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  1. Bookmark

    Bookmark found in a book on eugenics, 1997.7.2.

  3. Booth family papers

    Includes photocopies of correspondence between the Philip Booth family and Leon Kubowitzki, exchanged while attempting to aid several Jews from German-occupied Belgium with emigration matters. Also included are affidavits relating to the efforts of Philip and Mary Booth to help Jews emigrate from Europe. See RG list for RG-10.02601 and RG-10.026*02 titles.

  4. Boots

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn7286
    • English
    • a: Height: 11.880 inches (30.175 cm) | Width: 4.250 inches (10.795 cm) | Depth: 6.500 inches (16.51 cm) b: Height: 11.880 inches (30.175 cm) | Width: 4.250 inches (10.795 cm) | Depth: 6.500 inches (16.51 cm)

    Boots given to Jack Polak by the Red Cross, June-July 1945, Eindhoven, Holland, The Netherlands.

  5. Borcke-Stargordt, Henning Graf von

    Zitierweise BArch N 1627/...

  6. Border between Pilsen and Prague; railcars

    Aerial view of Pilsen. Murray posing for the camera. Russian border checkpoint between Pilsen and Prague. Scenes from Prague, including St. Vitus Cathedral and the Hebrew clock at the Jewish Town Hall. Prague Castle. Soldiers on a boxcar with “Dachau” painted on the outside. They line up and board boxcars.

  7. Border control; Dachau and crematory

    (Munich 283) Border Control Security, Vicinity of Hof, Germany, June 20, 1946. LS, troopers of the 28th Constabulary Squad leaving command post "on the double" at Bad Steben, near Russian border, and getting into jeeps and M-8 armored cars. Jeeps and M-8 squadron travelling through town of Bad Steben on way to border. Scenes of the squadron moving through countryside past RR and station at Lichtenberg. Two jeeps and an M-8 taking their postions at border. Shot from top of jeep showing sign at roadway, "American Territory." Russian guard seen on other side. MS of sign giving warning that una...

  8. Bordéus. Receção de instruções

    Comunicação do Consulado de Portugal em Bordéus ao Ministério dos Negócios Estrangeiros (MNE) confirmando a receção de instruções enviadas.

  9. Borenstein family collection

    Collection of documents, photographs, blankets and a metal pot relating to Abram, Ida and Rosa Borenstein and their experiences while living at the Lampertheim DP Camp in Germany and their immigration to the United States.

  10. Borge and Tove Siebern scrapbooks

    Consists of five scrapbooks assembled while Bjorn Siebern, former Danish policeman and member of the resistance, and his wife, sometime between 1964 and 1973. They contain a combination of wartime photographs, documents, and three-dimensional objects documenting all aspects of the German occupation of Denmark. Some documents relate directly to Mr. Siebern's work, including ID cards, false IDs and forgery stamps. He assumed multiple identities during the war. There are also leaflets dropped over Denmark, Nazi propaganda and anti-Nazi cartoons. The photos include photos of German officials, D...

  11. Borgs-Maciejewski collection of newspapers on the subject of the Nazis, 1921-1950

    Borgs-Maciejewski collection of newspapers on the subject of the Nazis, 1921-1950 Dr. Hans Borgs-Maciejewski was a Catholic philologist and educator. He was born in Duesseldorf in 1898, and resided in Wuppertal-Elberfeld for most of his life. He became interested in newspapers at an early age and collected newspaper clippings, in most part from Catholic newspapers in the Rhineland. Upon Hitler's rise to power, Borgs-Maciejewski decided to focus mainly on the Nazi regime, dedicating his efforts to the collection of newspaper clippings from publications in the Rhineland and Berlin that dealt ...

  12. Boris A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Boris A., who was born in Paneve?z?ys, Lithuania in 1915, one of seven children in a religious family. He recalls his parents' deaths in 1936 and 1938; continuing the family business with his brothers; Soviet occupation when he was in Kovno; opening a brush store in S?iauliai; German invasion; ghettoization; manufacturing brushes for the Germans; his sister's escape, with her three children, from the Kovno ghetto to S?iauliai; deportations of two of her children; and transfer with his brother, sister, and her child to a nearby camp. Mr. A. recounts a German supervisor...

