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  1. Rosenberg family papers

    The collection documents the post-war experiences of the Rosenberg family in the Feldafing displaced persons camp. Included are photographs depicting the lives of Mania and Jacob Rosenberg and their children Ada and Abraham in the camp; Jacob’s cousin Harry Silverman at the Lemberg displaced persons camp; childrens’ religious classes; and a wedding. Other material includes Mania Rosenberg's identification card from Feldafing, a newspaper article written by Jacob Rosenberg and published in Feldafing, and a Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year) greeting card for 1947.

  2. Miriam G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Miriam G., who was born in Fulda, Germany in 1906. She recalls her family emigrating to Antwerp in 1912; their comfortable, orthodox life; the large and cohesive Jewish community; participation in Zionist organizations; marriage in 1930; German invasion; fleeing to Paris; her husband's brief military service; moving to Bayonne, then Marseille; working as a dressmaker to support her family; living with her sister's family in one room; their lack of resources to purchase United States visas; obtaining false papers; moving to a suburb of Lyon; working for villagers in re...

  3. Marcelle B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marcelle B., who was born in Paris, France, in 1931. Mrs. B. recalls her close, extended family's Polish roots; long illnesses that separated her from her twin sisters; staying at a sanatorium in Hendaye after corrective surgery in summer 1939; returning with her father to Paris; German occupation; imposition of anti-Semitic measures; deportations; riding the Paris Metro in defiance of regulations; and her father's decision to go into hiding before a July 1942 round-up. She tells of being taken with her mother to the Ve?lodrome d'Hiver; appalling conditions; separatio...

  4. Ernest P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ernest P., who was born in Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1912. He recalls his father's death in 1918 serving in World War I; his mother's struggle to support him and two younger siblings; working at age sixteen to assist; the Anschluss; immediate anti-Jewish laws and violence; obtaining a forged passport in 1938 (his siblings had already left and his mother followed); living in Luxembourg for eighteen months; support from the local Jewish community; marriage to a Polish-Jewish refugee; the Jewish community organizing a group emigration to Cuba; traveling to Iru...

  5. Abe H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Abe H., who was born in Opole Lubelski, Poland in 1925, one of eight children. Mr. H. recounts the family's move to ?o?dz? when he was six; attending school until he began his apprenticeship as a tailor; the extreme poverty; his father's death in 1938; rumors of war; mobilization; German invasion; and restrictions on Jews. He describes ghettoization; extreme food shortages; organization of the ghetto under H?ayim Rumkowski; his sister opening a tailor shop in which he worked; deportations; transports of German, Czech, and Belgian Jews into the ghetto; deportation of h...

  6. Johannes Kohl: Personal papers

    This collection contains the papers of Johannes Kohl, a Jewish refugee from Vienna who emigrated to the UK via Holland in 1939.Personal papers including his membership card of the Austrian Centre in London; an information guide for Jewish refugees in England and press cutting from the Kleine Volkszeitung (5 May 1938) regarding the execution of a Jewish criminal in Paris.

  7. Armeeoberkommando 6

    Chef d. Gen.St.: Befehle aus 1941/42 (4 AE) Ia: KTB von Oktober 1939 bis November 1942 und von März 1943 bis Mai 1944 (Anlagen bis Oktober 1944) sowie KTB der Gruppe Pfeiffer von Dezember 1942 bis Januar 1943 und der Festung Stalingrad von Dezember 1942 bis Januar 1943 und der Armeeabt. Hollidt von November 1942 bis März 1943. OQu: KTB von Oktober 1939 bis August 1942 und von November 1942 bis Juni 1944. Ic: TB von April 1940 bis Mai 1942 und von Dezember 1942 bis September 1944. IIa: von Oktober 1939 bis November 1942, von Mai 1943 und von Juli 1943 bis März 1944. IVa: TB von Oktober 1939 ...

  8. Okresní národní výbor Praha-jih

    • District National Committee of Praha-jih / NAD 21

    The fonds originated from activities of the District National Committee of Praha-venkov-jih and Praha-jih in 1945-1960. It contains documents arisen from activities of the district office. Information on Jews can be found in the following documents: inv. no. 106 Conversions of religion from 1945–1946 and 1948; inv. no. 235 Secret files: Jewish associations - investigation, no. 102/1951 (1951); inv. no. 268 Confiscation, call no. II/2 (1945–1948); inv. no. 271 Concentration camps on the territory of the Czechoslovak Republic during the occupation, call no. III/1-210 (1947); inv. no. 309 Jewi...

  9. Processo de pedido de visto para Cecile Abboud, Mona Saqman, Sheila, Toby, Mary, Mascha, Luis Ergoynne, Mna. Cohn, Jean Gluck, Silvia Gluck, Gustavo Kaufman, Margarida Kaufman e filho de Gustavo Kaufman

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Baiona para Cecile Abboud, de nacionalidade não identificada, com destino não identificado. Visto recusado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Baiona para Mona Saqman, de nacionalidade britânica, com destino não identificado. Visto recusado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Baiona para Sheila, de nacionalidade britânica, com destino não identificado. Visto recusado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Baiona para Toby, de nacionalidade britânica, com destino não identifica...

  10. Leon Gildesgame papers

    Consists of a cover letter addressed to Meir Grossman of the American Jewish Conference by Leon Gildesgame and two original enclosures. The original enclosures include a typewritten account of SS-Unterscharführer Franz Xaver Sommerhoff articulating his participation in the killing of Jewish civilians and others, and a typewritten copy of First Army Special Report titled "It Happened in the Twentieth Century," detailing the interrogation of Dr. Gustav Wilhelm Schübbe. Schübbe, a medical doctor, admitted to the killings of thousands of Jews, Romani people, and others by morphine injection in ...

