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  1. Joe K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joe K., who was born in Czechoslovakia in approximately 1929, the youngest of seven children. He recalls attending the village school; his father's death; Hungarian occupation; his brothers' conscriptions into Hungarian slave labor battalions; round-up to the Munka?cs ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; separation from his mother and two sisters (he never saw them again); giving extra clothing to his other sister; transfer a few days later to Buchenwald, then Leipzig; slave labor in a factory; Allied bombings; train transport a year later; escaping during an Allied bomb...

  2. Walter S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Walter S., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1919, one of three brothers. He recounts attending a public school; participating in a social democratic youth movement, then a Zionist youth group; working as a locksmith; Anschluss; illegally entering Belgium; hiding with friends; moving to a refugee camp in Mechelen to obtain legal papers; training as an agricultural worker; corresponding with his parents; receiving papers; working in Bekkevoort and elsewhere; German invasion; arrest; incarceration in Malines; deportation to Auschwitz; slave labor as a gravedigger; tran...

  3. Family tours Switzerland; boat tour; airship; sightseeing

    Snow-covered streets in St. Moritz, ice-skating, mountains in BG. Bertha Greif, Erna, and Julie walk towards camera in snow. 01:19:16 They pose playfully on a boat-deck, Sally appears at 01:19:51. 01:20:34 Tourist views of cobbled street, clock on a building façade (possibly in Bern), horse and carriages. CU driver, Erna, and Henriette Susskind in an open car, sightseeing. Hillside with trees and a railway line. Erna and relatives walk on a dirt road, sit at an outdoor table and raise their drinks. The women stand in an open field, plane in the sky. Good MS of Erna holding sunglasses. 01:22...

  4. Henry B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henry B., who was born in Simmern, Germany in 1922. He recalls antisemitic harassment; expulsion from school; his bar mitzvah; attending school in Frankfurt in 1937; returning home during Kristallnacht; their house being vandalized; a Protestant minister helping them; joining an aunt in Mainz; attending school in Cologne; his parents joining him in spring 1940; his parents receiving a deportation notice; arranging to be deported with them; deportation to the Ri?ga ghetto in December 1941; transfer to the ghetto, then to Salaspils (he never saw his parents again); a se...

  5. Lilly S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lilly S., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1927. She recounts her family's assimilated life; arrest of her grandmother and parents after the Anschluss; their release weeks later; traveling to Aachen, then Brussels; living in a basement due to lack of resources; assistance from the Jewish community; her father's escape to England; German invasion; fleeing to Lille, then Dunkerque, futilely hoping to escape; return to Brussels; receiving a deportation notice; informing her mother they would hide; difficulty placing her four-year-old sister; she and her sister living w...

  6. Marion O. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marion O., who was born in Andernach, Germany in 1929. She describes anxiety after Hitler came to power in 1933; her father's disbelief that anti-Jewish laws would affect them; attending Jewish school in Cologne in 1936; Kristallnacht; walking with her mother to Aachen; illegally crossing the Belgian border; fleeing with her parents from Malme?dy to Brussels, then Luxembourg; German invasion in May 1940; her father's arrest; learning in 1941 that he was in Saint Cyprien; traveling with her mother to Marseille; moving to Aix-en-Provence; her father's visits from Les Mi...

  7. Selected records of the Nikolaev Oblast Archives II from Yad Vashem

    Contains primarily documents from the Romanian occupation government’s Prefecture of the Golta region in Transnistria. Roll 1 contains historical and geographical information on the Golta region, correspondence regarding the use of Jews for work, and a 1943 list of Jews in the Golta ghetto. Roll 2 contains military orders and reports about the fight against Soviet activists and Communists, correspondence of the prefect of Golta, correspondence regarding the use of police for disposal of victims’ possessions and the use of prisoners of war for work (1941–1942), and 1943 orders of the 2nd Dep...

