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  1. Royal Fusiliers cap badge worn by a British soldier and Kindertransport refugee

    1. Norman A. Miller family collection

    Royal Fusiliers cap badge worn by Norman Miller (previously Norbert Müller), a German Jewish refugee, during his service in the British Army from 1944 to 1947. On November 9, 1938, during Kristallnacht in Nuremberg, Germany, the apartment Norbert shared with his parents, Sebald and Laura, younger sister, Suse, and grandmother, Clara Jüngster, was ransacked by local men with axes. In late August 1939, Norbert, managed to leave Germany for London, with a Kindertransport [Children's Transport] two days prior to the start of World War II. Norbert was able to exchange letters with his family unt...

  2. Circular identification tag worn by a British soldier and Kindertransport refugee

    1. Norman A. Miller family collection

    Circular, compressed asbestos fiber dog tag worn by Norman Miller (previously Norbert Müller), a German Jewish refugee, during his service in the British Army from 1944 to 1947. Each soldier was issued 2 tags, hexagonal green and circular red, stamped with identical identifying information, including religion. The green tag was worn on a long neck cord with the red one attached to it on a short cord that could easily be removed without disturbing the other tag when a death had to be reported. On November 9, 1938, during Kristallnacht in Nuremberg, Germany, the apartment Norbert shared with ...

  3. Tallit katan brought to England by a British soldier and Kindertransport refugee

    1. Norman A. Miller family collection

    Tallit katan belonging to Norbert Müller (later Norman Miller), a 15 year old German Jewish refugee who came to London, England in September 1939. A tallit katan is a religious garment worn by Jewish men and boys with their daily dress. On November 9, 1938, during Kristallnacht in Nuremberg, Germany, the apartment Norbert shared with his parents, Sebald and Laura, younger sister, Suse, and grandmother, Clara Jüngster, was ransacked by local men with axes. In late August 1939, Norbert, managed to leave Germany for London, with a Kindertransport [Children's Transport] two days prior to the st...

  4. Prayer book

    1. George Pick family collection

    Imakonyv, a prayer book for women, with a clasp and a slipcase, used by Gyorgy Pick's maternal great aunt, Gizella, during the war when she lived in a Swedish protected house in Budapest, Hungary. Ten year old Gyorgy and his parents lived in hiding in Budapest, Hungary, from November 1944-January 1945. Hungary was an ally of Nazi Germany and adopted similar anti-Jewish laws in the 1930s. Istvan, an engineer, lost his job in May 1939 because he was Jewish. He was conscripted into Hungarian labor battalions in 1940, 1943, and 1944. After German setbacks in the war against the Soviet Union in ...

  5. Book

    1. George Pick family collection

    Memorial book, Kegyelet, received by Malvina Kornhauser at the funeral for her husband Samu Kornhauser, who died July 19, 1935, in Budapest, Hungary. The book contains an obituary for Samu, as well as mourner's prayers for various family members. Malvina used the book to press flowers (1999.282.3.1) from his funeral, between pages 10 and 11, the widow's prayer. The book was preserved during the war by Malvina, her daughter Margit Pick and Margit's husband Istvan and son Gyorgy. Malvina, ten year old Gyorgy, and his parents lived in hiding in Budapest, Hungary, from November 1944-January 194...

  6. Rossmann, Erich

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • N 1011
    • German
    • 1936-1953
    • Nachlässe 57 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 1,5 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners 1920 Direktor des Hauptversorgungsamtes Stuttgart, Abgeordneter, seit 1924 Mitglied des Württembergischen Landtages und des Reichstages (SPD), 1945-1948 Generalsekretär des Länderrates der amerikanischen Zone, 1948/49 Intendant von Radio Stuttgart/Süddeutscher Rundfunk, 1948 Generalsekretär der Europa-Union Erich Rossmann: Ein Leben für Sozialismus und Demokratie, Stuttgart/ Tübingen 1947 Lebensdaten 12.1.1884 geboren in Pößneck/Thüringen 1905 Politischer Redakteur der „Schwäbischen Tagwacht" 1911 Leitender Redakteur der „Donauwacht", Ulm 1914-1918 Kriegsdien...

  7. Sammlung Berlin Document Center (BDC): Personenbezogene Unterlagen der Reichskulturkammer (RKK)

    Bestandsbeschreibung personebezogene Unterlagen der Reichskulturkammer Zitierweise BArch R 9361-V/...

