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  1. Eisenstein and Grunwald families in Cernosice in 1935

    Title: "Cernosice 1935". Children at play in the garden in summer at the Eisenstein summer villa, including John Grunwald (the boy conducting). Exercising on gymnastic rings outdoors. Playing in the water. The Eisenstein family poses for the camera (Zdenka, Helena, Karel and Emil); mother combs boy's hair. 03:55 Kids (Helena and John) sit at table outdoors, put on a performance. John appears tied to his little brother, Misa. Playing in the pool in swimsuits. Zdenka and her children pick flowers from the garden. Otto, Herta, Karl, Mathilda Eisenstein, and Otto's grandchildren Misa and John w...

  2. August Bohny-Reiter papers Nachlass August Bohny-Reiter (1919-2016)

    Private papers of August Bohny-Reiter (1919-2016), a refugee aid worker and teacher. The collection consists of Bohny-Reiter biographical materials: photographs, records of civilian and military service, honors,and a diploma from Yad Vashem (1990); reports, correspondence, clippings, articles, publications and photographs relating to aid to refugees and refugee children in France and Switzerland, the founding of the Pestalozzi Children's Village, and cooperation with the Red Cross.

  3. Bequest Thomas Harlan

    The bequest Thomas Harlan was given to the Fritz Bauer Institute in 2014 by Harlan's executor and his brother-in-law. The holding originally contained correspondence between Fritz Bauer and Thomas Harlan. Immediately after accession, these documents were separated from the rest of the material and are now part of the bequest Fritz Bauer. Also in 2014, the Fritz Bauer Institute was offered correspondence between Thomas Harlan and his partner Krystyna Zywulska as a deposit by the author Liane Dirks. This deposit became part of the bequest Thomas Harlan. Thomas Harlan (1929-2010) was born in B...

  4. Socio-Cultural Society of Jews in Poland Towarzystwo-Społeczno Kulturalne Żydów w Polsce (TSKŻ) (Sygn. 325)

    Selected records contain correspondence with domestic offices and international organizations; minutes and reports from meetings and events; records of the Department of Education such as curricula in schools in Hebrew or Yiddish; reports from dayrooms for pupils; personal files and correspondence of the Towarzystwo-Społeczno Kulturalne Żydów w Polsce (TSKŻ), branch in Lublin. Note: Reproduction of this collection is ongoing.

  5. The Adolf Abraham Berman Collection: Polish-Jewish Underground Welfare Activity in Occupied Warsaw and Outlying Cities and in Camps, 1943–1945

    The Adolf Abraham Berman collection contains underground press and publications and official press printed after the failure of the Polish uprising; official and forged personal documents; overviews, reports, correspondences, radio broadcasts transcripts, operation and work plans, orders, order of battle and casualty lists; diaries, memoirs, testimonies, speeches, essays and manifestos; aid requests and financial support confirmations and receipts. The collection also contains material related to the Kielce pogrom of July 1946.

  6. Family explores Northern Slovakia

    The Brust family visit Slovakia from their home in Budapest. A man with a cane walks on uneven terrain (some damage to film). Emblem in concentric circles on the front pediment area of a building roof. Camera pans right, showing trees and the mountains behind. A waterfall flows. 00:00:39 pans left to show a man sitting in front of a larger waterfall. He smiles and poses for the camera. CU of water rushing down the river. More views of the river, the waterfall, and the rushing water. 00:01:12 A woman and the man with the cane attempt to step down a rocky path away from the river. River and t...

  7. Trial of Rudolf Slánský Ministerstvo národní bezpečnosti (Ministry of National Security)

    Court proceedings, protocols, letters, photographs from the trial of Rudolf Slánský. On 20 November 1952, Rudolf Slánský, General Secretary of the Communist party of Czechoslovakia (KSČ), and 13 other leading party members, 11 of them Jews, were accused of participating in a Trotskyite-Titoite-Zionist conspiracy and convicted: 11 including Slánský were hanged in Prague on December 3, 1952. The state prosecutor at the trial in Prague was Josef Urválek. Among the accused were two Israelis: Mordechai Oren sentenced to 15 years imprisonment and Mordechai Orenstein convicted to life sentence. Ac...

