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Language of Description: German
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  1. Aleksander Kulisiewicz sound recordings - Poezja obozowa [PO]

    1. Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection

    10 sound reels including recordings of concentration camp poetry.

  2. Aleksander Kulisiewicz sound recordings - Taśmoteka Nagran Dokumentalnych [TND]

    1. Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection

    52 sound reels including various documentary tape recordings that Kulisiewicz compiled containing songs and poetry written in concentration camps, concerts by Kulisiewicz, interviews with Kulisiewicz and other musicians, and other radio or television programs.

  4. Aleksander Kulisiewicz sound recordings - Wystepy (Polska) [WP]

    1. Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection

    8 sound reels with recordings of Kulisiewicz's Polish performances.

  8. Alexander Primavesi papers

    The Alexander Primavesi papers contain German reports written by Alexander Primavesi relating to activities of the Gestapo in Dortmund, Germany between 1933 and 1945. The papers include records relating to the development of the Westphalian state police office in Dortmund, Arnsberg, forced labor, persecution of Jews, religious communities and other minorities in the district of Arnsberg. The Alexander Primavesi papers primarily contain German reports written by Alexander Primavesi concerning Gestapo activity in Dortmund Germany from 1933-1945. The contents of each report are as follows: Fol...

  9. Alexander R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alexander R., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1908. Mr. R. recalls his youth in a prominent, assimilated family; loss of the family shoe store during the 1919 Communist regime; suppression of the Communists; return of the family business; antisemitism in school and university admissions; law studies; and receiving his doctorate in 1930. He recounts his law apprenticeship with a Jewish politician; military service starting in 1931; attending officer candidate school; antisemitic incidents; discharge in 1932; return to law practice; the political shift to the right...

  10. Alfred B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alfred B., a non-Jew, who was born in the Schaerbeek section of Brussels, Belgium in 1917. He recalls frequent visits to relatives in Paris and Normandy; attending school, then university, in Brussels; strong anti-Rexist feelings, resulting in active participation in a liberal student group; military enlistment; call-up in 1939; German invasion; capture; transfer to Emmerich; assistance from the Red Cross; forced labor in Alt Garge and Fallingbostel; a German official taking him to his home in Hannover; release; returning home; attending university; working with the r...

  11. Alfred Fabian papers

    1. Alfred Fabian collection

    The Alfred Fabian papers consist of identification papers and photographs documenting Holocaust survivor Alfred Fabian, the Buchenwald camp, family members who perished in the Holocaust, and Fabian’s immigration to the United States. Identification papers include Fabian’s provisional identification card for civilian internees of Buchenwald and his Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society identification certificate. Photographs depict a pile of corpses at Buchenwald, Weimar citizens on a forced visit to the liberated camp, flags in front of a sign expressing the gratitude of liberated Czechoslovakian Bu...

  14. Alfred K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alfred K., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1921, the youngest of three brothers. He recounts attending public school; antisemitic harassment; participating in socialist and Zionist organizations; Austrians welcoming the Germans during the Anschluss; one brother emigrating to relatives in the United States, the other, as a physician with a Kindertransport, to England; the concierge protecting him and his parents during Kristallnacht; fleeing with an aunt and uncle to Belgium; living in Antwerp; placement in Merksplas refugee camp; German invasion; fleeing to France;...

  17. The Alfred Schwarzbaum Collection

    Alfred Schwazrbaum has been called a "one man aid and rescue operation". The GFH Schwarzbaum collection holds hundreds of documents, including letters and postcards sent to Schwarzbaum from Poland and from Jews living outside Poland, asking him for help or inquiring about relatives in Poland, receipts for parcel deliveries and correspondences with Jews in Poland and elsewhere.

  18. Alfred T. (23.12.1902, Köln, mosaisch, deutsch), Rassenschande, Schutzhaft nach Strafverbüßung von 1 1/2 Jahren Gefängnis, KZ Sachsenhausen, KZ Groß-Rosen

    1. Geheime Staatspolizei (Gestapo)
    2. Gestapo Düsseldorf
    3. Staatspolizeileitstelle Düsseldorf
    4. Ermittlung und Inhaftierung (Einzelfälle)

    Enthält u.a.: Handschriftliche Gesuche des Alfred T. mit der Bitte um Haftentlassung und Aufhebung der Schutzhaft zwecks Auswanderung; 2 Zeitungsartikel über Alfred T. und seine deutsche 'Braut' Darin: Fotos

  20. Alice and John Fink papers

    1. Alice and John Fink collection

    The Alice and John Fink papers include biographical materials, photographs, printed materials, and subject files documenting Alice and John, their families in Germany, Alice’s nursing education and work in England, John’s survival in concentration camps during the Holocaust, and the couple’s work at the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp after the war. Biographical materials include identification, education, employment, displaced persons, and restitution papers documenting John and Alice Fink as well as their ketubah. John Fink materials include his Bar Mitzvah certificate, school report...