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  1. Joint testimony of Esther (Faktorovsky) Friedman, born in Vilkaviskis, Lithuania, 1922, and Rivke Faktorovsky, born in Kalvarija, Lithuania, regarding their experiences in Vilkaviskis and using a false identity

    1. O.71- Koniuchowsky Collection: Testimonies Regarding the Holocaust of Lithuanian Jewry, 1945-1981

    Joint testimony of Esther (Faktorovsky) Friedman, born in Vilkaviskis, Lithuania, 1922, and Rivke Faktorovsky, born in Kalvarija, Lithuania, regarding their experiences in Vilkaviskis and using a false identity Life before the war in Vilkaviskis. German occupation, 23 June 1941; establishment of a local civil administration by Lithuanians under the leadership of Draugelis; murder of Jewish men, 28 July 1941; looting of Jewish owned property; transfer of Jewish women to labor for the farmers in the area; activities of the head of the German police, Krause; concentration of Jewish women in a ...

  2. Nuremberg Trials - IMT Collection

    The Nuremberg Trials - IMT Collection is a wide-range collection of documents related to the well-known trial against 23 major Nazi war criminals, held by the International Military Tribunal (IMT) in Nuremberg between 1945 and 1946. Nuremberg documentation includes: the trial’s transcripts, the archival series NG (Nazi Government), NO (Nazi Organization), OKW (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, Supreme Command of the Armed Forces), NI (Nazi Institutions), RSHA (Reichssicherheitshauptamt, Reich Security Head Office), SD (Sicherheitsdienst, Security Service), Gestapo (Geheime Staatspolizei, Secret S...

  4. [Gestapo Records Düsseldorf IV]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    This file is the fourth part of a series of historical documents from the Gestapo Offices in Düsseldorf. The file contains circulars and administrative correspondence regarding the stay of Jewish people issued by the Gestapo and distributed to various districts and cities in the Lower Rhine Region (Kleve, Viersen, Neuss) between March 1938 and June 1938. The circulars and correspondence mainly deal with Jewish people searched by the Gestapo and the treatment of Émigrés returning to Germany. The circulars give information on the person in question, inquire his or her whereabouts, and demand ...

  5. [Gestapo Records Düsseldorf III]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    This file is the third part of a series of historical documents from the Gestapo Offices in Düsseldorf. The file contains about 30 circulars and administrative correspondence regarding the stay of Jewish people issued by the Gestapo and distributed to various districts and cities in the Lower Rhine Region (Kleve, Viersen, Neuss) between October 1937 and April 1938. The circulars and correspondence mainly deal with Jewish people searched by the Gestapo and the treatment of Émigrés returning to Germany. The circulars give information on the person in question, inquire his or her whereabouts, ...

  6. "A Hungarian Jew Looks Back: A Personal Account of the Pre-World War II Times and the War Years"

    1. Robert Winkler collection

    Contains a memoir written circa 1992, with information about Robert Winkler's childhood; family experiences and national events in Hungary during the war years; the German occupation of 1944; Winkler's forced labor in Hungary; escape and capture; forced service with a Gestapo unit; re-escape and "passing" with false identification as a Hungarian gentile; service as a "gentile" in the Hungarian army; liberation by the Red Army. Also included is a postscript with information about the subsequent fate of some of the people mentioned in the memoir.

