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  1. Anna R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anna R., a Lutheran, who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1918. She recalls her family's commitment to and activities on behalf of the Social Democrats; the rise of fascism; her arrest for anti-Nazi activities; two one-year jail terms; release; helping found a home for children of suicides; hearing the Gestapo was seeking her; hiding; illegally entering Switzerland with assistance from the Communist Party; acceptance as a political refugee; meeting her future husband, a German-Jewish refugee; receiving contraband from an unknown source; arrest; learning she was pregnant...

  2. Spruchgericht Hamburg-Bergedorf

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • Z 42-III
    • German
    • 1946-1949
    • Schriftgut 4274 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 67,0 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Die Aburteilung aller Mitglieder derjenigen Organisationen, die vom Internationalen Militärgerichtshof in Nürnberg für verbrecherisch erklärt worden waren (Korps der Politischen Leiter, Gestapo, SD, SS) war in der britischen Zone Aufgabe von besonderen Spruchgerichten. Spruchgerichtsverfahren fanden zusätzlich zu den in allen Zonen üblichen Entnazifizierungsverfahren statt. Durch Allgemeine Verfügung des Präsidenten des Zentral-Justizamtes vom 1. Juni 1947 wurde für jedes der sechs britischen Internierungslager (Neuengamme, Eselsheide, Staumühle, Fallingboste...

  3. Wirmer, Ernst

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Ministerialdirektor a.D. Ernst Wirmer Lebensdaten Geb. 07.01.1910 in Warburg (Westfalen) Gest. 19.08.1981 in Bonn Werdegang 1928-1936 Studium der Rechts- und Staatswissenschaften in Berlin 1936 Mitarbeit in der Anwaltspraxis seines Bruders. Ernst Wirmer gilt während des "Dritten Reiches" als "politisch unzuverlässig" und erhält weder die Zulassung zur Justizverwaltung noch zur Rechtsanwaltschaft 1937-1939 Angestellter der Rechtsabteilung der Reichsumsiedlungsgesellschaft des Oberkommandos der Wehrmacht 1939-1940 Wehrdienst 1940-1942 Tätigkeit in der Reichsges...

  4. Spruchgericht Recklinghausen

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • Z 42-VI
    • German
    • 1946-1949
    • Schriftgut 3492 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 33,2 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Die Aburteilung aller Mitglieder derjenigen Organisationen, die vom Internationalen Militärgerichtshof in Nürnberg für verbrecherisch erklärt worden waren (Korps der Politischen Leiter, Gestapo, SD, SS) war in der britischen Zone Aufgabe von besonderen Spruchgerichten. Spruchgerichtsverfahren fanden zusätzlich zu den in allen Zonen üblichen Entnazifizierungsverfahren statt. Durch Allgemeine Verfügung des Präsidenten des Zentral-Justizamtes vom 1. Juni 1947 wurde für jedes der sechs britischen Internierungslager (Neuengamme, Eselsheide, Staumühle, Fallingboste...

  5. Reichsstatthalter in Wien-Staatliche Verwaltung des Reichsgaues Wien ( Signature: AT-OeStA/AdR ZNsZ RStH Wien)

    Contains records pertaining to the Office of Reich Governor and Nazi party district leader Baldur von Schirach. Contains a wide variety of Nazi administrative records, including weekly reports from various countries in Europe and the Middle East; Gestapo records; speeches; administrative police matters including secret police reports; expropriation and Aryanization records; prison and court matters including prisoner transports; regulations concerning the treatment of Jews; appeals; records pertaining to the treatment of political enemies including clergy, as well as forced laborers and pri...

  6. Edith G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edith G., who was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1905 and adopted. She recalls living in Copenhagen; returning to Germany; her close family; marriage in 1928; and the births of her children. She describes her husband's arrest in 1935; his twenty-month incarceration; their move to Holland; German bombing of Rotterdam; moving to Zeist; not having to wear the yellow star, though her husband and children had to, because a Dutch policeman did not classify her as a Jew due to lack of information about her biological parents; arranging several hiding places for her children thr...

  7. Spruchgericht Hiddesen

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • Z 42-V
    • German
    • 1946-1949
    • Schriftgut 4352 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 65,3 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Die Aburteilung aller Mitglieder derjenigen Organisationen, die vom Internationalen Militärgerichtshof in Nürnberg für verbrecherisch erklärt worden waren (Korps der Politischen Leiter, Gestapo, SD, SS) war in der britischen Zone Aufgabe von besonderen Spruchgerichten. Spruchgerichtsverfahren fanden zusätzlich zu den in allen Zonen üblichen Entnazifizierungsverfahren statt. Durch Allgemeine Verfügung des Präsidenten des Zentral-Justizamtes vom 1. Juni 1947 wurde für jedes der sechs britischen Internierungslager (Neuengamme, Eselsheide, Staumühle, Fallingboste...

  8. Joseph W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph W., who was born in Stuttgart, Germany in 1914. He recalls his parents' grocery business; their separation in 1931 (his father moved to Romania); celebrating religious holidays; attending business school; his belief that Nazi antisemitism would pass; Stuttgart's liberal atmosphere; exemption from wearing the yellow star due to his mother's Romanian citizenship; losing his job due to anti-Jewish laws; destruction of his mother's store during Kristallnacht; moving with his mother and sister into Jewish housing; working in a Jewish center processing emigration app...

