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  1. Rose G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rose G., who was born in Be?ke?scsaba, Hungary in 1926, one of six children. She recounts being raised in Oradea; her family's orthodoxy; participation in Hashomer Hatzair; Hungarian occupation; her brother's and brother-in-law's draft into Hungarian slave labor battalions; German invasion; ghettoization; help from non-Jewish neighbors; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; selection with two sisters; humiliation, deprivation, and beatings; working near the crematoria; realizing her family's fate; selection for specious medical experiments; hospitalization; surgery; sepa...

  2. Wehrkreiskommando XXI (Posen)

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Nach Kriegsbeginn wurde das Wehrkreiskommando am 5. September 1939 in Potsdam (im Wehrkreis III) aufgestellt und ab 10. September eingesetzt sowie umbenannt in Militärbefehlshaber Posen. Die Umbildung als Stellv. Generalkommando XXI. Armeekorps, zugleich Wehrkreis XXI. erfolgte nach Übergang der zivilen Verwaltung an den Reichsgau Warthegau am 26. Oktober 1939. Den Wehrkreiskommandos oblagen auch in den neuen Reichsgebieten die Leitung des Ersatzwesens, Vorbereitung der Mobilmachung, Betreuung und Einsatz der Landesschützen-Bataillone (hauptsächlich Kriegsgef...

  3. Driving tour of Berlin, Frankfurt, and Wiesbaden in ruins

    Road framed by trees. Berlin in ruins. The damaged Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church with a large empty circle that was once the rose window. Buildings to the left and right of the church have also been badly damaged in the air raids. Side of a building: “Burgfeller.” Only the exterior walls of these buildings remain. People walk along the sidewalk. Repeat shots of the church and the surrounding buildings. 01:04:29 Two women and a man by a statue in a garden. The blonde woman and man in front of a large estate, calm lake. They look at a statue and climb to the palace entrance. Shot of trees fr...

  4. Elihu H. Rickel papers

    The bulk of this collection relates to Commander Elihu Rickel’s time in China, and in particular Tianjin, in 1945-1946, while serving as a chaplain with the U.S. Marine Corps. While there, he sought to raise awareness about the condition of the Jewish community in Tianjin, which was comprised primarily of Jews who had fled Europe in the late 1930s. The second series of documents in this collection contains, in part, a report that Rickel wrote about the community, a letter he sent to Rabbi Stephen Wise, and a journalistic account of Rickel’s ministry among the Jewish community. By this time,...

  5. Lydia C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lydia C., who was born in the Netherlands in 1931. She recounts living in Brussels from nine months of age; observing Jewish customs in their liberal home; her father's anti-Fascist activities; German invasion; a warning to leave due to her father's activities; fleeing with her parents and sisters through France; her father's opportunity to emigrate to England; his refusing to leave his family in Biarritz; living in a monastery with her mother and sister in Toulouse; a brief stay in Paris; living in a nearby refugee center for Dutch citizens (her father was the direct...

  6. Gisela G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gisela G., who was born in Tarnów, Poland in 1924, one of four children. She recalls her close and large extended family; her father's death in early 1939; working in his hat business; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; arrest for walking on the sidewalk; release; her mother and younger brothers hiding with a former non-Jewish employee during round-ups; she and her sister being exempted from round-ups due to their factory jobs; her mother being caught; ghettoization; building a bunker for those with no work permits; one brother's deportation; a selection in w...

  8. Rachel S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Rachel S., who was born in Belitsa, Poland in approximately 1919, one of five children. She recounts participating in a leftist youth movement; attending a Jewish seminary in Vilna; increasing antisemitism; Soviet occupation; marriage; her daughter's birth in 1940; living in Slonim; her husband's draft into the Soviet military; returning to Belitsa; German invasion; her brothers and father fleeing to the Soviet Union; Germans burning the town; forced transfer with her daughter, mother, and sister to the Dyatolovo) (Dzi︠a︡tlava) ghetto; constructing an underground tunn...

