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  1. I. Korps

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Heeresstruktur 1 (1956 - 1959) Durch den Aufstellungsbefehl Nr. 19 (Heer) vom 16. Juni 1956 beauftragte das Verteidigungsministerium den Aufstellungsstab Nord in Hannover mit der Einrichtung des Heeresstabes I in Münster zum 2. Juli. Zehn Wochen später meldete der Heeresstab I seine Arbeitsbereitschaft. Am 15. September wurde der Stab direkt dem Verteidigungsministerium unterstellt, womit die Zuständigkeit des Aufstellungsstabes Nord endete. Am 1. Oktober 1956 wurde der Heeresstab I in Stab I. Korps umbenannt. Am 8. Oktober übernahm Generalmajor Curt Siewert ...

  2. I. SS-Panzerkorps "Leibstandarte"

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Die überlieferten Schriftgutsplitter stammen aus Rückführungen aus den USA. Bestandsbeschreibung Von der Führungsabteilung (Ia) sind lediglich das Kriegstagebuch mit Anlagen für die Zeit von Juli bis Dezember 1943 sowie Tagesmeldungen von Juni und August 1944 erhalten. Erschliessungszustand Vollständig erschlossen Zitierweise BArch RS 2-1/...

  3. I.B. Bunn photograph collection

    Collection includes a photograph of two survivors from Holland and a photograph of American soldiers near Lake Attersee. The photographs were taken by I.B. Bunn, a member of Company B, 305th Medical Battalion, 80th Infantry Division, immediately following the liberation of Ebensee concentration camp in Austria.

  4. I.L. Perec Jewish Public School No. 162 in Łódź Żydowska Szkoła Powszechna nr 162 im. I. L. Pereca w Łodzi (Sygn. 2340)

    The collection includes: assessment books, books of school council, class books and grades. Contains lists of school children. After the war, it was the only Jewish school in Łódź, children who survived the war and had the experience of ghettos and camps were learning there. In the school, alongside Polish and Polish history, Hebrew and Yiddish were taught. Among the graduates of this school was Henryk Grynberg, a writer living after 1968 in the USA. In 2009, a film directed by Sławomir Grunberg entitled "The Peretzniks" was made, telling the story of the school and its pupils spreading aro...

  5. I.T. Platzner collection

    Contains three photographic postcards of parents and friends in Luhačovice, Czechoslovakia, dated 1947; and one photo of Izhak and his mother at the beach before WWII.

  6. Iaacov R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Iaacov R., who was born in Orlov, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Slovakia) in 1917, one of five children. He recounts living in Prešov; his family's assimilated lifestyle; memorizing the Hebrew for his bar mitzvah; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; completing high school; two sisters emigrating to Palestine in 1935; leading Hashomer groups in Žilina, Košice, and Bratislava; anti-Jewish restrictions after Slovak independence; Joint support of Hashomer; draft into a Slovak labor battalion; serving in Trebišov; demobilization; Hashomer activities in Trenčín ...

  7. Iaakov W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Iaakov W., who was born in Kraków, Poland in 1926, the oldest of three brothers. He recounts his family's orthodoxy; attending a Jewish school; his bar mitzvah; German invasion; being caught in random round-ups for forced labor; his family's move to his grandfather's farm in Proszowice; anti-Jewish laws resulting in his grandfather giving the farm to one of his Polish employees; working in a sugar refinery; his father paying a non-Jew to hide his youngest brother; his brother's arrival before their deportation to Prokocim; escaping with his father; entering the Krako...

  8. Iakov K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Iakov K., who was born in Sarajevo, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy (presently Bosnia and Herzegovina) in 1905, one of four children. He recalls his father's death in 1915; completing business school in 1923; interning at the Jewish bank in Sarajevo; working at a bank in Prague for two years; returning to Sarajevo; establishing successful businesses; friendships with Serbs and Muslims; losing his businesses when the Ustaša gained power; hiding in his basement from April to October, 1941; a non-Jewish employee providing food; daily meetings with a Jewish neighbor; escaping ...

