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  1. Rita M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rita M., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1927. She recalls her parent's Sephardic roots; a happy childhood in an assimilated and wealthy home; anti-Semitic incidents; the Anschluss; her father and brother being forced to wash streets with small brushes; her mother's assault (which later required surgery) and rescue by an Austrian soldier and shopkeepers; one neighbor who protected her family's possessions; hiding in her uncle's house when her mother had surgery; fleeing to Paris via Switzerland, and, after the outbreak of war in France, to Turkey via Bulgaria; atte...

  2. Bequest Theo Berger

    The Fritz Bauer Institute acquired the bequest of Theo Berger from one of Berger's nieces in 2008. Theo Berger was born on January 8, 1925. His parents were Theo Berger senior and Margarete Berger. The family lived in Frankfurt (Main), initially in the district Rödelheim, then after the Second World War shortly in the district Sachsenhausen and later in the district Bornheim. Theo Berger trained to be a precision engineer at Hartmann & Braun AG. In 1942, he was conscripted into the Reich Labor Service. On March 15, 1943, he became a member of the Waffen-SS. He then stayed at the SS case...

  3. Pincus and Sylvia S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Pincus S., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1906, and his wife Sylvia S., who was born in Pultusk, Poland in 1922 and moved to ?o?dz? in 1937. Mr. S. tells of his prewar marriage to his first wife and his work as a furrier. Both Mr. and Mrs. S. speak of the German occupation of ?o?dz?; the torture and humiliation which followed; the ghettoization of ?o?dz?; ghetto life; their impressions of Rumkowski, elder of the Jewish Council of ?o?dz?; and round-ups and deportations from the ghetto. Mrs. S. describes the death of her father in the ghetto; her transport to Auschwi...

  4. Kurt Paucker: Memorial Service

    This collection contains transcripts of speeches held at the memorial service for Kurt Paucker on 26 April 1980.Papers including speeches by Arnold Paucker; Werner Henle, Ph.D mentor at the University of Pennsylvania, colleague and friend; and Jan Vilcek and Clifton A Ogburn, colleagues and friends. The speech by his brother tells the story of their bourgeois upbringing in the Weimarer Republic in Berlin before their education was interrupted in Nazi Germany and the family was torn apart by the Jewish persecutions

  5. Deutscher Verbindungsoffizier zum Rumänischen General beim Chef des Generalstabes des Heeres

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Die Verbindungsstelle des Rumänischen Heeres beim OKH unter dem zu Kriegsbeginn beim Militärattaché eingesetzten Generalmajor Titus Garbea bestand offenbar nur wenige Monate im Jahr 1944. Sie endete mit dem Sturz von Marschall Antonescu als rumänischer Regierungschef und dem Abbruch der diplomatischen Beziehungen zwischen dem Deutschen Reich und Rumänien Ende August 1944. General Garbea stellte gewissermaßen die Schnittstelle zwischen den beiden Regierungen bzw. Staatsoberhäuptern und den obersten Heeresvertretern dar. Er gab Wünsche und Forderungen der jewei...

  6. Mannschatz, Eberhard

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Kurzbiografie: geb. 29. Okt. 1927 in Dresden, Leiter der Abteilung Jugendhilfe im Ministerium der Volksbildung, Professor für Sozialpädagogik, lebt in Berlin Volksschule, Gymnasium, 1943-1944 Flakhelfer, 1944 Arbeitsdienst, 1945 Soldat, 1946 SED, 1947 Abitur, Sekretär der Kreisleitung der FDJ in Dresden, Kreisparteischule, 1947-1950 Jugendreferent der Stadt Dresden, Leiter des Referats für Jugendförderung und Jugendamtsleiter in Dresden, 1949-1950 Delegierung an die Deutsche Verwaltungsakademie "Walter Ulbricht" in Forst Zinna, 1950-1951 Referent für Pionierl...