  8. German Newsreel selections

    Trieste (Monfalcone), Laying the keel for the first of two cruisers to be built for the Royal Thailand Navy in St. Marks Shipyards. The Bishop of Trieste officiates. Present: The Minister of Thailand, members of the commission, the Prefect of Trieste and other civic authorities. The launching from the Monfalcone shipyard of the 2nd unit of the mercantile fleet of Italy, the motorship "Vettor Pisani". Godmother was the wife of the Prefect of Fiume. It was blessed by the Archbishop of Goriza. Venezia, A visit to Venice by Goebbels, the Reich Minister of Propaganda. Mostly LS, at night, Piazza...

  9. Theodor Kleinsorge papers

    The collection primarily documents the arrest of Theodor Kleinsorge, originally of Laßbruch, Germany, as a non-Jewish political enemy of the Nazis in July 1944; his deportation to the Dachau concentration camp in September 1944; and his death in Dachau in February 1945. Wartime materials include documentation about his arrest and deportation sent to Theodor’s wife, Ruth Kleinsorge; correspondence from Theodor and Ruth to Theodore’s mother Elise Kleinsorge; one letter written to Ruth from Theodor while imprisoned at Dachau; and several family photographs. Biographical material includes ident...

  10. Joseph Wulf sound recordings

    Songs performed by Joseph Wulf. The arranger and pianist on the recordings is Friedrich Scholz. Wulf announces the song titles, composers and poets at the start of almost every track in the following order: 1. Zol zayn 2. Hey, tsigelekh 3. Azamer bi'shvakhim 4. Yedid Nefesh 5. Fun land tsu land 6. Hatsos 7. A small biographical note about Weingarten (spoken) 8. Zunenshtraln 9. Unter di khurves fun poyln

  11. Illich family visits the Dolomites, 1937

    Introduced with Maexie Films logo (drawing of Maexie holding a film camera), "Agfa 1937", and German titles. The Illich family exits a car with their luggage. INTs of a train. Good CUs of Grandfather Fritz and the boys. The family tours the countryside (mountains, farms) by automobile on their tour of the Dolomites (a mountain range in the Alps). They stop in the medieval town of Lienz in Eastern Austria (Tyrol) - shops, bicycles, pedestrians, hotels. They cross the border from Austria to Italy and sightsee by Mercedes car - filming mountains and villages from the window. They stop at looko...

  12. Cobblestones from Chłodna Street, which separated the two sections of the Warsaw Ghetto

    Cobblestones removed from Chłodna Street in Warsaw, Poland. The street was an important east-west thoroughfare in the city of Warsaw. On October 12, 1940, German authorities in Warsaw decreed the establishment of a 1.3-square-mile Jewish ghetto, and required over 400,000 Jews from the city and nearby towns to relocate inside the 10-foot-high wall that bounded it. An approximately 650-foot-long portion of Chłodna Street was contained within the ghetto until December 1941. Afterward, it became an Aryan-only street that divided the ghetto into two sections, with the relatively elite and intell...

  13. Sonia P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sonia P., who was born in Paneve?z?ys, Lithuania in 1925. She recalls her Orthodox family background; attending Hebrew day school; helping in the family store in Troskunai; Soviet occupation; living with her brother while learning bookkeeping in Kovno; German occupation; learning her family perished in a mass murder; ghettoization; her brother's murder; forced labor at the airport; working two shifts to enable her sister-in-law to care for her niece; selections and killings; arranging, with others, for her niece to be hidden by non-Jews; forced labor with her sister-i...

  14. Sozialamt der Deutschen Bundespost

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • B 236
    • German
    • Schriftgut 518 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 36,0 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Das Sozialamt der Deutschen Bundespost (SAP) wurde durch Verfügung des Bundesministers für des Post- und Fernmeldewesen vom 24. Juli 1953 mit Sitz in Stuttgart als zentrale Mittelbehörde begründet. Seine Aufgaben bestanden in der Koordinierung der sozialen Betreuungsmaßnahmen der Oberpostdirektionen und der Ausübung der Staatsaufsicht über die beim SAP zusammengefaßten Sozialeinrichtungen der Deutschen Bundespost (zuletzt: Versorgungsanstalt der Deutschen Bundespost, Bundespost-Ausführungsbehörde für Unfallversicherung, Bundespost-Betriebskrankenkasse, Postbe...

