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  1. Jacques Raffeld. Collection

    This collection contains : a label from a can filled with the carrier of the poisonous gas Zyklon-B used in the Auschwitz-Birkenau gas chambers ; a cap which was part of a uniform worn by an unidentified concentration camp inmate ; four objects from Auschwitz-Birkenau and Treblinka, related to the mass murder of Jews and other prisoners at both camps, recuperated by Icek Chil alias Jacques Raffeld during post-war visits to the former camp sites.

  2. Jacques Ribons collection

    Consists of color copies of the 1940 civil records book from Strezemieszyce Wielkie, Poland, documenting the births and marriages of members of the Rybsztejn family. Also includes post-war documentation of Jakub Rybsztejn (later Jacques Ribons), including his identification card as a displaced person and menus, identity documentation, and a postcard related to his 1947 immigration to the United States on the MS Gripsholm.

  3. Jacques Ribons collection

    Consists of 68 post-war photographs from the collection of Jacques Ribons (Jakub Rybsztain), originally of Strzemieszyce, Poland. Jacques, along with his brother Bernard, was sent to Blechhammer concentration camp from the Strzemieszyce ghetto, while their mother and sister were deported to Auschwitz, where they perished. Their father had died earlier after being shot on the streets of the ghetto. The brothers were then sent to Gross-Rosen, and, in January 1945, they were sent on a death march to Buchenwald, where Jacques was liberated at age 17. He and Bernard were sent to France to recupe...

  4. Jacques S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacques S., who was born in Thessalonikē, Greece in 1913, one of four children. In addition to information in a previously cataloged testimony, Mr. S. recounts playing violin as a youth in a Maccabi orchestra; his Greek commander issuing him, his brother, and others false papers as non-Jews so they could safely return home from front-line military services when Greece was defeated; refusing offers from non-Jews to hide in order to remain with his pregnant wife; encounters with Nazi officials Dieter Wisliceny and Alois Brunner; playing the violin in the camp hospital ...

  5. Jacques S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacques S., who was born in Kraków, Poland in 1933. He recounts cordial relations with Catholic neighbors; his father liquidating their assets and buying diamonds; ghettoization; protection due to his father's supervisory role in the Madritsch factory; occasionally working in the factory; being smuggled out, with assistance from Jewish police, when the ghetto was liquidated; hiding alone in the factory for eight days; a non-Jewish woman bringing him food; being sent to hide as a non-Jew with a Polish family in the countryside; praying and attending church with them; ...

  6. Jacques S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacques S., who was born in Thessalonikē, Greece in 1913. He recalls training as a violinist; completing engineering studies in Marseille, Paris, and Bordeaux; military service; discharge; working as a government engineer; Italian invasion in fall 1940; six months of front-line service with his brother; German occupation of Thessalonikē; military colleagues offering to hide him; refusing in order to return to his family; marriage; deportation to Birkenau with his and his wife's families in May 1943 (his wife was eight months pregnant); remaining with his brother (he...

  7. Jacques Schop. Collection

    This collection consists of a photo of and an interview with Jacques Schop. In his testimony Jacques talks about his childhood in the ghetto of Krakow, his father's clothing business in the ghetto, his life in hiding with the catholic Polish family outside of Krakow where Jacques stayed for several months, how his ‘rescuers’ tried to get rid of Jacques once the payments seized, Jacques’ reunion with his parents in the Krakow ghetto, their flight to Budapest in Hungary with the help of smugglers, their life in Budapest and Jacques’ post-war life in Israel, Canada and Belgium.

  8. Jacques Schweitzer collection

    Photographs, documents, class notebook related to Jacques Schweitzer (originally Jacques Swiczarczyk). Also includes his beret and pants from his service in the Forces Navates Francaises Libres and wartime French currency.

  9. Jacques Stambul collection

    The collection consists of an identity card issued to Jacques Stambul (donors' husband and father), December 1953. Jacques Stambul had been arrested in November 1943 in France and deported to Buchenwald where he was interned from 17 November 1943 to April 1945.. It also includes a badge and a prisoner patch worn by Jacques Stambul in Buchenwald.

  10. Jadwiga and Kazimierz Dubicki collection

    The collection consists of documents and a publication relating to the experiences of Jadwiga and Kazimierz Dubicki, Roman Catholics, originally from Poland, who were slave laborers for the Nazi regime during World War II.

  11. Jadwiga Dzido Hassa letter

    Contains of one letter from Gusta, a young girl in Haifa, to her friend, Jadwiga Dzido (later Hassa), in Poland, encouraging Jadwiga to come to Palestine. During the war, Jadwiga, a Polish Catholic, became a member of the Polish underground and was imprisoned from 1941-1945 in the Ravensbrück concentration camp. She later testified in the Nuremberg Doctors Trial. Also includes one photograph of Rozia Zylberajch, who is mentioned in the letter.

