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  1. LXXIV. Armeekorps

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Wie die Kriegstagebücher aller Truppenteile und Dienststellen des Heeres waren auch die Kriegstagebücher der Generalkommandos und der bodenständigen Höheren Kommandos vom Mobilmachungstag (26. Aug. 1939) an beim Heeresarchiv Potsdam einzureichen, wo sie eine Zugangssignatur erhielten. Diese Zugangssignaturen wurden anfangs getrennt nach den Kriegsschauplätzen, nämlich P für Polen und W für Westen vergeben. Nach Beendigung des West- und des Norwegenfeldzuges wurden die Zugänge nur noch nach laufender Nummer signiert und in dieser Reihenfolge auch eingelagert, ...

  2. Yaakov B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Yaakov B., who was born in Hrubieszów, Poland in 1926, the youngest of three children. He recounts his brother's death from pneumonia; attending a Jewish school; compulsory transfer to a public school; antisemitic harassment; working in his father's business from age fourteen; German, then brief Soviet occupation; traveling with his father to an uncle in Volodymyret︠s︡ʹ; their return home; German occupation; ghettoization; forced labor; deportation with his family to Sobibór in spring 1942; separation from his mother and sister; slave labor with his father cutting t...

  3. Paulina B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Paulina B., who was born in Gorlice, Poland (then Austro-Hungarian Monarchy), one of three children. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; her father's service in World War I; attending Beit Yakov, public school, then gymnasium; summer vacations at her aunt's house in Nowy Sącz; participating in Noʻar ha-Tsiyoni; arrest by Polish police for Zionist activity; attending university in Kraków; a trip to Italy with her boyfriend; vacationing in Zakopane; working for the Red Cross; German invasion; relocating to her father's village; fleeing east; German bombardment; trave...

  4. Concentration camp uniform jacket and pants worn by a Catholic Polish prisoner in several camps

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn523852
    • English
    • a: Height: 27.750 inches (70.485 cm) | Width: 20.000 inches (50.8 cm) b: Height: 39.500 inches (100.33 cm) | Width: 15.750 inches (40.005 cm)

    Striped jacket and pants worn by Mieczyslaw Lewicki during his imprisonment in Auschwitz-Birkenau, Buchenwald, and Dora-Nordhausen concentration camps from September 15, 1942-April 9, 1945. Nineteen year old Mieczyslaw, a Catholic, was arrested in Radom, Poland, on September 1, 1942, for taking food to Jews in the ghetto who worked at his family's shoe factory. He was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp where the uniform was issued and a mug shot taken. On August 15, 1944, he was transferred to Buchenwald in Germany. He was then sent to Dora-Nordhausen slave labor camp where he worked...

  5. LXXXV. Armeekorps

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Wie die Kriegstagebücher aller Truppenteile und Dienststellen des Heeres waren auch die Kriegstagebücher der Generalkommandos und der bodenständigen Höheren Kommandos vom Mobilmachungstag (26. Aug. 1939) an beim Heeresarchiv Potsdam einzureichen, wo sie eine Zugangssignatur erhielten. Diese Zugangssignaturen wurden anfangs getrennt nach den Kriegsschauplätzen, nämlich P für Polen und W für Westen vergeben. Nach Beendigung des West- und des Norwegenfeldzuges wurden die Zugänge nur noch nach laufender Nummer signiert und in dieser Reihenfolge auch eingelagert, ...

  6. Records of László Endre, 1911-1945

    • Endre László iratai, 1911-1945

    The collection contains the private records of László Endre, one of the most influential extreme right wing politicians in modern-era Hungary and one of the key perpetrators of the Holocaust. The most relevant part of the collection is his private correspondence (XIV.2.a.) with several dramatis personae of the interwar and World War II history of Hungary, many of those played roles in antisemitic and nationalistic policies, Jewish laws and the Holocaust, as well as thousands of persons representing the “Christian conservative” ruling and middle class of Hungary. The collection also holds le...

