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  1. Zoltan Hertz collection

    The Zoltan Hertz collection consists of a paper, interview transcript, and digital interview regarding the Holocaust experiences of Zoltan Hertz (born Hercz), originally of Nyirbator, Hungary. The paper, entitled "The Story of Zoltan Hertz: The Holocaust and How I Made It", was written by Mr. Hertz's grandson, Nathanial Rodgers and describes Mr. Hertz's childhood, memories of being interned in the ghetto, deportation to Auschwitz and later to Mauthausen, Linz, and Melk, liberation, and reunification with family members. Also includes an oral history interview and transcript with Mr. Hertz c...

  2. Documentation from government offices of the Saar region, 1924-1948

    Documentation from government offices of the Saar region Documentation from the following organizations: - Ministerium der Finanzen (one file) - Ministerium für Arbeit, Sozialordnung und Gesundheitswesen (seven files) - Justizministerium (four files). (Regarding the names of the files and their location in the microfilms - see the list of files in the Multimedia page.) Regarding the Innenministerium (Interior Ministry) of the Saar region, a separate sub-record group was opened in Sapir item 11664139. Regarding the Kultusministerium (Religion and Education Ministry) of the Saar region, a sep...

  3. "Victims of Bolshevik Terror"

    CU, women, crying. Bodies laid out (victims of the Soviets). International press visits the site. CU, personal effects of victims; clothing, photographs, papers, documents, all laid out on tables. Table of religious artifacts and relics (crosses, crowns, etc.) Translation of Ukrainian narration: European press representatives are shown the place of mass executions so they could be convinced of the barbaric tortures Ukrainian people were put through. These are the pits where victims are buried. Letters and other possessions of the tortured are used to help people to identify the dead. Items ...

  4. Nachum Bone personal archives (RG-95-79) נחום בונה - ארכיון אישי

    Personal archives of Nachum Bone (1913-2012) contains his identity documents, memoirs, correspondence, research papers and articles on the Jewish community of Pińsk including papers on the Hashomer Hatzair movement in Pińsk and names lists of members of the community. Includes also papers and reports as the Hashomer Hatzair emissary to Poland in 1946-1947 .

  5. Frank Halpern papers

    The papers consist of one security clearance certifying that the bearer could attend classified briefing for operation "Market Garden," the Allied invasion of Holland; one photograph of Henry Plitt, an American airman who captured war criminal Julius Streicher; and one document issued to Julius Streicher under an assumed name permitting him to live in Waidring, Austria.

  6. Kan family in US postwar: high school graduation

    Betsy and her boyfriend walking, both with cigarettes. Betsy, her boyfriend, Jeanne, and an older women (young man's mother?) in front of a large building on the day of Betsy's graduation. Jeanne and the other woman with Frits and another man (young man's father?). Women in caps and gowns holding diplomas and flowers exiting a building. People lining the staircase watch the procession. Betsy in cap and gown during the procession and afterwards with her classmates. 01:01:25 Jeanne, Betsy, and her fiancé pose for the camera. 01:01:33 Airplane on runway, people disembark from the plane. 01:01:...

  7. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 10 mark coin

    10 mark coin issued in the Łódź ghetto in Poland in 1943. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1940; Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and annexed to the German Reich. In February, the Germans forcibly relocated the large Jewish population into a sealed ghetto. All currency was confiscated in exchange for Quittungen [receipts] that could be exchanged only in the ghetto. The scrip and tokens were designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] and includes traditional Jewish symbols. The Germans closed the ghetto in the summer of 1944 by deporting the residents to concentration camps or killi...

  8. Liselotte K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Liselotte K., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1918. She describes her affluent childhood; a close, extended family; antisemitism in school; educating herself about Judaism; erosion of relationships with non-Jews after the Nuremberg laws; expulsion from school; vacationing in Germany; working in a department store; nurses training at a Jewish hospital; viewing the destruction after Kristallnacht; applying through Bloomsbury House to emigrate to England; moving to Midlands, England in 1939; learning of her parents' deportation to Theresienstadt and their subsequent d...

  9. John W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of John W., who was born in Mo?nchengladbach, Germany in 1920. He describes his assimilated family background; his bar mitzvah in 1933; disbelief anything would happen to them because his father was a World War I veteran; changes beginning in 1934; the Nuremberg laws; his brother's emigration to England in 1937; his parents' arranging to ship their possessions to the United States; obtaining passports; his father's arrest on Kristallnacht and incarceration in Dachau; and emigrating to the United States after his father's release in June 1940. Mr. W. discusses how appeali...

  10. Kabinet van de rector. Dienst voor Academische aangelegenheden.

    In dit bestand zijn een aantal reeksen relevant. Een algemene bron zijn de verschillende registers: inschrijvingsregisters voor de periode 1817-1961 (die o.a. rolnummer, naam en voornaam, leeftijd, geboorteplaats, vroegere studies, gekozen studierichting vermelden), alfabetische registers van de ingeschreven studenten, registers van ingeschreven studenten per studierichting, registers van de examenuitslagen, … Onder 4A2_4 vinden we de reeks ingekomen en uitgaande briefwisseling (1817-1940), geklasseerd per academiejaar en onderverdeeld op onderwerp. Onderwerpen zoals “vreemde studenten”, “s...

