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  1. Henry J. Kellermann collection

    Consists of documents and correspondence related to the pre-war, wartime, and post-war life and accomplishments of Dr. Henry J. Kellermann, originally of Berlin, Germany. Includes material regarding Dr. Kellermann's pre-war life and schooling, the Gross-Breesen agricultural school for German-Jewish boys, and Dr. Kellermann's involvement in wartime refugee affairs and in the Nuremberg war crimes trials. Also includes material regarding Dr. Kellermann's post-war career in the United States Foreign Service, where he served in Bern and as the permanent representative to UNESCO, and regarding hi...

  2. Selected records of the Jewish communities of the Travnik kanton

    Selected records of the Jewish communities of the Travnik kanton in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Includes selected records of Jewish properties and the local schools (public and Catholic) related to individual Jews and Jewish families residing in the town of Travnik and Travnik kanton before, during and after World War II. The collection also includes records from the personal archival collection of Anton Pelić, with a large number of postcards and photographs of private buildings (houses, synagogue, shops, small factories etc.) owned and occupied by Jewish families in Travnik before WWII.

  3. Lenka M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lenka M., who was born in Porúbka, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1927, one of four children. She recalls her parents sending her to Uz︠h︡horod to avoid deportation; working as a hairdresser for nine months; joining her family in an Uz︠h︡horod brick factory; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her mother and brother (she never saw them again); remaining with her two sisters; one sister's selection (she never saw her again); public executions; transfer with her sister to Canada Kommando; assistance from a Jewish Slovak kapo; a severe beating by ...

  4. Kagan-Sztern family. Collection

    This collection contains seven photos, including several pictures of Tauba (Thérèse) Sztern and her children Fanny and Alain Kagan at their hiding place with the De Winter family in Tremelo.

  5. Arnold H. Einhorn papers

    Photocopied identity documents for Arnold Einhorn including a Spanish immigration document, French documents attesting to Einhorn's service in the Jewish Brigade, and documentation that he was enrolled at University of Montpellier, in France.

  6. Magda Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Magda Z., a twin, who was born in Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1915. She recounts living in Mukacheve; attending a Hungarian school; marriage in 1936; her son's birth; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; her husband's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; ghettoization; deportation with her family to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her parents, siblings, and son (she never saw her parents or son again); her twin brother identifying her as a twin; placement with other female twins for "medical experiments" by Josef Mengele; being assig...

  7. Al B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Al B., who was born in Proszowice, Poland in 1918. He describes a pleasant life in Proszowice; working in a textile factory in ?o?dz?; visiting his parents in September 1939; an unsuccessful escape attempt with his father after the outbreak of war; later fleeing to Lemberg (L'viv); brief arrest by the Soviets in Przemys?l while smuggling themselves back; returning to Proszowice in 1941; forced labor in the Krako?w ghetto in 1942; his parents and brother joining him; hiding with his family on a nearby farm; returning to the ghetto; his family's deportation during the g...

  8. Ludwig Rosenberg collection

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  9. Hitler lays wreath; Youth meeting; Ninth Party Congress

    Title: "German Sailors Killed in the Spanish Civil War Brought Home on the "Deutschland" 18 June 1937" Hitler lays a wreath commemorating the return of German soldiers killed in the Spanish Civil War and addresses a youth meeting. Title: "Ninth Party Congress 6-13 September 1937" Hitler speaks.

  10. Marcel J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marcel J., who was born in Paris, France in 1924. He recounts fleeing to La Cha?tre at the outbreak of war; returning to Paris after German invasion; anti-Jewish laws; his father's initial refusal to flee due to his belief in the French government; convincing his father to cross to the unoccupied zone in June 1942; being joined by his mother in Nice; one year under Italian occupation; German occupation; their arrest; transfer to Drancy on September 25, 1943; deportation to Birkenau on October 28; separation from his mother (he never saw her again); transfer with his f...

  11. Jacques A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacques A., who was born in Germany in 1923. He recounts his mother's family's long history in Germany; their flight from Wuppertal to Nancy in 1933 due to antisemitism; moving to Romainville in 1936; arrest in 1941 for beating a Nazi sympathizer; escaping to Nantes; obtaining false papers; learning of his family's arrest in October 1942; his arrest in Nantes in 1943 as a Resistant; Gestapo interrogations; transfer to Drancy; deportation to Auschwitz; slave labor in "Lagischa Gruben" (Lagisza Cmentarna); transfer to Birkenau in July 1944; contracting typhus; friends p...

  12. Dokumentation zum Schicksal der Juden in Deutschland 1933-1945

    Bestandsbeschreibung Die Zeitgeschichtliche Sammlung „Dokumentation zum Schicksal der Juden in Deutschland 1933 - 1945" gelangte 1969 in das Bundesarchiv und bildete die Quellenbasis für die Herausgabe des „Gedenkbuches - Opfer der Verfolgung der Juden unter der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft 1933 - 1945". Seit 1960/61 bestand auf Initiative der Gedenkstätte Yad Vashem in Jerusalem ein diesbezüglicher Auftrag des BMI an das Bundesarchiv unter Einbeziehung des Internationalen Suchdienstes des Roten Kreuzes in Bad Arolsen (ITS). Im Gegensatz zum Bundesarchiv befinden sich im ITS zah...

