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  1. Sol R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sol R., who was born in Velikiye Luchki, Czechoslovakia in 1928. He recounts Hungarian occupation; going to work at age thirteen after his father was taken to a forced labor battalion; his father's return; a four-week incarceration with his family in a brick factory; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from his mother and sisters (he never saw them again); his father giving him his bread; separation from his father (he never saw him again); transfer to Mauthausen, then Melk, with his friend Sam; slave labor digging tunnels; assistance from Sam, who had a privileged j...

  2. Gmina Żydowska w Wiedniu

    • Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien
    • Jewish Community in Vienna

    I. Korespondencja gminy (fragmenty) z lat 1871-1940: m.in..: - Israelitische Theologische Lehranstalt in Wien. [Izraelickie Seminarium Teologiczne w Wiedniu] 1893-1937 - statut, protokoły sesji egzaminacyjnych, korespondencja 1896-1930, notatki, 24 indeksy studentów z 1930 r., prace dyplomowe i seminaryjne słuchaczy, b.d. i 1935; - Vereinigung jüdischer Exportakademiker in Wien (Exportakademie des K.K. Handelsmuseums) [Związek Żydowskich Studentów Akademii Eksportu w Wiedniu (Akademia Eksportu Cesarsko-Królewskiego Muzeum Handlowego] - bd. - statut; - dokumenty biblioteki gminnej 1866 - po ...

  3. Miriam J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Miriam J., who was born in Kaunas, Lithuania in approximately 1918. She recounts her mother's death when she was three; her father's remarriage; her sister's death; one brother moving to Russia; marriage; Soviet occupation; her son's birth and hospitalization; her husband's military service (he was killed); German invasion; ghettoization; a beating for attempting to smuggle potatoes; her son's murder; escaping from a round-up; a Jewish policeman hiding her; murder of her father, stepmother, and brother; transfer to Kaunas concentration camp, then to Stutthof; slave la...

  4. Ernest B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ernest B., who was born in Debrad?, Czechoslovakia in 1920. He recounts moving to another village when he was three; fighting back against anti-Jewish violence; attending Catholic school; his father's death when he was thirteen; Hungarian occupation; moving to Budapest to support his mother and siblings; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1943; assignment to a uniform factory; German occupation in 1944; learning his mother had been ghettoized (she did not survive); friends assisting him to alter his documents to show him as Catholic; posing as a Nazi; war...

  5. Celnik-Miliband family. Collection

    This collection contains six photos of Celnik-Miliband family members, including portraits of Jacques Celnik, his wife Frania Miliband and a group photo of the couple with relatives.

  6. Famiglia Lattes Luzzatto

    • Family Lattes Luzzatto

    La donazione Lattes Luzzatto conserva principalmente corrispondenza e carte familiari, sia di Dante Lattes che della famiglia della figlia Lina e del nipote Amos Luzzatto. Le carte sono state suddivise in: 1) corrispondenza, suddivisa in fascicoli per decade, comprensiva anche dei telegrammi e delle lettere di condoglianze per la famiglia; 2) documentazione che tocca diversi aspetti della vita quotidiana dei membri della famiglia Lattes Luzzatto (cursus studiorum, tessere annonarie, comunicazioni legate ai ruoli istituzionali ecc.); 3) fotografie; 4) scritti.

  7. Miriam L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Miriam L., a twin, who was born in Poland in 1917. She recounts her family moving to ?o?dz?; being given to a nurse for three years when her mother was ill; her twin's death; one brother's emigration to Palestine in 1922; graduating from gymnasium; ghettoization; forced labor; the deaths of her siblings and parents; a German grabbing her nephew from her arms and crushing his head against a wall; deportation to Auschwitz in 1944, then to Christianstadt; slave labor digging ditches; a German guard providing her with extra food; a severe beating for helping other prisone...

  8. Départmental Archives of the Bouches-du-Rhône records

    Selected records from the Prefect's office, the regional court, and the police relating to the internment camps of Les Milles and Saliers, Jewish affairs, and the Departmental Committee of Liberation. Includes documents from the Sous-Préfecture of Arles and Aix-en-Provenance, fonds Giraud, and German publications. The accretion of 8 microfilm reels (Reels #22-29) contain records relating to judicial affairs and administrative personnel files under a 75 (justice) and 100-year reserve law: Criminal Court Proceedings, Regional Court of Justice in Marseille, Court of Appeal of Aix-en-Provence....

  9. Selected records related to the Holocaust and Nazi occupation of the Kiev region during WWII from the State Archives of Kiev Region

    This collection includes records of the following organizations and institutions active in the Kyiv region during the Nazi occupation: Offices of the Ukrainian auxiliary police in Makarov, Novy Mir, Uman, Dymer, Uzin, Tarashcha, , Fastov Vychsheduby, Baryshev, Korsun, Smilyany, Yaroslav etc., districts of the city of Kiev and Kyiv region; Office of the Burgomeister and Gebitskomissariat of Belaya Tserkov, (2 collections); Gebitskomissariat of Vasilkov, Stadtkommendatur, Stadtkomissariat, and General Komissar Kiev ( 3 collections); Ukrainian Administration of the Podol District of city of Ki...

