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  1. Kuttner, Godlewsky, Speyer and Marx family histories

    This collection consists of the biographical accounts of three German Jewish families, compiled by Richard Lesser as part of a German initiative to record the fate of Jewish families who perished during the Holocaust.The papers concern the Kuttner family, Siegfried and Fanny Speyer, and Arthur and Elsa Godlewsky.Also contains the personal papers of Dr Ludwig Marx (the donor's father) including his passport (1704/3), a postcard from Dachau concentration camp sent to his wife Regina Marx ((1704/1) and his admission pass to Dachau (1704/2).

  2. Vogel and Baer family correspondence

    The Vogel and Baer family consists of Berta (Bertha) Baer Vogel of Untergrombach, Germany, her ex-husband Albert Vogel, their children, Inga and Ellen, and extended family. The daughter of a Jewish ironmonger, Berta lived in Karlsruhe, Germany with her family until her and Albert separated in 1930 and she immigrated to Basel, Switzerland. The Vogel and Baer family correspondence comprises letters primarily from Inga, who was a student in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to her Berta, Ellen, and her grandparents in Basel, Switzerland between 1938 and 1941. The letters detail her studies, life in the...

  3. William Rosenwald Family Association selected records

    The collection contains affidavits, correspondence, reports, financial documents, and similar materials documenting the philanthropic activities of the children of late Sears, Roebuck and Company president Julius Rosenwald. Referred to as the “German Relatives Program,” their activities enabled numerous members of the Rosenwald and Nussbaum families, members of their extended relatives, and numerous others emigrate from Germany and escape anti-Semitic persecution in the late 1930s. The records also document the financial and other material support provided by the project to those whom they ...

  4. Nuremberg Trial proceedings: summation and verdict

    Part 4 of ENGLISH language version [corresponds to NARA reels 7 & 8] Courtroom scenes, questioning various defendants, showing various views of the courtroom and trial proceedings. Questioning Jodl and von Ribbentrop. Prosecutor asks Goering: "Do you still say that neither Hitler nor you knew of the policy to exterminate the Jews?" Goering: "I already had said that not even approximately did I know to what degree this thing took place." Prosecutor: "You did not know to what degree, but you knew there was a policy which aimed at the liquidation of the Jews?" Goering: "No, not liquidation...

  5. 1. Skijäger-Division

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Wie die Kriegstagebücher aller anderen Verbände, Einheiten und Dienststellen des Heeres auch, waren die Kriegstagebücher der Gebirgs-Divisionen vom Mobilmachungstag (26.8.1939) an dem Heeresarchiv Potsdam einzureichen, wo sie eine Zugangssignatur erhielten (anfangs getrennt nach Kriegsschauplätzen: P für Polen, W für Westen; nach der Beendigung des West- und des Norwegenfeldzuges aber nur nach laufender Nummer), in dieser Reihenfolge auch eingelagert, dann aber systematisch nach den kriegstagebuchführenden Stellen und deren Abteilungen in Eingangslisten erfas...

  6. Handcrafted commemorative coin medallion created for a US crew member on an illegal immigrant ship

    Small medal commissioned by Paul Kaye to memorialize the imprisonment of the crew and passengers of the illegal immigrant ship, Hatikvah, on May 18, 1947, after their capture at sea by the British on May 17 during a voyage to Palestine. It was carrying nearly 1500 Jewish refugees, mostly Holocaust survivors. The medal was made from a hand flattened Cyprian piaster coin by an artist, name unknown, that Paul met in the internment camp on Cyprus. It is etched with the names, Hatikvah and Cyprus, an image of the ship, and an image of the detention camp; the initials of Paul’s nephew, Joseph Ros...

  7. Verwaltung für Wirtschaft des Vereinigten Wirtschaftsgebietes

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Bei der Bildung der deutschen bizonalen Wirtschaftsverwaltung im September 1946 gingen die Funktionen des bereits seit März 1946 in der britischen Zone tätigen Zentralamtes für Wirtschaft (ZAW) und des am 6. August 1946 errichteteten Wirtschaftsrates des Länderrates des amerikanischen Besatzungsgebietes auf das zum 1. Januar 1947 errichtete Verwaltungsamt für Wirtschaft (VAW) in Minden über. Dieses Amt wurde am 21. August 1947 zur Verwaltung für Wirtschaft (VfW) des Vereinigten Wirtschaftsgebietes (VWG) umgebildet und ab 20. Oktober 1947 nach Frankfurt/Main-H...

