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  1. Katie Altenberg collection

    Consists of prewar, wartime, and post-war photographs from the collection of Katie Altenberg, born Kate Engel, in Vienna, Austria. Includes prewar family photographs in Edmunshof, near Hungary, and post-war photographs of Katie and her parents, Ludwig and Greta, as well as photographs taken after their 1948 immigration to New Berlin, NY. Katie and her family spent most of the war in Budapest, where they were liberated from the ghetto by the Russian Army in January 1945.

  2. Nazi feature film on espionage, British agents, German rearmament

    Plot summary: In this feature film set in 1936, Mr. Morris operates a British espionage ring based in Berlin that is eager to receive information about secret German rearmament plans. He is successful when he bribes a broke engineer involved in the construction of a new artillery cannon and places an agent in a military airport testing a new type of bomber. However, when Morris deliberately makes the acquaintance with the girlfriend of Hans Klemm, a soldier running in new tanks, he encounters trouble. He initially makes some progress by utilizing the soldier's friendliness and naiveté, but ...

  3. Barbie Trial -- Day 6 -- Barbie's knowledge of the Final Solution; an expert testifies

    16:21 Prosecutor Iannucci reminds the court that Barbie had been a member of the SD since 1935 and of the Nazi party since 1937; Dachau was inaugurated in March 1933; argues that Barbie cannot have been a member of the organization, for whom the concentration camps were an arm of government, without knowing they existed; gives history relating to the Reichstag Fire (February 1933) and the subsequent decimation of personal freedoms by the Nazi party, as well as the inauguration of Dachau just one month later. 16:27 Nordmann remarks that Barbie's formal education, and therefore his ideologica...

  4. Barbie Trial -- Day 9 -- A civil party testifies regarding the UGIF raid and her subsequent deportation

    15:50 Vergès asks the witness whether he has a relationship with prosecutor Ryan; the witness replies that they had one long conversation 15:51 Vergès questions the witness as to why he left the French Army and joined the U.S. Army during the war; Cerdini interjects that the question is irrelevant to the trial 15:53 President Cerdini suspends the hearing 16:23 Cerdini resumes the hearing and introduces a new witness, Gilberte Jacob née Levy 16:25 The witness testifies; she worked at the UGIF as an assistant at the time of the raid; she recalls working at her desk in the early afternoon, whe...

  5. Barbie Trial -- Day 10 -- Two witnesses testify

    17:57 The witness, Mr. Stourdze, describes the evacuation of Auschwitz in January 1945 on foot to Gleiwitz, and then by coal train to Mauthausen and Oranienburg; the witness was then sent to Flossenburg, where there were inmates of several concentration camps; they were forced under scalding water for 20 minutes, and then made to stand outside naked in the bitter cold for three hours; the witness stayed for two weeks before being transferred again, to Regensburg, where he worked constructing a runway for a jet engine factory; Hermann Göring arrived and inspected the facility, which was ridd...

  6. Nazi feature film on espionage, British agents, German rearmament

    Plot summary: In this feature film set in 1936, Mr. Morris operates a British espionage ring based in Berlin that is eager to receive information about secret German rearmament plans. He is successful when he bribes a broke engineer involved in the construction of a new artillery cannon and places an agent in a military airport testing a new type of bomber. However, when Morris deliberately makes the acquaintance with the girlfriend of Hans Klemm, a soldier running in new tanks, he encounters trouble. He initially makes some progress by utilizing the soldier's friendliness and naiveté, but ...

  7. Reich Ministry of the Interior Reichsministerium des Innern (Fond 720)

    1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

    Consists of arrest reports as well as reports on other Gestapo activities such as raids and persons killed while trying to escape. The reasons for the arrests are included in the reports and include printing illegal material, spreading atrocity reports, suspicion of espionage, illegal possession of weapons, membership/leadership in illegal organizations, and being a Communist, foreigner, or Jew. Also included are reorganization plans for the Sipo Hauptamt in January 1938 and the whole Reichsministrium in July 1941. Note: USHMM Archives holds only selected records.

  8. de Boton family papers

    1. de Boton family collection

    The de Boton family papers document the Holocaust experiences of French Resistance activist Yves de Boton, his daughter Aline, his sister Alice and her husband Jean Robert Bernard (later Robert Bernard de Boton). The collection includes materials related to Yves involvement with several resistance groups, including Les Mouvements Unis de la Résistance (MUR); his arrest and murder by the Gestapo in 1944; his medical career and his military service. Other material includes family photographs, correspondence, passports and other identification papers, and school notebooks and adoption papers o...

