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  1. Rolf W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rolf W., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1912. He recounts his assimilated family's affluence; his parents' divorce; attending gymnasium; business training in Breslau, Du?sseldorf, Berlin, and Bremen; termination because he was Jewish; working in his father's business in Auerbach; his father's death in 1934; economic and social problems resulting from the Nuremberg laws; returning to Berlin; a warning about Kristallnacht; hiding with his brother's friend; obtaining immigration papers for San Salvador from his half-brother who was there; his brother's emigration to ...

  2. Zalman H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zalman H., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1929, the youngest of six brothers. He recounts being the sole Jew in his public school class; antisemitic harassment; his oldest brother's draft in 1937; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; his father's death; two brothers escaping and working as non-Jews; smuggling food into the ghetto with Peretz, his next oldest brother; arrest by Polish police; escape; his father's non-Jewish friend once providing food; his mother's death; escaping with Peretz; moving from place to place; entering the ghetto often...

  3. Committee for the investigation of Nazi war crimes in Baltic countries

    This collection of microfilmed documentation deals mainly with the activities of the Committee for the Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in Baltic Countries, in particular with the gathering of evidence for the prosecution of war crimes in the Riga Ghetto region during 1941-1944.The bulk of the material comprises authenticated statements and affidavits from eyewitnesses with covering letters. There is also correspondence which offers an insight into the politics and processes of war crime trials in the immediate post war years.

  4. Margita H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Margita H., who was born in Šamorín, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1923. She recounts visiting grandparents in Martin; moving to Vel̕ké Leváre, then Tomášov; attending school in Bratislava; expulsion in 1938 due to anti-Jewish laws; participating in Hashomer Hatzair in Nové Zámky and Budapest; returning to Tomášov; German occupation; forced relocation to Rastice; working in Hubice; transfer to Dunajská Streda; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation with her sister from their mother (they never saw her again); remaining with a group from Šam...

  5. 12-та служба временна трудова повинност

    • 12-th branch of temporary labor service
    • 12-та служба "Временна трудова повинност" - Велес (1942 – 1943)

    Заповедна книга за движението на личния състав на 12. служба "Временна трудова повинност" (1942-1945); заповедна книга по Еврейския отряд - Свети Врач (1943); разчетна книга за щатните служители (1942-1944)

  6. Captured German POWs; camp victims and survivors

    Mr. Dixon chronicles the progress of the 99th Chemical Mortar Battalion, primarily in Germany, includes captured German POWs, victims of concentration camp, and liberated former camp inmates most still in uniforms walking in line along the road. Trip to Paris Arc de Triomphe, Tomb of Unknown soldier. Group shot of battalion commanders, army vehicles in snow of courtyard going back to front. Trucks full of captured German POWs coming across Bailey bridge. MLS American tanks and other artillery firing in the Colmar pocket. Camouflaged guns, destruction. German Tiger tank, soldier points to ar...

  7. County Prosecutor's Office in Lublin Prokuratura Powiatowa w Lublinie (Sygn. 522)

    This collection contains selected files created by the County Prosecutor’s Office concerning Articles 1 and 2 of the decree of August 31, 1944 (“Sierpniówka”). These inquiries did not find their way to trial because the perpetrator could not be found, was found dead, or had escaped abroad, or the evidence was not sufficient to bring the case to the court, etc. The files of each case contains: information about the crime/offence, correspondence, protocols for arrest, protocols for search, protocols of inquiry of witnesses and suspects, motions of evidence and motions of inquiry, letters from...

  8. Caransa, A.

    aard van de archiefbestanddelen Het archief bevat voornamelijk manuscripten en lezingen van Caransa. Verder bevat het archief een kleine hoeveelheid correspondentiemateriaal en een aantal oudere documenten, zoals een verslag van de terugreis naar Nederland, dat hij in 1945 schreef.

  9. Sonya O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sonya O., who was born in Nowogro?dek, Poland (presently Navahrudak, Belarus) in 1922, one of five children. She recounts a pleasant childhood in an affluent family; attending gymnasium; Soviet occupation; confiscation of their business and home; acceptance to medical school; German invasion; deportation of her grandparents; ghettoization; working in the ghetto hospital; one brother being killed; conversion of the ghetto to a forced labor camp; remaining with her family; her younger brother starving to death; round-up of her mother and sister, then of her father a wee...

  10. Invasion of Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Netherlands

    Title: "1940 " Title: "Invasion of Denmark and Norway, 9 April 1940" LSs of battleships, Nazi flag flying, men on deck. MCU, large gun, infantry with machine guns, troops looking through glasses, planes flying above harbor, Nazi troops parading through streets of Denmark, boats landing at Copenhagen. INT, airplane loaded with troops and bicycles. Airview of Norway coast. Planes landing, soldiers marching from field. Radio tower being guarded, view of Oslo with Nazi soldier on guard in FG, bombing of docks and marching through the streets. Title: "Invasion of Belgium and the Netherlands, 10 ...

  11. Processo de pedido de visto para Benjamin Coronel, Rubin Birnbaum, Benjamin Coronel, Cyriel Delaere, Nicholas de Vos, mulher de Nicholas de Vos, George C. Downie, Berthe Downie, Johan Emil Iversen, Rosie Kroll, Alois Vandecasteele, Elsie Vandecasteele, Paul A. Verhaege, mulher de Paul A. Verhaege, Marshall Verhaege e René J. Westreich

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Antuérpia para Benjamin Coronel, de nacionalidade americana, com destino aos Estados Unidos da América. Sem informação de autorização de visto. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Antuérpia para Rubin Birnbaum, de nacionalidade americana, com destino aos Estados Unidos da América. Sem informação de autorização de visto. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Antuérpia para Benjamin Coronel, de nacionalidade americana, com destino aos Estados Unidos da América. Sem informação de autorização de visto....