  8. Paul, Elfriede und Küchenmeister, Walter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Küchenmeister, Walter (1897-1943) Bestandsbeschreibung Elfriede Paul 14. Jan. 1900 in Köln geboren 1919-1921 Mitglied in der Freideutschen und in der Monistischen Jugend, der KPD und der Internationalen Arbeiterhilfe (IAH) 1918-1924 Ausbildung zur Lehrerin am Kloster St. Johannis in Hamburg, Lehrerin an der Mädchen-, Berufs- und Handelsschule in Hamburg-Harburg 1924-1925 Wanderschaft durch Nord- und Mitteldeutschland zur Vervollkommnung sozialpädagogischer Erfahrungen 1925-1928 Leiterin des Städtischen Kinderheimes am Großen Dahlem bei Hamburg, Besuch von Leh...

  9. Einrichtungen des Kriegsgefangenenwesens des Heeres

    Erschliessungszustand Die Akten sind vollständig in der Datenbank erfasst. Zitierweise BArch RH 49/...

  10. Pewter mustard pot owned by Otto Frank

    1. Ryan M. Cooper collection

    Pewter mustard pot owned by the Frank family. Otto Frank was one of three children born to Michael and Alice Frank in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He had three siblings, Robert, Herbert, and Helene. Michael had founded a family banking business, which his wife and sons took over after his death in 1909. Helene moved to Basel, Switzerland, with her husband in 1931, and Herbert immigrated to France in 1932. After Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany in January 1933, authorities quickly began suppressing the rights and personal freedoms of Jews, and boycotting their businesses. Shor...

  11. Corfu

    Lanzmann filmed the few surviving Jews of Corfou, Greece. Many are craftsmen who experienced deportation to Auschwitz and Birkenau. Some interviews take place in the synagogue and the cemetery. Additional reels of location filming show local merchants and shops. FILM ID 3406 -- Camera Rolls #4-11A -- Armando Aaron -- 01:00:08 to 01:24:10 Surviving Jews of Corfu walk down a street in Corfu, Greece with Lanzmann. The four survivors walk towards the camera. 01:03:05 Armando Aaron explains (in French) that on June 9, 1944, the Jews of Corfu (numbering 1,650) were ordered by the Germans to gathe...

  12. Omega wristwatch worn by a Hungarian Jewish man on the Kasztner train

    1. Bela Gondos family collection

    Omega steel wristwatch worn by Dr. Bela Gondos when he was deported from Budapest, Hungary to Bergen-Belsen on the Kasztner train with his wife Anna and 7 year old daughter Judit in June 1944. He purchased the watch in 1940 or 1941 and it was not confiscated by the Germans because it was made of steel, not gold. Jews were increasingly persecuted by the Nazi-influenced Hungarian regime. Bela worked on 2 or 3 forced labor battalions until released in 1942 because he was a physician. On March 19, 1944, Germany invaded Hungary and the authorities prepared to deport all the Jews from Hungary to ...

  13. Czechoslovakian commemorative Theresienstadt Memorial postage stamp, 50h, acquired by a former German Jewish inmate

    1. Irene and Henry Frank family collection

    Postage stamp commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Terezin (Theresienstadt) Ghetto Memorial, acquired by Irene Silberstein Frank and Henry Frank, former inmates of Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in German-occupied Czechoslovakia. Originally called the National Suffering Memorial, it was established in 1947 by the newly reinstated Czechoslovakian government and was renovated in 1975. The stamp depicts the large, granite, 7-branched menorah in the Jewish cemetery outside the crematorium building, along with flames, the red flowers planted in the 1945 National Cemetery, and barbed wire ...

  14. Czechoslovakian commemorative Theresienstadt Memorial postage stamp, 50h, acquired by a former German Jewish inmate

    1. Irene and Henry Frank family collection

    Postage stamp commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Terezin (Theresienstadt) Ghetto Memorial, acquired by Irene Silberstein Frank and Henry Frank, former inmates of Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in German-occupied Czechoslovakia. Originally called the National Suffering Memorial, it was established in 1947 by the newly reinstated Czechoslovakian government and was renovated in 1975. The stamp depicts the large, granite, 7-branched menorah in the Jewish cemetery outside the crematorium building, along with flames, the red flowers planted in the 1945 National Cemetery, and barbed wire ...