  10. Komenda Obrońców Polski

    Rozkazy i instrukcje, 1940 - 2 j.a. (sygn. 1-2) Relacja, b.d. - 1 j.a. (sygn. 3) Prasa konspiracyjna, 1943 - 1 j.a. (sygn. 4)

  11. Landeszman-gyűjtemény

    • Documents collected by former Director of the Jewish Archives of Hungary György Landeszman

    The Landeszman collection includes miscellaneous Holocaust-related documents from 1944-45 and the postwar period, such as documents of individual labor servicemen, letters and requests of the Central Jewish Council from the year 1944, daily demands various Hungarian and German authorities sent to the Central Jewish Council, requesting the delivery of various objects or the provision of various services, notes on the organization of ghetto life, documents regarding the ghettoization and deportation of Jews of Kiskunhalas and Sopron, reports from countryside ghettos from May 1944, list of pro...

  12. Train travel in southeastern Poland 1936

    TRIMS featuring a train that has stopped at an unknown station in Poland, the train picks up several passengers: men, women, and children, and continues along the tracks slowly out of the station. CUs of passengers in the train cars, LS of a conductor at the edge of the train platform monitoring the loading and unloading of passengers. There are two trims that feature signs along the platform which could aid in identification of the exact location, but they are in the BG of the shot, and not completely legible. The first trims shows a MS of the train, attached to electric cables pulling int...

  13. Marian N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marian N., who was born in s?-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands in 1938. She has no memory of her German Jewish parents who placed her with a non-Jewish business associate in Geldrop before they hid in 1941. Mrs. N. recalls being moved to the Martins family in Horst, where she posed as a cousin from the city; playing with her "brothers," the Martins' two children; participating in church services and holiday celebrations; attending a convent school; bombings; German soldiers quartered in their home; and receiving candy from Canadian troops who liberated the area. She recount...

  14. Ann H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ann H., who was born in Chrzano?w, Poland in 1925. She describes her religious childhood; increased antisemitism from 1933 on; German bombing in 1939; her brothers' departure for the Russian zone and her sister's to a forced labor camp; selection in 1940 when she and her sister were separated from her parents, whom she never saw again; deportation with her sister to Sosnowiec, then to Germany; and work as slave laborers. She recalls that despite horrendous work and living conditions, they always thought they would survive. Mrs. S. tells of worsening conditions in seve...

  15. Reichsfinanzhof

    Bestandsbeschreibung Das Bundesarchiv verwahrt ca. 75 000 Akten mit Registern, rund 100 Gutachten über Grundsatzfragen der Reichsabgabenordnung sowie Akten der Dienststellenverwaltung. Die Prozessakten wurden (nach den jeweils letzten gültigen) Registernummern geordnet und gelagert; fehlende Nummern und fehlende Registerbände sind bei der abgebenden Stelle, meist im Jahre 1945, verlorengegangen. Vorhanden sind heute im Bundesarchiv Akten aller bestehenden Senate in unterschiedlichem Umfang. Eine Benutzung der Prozessakten ist in der Regel nur möglich, wenn die Registernummer des Reichsfinan...

  16. Archief van de Tachkemoni-school.

    • Tachkemoni School
    • BE / Tachkemoni / Archief van de Tachkemoni school
    • Dutch
    • ca. 22 s.m. en 2 ladenkasten.

    De Tachkemonischool bewaart vandaag hoofdzakelijk nog recente statische en (semi-)dynamische archieven, die van bijzonder belang kunnen zijn voor o.a. genealogisch of sociologisch onderzoek. Vooreerst noteren we drie stamboeken (inschrijvingsregisters), respectievelijk voor de periode 1945-1960, 1961-1984 en 1984-1997. Het Guldenboek bevat handtekeningen en boodschappen (in het Hebreeuws, Engels, Frans, Nederlands) van bestuursleden, (oud-)studenten en prominente bezoekers sinds november 1944 tot heden. We vermelden eveneens nog publicaties zoals de reeks jaarboeken (vanaf 2000) en de versc...

  17. Luisa D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Luisa D., who was born in W?odawa, Poland in 1936. She recounts her father's emigration to Bolivia in 1939; German invasion; fleeing with her mother and older brother to Bia?a Podlaska; living in a ghetto; smuggling food with her brother; his death; hiding in an attic with other Jews during deportations; discovery; escaping into the forest with her mother; living with Jewish, then Russian partisans; her mother's refusal to go to Moscow without her; following the front to Lublin where they were liberated; their journey to a displaced persons camp in Munich; contacting ...

  18. Stadt Kielce und Kreishauptmann Kielce records (Sygn.183)

    Contains orders, lists, correspondence, reports, and various other documents relating to the activities of the office of the Stadthauptmann und Kreishauptmann in Kielce, Poland, and Kreishauptmann Hans Drechsel. Also contains information about economy, labor, welfare assistance, police activity, partisan activity, propaganda, and Jewish affairs in Kielce.

  19. Hostages and political prisoners Otages et détenus politiques

    Contains records of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Commission of Prisoners, Internees, and Civilians (PIC) from ACICR series G 44, Otages et détenus politiques, relating to aid for hostages and political prisoners in Nazi concentration camps; hostages and political prisoners in prisons and concentration camps in Germany; hostages, political prisoners, and resistance fighters imprisoned during World War II and after by satellite regimes of the Nazis or imprisoned by Germany in countries occupied by Germany and German nationals detained or interned in countries of the Allied c...

  20. Eugenia Hochberg Lanceter collection

    Contains postcards, letters, and various other documents relating to Eugenia (Gina) Hochberg's experiences in the Brody ghetto, in labor camps near the Brody ghetto, her life in hiding in both Brody and Lublin, and Eugenia's (Gina) marriage to Henryk Lanceter in July 1945. Also contains 50 black-and-white photographs relating to her time in the Finkenschlag displaced persons camp in Furth, Germany.