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  1. Sheley Temchin photograph collection

    The collection consists of a photograph of General "Rola" Zymierski visiting a partisan unit of the People's Army in Parczewkie Forest in 1943 (Dr. Michael Temchin is second from the right) and two photographs of the staff of a military hospital in Warsaw, Poland, where Dr. Michael Temchin was Chief of Surgery.

  2. Ernest H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ernest H., who was born in 1925 in Neumarkt, Germany. He recalls moving to Fu?rth in 1938 so he and his siblings could attend a Jewish school (they were expelled in Neumarkt); his brother's emigration to the United States in 1941; deportation with his parents and sister to Jungfernhof, Latvia in December 1941; forced labor as a car mechanic, which he believes saved him from extermination; transfer to the Ri?ga ghetto in July 1942 (he notes the sadism of the Gestapo commander), then to Kaiserwald and Stutthof in 1943; and liberation from Rybno (Rieben) by Soviet troops...

  3. Henry S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry S., who was born in 1934 in Paris, France, the only child of Polish immigrants. He recalls boarding outside Paris since his parents both worked; their weekend visits; his father enlisting in the French military in 1939, partially to obtain French citizenship; his father's decommission after French surrender; he and his mother joining him in Montrabé; attending school; his father's military friends warning them in summer 1942 that Jews would be rounded-up; crossing to Spain; assistance from the Joint in Barcelona; HIAS sponsoring his emigration to the United St...

  4. Henry R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry R., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1912. He recalls his family's affluence; attending a secular private school; bar mitzvah preparation; antisemitic discrimination; entering veterinary school; being drafted into the Polish officer corps; German invasion; serving in Rivne; transfer to Radul?; becoming the head of his unit; disintegration of the army in defeat; returning to Warsaw; ghettoization; escaping to Dab?rowica; being warned prior to a round-up; escaping; seeking help from Count Jan Zamoyski, who was not immediately available; returning to Warsaw; arres...

  5. Agnes V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Agnes V., who was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1940. She describes her father's cosmopolitan, professional background; her mother's rural, extremely observant background; life in a wealthy Budapest Jewish family; and deportations of relatives to Hungarian labor battalions. She recalls her father's decision to disperse the family in hiding after the 1944 German occupation; posing as a Christian peasant girl; living with her younger sister in a dilapidated section of Budapest; an air raid in which her guardian was wounded; traveling with her guardian to rejoin her moth...

  6. Selected records of the County Office in Stopnica located in Busko Starostwo Powiatowe Stopnickie w Busku (Sygn. 2119)

    Records related to Holocaust survivors in the Busko County; Jewish cemeteries, and war crimes committed by Germans. Includes statistics of population of Busko county, lists of people murdered by the Germans, missing, deported to German labor camps, transported to concentration camps, lists of places where the murders were carried out and where the murdered are buried, and written statements of witnesses about crimes committed by Germans.

  7. Elise Leekens. Collection

    This collection contains 1 travelling trunk in pressed cardboard, wood and leather handles as is. The initials L.R. are indicated on the top of the trunk. This trunk belonged to Wolf Leib Richter, husband of Feigel Ritterman. This collection also contains two photos showing Elise Leekens who had kept the travelling trunk with her after the war.

  8. Ilia E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ilia E., who was born in Thessalonikē, Greece in 1916, one of seven children. He recalls attending communications school; working in Kastoria; military service; working in Giannitsá; returning home in 1939; working for the state communications service; German invasion; transfer to Sokhós; joining EAM partisans; supplying information to them; providing food for his family in Salonika; advising his relatives to escape, and their refusal to do so; arranging the escape of his parents and younger sister in October 1942 with partisan assistance; learning all the Salonika...

  9. Regina F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Regina F., who was born in Strzemieszyce, Poland in 1923, one of eight children. She recalls her orthodox home; attending public school; rising antisemitism in the 1930s; German invasion; arrest of her four brothers one by one (she never saw them again); her mother's death following a beating; ghettoization with her father and three sisters in 1942; deportation to Ludwigsdorf; slave labor in a (munitions) factory; her sisters' arrival from another camp; learning her father was deported (he did not survive); fasting during Yom Kippur; liberation by Soviet troops; livin...

  10. Международный военный трибунал для главных немецких преступников (Нюрнбергский процесс). Нюрнберг.

    • International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg (The Nuremberg trials)

    Opis 1, 2916 files, 1945-1947 Agreement, rules and regulations of the tribunal, notifications, orders, reports, decoding of sound records of the open sessions, and reports from the close sessions. Letter of indictment, materials from Commonwealth counsel and counsel for the defence. Speeches of the accusers and defending counsels. statutory declaration (mascot); Affidavits of the sides. Interrogation reports of the defendance and accuisation. Sentence of the Nuremberg trial, opinions of the court members. Opis 2, 431 files, 1938-1946 The main specifics of the Opis 2 is the precise discripti...

