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  1. Adele B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Adele B., who was born in Bussum, Netherlands in 1937. She recalls uniformed men putting them out of their home in 1942; living with her grandparents in Amsterdam; her grandparents being taken away; placement of her younger brother by a church group, which did not tell them where he was to minimize the danger; her father bringing her to live with a family in Laren; knowing she could not reveal she was Jewish; occasional visits from her mother (her parents hid separately); wonderful care from the older children in her foster home; her foster father bringing her to his ...

  2. Adele J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Adele J., who was born in Vilna, Poland in 1924. Mrs. J. describes her family; Soviet occupation; confiscation of her father's textile business; the Lithuanian government; German invasion on June 22, 1941; immediate arrest and disappearance of many Jews; her parents' deaths within three weeks of each other; joining her uncle's family in Kovno with her sister; life in the Kovno ghetto; being spared from transports due to a document verifying her mother worked for Germany in World War I; a year of forced labor in the ghetto; liquidation of the Kovno ghetto in 1943; sepa...

  3. Adele J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Adele J., who was born in Belgium in 1936, the youngest of three children. She recalls the family's unsuccessful attempt to escape to Switzerland after German invasion in 1940; their internments in Rivesaltes, Brens, and Gurs between 1940-1943; her father working as a carpenter and her mother working in the kitchen in Rivesaltes; her father hiding to escape deportation; being smuggled out of Rivesaltes by the OSE into Switzerland with her siblings and other children in June 1943; three months in a detention camp; and living in a children's home. She describes not reco...

  4. Adele R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Adele R., who was born in Mezőkovácsháza, Hungary in 1922, the sixth of sixteen children from her father's third marriage and her mother's first. She recalls their relative affluence; believing she was protected by God from age eight; attending public school; being tutored in Hebrew; living with an uncle in the next village when she was sixteen; her brothers' drafts into Hungarian slave labor battalions; deportation with her parents and some siblings to Auschwitz in August 1945; separation from her parents, brother, sister and her children; encountering another sis...

  5. Adele R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Adele R., who was born in Hajduböszörmény, Hungary in 1931, the fifth of seven children. She recalls antisemitic harassment in school; ghettoization in 1944; draft of her father and two older brothers into a slave labor battalion; transfer with her family to a brick factory in Debrecen, then to Strasshof; slave labor shoveling snow and coal; her mother bringing them extra food; fasting on Yom Kippur; a forced march to Mauthausen; piles of corpses and starvation; transfer to Gunskirchen; liberation by United States troops; hospitalization; escaping with others to fi...

  6. Adele Szamet Rubinstein collection

    Collection of photographs depicting members of the Szamet and Weiss families in Hungary before, during, and after the war in Displaced Persons camps; a collection of documents relating to Adele Szamet’s (donor) life after the liberation from the Mauthausen and Gunskirchen concentration camps, which she survived with her mother, Irene Weiss Szamet. The Szamet family lived in Hajdúböszörmény, Hungary; they were forced into a ghetto and later transferred to the Debrecen ghetto; in June 1944 they were deported to the Strasshof camp in Austria and from there to the Mauthausen concentration camp ...

  7. Adele W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Adele W., who was born in Be?dzin, Poland in 1922, the oldest of eight children. In addition to information included in a subsequently recorded testimony (HVT-2558), Ms. H. recalls transfer from Malchow to Taucha; traveling after the war, including to Budapest and Cremona after the war; her uncle organizing a ship for their illegal emigration to Palestine in 1946; and sharing her story with her family. She shows photographs.

  8. Adele W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Adele W., who was born in Be?dzin, Poland in 1922, the oldest of eight children. She recalls German invasion in 1939; round-ups of Jews; forced relocation to another home; hiding in a storage room with her family during round-ups; ghettoization; hiding in a bunker during a major round-up; hearing shooting in the streets; leaving the bunker to join her father when he was caught; detention in the ghetto; separation from her father; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; meeting two aunts and a cousin; forced labor in a munitions factory; giving extra food from her aunt to a...

