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  1. Postcard commemorating the 20th anniversary of a Jewish family’s emigration from Austria

    Postcard commissioned in 1958 commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Aliyah of a group of German Jews arranged by the Irgun, a Zionist paramilitary organization in Palestine, with the assistance of leaders of the Revisionist Organization in Vienna. On March 13, 1938, Germany annexed Austria and created new legislation that restricted Jewish life. The postcard depicts the route a group of Austrian Jews took to escape the country. The journey began in the town of Arnoldstein, located on the border of Austria and Italy. The town was a frequent waypoint for German and Austrian Jews attemptin...

  2. Selected records of the County Starosty in Rawa Mazowiecka Starostwo Powiatowe w Rawie Mazowieckiej (Sygn.1075)

    Statistics, maps and data related to the population and economy in the post-war years, the so-called secret matters related to social life (searching of the perished persons, settlement, collection of money and the like), reports and news concerning the events of the occupation and post-war period, situational reports of individual departments, files of the Federation of Former Prisoners of Nazi Camps and Prisons, materials of associations and trade unions, exhumations, cemeteries, problems of war invalids, and abandoned properties.

  3. Nina F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Nina F., who was born in Zolochev, Poland (presently Zolochiv, Ukraine), in approximately 1926, the only child in a middle class family. She recalls attending public and Hebrew schools; two month summer vacations with her mother; Soviet occupation in 1939; confiscation of the family business; German invasion in June 1941; confiscation of their valuables; forced labor; ghettoization; her parents obtaining Christian false papers for her; living with a seamstress in L?viv; near exposure as a Jew; returning home wanting to be with her family; hiding in a bunker during rou...

  4. Tzvi K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Tzvi K., who was born in Jazłowiec, Poland (presently Pomortsy, Ukraine) in 1929. He recalls younger twin siblings; attending Polish school and cheder; antisemitic harassment; Soviet occupation in 1939; German invasion; forced evacuation to Zolotyy Potik; returning home a few months later; his father's death from typhus; ghettoization in Buchach; forced labor in Borki Wielkic; escaping; returning to Buchach; escaping to the forest in a group, including his mother and siblings; separation from his mother and brother; hiding in a village; returning to Buchach; learning ...

  5. Postwar destruction; liberation of Dachau; DPs going home

    8mm color and b/w motion pictures taken by Dr. Myron E. Greene (a dentist) during his five years in the Army. His unit took over Dachau from the 45th Div. at noon on April 29, 1945. Scenes showing destruction in Germany. Camera moving quickly. Clouds of smoke, flames, airplane in sky (dark). American GIs smoking, looking at sky. 06:03:15 (black and white) At military camp, jeeps, soldiers dressing. Destruction, ruins, rubble. Ambulance with Red Cross and military trucks moving in town; in same scene, people walking through the streets in the opposite direction, some have belongings. Scenes ...

  6. Jiri F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jiri F., who was born in Vysoké Mýto, Czechoslovakia (presently Czech Republic) in 1922. He recalls his family's assimilated life; cordial relations with non-Jews; his father's death when he was nine; attending school; bar mitzvah training in Pardubice; German occupation in March 1939; anti-Jewish measures; expulsion from gymnasium in 1940; attending a Jewish gymnasium in Brno until its closure; assistance from non-Jews; forced transfer with his mother and brother to Pardubice; deportation to Theresienstadt in December 1942; working as a children's counselor; deport...

  7. William A. Davis papers

    The William A. Davis papers contain correspondence, instructions, memoranda, orders, and reports related to Davis’ work with the United States of America Typhus Commission in France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, and Denmark; an extensive report on typhus at Bergen‐Belsen; two newspaper clippings about the 1945 Belsen trial; Davis’ notes about his daily activities; his immunization register; and photographs of members of the Typhus Commission. A chronological file includes correspondence, instructions, memoranda, orders, and reports related to Davis’ work identifying and combating typh...