  7. Alex R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Alex R., who was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands in 1932. He recounts attending private school; German invasion in May 1940; anti-Jewish legislation prohibiting Jews from attending school with non-Jews; the principal placing dividers to allow the Jewish students to remain; being rounded up with his parents to a theater (his sister hid); non-Jews sneaking children out; his father's employee being released due to his marriage to a non-Jewish woman and obtaining Alex R.'s release by claiming him as his son; his sister contacting the underground, which placed them separate...

  8. Преписка с Комисарството по еврейските въпроси, Министерството на народното просвещение - София, Областната дирекция на полицията - Бургас и др. по дейността на общината във връзка със Закона за защита на нацията.

    • Correspondence with the Commissariat on Jewish Affairs, Ministry of National Education - Sofia, Regional Police Directorate - Bourgas and others. on the activity of the municipality in connection with the Law for the Protection of the Nation.

    Преписка с Комисарството по еврейските въпроси, Министерството на народното просвещение - София, Областната дирекция на полицията - Бургас и др. по дейността на общината във връзка със Закона за защита на нацията. Оригинали, копия, преписи. Машинопис, ръкопис. Съдържа сведения за: промените в състава на Консисторията при Еврейската община (л 3 - 4, 9); промяна в местожителството (принудително изселване на бургаски евреи и преселване на софийски и др. евреи в Бургас) (л 5, 7 - 8, 11, 17 - 19, 21 - 23, 26 - 40, 50, 53, 63, 67, 75 - 76, 102, 106, 143, 238, 266, 269, 274, 283); ликвидиране на е...

  9. Documentation from Regional Archives of the Russian Federation, 1934-1946

    In the collection there are files selected from the Regional Archives of the Russian Federation: the State Archives in the Tver, Kaluga, Pskov, Orel, Smolensk, Novgorod and Bryansk regions, the State Archives of the Republics of Kalmykia and Mordovia and the State Archive for Records of Contemporary History in the Kaluga, Smolensk and Tver Regions. Description of the collectionThe collection includes documentation from the local committees of the Communist Party in various regions of Russia, 1917-1929, documentation from the Soviet Extraordinary State Commission Committee (ChGK) and the reg...

  10. Katherine A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Katherine A., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1915. She recalls attending college in Grenoble and Paris due to antisemitic restrictions in Hungary; returning to visit her parents on September 1, 1939; not being able to leave due to the outbreak of war; organizing a French culture club; participating in a theater troupe; marriage in 1941; her husband's service in a Hungarian slave labor battalion beginning in April 1942 (she never saw him again); teaching Hungarian to the Swiss ambassador and his family; German occupation in March 1944; receiving protection from t...

  11. Kate B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Kate B., who was born in Be?ke?scsaba, Hungary in 1929. She recalls her father, who was a distinguished physician; antisemitic incidents in school; exemption from living in the ghetto due to her father's position; deportation to Auschwitz in 1944; separation from her parents upon arrival; finding her mother; their separation during a selection (she never saw her again); cutting trees in a labor camp; hospitalization; assistance from a doctor who knew her father; and liberation by Soviet troops while they were digging their own graves. Mrs. B. describes transfer to Tra...

  12. Okresný ľúdový súd v Námestove

    • District People´s Court in Námestovo

    Fonds of the District People´s Court in Námestovo is fragmentary, however, it contains several relevant case files pertaining the activities and crimes committed during the period of the Hlinka´s Slovak People´s Party (HSĽS) regime in 1938-1945, including the persecution of Jews in Slovakia. It provides with documentation of the trials against some local party dignitaries and members (HSĽS and also Deutsche Partei) who were accused of propagation of the fascism and the ruling regime. Several cases refer to the activities of the Special Units of the Hlinka Guard (POHG) and their collaboratio...

  13. Bundessozialgericht

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Das Bundessozialgericht in Kassel ist durch Gesetz vom 03.09.1953 (BGBl. I S.1293) errichtet worden; es ist oberster Gerichtshof für das Gebiet der Sozialgerichtsbarkeit ( Art. 95 GG.). Das Bundessozialgericht entscheidet über das Rechtsmittel der Revision und über Nichtzulassungsbeschwerden; außerdem im ersten und letzten Rechtszug über Streitgkeiten nicht verfassungsrechtlicher Art zwischen dem Bund und den Ländern sowie zwischen den Ländern untereinander. Das Bundessozialgericht besteht aus 14 Senaten, in der Besetzung von einem Vorsitzenden (Präsident, Vi...

