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  1. Kichelmacher-Edel family. Collection

    This collection contains: seventy-seven photos of the Edel and Kichelmacher families & friends (e.g. Peretz family), seven photos of the second pilgrimage to the Dossin Barracks, three documents from La Source in Basel, two marriage certificates of of Berthe (Bella) Edel and Moszek Icek (Isaac) Kichelmacher, one name change certificate for Isaac Kichelmacher to Isaac Kay, one prisoner repatriation card, one work permit, one identity card, one travel document, three immigration cards, one passport, two identity certificates, two citizenship certificates and one driving permit.

  2. Epstein family collection

    The Epstein family collection, circa 1920-1979, includes official documents, correspondence, and photographs relating to the family’s experiences during World War II. The majority of the collection relates to Julian Epstein (1889-1943), a Jewish opera singer and jeweler, who was imprisoned in a series of French internment camps and died at the Lublin-Majdanek concentration camp in Poland. The collection includes a series of letters between Julian and his wife Margarete (1898-1988) written between 1938 and 1943. The collection also contains photographs of the Epstein family before and after ...

  3. Eichmann Trial -- Sessions 32 and 33 -- Presentation of documents; Wellers testifies about the plight of children

    Session 32. Iranian Jews are being discussed in the reading of a document into the record by the Prosecution. This document includes Iranian Jews who practice other faiths in the extermination, to be treated the same as the Jews of Europe. The document is signed by Eichmann. 00:03:54 A document is being read into the record by the Prosecution, signed by Eichmann, saying that as soon as transports were possible from the General Government area, children are to be included. Six transports of children are to be sent. 00:05:37 Tape jumps. George Wellers is brought in as a witness, asked to cove...

  4. Lob family papers

    The collection primarily documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Marcel Pierre Lob, originally of Paris, Frace, including his arrest and deportation to Auschwitz II-Birkenau and return to Paris after liberation. It also includes documents related to the experiences of his wife Helene Lob (née Bybelezer), a survivor of Drancy, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, and Bergen-Belsen, and tracing documents regarding the Holocaust fates of his mother Lucie Levy Lob, sister Stephanie Carrance, her husband Ernest Carrance, and their daughter Jacqueline Carrance, all of who perished at Auschwitz II-Birkenau. ...

  5. Visiting Italy

    Lizzy Film Produktion. Mitglied des Klubs der Kinoamateure Osterreichs. “Riccione 1932” “Domus Mea. Unsere Pension” (00:00:25) Hans and his father Jakob Kessler walking out in the yard in a rented pension in Riccione, Italy. “Gang ins bad” Hans plays with a dog. Lizzy shows a sign above the gate that says, “Domus - Mea” and Jakob and Hans walk out of the gate under it. “Das meer” (00:01:41) Jakob and Hansi run and play along the beach. “Der strand” Hans and Jakob on the beach. “Badeleben” Lizzy is doing handstands in the water and then practices different swimming strokes. “Wettlauf” Hans a...

  6. Herbert Kline papers

    Correspondence, documents, and photographs, related to the work of American documentary filmmaker Herbert Kline, and in particular his work on films documenting political crises in Europe in the late 1930s and early 1940s, in particular the film "Crisis," which treated the subject of Czechoslovakia during the Sudeten crisis of 1938. Includes scripts, correspondence with film companies, letters of reference, news clippings, and other materials related to the production and distribution of "Crisis," as well as material related to a film about the Spanish Civil War, "Heart of Spain" and a subs...

  7. Jeanne Glibert. Collection

    This collection consists of an interview with Jeanne Glibert. In her testimony Jeanne talks about her youth, the beginning of the war as she fled with friends, living under occupation in Antwerp, traitors who snitched on Jews, Jewish youth friends Betti Van Hamberg, Claudine Van Hamberg and Irène Brandes, and about Jewish links after the war.