  9. Bericht und Skizze über den Todesmarsch Wansleben-Hinsdorf im April 1945 - Liste von Italienern, verstorben in Tirol oder Vorarlberg/Österreich - ...

    1. Verschiedene Lager
    2. Listenmaterial verschiedene Lager

    Bericht und Skizze über den Todesmarsch Wansleben-Hinsdorf im April 1945Liste von Italienern, verstorben in Tirol oder Vorarlberg/ÖsterreichListe von Personen, verstorben in der Gemeinde PöckingListe von verstorbenen Personen (Auszug aus den Akten Gestapo-Düsseldorf)niederländische Schutzhäftlinge, die in Deutschen KZ-Lagern verstorben sindListen von beerdigten Juden auf den Friedhöfen von D'Argeles-s-Mer-Village, Rivesaltes Village, Saint-Cyprien, Haut-Vernet bei Perpignan, Perpignan, L'Uoest bei Pergignan, Vernet les Bains, Saint Paul de Fennoillet und PradesGrabmeldungenListe von Patient...

  10. Gaston Kahn papers

    1. Gaston Kahn collection

    Consists of documents from the collection of Gaston Kahn, who served as the director of the CAR ("comité d'assistance aux réfugiés) an aid organization affiliated with the Joint Distribution Committee that provided aid to Jewish refugees in the prewar period. Includes reports and a newsletter from the "L'Accueil Francais aux Autrichiens" [French Home for Austrians] in 1938-1939; a photograph of the CAR leadership of Gaston Kahn, Albert Levy, and R. R. Lambert; wartime ration cards; postcards and an envelope; and a recommendation letter, as well as copies of additional documentation related ...

  11. Blau, Bruno

    1. Nachlässe

    Der literarische Nachlass Bruno Blaus wurde 1975 vom Institut aus der Kanzlei Helmut Ruge/ Berlin übernommen. Es muss damit gerechnet werden, dass weitere Exemplare der unter I genannten Manuskripte in anderen Archiven oder Institutionen vorhanden sind. Auch die Verfügungsrechte sind aus der Korrespondenz nicht genau erkennbar mit Ausnahme der Manuskripte unter 1) und 2), die bei Yivo, New York, liegen. Zu Band 1-2:Das Manuskript wurde von Blau im Auftrag des Yivo Institute for Jewish Research, New York, verfasst, mit der ausdrücklichen Vereinbarung, dass diesem Institut das ausschließliche...

  12. RKWiÖst:

    1. Staatliche und parteiamtliche Akten bis 1945
    2. Deutsches Reich (bis 1945)
    3. Auswärtiges, Kolonial- und Besatzungsverwaltung
    4. Reichskommissar für die Wiederver. Österreichs m. d. Dt. Reich

    I. RKWiÖst: Kriegsvorbereitungen in Österreich, Juli 1938-Januar 1940 [EAP 106/6], unter anderem: 1) Geheime Korrespondenz RKWiÖst-Wehrkreiskommando XVII (Stülpnagel)-Wehrbezirkskommando Wien, 08. September 1939-21. Januar 1940: Unklarheit bei der UK-Stellung von Beamten, Angestellten sowie Arbeitern in W-Betrieben, mit Verzeichnisösterreichischer W-Betriebe, Verfügungen des Wehrkreiskommandos, geheimer Erlass des Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW) vom 27. September 1939, 41.922-960; 2) Vertrauliches Schreiben und Rundschreiben Reichsministerium des Innern an Bürckel, 26. Juli 1938( 29. Juni ...

  13. Aronson, Shlomo

    1. Zeugenschrifttum
    2. A
    1. Einzeldokumente: Geschäftsverteilungsplan des Stabes der Sturmabteilung (SA), ohne Datum (circa 1931), 1 S. (Dokument 6); Formular für Schutzhaftbefehl, ohne Datum, 2 S.; Bericht über den Ausbau der Unterabteilung "Nachrichtendienst" in die Reichsorganisationsleitung der NSDAP, ohne Verfasser, ohne Datum (circa 1931), 6 S. (Dokument 5); Führerbesprechung im Braunen Haus vom 26. August 1931: Kurzbericht über Referat Heydrichs u.a., 1 S. (Dokument 7); Reichsführer SS (RFSS), Geheimer SS-Befehl D-Nr. 43, vom 04. September 1931: Aufgabe und Aufbau des Nachrichtendienstes, 1 S. (Dokument 8); ...

