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  1. Salo P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Salo P., who was born in 1904 in an Austrian town which became Polish after World War I. He recalls joining an older brother in Germany in 1921; increasing antisemitism after Hitler's rise to power in 1933; moving to Katowice, Poland; German invasion; fleeing to Soviet-occupied Kolomyi?a?; German invasion; ghettoization; refusing to join the Judenrat; hiding with his family from a mass killing; selling clothing to obtain food; escaping from a train transport; returning to the ghetto; forced labor; and beatings resulting in a hearing loss in one ear. Mr. P. recounts tr...

  2. Miriam E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Miriam E., who lived in Vilna, Poland among a large extended family. She recalls seders in her grandmother's village; her half-sister's and father's emigrations to Palestine; belonging to Betar; Lithuanian, then Soviet rule; German invasion; ghettoization; escaping; traveling to her grandmother's village; learning her grandmother had been killed; hiding with her grandmother's friend; traveling by night to another town; meeting her future husband; contact with partisans; hiding with her husband in a bunker in the Naroch forest; receiving food from local farmers; joinin...

  3. Livia G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Livia G., who was born in Forro-Encs, Hungary in 1931. She recalls her family's move to Hejocsaba in 1941; her father's draft into a Hungarian forced labor battalion in 1942; his return in 1943; German occupation in 1944; transfer to the Dio?sgyo?r ghetto with her family; her father's and brother's transfer to a labor camp; deportation to Auschwitz with her mother in June; receiving extra food from a cousin; their transfer to Bergen-Belsen in October; forced labor at an airplane factory; her mother sharing food with her; evacuation by train in April 1945; liberation f...

  4. Isak Sion: Participation of the Jews from Stip in the National Liberation Movement from Štip

    • Исак Сион: Учеството на Евреите од Штип во НОД
    • Isak Sion: Ucestvoto na Evreite od Stip vo NOD

    The content of the testimony by Isak Sion is composed by the following topics: • The Jewish community in Stip before World War II: the structure of the Stip Jewish community consisted of of 550 people, the profession of the Jews in Stip and the good relations between Macedonians and the Jews in Stip • The occupation of Macedonia from Bulgaria and the anti-Semitic laws for the Jews from Stip in April 1941 • The difficult economic situation of the Jews from Stip • Group of Jews from Stip, members of the Communist Party in Stip (from 1941-1942): Isak Sion, Pepo Juda Levi, Haim Juda Levi, Avram...

  5. Okręgowa Komisja Badania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu - Instytut Pamięci Narodowej w Bydgoszczy

    • akta administracyjne (plany pracy, sprawozdania, zarządzenia, organizacja konferencji, korespondencja, sprawy pracownicze, ankiety członków organizacji niepodległościowych, dokumentacja popełnionych zbrodni niemieckich, dokumentacja procesu Forstera) - ankietyzacja miejsc i faktów zbrodni niemieckich - materiały ewidencyjne (kartoteka osobowa zbrodniarzy niemieckich, kartoteka Volkssturmu i SA, kopie inwentarzy akt niemieckich władz okupacyjnych, rejestry miejsc zbrodni, rejestry spraw karnych z dekretu z 31 VIII 1944 r., wykazy uwięzionych w obozach pracy i więzieniach w latach 1945-1954...

  6. Joseph A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph A., who was born in Poland in 1921. He recalls moving to Radom in the late 1920s; pervasive antisemitism; becoming a tinsmith; discussions with Jews fleeing from Germany; German invasion; round-up of Jews for forced labor; ghettoization; forced labor in a munitions factory; liquidation of the small ghetto in 1942; mass killings; having to bury the dead in mass graves; frequent selections; a forced march to Krako?w in summer 1944; train transport to Auschwitz; transfer to Vaihingen an der Enz; harsh conditions and brutal guards; witnessing cannibalism by Russian...

  7. Zoly Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zoly Z., who was born in S?ieu Ma?gherus?, Romania in 1922. He recounts his father's death when he was four; he and his brother living with his future stepfather's mother in Aiud; their move to Bucharest in 1932 to join his mother and stepfather; increasing antisemitism as the Iron Guard gained power; his stepfather's emigration to Palestine in 1938; obtaining papers as a "volksdeutche" from a German lieutenant (who believed he was); socializing with the lieutenant; friendship with a policeman; threatened exposure as a Jew; obtaining a passport from the policeman; alt...

  8. Jacob R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacob R., who was born in L?vov, Poland in 1929. He recalls his large, extended family; German invasion of Poland in 1939; Soviet occupation; attending school; the German attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941; being sent, with his older sister, on a train to Kiev in the care of a Jewish family (he never saw his parents again); Soviet soldiers removing men and boys from the train; being left with only the boys when all the men of draft age were taken by the Soviet army; receiving food from local people; finding his sister in Kiev; fleeing to Dnipropetrovsk? two weeks...

  9. Ruth Ibbitson (née Peschel) collection

    This collection contains the personal papers of Ruth Peschel, a Jewish girl from Breslau who emigrated on a Kindertransport to the UK in 1939.These comprise correspondence with her family including a letter from her brother in Auschwitz concentration camp, as well as documents, including: work reference, police clearance certificate, tax clearance certificate, police notice of departure, identity card for young persons admitted to the UK under the care of the Inter-Aid Committee for Children and short life histories. There are digital copies of her passport and steamship...

