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  1. Lucien Dreyfus papers

    The Lucien Dreyfus papers primarily consist of five parts of a seven-part diary written by Lucien Dreyfus from 1940 to 1943. An intelligent and discerning man, Lucien used his diary to document his intellectual and social life as a refugee in the south of France, his observations on the rise of antisemitic laws and violence, his cardiac condition, his daughter’s family and their emigration to the United States, and his efforts to retrieve his confiscated property. The diary includes information about Lucien’s students, his opinions about the limited utility of assimilation in fighting antis...

  2. Eli C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eli C., who was born in Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1917. He recounts participating in Blau-Weiss; working at a Zionist summer camp with Teddy Kollek; his brother's emigration to Palestine in 1934; attending university; antisemitic harassment; Anschluss; warnings from their non-Jewish landlord of German raids; moving to Zurich, then Geneva; arrest in September 1939; expulsion from Basel to a Gestapo prison in Lörrach; transfer from prison to prison en route to Sachsenhausen; forced labor in a brick factory; beatings, hunger, and lack of sanitation; public ex...

  3. Shmuel G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shmuel G., who was born in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1923. He recounts attending a Jewish German language school; participating in the Bar Kochba swim club; his sister's emigration to England in 1939; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; studying plumbing; his father's death in 1940; slave labor for the Hlinka guard; release after four months; deportation to Sered; his mother hiding with non-Jews; bringing her to Sered with assistance from Alexander Pressburger, the head Jew of the camp; moving her out to a Czech family; his privileged position ...

  4. 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;...

  5. Henri D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henri D., who was born in Ploies?ti, Romania, in 1910, the youngest of six children. He recounts his close relationship with his grandfather; his father's leadership role in the Jewish community; his grandfather's death in 1918; receiving his grandfather's teffilin at his bar mitzvah; attending a Romanian school; a beating from the principal because he was Jewish; leaving school, vowing never to return; being sent to live with an aunt in Paris; attending the Sorbonne; working as a journalist and novelist; the death of his fiance?e; attending the Max Reinhardt-Seminar ...

  6. Robert M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Robert M., a Catholic, who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1921. He recounts a half-brother from his mother's previous marriage to a Jew who was killed in World War I; visits with his half-brother to his mother's first mother-in-law; his father's death in 1929; participating in a Boy Scout group; assisting Jewish refugees from Germany; attending university; German invasion; fleeing to Rouen, Les Sables-d'Olonne, and Toulouse; his brother joining the French army; returning home; participating in the resistance through Group G; giving his identity card to a Jewish woma...

  7. Okresný ľudový súd v Martine

    • District People´s Court in Martin

    Fonds of the District People´s Court in Martin is not extensive, however, it provides with relevant information about various case files pertaining the activities and crimes committed during the period of the Hlinka´s Slovak People´s Party (HSĽS) regime in 1938-1945, including the persecution of Jews in Slovakia. It contains documentation of the trials against some local party dignitaries and members (HSĽS and also Deutsche Partei) who were accused of propagation of the fascism and the ruling regime. Several cases refer to the activities of the Special Units of the Hlinka Guard (POHG) and t...

  8. Inge (Kollmann) Manes fonds

    Fonds consists of Manes' Star of David badge worn in Belgium, as well as documents and photographs documenting her and her family's experience of the Holocaust in Belgium. Fonds has been arranged into two files: Kollmann family file and Alice Schiffer file.

  9. Emil Spiro papers

    The collection documents the experiences of Emil Spiro, originally of Butzbach, Germany, who survived the Holocaust in Switzerland after arriving there in 1939 on a Kindertransport. The collection primarily consists of Swiss documents, immigration paperwork, and correspondence. Biographical materials include immigration paperwork, restitution files, and documents related to Emil’s life as a refugee in Switzerland from 1939-1947. Swiss documents also include papers requiring Emil to report to an immigrant labor camp in 1945, and letters from the Red Cross regarding his efforts to learn the f...

  10. Selected records of the District Commission to Investigate Nazi Crimes in Warsaw Okręgowa Komisja Badania Zbrodni Niemieckich w Warszawie (GK 182)

    Reports, correspondence, hearings of witnesses regarding the action of the Polish underground in Warsaw, materials about the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 - various information, studies, accounts, notes, list of executions, situational sketches and maps, list of commanders and military units; account of German crimes committed in September 1939; investigation materials against Erich von dem Bach, Heinz Reinefarth, Otto Geibel and other German commanders suppressing the Warsaw Uprising; study on the Chełmno (Kulmhof) extermination camp; materials on the "Gęsiówka" and Pawiak prisons in Warsaw; que...

  11. Jakob and Zofia Dymant papers

    1. Jakob and Zofia Dymant collection

    The Jakob and Zofia Dymant papers document Jakob Dymant’s escape from Poland during the Holocaust and survival in Japan, China, and India; Zofia Dymant’s wartime work for Walther C. Többens in Warsaw under her Christian alias; and the Christian aliases of some of Zofia’s relatives. Jakob Dymant records include identification papers, receipts, permits, immigration records, and an immunization certificate documenting his prewar life in Warsaw and escape to Vilna (Vilnius, Lithuania) and then, with a Chiune Sugihara visa, to Japan, China, and India. This folder also includes a postcard Dymant ...

