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  1. IRO Children's Village in Bad Aibling

    This personal film of the IRO Children's Village Bad Aibling in the American Zone of Germany was filmed by John Powelson, an AFSC worker assigned to the Children’s Village. Military vehicle driving past a sign pointing to “IRO Children's Village Bad Aibling IRO Area 7.” Children hold hands with adult men and women, probably in late winter 1949. 0:31 The woman in the green overcoat could be Wendy Elliott who coordinated kindergarten teachers and activities (this woman appears in several following scenes). Adults and teenagers pose for the camera and speak with one another in front of camp bu...

  2. Iron used by Jewish tailor in small village near Treblinka

    Belonged to Jewish tailor in Kosow Lacki, Poland, pre World War II.

  3. Ironic drawing celebrating VE day by a Hungarian concentration camp survivor

    Cartoonlike drawing of a hand with two fingers, one dripping blood and missing the top half, raised in the V for Victory sign. It was drawn by Ernu Homanye-Grytze on May 8, 1945, VE (Victory in Europe) Day, the day the Allies accepted the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany. The coloring was added in 1946. Homanye-Grytze was a self taught artist from Hungary with moved to Paris. In September 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland, and World War II began. In June 1940, the Germans occupied France. Around this time, Homanye-Grytze returned to Hungary. Germany occupied Hungary in March 1944. At...

  4. Irregularidades praticadas no antigo Consulado Português em Viena na concessão de vistos em passaportes Staatenlos

    Pedido de instruções por parte do Consulado de Portugal em Viena referente a prestação de informações sobre notícia publicada no jornal local "Telegraph" sobre a venda ilícita de vistos em passaportes.

  5. Irvin Boring testimony

    Consists of two essays (2 pages and 5 pages) written by Irvin Boring, a scout with the 26th Infantry Division, describing his experiences discovering and liberating a small concentration camp for women in the area of Wiesbaden-Sonnenberg, Germany, and his experiences discovering the site of a mass grave, possibly the victims who could not continue during a death march.

  6. 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...

  7. The Irvin H. and Sybil Stern collection

    The Irvin H. and Sybil Stern collection consists of photographs of the Mauthausen concentration camp, taken by Irvin Stern on May 10, 1945. The photographs show the camp following liberation and include images of survivors and victims, the mass burial of corpses, as well as buildings, fences, and the crematorium. The letters, in the form of memoirs, relate to the Irvin Stern's experiences at Mauthausen and how he came in contact with Dal Lorvic, a Yugoslavian resistance fighter and a survivor of Mauthausen concentration camp.

  8. Irvin Wittwer photographs

    The collection consists of photographs depicting the Mauthausen concentration camp after liberation by the United States Army, as well as scenes from Gallneukirchen, Austria, Rodach, Germany, Bayreuth, Germany, and Cham, Germany.

  9. Irving A. Heyman memoir

    Testimony: Typescript, 4 pages, from a former U.S. soldier, describing his experiences at the Battle of the Bulge and subsequently, at Remagen and at the liberation of Buchenwald.

  10. Irving and Ennis Rosenberg photograph album

    Consists of five pages from a photograph album owned by Irving and Ennis (Chumley) Rosenberg, who worked on the cruise ship USS Leviathan, and through that visited Bremen and Hamburg, Germany, in 1932. Includes postcards of Adolf Hitler and candid photographs of Hitler, of a Nazi parade and rally, and of local architecture. Ennis Rosenberg annotated the album pages, questioning the future of Germany with Hitler as potential leader.

  11. Irving and Ruth Aaron fonds

    • Ottawa Jewish Archives
    • I0108
    • English
    • 1969-1989
    • 1 file textual records; 7 photographs : b&w Individuals Boxes

    Fonds consists of photographs of Ruth Aaron and Irving Aaron as well as a small amount of material relating to the Chanukah Ball in 1989 and the gala (18th) birthday party for Beth Shalom which was held on April 21, 1974. An invitation to Benjamin Feinstein's (Ruth Aaron's father) 100th birthday party is also included. In October 2010, Ruth Aaron celebrated 25 years as the co-ordinator in Ottawa of events for visiting Jewish war veterans. A speech that she made is included along with OJB article about the event. Article regarding marriage of Carol Irving to Gordon Sussman. Invitation to CHW...

