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  1. Werner R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Werner R. who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1927. He recalls his father losing his job in 1933; moving to Zagreb; attending public school; their Zionist, rather than Jewish, identity; his father's death in 1940; German invasion in 1941; being baptized with his sister; living separately from his mother and sister because it seemed safer; his sister's escape to Italy; working with the partisans; and arrest by the Gestapo in 1943. Mr. R. tells of jails in Graz and Vienna; transport to Terezi?n; cabarets and opera; German efforts to preserve Jewish books; and transport t...

  2. Magdalena N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Magdalena N., who was born in Ružomberok, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1920, one of two sisters. She recalls cordial relations with non-Jews; her strong Slovak identity; teaching Jewish students in L̕ubochňa; anti-Jewish restrictions, including the humiliation of having to wear the star; moving to Bratislava with her family; her father hiding them, then arranging for her and her sister to be smuggled to Hungary; interdiction in Senec; return to Bratislava; two strangers paying for their release; her sister's marriage to a man legally exempted from deportat...

  3. Celina F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Celina F., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1925, one of nine children. She recalls pervasive antisemitism; German invasion; the bombing of their home; beatings of Jews including her brother; moving to Koprzywnica with her mother; returning to Warsaw to rejoin their family; ghettoization; round-ups; deaths from starvation; deciding to escape despite not wanting to leave her family; traveling to Koprzywnica, then to Sandomierz; staying with a Jewish family; escaping during a round-up; hiding with a Polish family; returning to the Warsaw ghetto; learning her family had...

  4. Harry M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry M., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1920. He recounts his United States citizenship through his father; participation in Jewish athletics; pervasive antisemisitm; German occupation in March 1938; giving a Gestapo official their expired passport to ensure they could leave; leaving with his parents for Paris the same day; traveling to the United States three weeks later; arranging for relatives and his fiancee to join them; military conscription in 1943; infantry service in Europe; assignment as an interpreter in April 1945; choosing not to shoot German POWs wh...

  5. Hélène A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hélène A., who was born in Sevluš, Czechoslovakia (presently Vynohradiv, Ukraine) in 1926, one of seven children. She recounts a happy childhood; attending Czech public school; antisemitic harassment; Hungarian occupation in March 1939; her parents sending her with a sister to Budapest in 1942; working for a tailor; anti-Jewish restrictions; a Hungarian soldier from their hometown assisting them; obtaining false papers; hiding in their apartment during Allied bombings; denouncement; arrest and interrogation; transfer to Gestapo custody; deportation to Kistarcsa; re...

  6. Rose S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rose S., who was born in Minsk, Byelorussia, in 1921. She tells of her family's move to Kon?skie, Poland; the outbreak of war in 1939 while she was nearby in Przedbo?rz; fleeing with her boyfriend to Ostro?w Lubelski in the Soviet zone; his return; and her marriage to a local artist/musician. Mrs. S. recalls the German invasion; ghettoization; her husband's murder in an Aktion; working as a housekeeper for German soldiers; hiding during a round-up in which her in-laws were taken; being forewarned of Aktions by a German soldier; and escaping with false papers to Zdolbu...

  7. Jacques B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacques B., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1923. He recounts his family's emigration to Paris in 1924; their poverty; membership in sports clubs; leaving school for an apprenticeship at age twelve; German invasion; antisemitic measures; arrest with his brother in 1942; Gestapo interrogation; incarceration in Romainville; their transfer to Compiégne and Drancy; deportation in February 1943 to Birkenau; transfer to Auschwitz; return to Birkenau; separation from his brother; learning his brother was in the Zigeunerlager (Gypsy Lager); assignment as a chimneysweep, wh...

  8. Ire?ne Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ire?ne Z., who recalls evacuation with her family from Paris to the Nie?vre region after the outbreak of war; her father's death; living in a village for a year; returning to Paris; working with her mother in their boutique; her older brother's arrest and deportation (they never saw him again); hiding on July 16, 1942; arrest of her mother and brother; unsuccessfully trying to join them in the Ve?lodrome d'Hiver; learning they were sent to Pithiviers; arranging to hide her twelve year old brother; acquiring false papers in Lyon; joining the Resistance as a courier in ...

