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  1. Ted Deutsch postcard

    The postcard was written by an officially-appointed letter writer, as dictated by Ted Deutsch and his brother when they were interned in Birkenau concentration camp. The postcard was addressed to their grandfather in Budapest, Hungary. The coded message let him know that his grandsons were alive, but that they had been separated from their parents. The messag reads, "Dear Grandfather, We are healthy and we will be working. Please, we would like to have the address of Hedi and Armin to write. Many kisses."

  2. Defeat of Norway; arresting resisters; defeat of Denmark; Hitler's birthday in Copenhagen and Berlin

    German troops in a snow-covered Norwegian harbor. A German soldier receives a light for his cigarette from a smiling Norwegian civilian. Mountain troops [Gebirgsjaeger] unload munitions from a ship. A truck carrying German troops heads into the "inner part of the country" in pursuit of Norwegian resisters, who have been influenced by English propaganda (according to the narration). Shot of bus damaged by Norwegians who were then captured by the Germans. Norwegian prisoners of war being arrested, searched, and having their weapons confiscated while a light snow falls. The Germans are very po...

  3. Benario family: copy genealogical papers and copy papers re Olga Benario-Prestes

    This collection consists of two distinct though related groups of copy papers. The first documents, in part, the relatively short but eventful life of the German Jewess, Olga Benario, a short biographical sketch of whom follows. Also contained are copy papers which document the Benario family history. The order in which the latter arrived remains unchanged. Also included are some copy papers, which document the fate of Rudolph Benario, a family member, who was imprisoned on account of his activities as a member of the Communist Party.

  4. MFS 6 Bezirksverwaltung für Staatssicherheit Frankfurt (Oder)

    • Bundesarchiv-Stasi-Unterlagen-Archiv Frankfurt (Oder)
    • MFS 6 Bezirksverwaltung für Staatssicherheit Frankfurt (Oder)
    • German
    • 1971-1982
    • 3 Vorgänge innerhalb der Klassifikationspunkte 4.3.2 Politische Repression insbesondere in Staatsapparat, Kirche, Kultur, Sport, Oppositionsgruppen bzw. 7.3 Kreisdienststelle Beeskow

    Ermittlungen gegen einen Angehörigen des Polizeibataillons 310 (später III. Bataillon des SS-Polizeiregiments 15) wegen Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit; Informationen zum Auffinden eines Massengrabes mit Opfern des KZ Sachsenhausen, Nebenlager Jamlitz-Lieberose.

  5. Klainman and Rosenstein families collection

    Collection of photographs depicting the Kleinman and Rosenstein families in Czernowitz and Galati, Romania and later in Israel.

  6. Gisevius testimony at Nuremberg Trial; Streicher sworn in

    (Munich 128) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, April 26, 1946. Continuation of Hans Bernhardt von Gisevius testifying under questioning by US Chief Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson. Pan from prisoners' dock to Jackson and Gisevius. Gisevius talks about the torture and murder of thousands of prisoners and the confiscation of civilian property by the Gestapo. MSs, prisoners' dock showing Wilhelm Keitel, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, and Franz von Papen. 19:18:37 LSs, Julius Streicher is sworn in and questioned by his attorney, Dr. Hans Marx. Chief Justice Geoffrey Lawrence is heard saying to Streiche...

  8. Deutsche Botschaft Moskau

    Haushalts-, Kassen- und Rechnungswesen, Sicherheitsfragen, Handel, Kulturpolitik, Pressearchiv der Deutschen Botschaft Moskau (thematisch geordnet).

  9. Burgenländisches Landesarchiv records

    Contains records from the Burgenländisches Landesarchiv in Eisenstadt, Austria, related to the Aryanization of Jewish property in Austria. Includes variety of correspondence; files on the individual cases of Anna Fould, Valerie Lederer, Charlotte Stutzer, Sigmund and Stephanie Weiler, Karl Meyer, Hugo Feigelstock, Paul Steiner, Jacob Blau, Adolf Gerstl, and Helene Adalbert Kohn; and name lists.

  10. Philip H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Philip H., who was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1922. He describes a violent childhood in a poor Jewish neighborhood in Chicago, and vividly recalls the isolated experiences of love and kindness which proved crucial to his later outlook and conduct. He also discusses the dissolution of his mystical view of the unity of all life, as represented by the "Shema", after witnessing the devastation of Mannheim during World War II. Professor H. documents how his study of cruelty and evil eventually focused on the Holocaust, and how his discovery of goodness in its midst, exem...

  11. Metal lid from a cremation urn stamped Dachau

    Container lid with the birth, death, and cremation dates for 28 year old Anton Oleszak. The lid is believed to be from a cremation urn used to return his ashes to his family following his execution in Dachau concentration camp. Oleszak was condemned to death by hanging in Dachau on February 17, 1942. He was a Catholic from Neustadt, Poland. It was a policy of the Nazi government to return the remains of political prisoners to their families.

