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  1. Eichmann Trial -- Sessions 21 and 22 -- Testimonies of H. Pachter, Y. Gurfein, N. Zabludowicz, L. Wells

    Sessions 21 and 22. Court is not in session. Court officials interact; Adolf Eichmann enters his booth; Attorney General Gideon Hausner and Defense Attorney Dr. Robert Servatius converse; and Servatius exchanges information with Eichmann. The Judges enter the courtroom and there is a blip at 00:04.52. Witness Hirsch (Zvi) Pachter discusses Nazi treatment in Hrubieszow, a town near Chelm: "They took hold of a man... they hit [him] on the head with their rifle butts... They kept on asking each other: 'How many did you manage to kill by shooting...'" Blip at 00:08:19. Witness Ya'Akov Gurfein d...

  2. Thälmann, Ernst

    Bestandsbeschreibung 16. Apr. 1886 in Hamburg geboren 1893 - 1900 Besuch der Volksschule in Hamburg 1900 - Anfang 1915 Hafen- und Transportarbeiter (v. a. Kutscher) 15. Mai 1903 Eintritt in die SPD 1. Feb. 1904 Mitglied des Deutschen Transportarbeiter-Verbandes 17. Jan. 1906 Teilnehmer des Proteststreik gegen die geplante Wahlrechtsverschlechterung in Hamburg 1906 - Anfang 1907 Militärdienst, als dienstuntauglich entlassen 1910 - 1913 2. Vorsitzender, ab Anfang 1914 1. Vorsitzender der Branche Kutscher in der Hamburger Ortsverwaltung des Deutschen Transportarbeiter-Verbandes 1912, 1914, 191...

  3. FNDIRP commemorative striped badge engraved 178284 owned by a French Jewish survivor

    1. Yvonne Rothschild Redgis and Gertrude Fraenkel (Fränkel) family collection

    FNDIRP blue and white striped pin owned by Yvonne Klug Redgis, a French resistance member who was imprisoned in France and in Auschwitz concentration camp from 1943-1945. FNDIRP (Federation Nationale des Deportes et Internes, Resistances et Patriotes) is an association formed in France after the war by those who returned from the camps and those who resisted the German occupiers to honor their service and the memory of those who did not survive. The pin is engraved with prisoner number 178284 and the stripes are reminiscent of concentration camp uniforms. France surrendered to and was occup...

  4. MilBef Generalgouvernement

    1. Staatliche und parteiamtliche Akten bis 1945
    2. Deutsches Reich (bis 1945)
    3. Militär
    4. Reichsheer und Heer
    5. Wehrkreiskommandos

    I. Befehlshaber im Heeresgebiet Generalgouvernement: Ausbau der A1 und A2-Stellungen, August-Dezember 1944; Ausbau- bzw. Sperrbefehle Höherer Pionierführer Generalgouvernement über Aufbau von Hindernissen, Sprengung von Brücken, Minen usw. (75026/9a), 1-331, unter anderem: 1) Bericht Höherer Pionierführer Generalgouvernement, 03. September 1944: Verteidigungsfähigkeit der A1 und A2-Stellung, 268-270; II. Wehrkreiskommando Generalgouvernement: A1 und A2-Stellung, August-Dezember 1944 (Verteidigung durch "Sicherungstruppen", Festungs-Pak-Kompanien und Artillerie-Abteilungen; Korrespondenz Bef...

  5. Kurt and Hennie Reiner papers

    The collection includes documents, correspondence, and photographs regarding the Holocaust experiences of Kurt and Hennie Reiner of Vienna, Austria including their emigration from Vienna in 1939 into Milan, Italy and Marseille, France; Kurt’s internment at Les Milles; and their immigration to the United States in 1940. Biographical material includes identification papers of Kurt and Hennie Reiner, Kurt’s grades at the technical school of Vienna, papers related to his employment in the United States, and a copy of the their marriage certificate. Also included is a small amount of paperwork r...

  6. Leib Garfunkel - Ghetto Kovno

    Leib Garfunkel describes the Kovno ghetto, where he was vice-chairman of the Jewish council, and the Aktion of October 1941, during which 9,200 Jews were murdered at the Ninth Fort. This was the first interview that Lanzmann conducted for Shoah and Garfunkel died one week after it was filmed. FILM ID 3125 -- Camera Rolls #1-3 -- 01:00:18 to 01:21:29 No sound until 01:05:32. Irena Steinfeldt, Lanzmann's assistant, reads passages from Garfunkel's book. Garfunkel talks about the first meeting between the Kovno Gestapo and representatives of the Jewish population. He tells of the Germans enteri...