  10. Verdoner family holiday and houseboat

    EXT, MCU, a man in a small house boat, docked. According to documentation that accompanied original films, the man's name is Leo Wijnbergin Punter. Gerrit Verdoner comes out on deck, putting on his shirt, and takes one of the eggs from the table, puts it in his mouth and begins to ham it up for the camera before ducking back inside the cabin. MS, EXT of the houseboat, the sea, and the window of a building, there is a sign on the building that reads: "STALLING-R'JWIELEN". Camera continues to pan building and surrounding farmland. VCU to MS of two young women standing in the doorway of the ho...

  11. March of Time -- outtakes -- Jewish services and market scenes in postwar Germany

    1248 G: 02:05:51:15 to 02:09:15:28: LS, man places poster announcing resuming of religious services on door of synagogue. CU. LS, reopening of synagogue: "Kottbuser Ufer Synagogue." One man, on a ladder, fixes the curtain on the altar. Two men bring flowers, another man fixes the lights, other men bring in the Torah. LS men bringing the Torah into the synagogue. LS, INT of Kottbuser Ufer Synagogue, while faithful put on Tallit. VSs, religious service, viewed from different angles. American soldier attends services. CUs, American GI talking with a German during the service. 1248 J: 02:09:18:...

  12. David Klayman photograph collection

    Collection consists of 15 prewar and postwar photographs of the Klajman, Tropauer and Szternfeld families of Bedzin, Poland.

  13. Nahum Sharon (Strachman) personal archives (RG-95-17), נחום שרון (שטרכמן) - ארכיון אישי

    Personal archive of Nachum Sharon (1912-1976) contains records on the Hashomer Hatzair in Poland, biographical data and description of his hometown Luck (Ukraine), speeches, articles, papers related to his leadership in MAPAM party (United Workers’ Party, Israel) and the Histadrut (General Organization of Workers), issues of the magazine "Al Hamishmar", articles on "German problem"-restitutions from Germany (1951), records from his mission in Cuba (1959-1962) and association of friends Israel-Cuba, the manuscript on Emanuel Ringelblum, the reproduction of his book "Summer 42" (in Hebrew).

  14. Oral history interview with Ignazio Meleddu

  15. Margolith R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Margolith R., who was born in Hague, Netherlands in 1919. She describes a warm and sheltered Jewish environment and growing up in a large, extended family; teaching Dutch to German children in Amsterdam beginning September 1939; living in Hilversum in 1940; German invasion; anti-Jewish laws; deportation to Westerbork in August 1941; escaping; working in a Jewish hospital in Hague; her family's deportation; hiding with assistance from her brother's non-Jewish friend; posing as a non-Jew and moving when people became suspicious; delivering arms for the underground; libe...

  16. Judit B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Judit B., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1933. She recalls her family's assimilated lifestyle; their conversion to Unitarianism; attending a Lutheran school; her father losing his job in 1942 due to antisemitic laws, despite their conversion; German occupation in spring 1944; her father's brief incarceration in a labor camp; expulsion from school in April; moving to a Jewish designated area; her family obtaining Swedish passports in summer 1944; a non-Jewish friend arranging for her to be hidden in the countryside as a non-Jew using false papers; her parents bri...

  17. Elena Osipovna Malakhovshaya collection

    Contains photocopies of official documents, personal letters, and newspaper clippings pertaining to Elena Osipovna Malakhovshaia. Malakhovshaia was born in 1934 as Rosaliia Osipovna Laikhter. She lived through the German bombing of the port of Odessa and the ensuing widespread conflagration. Members of her family hid in the catacombs beneath the city. Malakhovshaia spent part of 1941 in the Slobodka Ghetto. She survived the war, became an artist, and later emigrated to Israel.

  18. Historical Archive of the Alliance of Swiss Jewish Women's Organisations (BSJF) Bund Schweizerischer Jüdischer Frauenorganisationen (BSJF) (gegr. 1924) Historisches Archiv

    The collection consists of the complete working papers of the Bund Schweizerischer Jüdischer Frauenorganisationen (BSJF), including minutes, reports, correspondence, publications, etc.

  19. Irving D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irving D., who was born in Russia in 1912. He recounts the family's move to Vilna in 1913; membership in Hashomer Hatzair; antisemitic incidents in 1929; moving to ?o?dz? to learn the textile industry; German invasion; fleeing to Warsaw; returning to ?o?dz? with his brother; their escape to Soviet occupied areas, Ma?kinia, then Baranavichy; registering to join his parents in Vilna which resulted in arrest as an anti-communist; incarceration in a forced labor camp through 1940; moving to Tashkent; volunteering for the Soviet military in 1941; his discharge after being ...

  20. League of nations: papers re refugees

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.This microfilm collection of documentation deals with the role of the League of Nations, in particular with regard to the problem of Jewish refugees in Nazi Germany, c1938-1939. The papers include minutes, agenda, reports and memoranda of the Refugees Committee of the League of Nations.Documentation on the role of the League of Nations Refugee Committee with particular regard to the fate of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany including the following.Memorandum re treatment of refugees in Great Britain,...