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  1. Idek R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Idek R., who was born in Proszowice, Poland in 1922. He recalls his close extended family; attending public school and cheder; German invasion; forced labor through 1941; fleeing with his friend to the Kraków ghetto to escape the liquidation of Jews in Proszowice (he never saw his parents again); transfer to Płaszów, then to Auschwitz in 1944; working in the Unionwerke until January 1945; a death march to the Czechoslovakian border; travel on freight cars to Mauthausen; working for Messerschmitt in Gusen II; and liberation by United States troops in 1945. Mr. R. rec...

  2. Identification card

    The identification card was issued to Marcel Koller [donor] in Bucharest, Romania. It states that he was born in Vijnitz, Romania (now Ukraine), on 23 April 1931 and was deported to and liberated from the Tropova camp in Transnistria, Romania (now Ukraine).

  3. Identification card

    This "National Registration Identity Card" for children under the age of 16 was issued to Zofia Tymejko [donor] after she emigrated to London, England.

  4. Identification card

    The identification card ("Buletin de Identitate") was issued to Sali Spinrad in Cernauti, Romania (Chernivt︠s︡i, Ukraine).

  5. Identification case used by a German Jewish boy while on a refugee transport

    Slim, rectangular leather identification card case received by Fritz (later Fred) Strauss while part of a refugee transport of children from Germany between 1939 and 1941. In response to the 1935 Nuremberg Laws and growing anti-Semitism in their small town, Fritz’s mother sent him, in 1936, to Frankfurt to attend school at a large Jewish orphanage. Within three years, anti-Semitism in Frankfurt had grown, and on March 8, 1939, Fritz was sent on a transport to Paris, France, with ten other children. Fritz and the other Orthodox children moved to new towns multiple times in the area around Pa...

  6. Identification certificate

    The identification certificate was issued to Eugen Fiscman [donor's brother] in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, stating his intent to immigrate with his brother, Michal [donor], to Uruguay from the "U.S. Zone of Germany."

  7. Identification tag

    The identification tag was issued to a prisoner of war in Stalag 366 near Lublin, Poland.

  8. Identification tag found by a US soldier near Auschwitz

    Clyde W. Dooley, a member of the U.S. occupying forces, found the tag near the Auschwitz Concentration camp.

  9. Identification tag from the crematorium at Buchenwald

    Tag issued under the Nazi regime to be used for identification purposes of a deceased victim.

  10. Identification tag issued to a child on a Kindertransport

  11. Identification tag issued to a forced laborer in the Warsaw ghetto

    Identification tag 7190 issued in summer 1942 to Gina Tabaczynska whil a forced laborer of the Schultz Firma in the Warsaw Ghetto. The tag was supposed to protect the owner from deportation. In November 1940, the Tabaczynski family fled Klodawa, Poland, because of the anti-Jewish persecution of the German occupaton authorities. They were later forced into the Warsaw ghetto. Gina, her parents, her brother, Pawel, and his wife, Bela, worked in the business office of the Schultz Firma which protected them from deportation through the spring of 1943. In April 1943, when the Germans began to liq...

  12. Identification tag worn in Warsaw

    Identification medal worn by Charles Milgrim in the Warsaw Ghetto.

  13. Idessa C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Idessa C., who was born in Staszów, Russia (presently Poland) in 1915, the youngest of five children. She recounts working at a a magazine; German invasion; ghettoization; slave labor in Kielce at HASAG Granat; transfer to Skarżysko-Kamienna; slave labor in a munitions factory; transfer to Leipzig in 1944; slave labor in a clothing factory; liberation; transport to Łódź; contact with her brother's family in Argentina (her brother had died); and joining them in 1946. Ms. C. notes the difficultly of conveying what she experienced to those who were "not there."

  14. Iekšlietu ģenerāldirekcija

    • Directorate General of the Interior
    • Generaldirektion des Innern

    Schema of Directorate General system; minutes of Directorate General board; correspondence with local boards about work organization and economy; personal files of employees; lists and forms of Latvian and Russian war refugees (1941-1944). Biographies of the city elders with data about participation in actions against partisans and “cleaning” actions in 1941.

  15. Iekšlietu ģenerāldirekcijas Kārtības policijas departaments

    • Order Police Department of the General Directorate of the Interior
    • Kommandantur der Ordnungspolizei Lettlands

    Registration of Jewish property; providing of apartments to Jews who were working (October 2, 1941); interdiction against Wehrmacht institutions cooperating with Jews; rules for taking Jews from ghetto to work sites, including interdiction against Jews staying overnight at work place and prohibition of automobiles being used to transport Jews to the work. Issuance of identification cards for Jews (September 3, 1943).

  16. If my heart didn't break then

    Jean Beller's memoir describes Jean's childhood and adolescence in Poland; her experiences as a student of elementary education in Tel Aviv, Palestine; her return to Poland before the outbreak of World War II; conditions inside the ghetto in Łódź, Poland; her experiences with Chaim Rumkowski; her work as a kindergarten teacher and as the head of an orphanage in the ghetto; her attempts to hide when the ghetto was evacuated; the death of her parents and a brother; her deportation to Auschwitz and other concentration camps; and her life in the United States after the war.

  17. IG FARBEN w Oświęcimiu

  18. IG-Farbenindustrie

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Der überwiegende Teil der Überlieferung im Umfang von ca. 420 lfm gelangte 1959 aus der Sowjetunion an das Deutsche Zentralarchiv Potsdam (DZA). Hinzugefügt wurden in den 50er Jahren weitere kleinere Abgaben von Einrichtungen der DDR (Finanzministerium, Ministerium für Staatssicherheit der DDR). Im Zuge von Bestandsabgrenzungen 1970 zwischen dem DZA und dem Betriebsarchiv der VEB Filmfabrik Wolfen sind die Unterlagen der Strukturteile Sekretariat Gajewski (Vorstandsmitglied, Technischer Leiter der Agfa-Betriebe) und Vermittlungsstelle W in Wolfen und die Unte...

  19. Igazságügyminisztériumi Levéltár

    • Records of the Ministry of Justice

    The collection contains the documents of the central organs of the Ministry of Justice from 1867 till 1944, however, a highly significant part of the collection was destroyed by fire in 1956. The Hungarian Ministry of Justice had the main supervisory role over Hungarian courts, prosecutors, notaries, chambers of lawyers and their personnel, prisons and cases related to youth. The Ministry also played an important part in the preparation of laws and inheritance cases. Due to the aforementioned fire, only fragments of the original materials remain and many topics would prove practically unres...

  20. Ignac and Hermina Rothman Ungar wedding photograph

    Consists of the wedding photograph of Ignac and Hermina Rothman Ungar, taken in 1919 in Foldes, Hungary. Both perished in Auschwitz.