  12. Georges D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Georges D., a non-Jew, who was born in Ixelles, Belgium in 1911. He recounts his mother's death in 1918; his family's move to Brussels; training as a mechanic in a technical school; military service beginning in 1931; working as a policeman; marriage in 1936; the births of two daughters; German invasion on May 10, 1940; military draft; fleeing to France on May 16; encountering Germans; returning home the day after Belgian capitulation; joining the Resistance; delivering underground journals; hiding individuals sought by the Gestapo; obtaining false papers for Jews; ar...

  13. Roma B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Roma B., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1926. She recalls German invasion in September; ghettoization; joining Hashomer Hatzair; her brother's bar mitzvah; hiding during round-ups; her father arranging her transfer to a farm in July 1942; learning her family was deported (she never saw them again); returning to Warsaw; transfer to a labor camp; returning to Warsaw in January 1943; hiding with relatives during the April 1943 uprising; their discovery; deportation to Majdanek; transfer to Auschwitz; assignment to Canada Kommando; public hanging of Mala Zimetbaum who ...

  14. Estate Richard Korherr Nachlass Richard Korherr

    The Nachlass Richard Korherr comprises the personal papers of Richard Korherr (1903-1989), Chief Inspector for Statistics at the Reichsführer SS and Chief of the German Police and at the Reich Commissioner for the Consolidation of German ‘Volkstum’. The collection contains two copies of the Korherr report, created as part of the post-war confrontation with it. In addition to personal documents, the estate consists predominantly of correspondence with individuals and institutions such as H. G. Adler, the Leo Baeck Institute in London, Karl Ludwig Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg and his wife, ...

  15. Britische Prozesse: Manstein-Prozess

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • ALLPROZ 5
    • German
    • Schriftgut 167 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 8,0 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Der Kern des Bestandes (Archivnr. 1-87) wurde 1958 von Paul Leverkuehn mit der Einwilligung Mansteins dem Bundesarchiv überlassen. 1968 erfolgte die Abgabe des gesamten Bestandes an das Militärarchiv in Freiburg, wo der Bestand um zahlreiche weitere Dokumente ergänzt wurde, die Leverkuehns ehemaliger Assistent Paul Stahl aufbewahrt und zunächst dem Historischen Seminar der Universität Hamburg übergeben hatte. Die so hinzugekommenen Dokumente betrafen allerdings kaum den Manstein-Prozess, sondern in erster Linie den Nürnberger OKW-Prozess. Durch die in Freibur...

  16. Yafa R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yafa R., who was born in Bełżyce, Poland in 1923, the oldest of four children. She recalls her family's orthodoxy; her father's business in Niedrzwica Duża; spending summers there; participating in Gordonyah; living with relatives in Lublin to attend high school; briefly living with a family in Zaklików; German invasion in September 1939; confiscation of the family business; her father obtaining false papers for her; arranging for a job in Kraków as a non-Jew; deciding not to go in order to remain with her family; hiding jewelry in their cellar and placing possess...

  17. Yoseph M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yoseph M., who was born in Sremska Mitrovica, Yugoslavia (presently Serbia) in 1922, one of six children. He recounts his father's mobilization two days before German invasion in April 1941; Ustaša severely beating him and his brother; German soldiers billeting in their house; a German protecting them from Ustaša; his father's arrest; futile attempts to secure his release; arrest with his brother by Ustaša; their transfer to a prison in Zagreb, then to Jadovno and Gospić; slave labor harvesting wheat; transfer to Jasenovac; slave labor felling trees; Ustaša bruta...

  18. John Stanley Grauel papers

    The John Stanley Grauel papers consist of correspondence, photographs, printed materials, and subject files documenting Grauel's experiences as a crew member on the Exodus 1947, his support for the creation of the State of Israel, and his lifelong career speaking about the Exodus and fighting anti‐ Semitism. Correspondence includes a handful of postcards, letters, and telegrams from around the time of the Exodus 1947’s journey, later correspondence remembering the voyage, correspondence about related book projects, advocacy correspondence, and letters of thanks for presentations made by Gra...

  19. Ilse Murray Collection

    The collection consists of personal papers of Holocaust survivors Ilse Murray neé Perl and her son Claus Nicholas Perl as well as of Red Cross worker Enid Fordham.Biographical materials of Ilse and Claus comprise official documents and eyewitness accounts, and allow insights into their persecution and imprisonment in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Included is an audio recording of Ilse Murray on her experiences during the Nazi era.A large bulk of post-war correspondence documents the respective compensation cases of Ilse and Claus against West Germany. A smaller part consists of personal...

  20. American visits Vienna during the Anschluss and tours Germany (color)

    An American visits Vienna in March 1938. City street with telephone booth. Bridge in BG, someone steps into the phone booth. Belvedere palace and sprawling garden with the city in the distance. A long line of Jewish people, most likely attempting to obtain visas to exit the country in March 1938. “Jüdisches Geschäft” [Jewish Business] sign on shop. Narrow street with swastika flags on some of the buildings. The Ankeruhr clock on Hohen Markt street. Nazis in uniform line up in a square. Swastika flags in different shapes hang at the Heldenplatz where Hitler announced the Anschluss on March 1...