  9. Groningen in Oorlogstijd, interview 13

    1. World War II

    Günther Niemand had een Duitse vader die in Groningen zijn moeder had ontmoet en daar was gebleven om te werken en te trouwen. Later zijn ze naar Duitsland terug verhuisd, maar vanwege de dienstplicht en afkeer tegen het Nationaal-socialisme vluchtte het gezin in 1939 terug naar Nederland. Ook hier waren ze tijdens de bezetting niet veilig, want vader was een 'landverrader'. Op verschillende plekken hebben Günther en zijn moeder ondergedoken gezeten en vader hebben ze 3 en een half jaar niet gezien. Ze zijn ontsnapt aan de Gestapo, ze zijn beschoten door de geallieerden op een boot richting...

  10. Wilfrid Israel Papers

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This microfilm collection of Wilfrid Israel's papers consists of copies of original essays, memoranda, private papers etc covering such subjects as the Weimar Republic, the rise of national Socialism, German Communist and Socialist parties and trade unions, the Jewish refugee problem. Also a fairly comprehensive collection of the 'Political Group Papers' (1941-1943) from the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Committee on Reconstruction. The papers in this collection relate to his activities a...

  11. Hans Litten: Correspondence

    This microfilm collection of correspondence of Irmgard Litten contains copy letters to her son whilst in concentration camps Lichtenburg and Dachau; copy correspondence to various authorities including Hitler, Hess and Göring asking for clemency; and some original letters from Hans Litten and various authorities. Most of it is typescript.

  12. Kurt Paucker: Memorial Service

    This collection contains transcripts of speeches held at the memorial service for Kurt Paucker on 26 April 1980.Papers including speeches by Arnold Paucker; Werner Henle, Ph.D mentor at the University of Pennsylvania, colleague and friend; and Jan Vilcek and Clifton A Ogburn, colleagues and friends. The speech by his brother tells the story of their bourgeois upbringing in the Weimarer Republic in Berlin before their education was interrupted in Nazi Germany and the family was torn apart by the Jewish persecutions

  13. Esther Karpman collection

    Consists of three documents relating to donor's membership in the Zionist Organization of Poland, and one immigration certificate issued to the donor, entitling her to immigrate to Palestine.

  14. Documentary on the Holocaust for TV, with survivors

    Broadcast on TV on July 18, 1960 including fragments from "Night and Fog" (1956), this film opens with Dr. Gisela Perl, a survivor of the Holocaust. It shows an interview with Dr. Perl and other survivors, including Sonia Weissman (the donor's wife and a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto), Janus T (a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising), and Mr. Friedman (a survivor of Treblinka). Dr. Perl speaks of being taken away by the Gestapo. Her story is intercut with the famous Lvov pogrom footage although it does not relate to the story (see raw footage in RG-60.0441 on Film ID 402). The film then g...

  15. Schläfrig family papers

    1. Schläfrig family collection

    The Schläfrig family papers chiefly contain identification papers, correspondence, and photographs of Friedrich and Fanny Schläfrig of Vienna, Austria, who were at Theresienstadt from 1942-1945, and their daughter Marie Schläfrig who immigrated to England in 1938. The collection includes identification papers of Marie; a letter to Marie from David Broder following an interview he conducted with Friedrich in 1946; and photographs of Friedrich and his wife Fanny, Marie, and her brother Wilhelm. Letter from David Boder at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago to Mary Frotten in Winds...

  16. Prisoners of War Kriegsgefangene

    The collection Kriegsgefangene consists of several war-time prisoner lists of which two lists were reproduced by the USHMM: 1. Stammlager XVII B Gneixendorf/Sterbebuch/AdR/DWM/08 ("Gfg. Lgr. Gneixendorf, Totenbuch 2.8.43-26.4.45"). This list contains prisoners of war of various nationalities, including Americans, who died in the POW camp Gneixendorf between August 2, 1943 and April 26, 1945. The list of the dead includes Americans, Belgians, French, Italians, Poles, Romanians, Russians, Slovaks, Yugoslavs, and other nationalities. 2.The second list includes more than 2,000 prisoners from va...

