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  1. Eric Gutsmuth collection

    Consists of three manuscripts regarding the Holocaust experiences of the Gutsmuth and Levi families. The first, entitled "So it Happened," uses family documents and testimonies to describe the experiences of the Gutsmuth family, originally of Giessen (Wiesek), Germany. Through these primary sources, Eric Gutsmuth, who compiled them, describes the experiences of every member of the family, both on the Gutsmuth and Levi sides, some of whom immigrated before the war, others survived in hiding, others of whom (including Flory van Beek) were rescuers, and some who were deported to concentration ...

  2. DPs assemble at train station; supplies/ration; staging area; paratroopers in US

    DP Stateside Bound, Butzbach, Bremen staging area, Germany, October 12, 1948. Several families are oriented by a female official. The Blumenbach, Rogouste, and Homik families stand at windows of train which will take them to Bremen. MS, Army capt, J L Streicher, and IRO movement officer Abolins, speaking at railroad platform. People assembled at railroad station to see relatives and friends off. Bread is unloaded from boxes at the railroad platform. CU, UNRRA written on wooden box. CU, railroad tickets used for bread ration. DPs are issued bread rations. Man taking bread away in box; man pl...

  3. Deutsche Ansiedlungsgesellschaft (German Settlement Company) – Branch in Karlovy Vary

    The fonds includes archival records resulting from the activities of the Karlovy Vary branch of the German Settlement Company. The fonds is not inventoried nor arranged. Given the nature of the office one can find archive records related to the Jewish population, and especially to its land property, throughout the entire fonds. The fonds mainly includes official correspondence, reports on the management of farms, accounting records, settlement maps and land sheets and extracts thereof.

  4. Processo de pedido de visto para Hans Seydlitz, Lisbeth Seydlitz, Juan Antonio Martin Martinez, Nisar Ahmed Khan, Corrado Carandini e Noel Wynne Spencer Lewin

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Madrid para Hans Seydlitz, de nacionalidade alemã, com destino não identificado. Sem informação de atribuição de visto. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Madrid para Lisbeth Seydlitz, de nacionalidade alemã, com destino a não identificado. Sem informação de atribuição de visto. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Madrid para Juan Antonio Martin Martinez, de nacionalidade espanhola, com destino a não identificado. Sem informação de atribuição de visto. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de...

  5. Processo de pedido de visto para Louis Schomberg, mulher de Louis Schomberg, Germaine Bernard, Rose Peffer, Therese Melcher, dois filhos de Therese Melcher e Andre Colomer

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Paris para Louis Schomberg, de nacionalidade haitiana, com destino a Portugal. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Paris para mulher de Louis Schomberg, de nacionalidade haitiana, com destino a Portugal. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Paris para Germaine Bernard, de nacionalidade francesa, com destino a Portugal. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Paris para Rose Peffer, de nacionalidade francesa, com destino a Portug...

  6. Jewish refugees to Palestine

    Jewish refugees from Germany preparing to leave France for Palestine. MS of entryway to Marseilles harbor. Jewish immigrants from the British sector of Berlin arrive by train in Marseilles. Group standing beside train tracks and CU of people leaning out train windows. Shots of refugees being fed at station soup kitchen run by nuns. CU of little girl and pieces of bread, little boy with Star of David patch on jacket. Representatives wearing HIAS armpatches. LS Ship Providence which will be taking these legal immigrants to Palestine. LS crowd of passengers lining up at foot of gangplank. CU a...

  7. Listes des convois de déportation

    Les listes conservées par le Mémorial sont majoritairement des listes originales. Ces listes donnent les noms, prénoms mais également parfois les dates et lieux de naissance, la nationalité ainsi que la situation de famille, la profession, l’adresse ou le matricule d’internement des personnes déportées. Les camps de départ sont essentiellement Drancy mais aussi Pithiviers, Beaune-la-Rolande, Compiègne, Angers, Lyon et Malines (pour les personnes arrêtées dans le nord de la France, qui ont été déportées depuis la Belgique). Les noms ne sont pas toujours ordonnés de la même façon selon les li...

  8. Records of the central council of the Jewish Communities in Russia (TsVaad)

    The collection consists of minutes of the meetings of the TsVaad ‘s Executive Council, declarations and circular letters regarding Jewish pogroms in Poland and Galicia, correspondence with Jewish communities and public organizations regarding evacuation of Jewish civilians from the zones of war conflict, food supplies for refugees and other needs of the evacuated Jewish population. Collection also includes various newspaper clippings, drafts of articles and questionnaires.

  9. Reichskommissar für den Mittelstand

    Bestandsbeschreibung Der Bestand enthält Unterlagen, die sich mit Angelegenheiten des Handwerks und des Einzel- und Großhandels beschäftigen. Zu nennen wären u. a. Unterlagen zu Tagungen und Veranstaltungen, zur Kultur des Handwerks, zur Vergabe öffentlicher Aufträge, zum Preisabbau und zu Steuerangelegenheiten. Erschliessungszustand Findbuch (ca. 1955) Zitierweise BArch R 3106/...

