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  1. Regina F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Regina F., who was born in Be?dzin, Poland in 1931. She recounts German invasion; anti-Jewish regulations; ghettoization; her mother leaving to have a baby and not returning; hiding during a round-up; being found; selection into a group of children, sick, and elderly; running to the group with her father and brothers; making it to the group next to theirs; deportation to Klettendorf; slave labor; crying for her mother; stopping when she realized she was on her own; starvation; transfer to Ludwigsdorf; slave labor in a munitions factory; older prisoners caring for her ...

  2. תיועוד מעזבונו של Reiner Heinrich, ה-Reichsstatthalter ב-Hessen, שנים 1919-1943

    Heinrich Reiner (1892-1946), engeneer in his profession, joined the Nazi Party (NSDAP) as early as 1923. After the National Socialist seizure of power in 1933, he was appointed to senior posts in the government of Hessen. From August 1934 to June 1937 Reiner officiated as deputy of the Gauleiter of the Nazi Gau (district) Hesse-Nassau. In April 1935 he became deputy of the leader of the Hessian state government and the State Commissioner (Führers der hessischen Landesregierung und des Reichsstatthalters). In January 1936, he was appointed Hessian State Councilor (Staatsrat) and in January 1...

  3. Paul G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paul G., who was born in Khust, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1927. He recalls his father's Zionism; attending a private, Hebrew-speaking elementary school; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions, including confiscation of his father's business; attending a Jewish gymnasium in Debrecen in 1939; German occupation in March 1944; returning home; ghettoization; deportation with his family to Auschwitz in May; separation with his father and brother from his mother (he never saw her again); their transfer to Buna/Monowitz; slave labor for I. G. Farben; assis...

  4. Irma M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irma M., who was born in Forchheim, Germany in 1925, an only child. She recalls her family's affluence; attending Catholic school; her sense of isolation, despite kindness from nuns; wanting to be part of the pervasive Nazi youth culture; living with an aunt in Bamberg; attending a Jewish boarding school in Horburg; being forced to break the school windows and march through town to have rocks thrown at them during Kristallnacht; returning home; finding her home vandalized and her father gone (he was in Dachau); their non-Jewish maid and doctor assisting them; her fath...

  5. Dora and Salo R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dora R., who was born in a suburb of Czernowitz, Romania, in 1926, and her husband Salo R., who was born in Czernowitz in 1919. Mr. and Mrs. R. did not meet until after the war. They both describe the rich cultural life of prewar Czernowitz; the large (60,000) Jewish population; the German and Russian occupations and the German re-occupation; the implementation of anti-Semitic action; and the mass murder at the Kulturpalast. Mr. R. recalls hiding in a gentile household at the onset of the German occupation; the ghettoization of Czernowitz; conditions in the ghetto; hi...

  6. Paul H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paul H., who was born in Chomutov, Czechoslovakia in 1914. He describes his family's completely assimilated life; medical studies in Prague; participation in socialist and anti-Nazi groups; German occupation in 1938; brief arrest due to his political activities; rearrest at the outbreak of war; deportation to Dachau as a Czech political prisoner; sensing he would not survive slave labor; pretending to be ill in order to remain in the hospital; transfer to Buchenwald; transfer to several prisons, then to Auschwitz in 1943; volunteering to work as a doctor; transfer to ...

  7. Altenberg family papers

    The Altenberg family papers include photographs, cultural programs and posters, and printed material documenting the Altenberg family of Antwerp, the work of Bernard Altenberg’s photo studio, and the educational and cultural work of the Jewish Artisan Association and Jewish Zugob school at 115 Lange Kievitstraat before and after the Holocaust. The programs and posters feature Marcel Pfeffer Patin and Annie Rutzky among other performers.

  8. Eugene Miller collection

    The Eugene Miller collection comprises subject files documenting Miller's interest in the concentration camps at Auschwitz and Treblinka; the Łódź ghetto (including images of Chaim Rumkowski and Hans Biebow); other ghettos and camps; war crimes procedures against John Demjanjuk and Adolf Eichmann; investigations into the identity and fate of Josef Mengele; Heinrich Himmler; Martin Borman; and SS personnel and organization. Most of these records are reproductions of original materials. The collection also includes original photographs of Jewish Holocaust survivors from Poland who studied med...

  9. Social Anti-Communist Committee ANTYK Społeczny Komitet Antykomunistyczny ANTYK (Sygn. 1346/0)

    Selected records collected by the Społeczny Komitet Antykomunistyczny ANTYK (Social Anti-Communist Committee ANTYK). Includes instructions, reports, correspondence, files of members of the Komunistyczna Partia Polski, KPP (Communist Party of Poland), the Polska Partia Robotnicza, PPR (Polish Workers' Party), and the Gwardia Ludowa (People's Guard), propaganda materials, documentation of the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, judgments of special military courts, and reports of the Armia Krajowa (Home Army), and various publications.The materials were collected and hidden in a secret archive-the so-ca...

  10. Подпольные партийные органы Могилёвской области в годы Великой Отечественной войны 1941-1945гг.

    • Untergrundparteiorgane der KB (b) B, Oblast Mogilew

    Уполномоченный ЦК КП(б)Б по Могилёвской области. Решения Уполномоченного ЦК КП(б)Б по Могилёвской области. Приказ Могилёвского подпольного обкома КП(б) о проведении диверсий и боевых операций на железной дороге и водном транспорте. Протоколы совещаний подпольных РК, докладные записки, сводки и сведения подпольных РК о проведении политмассовой работы среди партизан и населения и боевых операциях партизан. Переписка с ЦК КП(б)Б, БШПД, подпольными РК КП(б)Б, партизанскими отрядами о проведении боевых операций и сборе средств на постройку танковой колонны. - Могилёвский подпольный обком КП(б)Б....

