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  1. [Prisoners of War and forces laborers: treatment and punishment in Nazi Germany]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains various documents regarding the treatment of forced laborers from Poland and the Soviet Union in Nazi Germany between 1940 and 1943. Most of the documents are circulars issued by the Gestapo and signed by Heinrich Müller and Reinhard Heydrich giving instructions and regulations on the punishment of Polish and Soviet forced laborers who are accused of sexual intercourse with German women. While some documents also discuss the possibility of “Germanization” of foreign laborers, most regulations turn around the use of the so-called “Sonderbehandlung” which meant execution. So...

  2. [Testimonies given in Vilnius by Jewish refugees from German occupied Poland: Record No. 30]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Izaak Danciger, a 25 years old shoemaker from Sierpc testifies about the breakout of the war and how it affected the Jewish Community. He depicts how the Nazis invaded and at the beginning were very kind. With the arriving of the Gestapo the situation for the Jews declined rapidly. Jews, especially pious Jews, were humiliated and severely tortured. He, among with other unmarried Jewish men, was forced to sign a declaration that he will leave the German territory and never come back or he shall be shot. Afterwards, the group was imprisoned and tortured and mistreated until there were eventua...

  3. [The air raids on the Gestapo Headquater in Aarhus 1944]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    A pamphlet of the R.A.F. about the bombing of the Gestapo Headquaters in the university of Aarhus on 31.10.44. A illegal map of the University. A illegal paper coering the dead and wounded of the bombardement.

  4. [Wir rufen die Gemeinde auf]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    On the 5th of September 1938 the "Altfreundeverband" and the "Deutsche christliche Studentenvereinigung" was unraveled by the Gestapo. In this file publications of the DCSB in the years of 1938 and 1939 are seen. Dr. Reinold von Thabben discribes how the DCSV was foundet in 1890, how the association was working and how the faith and the guidance of God helped their members and inspired their work. It is pointed out that they should not lose their faith, eventhough the DCSB is forbidden now. Furthermore he is calling the Christian community for denomination.

  5. a) "Suchliste Gestapolager Edersee" (Nachkriegsaufstellung) - - b) Namentliches Häftlingsverzeichnis des Gestapo-Anhaltelagers Edersee nach dem Stand vom 17.5.45 (Nachkriegsaufstellung) - ...

    1. Gefängnisse
    2. Listenmaterial Gruppe P.P.

    a) "Suchliste Gestapolager Edersee" (Nachkriegsaufstellung) b) Namentliches Häftlingsverzeichnis des Gestapo-Anhaltelagers Edersee nach dem Stand vom 17.5.45 (Nachkriegsaufstellung) c) Bescheinigung der Gemeinde Edersee/ Kreis Waldeck, vom 8.4.45 bzw. eines in der Zeit vom 17.11.44 bis 30.3.45 im Gestapolager-Anhaltelager Edersee inhaftierten Häftlings (Nachkriegsaufstellung)

  6. a) Liste der in den Jahren 1933/1934 von der Staatspolizei in Brauweiler untergebrachten weiblichen Personen - ...

    1. Gefängnisse
    2. Listenmaterial Gruppe P.P.

    a) Liste der in den Jahren 1933/1934 von der Staatspolizei in Brauweiler untergebrachten weiblichen Personen b) Liste der von der Gestapo in Brauweiler untergebrachten Leute (Gestapo Köln, Abt. IV D.2, Sonderkommando Bethke) 1943 - 1944 c) Namentliche Liste "Sonderkommando Kommissar Kütter" 1944/45 (Nachkriegsaufstellungen)

  7. a) Verzeichnis von inhaftierten Personen in Österreich, welche durch die Gestapo in Konzentrationslager, Arbeitserziehungslager usw. überstellt wurden - ...

    1. Gefängnisse
    2. Listenmaterial Gruppe P.P.

    a) Verzeichnis von inhaftierten Personen in Österreich, welche durch die Gestapo in Konzentrationslager, Arbeitserziehungslager usw. überstellt wurdenb) Verzeichnisse von österr. Polizeidienststellen über in Konzentrationslagern verstorbene Personen (a+b = Nachkriegsaufstellung)

  8. Abba Kovner - Vilna

    Abba Kovner lived in disguise in a convent at the beginning of the German occupation in 1941. He was a central figure in the Zionist youth resistance movement in Vilna. He commanded an underground partisan resistance group throughout the war. He describes the way the Germans avoided panic among the Jews. Kovner maintains a poetic approach to Lanzmann's questions throughout the interview. This interview took place over two days in Kovner's Kibbutz Eyn Ha'horesh (between Nethania and Hadera). FILM ID 3236 -- Camera Rolls #2,3 -- 01:00:12 to 01:24:55 CR 2 01:00:12 Kovner sits outside on a park...

