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  1. Edith G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edith G., who was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1905 and adopted. She recalls living in Copenhagen; returning to Germany; her close family; marriage in 1928; and the births of her children. She describes her husband's arrest in 1935; his twenty-month incarceration; their move to Holland; German bombing of Rotterdam; moving to Zeist; not having to wear the yellow star, though her husband and children had to, because a Dutch policeman did not classify her as a Jew due to lack of information about her biological parents; arranging several hiding places for her children thr...

  2. Edith Stein werd op 12 oktober 1891 te Breslau als ...

    1. Image Collection NIOD

    Edith Stein werd op 12 oktober 1891 te Breslau als 7e kind uit een vrome joodse familie geboren. Zijzelf bracht haar jeugd in religieuze onverschilligheid door. Zij bekende een atheïste te zijn geweest tot haar 21e jaar. Na schitterende studies behaalde zij het doctoraat in de filosofie en werd assistente bij Prof. E. Husserl te Freiburg. Einde 1921 werd zij katholiek na lezing der autobiografie van de H. Teresia van Avila. Haar besluit in de Karmel te treden, kon zij echter niet dadelijk uitvoeren. Als lerares, eerst te Spiers, later te Münster, en door haar wetenschappelijk werk en haar v...

  10. Edward Haven collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Edward Haven (born Edward Rechtszafen), who survived the Holocaust as a hidden child in Warsaw and Krakow, Poland. Included are pre-war and wartime photographs of the donor’s family; postcards depicting images of Warsaw, circa 1956; the donor’s 6th grade school notebook, 1946; correspondence between the donor and his father, who was in Los Angeles, CA, 1946; and correspondence, 1946, including with the Machaczeks, who had hidden the donor during the war, relating to arranging for Edward to immigrate travel to the United States in ord...

  11. Een Vermerk en 3 brieven van de CdS-IV B 4b betreffende de behandeling van buitenlandse Joden in het algemeen, als afschrift in februari 1943 aan het ...

    1. Proces Eichmann

    Een Vermerk en 3 brieven van de CdS-IV B 4b betreffende de behandeling van buitenlandse Joden in het algemeen, als afschrift in februari 1943 aan het Auswärtige Amt gezonden. 1. Vermerk. Een algehele regeling van de behandeling van buitenlandse Joden in Duitsland, het Protektorat, het Generalgouvernement, de bezette gebieden in het Oosten en West-Europa was dringend nodig. Na mondeling en schriftelijk overleg met het Auswärtige Amt is het volgende overeengekomen. 2. Brief van het Reichsinnenministerium aan alle afdelingen van de Gestapo en de Sipo en SD in Duitsland, het Protektorat en de g...

  14. Ehud Avriel

    Ehud Avriel was born in Vienna and became active in escape and rescue operations after the Germans invaded. He continued this work once he reached Palestine in 1939. Avriel later held several positions in the Israeli government. FILM ID 3100 -- Camera Rolls #1-4 -- 01:00:07 to 01:33:11 Roll 1 01:00:07 Ehud Avriel sits in a chair in front of a window overlooking the ocean, most likely in a hotel or office in Tel Aviv, Israel. Claude Lanzmann remains off camera while he asks Avriel questions about the missions he was involved in during the war. Avriel was part of a group of emissaries called ...

  15. Eichmann Trial -- Session 102 -- Cross-examination of the Accused re: Sassen Document

    Session 102. Eichmann reads a document of the Sassen memoirs. The tape resumes just a few minutes prior to the end of Tape 2176. Eichmann reads his answer to Sassen concerning his role in the concentration camps, saying that the Gestapo was in charge of all of it. He explains, using as many hypothetical terms as possible, what would happen with the camp, especially with insubordination and problems with the Jews. He also describes the transfer of control from the Archives department to the Gestapo. When asked if these were the words of Eichmann, he says he cannot remember, but it was partia...

  16. Eichmann Trial -- Session 102 -- Cross-examination of the Accused: corrections to the Sassen document

    Session 102. Attorney General Hausner asks Eichmann to read the corrections he made to the Sassen memoirs. Questions concerning the German Minister of the Interior and his connection to Eichmann are addressed. He then decries the entire document, saying that it is completely muddled, and that he cannot answer any further questions on it. The President of Court says that he will answer questions until he is relieved; Eichmann cooperates, but says that he feels he is being "roasted" until they get the answer they want from him. 00:10:48 Following Eichmann's comments about feeling "roasted", t...

  17. Eichmann Trial -- Session 104 -- Cross-examination of the Accused

    The footage begins near the middle of Session 104, with Eichmann reading portions of statements from the Wilhelm Sassen document about congratulations Eichmann received for the foot march [death march] which occurred in November of 1944. Some 70,000 men, women, and children were forced to march from Budapest to Vienna. Some of this footage is duplicated on Tape 2181 (at 00:40:35). Eichmann is then asked to describe his role in the implementation of the foot march, which he insists was technical (00:12:55). The camera switches between Eichmann and the civilians sitting in the courtroom. The ...

  18. Eichmann Trial -- Session 112 -- Hausner sums up

    Session 112. Hausner talks about group responsibility in crimes. Eichmann as a man who didn't take orders. Discusses whose responsibility it was for the extermination of the Jews, and the legality of murder and persecution as a result of law changes. 00:06:59 Asks why did they camouflage what was happening if it was legal. 00:08:49 Jumps to Hausner speaking about everyone's guilt within the "nerve center of the Gestapo" on condition that they knew what was happening and remained in Gestapo center after realizing what the purpose was. Eichmann, admitted himself that he knew of the order of t...

  19. Eichmann Trial -- Session 114 -- Closing statement of the Defense

    Session 114. Dr. Servatius says that Eichmann did not have a position that would allow him to become part of the higher order of leadership. He says that the Prosecution has attempted to make him a key figure in the execution when he is not. The accusations of making decisions about the extermination are then challenged, saying that he only saw orders that were nearly completely decided. The charges of conspiracy must be dropped on this evidence, he says. 00:11:09 Servatius says that the implementation of the deportations was left to Eichmann, but all of his underlings, as well as the Gesta...

  20. Eichmann Trial -- Session 14 and 15 -- Testimonies of Z. & M. Grynszpan, B. Cohn, A. Lindenstrauss

    Sessions 14 and 15. Witness Zindel Shmuel Grynszpan is called to the stand. The story skips after a blip at 00:02:13. Witness Mordechai Eliezer Grynszpan, son of prior witness Zindel Grynszpan, is called to the stand. Assistant State Attorney Gabriel Bar-Or questions Mordechai about his brother, Herschel Grynszpan. After a blip, Mordechai explains his reservations for writing to Herschel in France as the Nazis occupied. Mordechai details his actions during the 1940s and describes his search for his brother after the war. The witness is dismissed. A blip at 00:06:33 backtracks to Hausner rea...