  8. Avraham K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Avraham B., who was born in Tykocin, Poland in 1926, one of six children. He recounts attending cheder, then yeshiva; increasing antisemitism; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; brief German invasion, then Soviet occupation; attending a Soviet school; visiting Białystok; German invasion; round-up with his family; his father sending him home; hiding with a friend; hearing the mass shooting of all the Jews while escaping to the forest; assistance from a non-Jewish neighbor; traveling to his grandparents' in Knyszyn; a round-up nine months later; escaping with his aunt a...

  9. Family poses for camera; city square

    Reel 4. Women and children from the Sommer and Klein families in alley and doorway of house; they walk towards the camera. Some gather in BG (VQ: fuzzy). Children and women in a group. CU, children slowly walk towards camera. 02:00:43 Pan (left to right), men posing (all in suits, hats, overcoats), glimpse of an automobile next to them. Women and children at family's storefront; pan (left to right) of sign, "Houstinec, Sommer." Man and boy alley (same as before) walk towards camera in an alley. Other members of the family walk towards camera as well, including women, children, and cameraman...

  10. Mordechai Weinryb photograph collection

    The photographs depict Mordechai (Motek) Weinryb [donor] and his friends during their years of organizing illegal emigration to Palestine and later during his internment in Cyprus. The images consist of studio portraits of the donor and friends as well as one informal group photograph.

  11. Family business; market; shops

    Reel 3. Marketplace in Humenne with tents and shops. The Klein family's shop was located across from this market. Peasants from the local villages traveled to Humenne on Mondays and Fridays to sell their wares. Local policemen pose for the camera with one of the American relatives (Louis or Harry Sommer in a dark suit and hat). Cousins stand before their leather goods shop owned by uncle Jacob Grossman. Pan up to sign on store: "Jakob Grossmann. Obchod Kozou." Carts with horses and people pass through streets of village. 01:15:32 Hermann Klein's brick-making factory. Smoke stack. Pan up and...

  12. Okresní úřad Hořice

    • District Office of Hořice / NAD 1283

    The fonds contains documents of the political administration of the Hořice district, official books, registry finding aids and files, and accounting material. General files are divided into subject groups. The following subject groups in particular are relevant to Jewish issues: Handling period 1850-1855: 4. Citizenship, domicile right; 8. Police matters; 11. Trades. Handling period 1855-1868: 4. Citizenship, domicile right; 8. Police matters; 9. Construction and fire safety. Handling period 1910-1928: 4. Register matters; 8. Police matters; 9. Construction and fire safety; 15. Trades, indu...

  13. Selected records of postwar East German investigative court cases and trials to Nazi war crimes Records ZUV

    Prosecutions in the Soviet-Occupied Zone of Germany (subsequently German Democratic Republic) against perpetrators of Nazi-era crimes. Victims were Jews, the mentally ill, prisoners of war, and other groups in ghettos, partisan areas, camps, and killing centers. Perpetrators were in the SS, the Einsatzgruppen, police battalions and regiments, the euthanasia program, the court system, ghetto and camp administrations, the Wehrmacht, and the latter's Field Police (Feldgendarmerie) and Secret Field Police (Geheime Feldpolizei).

  14. Lăpuşna County Tribunal

    • Tribunal judeţean Lăpuşna
    • Лапушнянский уездный трибунал
    • Lapushnyanskiy uyezdnyy tribunal

    Civil and criminal cases; cases of the tribunal chancellery (including testimony of judicial officers about their non-involvement in the political parties of Romania; personal files of the officials of the tribunal); prosecutor's office cases (including daily reports of the questura and police about incidents in Chişinău; information about epidemic diseases in Chişinău; lists of residents of the county who received permission to use weapons); court investigator cases; cases on certification of dates of birth (including dates of birth of Rosa Aizin; Khaim Aleyvi; Miriam Alper; Khava Bendersk...