  8. Dalma S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Dalma S., who was born in Piešt̕any, Czechoslvakia in 1925, one of five daughters. She recounts being raised in Liptovský Mikuláš; her father's position as a reform synagogue cantor; cordial relations with non-Jews; Slovak independence resulting in anti-Jewish laws; expulsion from high school; two older sisters moving to Budapest to avoid deportation; hiding with an aunt in Piešt̕any to avoid deportation; returning home; traveling illegally to Budapest; finding her sisters; arrest; transfer to a prison in Uz︠h︡horod after six weeks; their release; arrest at the S...

  9. Inspektion der Eisenbahnpioniere des Heeres (In 10)

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Die In 10 bestand während des gesamten Krieges. Sie hatte in der Hauptsache folgende Aufgaben (siehe dazu auch die Geschäftsverteilungspläne in RH 17/267 und H 14/306): - Organisation, Ausrüstung und Gliederung der Eisenbahnpioniertruppe, Neuaufstellungen; allgemeine und taktische Fragen, Ersatzeinheiten, Pioniermaschinenzüge (mit In 5) - Ausbildung der Eisenbahnpioniere; Eisenbahnpionierschule, Lehrgänge, Besichtigungen, Übungs- und Erkundungsreisen, Truppenübungen - Forderungen für Entwicklung, Einführung und Beschaffung von (Sonder-)Geräten und Bauverfahre...

  10. Processo de pedido de visto para Professor Grabilovitch, André Grabilovitch, Nina Krivtzoff, Professor M. Vladimir Katz, Betty Katz, Anatole Katz, Vitor Katz, Noémi Katz, Zacharias Katz, família do Professor M. Vladimir Katz, Professor M. Sainderichin, Nicolas Sainderichin, Berthe Sainderichin, Elsa Sainderichin e Constantin Sainderichin

    Processo de pedido de visto à Legação de Portugal em Vichy para Professor Grabilovitch, de nacionalidade russa e residente em França, com destino aos Estados Unidos da América. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto à Legação de Portugal em Vichy para André Grabilovitch , de nacionalidade russa e residente em França, com destino aos Estados Unidos da América. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto à Legação de Portugal em Vichy para Nina Krivtzoff, de nacionalidade russa e residente em França, com destino aos Estados Unidos da América. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de v...

  11. Maurice F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maurice F., who was born in Sambor, Poland in 1923. He recounts moving to Belgium with his family when he was a child; his father's death; leaving school to help support his family; becoming a furrier; German invasion; fleeing to France with his mother and brother; their arrest; incarceration with his brother in Saint-Cyprien; their release due to his brother's musical talent; finding their mother in Toulouse; moving to a town near Agde, to Marseille, then Valras-Plage; arrest in summer 1942; incarceration in Rivesaltes, then Drancy; deportation with his brother to a ...

  12. Linden family papers

    Contains biographical sketches, photonegatives, photographs, school report cards, newsletters, identification documents, certificates, clippings, affidavits, a Jewish flag, and various other documents relating to the experiences of Fred Linden (Fritz Isaac Lindenstrauss), his wife Ruth Betty Salomon Linden, and their son, Kurt Joseph Linden, during their time living as German Jewish refugees in Shanghai, China, from April 1939 to August 1947. Several documents relate to the Linden family's business, "Ladies Secondhand Store," where they provided clothing goods and tailoring services to the ...

  13. Visto nos passaportes dos componentes da "Tamara Beck Ballet"

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Rio de Janeiro para Valentina Radkevitsch, de nacionalidade estónia, com destino a Portugal. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Rio de Janeiro para Erna Mels, de nacionalidade estónia, com destino a Portugal. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Rio de Janeiro para Benita-Elvine Allikalt, de nacionalidade estónia, com destino a Portugal. Visto autorizado. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Rio de Janeiro para Elmar Kovask, de nacionalidade ...