  7. FNDIRP blue and white striped stickpin owned by a French Jewish survivor

    1. Yvonne Rothschild Redgis and Gertrude Fraenkel (Fränkel) family collection

    FNDIRP blue and white striped stickpin owned by Yvonne Klug Redgis, a French resistance member who was imprisoned in France and in Auschwitz concentration camp from 1943-1945. FNDIRP (Federation Nationale des Deportes et Internes, Resistances et Patriotes) is an association formed in France after the war by those who returned from the camps and those who resisted the German occupiers to honor their service and the memory of those who did not survive. The pin has an enameled prisoner number 178284 and the stripes are reminiscent of concentration camp uniforms. France surrendered to and was o...

  8. Stars and stripes dress worn by a German Jewish woman for a DP camp theatrical performance

    1. Margret Hantman collection

    Stars and stripes costume worn by Margret Simon Hantman in a musical revue at Deggendorf displaced persons (DP) camp. The costume was designed by a Viennese couple, most likely Paul and Erna Sucher, and was made in a sewing group. In order to stay busy and bring some normalcy to their lives after the war, Margret and her friends formed a theater group and staged productions at the camp. Prior to the war, Margret and her family lived in Berlin, Germany, where her father owned a grocery store. In 1935, his store was taken by the authorities after the Nuremberg Laws were passed and he was forc...

  9. Gold hoop earrings worn by a hidden child in Poland

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn522825
    • English
    • 1939-1945
    • a.: Height: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Width: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) b.: Height: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Width: 0.190 inches (0.483 cm)

    Gold hoop earrings worn by Sophia Kerpholz while she lived in hiding as a child from 1942-1944 in Poland. In early 1942, 9-year-old Sophia and her parents, Natan and Sarah, were imprisoned in the Jewish ghetto in Trembowla, Poland (Terebovlia, Ukraine) by the occupying German authorities. Sophia’s mother had to turn the earrings over to the Gestapo, but they were returned because they were too small and not valuable enough to take. When Sophia emigrated to Israel she was told that she was a new immigrant because she had earrings. Her father had escaped to Lvov, but ended up in the ghetto th...

  10. Handmade nightgown with floral embroidery worn by an Austrian Jewish girl

    1. Edith Ostern collection

    Nightgown with floral embroidery brought with 3 year old Edith Tennenbaum, her parents Dora and Emil, and her 1 year old brother George when they left Vienna, Austria, in 1939, for the United States. The nightgown was made by hand in Yugoslavia. When Germany annexed Austria in March 1938, Edith and her parents had a comfortable life in Vienna. But soon, Emil's lumber business was confiscated. During the birth of her brother George that August, her mother was not allowed to go to the regular hospital because they were Jewish. During Kristallnacht on November 10, 1938, Emil was arrested and s...

  11. Public School Athletic League Winged Victory achievement badge received by a German Jewish teenage refugee

    1. Ruth Danzig Rauch collection

    Girl's Branch PSAL (Public School Athletic League) medal awarded to Franziska (Ruth) Danzig for physical accomplishments when she attended school in New York in the 1940s. When Ruth was 6, her parents, Gerda and Emanuel, sent her from Munich, Germany, to London, England, in June 1939, on the Kindertransport [Children’s Transport]. After Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933, the government actively persecuted the Jewish population. During Kristallnacht, on November 9-10, 1938, the family’s apartment was searched by the Gestapo. In spring 1939, Ruth’s cousin, Bianca, was sent on...

  12. Maier and Gruber families papers

    1. Ella Hochstadt Gruber Maier and Erich Maier family collection

    The papers consist of documents, photographs, passports, clippings, and identification cards relating to the Gruber and Maier families, their experiences in Austria, and their immigration to the United States during the Holocaust. The collection documents Erich Maier’s legal career in Austria through 1938 as well as Erich and Ella Maier’s attempts to facilitate their family members’ immigration to the United States in the 1940s.

  13. Treadle sewing machine table of the type used in Łódź Ghetto

    1. Eastern European sewing equipment collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn4096
    • English
    • 1930-1945
    • a: Height: 28.875 inches (73.343 cm) | Width: 23.250 inches (59.055 cm) | Depth: 17.375 inches (44.133 cm) b: Height: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) | Width: 38.250 inches (97.155 cm) | Depth: 22.875 inches (58.103 cm)

    Wooden and cast iron sewing machine table top and base of the type used by Jewish forced laborers in Łódź Ghetto in German occupied Poland from May 1940 to summer 1944. Łódź was occupied by Germany a week after the September 1939 invasion of Poland. It was renamed Litzmannstadt and, in February 1940, the Jewish population, about 160,000 people, was confined to a small sealed off ghetto. All residents had to work and many were forced laborers in ghetto factories. Eventually, nearly 100 factories were in operation. The major ones produced textiles, including uniforms for the German Army. Due ...