  15. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 5 mark coin, saved by a ghetto resident

    5 mark Łódź Ghetto coin saved by Halina Wolman Orski who was imprisoned there from 1941 until August 30, 1944, when she was sent to Auschwitz and then Stutthof concentration camps. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1939. Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and, in February 1941, the large Jewish population was forcibly relocated into a sealed ghetto. Residents were not allowed to have money and the Germans ordered the Jewish Council to create scrip for use only in the Ghetto. The Germans closed the ghetto in summer 1944 by deporting the residents to concentration camps or killing cent...

  16. Documentation on matters pertaining to administration, finance, personnel and service conditions in the SS and the Waffen SS from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1936-1943

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 11001960
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1936-1943
    • Book Booklet(s) Financial accounts Form Journal Laws and decrees List of Nazi war criminals Names of perpetrators Official documentation Photograph Survey report

    Documentation on matters pertaining to administration, finance, personnel and service conditions in the SS and the Waffen SS from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1936-1943 Among other items, the collection contains correspondence, circulars and guidelines of various bodies within the SS and the Waffen SS regarding matters pertaining to administration, finance, personnel and the service conditions of their people. In the material there are reports regarding promotions and postings to new positions; general guidelines concerning SS and Waffen SS personnel and their service conditions, some of si...

  17. Akta gminy Osieczna

    • Der Amtskommissar des Amtsbezirks Storchnest Distriktsamt Storchnest Komisariat Obwodowy Osieczna Prezydium Gminnej Rady Narodowej w Osiecznej Wójtostwo Obwodowe Osieczna Zarząd Gminny w Osiecznej
    • Files of the commune of Osieczna

    I. Distriktsamt Storchnest, 1833-1919 posiedzenia, wybory, budżety, podatki, sprawy bezpieczeństwa publicznego, drogowe, wojskowe, kasowe, żydowskie, ogniowe, meldunkowe II. Komisariat Obwodowy Osieczna, 1919-1928 sprawy administracyjne, plebiscyt, budżety, podatki, sprawy sanitarne, statystyczne i policyjne, mienie niemieckie, pobór, zwalnianie robotników III. Wójtostwo Obwodowe Osieczna, [1888] 1928-1935 wybory, budżety, podatki, sprawy kościelne, towarzystwa, związki, przemysł, handel, statystyka, osadnictwo, sprawy sanitarne, ewidencja ludności, sprawy karne IV. Zarząd Gminny w Osieczne...

  18. Henry Greenbaum papers

    The collection contains photographs and identification papers documenting Henry Greenbaum’s Holocaust-era experiences as a refugee in several displaced persons camps. Documents include identification papers from the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp, a Jewish Committee membership card from Neunberg vorm Wald, a document stating that he was an inmate of the Flossenbürg concentration camp, and a driver’s license. Photographs consist of fourteen photographs from the Zeilsheim DP camp, including portraits of Henry's friends.

  19. Avraham T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Avraham T., who was born in Lazdijai, Russia (presently Lithuania) in 1909, one of six children. He recalls attending cheder; his family's expulsion during World War I; their return; attending Hebrew high school in Marijampolė; participating in Maccabi; leading the Lithuanian team in the 1932 Tel Aviv Makabiyah; attending the University of Pittsburgh; his father's death; returning home; completing law school in Kaunas; antisemitic harassment by university officials; marriage in 1935; attending the 1939 Zionist Congress in Geneva; Soviet occupation in June 1940; worki...

  20. Reichsstelle für den Außenhandel

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Bestandsgeschichte Die Unterlagen gelangten im September 1955 als Teil einer Abgabe des Custodian für die Reichsstellen, Wirtschaftsgruppen und anderen staatlichen Wirtschaftsstellen im amerikanischen, britischen und französischen Sektor von Berlin ohne Ablieferungsverzeichnis und ungeordnet ins Bundesarchiv. Abgesehen davon, dass der Bestand nur einen Registraturteil ausmacht, hat er zudem Entnahmen durch die britische Besatzungsmacht erfahren, von der er 1945 beschlagnahmt und Anfang 1948 geprüft worden ist. Ende 1949 erfolgte die Freigabe an den Custodian,...