  11. Jenny S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jenny S., who was born in 1926 in Vienna, Austria, an only child. She recalls an comfortable and happy life; warm Sabbath and holiday observances; changes, particularly after the Anchluss; her father's arrest and release; eviction from their apartment; her father's second arrest (she never saw him again); her mother registering her for emigration to the United States; leaving Vienna in May 1941; spending three days in Berlin with her mother and her friend Louise prior to leaving; their painful departure (she never saw her again); traveling with Louise; a ship voyage f...

  12. Arthur B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Arthur B., who was born in Tomaszo?w Lubelski, Poland in 1924. He recalls his family's affluence; German bombardment and invasion; brief Soviet occupation; return of the Germans; occupation of their home by officers; the round-up and beating of Jewish men; bringing valuables to free his father; and escape to Rava-Ru?ska in the Soviet zone. Mr. B. recounts deportation with his mother to Siberia; forced labor at a logging village near Barnaul; cold and hunger; release after a year and a half; working in Barnaul; repatriation to Wroc?aw in early 1946; learning of his fat...

  13. Stella K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Stella K., who was born in Przemys?l, Poland in 1923. She recalls her happy, comfortable, and observant childhood; antisemitic attacks by children; attending public school; accompanying their maid to Catholic services; moving with her family to Krako?w; German invasion; ghettoization with her parents and sister outside Krako?w; her parents' deportation (she never saw them again); working as a nurse; transfer to P?aszo?w; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; selections; Polish civilian workers' indifference to the piles of bodies; transfer to Ravensbru?ck and Malchow; li...

  14. Eric Strach: Personal papers

  15. German siege of Warsaw, Poland 1939

    Scenes of the fire at night in Warsaw- these are the fires that burned on September 16, 1939 the first night of Rosh Hashanah, when the Germans set fire to the Jewish quarter destroying everything within a 20 block area (Jewish shops, homes, etc.) While it is difficult to make out- in the distance between the darkness and the flames you can see that there were bucket brigades set up and men were trying in vain to put out the fires. Julien Bryan's book "Siege" (1940) has a passage that tells this story. More shots of the fire at 01:06:38:12 trees are visible silhouetted against the flames, a...

  16. Liberation of Buchenwald; VE Day in Paris

    Video clips compiled for screening at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Days of Remembrance activities in April 2010 commemorating the role of liberators. The videos were displayed in the classrooms on the concourse level of the Museum during the Collections Open House activities. Contents include films taken by cameraman Arthur Mainzer: Liberation of Buchenwald, April 16, 1945 in color (USHMM Film ID 849, 07:01:12 to 07:04:00) Soldiers near Torgau and Buchenwald in color (USHMM Film ID 850, 08:07:59 to 08:10:16) VE celebration in Paris on May 8, 1945 in b/w (USHMM Film ID 2513,...

  17. Schoolhouse in the region of Katowice on the anniversary of the school's opening

    VS, scene opens with a poster hanging on the outside wall of a new brick schoolhouse announcing the rededication of the school building. The sign is written in Polish. A celebration of the new building-the sign talks about the school going from an old thatched-roof hut to a new brick building-according to the sign this celebration is taking place in August 1937. Several shots of the children in the school yard playing happily, then a group of young children being lead by a very somber looking nun in single file to the school house. There is a very abrupt cut at the end of this scene. **From...

  18. Malka O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Malka O., who was born in Poland in 1925, the youngest of four children. She recounts her father emigrating to Argentina in 1930; her brother's enlistment in the Polish military in 1938; German invasion in 1939; her sister's emigration to Argentina; hiding with a group of people one night during a round-up; finding her mother gone when she returned; staying with her brother-in-law's friends; leaving after an attack by Poles; her brother-in-law returning months later; living with him and his uncle; round-up for slave labor in a factory in Staszów; ghettoization; separ...

  19. Family life in Pirna, Germany

    DIE PIRNSCHEN - AUGUST 1936. This film shows Manfred "Fred" Hess at home with his wife Trude and two daughters Ursula and Luise. WITH FORK AND KNIFE. CUs, Luise eating. AFTER DINNER, LITTLE TEARS AND LITTLE TUNES. The children play with their father in the living room. Albert Günther Hess (AGH) is teaching the girls piano and playing the guitar for them. DIE ZUHOERERIN (VON EINEN TONKRANK EILINOPERATEUR). CUs, Trude. ANOTHER OPINION. CUs, Luise singing. END OF ACT.

  20. Barry B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Barry B., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1924. He describes his middle-class, orthodox family; antisemitic incidents; German invasion; ghettoization; helping Jews forced into the ghetto from surrounding villages; overcrowding, starvation, isolation, and deportations; refusing to believe rumors about concentration camps; working as a mechanic repairing sewing machines; his father's death from hunger; hiding his mother during round-ups; liquidation of the ghetto in 1944; separation from his mother upon arrival at Auschwitz/Birkenau (he never saw her again); stealing ...