  12. Irving B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irving B., who was born in Khust, Czechoslovakia in 1924. He recalls his large, orthodox family; attending public school; Hungarian occupation in 1938; his father's death; anti-Jewish laws; fleeing to Budapest in 1943; brief arrest; fleeing to Nyi?regyha?za, then Szeged, in 1944; ghettoization in March; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau, Mauthausen, then Melk; slave labor digging trenches; assisting a rabbi from his hometown; defusing undetonated bombs; transfer to Ebensee; fellow prisoners hiding him and sharing their food when he was too ill to work; cannibalism; an...

  13. Irving Bachove photograph collection

    The Irving Bachove photograph collection consists of two photographs of Buchenwald concentration camp at the time of liberation, April 1945. One photograph shows three survivros of Buchenwald sitting on a bench. The second photograph shows a victim of the Buchenwald camp. The name of the photographer is unknown.

  14. Irving Bashevkin collection

    The collection primarily consists of photographs of the Buchenwald concentration camp following liberation. Includes captioned on verso in English; dated April 1945; “Soldiers of ’44 / 107th EVAC Events” and packet of copies of newsletters published weekly by and for the Officers and Enlisted Men of the 107th Evac Hospital.

  15. Irving C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irving C., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1915. He describes a childhood of extreme poverty; working as a tailor; German occupation; slave labor and beatings; fleeing to Bia?ystok; staying with his sister and brother in a synagogue; meeting his future wife and her father; registering to go to the Soviet Union; traveling with his brother, sister, future wife, and her father in cattle cars to Omsk; his marriage; living in barracks on the outskirts of Omsk; hard labor, then working as a tailor; his daughter's birth; a year's military service in Kalachinsk; returning t...

  16. Irving D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irving D., who was born in Beremyany, Ukraine in 1919. He recalls his family moving to Tluste (presently Tovste) in 1933 due to an antisemitic incident; joining his father's successful business; Soviet occupation in 1939; his draft into the Soviet army; posting to Afghanistan; hospitalization in Tashkent; returning to Tluste on June 19, 1941; German invasion on June 22, 1941; rejoining his unit in Ptoskurov(now Khmel?nyt?s??kyi?); traveling from Kiev to Ashkhabad in September; training in Petropavlovsk until 1944; transfer with his unit to Cheli?a?binsk, then Chebarku...

  17. Irving D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irving D., who was born in Russia in 1912. He recounts the family's move to Vilna in 1913; membership in Hashomer Hatzair; antisemitic incidents in 1929; moving to ?o?dz? to learn the textile industry; German invasion; fleeing to Warsaw; returning to ?o?dz? with his brother; their escape to Soviet occupied areas, Ma?kinia, then Baranavichy; registering to join his parents in Vilna which resulted in arrest as an anti-communist; incarceration in a forced labor camp through 1940; moving to Tashkent; volunteering for the Soviet military in 1941; his discharge after being ...

  18. Irving F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irving F., who was born in Stepangorodok, Poland in 1915. He recalls his youth in an observant family; attending yeshiva in Baranowicze in 1932; returning there later to marry and live; the birth of a child in 1940; and a decrease in antisemitic acts after the Soviet occupation. He describes the German invasion; imposition of anti-Jewish measures; ghettoization and formation of the Judenrat; forced labor for Organisation Todt; and the disappearance of some 6,000 Jews in a March 1942 Aktion. Mr. F. tells of constructing hideouts for use during round-ups; the killing of...

  19. Irving Fink photograph collection

    The collection includes three photographs of the Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation and a photograph of US soldiers in Domazlice, Czechoslovakia. Irving Fink, who served in the United States Army, brought the photographs home with him after the war.

  20. Irving G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Irving G., who was born in 1919 and served with the United States Army in a signal battalion in World War II. He recounts landing at Omaha Beach; moving toward Germany during the Battle of the Bulge; entering a concentration camp after the Germans had left; emaciated inmates who looked like "skeletons"; soldiers giving them their rations; speaking Yiddish with a prisoner; later entering Nordhausen; piles of corpses; the pervasive stench; locals feigning ignorance of the camp; and not sharing his experiences after returning home. Mr. G. discusses nightmares about the c...