  8. Jellinek, Hansjörg

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • N 1449
    • German
    • 1930-1992
    • Nachlässe 46 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 0,0 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Jellinek, Hansjörg Alexander, Dr. Geb.: 04.11.1919 in Kiel Gest.: 15.07.1993 in Bonn Eltern: Prof. Dr. Walter Jellinek (siehe N 1242) Irmgard Jellinek geb. Wiener Großeltern: Georg Jellinek (1851 - 1911) (siehe N 1136) Camilla Jellinek geb. (1860 - 1940) (siehe N 1137) Familie: Verheiratet, 3 Kinder Werdegang 1926-1929 Volksschule Kiel 1929-1934 human. Gymnasium Heidelberg 1934-1937 ev. Landschulheim Urspring, Blaubeuren bei Ulm 1934: Eintritt in die Hitler-Jugend, 1937, dort Rottenführer 03.04. bis 23.10.1937 Reichsarbeitsdienst, Abt. 6/274 Huttenheim II 03....

  9. Nina Kaleska papers

    Contains information about the experiences of Nina Kaleska in Auschwitz and her thoughts on Jewish-Christian relations in the years since the Holocaust. Also included is a copy of a love poem in German written during the Holocaust.

  10. Statistisches Bundesamt

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • B 128
    • German
    • Schriftgut 5061 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 258,1 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Aufgaben und Organisation Nach der reichsgründung wurde 1872 das dem Reichsamt des Innern nachgeordnete "Kaiserliche Statistische Amt" als zentrales statistisches errichtet, das unter anderem die statistischen Aufgaben des "Centralbureaus des Zollvereins" übernahm. Im Laufe der Jahre erwuchsen diesem auf dem Gebiet der Bevölkerungsstatistik, der Landwirtschaftsstatistik, der Verkehrsstatistik, der Bautätigkeitsstatistik, der industriellen Produktionsstatistik und in Zusammenhang mit der Sozialgesetzgebung weitere Aufgaben. Eine wichtige Aufgabe war die Koordi...

  11. Stefan and Grete Klinger collection

    This collection consists of documents, correspondence, telegrams, receipts, and forms related to the Holocaust experiences of Dr. Stefan and Grete Klinger, originally of Vienna, Austria. The collection includes extensive correspondence by Cecile Krall Elson, Mrs. Klinger's sister, in her attempts to sponsor the immigration of the Klingers, and documentation related to Stefan Klinger's internment in the St. Cyprien internment camp and their immigration to the United States in January 1942.

  12. Archief van het Gemeente Vervoer Bedrijf

    Inleiding In 1870 bleek de tijd rijp voor de oprichting van een vervoersonderneming: de 'Amsterdamse Omnibus Onderneming' (AOO), als resultaat van een initiatief van een aantal bewoners van de plantagebuurt, die hun zaken midden in de stad hadden en plannen bedachten voor vervoer voor gezamenlijke rekening. Door deze toevallige afspraak werd de grondslag gelegd voor de paardentram: de 'Amsterdamsche Omnibus Maatschappij' (AOM), waar de AOO in opging. Ingaande 1900 werd de concessie van de AOM ingetrokken en werd de tramexploitatie na de naasting in beheer door de gemeente Amsterdam genomen ...

  13. Alexander and Gina Dimant fonds

    • Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre
    • RA016
    • English
    • 11.7 cm of textual records4 postcards71 photographs : prints ; black and white, colour7 coins2 bank notes2 thimbles : silver, glass1 pane (20 postage stamps)

    Fonds is comprised of correspondence, photographs, identity and personal documents, society registration documents, minutes, clippings, memorabilia and ephemera created or collected by Alexander and Gina Dimant in Poland, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), Italy and Canada. Records pertain to their family history, work, school, and social and volunteer activities prior to and after the Second World War.Records have been arranged into the following series: Correspondence (1941–2019), Photographs ([1920?]–[2016], Personal records (1938–2013), Artefacts (1940–[before 1948], 1997),...

  14. Mixed media sculpture representing a rescued Torah scroll

    Mixed media sculpture created by Alice Lok Cahana, 1989-1990, Houston, Texas and received by Shaike Weinberg as a gift from the artist.

