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  1. Fontijn, I.A.

    Het archief bevat stukken over het beheer over een bedrijf, over de gevangenschap van de familie en over hun pogingen tot compensatie van financiële schade.

  2. Large damaged Deutsche Arbeitsfront banner with a swastika and cog wheel

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn45086
    • English
    • a: Height: 78.000 inches (198.12 cm) | Width: 61.000 inches (154.94 cm) b: Height: 119.000 inches (302.26 cm) | Width: 74.000 inches (187.96 cm)

    Very large Musterbetriebsfahne [Model factory banner], torn into two panels, of the type awarded by the National Socialist German Labor Front [DAF / Deutsche Arbeitsfront] as of 1941. Known as the Golden Banner, it has a black swastika inside a 14 pronged gold cogwheel on a red field, the symbol of the DAF. The Nazi regime abolished all trade unions in 1933 except the DAF, to ensure political control over industry. On August 29, 1936, the Performance Contest of German Businesses was established to reward the factory with the highest increases in production. A banner was awarded yearly on Ma...

  3. Gys L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gys L., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1921. She recalls her childhood in a wealthy family; her father's decision to move the family to Paris in 1933; education in French schools and the Sorbonne; internment of male German Jews (including her father and brother) in late 1939; and meeting her future husband when he called with news of her brother. She recounts detention with her mother in Gurs; primitive camp conditions; release during the German invasion in 1940; her marriage in Marseille; and her in-laws' escape to the United States (her father-in-law was the ant...

  4. Sarna S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sarna S., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1909. She recalls participating in Zionist activities; marriage; her son's birth in 1937; hearing of the deportation of Polish Jews from Germany in 1938; choosing not to emigrate to Uruguay (her husband had family there) without her father; German invasion; her husband fleeing to Italy and Uruguay; fleeing to Tarno?w with her son, father, and brother in December 1941; her brother's deportation to Auschwitz (they received a letter stating he died from pneumonia in June 1942); hiding her father in a cellar during round-ups (h...

  5. Ondrej G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ondrej G., a Catholic Romani, who was born in Ruskinovce, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1921, one of ten children. He recounts cordial relations with non-Romani; attending school from age ten to fifteen; working with his father as a blacksmith; persecution of Romas by Hlinka guards after the formation of the Slovak state; vandalism against Romanies; moving with his mother to his sister's home in ľubietová; returning home; finding their house burned down; living with his brother; fear of deportation; enlisting in the military; fighting in the Soviet Union; t...

  6. Deutscher Reichskriegerbund (Kyffhäuserbund) - Badische Kriegerzeitung

    Die Überlieferung besteht im Wesentlichen aus Unterlagen der Schriftleitung der Badischen Kriegerzeitung, aus Unterlagen zur Übertragung der Anzeigenverwaltung der Badischen Kriegerzeitung an die Dr. von Arnim GmbH , Berlin, aus Unterlagen zu Zentralisationsbestrebungen der Presse im Deutschen Reichskriegerbund (Kyffhäuserbund e.V.) sowie Werbung der Badischen Kriegerzeitung. Weiterhin finden sich Bestand Verzeichnisse über Mitgliederzahlen des Deutschen Reichskriegerbundes aus dem Landesverband Baden sowie aus den Beziehern der badischen Kriegerzeitung.

  7. Selected records of the Ministry of Finance, Bulgaria

    Contains correspondence and other documents relating to expenses and consequences of the establishment of anti-Jewish laws and regarding ownership of real estate and houses of Jewish origin. Incudes applications for payment of compensation for the currency confiscated by the banks, 1920-1921, letters of expropriation of shares of persons of Jewish origin 1941-1943, minutes of the Council of Ministers with attached files on the basis of Article 9 of the Law Against Speculation with real estate, owned by persons of Jewish origin, 1942, 1943, orders of the Council of Ministers, and registers o...

  8. Occupation of Denmark; Invasion of Norway

    German warship, showing crew at quarters. Crew listening to speech by Captain (not heard on soundtrack). CU, German officer looking through binoculars. Merchant ship at dock. German troops carrying supplies from ship to dock. Looking down pier, German troops marching. MCU, German troops standing under arch; buildings. CU, German troops laying out large swastika on street for recognition by plane. Pan, overhead, showing German Air Force flying. Street in Denmark, German troops talking with Danish soldiers. German planes overhead. German officials in front of building; Danish police being dis...

  9. Samuel M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Samuel M., who was twelve when World War II began . He recalls being confined in a Christian orphanage prior to the war for illegally riding the streetcars; transfer to a Jewish orphanage after ghettoization in 1941; learning of his mother's death from his father; living with Jewish foster parents; smuggling food into the ghetto; escaping to Ma?kinia in August 1942 with his foster mother and her younger son; hiding in the forest; living in the ?omz?a ghetto; returning to Warsaw after his foster mother and her son were arrested; obtaining false papers with assistance f...

  10. Walter K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Walter K., who was born in Peiskretscham, near Gleiwitz, Silesia, in 1924. He describes his experiences of antisemitism as a schoolboy in Germany; Kristallnacht, during which his father was sent to Buchenwald but later released; and the voyage of his family on the ill-fated ship St. Louis. He recounts his family's arrival in France, their separation, and his life in children's homes, first in Paris and later in central France. He also recalls hiding in a home for the developmentally disabled, helped by a priest, and with false papers. He explains that he joined the Fr...

  11. Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Mädchen- und Frauenbildung e. V.

