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  1. Janina Spinner Mehlberg testimony

    Consists of a copy of a testimony by Janina Spinner Mehlberg. The testimony describes the experiences of Mehlberg and her husband as refugees in hiding in Lublin, Poland, during the Holocaust and their involvement with an underground movement to assist the prisoners of Majdanek concentration camp.

  2. Janina Szmurllo photograph collection

    The collection consists of nine photographs depicting the Szmurllo family who rescued a 4-year-old Jewish girl, Celina Cederbaum, in Skarżysko-Kamienna, Poland.

  3. Janina Zimowodski collection

    Collection of documents and photographs of the donor during World War II with her rescuers Marussia and Leokadia Navwrocka, with whom she lived. Includes photos of Janina receiving her first Communion; a baptism certificate in name of "Janina Nebel" (donor's family name); a vaccination certificate issued to "Hanie Nawraw"; a post war medical prescription; two telegrams; and two letters, one written to Marussia and Regina by the donor and the other to her sister.

  4. Janine Bland photograph collection

    Contains two August 1942 photographs depict a group of Jewish children, including Janine Bland, hiding in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France at the "Tante Soly" pension, which belonged to the Seches family. Also includes four photographs depicting the "Tante Soly" pension around 1942.

  5. Janine Brittin collection

    Contains a photograph (unidentified, but likely Jacques Goldstein), and a letter to "Madame Veuve Goldstein" (likely Sonia Goldstein) from the "Fonds d'Entr'Aide," Brussels, November 1945, discussing a ceremony in memory of those lost and presumed dead in German captivity. The collection also includes a Hommage de Reconnaissance Medal awarded posthumously to Jacques Goldstein.

  6. Janine K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Janine K., who was born in 1921. She recalls living in Paris; her parents' divorce; living with her mother; Jewish holiday and Sabbath observances at her grandmother's; German occupation; fleeing to a village outside Paris; working as a nanny for a farmer (her parents had been deported separately and did not return); denunciation; imprisonment with criminals; transfer to Drancy; reunion with her brother; their deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation by gender; slave labor while freezing in winter and burning from the sun in summer; long appels; her belief that s...

  7. Janine Sokolov collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of Janine Gimpelman Sokolov (born Ursula Klipstein) and her family during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  8. Janka C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Janka C., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1920, the older of two sisters. She recounts her family's move to Vienna in 1921; their assimilated lifestyle; attending public school; anti-Jewish harassment; the Anschluss; immediately deciding to emigrate to Belgium; traveling to Cologne; living with a Jewish family for several months; arrest when attempting to illegally enter Belgium; imprisonment in Aachen; release a week later; entering Belgium on her third attempt, with assistance from a man she had met in prison; arriving in Antwerp via Liège and Brussels in Oct...

  9. Janke, Lothar

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Elektriker, Ingenieur für Fernmeldetechnik, Dipl.-Ingenieur für Elektrotechnik; Entwicklungsingenieur im Bereich Forschung und Entwicklung im Fernsehgerätewerk VEB Rafena-Werk Radeberg (1952-1963); Tätigkeit in der Abt. Elektronik des Volkswirtschaftsrates der DDR (1963-1966), Leiter der Abt. Wissenschaft und Technik des Ministeriums für Elektrotechnik und Elektronik (1966), Stellv. des Ministers für Elektrotechnik und Elektronik (1969-1978); Vizepräsident, dann 1. Stellvertretr des Präsidenten, des Amtes für Erfindungs- und Patentwesen (1978-1990) Bestandsbe...

  10. Jannushka J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jannushka J., who was born in Paris, France in 1933. She recounts her parents' eastern European backgrounds; their secularism (she did not realize she was Jewish); German invasion; fleeing with her mother and brother to Pithiviers; returning to Paris; anti-Jewish harassment at school; being sent to Drancy; their escape; assimilating Nazi propaganda thus believing Jews were ugly and usurious; her parents placing her and her brother with the Resistance; being hidden outside Paris; living with a woman who treated them cruelly; converting to Catholicism; carrying messages...

  11. Janos and Marta Beer papers

    The János and Marta Beér papers consist of five photographs by Tom Veres; three lists of Jews in different localities (prison camps) who fall under the protection of the Swedish Legation in Hungary; a letter signed by Raoul Wallenberg to free Dr. Georg Ballint (a Swedish citizen); a document issued by the Royal Swedish Embassy in Budapest stating that János Beér is a permanent employee of the Humanitarian Department; an identification card for János Beér issued by the Office for Jewish Issues; and a work identification card signed by Raoul Wallenberg.