  9. Songs from the Depths of Hell

    1. Music study collection

    Remember: Songs of the Holocaust. Performed by Sidor Belarsky. Tracklist: A1 Josef Rosensaft; A2 Moyshelech Shloimelech; A3 Es Brent; A4 Erev Yom Kippur; A5 Brig. Gen. Glyn Hughes; A6 Zog Nit Keinmol B1 Dr. Nahum Goldmann; B2 Shtiler, Shtiler; B3 Dos Yiddish Kind; B4 Dr. Gideon Hausner; B5 Nizkor Conductor – Vladimir Heifetz; Narrator – Brigadier-General H. L. Glyn Hughes, Dr. Nahum Goldmann, Dr. Gideon Hausner*, Josef Rosensaft

  10. Abraham W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham W., who was born in Drohobych, Ukraine (then Poland), in 1906. Mr. W. describes the roles of Leon Reich and David Herzog in his admission to university in Graz; his association with Nobel laureate Victor Hess; transfer to Charles University in Prague in 1931 due to antisemitism; becoming a pharmacist in Rava-Ru?ska in December 1939; learning of his mother's murder by a Ukrainian; ghettoization; friendship with the Pole selected by the Germans to replace him; and sheltering a woman escapee from a deportation train to nearby Belzec. He recalls a Gestapo operativ...

  11. Jerzy and Zofia Guminski papers

    The Jerzy and Zofia Guminski papers contains two letters and two photographs relating to the Guminski’s experiences in the Auschwitz and Ravensbrück concentration camps. One of the letters was written by Jerzy Guminski while in the Auschwitz concentration camp and addressed to his sister, Hanna Guminski, who was in Swinder, Poland. Jerzy reports on his health condition and asks her to send him sheet music. The second letter was sent by Zofia Guminski from Ravensbrück concentration camp and addressed to her family. In the letter she thanks them for sending her packages. Both letters are hand...

  12. Michael A. Diamond papers

    The papers consist of documents and photographs pertaining to Michael Diamond's experiences before, during, and after the Holocaust. The photographs mainly consist of images of Michael Diamond and his family and friends in Czechoslovakia before and after World War II; of his emigration to Israel with his wife, Ilse, after the war; and of his daughter, Naomi, as a baby.

  13. Beba L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Beba L., who was born in Vilna, Poland in 1925. She recounts her grandfather's partnership in Rom Publishing; attending private school; Soviet occupation; German invasion in June 1941; anti-Jewish restrictions; round-ups of people who never returned; ghettoization in September; being hidden with a non-Jewish family for three months; their priest's efforts to convert her (she did not care, if it led to her survival); visiting the ghetto, not intending to stay; finding her immediate family of seven gone; living with an aunt; receiving food from her former non-Jewish mai...

  14. Nuremberg Rally 1934

    Reel 10: Goose-stepping Nazi Labor troops parade in streets of Nuremberg. Hitler, standing in car, salutes each unit as they pass. CU, German high command including Hitler, Raeder, Goering, Hess, General Von Brauchitsch and others. CU, Hitler's arm extended in Nazi salute. Pan to face of Hitler. Various Army Corp units, MSKF, Women Driver Corps, and Hitler Youth passing in review before Hitler standing in open car. Cut- ins, populace leaning out of windows watching review. Various parade scenes: Himmler leads Gestapo troops, greets and shakes hands with Hitler. Soldiers carrying pick-axes p...

  16. Soap from Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

    Bar of soap issued to 15-year-old Erwin Dankner in June 1944 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany. The soap was never used. Erwin, his parents, Henry and Catherina, and his brother, Anthony, arrived in Bergen-Belsen by train from Budapest, Hungary, as part of a rescue effort organized by Rezso Kasztner. Later in 1944, the family was transferred to safety in Switzerland.

  18. "Destruction of Radzilow": Overview written by Szymon Datner regarding the fate of the Jews of Radzilow

    1. M.11 - The Mersik-Tenenbaum Archive: Documentation regarding the Bialystok Ghetto underground

    "Destruction of Radzilow": Overview written by Szymon Datner regarding the fate of the Jews of Radzilow Occupation of Radzilow by the German Army, 23 June 1941; attitude of the Poles towards the German Army; handing over of Soviet Army soldiers who did not have time to escape [by the Poles] to the Germans; names of Polish collaborators; abuse and murder of Jews by Poles; robbery of property; desecration of religious objects including the burning of Torah scrolls; attitude of the Poles towards the Jews; incitement of the Poles against the Jews; establishment of a local Polish authority in Ra...

  19. Eichmann Trial -- Sessions 6, 7 and 8 -- Hausner's opening statement

    Sessions 6, 7 and 8. Attorney General Gideon Hausner discusses Adolf Hitler and his use of the Jews as scapegoats: "The Jew was the eternal scapegoat." Hausner notes the anti-Nazi movements in Germany, and German assistance to the Jews: "But after all is said and done, these were a small minority." The Prosecution describes Nazi tactics for the promotion of anti-Semitism such as economic boycotts, the Nuremberg Laws, and the yellow arm badges. Hausner starts Section 2 of his opening speech: "II - The SS, the SD and the Gestapo," which addresses the different groups of the Reich. Upon the co...

  20. Simon R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Simon R., who was born in Ozorko?w, Poland in 1916 to an orthodox family of six children. He recalls his family moving between Ozorko?w and ?owicz; working from age ten; disbelief that anything bad would occur; opening a store near Ozorko?w in 1939; German invasion; fleeing to Ozorko?w; learning the Gestapo was looking for him; hiding in a village; returning to Ozorko?w; and three months in jail in ?e?czyca. Mr. R. tells of his return to Ozorko?w; his brother's arrest; ghettoization; forced labor; the community saving a boy from public hanging for not wearing the yell...