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • B 182
    • German
    • 1948-1970
    • Schriftgut 20 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 0,6 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Am 8.10.1947 gründete in Hamburg die Oberschulrätin Emmy Beckmann, die letzte Vorsitzende des 1933 aufgelösten Allgemeinen Deutschen Lehrerinnenvereins, die Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Mädchen- und Frauenbildung (AGMF), in der sich Lehrerinnen aller Schulgattungen und Fachgebiete zu intensiver Mitarbeit an allen Fragen der weiblichen Erziehung vereinen sollten. Aus Mitgliedermangel löste sich die Gemeinschaft im März 1969 auf. Bei einer grundsätzlich bundesweiten Ausrichtung konzentrierten sich die Aktivitäten der Arbeitsgemeinschaft doch auf den norddeutschen Ra...

  12. Hitler comes to power

    Title: "Herbst 1932". Reports on activities and policies of the Nazis in Germany 1921-1933 (poor sound quality, fades in and out). Title: "Hitler's First Speech as Chancellor 30 January 1933". Title: "Goering, Named Prussian Minister of Interior by Hitler, Outlines His Program February 1933." Goering seated, speaks to camera, outlines program. Title: "Election Day in Bavaria, 5 March 1933." MCUs of citizens coming in and out of the election booth. Title: "Gewerkschaftshaus." VS of German soldiers and workers milling about the entrance way to a building. Title: "Election Day in Berlin, 5 Mar...

  13. Irvin D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irvin D., who was born in Radzivilov, Poland (Chervonoarmeisk since 1940) in 1937. He tells of the German bombardment on September 1, 1939; ghettoization in April 1942; seeing the elderly shot and some buried alive; escaping with his family; being hidden by a Ukrainian couple with eighteen other Jewish couples; leaving in May 1943 after suspicions were aroused due to the large amount of food purchased; being hidden by a woman beneath a stable in Lv?ov for a year; and coming out of hiding a month after liberation by Soviet troops. Mr. D. recounts being wounded by a gre...

  14. Joseph K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joseph K., who was born in W?oc?awek, Poland in 1922. He recalls German occupation in 1939; ghettoization; extreme overcrowding and hunger; community efforts to feed the children and maintain their dignity; public hanging of a man who tried to bring food into the ghetto; and burning of the synagogue while Poles desecrated the Torah. Mr. K. recounts forced labor in Kolmar and Usch; deportation to Birkenau in 1941 where he stayed briefly; transfer to Jawarzno; slave labor building an electric plant and in coal mines; a failed escape by twenty-six prisoners; their exhort...

  15. Vitale family papers

    Correspondence (8 letters) from Gemma Vitale Servadio, written to friends, family and an attorney, June 1944. Servadio sent these letters from the Fossoli internment camp, after she and her mother, Nina Levi Vitale, were arrested, and prior to their deportation to Auschwitz. Collection also contains the text of a lecture given by Servadio’s brother, Col. Massimo Adolfo Vitale, in 1947, after he observed the trial of Auschwitz camp commandant Rudolf Hoess in Warsaw, and subsequently visited the camp.

  16. La Comunidad Judía en Uruguay Uruguay - Jewish Communities and Organizations

    Files of the Comité Central Israelita del Uruguay (1940-1975), the Organización Sionista del Uruguay (OSU) (1954-1975), Sociedad israelita Hungara del Uruguay" (SIHPU) (1933-1962), Keren Hayesod (Campaña Unida pro Israel) del Uruguay (1948-1964), Keren Kaiemet LeIsrael (1948-1976), WIZO (1938-1959), the Congreso Judío Mundial en Uruguay (1941-1970); files of the various Jewish communities (1920-1972), the Vaad Hajinuj del Uruguay and various Jewish schools (1939-1975); youth, social and other organizations (1908-1972) in Montevideo as well as many periodicals and publications (1942-1979).

  17. Regina and Siegfried Keil papers, 1942-1947

    The Regina and Siegfried Keil papers include birth certificates for Regina and Siegfried Keil, one photograph of Regina and Siegfried Keil, one photograph of a family reunion, and one commendation for Regina Keil from the maternity ward of the Jewish hospital of Berlin.

  18. Auschwitz concentration camp records Abteilung IIIa - Arbeitseinsatz

    Contains telegrams, card files, card indexes, reports, registers, name lists, and various other documents relating to prisoner labor in Auschwitz, Birkenau, and Monowitz concentration camps. Select files relate to camp prisoners working as electricians and ironworkers. The records date from 1942 to 1945 with the bulk dating from 1944.

  19. Starosta Powiatowy w Łowiczu

    • Der Kreishauptmann des Kreises Lowitsch
    • Łowicz County Governor

    Wydział Spraw Wewnętrznych 1941-1944: zarządzenia i okólniki Starosty i Szefa Dystryktu Warszawskiego, wykazy reichsdeutschów, regulamin obozu pracy przymusowej w Małszycach, korespondencja z wójtami i zarządcami komisarycznymi dóbr ziemskich (sygn. 1-2). Inwentaryzacja lasów w gminie Bolimów 1940 (sygn. 3).

  20. War Crimes Trials: Medical Case - Taylor explains medical experiments in indictment

    (Munich 479) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. Brig. General Telford Taylor continues the reading of the indictment and tells of the torture and death of concentration camp inmates during the so-called "scientific experiments." HS, MS defendants in the prisoners' dock. Pan of the courtroom from defendant to Gen. Taylor reading the indictment. 04:11:06 "The victims who did not die in the course of such experiments, surely wished that they had. A long report written in July 1942 by Rascher, and by the defendants Ruff and Romberg, desc...