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  1. Zvi T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zvi T., who was born in Będzin, Poland in 1924, one of six children in a Hasidic family. He recounts attending cheder; antisemitic harassment; attending a Mizrachi school in Sosnowiec and Zionist summer camps in Skawa; one brother's emigration to Palestine in 1934; German invasion; moving with his mother and two sisters to his brother's home in Radom (he never saw his father or older sister again); continuing his Zionist activities; his brother fleeing east; living with an uncle; ghettoization; working as a gardener and tutor; slave labor in a leather factory; a publ...

  2. Vladimir S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Vladimir S., who was born in Daugavpils, Russia (presently Latvia) in 1916, one of five brothers. He recalls moving to Polatsk in 1928; his father's death from war wounds; attending a Jewish school; moving to Leningrad (presently St. Petersburg); working, then attending military academy; assignment as a communications officer in Eĭsk; German invasion; mobilization of three brothers; participating in several battles with high casualty rates; capture near Smolensk; incarceration in Monastyrshchina; having no food or shelter and sleeping onthe ground; transfer to a camp...

  3. Carl Lutz with his wife Gertrud in America

    Carl Lutz with his wife Gertrud and parents, possibly in Cincinnati, unknown date. They sit on the steps of a fountain and talk. Carl pulls out a camera, which Gertrud looks at. Gertrud sits by a pond looking at and touching flowers. Carl's mother stands with her arm around Gertrud, next to Carl's father. They all look at and touch the different flowers. Carl joins them. The parents and wife walk in this garden, continuing to look at and touch the flowers. More shots of Gertrud amongst the flowers. Carl joins her. She picks a flower and pins it to his lapel. They both stop and smile at the ...

  4. Inventaris van de archieven van de Kamer van Koophandel en Fabrieken voor Rotterdam, 1922-1969

    • Nationaal archief
    • 3.17.17.04
    • Dutch
    • 1922-1969
    • 124.5 meter; 3589 inventarisnummers

    De Kamers van Koophandel hebben als doelstelling bevordering van handel en nijverheid in de regio. Het eerste deel van het archief van de Kamer van Koophandel en Fabrieken voor Rotterdam 1922-1969 is onderverdeeld in een algemeen deel, met vergaderstukken en jaarverslagen van diverse besturen en commissies, en een bijzonder deel dat betrekking heeft op het voortbestaan van de organisatie en de taakuitvoering. Stukken die direct verband houden met de taakuitoefening betreffen onder andere belangenbehartiging van het bedrijfsleven en bevordering van samenwerking op economisch vlak op zowel (i...

  5. Hornig, Klaus

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Mit Berufung auf die Menschlichkeit hatte sich der promovierte Jurist und Polizeioffizier im Oktober 1941 in Polen geweigert, Massenerschießungen an sowjetischen Kriegsgefangenen durchzuführen. Darüber hinaus hatte er seine Untergebenen über den Sachverhalt des Befehlsnotstandes aufgeklärt und sie darauf hingewiesen, dass auch ihnen dieses Recht auf Verweigerung zustünde. Es folgten eine Anklage wegen Wehrmachtszersetzung und Haftzeiten in diversen Gefängnissen, zuletzt im Konzentrationslager Buchenwald. Spätere Unterlagen dokumentieren seine gescheiterten Be...

  6. Rose G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rose G., who was born in Be?ke?scsaba, Hungary in 1926, one of six children. She recounts being raised in Oradea; her family's orthodoxy; participation in Hashomer Hatzair; Hungarian occupation; her brother's and brother-in-law's draft into Hungarian slave labor battalions; German invasion; ghettoization; help from non-Jewish neighbors; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; selection with two sisters; humiliation, deprivation, and beatings; working near the crematoria; realizing her family's fate; selection for specious medical experiments; hospitalization; surgery; sepa...