  14. Women’s blue cloth and wood sandals worn by an American internee

    1. Leonie Roualet collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn628048
    • English
    • a: Height: 5.250 inches (13.335 cm) | Width: 3.125 inches (7.938 cm) | Depth: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) b: Height: 5.125 inches (13.018 cm) | Width: 3.125 inches (7.938 cm) | Depth: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm)

    Pair of shoes worn by Leonie Roualet, while she was interned in Vittel internment camp in German-occupied France from September 1942 through September 1944. Leonie was born in New York to Leonie Calmesse and Henry Charles Roualet, French champagne vintners who had immigrated to the United States in the 1890s. In the 1930s, Leonie’s mother returned to France to take care of her ailing brother. While caring for her brother, she too became sick, and in 1939 Leonie traveled to France to take care of her mother and her uncle. In May 1940, Germany invaded France and occupied the northern half of ...

  15. Lager in Frankreich

    Die Sammlung enthält u.a.: Häftlingslisten, Transportlisten, Zeitungsartikel, Verschiedene Verzeichnisse von in Frankreich lebenden und später deportierten Juden, vereinzelt Berichte über Festnahmen und Erschießungen, Abschublisten, Korrespondenz, Fernschreiben, Listen verstorbener Häftlinge, Listen Überlebender, Friedhofslisten Geschichte der Lager in Frankreich (Drancy, Gurs): Mit der Niederlage der französischen Armee im Juni 1940 fiel ganz Nordfrankreich unter die Besatzung der deutschen Wehrmacht. Diese beschlagnahmte im gleichen Monat in Drancy, einem Vorort nordöstlich von Paris, ein...

  16. Girl Guide enrollment promise trefoil badge received by a young German Jewish girl rescued on the Kindertransport

    1. Ruth Danzig Rauch collection

    Girl Guide trefoil enrollment pin issued to Franziska (Ruth) Danzig when she was living in England as a Kindertransport refugee from June 1939-October 1944. When Ruth was 6, her parents, Gerda and Emanuel, sent her from Munich, Germany, to London, England, in June 1939, on the Kindertransport [Children’s Transport]. After Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933, the government actively persecuted the Jewish population. During Kristallnacht, on November 9-10, 1938, the family’s apartment was searched by the Gestapo. In spring 1939, Ruth’s cousin, Bianca, was sent on a Kindertransp...

  17. Faux alligator suitcase issued to inmates released in Bergen-Belsen prisoner exchange

    Suitcase given to 20-year-old Toni Klar and her parents for their departure from Bergen-Belsen concentration camp to Palestine in July 1944 as part of an exchange of camp inmates for German prisoners-of-war in British custody. The suitcase was originally owned by Pauline Eisenhardt, who had perished in Theresienstadt. Toni and her parents were refugees from Germany who were deported from Amsterdam to Bergen-Belsen in January 1944. While in Amsterdam, they had obtained certificates for Palestine and received a Putkammer letter ensuring their safety. The inmates selected for the prisoner exch...

  18. Archief van de gemeentepolitie Groningen 1917-1995

    Na de Duitse inval werd de politie ingrijpend veranderd. Om te beginnen werd naast het Nederlandse politieapparaat een klein Duits politieapparaat ingesteld dat bestond uit de volgende onderdelen: de Ordungspolizei (Ook wel Grüne Polizei genoemd vanwege de kleur van het uniform.)-een orde politiekorps-, de Sicherheitspolizei onderverdeeld in Gestapo (politieke recherche) en de Kripo (gewone recherche). Aan de Sicherheitspolizei werd de Sicherheitsdienst nog toegevoegd, die zich met politieke recherche bezighield. Ook de Abwehr, de militaire contraspionage was op dit gebied actief.De zgn. Au...

  19. Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection, 1939-1986

    1. Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection

    The Alexander Kulisiewicz collection contains microfilms, correspondence, music scores and notation, personal narratives, artwork, poetry, manuscripts, research notes, photograph, negatives, and various other documents compiled by Aleksander Kulisiewicz from 1945 until the time of his death in 1982. The materials in the collection relate to a variety of Holocaust topics, but mainly music, poetry, art, and theater in the concentration camps during World War II. Kulisiewicz compiled the small archive of music, poetry, literature, photographs, and sound recordings during the years after his li...

  20. Lola Kaufman papers

    The papers consist of a passport issued to Etie Stempler, the late wife of Lola Kaufman's maternal uncle, Gedalia Aschkenase, who immigrated to the United States in 1930 as well as a newspaper clipping from the New York Post, dated June 26, 1962, referring to Heinrich Peckmann, an SS sergeant in Chortkiv (Czortków), Ukraine, who was acquitted by a German court in Saarbrücken, Germany. Peckmann murdered Lola Kaufman's mother, Dwojre Rein, in 1942.