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  1. Marian F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marian F., who was born in Warsaw, Poland, the youngest of seven children. He recalls graduating from gymnasium; studying piano at the conservatory; German invasion in September 1939; fleeing with his brother, sister, and her husband to Soviet-occupied L?viv; graduating from conservatory; German invasion in June 1941; returning to his family in the Warsaw ghetto; playing in a ghetto orchestra; forced labor outside the ghetto; smuggling food; his father's disappearance in August 1942 (he never saw him again); deportation of his mother and sister in January 1943; obtain...

  2. Antonia K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Antonia K., who was born in Worms, Germany in 1925. She recounts moving to her maternal grandparents' home in Nentershausen when she was eighteen months old; moving to Bunzlau (presently Bolesławiec) eight years later when her mother married a rabbi; anti-Jewish discrimination at school; the synagogue burning and her stepfather's brief deportation to Dachau on Kristallnacht; plans to join her maternal uncle in Palestine; traveling to Amsterdam to join her stepbrother while awaiting travel documents; German invasion; obtaining $425,000 from maternal relatives in Switze...

  3. Selected records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish Republic : Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in Opole (Oppeln) Konsulat Generalny Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Opolu (Sygn.482)

    Correspondence and reports related to antisemitic attacks and special regulations for Polish Jews issued by German authorities in Silesia, and letters from the Jewish community in Łódź and the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs protesting antisemitic attacks.

  4. Family takes trips; Jewish doctor's office sign

    01:01:00 Roll 34. Hanna and her mother walk around the town of Meersburg, Baden-Württemberg, in Southern Germany. Church. 01:02:01 Hotel sign with a Star of David hanging from it. The family drives in the countryside and stops by a gas station. They visit an outdoor market and Schloss Meersburg. Town square. Sheep. Hanna's parents consult a map for directions. MS, Otto's reflection as he films the back of one of the car lights. 01:09:07 Roll 35. View from a streetcar in a city. City workers shovel snow, construction. A sign outside of Otto's office reads, "Dr. Otto Plaut," located on Gottsc...

  5. Deutsches Büro für Friedensfragen

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Vgl. Vorwort zum Findbuch Z 35. Heribert Piontkowitz, Anfänge westdeutscher Außenpolitik 1946-1949. Das Deutsche Büro für Friedensfragen. Stuttgart 1978.- Manfred Overesch: Gesamtdeutsche Illusion und westdeutsche Realität. Von den Vorbereitungen für einen deutschen Friedensvertrag zur Gründung des Auswärtigen Amtes der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 1946-1949/51. Düsseldorf 1981. Bearbeitungshinweis abgeschlossen, Findbuch Bestandsbeschreibung Auf Grund einer Vereinbarung der Ministerpräsidenten von Bayern, Hessen, Württemberg-Baden und des Bremer Senatspräsiden...

  6. Alfred Jaretzki, Jr. papers

    Reports and correspondence from American attorney Alfred Jaretzki, Jr., reporting on visits to Vienna and efforts to work with the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee to assist Austrian Jews with emigration, 1938. Includes one report, undated, 11 pages, describing his trip to Vienna in June 1938, including meetings with American diplomats, journalists, members of the Viennese Jewish community, and non-governmental organizations. Among his contacts were Therese Bloch-Bauer, and her daughter Maria; Josef Löwenherz of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien; the American journalist Vin...

  7. Joseph and Renata S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph S. who was born in Korolevka, Ukraine in 1910 and Renata S. who was born in Lwo?w, Poland in 1924. Mrs. S. recalls childhood; Soviet occupation; German occupation; round-ups; fleeing to Skala; her father's deportation; meeting her husband; and their marriage. Mr. S. relates his privileged status as the only dentist in Skala; hiding family members with a patient; hiding with his wife in the Borshchov ghetto; a German officer warning them of round-ups; the killing of eight hundred Jews; and the mass grave exploding months later from decaying bodies. Mr. and Mrs. ...

