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  1. Michel M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Michel M., who was born in Wasilko?w, Poland in 1927. He describes an affluent childhood prior to 1933; increasing antisemitism; brief German invasion; Soviet occupation; assisting Jewish refugees from the German zone; German invasion in June 1941; hiding with his family in Zab?udo?w after being warned by his father's non-Jewish acquaintance of a mass killing; ghettoization in Bia?ystok; learning his father's arrest was imminent; their transfer to the Pruz?h?any ghetto in November 1941 to save his father; choosing not to escape in order to remain with his parents; dep...

  2. Shlomo P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shlomo P., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1925. He recounts living in Čadca; his father's position as a railroad physician; attending Jewish and Slovak schools, then gymnasium in Žilina; increasing antisemitism in the 1930s; participating in Makabi ha-tsaʻir; his brother's emigration to Palestine in 1939; attending a Zionist youth camp; expulsion from school; his father being forbidden to practice medicine; the Hlinka Guard confiscating family belongings; his father's non-Jewish colleagues supplying drugs when his grandmother was terminally ill; living on a Zion...

  3. Helen S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Helen S., who was born in Be?dzin, Poland in 1920, the youngest of three children. She recounts her family's orthodoxy and affluence; attending Hebrew school; German invasion; fleeing to Olkusz; Germans arresting her father, uncle, and brothers; traveling to Kielce to obtain their release; returning home; marriage; her father and one brother working for the Judenrat; ghettoization; having an abortion; hiding with her family and others in a bunker during a round-up in August 1943; their discovery; deportation to Birkenau; separation with her sister-in-law from her pare...

  4. GIs firing mortars; German prisoners and weapons

    Sign reads: "Berlin 137 kms, Duben 3 kms" on right. Pan left to another sign that reads: "Leipzig 32 kms" on left. GIs firing mortars, situation clearly genuine action. They are in a field behind some houses. LS of what apparently is the target in the distance. VS through an aperture of some sort viewing across a green field. More shots of GIs firing mortars. Another angle of mortar firing. CUs, three American GIs. GIs sweeping up shells in street next to armored vehicle. Group of GIs by tank. Pan of men walking across a narrow pontoon bridge over a river, continues pan to reveal German sol...

  6. Gerda Mayer: personal papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of Gerda Mayer, a Jewish refugee from Czechoslovakia who came to England on a Kindertransport, whilst most of her family perished in the Holocaust. Personal papers including letters from family and friends (photocopies); copy of 'The emigrants', a compilation of translated letters sent to Gerda from her parents in Czechoslovakia; Johanna Travnicek's application for compensation under the Vertriebenenzuwendungsgesetz 1994; photographs; family trees; correspondence mainly between Gerda Mayer and the family of her rescuer Trevor Chadwick regarding t...

  7. Okresný úrad v Bardejove

    • District Office in Bardejov

    Fonds contains the torso of documents of the former District Office in Bardejov. Besides the documents on the Communist movement in the district from late 1938, and late 1940 there are also several documents pertaining the activities and the staff of the Hlinka Guard and Hlinka Youth in the district. This includes lists of the Hlinka Guard members who were considered as the candidates for so called "temporary administration" of Jewish households from December 1940; set of historical photos of local dignitaries of the regime including some HG and HY members; file pertaining the confiscation ...

  8. Training at a Hitler Youth camp

    Pan slowly up to a Hitler Youth Flag waving. A mountain range is visible. 00:01:15 A Hitler Youth organizer meets with members outside the Salzburg train station prior to leaving for camp. The boys carry suitcases. Sign by the road with "HJ Fuehrerschule Groedig 1km" and a two-toned diamond with a swastika. Scenes of the camp at Groedig and mountain landscape from above. 00:02:00 The boys pile out of the bus and are arranged into groups. Boys carry uniforms out of the administration building. The algiz rune, a symbol Nazis used as a celebration of the history of German language, is displaye...

  9. Verband der Buchbinder und Papierverarbeiter Deutschlands

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Bei den vom Zentralarchiv des FDGB in der Historischen Abteilung zusammengefassten Beständen handelt es sich um Restbestände verschiedener Provenienzen, die zu den seit 1935 im Zentralarchiv der Deutschen Arbeitsfront zusammengeführten Unterlagen gehörten. Die durch kriegsbedingte Verluste stark reduzierten Bestände wurden 1945/1946 dem FDGB übergeben. In der Folgezeit wurden die Bestände durch lokale Provenienzen und Kopien aus anderen Archiven ergänzt. Aufgaben und Organisation: Auf dem Kongreß der Buchbindergehilfen zu Ostern 1869 in Leipzig, dem Hauptsitz...

  10. Bergen-Belsen

    Contains information about the establishment of health care facilities after liberation, the activities of Hadassah and Josef Rosensaft as leaders in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp, and the closing of the camp in 1950.

  11. Jessie Nicholson: correspondence

    This collection of a correspondence consists mostly of letters written by a school teacher, Hellmut Lange from Chemnitz, Saxony, to an English woman, Miss Jessie Nicholson in South London between 1933 and August 1939. Whilst precious little is known about the recipient of the letters, they provide a valuable insight into the mentality of an ordinary German whose nationalist and antisemitic leanings develop into full-blown Nazi sympathy by the outbreak of war.It is evident from the first letter that they had communicated previously and that judging from the familiar tone of the correspondenc...