  9. Abraham Atsmon papers

    The Abraham Atsmon papers consist of identification papers, biographies, correspondence, reports, narratives, photographs, newspapers, protocols, and minutes documenting Atsmon’s family and pre-war life in Poland, his participation in a partisan brigade in the areas of Słonim and Brest during the war, his organization and leadership of a Holocaust survivor group (Sh'erit ha-Pletah) in the American occupation zone of Germany after the war, his support for the state of Israel, his emigration to Israel in 1948, and his subsequent efforts to record the Jewish resistance during the Holocaust. Bi...

  10. Abraham P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham P., who was born in Mir, Poland in 1909. He recalls the rich, Jewish culture growing up in Bia?ystok; learning several languages; Jewish holiday celebrations; attending medical school in Lie?ge, Belgium; his leadership role in Po'alei Zion; his parents's and sister's emigration to Belgium in 1932; German invasion in 1940; his parents' flight to Lyon in unoccupied France, then the United States; obtaining papers under a false name; hiding in Brussels; smuggling himself to Lyon in unoccupied France in 1942; joining the Resistance; his sister's incarceration when...

  12. Abraham W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abraham W., who was born in Drohobych, Ukraine (then Poland), in 1906. Mr. W. describes the roles of Leon Reich and David Herzog in his admission to university in Graz; his association with Nobel laureate Victor Hess; transfer to Charles University in Prague in 1931 due to antisemitism; becoming a pharmacist in Rava-Ru?ska in December 1939; learning of his mother's murder by a Ukrainian; ghettoization; friendship with the Pole selected by the Germans to replace him; and sheltering a woman escapee from a deportation train to nearby Belzec. He recalls a Gestapo operativ...

  13. Abwicklungsstelle Abteilung 6 (JUVA)

    1. Bundesministerium für Finanzen

    Dieser Sonderbestand hat die Beschlagnahme volks- und staatsfeindlichen Vermögens (vgl. RGBl I 1938, S. 1620f) zum Gegenstand. Es geht dabei um jüdisches Vermögen, aber auch im Vermögen katholischer Vereine oder das Vermögen von Sozialdemokraten. Der Bestand gliedert sich in zwei Teile: - Im ersten, allgemeinen Teil findet man unter anderem den Schriftverkehr mit der Gestapo, anderen Ministerien und mitbeteiligten Dienststellen. - Der zweite Teil umfasst die Mappen 1–509, die durch einen eigenen, sich im Bestand befindlichen Index, erschlossen sind. Diese Mappen enthalten konkrete Fälle. Au...

  15. AEG motor placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place

    1. Stefan Petri collection

    Electric motor placed on a workbench that concealed one of the hiding places Stefan Petri built in his home in Wawer, Poland. Stefan, his wife, Janina, and their son, Marian, were Polish Catholics. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland and began subjugating the Polish people. Uncertain of what might occur, Stefan built a basement hiding place concealed by a cabinet. In mid-1942, the Germans deported 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka killing center. Stefan learned that his Jewish dentist and friend, Dr. Szapiro, his wife Ela, and their adult sons, Jerzy and Marek had es...

  16. Affidavit concerning the heroism of Céline Demarez Morali

    Consists of a copy of a French affidavit describing the heroism of Céline Berte Morali, who was responsible for the rescue of several Jews by hiding them in the basement of her hardware store in Paris.

  17. Agfa Box 44 camera carried with a German Jewish boy on a Kindertransport to France

    1. Stephan H. Lewy collection

    Agfa 44 box camera, or Preisbox, given to Heinz Stephan Lewy for his bar mitzvah in March 1938 in Berlin, Germany. He took it with him in July 1939 when he left on a Kindertransport to France. When Hitler came to power in Germany in January 1933, Heinz was in an orphanage in Berlin, because his father Arthur was unable to care for Heinz by himself. In late 1933, Arthur was arrested because he was a Socialist and sent to Oranienburg concentration camp. He was beaten severely and had a heart attack, but was soon released. On March 11, 1938, Heinz became a bar mitzvah. Arthur was arrested for ...

  18. Agnes Feher papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Agnes Feher, originally of Miskolc, Hungary, who survived the German occupation of Budapest under a false identity. The collection consists eight pre-war and war-time photographs taken in Miskolc and Budapest, Hungary; postwar photographs in the Pocking, Germany, displaced persons camp and in Belgium; as well as identity and travel documents relating to Agnes Feher's immigration to Israel. Also includes a certificate of her journeyman level status.

  19. Aharon C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aharon C., who was born in Opoczno, Poland in 1921, one of seven children. He recounts attending cheder, public school, then Tarbut school; participating in Gordonyah; antisemitic violence; his older brother's emigration to Palestine in 1935; two brothers' conscription; German invasion; one brother's return; anti-Jewish restrictions; Germans taking community leaders for ransom, including his father; the community paying the ransom; his father's appointment to the Judenrat; ghettoization; working in the family bakery; volunteering in a soup kitchen; his assignment to b...