  8. Notice of achievement received by a boy in a Łódź ghetto orphanage

    Picture postcard presented to 12 year old Jakub Lapides in the school he attended in the Jewish ghetto in Łódź, Poland, from 1939-1942. It recognizes his contribution to student self-government in the orphanage from August-September 1940. Jakub and his three siblings were living in an orphanage in Łódź, Poland, when it was occupied by the Germans in September 1939. The Jews were forced into a ghetto and at first, things were better for the children because the Jewish Council gave orphans larger food rations. But soon conditions worsened and hunger was everywhere. Deportations to concentrati...

  9. Two short amateur films featuring Hansi and the Kessler family pets; Hansi visits Schonbrunn zoo

    Lizzy Film Produktion. Mitglied des Klubs der Kinoamateure Oesterreichs. “Unsere Lieblinge” “HANSI” “2 ½ Jahre alt” “Sie leben wie Hund und Kat” “Wer ist er” “Bucht Buster Keaton” “Nicht Charlie Chaplin” “ER” Graphics of dogs. “Ruht Friedlich vor Seinem” “Weekendhaus” “Horch! Ein Geraeusch!” Animated dog, dog house. “Was ist denn da los?” Graphics of the dog and dog-house again. “Wutend!” The dog wags his tail while sitting in the dog house. A cat appears. “Die Streitlustige Nachbarin” “Sie!” “Animated cats standing on top of a building, hissing at the barking dog. “Auf einen wurf!” Cats hi...

  10. March of Time -- outtakes -- Various Nazi leaders

    Various clips of Nazi leaders. "Germany" (produced by Movietonews) Shirtless men pose for farmers' union. Germans marching with shovels. Hitler at rally with crowds. Tanks. LS, Nuremberg rally. 01:11:08 "Das Grosse Werk der Naechstenliebe" (produced by Fox Toenende Wochenschau) Goerlitzer, District Leader of Berlin, speaking from stage re: Winter Relief at soup kitchen. Sign reading "7 Januar 1934, Eintopf Huhn-Nudeln." [Chicken and noodles] CUs, women and men eating at communal tables while band plays on stage. "Deutschland auf der Transfer-Koferenz" (produced by Fox Toenende Wochenschau) ...

  11. Division Dormagen

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Wie die Kriegstagebücher (KTB) aller anderen Verbände und Dienststellen des Heeres waren auch die KTB der Divisionen vom Mobilmachungstag (26. August 1939) an das Heeresarchiv Potsdam abzugeben, wo sie eine Zugangssignatur erhielten (anfangs getrennt nach Kriegsschauplätzen: P für Polen, W für Westen; nach Beendigung des West- und des Norwegenfeldzuges aber nur nach laufender Nummer) und in dieser Reihenfolge eingelagert, dann aber systematisch nach den KTB-führenden Stellen und Abteilungen in Eingangslisten erfasst wurden. Diese Listen (so genannte "Potsdam-...

  12. 273. Reserve-Panzer-Division

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Auch die Kriegstagebücher der Panzer-Divisionen waren, wie die Kriegstagebücher aller anderen Verbände, Einheiten und Dienststellen des Heeres vom Mobilmachungstag (26.8.1939) an, dem Heeresarchiv Potsdam einzureichen, wo sie eine Zugangssignatur erhielten (anfangs getrennt nach Kriegsschauplätzen: P für Polen, W für Westen; nach der Beendigung des West- und des Norwegenfeldzuges aber nur nach laufender Nummer), in dieser Reihenfolge auch eingelagert, dann aber systematisch nach den kriegstagebuchführenden Stellen und deren Abteilungen in Eingangslisten erfas...