  9. Adele W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Adele W., who was born in Secovce, Czechoslovakia, in 1930, the youngest of thirteen children. She discusses prewar family and religious life in Satu Mare, Romania; ghettoization during German occupation; and her deportation to Auschwitz, where she was separated from her father upon arrival and remained with her sister from May until October, 1943. She recalls the selection during which she was separated from her sister, who was chosen for death, while she was sent with a forced labor transport to Horneburg, where she worked in a factory until her liberation by the Ru...

  11. Adenauer, Konrad

    Zitierweise BArch BSG 11/...

  12. Adjutantur der Wehrmacht beim Führer und Reichskanzler

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Ein Teil der Überlieferung befand sich bereits bis Kriegsende im Heeresarchiv des Deutschen Reiches. Größtenteils wurden die Archivalien seit Gründung der DDR in deren Militärarchiv übernommen (ehemals Bestand W 01). Aufgrund der Übernahme in das Militärarchiv der DDR kann davon ausgegangen werden, dass der alte Lagerungsort bis zum Kriegsende das Heeresarchiv Dresden gewesen sein muss. Von einigen im Bestand befindlichen Unterlagen kann der Herkunftsort ebenso wenig bestimmt werden wie der Zeitpunkt, an dem die Unterlagen in das Bundesarchiv-Militärarchiv ge...

  13. Adler and Blau families papers

    Passports, documents, correspondence, and related materials documenting the immigration of Richard F. Adler and Alice (nee Blau) Adler to the United States, from Nazi occupied Austria, in the late 1930s, and their experiences as recent immigrants in the United States. Also includes documents related to their lives and those of their respective families in Austria prior to emigration.

  14. Adler and Cohn families collection

    Materials related to the Adler and Cohn (later Cornell) families including a photo, photo album, postcard album, album of Dutch documents, documents, poems, a handmade painted flower, a Dutch medal, cookbooks, a brochure and commemorative materials related to Bad Mergentheim, Germany, and papers related to honoring Jan Sprey as a Righteous Among the Nations at Yad Vashem and by the government of The Netherlands. Also includes a letter to Bad Mergentheim regarding the Stolpersteine petition.

  15. Adler and Gumpert family papers

    One file of documents pertaining to the family of the donor's parents and their families, including copies of correspondence from Johanna Adler (donor's grandmother), written from Heilbronn, Germany, to the donor's father, Robert Adler, 1940-1941, after he had immigrated to the United States and shortly before her deportation to Theresienstadt. Also includes restitution paperwork for the donor's mother, Rolande (Meyerfeld) Gumpert, documenting her efforts to obtain compensation for properties belonging to her late husband's family in Heilbronn and her own family in Giessen, 1964-1966, and a...

  16. Adler and Houska families collection

    Fur coat entrusted to the Houska family by Jewish friends Richard, Elsa and Hanus Adler prior to their deportation. The Adlers were deported to the Łódź ghetto and murdered in Chelmno. Also donated is a contemporary photograph of Mr. Houska and a period wedding photograph.

  17. Adler family collection

    The collection consists of sets of tefillin and Jewish prayer books, relating to the experiences of Otto Adler and his parents, Serena Fell Adler and Mihail Adler, in Romania and Poland during and after the Holocaust.

  18. Adler family papers

    Consists of correspondence received by the Adler family while they were residing as refugees in Switzerland. The letters, primarily addressed to the donor's parents, Camillo Adler (1905-1985) and Martha Kraus (1901-1969), were from other refugees and forced laborers from refugee and labor camps.

  19. Adler family papers

    Collection of papers, correspondence and ephemera of the Adler family who emigrated to the UK in 1936.

  20. Adler family: official personal documents

    Collection of official personal documents, correspondence and press cuttings of members of the Adler family who emigrated to the UK in 1936. Includes certificates of birth and death, speeches, work references, certificates of naturalisation, passports, marriage certificates, declaration of acquisition of British nationality and school reports of Bruno and Meta Adler (1664/1), Erich and Ursula Adler (1664/2), Moritz Israel and Elise Mecklenburg (1664/3), and Feist and Betty Landau (1664/4).