  14. Edita K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Edita K., who was born in Czechoslovakia in 1928, one of five children. She recounts her family's orthodoxy; her large extended family; cordial relations with non-Jews; a round-up to Dunajská Streda in 1944; entrusting their possessions to non-Jewish neighbors; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau two weeks later; a women from her hometown, who had been there some time, advising her and her sister to separate from their parents and younger siblings (she never saw them again); she and her sister being tattooed with consecutive numbers; remaining with her sister, aunt, an...

  15. Jeanine C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jeanine C., who was born in 1928. She recounts her mother's death in 1932; living in a Jewish orphanage in Paris; German invasion; evacuation to Berck-sur-Mer; returning to Paris in 1940; dispersion of the orphans by UGIF to avoid deportations; her section's deportation to Drancy in July 1944; deportation to Birkenau in August; remaining together with fifteen EIF scouts (including Yvette L.); slave labor in Auschwitz; transfer to Kratzau in November; work in a munitions factory; receiving food from a supervisor; a friend giving birth and being transfered (mother and b...

  16. Mitchell B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mitchell B., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1924, the youngest of eight children. He recounts antisemitic harassment; German invasion; ghettoization; deportation to Poznan? in May 1941; slave labor building the autobahn; public hangings; transfer to Auschwitz in August 1943; prisoners from ?o?dz? advising him to try to leave; transfer to Jawischowitz; slave labor building barracks; hospitalization in January 1945; surgery without anesthesia; friends saving him from a selection; a death march to Blechhammer, then train transport in open cars to Theresienstadt; liber...

  17. Inventaris van de archieven van het Ministerie van Defensie te Londen [1940-1941]; Ministerie van Oorlog te Londen [1941-1945]; Departement van Oorlog: Bureau Londen [1945-1947], (1933) 1940-1947 (1974)

    • Nationaal archief
    • 2.13.71
    • Dutch
    • 1941-1947
    • 84 meter; 3167 inventarisnummers

    Op 14 Mei 1940 werd de zetel van de Nederlandse regering formeel in Londen gevestigd. Onder leiding van A.Q.H. Dijxhoorn, minister van Defensie (later Oorlog), werd het ministerie in Londen opgebouwd. Het hield zich bezig met organisatie, personeel, dienstplicht en rekrutering, juridische zaken, materieel, luchtvaart, militaire operaties, inlichtingen en geneeskundige dienst. Er bestond tevens een informele Ve Afdeling, het Marine Hoofdkwartier. Na verloop van tijd werd het takenpakket uitgebreid met historisch onderzoek naar het verloop van de Meidagen van 1940 en met de voorbereiding van ...

  18. Zvi Z. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Zvi Z., who was born in a village in Czechoslovakia in 1928, the fourth of eight children. He recalls everyone was Orthodox; attending cheder and public school; antisemitic harassment; Hungarian occupation in 1938; the draft of two older brothers into slave labor battalions (he never saw them again); ghettoization in Vynohradiv in 1944; deportation to Auschwitz; separation with his father and brother from his mother and younger siblings (he never saw them again); transfer with his father and brother to Warsaw; slave labor clearing the former ghetto; trading salvaged v...

  19. Arthur Szyk drawing

  20. Edward Smigly-Rydz becomes Field Marshall 1936

    Scenes in Warsaw as General Smigly-Rydz becomes Field Marshal of Poland. The dignitaries arrive at the parade review stand. Press camera corps photograph the event, which includes officials shaking hands, Smigly-Rydz close-ups, marching soldiers, and troop reviews. Massive crowds of bystanders. 01:20:44 A woman sells Polish flags with the eagle crest insignia. 01:21:03 CU profile of Smigly-Rydz flanked by two Catholic officials, including Cardinal Hlond, whose antisemitic pronouncements at the time fueled longstanding anti-Jewish attitudes among Polish Catholics (see more of Hlond in RG-60....