  7. Ruth E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ruth E., who was born in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia in 1922, one of two sisters. She recalls her parents' divorce; living with her paternal grandmother, then an uncle and aunt; their affluence; attending Jewish school, a German high school, then boarding school in Opava; participating in Maccabi; German occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; she and her sister hiding with relatives; joining their father in Brno, then a nearby village; living with a farmer, using false papers (she later learned they knew they were Jews); deportation to Theresienstadt in April 1942; marriag...

  8. Gentsch, Erich

    Bestandsbeschreibung 1. Aug. 1893 in Altenburg geboren 1908-1910 Bauschlosser-Lehre Aug. 1910-Mai 1912 Markthelfer bei Sommer und Hempel in Leipzig 1911 Mitglied SPD 1912 Wanderjahr durch Deutschland, Schweiz, Italien und Österreich 1913-1916 Schlosser in den Daimler-Werken in Untertürkheim bei Stuttgart, Funktionär der Stuttgarter sozialistischen Jugendorganisation, Landesausschussmitglied der Jugendorganisation der Württemberger SPD, wegen eines Arbeitsunfalls militäruntauglich 1916 Eheschließung mit Erna Kuhn (9. Juni 1893 in Erfurt bis 5. Febr. 1945 im KZ Ravensbrück) 1917 Anschluss an ...

  9. Rudi F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rudi F., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1922, one of nine children. He recounts his family's move to Vișeu de Sus when he was about five; attending cheder, Romanian public school, then yeshiva; apprenticeships as a mechanic and barber; living with a sister in Arad; working at her husband's barber shop; antisemitic harassment; participating in Gordonyah; Hungarian occupation; returning to Vișeu de Sus; moving to Budapest; studying singing; a brother and sister joining him; draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion in 1943; slave labor in Kőszeg and Uzhok; f...

  10. THE LENA KUECHLER-SILBERMAN COLLECTION

    • 13 stories of children written by Lena with her evaluation of their condition. • 4 testimonies and a memoir of children who were in Lena's children's home. • Postcards and letters Kuechler wrote to Edith Zierer, a former child in Kuechler's children's house. • Letters written by Kuechler to Frances - Zipora Schaff (Fanka Beder) a former child in Kuechler's children's house. • 2 files with items belonging to children who were in Lena's children's home. • 2 files with different items: Biographical essay, recommendation, notes, personal documents, newspaper articles, excerpts from manuscript...

  11. OKH / Chef des Transportwesens

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Im Allgemeinen Truppenamt nahm die Gruppe C der Heeresabteilung auch das Militärtransportwesen wahr, bis Anfang 1920 die Transportabteilung (T 7) geschaffen wurde. Sie wurde mit der Nutzung des Eisenbahnnetzes und der Schifffahrtswege für den Militärverkehr beauftragt und regelte die Durchführung von Truppen- und Nachschubtransporten. Außerdem war sie zuständig für den Bahnschutz und die betriebliche Aufsicht über die Panzerzüge. Seit dem 1. Juli 1935 bildete sie die 5. Abteilung des Generalstabs des Heeres und wurde schließlich 1939 als Chef des Transportwes...

  12. Колекція кінофотодокументів КГБ УРСР

    • Collection of film- and photodocuments of KGB UkrSSR

    Microfilmed documents of the Reich Ministry for the Eastern Occupied Territories and its head A. Rosenberg: • documents on the activities of the German occupation administration in Ukraine; • reports on the actions of partisan detachments and groups and underground in Ukraine; • documents on the activities of the German occupation administration in Belorussia and the Baltic States; • Reports on socio-political and economic situation in the occupied territories of the USSR; • Reports on the reaction of the population of the occupied territories to events of the German administration, at the ...

  13. BLOOMSTONE-ZLATIS ARCHIVE

    Genealogy of Bloomstone and Zlatis Families (1990-2000). Family Stories by Shirley Sarah (Bloomstone) Angrist (1997-1999), also one by Pessi Blumshtein (1989), all based on family letters and history. Family correspondence from Lithuania and Israel, to Pittsburgh, PA and Montreal, Que. (1936-1986); the letters are summarized and in many cases translated by the donor. Immigration papers (1936). Yeshiva registration, (1932). Purse that had contained letters (1930s). Declaration of name change (1943). Marriage certificate (1925). Affidavit declaring removal of Grocery store (1963). Folder of t...