  14. Barbie Trial -- Day 15 -- Two civil parties testify

    15:57 Prosecutor Libman asks that photographs of the monument to the children of Izieu near Brégnier-Cordon, to which the witness, Mr. Robert Meriaudeau, had referred, be circulated to the jurors 16:00 President Cerdini calls a civil party, Alexandre Halaunbrenner, to testify; the civil party presents himself to the court 16:02 The witness recounts his family's arrest and internment at the Nexon, Rivesaltes, and Gurs camps; his father was separated from the family in a separate work camp; the family was liberated under surveillance in the region of Lyon, and Gestapo members came to the fami...

  15. Looped metal whip that may have been used at Auschwitz given to a Ukrainian journalist covering the Nuremberg Trials

    1. Miroslav Hrijoriev Gregory collection

    Hand crafted metal whip given to Miroslav Hrijoriev Gregory, a Ukrainian journalist, in Nuremberg, Germany, in early 1947 while he was covering the proceedings of the Nuremberg Trials. The whip was supposedly used by an Auschwitz concentration camp guard, nicknamed Chocolata, and presented as evidence during trial proceedings. Miroslav was a Ukrainian journalist and illustrator, as well as a socialist who opposed the Soviet-style communist government of Ukraine during the early 1930s. Miroslav fled to Prague, Czechoslovakia, in the mid-1930s. He was married to a doctor, Eugenia, and in 1940...

  16. Concentration camp uniform jacket worn by a non-Jewish doctor/resistance member

    1. Julius de Clercq Zubli collection

    Striped concentration camp uniform jacket worn by Dr. Julius de Clercq Zubli in Sachenhausen concentration camp in Germany from September 1944-April 1945. Zubli was a non-Jewish Dutch physician in Amsterdam who aided Jews and the Dutch resistance in German-occupied Netherlands, 1940-1945. Zubli issued papers to Jews falsely stating that they had a contagious disease which delayed their deportation. He helped Jews go into hiding and delivered false food ration cards for the underground. In May 1944, Julius was arrested while caring for resistance leader, Gerrit van der Veen, shot during an a...

  17. Prisoner ID bracelet worn by a non-Jewish doctor imprisoned for resistance activity

    1. Julius de Clercq Zubli collection

    Prisoner identification bracelet worn by Dr. Julius de Clercq Zubli in Sachenhausen concentration camp in Germany from September 1944-April 1945. Zubli was a non-Jewish Dutch physician in Amsterdam who aided Jews and the Dutch resistance in German-occupied Netherlands, 1940-1945. Zubli issued papers to Jews falsely stating that they had a contagious disease which delayed their deportation. He helped Jews go into hiding and delivered false food ration cards for the underground. In May 1944, Julius was arrested while caring for resistance leader, Gerrit van der Veen, shot during an armed raid...

  18. Barbie Trial -- Day 10 -- Two victims testify

    17:03 President Cerdini resumes the hearing 17:05 Cerdini deposits into the record a magazine article written by Vergès in 1987, presented to the court by the prosecution 17:05 Cerdini calls another witness, Srul Kaplon, to testify, and he presents himself to the court; Mr. Kaplon is a civil party in the suit against Barbie 17:06 On March 23, 1943, the witness was taken by two Gestapo agents to the Hotel Terminus, along with his parents, brother, and sister; there, he was beaten and interrogated by Barbie; he told Barbie that he did not speak German, and Barbie replied that 'all Jews speak ...

  19. Barbie Trial -- Day 10 -- Two former members of the Resistance testify

    13:37 President Cerdini calls the session to order; asks that the accused present himself; Barbie refuses to appear; Cerdini calls on the bailiff to compel the accused to appear 13:38 The bailiff reads the names of the witnesses scheduled to give testimony in the session; one witness who was scheduled to appear will not be able to appear in Lyon before June 5, 1987 13:40 Cerdini suspends the session while the bailiff goes to Barbie to compel him to appear 14:04 Cerdini calls the session to order; the bailiff reads Barbie's statement that he refuses to appear 14:07 Cerdini calls witness Irèn...

  20. Barbie Trial -- Day 6 -- Barbie's role in the roundup of Jews

    14:50 Defense lawyer Vergès gives closing remarks. 14:52 President Cerdini suspends the hearing. 15:29 Cerdini resumes the hearing. 15:30 Cerdini delivers the court's judgment on Barbie's unwillingness to attend trial proceedings. 15:32 Prosecutor Nordmann delivers civil parties' conclusions 15:34 Cerdini delivers a statement of facts relating to the convoy of August 11, 1944, in which prisoners of the Montluc prison in Lyon were rounded up and loaded onto a 10-car train. After many stops in France and little food or water, male resistants were offloaded at Struthof, female resistants were ...