  12. Jadwiga G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jadwiga G., who was born in Lublin, Poland in 1923, one of three children. Ms. G. recalls her family's affluence; attending Polish school; cordial relations with non-Jews; German invasion; ghettoization; moving to Melgiew in summer 1941; her future husband joining them; visiting friends and relatives in the Lublin ghetto; obtaining authentic documents as non-Jews; round-ups of Jews from nearby villages in October 1942; returning to Lublin; her father leaving en route when he was robbed and lost hope (she never saw him again); his non-Jewish, former employer arranging ...

  13. Jadwiga Jaszunska collection

    Contains a typescript copy of an English translation of a memoir written by Jadwiga Jaszunska and translated by Linda Noble, and a Russian language version of Jadwiga Jaszunska's memoir. The collection also includes fifteen black and white family photographs.

  14. Jadwiga Rokwish letter relating to the Jews of Klimontów, Poland

    Contains a letter in Polish and an English translation of the letter. The letter describe the fates and treatment of Paulette Buchbinder's mother-in-law and the Jews of Klimontów during the German occupation of Poland.

  15. Jaenecke, Erwin (Generaloberst)

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Lebensdaten: 22.04.1890: geboren in Freren, Kreis Lingen 03.07.1960: gestorben in Kassel Werdegang 27.3.1911: Eintritt in das Heer, Fahnenjunker im Pionierbataillon 10 1.10.1911: Kriegsschule Hannover 2.8.1914: Zugführer 2. Kompanie / Pionierbataillon 10 ins Feld 23.7.1915: Kompanieführer 5. Kompanie / Pionierbataillon 10 3.3.1916: Bataillonsadjudant Stab Pionierbataillon 10 23.10.1916: Kompanieführer 5. Kompanie / Pionierbataillon 10 9.12.1917: 1. Ordonnanzoffizier 19. Infanterie-Division 13.5.1918: 2. Hannoversches Feldartillerie-Regiment 26 29. 8. 1918: 2....

  16. Jaenicke, Wolfgang

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • N 1135
    • German
    • 1904-1961
    • Nachlässe 242 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 6,4 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners MdR (DStP, 1930-1932), Botschafter Biografischer Abriss Wolfgang Jaenicke Der am 17. Oktober 1881 als Sohn der Breslauer Bürgermeisters geborene Wolfgang Jaenicke studierte nach dem Abitur von 1900 bis 1904 Rechts- und Staatswissenschaften in Berlin, Breslau und Freiburg. Von 1919 bis 1930 war er Regierungspräsident des Regierungsbezirks Breslau. Gleichzeitig war er Reichs- und Staatskommissar für die Durchführung der Bestimmungen des Versailler Friedensvertrages über die Grenzziehung. 1928/29 führte ihn ein wissenschaftlicher Sonderauftrag der Reichsregierun...

  17. Jaffa K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jaffa K., who was born in Veľká Lominca in 1920, the youngest of four children. She recounts her father's death the year of her birth; her family moving to Poprad in 1925; antisemitic harassment; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; one brother and her sister emigrating to Palestine in the 1930s; living on a hachsharah in Bratislava, preparing for emigration to Palestine; her mother's marriage in 1936 to a Slovak who had converted to Judaism; anti-Jewish restrictions when Slovakia became independent; her step father's efforts to protect them; hearing young people woul...

  18. Jaffe family postcards

    Postcards (4), sent from Juda Joffe to his brother (Boris, in New York) and son (Juda, in St. Augustine, FL), appealing for help, written from Warsaw (presumably from the ghetto), March through May 1941. One postcard is sent via HICEM in Lisbon, asking for help in contacting various relatives in U.S. and urgently seeking assistance from them.

  19. Jaffe M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jaffe M., who was born in Onod, near Miskolc, Hungary, in 1931. She describes prewar family and community life; Hungarian anti-Jewish legislation; and her family's transfer to Diosgyor, where her father was made head of the ghetto. She relates her parents' futile attempt to secure a hiding place for their children; life in the ghetto; the deportation of her father and brother in May 1944; the liquidation of the ghetto three days later; and transfer to a brick factory in Miskolc. She remembers the journey from Miskolc to Auschwitz; separation from her mother upon arriv...

  20. Jagdbomberverbände

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Jagdbombergeschwader 34 „Allgäu", Memmingen / Memmingerberg Im Luftwaffenaufstellungsbefehl Nr. 96 vom 17. September 1958 wurde zum 1. Oktober die Aufstellung des Jagdbombergeschwaders 34 in Nörvenich befohlen. Mit Änderungsbefehl vom 24. November 1958 wurde mit sofortiger Wirkung die vorübergehende Verlegung des Geschwaders auf den Fliegerhorst Faßberg und zum 1. Mai 1959 die Verlegung zum Endstandort Fliegerhorst Memmingen angeordnet. Ausgestattet war das Geschwader bei Indienststellung mit dem amerikanischen Flugzeugmuster F- 84F THUNDERSTREAK. Am 1. Juli ...