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  1. 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.

  2. 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...

  3. 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...

  4. 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...

  5. Bill G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Bill G., who was born in Satu Mare, Romania in 1930. He recalls his large and close, extended family; pervasive antisemitism; Hungarian occupation in 1940; anti-Jewish measures; his parents' disbelief that anything could happen to them; his older brother moving to Budapest; German occupation in 1944; ghettoization; deportation with his parents and sister; German guards taking over from Hungarians in Kos?ice; separation from his family in Birkenau (he never saw his mother again); his initial psychological trauma; help from prisoners in adjusting; his decision to be men...

  6. Processo de pedido de visto para Butter Worth, Alberto Ogden Pierrot, Samuel Brumer, George Barrel, Rodney Thomas, Leslie MacLeod, Andrew Wilson, Alvin Kinnear, Raimundo Alberto Baur, John Kemler, Bernardo Bramson, Luísa Thomas, Ida Campbell Brumer, Edith Campbell Brumer e Alice Marsh Pierrot

    Processo de pedido de visto à Legação de Portugal em Washington para Butter Worth, de nacionalidade americana, com destino ao Reino Unido. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto à Legação de Portugal em Washington para Alberto Ogden Pierrot, de nacionalidade americana, com destino a Portugal. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto à Legação de Portugal em Washington para Samuel Brumer, de nacionalidade americana, com destino a Portugal. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto à Legação de Portugal em Washington para George Barrel, de nacionalidade americana, com destino ...

  7. Eva L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva L., who was born in Ryki, Poland in 1922, the oldest of seven children. She recounts moving to Janowiec in 1925; attending public school; antisemitic harassment; brief hospitalization in Warsaw; caring for her family when her mother was ill; German invasion in 1939; anti-Jewish restrictions and harassment; forced labor; deportation to Zwolen?; separation from her parents and siblings (she never saw them again); deportation to Skarz?ysko-Kamienna; slave labor in a HASAG munitions factory; a Polish civilian worker giving her food and bringing messages from her fathe...

  8. Veronika S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Veronika S., who was born in Vráble, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1929, the middle of three children. She recalls celebrating Jewish holidays; Hungarian occupation in 1938; her father's six-month imprisonment for assisting Jews escaping from Slovakia; anti-Jewish restrictions; deportation to Levice, then Auschwitz/Birkenau in spring 1944; separation with her sister from her family; brutal conditions; a woman from her father's hometown giving them soap and a thermos, which saved their lives; transfer to a factory; slave labor; Italian male prisoners giving t...

  9. Gregor, Kurt

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners geb. 21. Aug. 1907 in Dresden, gest. 5. Mai 1990 in Berlin, Minister für Außenhandel und Innerdeutschen Handel 1923-1926 Ausbildung zum Maschinenbauer und Techniker, 1927-1932 Techniker bzw. Ingenieur in Arbeitsvorbereitungsbüros Dresdener Maschinenfabriken, 1929 Technikerreife, 1930-1931 Höhere Maschinenbauschule Dresden, 1931 KPD und Rote Hilfe, 1932 Betriebswirtschaftler, 1932-1938 Techniker bzw. Technischer Direktor in Maschinenfabriken in der UdSSR, 1938 Rückkehr nach Deutschland, 1938-1945 Leiter der Normabteilung bzw. Technischer Leiter in deutschen Ma...

  10. Tent camp

    Tents and flags in Palestine A girl seated in a tent looks up, speaking to someone. The tents with a white building behind them and more tents. INT boy sits on small stool next to an unmade bed. 01:10:50 A man sitting near a window looks back towards the camera, stands up, and closes a book. CU of a little boy wearing round glasses, another young boy in round glasses standing behind him. A man walks past and the camera focuses on him. CU of a little girl looking at the camera. People stand outside of a small shed in a field. White building with the tents in the BG at the top of the hill. An...

  11. Metzl family papers

    The Metzl family papers consists almost entirely of correspondence written to Leo and Josephine Metzlova from members of Josephine’s family in 1942. The majority of the letters are from Josephine’s mother, Martha Fleischner. Three letters in this collection are written by Fini to Leo and her parents. Other correspondents include the couple’s young daughter, Alenka and Fini’s aunt, Josephine Orlik. Also comprised is a school report card for Alenka, and identification cards issued to Fini, one of which entitled her to free public transportation in the city of Prague due to her illness. All of...

  12. Peska F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Peska F., who was born in Siedlce, Poland in 1920. She recalls a happy, affluent childhood; her father's death in 1930; moving to Warsaw with her mother and siblings; attending school in Krako?w; German invasion; ghettoization in Warsaw; the Judenrat providing resources for her mother to organize a soup kitchen; being overwhelmed by the surrounding suffering; celebrating Rosh ha-Shanah; her brother's resistance activities (he died in the ghetto uprising); escaping with assistance from a family friend; her mother's parting words (she never saw her again); hiding with a...