  12. Selected records from the collection of the Prefecture of Police of Prahova from the Prahova branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Contains records from the Prefecture police of Prahova, including correspondence and a list of goods taken by the police from the Iron Guard (Garda de Fier).

  13. Selected records of the City of Iłża Akta miasta Iłży (Sygn. 2683)

    Lists of voters for local authorities (Rada Miejska Miasta Iłży) and for the Sejm (Polish Parliament), files of the Jewish religious community, materials concerning trade and industry, vital records, statistics, correspondence, lists of the real estates (land and buildings)

  14. Processo de pedido de visto para Walter Olsen Willtard, Martin Lawrence Showl, Fre Joder Clifford Ryan, Ray Possiel, Lucy Hillman, Sarah Gotham e Cecilia Lewis

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Dakar para Walter Olsen Willtard, de nacionalidade americana, com destino aos Estados Unidos da América. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Dakar para Martin Lawrence Showl, de nacionalidade americana, com destino aos Estados Unidos da América. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Dakar para Fre Joder Clifford Ryan, de nacionalidade americana, com destino aos Estados Unidos da América. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Da...

  15. VE day in Paris; Latvian children in Germany; US soldiers; German surrender in small town

    01:34:36 (LIB 6426+6428) Paris Lights up on VE Day, France, May 8, 1945. Night shots, lights are on at Trocadero fountain, Arc de Triomphe, Place de la Concorde. Crowds milling about. Day shots, American and British soldiers dancing with civilians in the streets, celebrating VE day. 01:38:54 (LIB 6429) Latvian Children, Hahnenklee, Germany, May 4, 1945. INT, MSs, CUs, several small children, sick and undernourished, lying in beds. LS, MS, house in resort town which shelters Latvian and Polish children. MS, CU, sign at entrance to town: "Resort for Mothers and Children." 01:40:58 (LIB 6430) ...

  16. "Zug Bist Ahtzen"

    Consists of one typed memoir entitled "Zug Bist Ahtzen" ["Say You're Eighteen"] as told by Auschwitz survivor Gary S. Rubinstein to his grandson, Benyamin Moalem. In the memoir, Mr. Rubinstein describes the German invasion of his hometown of Wołomin, Poland. He describes being placed in a ghetto and his attempted escape to Łomża, Poland, in the fall of 1942. Almost immediately upon his arrival, the Jews of Lomza were marched to Zambrów , and, six weeks later, deported to Auschwitz. He was assigned to Kanada, where he sorted prisoner belongings and describes both the Nazi officers smugglin...

  17. Eva F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva F., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1936. She recounts her father was a physician and her mother a nurse; living in the Berlin Jewish Hospital from 1938; seeing many people leave and never return; her parents not speaking in front of her, but seeing them upset and distraught; playing with other children; Allied bombings; liberation by Soviet troops in 1945; assistance from Jewish officers; attending school; living in a refugee camp; and emigration to the United States in 1949. Ms. F. recalls wearing the yellow star; receiving German reparation payments; and her...

  18. Charles B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Charles B., who was drafted into the United States military in 1941. He recalls attending officer's training school; fighting in Italy, France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany; liberating Ohrdruf as part of the 89th Division; total lack of preparation for encountering a concentration camp; smelling it for two days prior to arrival; stacks of corpses; his strong physical response; liberating Weimar and Zwickau; former prisoners and U.S. troops killing German guards; assisting emaciated prisoners; and later interrogating German POWs.

  19. Bessarabian Regional Police Inspectorate. Rezina Police Station

    • Inspectoratul Regional de Poliție al Basarabiei. Poliţia centrelor de plasă. Rezina
    • Резинский комиссариат полиции
    • Rezinskiy komissariat politsii

    Notes of the guards about the Jews who were deported to the Soviet Union and those suspected of communist activity. Personal files of accused Jews of loyalty to the Soviet state who stayed in Bessarabia during the Soviet occupation. Bessarabian Regional Police Inspectorate orders about surveillance of foreigners, lists of people with foreign citizenship in Rezina. Copies of orders of Bessarabian Regional Police Inspectorate about the decisions taken to solve the Jewish problem. Informative report about moral and political attitudes of the population in the county Rezina. Correspondence with...

  20. Aron Adolf Neiss collection

    This collection contains the personal papers of Aron Adolf Neiss and his family, former Jewish refugees from Vienna. The Neiss family originally came from Poland but had moved to Vienna by the 1920s. Aron and his son emigrated to England in July 1939.Personal papers including birth and marriage certificates, certificates of family origin ('Heimatschein'), Herbert Neiss' tax clearance certificate, passports, Aron Neiss' certificate of naturalisation and power of attorney relating to his restitution claim. Also included are personal correspondence, papers relating to the sale of the family ho...