  9. Iakov M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Iakov M., who was born in Vitsebsk, Belarus in 1928. He recalls his family's poverty; attending Russian school; some religious observances; his father's death in April 1941; German invasion in June; one sister's evacuation with her medical school; fleeing with his mother, younger sister, and neighbors to Shumilino; ghettoization; sneaking out for food; his mother ordering him to escape in November; returning the next day; learning all were murdered in a mass killing; a non-Jew in Pyatnitsa hiding him and advising him of hiding and survival strategies; going from villa...

  10. Iakov N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Iakov N., who was born in Minsk, Soviet Union in 1925. He recalls his parents laboring in factories; hunger until 1938; speaking Yiddish at home; German bombing in June 1941; fleeing and returning to Minsk twice; ghettoization; mass shootings in which relatives were killed (one cousin survived by crawling out of a mass grave); forced labor; building hiding places to use during mass shootings; arrival of German Jews; escaping in summer 1943 with help from the underground; joining the partisans in the forest; Hersh Smolar directing them to another unit; learning his par...

  11. Ian Dear collection

    Correspondence related to Ian Dear's research on X Troop for his book "Ten Commando, 1942-1945." Includes correspondence with Manfred Gans and with various production companies regarding a possible film adaptation of the book.

  12. Iancu family photographs

    Consists of one photograph, dated 1930, of the donor's uncle, Simon Sapsa, who died aboard a deportation train; one photograph, dated 1930, of the donor's parents, Ruhla and Sloim Iancu; one photograph, dated 1938, of the donor and a cousin; and one 1938 photograph of the donor's aunt and uncle, Marcu and Beti Iancu.

  13. Iasi, Romania Photographic Collection

    Photographs of the destruction of Iasi, Romania and of German soldiers in Romania.

  14. Ib J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ib J., who was born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1924. Mr. J. speaks of his education and family life; the German occupation; becoming involved with the underground; sabotaging Nazi cars and trucks; and his feelings when a comrade was killed in an underground action. He describes the gradual reaction of the Danish population to the occupation and provides a general overview of the growth and activities of the Danish underground movement. Mr. J. also expresses his disappointment with the way in which certain people behaved immediately following the war; his embarrassment ...

  16. IBM-DEHOMAG tabulating machine collection

    The collection consists of a three part Dehomag [Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen] tabulating system: a Dehomag D11 tabulating machine, sorter, and puncher, four punch card facsimiles, and three user manuals of the type used by the Nazi regime in Germany to tabulate census data.

  17. Ibolya E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ibolya E., who was born in Eger, Hungary in 1911. Mrs. E. recalls her religious upbringing; leaving home for the ghetto; deportation three weeks later to Auschwitz; her last images of her father, mother, and grandmother; thinking she was in an insane asylum; efforts to remain with her sister; dehumanizing conditions leading to the loss of identity and previous moral structures; and selection with her sister for a transport. Mrs. E. describes forced labor clearing rubble in Bremen; transfer to Bergen-Belsen in 1945; huge piles of dead bodies; giving up hope; temporary ...

  18. IC VR Merksplas 2000.

    Dit bestand bevat voornamelijk stukken die betrekking hebben op het verblijf van het bestuur van het interneringcentrum voor vreemdelingen in Angoulême. Het gaat om ingekomen en uitgaande briefwisseling (nr. 2), dienstbevelen (nr. 3), een dagboek (nr. 4) en een reglement (nr. 5). Nrs. 7 – 10 bevatten de opsluitingsdossiers. De stukken beslaan de periode 1940-1946. Gezien de vluchtelingenproblematiek van eind jaren ’30, bevat het bestand hoogstwaarschijnlijk ook informatie met betrekking tot Joodse gevangenen.

  19. Icchokas Meras

    The personal fonds of a famous Jewish writer who was hidden and adopted by a Lithuanian peasant family and survived the war. The files of the fonds consist of drafts with the author's corrections, translations of his novels into Russian, screenplays for films, personal documents, correspondence, photos. His novels are natural and precise, and are based on personal experiences and the tragic experiences of Lithuanian Jews in the Holocaust.

  20. Ice skating in Berlin

    MLS & LS of people ice skating in Friedrichsheim Park, Berlin.