  15. Sussman family papers

    The Sussman family papers document the prewar and wartime experiences of Leo and Rachel Sussman in Vienna, Austria and Switzerland. The collection includes a school certificate, an approval for travel from the St. Gallen Foreign Office, an identification card, and a United States war ration book for Rachel Sussman as well as an identification card for Leo Sussman. Also included is correspondence from Chanine Stroh, Rachel Sussman, and Leo Sussman. Sussman family photographs depict Leo’s father Josef Sussman, Leo’s brother, Moritz Sussman as well as Leo and Rachel Sussman. Stroh family photo...

  16. Edith S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edith S., who was born in Solotvyno, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1925, one of two daughters. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; attending Hebrew school; antisemitic harassment; her father's draft into the Czech military; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; her father's draft into a Hungarian slave labor battalion; his return in 1943; her parents' arrest; ghettoization; her parents' return (her father had been tortured); her parents' re-arrest; her mother's return; bringing her father food (she never saw him again); deportation with her mother a...

  17. Schnell, Karl

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners geb. am 18.12.1916 in Sprendlingen /Rheinhessen gest. am 13.02.2008 Schulbildung: 1923 - 1927 Volksschule 1927 - 1935 Höhere Schule (Oberrealschule) - Abitur Wehrmacht: 01.04.1945 - 08.05.1945 - Kriegsschule, Batterieoffizier, Adjutant, Batteriechef, Hörsaalleiter, Generalstabslehrgang Kriegsgefangenschaft: 09.05.1945 - 17.05.1947 - Italien, Deutschland, USA Schulbildung -Studium: 1948 - 1951 Studium der Betriebswirtschaftslehre an der Universität Hamburg - Diplom-Kaufmann 15.12.1954 Promotion zum Dr. rer. pol. Beförderungen: 12.09.1957 Oberstleutnant 12.12.1...

  18. Selected redords of the Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite crimes in Rawa Mazowiecka Komisja Badania Zbrodni Hitlerowskich (KBZH) w Rawie Mazowieckiej (Sygn.1029)

    Protocols of witnesses’ investigation of 1971-1984 concerning the crimes committed against Jews and the ghetto of Biała Rawska, a questionnaire concerning the crimes committed by the Wehrmacht in 1939, a register of places and facts of crimes committed in the area of Rawa Mazowiecka county, lists of those killed beyond the county boundaries, list of those murdered in camps, lists of those murdered on unidentified places.

  19. Salomon family papers

    The Salomon family papers consists of correspondence and emigration and immigration files documenting Hermann, Edith, and Brigitte Salomon’s unsuccessful efforts to immigrate to the United States from Berlin. The collection also includes correspondence from Marianne Adler, Hermann and Edith’s daughter, and Elsbeth Stern, Hermann’s sister, documenting their efforts to bring their family to the Unites States. Salomon family correspondence includes wartime letters among Hermann, Edith, and Brigitte Salomon to Marianne Adler and Elsbeth Stern about Hermann, Edith, and Brigitte’s efforts to immi...

  20. Larry K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Larry K., who was born in Z?H?uprany, Poland in 1925. He recounts childhood antisemitic harassment; attending schools in Salos, Smorgon?, and Oshmi?a?ny; Soviet occupation in 1939; attending Russian school; German invasion in 1941; a mass killing including his father (his mother "bought him out"); transfer to the Oshmi?a?ny ghetto; a mass killing; transfer with his family to a camp in Lithuania; slave labor constructing roads and railroads; transfer to Stutthof about a year later; the deaths of his mother and siblings; transfer to Dachau a month later; working as an e...