  12. Jansen, Kapitein G. (cdt. Fort 't Spoel te Culemborg)

    Gerrit Jansen werd op 5 april 1893 te Gennep (Limburg) geboren. Tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog werd hij bij de grenswacht te Eleringen, gemeente Tubbergen tot commandant benoemd. In 1939 werd Kapitein Jansen opnieuw gemobiliseerd en op 18 april 1940 werd zijn hele compagnie 'overgewandeld' naar Tiel. Jansen's compagnie werd niet daadwerkelijk ingezet bij de verdediging van de Grebbelinie, maar op 10 mei kwam toch de oorlog over hen heen. Bij de beschieting van een Nederlandse batterij aan de Elzenpas op 11 mei viel er een dode en gewonden. Na de capitulatie volgde een chaotische terugtocht,...

  13. Japanese & German troops advance; African campaign; Stalin's fight against Germany; factories on home front

    Records world-wide war activities. Reel 2: (1942) Japanese and German troops continue to advance on all fronts. US and Japanese fleets are attacked by carrier planes off Midway. The British stop German armor at El Alamein, Egypt. Shows street fighting in Stalingrad. Shows British and Russian factories. Personages: Admiral Nimitz, Joseph Stalin.

  14. Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 36, No. 30, Part 3. MS and CU of Japanese envoys coming down steps and getting into car. LS Japanese planes in sky. AV bombing of Pearl Harbor. Civilians in street. Ship "Arizona" in heavy smoke. NYC scenes, Times Square headlines. Shot of broadcasters. Hawaii shots of wounded and damage. Japanese midget-subs and destroyed ships.

  15. Japanese in South Pacific

    Japanese ships battling Americans and English in the South Pacific. Shots of Japanese sailors preparing for battle, shoes running across the deck and up stairs of the ship, exciting music. Japanese planes taking off from the deck of an aircraft carrier; shots of planes in the air. Battle scenes from the Japanese ship's perspective, including guns firing and low-flying planes, with dramatic music and occasional comments by the narrator. A graphic illustrates the number of American vessels destroyed by the Japanese. "In the first eleven months of the war, the Japanese navy has destroyed seven...

  16. Jar containing bars of soap presented to an employee at the American Victory Foundation

  17. Jarosch, Walter (Major)

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Geboren am 05.04.1879 in Bensberg a.Rh.; gestorben am 24.02.1920. 1902 verheiratet mit Anna Luise Johanna, Tochter des Majors Otto von Schweder. Eintritt in die königlich-preußische Armee um 1896. Beförderungen: 18.08.1898 Leutnant; 27.01.1909 Oberleutnant; 22.03.1912 Hauptmann; 1919 Major; Abschied 24.02.1920. Dienststellungen: 18.08.1898 2. Thür. Inf.Rgt. Nr. 32; 1898/99 Kriegsakadamie; 1900 2. Thür. Inf.Rgt. Nr. 32; März 1912 I. A.K.; 1914 GenSt. OBKdo. Heeresgruppe Kiew; 06.04.1916 GenSt. 8. A.O.K. und zeitweiliger Dienst im GenSt. der Südarmee; 1918 GenS...

  18. Jaroslav Pistek collection

    The collection consists of an issue of Kladderadatsch and nine pieces of scrip from Theresienstadt ghetto labor camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic).

  19. Jarreck, Walter

    Bestandsbeschreibung 31. Jan. 1903 in Gelsenkirchen geboren 1909-1917 Besuch der Volksschule 1917-1931 tätig als Bergmann seit 1919 gewerkschaftlich organisiert 1925 als Ringer in der Arbeitersportbewegung Teilnehmer an der Arbeiterolympiade in Frankfurt bis 1929/1930 Mitglied des Betriebsrates der Schachtanlage Westerholt seit 1931 Mitglied der KPD und des Stadtparlaments in Gelsenkirchen 1932 - 1933 Sekretär für Agitation und Propaganda im KPD - Unterbezirk Gelsenkirchen 1933 Mitglied des Provinziallandtages/ Kandidat für den Reichstag ab Feb. 1933 illegale Tätigkeit, Unterbezirkssekretär...

  20. Jas?a A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotaped testimony of Jas?a A., who was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1918. He recalls leaving Belgrade with his cousins and sister on April 6, 1941, when Germany invaded; traveling to a village on the Bay of Kotor; being joined by his family, except one brother who was a POW; brief hospitalization in Cetinje; organizing a Jewish partisan unit; transport of the Jews by the Italians to a military camp in Kavaje?, Albania in July; benign treatment by the Italians; ship transfer in November to Bari, Italy, then Ferramonti; prisoner-organized cultural, sport, educational, and administrative...