  7. Wehrkreiskommando XXI (Posen)

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Nach Kriegsbeginn wurde das Wehrkreiskommando am 5. September 1939 in Potsdam (im Wehrkreis III) aufgestellt und ab 10. September eingesetzt sowie umbenannt in Militärbefehlshaber Posen. Die Umbildung als Stellv. Generalkommando XXI. Armeekorps, zugleich Wehrkreis XXI. erfolgte nach Übergang der zivilen Verwaltung an den Reichsgau Warthegau am 26. Oktober 1939. Den Wehrkreiskommandos oblagen auch in den neuen Reichsgebieten die Leitung des Ersatzwesens, Vorbereitung der Mobilmachung, Betreuung und Einsatz der Landesschützen-Bataillone (hauptsächlich Kriegsgef...

  8. Driving tour of Berlin, Frankfurt, and Wiesbaden in ruins

    Road framed by trees. Berlin in ruins. The damaged Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church with a large empty circle that was once the rose window. Buildings to the left and right of the church have also been badly damaged in the air raids. Side of a building: “Burgfeller.” Only the exterior walls of these buildings remain. People walk along the sidewalk. Repeat shots of the church and the surrounding buildings. 01:04:29 Two women and a man by a statue in a garden. The blonde woman and man in front of a large estate, calm lake. They look at a statue and climb to the palace entrance. Shot of trees fr...

  9. Elihu H. Rickel papers

    The bulk of this collection relates to Commander Elihu Rickel’s time in China, and in particular Tianjin, in 1945-1946, while serving as a chaplain with the U.S. Marine Corps. While there, he sought to raise awareness about the condition of the Jewish community in Tianjin, which was comprised primarily of Jews who had fled Europe in the late 1930s. The second series of documents in this collection contains, in part, a report that Rickel wrote about the community, a letter he sent to Rabbi Stephen Wise, and a journalistic account of Rickel’s ministry among the Jewish community. By this time,...

  10. Lydia C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lydia C., who was born in the Netherlands in 1931. She recounts living in Brussels from nine months of age; observing Jewish customs in their liberal home; her father's anti-Fascist activities; German invasion; a warning to leave due to her father's activities; fleeing with her parents and sisters through France; her father's opportunity to emigrate to England; his refusing to leave his family in Biarritz; living in a monastery with her mother and sister in Toulouse; a brief stay in Paris; living in a nearby refugee center for Dutch citizens (her father was the direct...

  11. Gisela G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gisela G., who was born in Tarnów, Poland in 1924, one of four children. She recalls her close and large extended family; her father's death in early 1939; working in his hat business; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; arrest for walking on the sidewalk; release; her mother and younger brothers hiding with a former non-Jewish employee during round-ups; she and her sister being exempted from round-ups due to their factory jobs; her mother being caught; ghettoization; building a bunker for those with no work permits; one brother's deportation; a selection in w...

  13. Rachel S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rachel S., who was born in Belitsa, Poland in approximately 1919, one of five children. She recounts participating in a leftist youth movement; attending a Jewish seminary in Vilna; increasing antisemitism; Soviet occupation; marriage; her daughter's birth in 1940; living in Slonim; her husband's draft into the Soviet military; returning to Belitsa; German invasion; her brothers and father fleeing to the Soviet Union; Germans burning the town; forced transfer with her daughter, mother, and sister to the Dyatolovo) (Dzi︠a︡tlava) ghetto; constructing an underground tunn...

  14. Bundesakademie für Wehrverwaltung und Wehrtechnik

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Die Bundesakademie für Wehrverwaltung und Wehrtechnik (BAkWVT) wurde am 05.05.1961 durch Erlaß des damaligen Bundesministers der Verteidigung, Dr. Franz Josef Strauß, als zentrales Bildungsinstitut der Bundeswehrverwaltung gegründet und dem Bundesministerium der Verteidigung unmittelbar unterstellt. Sie führte zunächst die Bezeichnung "Akademie für Wehrverwaltung und Wehrtechnik". Die Akademie hat die Aufgabe, die Beamten des höheren nichttechnischen Dienstes und des technischen Dienstes aus-und fortzubilden. In die Fortbildung sind auch die Angestellten verg...