  11. Criminels de guerre

    • War criminals
    • CdG

    The fonds War criminals (Criminels de guerre) is divided into different subfonds. These are: - German Civil Administration (Administration civile allemande) - Commissions - Court for war crimes (Cour des crimes de guerre) - Deportation of Jews (Déportation des juifs) - Various - Extraditions - Trial of war criminals (Jugement des criminels de guerre) - German court (Justice allemande) - Offensive «von Rundstedt» - National Office for Research of War Crimes (Office national pour la Recherche des crimes de guerre) - German police (Police allemande) - trial (Procès) - Military war court (Tribu...

  12. German invasion, occupation of France; surrender of French

    Reel 12: German troops advance, reduce French strong points, fire artillery, guard French POWs, cross a pontoon bridge and enter French forts. German officers ride in staff cars. French soldiers load guns in their forts. French officers surrender. French POWs plod along, Senegalese POWs dance. German flag covers a WWI monument in Compiegne, German troops stand at attention. Hitler, Goering and others enter the WWI armistice railway car and receive the French surrender from General Huntziger and others. Maps Vichy France, shows a cathedral. Hitler visits a Paris cathedral and addresses the R...

  13. Forced labor battalion of Hungarian Jews

    George Veres and other Hungarian Jews march at a forced labor group stationed in the Jewish Boys' Orphanage. Jews were forced by the Hungarian government into these battalions prior to the German invasion. George served several periods with the forced labor battalion, beginning in September 1940 and ending in December 1944 when he escaped from the camp. This was filmed by one of George's relatives who worked in the camp office. Jewish workers unload hay from a train and stack piles of chopped wood. George (the worker closest to the barn with the log on his shoulder) smiles at the camera. Sc...

  14. Руководящий штаб Союза Белорусской молодежи (СБМ), г. Минск.

    • Fuhrungsstab des Weissruthenischen Jugendwerkes (SBM), Minsk

    Распоряжения Рейсхминистерства, рейсхкомиссариата "Остланд", Руководящего штаба СБМ об использовании белорусской молодежи на службе в ГКБ, СБМ и охранной полиции, обеспечении членов СБМ обмундированием и питанием, образовании добровольных воинских формирований и др. Уставы СБМ, Союза русской молодежи, татаро-мусульманского молодежного союза "Берлик", организации "Молодой дуб", Союза борьбы против большевизма, организации "Эстонская молодежь", "Общества опеки над сиротами и детскими домами". Приказы, указания, инструкции по организационным, хозяйственым и кадровым вопросам. Учебные планы СБМ...

  15. Jewish wedding in Holland

    Wertheimer family, CUs, jumping rope. Jewish wedding of Alfred Wertheimer (a cellist) and Marion Warner in Amsterdam, Holland on May 19, 1937. 01:04:52 Family trips: beach, Pension Belvedere, CUs girls, young women, Wertheimer family members posing in a garden. The newly married couple, Alfred and Marion.

  17. Tom S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Tom S., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1935. He recounts his parents' conversion to Christianity; his brother's birth on March 2, 1944; German occupation on March 19; anti-Jewish laws; visiting his father, who was a doctor, in the assembly place for Jews; his father's deportation; living with his mother, brother, and grandmother in the ghetto from October 1944 until liberation by Soviet troops in February 1945; learning of his father's death in Mauthausen; psychological and physical effects of his war experiences; joining his uncle in Switzerland in June 1947 (h...

  18. Baeumker, Adolf

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners 14.7.1891 geb. in Breslau als Sohn des Universitätsprofessors Dr. Clemens Baeumker; 4.3.1976 gest. in Bonn/Bad Godesberg; Militärdienstzeit: 1909 Eintritt ins I.R. 132; 22.3.1910 Leutnant; 7.8.1914 ins Feld; 5.1915 - 7.1916 als Flugzeugbeobachter zur Fliegertruppe versetzt, Feld-Flieger-Abteilung 65; 8.1916 versetzt zum Oberkommando Heeresgruppe Linsingen (Fliegerstab); 7.1917 zum AOK 4 versetzt; 1918 Generalstab 225. I.D.; 1919 Inspektion der Fliegertruppen , Fliegerhorst Freiburg; 1.7.1921 Rittmeister, 4. Reiter-Regiment; 1925 Reichswehrministerium/Organisa...

  19. Soroca County Tribunal

    • Tribunal judeţean Soroca
    • Сорокский уездный трибунал
    • Sorokskiy uyezdnyy tribunal

    Acts and copies of property sale certificates (in particular, the sale of Meer Rosenboim’s property to Ihim Tsipkis; the sale of Fain Sura-Rivka’s property to Zelberstein Mordka; sale of the property by Fleur Berko to Halfina Shlema; sale of property owned by Seltzer Joseph to Hlein Itsik; sale of the property by Sitkov Usher to Shoykhet Isak); logs of registration of received acts and documents

  20. March of Time -- outtakes -- Chamberlain returning from Germany

    (Leblay camera) Neville Chamberlain's trip to Berchtesgaden to see Hitler, 09/15/1938. VAR, Chamberlain at Heston Aerodrome, walking towards plane, delivering a speech into microphones. VAR, Lord and Lady Halifax, Herr Kordt, German Charge d'Affaires, and others. Chamberlain gets into plane. Plane taking off. (Leblay camera) Chamberlain returns to Heston Aerodrome from Berchtesgaden, 09/16/1938. Crowds of press awaiting Chamberlain's arrival. Lord and Lady Halifax awaiting arrival. Shots of plane arriving, Chamberlain getting out, reading King's message, delivering speech, surrounded by pre...