  7. Enregistrement du courrier arrivée ; 2 mars-21 septembre 1944. Minutes du courrier départ ; avril-septembre 1944 (fragments). Synthèses du courrier ; avril-août 1944. Commission de contrôle postal des prisonniers de guerre : rapports quotidiens ; mars-septembre 1942 (série très incomplète, ces rapports ayant été interceptés ; ils portent en effet le cachet de la direction des prisonniers de guerre, 3e bureau et se trouvent dans une chemise au timbre de la S.A.P.). Documentation sur le secours national et la composition du gouvernement de Vichy. Synthèse sur les réfugiés. Les chantiers de la jeunesse. L'organisation Todt en France. Statut des ouvriers français en Allemagne. Exposé sommaire du système du gouvernement nazi. Les chefs du parti nazi. La Gestapo. Etude sur la déportation. Prisonniers rapatriés (renseignements provenant en majorité du service d'accueil et d'information auprès des prisonniers rapatriés en gare de Mâcon en 1942 et juillet 1944 ; ces documents portent le cachet de la direction des prisonniers de guerre, ils ont été interceptés et placés dans une chemise au timbre de la S.A.P.). Brochures imprimées : Les prisonniers, déportés et internés français en Allemagne (liste des camps) ; Condition des ouvriers français en Allemagne ; Les prisonniers de guerre français en Allemagne ; Action et organismes du gouvernement de Vichy pour les prisonniers de guerre. Tableau indiquant les effectifs des prisonniers alliés dans les camps où se trouvent des Français ainsi que les effectifs français au 15 mai 1944. Etat du nombre total de Français en Allemagne ; 28 juillet 1944. Répartition des prisonniers, déportés et internés dans les différentes zones d'occupation alliées ; 19 août 1944. Etude sur les auberges de la jeunesse en Allemagne.

    1. Affaires militaires, prisonniers de guerre. Tome 2
    2. MINISTERE des PRISONNIERS, DEPORTES et REFUGIES.
    3. Mission à Londres.
    4. Service d'action et de propagande. Section documentation et archives (S.A.P.) :

  8. Ilona Foldes papers

    The Ilona Foldes papers consist of English and Hungarian versions of Foldes’ memoir, “The Unknown Destiny,” a postwar photograph of Ilona Foldes, a prewar photograph of her first husband, Arthur Révész, and three prewar and wartime photographs of their son, Paul Révész. The papers also include a clipping about the 1976 Hungarian film “Kísértet Lublón” (“Haunted Lublon” or “The Phantom on Horseback”) based on Mikszáth Kalman’s serial novel. The clipping was found among the photographs, and although its relationship with the photographs is unclear, it is considered part of the collection.

  9. Prayer book

    Prayer book belonging to David Halberstam in which he inscribed dates and information about his and his first family's capture and experiences. David was originally from Gorlice, Poland, and survived multiple concentration camps. His wife and his father were deported and killed at Belzec killing center. After the war, he emigrated to North America.

  10. Documentation from the Landratsamt Saarbruecken (Saarbruecken district authority) in the Saar region

    Documentation from the Landratsamt Saarbruecken (Saarbruecken district authority) in the Saar region

  11. Namenliste (alphabetisch) jüdischer Personen aus dem von der Gestapo Düsseldorf überwachten Gebiet. Sie wurden am 27.01.41 nach Litzmannstadt (Ghetto) transportiert. Begleitend diverse Korrespondenz und folgende Listen: ...

    1. Transportlisten Gestapo

    Namenliste (alphabetisch) jüdischer Personen aus dem von der Gestapo Düsseldorf überwachten Gebiet. Sie wurden am 27.01.41 nach Litzmannstadt (Ghetto) transportiert. Begleitend diverse Korrespondenz und folgende Listen:1) Statistische Berichte aus Düsseldorf, Duisburg, Essen, Krefeld, Mönchengladbach, Oberhausen und Bezirken von Neuss und Viessen (8 Blätter)2) Zwei Listen (datiert auf 17. und 24.10.41), Personen, die für den Transport vorgeschlagen wurden sowie die Transportliste vom 27.10.41 (50 Namen, 10 Blätter)3) Eine Liste mit Personen, die für den Transport vorgeschlagen wurden sowie ...

  12. Notitie over het resultaat van een dienstreis van Rademacher naar Belgrado met het doel na te gaan of "het probleem" van 8000 aldaar geconcentreerde J...

    1. Proces Eichmann

    Notitie over het resultaat van een dienstreis van Rademacher naar Belgrado met het doel na te gaan of "het probleem" van 8000 aldaar geconcentreerde Joden "ter plaatse" geregeld kan worden. Het probleem was minder groot dan het leek. Bij zijn aankomst bleken al 2000 van hen wegens represaille te zijn gefusilleerd (voor elke Duitse soldaat 100 Serven). Verder bleek dat het niet om 8000 maar om 4000 Joden ging, waarvan "maar 3500 doogadgeschoten konden worden* (500 had de Gestapo nodig voor medische hulp en als ordedienst in het gehtto)." Aan het Duitse gezantschap is verder te verstaan gegev...

