budżetowy - podatki; dział administracyjny statystyka ludności, pożar wsi Zdżary. Z lat 1952-1954 - referat ogólno-administracyjny - protokóły z posiedzeń i zebrań, kontrole, plany, sołtysi; referat spraw socjalnych i kulturalnych - sprawy oświaty, walka z analfabetyzmem; referat rol...

  10. Selected records of the Voivodship Office in Vilnius Urząd Wojewódzki w Wilnie (Sygn. 1182)

    Monthly and weekly reports from the legal socio-political movement and national minorities, guidelines on communist actions among Jewish students; the study of the socio-political department "Jewish political and religious organizations in the voivodship. Vilnius" (1938); letter from the Directorate and District State Railway in Vilnius on the protection of objects in connection with 1 May (1933).

  11. Jack S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack S., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1924, the oldest of three children. He recalls their poverty; his father's death before the war; German invasion; ghettoization; forced labor; deportation of his mother and siblings; his deportation to Auschwitz in 1944; observing suicides; transfer three weeks later to Dachau; receiving food from Germans while working outside the camp; liberation by United States troops; living in Feldafing displaced persons camp; emigration to the United States in 1950; marriage to an American; and the births of two daughters. Mr. S. discus...

  12. Erich H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Erich H., who was born in Essen, Germany in 1920. He recalls his family's move to Cologne in 1924, then to Rinteln; his family's strong German identity (they had been in Germany since the sixteenth century); his bar mitzvah in 1934; attending a trade school; working in Cologne; his father's refusal to emigrate; release from the draft because he was Jewish; Kristallnacht; receiving emigration documents from Bolivia in November 1939; departing from Cologne to Holland in February 1940; traveling to Panama, then Arica, Chile; living with his relatives in La Paz; and emigr...

  13. War crimes trials: Document transcripts and other papers

    This collection consists of trial transcripts and copy documents relating to the trial proceedings at Nuremberg, which followed the trial of the major war criminals. The papers in this collection comprise copy trial transcripts, and reports and correspondence relating to some of the 'subsequent trials' mentioned above. It is worth noting that the trial transcripts are verbatim whereas those in the published version are often abridged or extracted.

  14. Wlodek Richter collection

    The collection consists of photographs depicting members of the Baksht and Richter families before the war in Kremenchug, Russia (Kremenchuk, Ukraine); during and after the war in Krasnoarmeysk, Russia; and after the war in Daugavpils, Latvia, and Kaliningrad, Russia. Also included is Genia Baksht’s 1941 high school diploma from her school in Kremenchug.

  15. Редакція газети «Голос Волині», м. Житомир

    • Editorial office of "Voice of Volyn" newspaper
    • Redaktsiia hazety "Holos Volyni"

    File 3. Register on payment of wages to employees of "Holos Volyni" newspaper and payment of honorarium for reporters of the newspaper for October 1941, October 7 - November 11, 1941, 811 p. File 4. Register on payment of wages to employees of the editorial office and the printing house of "Holos Volyni" newspaper and payment of honorarium to reporters of the newspaper for October-November of 1941, October-December 1941, 989 p. File 10. Correspondence with the General Commissariat and the Gebietskommissariat on economic and organizational matters. Daily reports of the Supreme Command by the...

  16. Ruth W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ruth W., who was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1914. Mrs. W. recalls her childhood; her father's death in 1927; being legally barred from university attendance; working as a bookeeper for her uncle; marriage in December 1938; staying with their respective parents to avoid registering; and failing to obtain affidavits from American relatives. She tells of forced labor in a munitions plant; her mother's deportation to Ri?ga in August 1942; her husband joining her when his parents were deported to Terezi?n; hiding with a farmer when her husband's deportation seemed imminen...

  17. Justice Department (Fond 88)

    Contains correspondence related to property in Yugoslavian and Greek territories; testimonies from Bulgarian soldiers taking part in the execution of Thomas Markham, an American pilot, as well as English Major Thompson and others; correspondence with the Central Committee of National Liberation (Jewish Section) regarding Jews in jail; report regarding the property of Jews who emigrated to Palestine and a letter from the Association of Bulgarian Jews in Tel Aviv regarding this question; and other records related to the confiscation of properties during and after World War II.

  18. Photograph of Helena Zymler

    The collection includes an identification photograph of Helena Zymler taken in Łódź, Poland, in 1946.

  19. Frances S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frances S., who was born in a small town in the Carpathian Mountains in 1925. She recounts her apprenticeship as a dressmaker in a larger city; Hungarian occupation in 1939; forced removal of able-bodied Jewish men; ghettoization in 1944; her father's refusal of an offer of hiding so they could remain with the Jewish community; the belief that a miracle would save them; walking with her family from the Khust ghetto to the train; separation from her family upon arrival at Auschwitz; assuming responsibility for four girls whom she helped to survive; working in a rubber ...

  20. Jack P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jack P., who was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1912, one of four children. In addition to information included in a subsequently recorded testimony (HVT-1758), he recounts postwar hospitalization for typhus; traveling to Trier and Hannover; return to the Netherlands; marriage; and encountering antisemitism. Mr. P. discusses the deaths of many relatives and his strong will to survive in the camps. He shows photographs, documents, and the yellow star he wore.