  13. Operacijska zona Jadransko Primorje (SI AS 1760) Operationszone Adriatisches Küstenland (OZAK)

    Selected records on activities of the office of the Higher SS and Police Leader in the Operational Zone of the Adriatic Littoral (Operationszone Adriatisches Küstenland, OZAK), a district of Nazi Germany created in 1943 after Italian capitulation following the Allied invasion of Italy. Includes a fragmentary list of local residents detailed by German police. The area of the OZAK with its capital in Trieste comprised parts of the territories of present-day Italy, Slovenia, and parts of Croatia (Rijeka region). Odilo Globocnik served as Higher SS and Police Leader of this district in 1943-194...

  14. History of Majdanek camp; survivors

    An onscreen slate from WFDiF (not original to the film) reads: Film entitled "Majdanek" was produced after the liberation of camp by the Polish Army. The premiere of film: November 1, 1944. Original titles read: Film Polski Warsaw presents: a documentary of the Polish Army Film Unit made on 25th July 1944: "Majdanek". Majdanek was liberated by the Soviets on July 23, 1944. 25th July 1944: Celebration scenes outside in Lublin as Polish Army soldiers enter the city. Women weep with joy, people hand flowers to soldiers. The camera pans down a turret of the Lublin Castle to show the corpses of ...

  15. Samuel Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Samuel Z., who was born in Chmielnik, Poland in 1923. He recounts his mother's death when he was five; their abusive stepmother; anti-Semitic incidents; German invasion; forced labor; fleeing a round-up in 1942 with his older brother; hiding in several places, including Nowy Korczyn, with assistance from some Poles; slave labor at the HASAG factory in Kielce and Skarz?ysko-Kamienna; working outdoors in Przedbo?rz, which gave him the opportunity to purchase and share food with his brother; mass killings; their transfer to Buchenwald in 1944, then to Niederorschel; and ...

  16. Deutscher Landarbeiterverband

    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: Der Deutsche Landarbeiterverband wurde 1909 auf Initiative der Generalkommissio...

  17. Regierung Minden, Kommunalaufsicht

    Vortragsjournale 1830-1845, 1887 (14); Organisation der Provinz 1825-1947 (15); Organisation des Regierungsbezirks 1816-1946 (26); Organisation der unteren Verwaltungsbehörden (Ämter) 1816-1947 (26); Waldeck-Pyrmont 1919-1925 (1); Gemeindegrenzen, Um- und Ausgemeindungen, Gutsbezirke 1821-1946 (112); Bezirksausschuss, Kreisstände, -ausschüsse 1826-1946 (140); Verwaltungsberichte der Kreise 1889-1933 (10); Kommunalverwaltung allgemein, Städte- und Gemeindeordnungen 1817-1946 (173); Gemeindewahlen 1898-1948 (12); Verwaltung der Gemeindeangelegenheiten 1852-1946 (39); Gesuche und Beschwerden i...

  18. Frieda G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frieda G., who was born in 1923 in Odrzywo??, Poland, the fifth of nine children. She recounts antisemitic violence leading to their moving to ?o?dz?; German invasion; ghettoization; her parents returning to Odrzywo?? with her four younger siblings (she never saw them again); one brother escaping; another dying from physical exhaustion; working as a tailor; marriage in 1943; pregnancy; giving birth prematurely (the baby was not alive) which resulted in illness; her sister's deportation; deportation with her husband to Auschwitz/Birkenau two weeks later; separation of ...

  19. Nationale Trust Maatschappij NV

    Het archief bevat voornamelijk financiële jaarverslagen van het naoorlogse beheer over de Deutsche Revisions- und Treuhand A.G. en O.E. Bauer. In de stukken over Bauer zijn veel namen te vinden van overleden (joodse) personen wier nalatenschap hij beheerde.

  20. Verner, Paul

    Bestandsbeschreibung 26. April 1911 in Chemnitz geboren 1916-1929 Besuch der Volksschule und Oberrealschule in Chemnitz April 1925 Mitglied des KJVD (vorher Jungspartakusbund und Kommunistische Kindergruppe) 1929 Mitglied der KPD 1929-1931 Sekretär der Unterbezirksleitung des KJVD Leipzig, Agitpropsekretär der KJVD-Bezirksleitung in Sachsen, Sekretär der KJVD-Unterbezirksleitung in Plauen 1921-Frühjahr 1932 Tätigkeit in der Redaktion der "Jungen Garde" in Berlin 1932 Korrespondent der "Jungen Garde" bei der "Komsomolskaja Prawda" in Moskau, Mitarbeiter der Kommunistischen Jugendinternationa...