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  1. Chil Turek papers

    The Chil Turek papers primarily contain identification cards, employment and testimony documents, photographs, and restitution papers that document his time in displaced persons camps at Feldafing and Stuttgart, Germany from 1946-1948. The employment and testimony papers relate to Chil’s work as a locksmith instructor and his testimony that he was in concentration camps in Lublin, Radom, Auschwitz, Vaihingen an der Enz, and Dachau. The identification cards include papers issued from the Political Prisoners Committee, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany; the International Information Office – Da...

  2. Shaked-Zalmonovitz family papers

    The papers consist of four photographs depicting Hava Shaked (born Eva Zalmonovitz), her parents, and her twin brother, Moritz Moshe, in Hungary during and immediately after World War II and after her immigration to Israel in 1949. A memoir written by Hava’s husband, Dov Shaked, about his experiences during the Holocaust is also included.

  3. Eichmann Trial -- Session 88 -- Examination of the Accused as witness, completed

    The footage begins in the middle of session 88. Dr. Servatius asks Adolf Eichmann whether he knew the people he was responsible for deporting were being killed in the concentration camps. Eichmann replies that he had to carry out his orders and admits that he knew that some of the people were being killed in the camps. This is duplicate footage also found on Tape 2119 (at 00:06:44). Servatius asks the accused about his feelings of guilt. Eichmann gives a long reply in which he attempts to differentiate between his legal guilt and his ethical guilt (00:02:17). He says that he bears no politi...

  4. Masha P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Masha P., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1924, the younger of two daughters. She recalls a very happy childhood among a large extended family; attending a Bundist school; her parents' atheism; her sister moving to Białystok in 1939; attending a Bund summer camp; her father coming for her; German invasion the next day; anti-Jewish restrictions, including closing schools; working at a Bund sanitarium outside Warsaw; returning immediately prior to ghettoization; caring for young children in their building; obtaining food in a Bund kitchen; selling goods on the street;...

  5. Jan W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jan W., who was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1920. He recounts attending school; his parents' divorce; his father's remarriage; moving to Prague with his mother; attending gymnasium; volunteering for the army; German occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; his grandmother bribing officials so he could join his father in Yugoslavia; futile attempts to obtain emigration visas in Zagreb; his father and stepmother committing suicide in front of him rather than living under German occupation; fleeing to Italian-occupied Ljubljana, then Trieste; assistance from a Slovak baker;...

  6. Henry A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry A., who was born in Jasło, Poland in 1922. He recounts cordial relations with non-Jews (many assisted him when he escaped in 1943); German invasion; fleeing to the Soviet zone; imprisonment in Lʹvov; release three weeks later; returning home; ghettoization in 1941; moving to Jedlicze in late 1942; selection to work in a refinery (his father and brother were deported and killed); placing his young cousin with a non-Jew (she survived); transfer to the Rzeszów ghetto in late 1942; transfer to Płaszów; surgery without anesthesia; escaping four weeks later; hiding ...

  7. E. F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of E. F., who was born in Trenčín, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1927, the younger of two children. She recalls her family observing Jewish holidays; frequent family outings; schoolmates who joined the Hlinka guard shunning her and other Jews beginning in 1938; empathy from teachers and evangelical students; expulsion from school in 1940; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; exclusion from deportation in 1942 due to her broken arm (most of her friends were deported); hiding in a friend's attic during subsequent deportations; evangelical youth movements providing...

  8. Stab von Tettau / Division z.b.V. 604

    Ia: Kriegstagebuch der Korpsgruppe von Tettau von März 1945 Kein Kriegstagebuch oder Tätigkeitsbericht der Abt. Ib, Ic und IIa

  9. Holocaust related records from European archives collected by Yad Vashem

    Consists of records filmed at various European Archives. The collection contains material regarding several different topics. A majority of the material concerns partisan groups active in the USSR, particularly in Belarus and Ukraine. This includes reports from partisan groups to Soviet leadership, names list of partisans in the different groups, as well as postwar memoirs and interviews of partisans. The remainder of the material is primarily concerned with Jewish life under German occupation in former Soviet lands, particularly the cities of Kiev, Pinsk, and Brest. This includes German de...

  10. Baruch H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Baruch H., who was born in Utrecht, Netherlands in 1924, one of four children. He recounts his happy childhood; his father's secularism and Zionism; attending public school; cordial relations with non-Jews; his mother's illness; his father's military draft as a veterinarian in 1940; German invasion in May; anti-Jewish restrictions, including expulsion from school, his father's dismissal from his job, confiscation of valuables and compulsory wearing of the yellow star; his father's decision to hide the family in different locations in summer 1942; entrusting valuables ...

  11. Namiestnik Rzeszy w Okręgu Kraju Warty w Poznaniu [Der Reichsstatthalter im Reichsgau Wartheland Posen]

    • akta administracyjne (materiały dot. działalności i organizacji urzędu: plany organizacyjne, podziały czynności; korespondencja i wytyczne w sprawach sprawozdawczości; wykaz urzędów niemieckich w Okręgu Kraju Warty; sprawy dot. polskiego i żydowskiego majątku na terenie Kraju Warty: zestawienia majątków ziemskich należących do przedstawicieli różnych grup narodowościowych; komasacja małych gospodarstw polskich w powiecie Wieluń; rozporządzenia, wytyczne, okólniki i korespondencja dot. konfiskaty mienia Polaków i Żydów; sprawy dot. kwestii narodowościowych: zestawienia ludności według grup...

