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  1. Lilly R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lilly R., who was born in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia in 1924. She remembers a happy childhood; German occupation; antisemitic restrictions; living on a hachsharah (training farm) in Brno; her father and brother being rounded-up; returning to Ostrava; her father and brother returning; traveling to Prague to obtain documents for her father; studying at a Jewish school in Prague; returning to Ostrava; deportation to Theresienstadt; working in the gardens; smuggling food to her family; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau with camp officials including Fredy Hirsch (her parents ...

  2. Rumin, Ursula

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Biografische Angaben: 02. Dezember 1923 geboren in Faulbrück/Schlesien 1937 - 1940 Kaufmännische Ausbildung und Besuch einer Ballettschule 1944 Mitglied des Hiller-Balletts 1946 Vertreibung der Familie aus Schlesien; tätig als Tänzerin 1949 Journalistische Ausbildung (Volontariat) in Berlin bei Ullstein 1950 - 1952 Journalistin und Drehbuchautorin, u.a. für die DEFA September - Dezember 1952 Verhaftung durch den NKWD-Geheimdienst (Volkskommissariat für Innere Angelegenheiten der UdSSR) und Verurteilung durch ein sowjetisches Militärtribunal wegen angeblicher ...

  3. Ingeborg W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ingeborg W., who was born in Hannover, Germany in 1923. She recalls increasing antisemitism; expulsion with her parents and younger sister to Zba?szyn? in October 1938 because her father was a Polish citizen; assistance from Polish Jews; living with an aunt in Kalisz; forced transfer to Krako?w, then Szczerco?w; smuggling themselves to Warta; imprisonment in Szczerco?w; ghettoization in Warta; a public hanging of Jewish community leaders; separation from her mother and sister at a selection (she never saw them again); transfer with her father to the ?o?dz? ghetto; for...

  4. Refugee children in the Middle East

    In Egypt, a tent city with Polish children. Daily activities in the tent city. Children at the beach, engaging in athletic activities, eating bread, playing, studying, working, etc. Field school. Polish soldiers. Refugees in tents. Sign: "TEHERAN 3 KM/WARSAWY 4,371 KM." Sign: "SZKOLA POWSZECHNA NO. 3." Visit by officials, CUs. Stage performance, children and adults performing Polish dances. Detailed cescription with original narration: 01:38:05 Narration begins in Polish: "One key responsibility of the Polish Army in the East is the caretaking of Polish children in exile. Thanks to whom wil...

  5. Cyla S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Cyla S., who was born in a Polish/Ukrainian village in 1927. She recounts living with her grandmother in Buchach to attend school with her brother; antisemitic violence against her parents; Soviet occupation; German invasion in 1941; her father's beating by Ukrainian police; hiding with a non-Jewish family; moving with her parents and brother to Tovste; her father's disappearance during a mass killing; her mother's disappearance; hiding with her brother in a bunker; paying a local farmer for food and protection; brief separation from her brother; attack and retreat of...

  6. Okresný ľudový súd v Banskej Bystrici

    • District People´s Court in Banská Bystrica

    The fonds contains files pertaining the persecution of Jews at the territory of Slovakia (1938-1945). Some of the files contain the information on the so called aryanization of Jewish enterprise property in Banská Bystrica and other places (Podkriváň). There is also a file on the aryanization of the so called agricultural property in Zlaté Moravce. Then there are files pertaining the forced labor of Jews from Banská Bystrica and the activities of the Hlinka Guard in this regard. Various suspects were members of the Hlinka Slovak People´s Party (HSĽS) and the Hlinka Guard. The fonds contains...

  7. Humboldt University Archives records

    Contains documents, mostly from the 1930s, deriving from various bodies and faculties of Humboldt University, concerning the status of Jewish professors and students. Includes financial and administrative files pertaining to antisemitic activities at the Humboldt University.