  15. Zbiór afiszów, plakatów i druków ulotnych z lat 1939-1945

    • Zbiór plakatów okupacyjnych
    • Collection of bills, posters and printed ephemera
    1. organizacja władz niemieckich; 1939-1944, sygn. 1-3, 313-314, 569; obwieszczenie o wkroczeniu wojsk niemieckich i objęciu władzy wykonawczej przez jej dowódców, proklamacja generalnego gubernatorstwa, tworzenie struktur NSDAP. 2. propaganda zwycięstw Niemców, 1939-1945, sygn. 4-17, 315-317, 320-338, 339-347, 528-529, 557-559, 562; afisze anonsujące filmy propagandowe, komunikaty z frontu, mapy z zaznaczonymi zamierzonymi podbojami i sukcesami wojsk niemieckich, gazetki ścienne, wezwania do poparcia wojny z ZSRR, fragmenty przemówień Hitlera, wezwania do zbiórek na pomoc wojenną, apele do...

  16. Holocaust survivor indemnification case files a.k.a. Moskovits Office Expedientes personales: indemnizaciones a sobrevivientes del Holocausto/Estudio Moskovits

    Contains hundreds individual compensation and reparation claim files for Holocaust survivors living in South America, all of whom were clients of the legal office of Mr. José Moskovits, a Holocaust survivor and attorney in Buenos Aires. The claim files feature testimonies and affidavits by the survivors, legal documents and correspondence.

  17. Elisabeth Eidenbenz papers Nachlass Elisabeth Eidenbenz (1913-2011)

    Private papers of Elisabeth Eidenbenz (1913-2011), a teacher, nurse, and aid worker for refugees in the camps of Argelès-sur-Mer, Saint Cyprien, and Rivesaltes, France and in other places. The collection consists of private personal documents, correspondence and photographs of Elisabeth Eidenbenz and her family; reports, press articles, correspondence, and photographs relating to activities of Elisabeth Eidenbenz to rescue children of Spanish Republicans, Jewish refugees and Romanies fleeing the Nazi invasion. Elisabeth Eidenbenz was a founder of the Mothers of Elne-a maternal hospital at E...

  18. Eichmann Trial -- Sessions 110 and 111 -- Hausner sums up for Prosecution

    Sessions 110 and 111. Judges enter the courtroom and open Session 110 of the trial (duplicate footage on Tape 2211). 00:02:07 Hausner begins summing up his case. He says that this is the trial of one of the ghoulish personalities which history will forever remember. He reminds everyone of the struggles of the witnesses, of Auschwitz, of religious leaders being degraded, of torturous activities, of murder. He says that man cannot create a nightmare so terrible, and yet it happened, created by Eichmann. He says that after hearing all this, Eichmann got his turn, and 16 years later he does not...

  19. Documents of Persecution

    • Židovské muzeum v Praze
    • COLLECTION.JMP.SHOAH/DP
    • Czech, German, English
    • The collection contains 90 boxes of documents (9.79 bm) organised into 79 groups and cannot be considered closed, being added to with new acquisitions. New groups could also gradually be added.

    This collection originated as a documentation of the persecution and genocide of Jews in the Czech lands excluding the archival materials relating to the history of the Terezín ghetto, which forms a separate collection. The content of the collection comprises originals, copies and transcripts of official documents and personal estates, as well as prints, newspaper clippings, maps, memoirs and a small amount of non-written material. The Documents of Persecution collection is a source of information on Holocaust history of Bohemian and Moravia Jews, and to a lesser extent also Slovakian Jews....

  20. Akta gminy Goraj

    • Files of the commune of Goraj

    Protokóły Zarządu Gminnego i Gminnej Rady Narodowej (sygn. 1), dzienniki główna (sygn. 2-4),budżet (sygn. 5-9), księga dochodów budżetowych (sygn. 10), księgi wydatków budżetowych (sygn. 11-12), księgi sum przychodnich (sygn. 13-15), rozkład podatków gminnych, kontyngenty, użytki rolne (sygn. 16-18), kwartalne wykazy urodzonych parafii Goraj i Radzięcin (sygn. 19-20), sprawy organizacyjne (sygn. 21-23), sprawy osobowe (sygn. 24-26), zebrania i urzędowanie ciał samorządowych (sygn. 27), protokoły posiedzeń, zebrań i sesji Gminnej Rady Narodowej (sygn. 28-32), protokoły posiedzeń Prezydium GR...