  13. Vakar family collection

    The Vakar family papers consist of correspondence, memoirs, manuscripts, news clippings, postcards, and other documents and materials related to the immigration of the Vakar family from France to the United States in 1940-1941, as well as the role of the American aid workers who helped them, Martha and Waitstill Sharp. Collection includes postcards and correspondence from the period of their immigration, later memoirs written by various members of the family recounting their experiences during their escape and their arrival in the United States, as well as news clippings and other material ...

  14. Records of the Gendarmerie Kreis Hermansbad (Ciechocinek, Poland) (Sygn. 71)

    Contains information about the persecution of Jews and Roma; resettlement of Polish and German nationals; homosexuals placed in preventive custody; deportations of Jews and non-Jews; Jewish communities; Jews transported to Chelmno killing center in April 1942; Jewish labor battalions; escaped prisoners of war; political prisoners; statistics on Jewish populations; expropriation of Jewish property; killing of Jews who tried to escape from Inowroclaw (a.k.a Hohensalza) Ghetto; transports; Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; and compulsory and slave labor, Reel 1 contains collections of newsletters or Mel...

  15. Generalinspektor für Wasser und Energie.- Planbestand

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Im Jahr 2009 wurden bei Magazinarbeiten am Dienstort Hoppegarten ca. 3 lfm. unverzeichnetes Archivgut (21 Archivkartons) ermittelt, welche dem Bestand R 4604 zuzuordnen waren. Diese 21 Archivkartons wurden dem bereits vorhandenen Bestand R 4604 unverzeichnet hintenangestellt. Bestandsbeschreibung Gegenstand dieses Findbuches sind Pläne zum Bau und Ausbau von Wasserstraßen (u.a. Kaiser-Wilhelm-Kanal, Mittellandkanal, Dortmund-Ems-Kanal) und dazugehörigen Bauwerken wie Brücken und Schleusen.  Ebenfalls vorhanden sind Pläne zur Abwasserverwertung der Stadt ...

  16. Moshe Sheps papers

    The Moshe Sheps papers consists of 52 photographs and a postcard relating to Moshe Sheps' family before and during World War II in Poland.

  17. Persecution of Jews; isolating, labeling, deporting, murdering Jews

    Pre-title sequence: Bookburning in Berlin, Joseph Goebbels speaking. View of bodies stacked with wood for burning, and Heinrich Heine quote. Film title: DER GELBE STERN: Ein Film ueber die Judenverfolgung 1933 - 1945. Events of January 30, 1933, when Adolf Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany. NSDAP (Nazi Party) organization, new members, SA marching in streets. S.A. Heim [Sturmabteilung headquarters]. Joseph Goebbels speaks at Sportpalast in Berlin, against the lying Jewish press etc. This preceded Hitler's first speech as Chancellor, February 10. Still of burned Reichstag building, and a...

  18. Jan V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jan V., who was born in Rumbeke, Belgium in 1922, the oldest of three children in a religious Catholic family. He recounts living in Louvain from age three; attending Catholic school; participating in Scouting; German invasion in May 1940; traveling with his cousin to Tournai, then Rouen to enlist; being shipped by train to Anduze, France; repatriation about six weeks later; living briefly in Tongeren; priesthood training in monasteries in Bocholt for two years, in Gits for two years, then in Thy-le-Château; arrest in July 1944 with thirteen others from the monastery...

  19. Schonberg-Ubersfeld family. Collection

    This collection contains two family photos, taken in 1922 and 1935, of Abraham Herschel Schonberg, his wife Victoria Ubersfeld and their seven children.

  20. Division von Witzleben / Division Nr. 905

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Wie die Kriegstagebücher (KTB) aller anderen Verbände und Dienststellen des Heeres waren auch die KTB der Divisionen vom Mobilmachungstag (26. August 1939) an das Heeresarchiv Potsdam abzugeben, wo sie eine Zugangssignatur erhielten (anfangs getrennt nach Kriegsschauplätzen: P für Polen, W für Westen; nach Beendigung des West- und des Norwegenfeldzuges aber nur nach laufender Nummer) und in dieser Reihenfolge eingelagert, dann aber systematisch nach den KTB-führenden Stellen und Abteilungen in Eingangslisten erfasst wurden. Diese Listen (so genannte "Potsdam-...