  9. Bundesakademie für Wehrverwaltung und Wehrtechnik

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Die Bundesakademie für Wehrverwaltung und Wehrtechnik (BAkWVT) wurde am 05.05.1961 durch Erlaß des damaligen Bundesministers der Verteidigung, Dr. Franz Josef Strauß, als zentrales Bildungsinstitut der Bundeswehrverwaltung gegründet und dem Bundesministerium der Verteidigung unmittelbar unterstellt. Sie führte zunächst die Bezeichnung "Akademie für Wehrverwaltung und Wehrtechnik". Die Akademie hat die Aufgabe, die Beamten des höheren nichttechnischen Dienstes und des technischen Dienstes aus-und fortzubilden. In die Fortbildung sind auch die Angestellten verg...

  10. Felix N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Felix N., who was born in Łódź, Poland in 1926, one of three children. He recounts attending public school and cheder; antisemitic harassment; attending summer camp in Piotrków Trybunalski; his bar mitzvah; working in his father's tailor business; German invasion in September 1939; ghettoization; hiding during round-ups; public executions; working in a factory; deportation with his family to Auschwitz/Birkenau in summer 1944; separation from his sister and mother (he never saw them again); meaningless slave labor; transfer to Gross-Rosen three weeks later; slave la...

  11. Verbände und Einheiten der Luftwaffen-Infanterie

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Die Akten stammen aus Rückführungen aus den USA und Großbritannien an die Dokumentenzentrale des Militärgeschichtlichen Forschungsamtes. Von dort wurden die Akten 1968 an das Bundesarchiv, Abteilung Militärarchiv abgegeben. Die bisher im Bestand RL 31 verwahrten Unterlagen zu Gefechtsverbänden der Luftwaffe wurden 2017 überführt. Bestandsbeschreibung Von der Mehrzahl der Luftwaffen-Felddivisionen und einiger ihrer Truppenteile sind Kriegstagebücher und Anlagen erhalten, die sich auf die Gesamtzeit ihres Bestehens erstrecken und den Einsatz an der Ostfront und...

  12. Polski Czerwony Krzyż w Hrubieszowie

    sprawy ogólno-organizacyjne z lat 1931-1946 (sygn. 3, 14-22, 24, 39-40); sprawy finansowo-gospodarcze z lat 1935-1947 (sygn. 29-38); sprawy pomocy lekarskiej, opieki nad jeńcami i uchodźcami z lat 1937-1946 (sygn. 1, 2, 4-13, 23, 25-28)

  13. Josef B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Josef B., who was born in 1919 in Wadowice, Poland, one of ten children. He recounts his family's successful jewelry business; their adherence to hasidism; attending public school (his classmate was the future Pope John Paul II), cheder, then a yeshiva; his bar mitzvah; rebelling against hasidism; being sent to live with an uncle in Piešt̕any in 1934; expulsion as a non-Slovak in 1937; returning home; moving to Bielsko; participating in Mizrahi; working in a textile factory; his father preventing his sister and her husband from emigrating to Palestine on orders from ...

  14. 1944 news roundup: Rome fall to the Allies; D-Day

    News documentary with intertitles produced for the home movie market by Castle Films Productions. "The News Parade" 1944. "Rome! Falls to Allies" Soldiers shoot mortars/artillery into the hillsides. "Determined American Tank and Infantry columns move in a final thrust toward the gates of the Eternal City!" Military convoy. Shells falling near an Allied soldier. Soldiers on a hillside firing rifles and shoulder artillery. Soldiers attacking a farmhouse using rifles and tossing grenades. In a narrow city alley- explosion in a building causes soldiers to drop. Officers and large artillery on a...