  8. Rubin P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rubin P., who was born in Dyatlovo, Poland (presently Dzi?a?tlava, Belarus). He describes his Orthodox family; attending yeshiva in Dvorets; antisemitic incidents in 1938; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in June 1941; anti-Jewish laws; a mass killing on July 15, 1941 including his parents and younger sister; ghettoization in November; Alter Dvoretski, a Judenrat leader, organizing partisans; smuggling arms into the ghetto; hiding with his older sister during a mass killing on August 6, 1942; their escape; learning Dvoretski was murdered by non-Jewish partis...

  9. Akta gminy w Wojciechowie

    • Files of the commune of Wojciechów

    Karta A: XIX wiek, lata 1914-1918 - zarządzenia władz policyjnych i wojskowych, sprawy organizacyjne, personalne, wybory organów gminnych, księgi uchwał, protokoły zebrań, sprawy majątkowe, budowy i konserwacji dróg, leśnictwa, ubezpieczeń od chorób i ognia, rolnictwa, hodowli, zdrowia, szkolnictwa, opieki społecznej, policyjne i wojskowe, karne, sądowe, ewidencji i ruchu ludności, podatkowe, włóczęgostwa, finansowe, budżety - 190 j.a. okres międzywojenny - okólniki i zarządzenia, księgi uchwał, sprawy ubezpieczeń od ognia, rolnictwa, oświaty i kultury, wojskowe, budowlane, aprowizacji, wyz...

  10. Johannes-Sassenbach-Stiftung

    Bestandsbeschreibung Aufgaben und Organisation: Die Johannes-Sassenbach-Stiftung/Archiv und Bibliothek zur Geschichte der Gewerkschaftsbewegung (JSS) nahm am 1. Oktober 1990 ihre Arbeit auf. Sie ging aus dem Zentralen Gewerkschaftsarchiv und der Zentralen Gewerkschaftsbibliothek des FDGB (Freier Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund) hervor. Der FDGB war eine Einheitsgewerkschaft. Er war die größte Massenorganisation in der DDR und hatte im gesetzgebenden Organ der DDR, der Volkskammer, Fraktionsstatus. Der FDGB-Kongress, der im September 1990 die Auflösung des FDGB, einschließlich seines Dachverband...

  11. Dora S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dora S., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1913, the younger of two daughters. She recounts her father's emigration to the United States; his return; their move to Essen; vacationing in Sylt; attending private school; an antisemitic teacher giving her poor grades; joining the Jüdischer Jugendverband; her family's refusal to emigrate; her emigration to Amsterdam; assistance from the Jewish community; working as a maid, then a furrier; meeting her future husband, a Communist; working for Rote Hilfe/Roode Hulp; moving with him to Paris; his arrest by the French police;...

  12. Rehling, Luise

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • N 1152
    • German
    • 1924
    • Nachlässe 55 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 0,7 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Marlene Lenz, Luise Rehling. In: Christliche Demokraten der ersten Stunde, Bonn 1966, S. 295-312 MdB (CDU, 1949-1964), stellvertretende Vorsitzende der CDU/CSU-Fraktion (1964) Lebensdaten Luise Rehling geb. Dieckerhoff 30. Nov. 1896 geb. in Bochum - Harpen Studium (Geschichte, Anglistik, Geographie) in Marburg, Bonn, München und Münster 1924 Promotion zum Dr. phil. 1925 Heirat mit Superintendant Kurt Rehling 1945 Wahl in die Stadtverordnetenversammlung von Hagen Mitglied des Zonenausschusses der CDU, der interzonalen Frauenarbeitsgemeinschaft der CDU/CSU und ...

  13. Ariela Palacz photograph collection

    The Ariela Palacz photograph collection consists of photographs depicting Ariela Palacz, her parents, and her siblings in Paris, France, before and during World War II.

  14. Illeen G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Illeen G., who was born in Gol?shany, Poland (presently Belarus) in 1926. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; a large, extended family; her father's emigration to the United States in 1938; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion in 1941; trading with non-Jews for food; ghettoization; her sister's deportation; deportation to Dundangen; encountering her sister; slave labor building roads; a German soldier giving her extra food; her mother's and other sister's arrival in 1942; transfer with her mother and sisters to Kaiserwald, then a month later to Stutthof; encoun...