  12. Israel's independence war, produced by the United Palestine Appeal

    Shots of Jerusalem as the narrator says that despite the U.N. truce, Glubb Pasha (John Bagot Glubb) continues to arm the Transjordan Arab Legion. Looters in Jerusalem. King Abdullah of Transjordan pays a visit to the Dome of the Rock (Mosque of Omar). 01:01:07 Count Folke Bernadotte in Lake Success, New York, to report to the U.N. on the truce. Interior shots of delegates meeting to discuss the Arab Legion's defiance of the truce, June 11th, 1948. Shots of urban warfare after the May 15, 1948 declaration of the state of Israel. Women carry a wounded man on a stretcher; women and men prepare...

  13. Reichsamt für Wirtschaftsausbau

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Bestandsgeschichte Der Großteil des Schriftgutes ist vernichtet. Die wenigen bis 1990 im Bundesarchiv Koblenz als Bestand R 25 verwahrten Registraturreste stammen aus Aktenrückgaben aus den USA und betreffen insbesondere die Förderung der Forschung und Entwicklung auf dem Gebiet der industriellen Rohstofferzeugung und -verarbeitung sowie die Planung und Lenkung industrieller Produktionsprogramme. Im Zentralen Staatsarchiv der DDR wurden bis 1990 zwei Telbestände 31.12 Reichsamt für Wirtschaftsausbau und 31.20 Reichsamt für Wirtschaftsausbau-Beauftragter für T...

  14. Andrée D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Andrée D., a Catholic, who was born in Uccle, Belgium in 1922, one of three sisters. She recounts living in Congo from ages four to ten; attending school in Uccle; German invasion; working with the Resistance in Brussels and Bruges; smuggling downed Allied aviators to Paris; obtaining false identity papers in Lille; hiding two children in the Ardennes; denunciation; arrest with her parents; imprisonment in St. Gilles in August 1942; deportation with her father in August 1943 (her mother was released); separation from him in Essen; transfer to Mesum, Zweibrücken, the...

  15. Dreier and Tarnowski families papers

    The Dreier and Tarnowski families papers measure 0.5 linear foot and date from approximately 1939‐1944. The collection includes correspondence and photographs documenting the Dreier and Tarnowski families, their hardships in East and West Prussia and Pomerania under Nazi rule, and their efforts to emigrate. Correspondence primarily consists of letters to Elli and Alfred Burchardy in Shanghai from Flora and Wolff Tarnowski in Stargard, from Edith and Siegfried Tarnowski and Taübchen Tützer in Piaski, and from other family members and friends in Stargard, Piaski, and various cities in Germany...

  16. Formationen der Technischen Truppe/Nachschub und Instandsetzung

    Bestandsbeschreibung Die Instandsetzungstruppe zählt zusammen mit der Nachschubtruppe zu den Logistiktruppen, deren Aufgabe es ist, die Einsatzbereitschaft, Beweglichkeit und Schlagkraft des Heeres sicherzustellen. Dazu versorgen sie die Truppe mit allem, was diese zur Erfüllung ihres Auftrags benötigt. Die Aufgabe der Instandsetzungstruppe besteht darin, dafür Sorge zu tragen, dass das hochwertige Material des Heeres möglichst lange verwendet werden kann. Dabei gewährleistet sie die Feldinstandsetzung des gesamten Materials des Heeres mit Waffen, Flugkörpern und Fahrzeugen und versetzt es ...

  17. Earlean McCarrick collection

    The Earlean McCarrick collection consists of research files documenting cases of denaturalization, deportation, and extradition of accused Nazi criminals and collaborators in the United States and the role of the Office of Special Investigations (OSI) in those cases. Denaturalization files document denaturalization proceedings against accused Nazi criminals and collaborators in US District Courts, Circuit Courts, Immigration Courts, and the Supreme Court. Records include OSI digests of cases, court records, notes, Westlaw case digests, Lexis‐Nexis court records, printed materials, drafts of...

  18. "Fight for thirteen"

    Contains a seven-page memoir entitled "Fight for thirteen," with information about the acts of Stefania Burzminski (born Stefania Podgorska) to hide and care for thirteen Jews in the attic of her parents' home.

  19. Akta miasta Stalowej Woli

    • Files of the town of Stalowa Wola

    Akta z okresu 1918-1939 sygn. 1-6: Zarząd Osiedlowy w Stalowej Woli, Administracja Osiedli Zakładów Południowych w Stalowej Woli: Sprawy zatrudnienia, przydział mieszkań dla pracowników, protokoły zdawczo-odbiorcze budynków mieszkalnych z 1939, książka meldunkowa, podania o zezwolenie na założenie przedsiębiorstw handlowych; Akta z okresu 1939-1943, Zarząd Osiedlowy w Stalowej Woli, sygn. 7-31: zarządzenia, podania o zezwolenie na zamieszkanie w Stalowej Woli przydział mieszkań 1939-41, budżety 1939-43, ewidencja ruchu ludności 1942, ewidencja Żydów znajdujących się w obozie pracy z 1943 r....

  20. Michael Kay collection

    Consists of postwar papers and photographs related to the Holocaust experiences of Michael Kay, originally of Vilna (Vilnius), Lithuania. In 1933, Michael moved to Paris, then relocated to Bourbon-L'Archambault, France, and, in 1942, fled across the Spanish border and joined the British Army, participating in the liberation of Bergen-Belsen. Includes photographs of Kay's parents, his "Autobiographical Sketch," documents related to his immigration and naturalization, as well as a copy of the Louisville Courier-Journal Magazine of April 3, 1983, containing an article written by Joan Kay about...