  8. Robert W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Robert W., who was born in Skarz?ysko-Kamienna, Poland in 1931, the youngest of six childen. He recalls antisemitic harassment; German invasion; a public hanging; ghettoization; his father arranging for him to hide with non-Jews; returning to rejoin his family; his mother's deportation; being smuggled into the labor camp by his brothers; slave labor; sharing extra food received from a civilian worker with his brothers, father, or sister; his father hiding him when he was sick; his father arranging his escape to the partisans; returning due to antisemitic hostility fro...

  9. Clara and Wilhelm Dreyfuss letters

    Contains letters written between December 1940 and September 1942 by Clara and Wilhelm Dreyfuss in concentration camps in France, addressed to Clara's sister and her husband, Recha and Wilhelm Reutlinger, in New York City. The letters contain information about the conditions in the camps; the Dreyfuss's experiences in Gurs, Les Milles, and Rivesaltes; and their unsuccessful quest to leave Europe. Each handwritten letter is accompanied by a German transcription and an English translation.

  10. Správa hřbitovů a krematoria města Plzně

    • Administration of the Cemeteries and Crematorium, Pilsen / NAD 569
    • Archiv města Plzně
    • 569
    • English
    • 1806-2007
    • Textual material Moving Images 19,91 linear meters

    The fonds contains documents of the Funeral Service of the City of Pilsen and the Administration of the Cemeteries and Crematorium, namely official books, files and plans of Pilsen cemeteries. Judaica: The plan of the Christian and Jewish cemetery in Pilsen 1907 (Inv. No. 245), A list of buried Jews in the Israeli department of the Central Cemetery Pilsen 1940-1942 (Inv. No. 400.A/1), the establishment of the Israeli department of the cemetery from 1899 (Inv. No. 400.A/2), the correspondence with the Jewish Religious Community in Pilsen from 1896-1956, an attack against the Jewish prayer ho...

  11. P.9 - Archive of Siegfried Jaegendorf, President of the Jewish Coordinating Committee for the Deported Jews in Transnistria, 1941-1967

    P.9 - Archive of Siegfried Jaegendorf, President of the Jewish Coordinating Committee for the Deported Jews in Transnistria, 1941-1967 Siegfried Jaegendorf was born in Czernowitz, 01 August 1895. He attended local elementary and high schools, and afterwards travelled to Vienna and Berlin where he studied engineering at a technical college, completing his studies as a mechanical engineer. His first position as an engineer was at the Siemens Schucker Werke in Berlin. In time, he was promoted and sent to serve as managing director for the Eastern Europe area at the Siemens factory in Vienna. A...

  12. Selected records of the district of Grodzkie Częstochowskie Starostwo Grodzkie Częstochowskie (Sygn.3)

    This collection contains selected records, correspondence, reports, registers and minutes related to activities of the World Socialist Union of Jewish Workers-Po'alei Zion ("Poale-Sjon") in Częstochowa, the matters of foreigners, such as public order and registers, the Jewish religious community, including correspondence, minutes of the community sessions, financial reports, fees for ritual slaughter and ritual baths, a list of community members, and payments of membership fees in 1938. There are also files of Jewish craft guilds operating in Częstochowa: tinsmiths and roofers, tailors, fur...

  13. Alfred N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Afred N., who was born in Thessalonikē, Greece in 1919, the third of ten children. He recalls cordial relations with non-Jews until the mid-1930s; celebrating Jewish holidays; military service; hospitalization for frostbite; returning home; military recall when Germany invaded; returning home from defeat; anti-Jewish restrictions; continuing contact with non-Jewish friends; joining his family in the Baron de Hirsch quarter; deportation to Birkenau; separation from the women and children; remaining with his brother's brothers-in-law; having to move corpses; a French s...