  11. June M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of June M., who was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1929. She describes her close extended family; joyous holiday celebrations in an orthodox environment; German invasion; fleeing with her family to Calais, France; repatriation to Antwerp by the Germans; forced relocation to Limburg; moving to Brussels; anti-Jewish restrictions; refusing to wear the star; being hidden in a convent in Sint-Pieters-Leeuw (her parents hid elsewhere); conversion to Catholicism; wonderful relations with nuns; tacitly acknowledging the other hidden Jewish children (there were twenty-eight); seeing...

  12. Marion L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marion L., who was born in Bielefeld, Germany in 1924 and raised in nearby Herford. Mrs. L. recalls her comfortable upper-middle-class childhood; playing in her father's tobacco warehouse; a non-Jewish girlfriend who refused to see her after joining a Nazi organization; a family employee's role in her home's looting on Kristallnacht; her father's return from incarceration at Sachsenhausen; being sent by her parents on a chidren's transport to Holland in 1939; and living in an orphanage with 100 other refugee children. She details the 1940 German attack; a prominent Ch...

  13. Forest, adults gathered in Palestine

    A farm building, fence, cows. The camera is very shaky. Circular pan of pine trees. 02:07:56 Possibly the Lieberman House in Nahariya, Palestine? Three men talking to each other. Woman stands in front of a car. Man in a straw hat holds a baby on top of a brick structure (a well?).

  14. Livija A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Livija A., who was born in Subotica, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1917 to a Jewish father and Catholic mother. She recounts being raised as a Catholic; celebrating Passover with her father's family in Budapest; her father changing his name to an obviously Serb one; attending architecture school beginning in 1936; expulsion as a Jew in 1941; her parents' eviction; living in Belgrade; working for a man who knew she was Jewish; her father's employment by friends; his death in an accident; hiding Jewish friends of her parents (one committed suicide when they were caught, ...

  15. Processo de pedido de visto para Reinhard Lowenstein, mulher de Reinhard Lowenstein, Henry Whigam, Lapucci, Ralli, Marioni, Valmoggia, Zamperoni, Sodonio, Sereni, Deluca, Bartesghi e mulher

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Londres para Reinhard Lowenstein, de nacionalidade espanhola e residente em Espanha, com destino a Espanha. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Londres para mulher de Reinhard Lowenstein, de nacionalidade espanhola e residente em Espanha, com destino a Espanha. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Londres para Henry Whigam, de nacionalidade britânica, com destino aos Estados Unidos da América. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portuga...

  16. Sąd Grodzki w Sobolewie

    • Court of the first instance in Sobolew

    Wydział Cywilny "C" sprawy cywilne rozpoznawane w trybie postępowania ogólnego (1936-1939)1940-1944 sygn. 1-59, 71-153. "Co" sprawy opiekuńcze (1938-1939)1940-1942 sygn. 60-61, 154-155. Wydział Karny: "Kg" sprawy karne 1941-1944 sygn. 62-67. Pomoce kancelaryjne: Skorowidze C [1939] 1941-1944, sygn. 68-69. Repertorium C [1939] 1940-1944 [1946], sygn.70. Inwentarz uzupełniono w 2006r. o 88 jednostek aktowych (nr nab. 3330/04 - 3j.a i 85j.a. 0,18mb. akt odnalezionych w 2005r.). Są to pomoce kancelaryjne i akta spraw cywilnych z kategorii C i Co sygn. 68-155.

  17. Quisling sentenced to death

    World in Film. Issue no. 20 (1940-1949) 03:39:08 "Last Fight Pictures from the Pacific." British Naval and air units at sea. HS, US convoy under way. Admiral Rawlings, British officer being transported from his ship at sea via breech buoy to an American ship alongside. GSAP pictures of Japanese land installation being strafed. MS, Admiral William F Halsey aboard ship speaking to group of men in fire control room. LSs, American battleship's guns firing at shore in the battle of the Honshu Sea. Scenes aboard US battleship of ammunition being sent to upper deck. 03:42:40 "Soldiers become Farm ...

  18. Ebensee concentration camp (survivors and soldiers); Generals meeting

    (B-1205) Concentration Camp, Ebensee, Austria, May 8, 1945. MCU, body placed in furnace of crematorium. CU, naked corpse (pan of body from feet to head). MSs, CUs, men unloading cart of corpses, carrying bodies into crematorium on stretchers. Mountain range in BG. Two boys in uniforms sleeping on bench with luggage between them. MS, three men unloading bread from truck into building. LS, EXT, storage, former prisoners and Allied guards milling about, guarding door with guns. Priest talking to soldiers. LS, Vista/landscape. MS, CUs, several naked, starved inmates too weak to walk or move bei...

  19. Lilly G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lilly G., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1925, an only child. She recounts a close relationship with her Hasidic grandparents; German occupation; attending a Jewish school; Kristallnacht; expropriation of her mother's business; her parents obtaining false papers; their emigration to Brussels in spring 1939; living in Antwerp; obtaining visas for the United States; German invasion in May 1940; her father's arrest as an "enemy alien"; his deportation to camps in France; arranging to be smuggled to Paris, then Nice; living in Marseille; visiting her father in the cam...

  20. Theodore M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Theodore M. who was born in Lʹviv, Poland in 1920. He recalls completing high school; antisemitic violence; German invasion in 1941; escaping from a mass shooting by carrying bodies; obtaining extra food for his uncles from a German woman; his father obtaining work papers for all of them except his mother; hiding during the day; arrest with his parents; incarceration in Janowska; his mother giving him her wedding band (he never saw her again); his father arranging their escapes and for false papers; traveling to Kraków; working as a painter; moving to Częstochowa, f...