  10. Hospitals; Russian DPs in Ossendorf camp near Cologne

    (LIB 6967) Military Government, Cologne, Germany, June 13, 1945. MSs, CUs, woman copying point values from poster. MLSs, broken lamppost in the rubble. MLSs, large German hospital taken over by the US Army; ambulances drive up to entrance. CU, sign over hospital entrance, "7th Convalescent Hospital." Grounds of St. Vincent's Hospital showing Russian civilian convalescents including woman holding infant child. MLSs, EXTs, St. Augstin's Hospital; nurses, nuns, and doctors enter and exit from entrance. MLSs, CUs, Russian displaced persons in Ossendorf Camp attend outdoor classes. LSs, civilian...

  11. Benjamin Klotz memoirs

    In his memoir Benjamin Klotz (1901-1974) describes the German invasion of Poland and his life during the occupation of Łódź, Poland; his escape to and life in Soviet-occupied Lʹviv, Poland (now Ukraine); his subsequent escape from German-occupied Lʹviv; the fates of members of his family; life in the concentration camps of Bierzanow-Płaszów, Buchenwald, and Bautzen; liberation by the Soviets; life as a displaced person, including a meeting with Earl G. Harrison; and his reunion with his son and their immigration to the United States in 1946.

  12. Hitler's 50th birthday

    People put out flags, garlands, pictures of Hitler, etc. decorating city for celebration of Hitler's 50th birthday. Presents brought to the Chancellery. Flags. Diplomats of various countries arrive, plane, car. Tracking shots of various Nazi decorations around city. Night shots: lit monuments, columns, flags, flames at Adolf Hitler Platz, Hitler in car through streets, crowds cheer. Music Corps play for Hitler (with Himmler) in Chancellery garden, people in traditional clothes with flowers, crowds watch, costumed children meet Hitler. VAR European leaders meet Hitler. Choir sings for Hitler...

  13. Rotman, Rosenblatt and Bialer families collection

    The Rotman, Rosenblatt, and Bialer families collection consists of documents and photographs documenting the experiences of Genia Strasborg Rotman, Arthur Rosenblatt, and David Bialer following their liberation and life in post-war Poland, Sweden, and the United States.

  14. La Vista Report

    /1 La Vista report, 11 pages,15.5.1947/2 Short bibliography of articles re Vatican and escaped Nazis/3 Copy letter from Bob Fink to Tom Bower re La Vista Report, 29.6.1983

  15. Documentation of the partisans movement headquarters in Belorussia, 1941-1944

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 12796532
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1941-1944
    • Investigation report Letter List of partisans Official documentation Order Personal documents Questionnaire Statistical report Survey report Testimony

    Documentation of the partisans movement headquarters in Belorussia, 1941-1944 Included in the collection, among other material: - Lists of partisans from various units that were active in Belorussia; - Personal cards and questionnaires of Jewish partisans; - Statistical data regarding the partisans movement in Belorussia; - Professional opinions of partisans commanders, regarding the fighters; - Lists of Soviet sappers; - Plans for action of the partisans movement headquarters; - Report to Platon, the general headquarters representative, regarding the participation of many Jews in the parti...

  16. Testimony about Buchenwald and priests at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 531) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 29, 1946. French prosecutor Dubost addressing the Tribunal. Justice Geoffrey Lawrence speaking to the prosecutor. 08:29:37 MS, Dr. Alfred Balochowski testifies in French. Balachowski testifies that Block 50 in Buchenwald was really a "factory" for the production of the vaccine against typhus. He was taken there by the Germans because that was his area of specialization. The Head of this block and the experimentation block (Block 6) was Obrfuehrer Mugrowski of the Waffen-SS. 08:33:22 MS, French witness Francois Boix is questioned by ...

  17. Judy and Michael K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Judy K., an American-born child of Holocaust survivors, and her husband Michael. Mrs. K. remembers feeling different from other Jewish children as she was growing up and the strong tie which she felt to her mother. She describes her and her husband's recent trip to Poland, which was prompted by her need to see her parents' original home, to learn about the Holocaust, and to find her own way of dealing with it. She tells of her visits to Warsaw and Majdanek, where she had imaginary conversations with her maternal grandmother, who perished in Majdanek, and of her visit ...

  18. Reichserbhofgericht

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Die Masse der Akten des Reichserbhofgerichts ist im November 1943 durch Luftangriffe in Berlin vernichtet worden. Außer der Sammlung von abschriftlichen Entscheidungen des Reichserbhofgerichts und der Entscheidungskartei muss das gesamte Schriftgut als verloren gelten. Auch die vorhandenen wenigen Personalakten und Dienststellenakten wurden erst nach dem Luftangriff als Ersatzstücke angelegt. Die heute im Bundesarchiv vorhandenen Akten gelangten im September 1957 vom Oberlandesgericht Celle ins Bundesarchiv. Bestandsbeschreibung Neben einer Sammlung von Entsc...

  19. Deutsche Gesandtschaft Belgrad

    Aufzeichnungen über den Geschäftsbetrieb im April 1941.

  20. Ministère de l’Intérieur. Commission de la Reconnaissance nationale.

    La Commission de la Reconnaissance nationale, créée en janvier 1946, était chargée de rassembler et de vérifier les informations concernant les personnes pouvant être reconnues pour services rendus à la nation. Les dossiers de cette commission portent sur l’examen de ces demandes de distinctions honorifiques, faites en faveur de personnes autres que des militaires, ayant acquis des droits à la reconnaissance nationale par des actes d’héroïsme, de dévouement patriotique, de courage civique, de participation à des œuvres d’assistance et autres services rendus à la nation pendant la Seconde Gu...