  15. Felix N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Felix N., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1926, one of three children. He recounts attending public school and cheder; antisemitic harassment; attending summer camp in Piotrków Trybunalski; his bar mitzvah; working in his father's tailor business; German invasion in September 1939; ghettoization; hiding during round-ups; public executions; working in a factory; deportation with his family to Auschwitz/Birkenau in summer 1944; separation from his sister and mother (he never saw them again); meaningless slave labor; transfer to Gross-Rosen three weeks later; slave la...

  16. Verbände und Einheiten der Luftwaffen-Infanterie

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Die Akten stammen aus Rückführungen aus den USA und Großbritannien an die Dokumentenzentrale des Militärgeschichtlichen Forschungsamtes. Von dort wurden die Akten 1968 an das Bundesarchiv, Abteilung Militärarchiv abgegeben. Die bisher im Bestand RL 31 verwahrten Unterlagen zu Gefechtsverbänden der Luftwaffe wurden 2017 überführt. Bestandsbeschreibung Von der Mehrzahl der Luftwaffen-Felddivisionen und einiger ihrer Truppenteile sind Kriegstagebücher und Anlagen erhalten, die sich auf die Gesamtzeit ihres Bestehens erstrecken und den Einsatz an der Ostfront und...

  17. Polski Czerwony Krzyż w Hrubieszowie

    sprawy ogólno-organizacyjne z lat 1931-1946 (sygn. 3, 14-22, 24, 39-40); sprawy finansowo-gospodarcze z lat 1935-1947 (sygn. 29-38); sprawy pomocy lekarskiej, opieki nad jeńcami i uchodźcami z lat 1937-1946 (sygn. 1, 2, 4-13, 23, 25-28)

  18. Josef B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Josef B., who was born in 1919 in Wadowice, Poland, one of ten children. He recounts his family's successful jewelry business; their adherence to hasidism; attending public school (his classmate was the future Pope John Paul II), cheder, then a yeshiva; his bar mitzvah; rebelling against hasidism; being sent to live with an uncle in Piešt̕any in 1934; expulsion as a non-Slovak in 1937; returning home; moving to Bielsko; participating in Mizrahi; working in a textile factory; his father preventing his sister and her husband from emigrating to Palestine on orders from ...

  19. 1944 news roundup: Rome fall to the Allies; D-Day

    News documentary with intertitles produced for the home movie market by Castle Films Productions. "The News Parade" 1944. "Rome! Falls to Allies" Soldiers shoot mortars/artillery into the hillsides. "Determined American Tank and Infantry columns move in a final thrust toward the gates of the Eternal City!" Military convoy. Shells falling near an Allied soldier. Soldiers on a hillside firing rifles and shoulder artillery. Soldiers attacking a farmhouse using rifles and tossing grenades. In a narrow city alley- explosion in a building causes soldiers to drop. Officers and large artillery on a...

  20. Dubǎsari district prefecture and its subordinated preturas and town halls

    • Judeţul Dubăsari – prefercturile judeţene, subprefecturile plaselor (preturilor) şi comunelor subordinate lor din stînga Nistrului
    • Дубоссарская уездная префектура и подчиненные ей претуры и примарии
    • Dubossarskaya uyezdnaya prefektura i podchinennyye yey pretury i primarii

    Files of the Administration Department (correspondence on administrative issues, files of the personnel, lists of employees of the prefecture, correspondence on issuing a permit to carry weapons); files of the Economic Department (orders by preturas on economic issues, information on the ethnic composition of the population); files of the Agricultural Department; files of the Department of Education and Cults (reports on the condition of education in the county, reports on the work of school inspectors, circular instructions on the issue of education and cults); files of the Sanitation Depa...