  14. Werner R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Werner R. who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1927. He recalls his father losing his job in 1933; moving to Zagreb; attending public school; their Zionist, rather than Jewish, identity; his father's death in 1940; German invasion in 1941; being baptized with his sister; living separately from his mother and sister because it seemed safer; his sister's escape to Italy; working with the partisans; and arrest by the Gestapo in 1943. Mr. R. tells of jails in Graz and Vienna; transport to Terezi?n; cabarets and opera; German efforts to preserve Jewish books; and transport t...

  15. Jan K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jan K., a non-Jewish Pole, who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1914. He recalls working as a diplomatic courier for the Polish government in exile during the war; receiving messages from Jewish leaders who wanted the Polish government in London and the Allies to know what was happening to Jews in Poland; secretly entering the Warsaw ghetto with Leon Feiner, a Bund leader, as his guide; returning a second time; Feiner arranging for him to be smuggled into a camp; traveling to a village via Lublin; being provided with a guard's uniform by his guide; becoming overwhelmed b...

  16. M.20 - Archive of Dr. Abraham Silberschein, Geneva: Documentation regarding relief to persecuted Jews, 1939-1951

    M.20 - Archive of Dr. Abraham Silberschein, Geneva: Documentation regarding relief to persecuted Jews, 1939-1951 Born in 1882, in Lwow, Poland, Dr. Abraham Silberschein was an attorney who dedicated himself to public service. He was one of the outstanding leaders of the Labor Zionist movement in Poland, and in 1922, he was elected by the movement to serve in the Polish Sejm as the Labor Zionist representative . In 1930 he arrived in Geneva as a representative to the Zionist Congress. Due to the outbreak of World War II, Dr. Silberschein did not return to Poland, but he remained in Switzerla...

  17. Frank family at an estate and visiting the Polish countryside

    Large estate near Kressendorf (Krzeszowice, Poland). Three people (including Norman Frank and his best friend Gerd Voigt) walk a dog on the grounds of the estate. They tour the Polish countryside and villages with a horse and carriage. Railroad crossing. Scenes of the countryside from a moving train (this railway line from Krakow to Dresden goes past Auschwitz). 01:10:20 Soft focus shots of Polish children posing for the camera beside a fence, a woman washes in the river. More scenes of the three people on the carriage, then returning to the wooded estate with a guarded gated entrance with ...

  18. Pogroms in Ukraine, 1919-1920

    Silent with English intertitles. "Ataman Grigorieff's pogrom in Elisavetgrad 15-17 May 1919." "The corpses in the mortuary." MS of corpses on the ground. "A common grave (men)." Still photo of men, many wrapped in prayer shawls. "A common grave (women)." Still photo of women's corpses laying on the ground. "A group of massacred brought to Poltava...egam Joseph, Aguz Jacob, 5 September 19." Still, MCU of four corpses laying on the ground, INT. "The pogrom by Ataman ... in Rzhistsheff*, Governm. Kieff, 14 June 1919." Still, MS, bodies lined up outside, on the ground, alongside a brick buildin...

  19. Jewish life in Budapest before the war

    REEL 2. Margaret Gidaly and her children Paul and Elly on a hill overlooking city. An artist with glasses and hat paints the view on an easel. One-story home. Brief view of a different man in a hat. The children stand by Margaret and walk down a stair path next to a row of houses. Brief interior shot with the children. Another shot of Margaret and the children walking up the hill by the painter. 01:00:45 CU, Elly in a summer dress and women and young girls in white dresses on benches in a public park. Paul poses in front of a fountain. Margaret climbs. Paul slides down a large banister. ECU...

  20. Odette A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Odette A., who was born in 1914. She recounts completing medical studies in Paris in 1939; working in Montargis; dismissal due to anti-Jewish laws; moving to Nice; organizing a network with her future husband to rescue Jewish children; assistance from OSE, the Joint, the Bishop of Nice, and other church and civic officials; hiding some 450 children; manufacturing false documents; learning her father was hiding and her mother and sister were deported (they did not return); imprisonment; interrogations; transfer to Drancy; and deportation to Birkenau. Dr. A. describes c...