  15. Evreiskaia obshchina (g. Zagreb)

    • lsraeliticka bogoštovna op ina (Zagreb); Jewish Community of Zagreb

    The collection's contents are catalogued in one inventory. The collection's documents consist primarily of correspondence: internal community correspondence (on public events, the execution of intracommunity administrative duties, educational issues, religious issues, the distribution of Zagreb synagogue positions, and so on); correspondence with Jewish and Zionist organizations, including the Union of Jewish Religious Communities of Yugoslavia, the Ashkenazi community of Belgrade, the Sephardic community of Sarajevo, the Hochschule for Jewish Studies in Berlin, the Dr. Bernard Singer Jewis...

  16. Provincial Court in Lublin. Trial of Teodor Dak. Sąd Wojewódzki w Lublinie. Proces Teodora Dak (Sygn. 309)

    Files of the Provincial Court in Lublin, trial of Teodor Dak ("Krakus," d. 1974), for participation in "pacification" of Polish civilians 1943‒1944 while in the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) near Tudorkowice, Sztychorów (now Ukraine), Hunistyń (Hrubieszów county), and Chłaniów (Krasnystaw county). Dak charged under Decree of August 31, 1944 (“Sierpniówka,” issued by Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego regarding Nazi criminals guilty of murders and persecution of civilians and prisoners of war, and punishment of traitors to the Polish nation). Dak sentenced in 1972 under Article IV of the ...

  17. Meilach Lubocki memoir

    The memoir of Meilach Luboski of Kaunas, Lithuania describes his memory of the German invasion, life in the Kaunas (Kovno) ghetto, and his time in the Stutthof concentration camp. Included in this collection is the original copy of Meilach's memoir, written in Yiddish during the period when Lubocki was living in a displaced persons camp in Landsberg am Lech, Germany (circa 1945). Also included is a translation written by his brother, Charles Lubock, dating from the mid-1990s, and edited by Charles' son Paul Lubock.

  18. Judische Kultusgemeinde in Prag Gmina Żydowska w Pradze Jewish Community in Prague Židovská náboženská obec v Praze Żidovska Nabożenska Obec v Pradze (Sygn.102)

    Correspondence from the Foreign Department of the Jewish Community in Prague (Transfer Auslandsabteilung Israelitische Kultusgemeinde in Prag), November 1939 to July 1940. The Jewish Community staff had to send copies of replies to the Head Office of Emigration of Jews (Zentralstelle fuer Auswanderung der Juden). The letters from the Jewish Prague community had to be concise and refer only to emigration matters: including possibilities of departure, the route, information about affidavits, visas and other required documents, fees, transportation costs, lodging, deposits, etc. Included is co...

  19. Captured high-ranking Nazis, including Goering, Galland, Kesselring, Bodenschatz

    An American military truck carrying several high-ranking German officers arrives at an airfield. The officers get out of the truck and board a C-47 plane. Good shots but it is difficult to see their faces. The plane taxis and takes off. Shot of the sky and a formation of B-17s overhead. Sign beside a road lines with trees reads: "Only Road Surface Cleared of Mines." Two young women walk their bicycles down the road as American military vehicles drive by. An American interrogator stands beside a German general. Close-ups of the general. 01:15:47 Luftwaffe general Adolf Galland is shown on th...

  20. Mass family papers

    Immigration papers, restitution claims, photographs and other documents related to Moses and Dina Mass, Polish Jews who immigrated to Barbados from the Netherlands in 1932 and later to the United States in 1949. Immigration documents include Moses and Dina’s declarations of intention and letters from the Mizrachi Organization of America, which sponsored several members of the family. Restitution claims relate to inheritance claims of property of Moses’s father and uncles. Other papers include two letters in Yiddish, a newspaper clipping in Yiddish, and documents related to Jack Mass’s educa...