  11. Germans in Occupied Ukraine

    Footage shot by a German cameraman during Germany's occupation of Ukraine in World War II. Footage with German photographers traveling through the Ukraine photographing cities, villages, and collective farms. The most extensive footage is taken with a female photographer from her trip to Ukraine in the summer of 1943. She traveled by plane and car from southern Ukraine (the Melitopol region) just north of Crimea, then along the Dnepr River northward over Dnepropetrovsk to Kiev and then due west to Rovno and then the border of General Government. Reel 7: 06:00:02 MS Wheat harvest, men and wo...

  12. Jacob and Frida Lewinter papers

    The collection consists of documents, correspondence, and photographs relating to the postwar lives of Jacob and Frida Lewinter and their children Sophia and Milka in Saint Petersburg, Wrocław, Poland, and Israel. Biographical materials include photocopies of identification papers, genealogical materials, and financial documents. The bulk of the correspondence consists of letters to Jacob and Frida from their daughter Sophia and her then-husband Arthur Segal. Photographs and albums include portraits and travel photographs of the family in Russia, Poland, and Israel.

  13. Elaine L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elaine L., who was born in Bilki, Czechoslovakia in 1923. She recounts six siblings; her father being killed in crossfire during Hungarian occupation in March 1939; learning of mass killings in Poland from an escapee; her brothers's draft into Hungarian forced labor battalions; traveling to Budapest to help her sister-in-law with their business in Berehove; returning to Bilki; deportation with her mother and sister to the Berehove ghetto; separation from her mother and sister-in-law upon arrival at Auschwitz (she never saw them again); transfer with her sister to Gels...

  14. Ursula M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ursula M., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1918 to a Jewish-Romanian father and a Christian mother who had converted to Judaism. She recounts attending school; expulsion of the Jews after Hitler's ascent to power and issuance of racial laws; remaining because she was a foreign national and child of a German non-Jew; her mother's refusal to divorce her father in order to attain "Aryan" status; her future husband's emigration in 1937; hiding Jews in their home during Kristallnacht; her parents' emigration to England in May 1939 (she was to follow shortly); her father...

  15. Rose Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rose Z., who was born in Piotrko?w, Poland in 1923. She recounts attending Polish Gymnasium; antisemitic incidents; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; German occupation; ghettoization in November 1939; smuggling food into the ghetto posing as a non-Jew; obtaining false papers; organizing illegal studies for the children; traveling to Warsaw as a courier for the Jewish underground; the ghetto's liquidation in October 1942; fleeing to Warsaw with her brother using false papers; contacting Tossia Altman, an underground leader; posing as a non-Jew, working at a shoe facto...

  16. David M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David M., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1926. He describes attending Jewish school; German invasion; fleeing to L'viv, in the Soviet zone, with his father and brother; Soviet occupation; returning to Warsaw in October 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions; returning to L'viv via Ma?kinia in spring 1940; arrest of his father and brother in April (he never saw them again); returning to Warsaw; obtaining false papers with assistance from non-Jewish friends in Otwock; ghettoization; the Judenrat and Jewish police assisting in rounding-up Jews; securing food for his mother an...

  17. Fluss and Lipow families papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of the Lipow and Fluss families of Berlin, Germany, including their immigration to the United States. Biographical material includes William and Bertha Lipow’s ketubah, immigration documents, correspondence, restitution paperwork, and photographs. Material related to the Fluss family includes identification documents and postcards.

  18. Reichsanstalt für Arbeitsvermittlung und Arbeitslosenversicherung

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Die Reichsanstalt für Arbeitsvermittlung und Arbeitslosenversicherung wurde am 26. Juli 1927 als Selbstkörperschaft im Aufsichtsbereich des Reichsarbeitsministeriums errichtet. Sie hatte ihren Ursprung in dem 1920 gegründeten Reichsamt für Arbeitsvermittlung, das seit 1922 die Bezeichnung Reichsarbeitsverwaltung führte. Die Befugnisse und Aufgaben des Präsidenten der Reichsanstalt gingen zum 21.12.1938 auf den Reichsarbeitsminister über, der die Hauptstelle der Reichsanstalt zum 01.01.1939 dem Reichsarbeitsministerium eingliederte und mit der dort sachli...

  19. Karin L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Karin L., who was born in the Wilmersdorf section of Berlin, Germany in 1929. She recounts her paternal grandfather had converted from Judaism and her mother was Protestant; visiting her paternal grandparents in Szczecin; her father losing his appointment as a judge in 1933 due to his Jewish ancestry; moving due to the loss of his income; living in the Wendenschloss area; her brother's birth; moving to central Berlin; problems resulting from the Nuremberg laws; her father forging documents for friends; his arrest on Kristallnacht; assistance from their non-Jewish rela...

  20. Susan F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Susan F., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1919. She recalls moving with her mother to Prague in 1933 to join relatives, her father thinking it safer; anti-Jewish measures in 1939 including expulsion from the family home; her father telephoning to tell them he had to report to a transport (they never saw him again); deportation with her mother to Theresienstadt in May 1942, then to Estonia in September; their separation in Raasiku (she never saw her again); slave labor in Ja?gala, Reval, Narwa, and Kivio?li; close bonds with her fellow prisoners which saved her from...