  13. Processo de pedido de visto para Roche, mulher de Roche, Finnegan, Gloin, Srª. Gloin, Corcoram, Moeel, mulher de Moeel, três filhos de Moeel, Khan, mulher de Khan, von Freyburg, Srª von Freyburg e quatro filhos do sr. Von Freyburg

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Bordéus para Roche, de nacionalidade britânica, com destino aos Estados Unidos da América. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Bordéus para mulher de Roche, de nacionalidade britânica, com destino aos Estados Unidos da América. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Bordéus para Finnegan, de nacionalidade americana, com destino aos Estados Unidos da América. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Bordéus para Gloin, de nacionalid...

  14. M.54.AMS - Documentation of the Stutthof Concentration Camp Museum in Sztutowo, Poland

    M.54.AMS - Documentation of the Stutthof Concentration Camp Museum in Sztutowo, Poland The Stutthof concentration camp was established shortly after the German occupation of Poland in September 1939, near the town of Sztutowo, Poland, approximately 40 kilometers from the city of Gdansk. During the war approximately 110,000 people were detained in the camp. Gas chambers and crematoria were built in the camp in 1943. The camp was included in the plan for the Final Solution in June 1944. Large deportations of Jews (mainly women) arrived in 1944, who were transferred from the Baltic countries a...

  15. District Notary Office in Stropkov Obvodný notársky úrad Stropkv

    Selected records pertaining to anti-Jewish regulations and decrees, the persecution of Jews, and Aryanization of Jewish property in the Stropkov district. The collection consists of minutes, notes, legal decrees and other documents concerning the Jews living in Stropkov. Files 1939-1944: handwritten minutes and notes of the General Council in Stropkov; regulations of the Stropkov government commissioner, relating to execution of anti-Jewish legislation; measures relating to Jewish real estate, immovable property of Jews who were deported. Files 1941: documents relating to various anti-Jewis...

  16. Friedrich Günser correspondence

    Correspondence sent and received by Friedrich Günser, originally of Vienna, Austria, who was interned by the British as an enemy alien in the early years of World War II, first in Camp Mooragh on the Isle of Man, and then at Camp Tatura in Australia. Includes one postcard from Günser's wife, Lilly (Cölestine), sent from Vienna (August 1940); a letter from Günser to relatives in New York (June 1940); an empty envelope that had contained a letter from Günser's father, Jakob, sent from Vienna (October 1941), and three letters from Günser to his wife Lilly (October 1941, January-February 1943),...

  17. Martin L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Martin L., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1916. Mr. L. speaks of his childhood; his enlistment in the Polish army in 1938; the defense of Warsaw in 1939; and his prisoner-of-war status in Stuttgart. He describes his return to Warsaw, then to the ?o?dz? ghetto in 1940; Polish collaboration with Germans; deprivation within the ghetto; and the deaths and deportations of family members. He recounts voluntarily leaving the ghetto with his brother; their arrival at Auschwitz; witnessing mass burnings of inmates; the murder of H?ayim Rumkowski by camp inmates; and transfe...

  18. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of the Somme

    This collection contains reports from the police on the population, records on strikes, sentences punishing anti-patriotic or anti-governmental activities and political parties or organizations, the press, records on youth movements, propaganda, associations and clubs, the general morale of the population; and lists of Jews living in the Somme. Contains also records on the attribution of Aryan administrators for Jewish businesses and property, deportation lists of Jews, Roma and resistance fighters. There were four places where people were interned: the Camp of the Citadel of Amiens (probab...

  19. Joffe family papers

    Consists of documents, correspondence, and photographs related to the pre-war and wartime experiences of Szymon Joffe (later Paul or Sam Jaffe), originally of Łódź, Poland. In May 1938, Mr. Joffe was able to immigrate to the United States, where he joined the American Army and spent the last months of the war as part of the American occupation of Paris, France. Includes wartime correspondence from family members who remained in Poland and perished during the Holocaust, documents related to his experiences in the American military, and extensive photos related to his wartime experiences and ...

  20. Makeshift military airport

    Men moving off in twilight silhouetted against sunset. Group of men kneeling in twilight. Officer in combat gear reading orders. American flag on left shoulder, men in this unit appear to be paratroopers. Planes have names such as "Windy City," "Bobbie Ellen 3," "Dinky," "Philadelphia Express." This is a portable metal runway. VS of men under wings of plane. LS, pan of plane landing. Jeep towing small artillery pieces. LS of many planes and/or gliders in BG of very flat area. DC3 taxiing for takeoff, towing glider, apparently with paratroopers. Series of shots of DC3s pulling gliders into a...