  12. 24 drawings from the concentration camps in Germany Print

    One of a set of twenty-three prints of drawings created by George Zielezinski

  13. Home movies of Fuchs family at the beach and in Czech village

    Family in garden, men playing cards (game called Marias). 01:00:41 Friends of Hana's parents -- Oskar Fuchs and Rosa (Krasa) Fuchs -- (one identified as Dr. Spousta) walking down street, car in BG. 01:01:59 Children, playing at beach, father. 01:02:39 Children walking to beach. 01:03:00 Father with girl, playing in sand. 01:03:59 (brief) Fuchs family at restaurant. 01:04:04 CU, blond girl. Hana and tennis racket. 01:05:04 Hana and friends walking down street, Hana in pants, kicking ball. 01:06:05 Long jump, rings. 01:06:47 Hana's mother (Rosa (Krasa) Fuchs), her friend Mrs. Prochazka, and H...

  14. Ilie Wacs family papers

    The Ilie Wacs family papers consist of biographical materials and correspondence documenting members of Ilie Wacs’ family in Vienna and their emigration to Shanghai, photographs documenting the Wacs family and their friends, and printed materials documenting Jewish refugee life and Ilie Wacs’ participation in Jewish cultural youth organizations in Shanghai. Deborah Wacs materials include identification papers. Henia Wacs materials include identification papers, registration records, and tax documents. Ilie Wacs materials include identification, membership, and travel papers; student records...

  15. Gisele W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gisele W., who was born in Leipzig, Germany in 1934, the youngest of three children. She recalls her family's orthodoxy; her brother and sister caring for her while her parents worked; avoiding deportation to Poland in 1938 (her parents were born there) with assistance from a non-Jewish friend; going to her grandmother's home on Kristallnacht (she later perished in Theresienstadt); her father's arrest when escaping to Belgium in January 1939; her mother joining him when he was ill; placement in a orphanage; learning her father had died; being smuggled to Antwerp with ...

  16. Prague city; Czech prison; YMCA; Jaroslav Šimsa

    Pedestrians on Charles Bridge in Prague. Buildings and street in the Little Quarter. St. Vitus Cathedral. Scaffolding. Old Town Square. Statue of the Holy Crucifix and Calvary on Charles Bridge. Additional shots of statues, buildings, and streets in Prague. (03:50) INT shadow of man cranking the blade of a guillotine up. This scene was shot in the Pancraz prison in Prague postwar. Shadow of blade falling. Man demonstrates guillotine. CU two men in discussion. Man on hands and knees scrubs floor of large hallway with the silhouette of a man pacing in FG. Man sitting in cell with bars on the ...

  17. Mania M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mania M., who was born in 1919 and lived in Podgo?rze (Krako?w), Poland, one of six children. She recounts her affluent, orthodox family; working as a bookkeeper; antisemitic harassment; German invasion; fleeing east to Mielec; returning home when overtaken by Germans; anti-Jewish restrictions; ghettoization; forced labor; marriage; deportations, including her parents and one sister; transfer to P?aszo?w in 1943; slave labor in the Madritsche factory; visits with her husband; becoming inured to constant killings; transfer to Auschwitz, then Aschersleben in January 194...

  18. Eliška K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eliška K., who was born in Přerov, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1912. She describes her father's draft in 1914; attending Jewish, then Czech, school after the republic was established; antisemitic discrimination; studying at the Prague Conservatory; her brother, Gideon Klein, joining her; her mother joining them; German occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; traveling to Vienna as a resistance courier; hiding people; her father's death in 1940; her sister's and brother-in-law's arrest; her brother's deportation to Theresienstadt in December 1941; deportation there wi...

  19. Elisabeth F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Elisabeth F., a Catholic, who was born in Dorinne, Belgium in 1915. She recounts few memories of World War I; attending school in Natoye, Namur, and Brussels; marriage in 1936; her son's birth in 1937; her husband's military draft in 1939; fleeing with her parents and son to Murviel-lès-Béziers after German invasion; her husband's combat death; never attending mass again; living with her sister in Spontin; working for the Resistance through a former teacher; hiding and moving downed Allied pilots; imprisonment in St. Gilles for three weeks in November 1940; arrest w...

  20. Akta gminy w Opolu

    • Files of the commune of Opole Lubelskie

    wiek XIX - zarządzenia władz, sprawy organizacyjne, sądowe, ewidencji ludności, wyznaniowe, majątkowe - 7 j.a okres międzywojenny - protokoły posiedzeń i uchwał władz gminnych, sprawy personalne, budżety, rolnictwa, przemysłu, handlu, oświaty, zdrowia, opieki społecznej, wojskowe, budownictwa, ruchu i ewidencji ludności, podatkowe, dróg i placów publicznych, wojskowe, bezpieczeństwa i porządku publicznego, majątkowe, finansowe, pożarnictwa, sprawozdania rachunkowe, księgi biercze - 87 j.a. okres okupacji - zarządzenia władz okupacyjnych, księgi protokołów, wykazy kontyngentów, aprowizacji, ...