  15. Dubǎsari district prefecture and its subordinated preturas and town halls

    • Judeţul Dubăsari – prefercturile judeţene, subprefecturile plaselor (preturilor) şi comunelor subordinate lor din stînga Nistrului
    • Дубоссарская уездная префектура и подчиненные ей претуры и примарии
    • Dubossarskaya uyezdnaya prefektura i podchinennyye yey pretury i primarii

    Files of the Administration Department (correspondence on administrative issues, files of the personnel, lists of employees of the prefecture, correspondence on issuing a permit to carry weapons); files of the Economic Department (orders by preturas on economic issues, information on the ethnic composition of the population); files of the Agricultural Department; files of the Department of Education and Cults (reports on the condition of education in the county, reports on the work of school inspectors, circular instructions on the issue of education and cults); files of the Sanitation Depa...

  16. Jews hiding in a nightclub in Amsterdam (with prologue, added historic footage, and text)

    Film with prologue and text. Introduction and intertitles. Image rolls at 01:42:37 with two women crossing a canal bridge in the city of Amsterdam. The streets are mostly empty. View of houses, bridges and canals, pedestrians, cars, a statue of Johann Rudolph Thorbecke (nineteenth century Dutch politician), businesses, the club Alcazar, a street sign showing "Thorbeckeplein Centrum" [Thorbecke Square Center], the apartment address number "5", more shop windows for the Alcazar club, and the signs "Für Wehrmacht verboten" ["Prohibited for Army"] and "Joodsche Gasten niet gewenscht" ["Jewish g...

  17. Joe K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joe K., who was born in Uniejo?w, Poland in 1928, one of three children. He recounts his father's death when he was three; living with his grandparents; attending cheder; yearly visits to his father's grave in ?o?dz?; antisemitic harassment; an uncle visiting from England; German invasion; ghettoization; forced labor; transfer to the Dzierzbotki ghetto; building a bunker in the forest with others; hiding there during round-ups; he and his mother being captured by the Germans; their deportation to a labor camp; separation from her en route (he never saw her again); sla...

  18. Okresní úřad Říčany

    • District Office of Říčany / NAD 141

    The fonds contains documents arisen from the activities of the district office: official books, file material, accounting material, and others. Explicit mentions of Jews can be found in the following documents: inv. no. 411 Abolition of the Jewish religious community (Strančice) 1934-1939; inv. no. 420 Records of foreigners, permitting travel to Jews, dissolution of summer camps 1939-1942; inv. no. 454 Reports on Jewish property [567] 1940; inv. no. 454 Reports on of Jewish property [567] 1940; inv. no. 454 Trade establishments, trade associations, fire inspections of enterprises, Jewish tr...

  19. Ministerium für Kultur

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Zusammengefasster Bestand der Überlieferung folgender Institutionen: 1951-1954: Staatliche Kommission für Kunstangelegenheiten 1951-1956: Amt für Literatur und Verlagswesen 1952-1954: Staatliches Komitee für Filmwesen 1954 - Okt. 1990: Ministerium für Kultur Zentrales Organ des MR für die Planung und Leitung der Kulturpolitik. - 1945-1951 Wahrnehmung der Aufgaben durch die Deutsche Verwaltung bzw. das Ministerium für Volksbildung ( DR 2), 1952-1953 nachgeordnet der Koordinierungs- und Kontrollstelle für Unterricht, Wissenschaft und Kunst ( DC 17).- Zuständigk...

  20. Collection of the Rijksbureau voor Diamant (Diamonds Office of the Netherlands), 1940-1954

    Collection of the Rijksbureau voor Diamant (Diamonds Office of the Netherlands), 1940-1954 Included in the collection: Official documentation regarding diamond dealers in the Netherlands, most of them Jews, 1940-1954; Lists of diamond dealers, a newspaper article regarding Jewish diamond dealers in the Netherlands, and documentation regarding an incident of concealment; Documents of the Schade-Enquete-Commissies - compensation committee regarding diamond dealers during the postwar period in the Netherlands, 1946-1954; Documents of the Ministry of Transportation of the Netherlands; Documents...