  13. Book Neujahrsfest und Versöhnungstag = Seder tefilot kol ha-shanah.

    1. Arthur Cohn and Leo Nast collection

    Siddur brought with Arthur Cohn when he escaped from Breslau, Germany, with his wife Johanna and 18 year old daughter Irma in May 1940. The appointment of Hitler as Chancellor in 1933 led to increasingly harsh persecution of the Jewish population. Arthur was out of town during the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 9-10, 1938, when the Gestapo searched his home and arrested the other Jewish males in the building. They told Johanna that Arthur could not leave the home when he returned. But when they searched the building again the next day, they did not search the Cohn's. Johanna's uncle, Dr. ...

  14. [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...

  15. Janina Spinner Mehlberg testimony

    Consists of a copy of a testimony by Janina Spinner Mehlberg. The testimony describes the experiences of Mehlberg and her husband as refugees in hiding in Lublin, Poland, during the Holocaust and their involvement with an underground movement to assist the prisoners of Majdanek concentration camp.

  16. Documentation regarding Austrian Jews who were active in the French Resistance movement, 1941-1965

    1. O.30 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Austria, mainly during the Holocaust period

    Documentation regarding Austrian Jews who were active in the French Resistance movement, 1941-1965 - Testimony of Dr. Selma Steinmetz, the fighter, regarding her experiences in Resistance movement activities until her arrest, tortures she endured and her release; her testimony mentions Tucek, the Gestapo interrogator, and his cruel treatment of the prisoners; -Names of Jewish resistance fighters and their families, and their fate; - Separate list of Jews who were active as agents for and collaborators with the Gestapo who handed over Jewish fighters to the Gestapo; the reports were prepared...

  17. Susan M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Susan M., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1925. She describes her happy childhood as a performer in a successful children's theatre; her parent's divorce; her rejection from the art academy due to the Jewish quota; the nonchalant attitude of the Jewish community until the German occupation in 1944; anti-Semitic legislation; hiding with her father with the aid of his non-Jewish fiancee; the establishment of the ghetto; and the reign of the Hungarian Gestapo. She relates working as a nurse while hiding on false papers; being recognized by a non-Jewish friend who tu...

  18. Gestapo KZ Sachsenhausen

    1. Geheime Staatspolizei (Gestapo)

    Enthält vor allem Aktendeckel von Häftlingsakten (Schutzhaft, Polizeiliche Vorbeugungshaft) aus der Politischen Abteilung des Konzentrationslagers Sachsenhausen

  19. Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: Newspaper clippings regarding Nazi criminals Hermann Krumey and Otto Hunsche and the trial conducted against them in Frankfurt Am Main,1960-1965

    1. P.13 - Archive of Benjamin Sagalowitz , head of the press agency of the Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland, 1929-1969

    Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: Newspaper clippings regarding Nazi criminals Hermann Krumey and Otto Hunsche and the trial conducted against them in Frankfurt Am Main,1960-1965 In the file: -Clippings from German and Swiss newspapers containing reports about the part taken by the two criminals, members of Sonderkommando Eichmann in Hungary, in the extermination of the Jews of Hungary. Among other items in the file: - Clipping from the bi-monthly "Die Wiedergutmachung" with a description of the handing over of 88 Jewish children to the Gestapo in Lidice by Krumey for Sonderbehandlung (special h...

  20. Gisevius testimony at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 128) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, April 26, 1946. LSs, Dr. Rudolf Dix, counselor for Schacht, questions the witness Hans Bernhardt von Gisevius. MLS, Gisevius testifying. Pan to Hermann Goering scribbling notes. 19:02:40 Pan to dock, Ribbentrop. CU, Gisevius testifying. MCU, Dr. Otto Stahmer and another defense counselor making notes. 19:07:33 MCS, right side of dock, including Speer, Von Hindenburg, Fritsch, Frank, Frick, Streicher, and Funk listening to Gisevius testify. LSs, Gisevius speaking of the relationship between the German Army and the Gestapo. Pan from Chief Pr...