  13. Boris B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Boris B., who was born in Częstochowa, Poland in 1918, the youngest of ten children. He recalls his father's death; joining his brother in Saverne in 1928; attending rabbinical school in Paris; working in his family's business; military draft in 1939; German invasion; capture as a prisoner of war in Brest; incarceration in Coëtquidan, Loudéac, Compiègne, then Saint-Just-en-Chaussée; escape; returning to Paris; joining his mother in Caluire-et-Cuire via Lyon; employment as a glass-cutter; a year later, working for Father Alexandre Glasberg, OSE, and Sixièmè (Jew...

  14. Boris F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Boris F., who was born in Petrograd, Soviet Union (presently Saint Petersburg, Russia) in 1923. He recounts his father's death; emigrating with his mother and brother to join relatives in Hamburg in approximately 1925; placement in a children's home; his bar mitzvah; expulsion from public school in 1934; attending a Jewish school; his brother's emigration to the Netherlands; visiting him in the Hague; expulsion from Germany with his mother in 1938; joining his brother; attending school in Charleroi; German invasion; living in Brussels; returning to Charleroi; arrest i...

  15. Boris G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Boris G., who was born in Skalat, Poland in 1922, one of three brothers. He recounts his mother's death when he was six; living in an orphanage; working for an aunt; Soviet occupation; German invasion in 1941; one brother being killed; fleeing to Kharkiv, then Krasnodar; working on a collective farm; draft into the Soviet army in Rostov; postings in Stalingrad and Beketovka; participating in the battle of Stalingrad; an acquaintanceship with Nikita Khrushchev; commanding several hundred soldiers; interrogating captured Germans; liberating Auschwitz; entering the cathe...

  16. Boris Gurevich papers

    The Boris Gurevich papers are comprised of over fifty letters Boris wrote to his brother and sister while in the Red Army between 1942 and 1944. The majority of the letters are to his sister in Andijan. In them, Boris enquires frequently about her health and food availability and describes his situation as a student in military training and later, as a soldier. Many of his letters describe his health, food rations, his uniforms, and his daily activities in training and in his free time. He often reports that he is happy, especially so while living in Rybinsk, where he lived with a friend, M...

  17. Boris I. Nicolaevsky Collection

    Correspondence, memoranda, writings, speeches, memoirs, minutes of meetings, conference proceedings, leaflets, resolutions, bulletins, reports, clippings, newspapers, other printed matter, and photographs, relating to Karl Marx and the international socialist movement; the First, Second, Third and Fourth Intenationals; Russian revolutionary, anarchist and socialist movements, especially the Rossiiskaia sotsial-demokraticheskaia rabochaia partiia (RSDRP) and its Menshevik wing; the Partiia sotsialistov-revoliutsionerov (PSR); the Russian Revolution and Civil War; Russian politics and governm...

  18. Boris M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Boris M., who was born in Litin, Ukraine in 1931. He recalls German invasion in 1941; anti-Jewish violence and restrictions; a mass killing in December; his family's exemption because his father was a skilled laborer; his father sending him to hide with a non-Jewish former customer; hiding in a hole and with another non-Jew during round-ups; one of the non-Jews who hid him bringing him, his parents, and sister to the Zhmerynka ghetto in summer 1943; assisting Soviet forces; liberation by Soviet troops in March 1944; moving to Vinnyt?s?i?a?; Soviet military service fro...

  19. Boris Mazelis collection

    A 22-page handwritten memoir in Russian regarding donor's life (there is also a 2-page English summary). Four photocopied pages of documents in Russian attesting to donor and donor's family in ghettos, Litin (now in Ukraine) and Zhmerinka (Zhmerynka, Ukraine).

  20. Boris P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Boris P., who was born in Slutsk, Belarus in 1929, the second of four sons. He recalls his father's Communist Party membership; attending Jewish, Belorussian, and Russian schools; visiting relatives in Lyakhovichi; German invasion in June 1941; his father's mobilization (he never saw him again); his older brother's escape; public shootings of Jews; a policeman warning them of a mass killing; hiding with his father's non-Jewish friend; ghettoization; a mass killing including his grandmother; the policeman placing his family in a barrack for non-Jewish workers; one youn...