  14. Postwar devastation; opening of Nuremberg Trial; early Nazi party history, events, leaders

    Part 1 of ENGLISH language version [corresponds to NARA Reels 1 & 2] "Europe 1945" Panorama of war devastation: buildings and cities laid to waste, rubble, mother climbing out of trap door shelter with naked baby in arms, people in hunger and despair emerge from shelters, children running down steps, clambering for food, poverty, homeless people, begging for food, weeping woman. "Nuremberg 21 November 1945" EXT and INT Nuremberg Palace of Justice. CU, document announcing trial and listing the accused. Seating of International Military Tribunal. Chief US prosecutor, Robert H. Jackson pre...

  15. General Hans von Boineburg-Lengsfeld statement concerning the 20 July 1944 plot

    One document, consisting of a typescript text of General Hans von Boineburg-Lengsfeld, a German officer in the Wehrmacht during World War II, describing his involvement in the conspiracy related to the assassination attempt on Hitler on 20 July 1944, and the reaction of German military commanders in occupied France (Paris), where Boineburg was stationed at the time. Includes two typescript pages, as well as one handwritten page by Boineburg. The document was obtained by the donor’s father, Ernest Fiedler (1922-2003), who after his own escape from Germany in 1938, served in counter-intellige...

  16. Shaul S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Shaul S., who was born in Cologne, Germany in 1924, the second of three children. He recounts his father's service in World War I; attending a Jewish school; his father purchasing property in the Netherlands; moving to Oosterbeek after Adolf Hitler's 1933 election; moving to Arnhem; joining Maccabi Hatzair; attending the Berlin Olympics in 1936; his maternal grandparents joining them after Kristallnacht; his grandparents' relocation to Westerbork as German refugees; their release to Amsterdam; working in his father's poultry business; moving to Amsterdam; German invas...

  17. Eichmann Trial -- Sessions 82, 73, 75, 70, 87 -- Eichmann's role in camps, first trip, Goldstein testimony, submission of documents

    Session 82. Dr. Servatius submits the second series of documents, this about Bohemia and Moravia. The first is a letter saying that Eichmann solved many problems within concentration camps. He asks Eichmann what those were, and if he really was involved. Eichmann says that he was not involved, this letter is not truthful. He says he had no role, no functions, no authority within the camps. The language of the original record is questioned; German is decided upon. 00:10:22 Session 73. Dr. Servatius submits another letter. This one concerns the search for Jews. Another concerns the Italian co...

  18. John Herbert fonds

    Fonds consists of memoirs, correspondence, photographs, vital records, travel documents, financial documents, publications, newspaper and magazine clippings, handwritten notes and drawings, maps, conference papers and artefacts relating to the life of John Herbert. Records chronicle John Herbert’s personal life, pursuit of higher education, career history, hobbies, travels and struggle to attain compensation for the properties seized from his family during the Second World War. Fonds has been arranged into the following series: JH memoirs series (1938–2010), Karpowitz family series (1939–20...

  19. Irenka and Ladislav Gottlieb correspondence

    Correspondence to Irenka and Ladislav Gottlieb in London and Blanka, a cousin in USA from the grandparents of the donor. Includes translations of the Slovakian material.

  20. Rachel Hakker-Furcage. Collection

    This collection contains: the testimony of Rachel Hakker-Furcage regarding her family history ; photos of the Hakker-Simons, Wach-Rosenzweig and Hakker-Wach families, including photos of the Hakker pastry shop at Provinciestraat, wedding photos, vacation photos and a photo of the tombstones of Joseph Hakker and Rachel Simons ; documents, including a false ID and one of the last letters sent by Rachel Simons to her husband Joseph Hakker regarding the visit of their son Simon Hakker in the hospital.