  14. Isenberg family at leisure; children play

    Sally Isenberg walks out of a door, followed by an older Artur and grandmother Bertha. Coy pond in the garden. [VQ - film not registered in camera well, poor] Helmut runs toward the camera and takes off his hat. The Isenberg family, Alice, and Bertha Marx walk toward camera, posing. Norbert plays with a yo-yo. House. The adults and children pose for camera, walk along the street, and joke. 01:27:16 Pan of the house and gardens. Norbert on his bicycle. Family members (including Bertha, Leo, and Margot Greif) gather in yard, Sally appears at 01:28:32. Boys and girl play, Helmut and Norbert ri...

  15. Licco Haim and friends on a ski holiday

    AGFA 8 1941. [COLOR] The friends climb a snowy path with skis for an adventure. 01:00:30 Berta Haim (Licco's wife). Pan of mountain landscape. 01:03:01 [B/W] Skiing filmed in slow-motion. 01:03:45 Chalet Sherni Vrah in the Black Peak. 01:08:46 [COLOR] Three friends slowly walk with skis across the snow toward the camera. More skiing. 01:11:43 [B/W] Skiing in slow-motion. LS of skiers with plane overhead. The friends, including Berta, walk back up for another run.

  16. Jacob F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacob F., who was born in Sambor, Poland, in 1900. Mr. F. tells of resisting a Cossack pogrom at the age of fourteen; the Austrian, Russian, and German occupations; the enforcement of slave labor in 1941; and his separation from his wife and children (he was ordered from the cattle car which took them to their deaths). He describes making his way to Drohobych and Boryslav and hiding there before being captured and taken, via L?vov, to Mauthausen, where he worked in the quarry for four weeks. He relates his religious observance while in Mauthausen and in Linz, where he...

  17. Eric E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eric E., who was born in Rastatt, Germany in 1921. He recalls anti-Jewish laws resulting in loss of the family business; moving to Westphalia where his father worked for former employees; his terror when hiding in a haystack alone during Kristallnacht; his father's incarceration in Buchenwald; his mother arranging for him to join a kindertransport to England; leaving the day of his father's release; living in Harwich for several months; an apprenticeship; living with a family; learning his parents had gone to Belgium; emigrating to the United States in 1940, believing...

  18. Frank N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Frank N., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1927. He recalls his close, extended family; antisemitic incidents in public school; transfer to a Jewish school; German occupation in March 1944; forced relocation with his parents to an overcrowded, yellow-star house; the contrast between the reality of the ghetto and poetry readings in the house; working as a messenger for the Jewish council, then for the Swiss embassy until the Arrow Cross takeover on October 15, 1944; being caught in a round-up with his father and sentenced for execution by La?szlo? Ferenczy as a Swi...

  19. Газета «Большевик» - орган крайкома ВКП(б) за 1943 г.

    • The newspaper "Bolshevik" - the organ of the regional committee of the CPSU(b), 1943

    Главный редактор газеты И. Юдин, опираясь на рассказы свидетелей и документы, опубликовал специальную работу о зверствах немцев – «Следы фашистского зверя на Кубани».

  20. Collection regarding the trials of Zoepf, Harster and Slottke in Munich during 1966-1968

    Collection regarding the trials of Zoepf, Harster and Slottke in Munich during 1966-1968 SS-Sturmbannführer Wilhelm Zoepf was head of the Referat IV B4 in The Hague in 1942. He administered the system of transports from Westerbork camp to the East, including the decisions regarding exemptions and deportations; Wilhelm Harster was commander of de Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD (the German Security and Police forces); Fraulein Slottke gave orders to the Police in The Hague, in order to locate Jews and their property; Included in the collection: Documents regarding the death of...