  15. Czechoslovakian commemorative Theresienstadt Memorial postage stamp, 50h, acquired by a former German Jewish inmate

    1. Irene and Henry Frank family collection

    Postage stamp commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Terezin (Theresienstadt) Ghetto Memorial, acquired by Irene Silberstein Frank and Henry Frank, former inmates of Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in German-occupied Czechoslovakia. Originally called the National Suffering Memorial, it was established in 1947 by the newly reinstated Czechoslovakian government and was renovated in 1975. The stamp depicts the large, granite, 7-branched menorah in the Jewish cemetery outside the crematorium building, along with flames, the red flowers planted in the 1945 National Cemetery, and barbed wire ...

  16. Czechoslovakian commemorative Theresienstadt Memorial postage stamp, 50h, acquired by a former German Jewish inmate

    1. Irene and Henry Frank family collection

    Postage stamp commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Terezin (Theresienstadt) Ghetto Memorial, acquired by Irene Silberstein Frank and Henry Frank, former inmates of Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in German-occupied Czechoslovakia. Originally called the National Suffering Memorial, it was established in 1947 by the newly reinstated Czechoslovakian government and was renovated in 1975. The stamp depicts the large, granite, 7-branched menorah in the Jewish cemetery outside the crematorium building, along with flames, the red flowers planted in the 1945 National Cemetery, and barbed wire ...

  17. Motke Zaidel and Itzak Dugin

    Motke Zaidel and Itzak Dugin are survivors of Vilna. They tell the story of their extraordinary escape from the Ponari camp, digging a tunnel for months, where the dogs that caught them backed away whimpering because the men smelled of death. The interview took place over two days in the forest of Ben Shemen (an Israeli forest resembling Ponari) and in Mr. Zaidel's apartment in Peta'h Tikva with the family of Zaidel. FILM ID 3782 -- Camera Rolls 2-4 -- Foret Ponari CR2 Lanzmann, Zaidel and Dugin meet in a forest in Israel which resembles the forest of Ponari, next to Vilna. Before the war t...

  18. RKF

    1. Staatliche und parteiamtliche Akten bis 1945
    2. Deutsches Reich (bis 1945)
    3. Inneres
    4. Reichskommissar f. d. Festigung d. dt. Volkstums

    RDV 46: Stabshauptamt, Korrespondenz mit Haupttreuhandstelle Ost (HTO), Reichsstatthalter im Warthegau, Zentralstelle der Deutschen Volksliste (DVL) beim Reichsstatthalter im Warthegau, Treuhandstelle Posen, Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt, Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer 1940-1944: Volkszugehörigkeit der Familie Eduard Czierniewicz und Verwertung ihrer Dachpappenfabrik zugunsten des kommissarischen Verwalters, 379 353-379 489, unter anderem: 1) Entscheidung des Obersten Prüfungshofes, 25. Mai 1944: Aufhebung der früheren Entscheidung der Zentralstelle beim Reichsstatthalter bzw. bei der Bezirks...

  19. Schriftgutverwaltung

    1. Staatliche und parteiamtliche Akten bis 1945
    2. Deutsches Reich (bis 1945)
    3. Polizei und SS
    4. Persönlicher Stab

    I. Reichsführer-SS/Persönlicher Stab [RFSS/ Pers, Stab.]: Oberst Iwand: Korrespondenz und Vermerke RFSS, Obergruppenführer Wolff, Oberst Iwand u.a., 19. Januar 1937-24. Dezember 1944: Unterstützung Iwand und Landzuweisung an seine Witwe [Originalakte Nr. 245], 2 547 558-7 743; II. RFSS/ Pers. Stab: [SS-Oberführer Kurt Ludwig] [Originalakte Nr. 246] fehlt, 7 744-7 745; III. RFSS/ Pers. Stab: Evangelische Kirche und NS-Staat, März 1938-März 1943 [Originalakte Nr. 247], 7 747-7 811, darin: 1) Korrespondenz Pfarrer von Bodelschwingh, RFSS/ Pers. Stab u.a., 03. April 1941-31. März 1943: Warnung ...

  20. Embroidered dress worn by a Polish Jewish girl in hiding

    1. Lola and Walter Kaufman collection

    Embroidered dress made for Lola Rein by her mother Dvoire in the ghetto and worn while she was in hiding near Czortkow, Poland, from approximately May 1943 to March 1944. In September 1939, the Soviet Union occupied Czortkow. Germany invaded in June 1941. Lola’s father Yidl died in the ghetto in 1942. On March 21, 1943, her mother was shot and killed while going to work. In May, Lola’s maternal grandmother Ekka sent Lola to hide with a Ukrainian woman. In August, the woman’s son-in-law threatened to turn Lola in to the Gestapo, so she took Lola to her sister’s farm. Lola and three other Jew...