  17. Selected records from the State Regional Archive in Modra, Slovak Republic

    Consists of World War II-era administrative files from the district archives in Modra and the wider Bratislava region. It includes reports, lists, and propaganda leaflets. Topics include Gestapo members and activities in occupied Czechoslovakia, the Hlinka Guard, the Sudetendeutsche Partei, the use of Nazi symbols and greetings, pro-and anti-Communist movements, and the writings of prominent individuals. A large part of the material pertains to antisemitic measures: the confiscation of Jewish property and the distribution of Jewish assets among Hlinka Guard members; prohibitions against Jew...

  18. Mickey Mouse figurine in a handmade frame

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn519804
    • English
    • a: Height: 2.953 inches (7.501 cm) | Width: 1.181 inches (3 cm) c: Height: 3.937 inches (10 cm) | Width: 2.756 inches (7 cm) e: Height: 4.055 inches (10.3 cm) | Width: 2.205 inches (5.601 cm) | Depth: 0.709 inches (1.801 cm) f: Height: 5.197 inches (13.2 cm) | Width: 3.150 inches (8.001 cm) | Depth: 1.378 inches (3.5 cm) g: Height: 5.197 inches (13.2 cm) | Width: 3.150 inches (8.001 cm) | Depth: 0.709 inches (1.801 cm)

    Box containing small Mickey Mouse figure framed by an artificial flower garland that belonged to Pierre Seel, who at age 18 was arrested on May 3, 1941, in Mulhouse in German occupied France for homosexuality. His mother created the boxed setting with the toy as a memorial device to remember and protect her son. The flower garland was originally part of her wedding veil. Pierre was brutally tortured for 10 days by the Gestapo and then sent to Schirmeck-Vorbruck, a re-education camp near Natzwiller Struthof concentration camp in Alsace. The torture and abuse continued and he was a forced lab...

  19. Testimony of Dora Rubina, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1915, regarding her experiences in Bialystok, the Vilna Ghetto, Kozlowa Ruda, Stutthof and other places

    1. M.11 - The Mersik-Tenenbaum Archive: Documentation regarding the Bialystok Ghetto underground

    Testimony of Dora Rubina, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1915, regarding her experiences in Bialystok, the Vilna Ghetto, Kozlowa Ruda, Stutthof and other places Life in Warsaw, 1939; escape with three actors to Bialystok; escape to Vilna; establishment of the "Remikat" (?)acting troupe in Vilna; names of the actors in the troupe; establishment of a theater in Vilna during the Soviet occupation; names of the theater actors; names of the performances presented in the theater; occupation of Vilna by the German Army, 24 June 1941; escape of the actors from Vilna; establishment of the Vilna Ghetto, ...

  20. Testimony of Ania (Rybalowska) Wincygsztern, born in Slonim, Poland, regarding her experiences in Slonim, Wolkowysk, Bialystok, Stutthof, Auschwitz and other places

    1. M.11 - The Mersik-Tenenbaum Archive: Documentation regarding the Bialystok Ghetto underground

    Testimony of Ania (Rybalowska) Wincygsztern, born in Slonim, Poland, regarding her experiences in Slonim, Wolkowysk, Bialystok, Stutthof, Auschwitz and other places Murder of 10,000 Jews in Slonim under the command of Hick, the Gestapo man, 14 November 1941; deportation to Rozana; transfer to Wolkowysk; forced labor with 360 young Jewish women from Bialystok; "Aktion" in Wolkowysk and in the nearby villages, 02 November 1942; transfer together with 336 young women to Bialystok by Munsfeld, 27 November 1942; forced labor in the Markowszczyzna farm owned by SS Und Polizei Fuehrer (SSPF) Helfr...