  12. Secret Field Police, Bad-Nauheim Geheime Feldpolizei, Bad Nauheim (Fond 1369)

    1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

    Consists of the war diary with files on organization and personnel matters, cooperation with other police departments in security tasks in the Taunus (Usingen, Reifenberg during deployment for the campaign in France and later use in France, Greece and Soviet Union), partisans and resistance in occupied territories. Includes orders, reports, correspondence, name lists of personnel, and financial statistics. Note: USHMM Archives holds only selected records.

  13. Records of Jewish Youth Organization "Ring," Berlin Bund deutsch-jüdischer Jugend-Ring (Fond 1207)

    1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

    Group's statute; leaflets to local groups; name lists of members; reports and articles on Jewish history and the history of the Jewish Union in Germany; professional questions of young Jewish women; copies of the organization's bulletins; internal correspondence including notices of lectures and financial questions; correspondence with a German-Jewish youth organization in Mannheim, showing the organization's policies, activities, and eventual decline; and correspondence with the Jewish organization "Frontovniks." Note: USHMM Archives holds only selected records.

  14. Ruth Loewenstein papers

    1. Ruth Loewenstein collection

    The Ruth Loewenstein papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, and photographs documenting the Loewenstein family from Munich, the family haberdashery business called JKA, Willy Loewenstein’s military service during World War I, his imprisonment in Dachau following Kristallnacht, the family’s flight to England, their immigration to the United States, and their embroidered handkerchief business Wil-Low Handkerchiefs in America. Biographical materials include identification papers, military papers, and immigration records documenting the Loewenstein family, Willy Loewenstein’s...

  15. Archiv města Vizovice

    • Vizovice Town Archives / NAD 1154

    The fonds contains documents of the municipal self-government, deeds, official books, file material and accounting material. It contains only details about Jews: the great distillery of Zikmund Jelínek and Sons, the great distillery in Vizovice - purchase contracts, economic affairs, the inn in Zádveřice, construction plans, the appointment of a "faithful hand" during the 1888–1944 protectorate. The documents from the Holocaust period include the following: inspection and confiscation of supplies in the house of Josef Weiss, No. 417, by the Gestapo 1939; administration of Jewish property an...

  16. Archiv města Benešov

    • Archives of the Town of Benešov / NAD 3

    The fonds contains official books, files, accounting material, and photographs. From the period up to 1850, the archives contain books of decrees including a document by which Jan of Lobkovice waives the right to provide protection to the town of Benešov and to receive inhabitants of the Jewish religion into the town, inv. no. 50 (1848). There are also the censuses of the population in individual periods, especially inv. no. 795, call no. XIX B, Census of the Jewish Population (1850). Jews are explicitly mentioned in the following documents: Church affairs - keeping Jewish registries inv.no...

  17. Okresní úřad Sedlčany

    • Sedlčany District Office / NAD 7

    The fonds contains official books and files. The following documents are relevant: Conversion to the Roman Catholic Church and change of name Teresia Kohnová 1900; Jewish Religious Society 1904-1927, 1909-1937; Register of Jews: file 1940-1941 (A-K, L-W) with photographs; trade licenses 1940 (containing an inventory of Jewish property); Jewish religious communities 1938-1941; records of conversions 1938; The Record of Infectious Human Diseases 1940; Presidium files: Measures against agitation and political terror against Jewish citizens in connection with the exercise of their right to vote...

  18. O.1 - Ball-Kaduri Collection: Contemporary testimonies and reports regarding the Holocaust of the Jews of Germany and Central Europe, 1943-1960

    O.1 - Ball-Kaduri Collection: Contemporary testimonies and reports regarding the Holocaust of the Jews of Germany and Central Europe, 1943-1960 Dr. Kurt Ball-Kaduri was born in Berlin in 1891. A lawyer and legal adviser to the Prussian government, he was also active in Jewish affairs. He made aliya to Eretz Israel in December 1938. Dr. Ball-Kaduri, who was active in collecting material and writing about German Jewry, became aware that much material that reached the archives regarding Jewish life in Germany from 1933 to 1945 was incomplete, and that there were large information gaps. From hi...

  19. Serebrenik family papers

    The collection primarily documents the immigration of Otto and Lili Felberbaum Serebrenik, and their son Stefan, from Vienna, Austria to the United States in January 1939. Included are biographical documents such as birth and marriage certificates, and a family genealogy narrative; immigration paperwork including German passports, affidavit of support from David Felberbaum for Hermann and Marie Felberbaum, and naturalization certificates.The collection also includes wartime correspondence regarding Otto’s mother Regina Serebrenik (née Weiss), who was deported from Vienna to Riga, Latvia in ...

  20. Feiga Scheer collection

    1. Feiga Scheer collection

    The Fanny Scheer papers consist of writings, a passport, and photographs documenting the Scheer family’s experiences in prewar Załoźce, Poland (Zaliztsi, Ukraine), wartime Załoźce and Reniv, and postwar Opole. Writings include pages of Scheer’s 1943 description of her family’s experiences in Załośce and Reniv, Poland (now Ukraine) under Soviet and German occupation and a notebook including Scheer’s 1965 description of the fate of her family members. The passport was issued on March 13, 1946 in Warsaw, Poland to Fanny Scheer and her daughter, Cyla (Celia) and includes 1949 and 1950 immigrati...