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  1. Andre? E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Andre? E., who was born in Parczew, Poland in 1935. He recalls observance of the sabbath and Jewish holidays; his extended family; German invasion; hiding with his parents and younger sister; non-Jewish families refusing to hide them; disappearance of his mother and sister (he never saw them again); he and his father joining a partisan group in the forest; living in bunkers; stealing food from local peasants; a Soviet soldier who protected him; actions against Germans including blowing up railroads; leaving the forest during a major German offensive; attacks by Polish...

  2. Andre? R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Andre? R., a twin, who was born in Lyon, France in 1924, one of four children. Mr. R. recounts his mother was Jewish and his father the child of a Jew and Christian; living in Paris; German occupation; being sent with his twin brother to live with a Christian family in Lyon in 1942; his parents and sisters joining them; his father's arrest in May 1943 for Resistance work (he never saw him again); his Resistance activities; arrest with his family in May 1944; incarceration in Montluc prison; transfer to Drancy in June; deportation in July to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separat...

  3. Andre? R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Andre? R., a Roman Catholic, who was born in Villefagnan, France in 1921. He recalls his childhood in Angoule?me; German invasion in 1940; protesting anti-Jewish restrictions in 1942; joining the Resistance in Paris; escaping to the Pyrenees in 1943 using false papers; arrest in Dax; interrogations in Biarritz; imprisonment in Bayonne and Bordeaux; transfer to Compie?gne in September; deportation to Buchenwald in October; transfer to Dora, then Majdanek, in February 1944; transport to Auschwitz in April; assistance from a Polish doctor; working near the crematoria in ...

  4. Andre? U. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Andre? U., who was born in Besanc?on, France in 1914, the youngest of five children. He recalls his family's strong Jewish identity and French patriotism; antisemitic harassment; attending law school in Dijon in 1934, then finishing in Paris in 1937; enlisting in the military; postings to several locations; retreating when the Germans invaded; capture as a prisoner of war; escaping to Besanc?on; traveling to Paris; joining his family in the unoccupied zone in Lyon; joining the Francs-tireurs resistance; creating false papers for others; attending a reunion of his mili...

  5. Andre?e H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Andre?e H., a non-Jewish rescuer, who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1921. She recalls the important influence of her father's love of children; completing normal school in 1942; internships in schools in Brussels' Jewish quarter; noticing children "disappearing"; horror upon learning of German round-ups and deportations; asking relatives to hide Jewish children; being contacted by and joining a resistance group which hid Jewish children (Comite? de de?fense des juifs); approaching Jewish parents to suggest that their children be hidden; bringing the children to be ...

  6. Andreas Hofer - Südmarkbund in Schwaben

    Bestandsbeschreibung Schwerpunkte der Überlieferung: Organisation und Geschäftsbetrieb, Bundesleitung und Ortsgruppen, Publikations- und Propagandatätigkeit, Zeitungsausschnittsammlung zu Österreich, v.a. zu den Themen Außenpolitik und deutsch-österreichische Innenpolitik, einzelne Bundesländer, Parteien und Verbände, Wirtschaft, Handel und Banken, Bildung, Kultur und Sozialpolitik, Frankreich, Italien, mittel- und südosteuropäische Länder, Paneuropabewegung, Donauföderation und Völkerbund Erschliessungszustand Findkartei Zitierweise BArch R 8010/...

  7. Andreas S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Andreas S., who was born in Thessalonikē, Greece in 1929, an only child. He recalls ghettoization; obtaining false papers from his grandfather's friend, a police officer; escaping by train to his relatives in Athens to live under the benign Italian occupation; his parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and their children escaping to Chalkis on Euboea Island, then joining him in Athens; German invasion; fleeing to Argos with assistance from his father's client; their rescuer's death in an Allied bombing; living on a farm for fourteen months; hiding during conflicts; an...

  8. Andreas Tsagatakis collection

    Collection of three antisemitic publications: "La France colonie Juive" [France: colonized by the Jews], "Les Coulisses du Front Populaire: Comment Les Juifs ont mis la main sur le mouvement ouvrier et révolutionnaire" [Behind the Scene of the Popular Front or Backstage with the Popular Front - How Jews took control of the worker's and revolutionary movements], and "Le Cabinet No. 100" [Cabinet number 100 - at the time of the Stavisky Affair].

  9. Andree D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Andree D., who was born in Paris, France in 1927. She recalls her early childhood in Egypt; moving to Paris after her parents' divorce; pleasant summers with her grandparents in Egypt; her mother's remarriage to a Catholic in 1937; attending boarding school; the school's relocation to a castle near Vichy after the German invasion; joining her mother and stepfather in Bordeaux in 1940; obtaining false papers as her stepfather's child; moving to Arcachon, then Paris; attending schools in Vichy and Paris in 1942 and 1943; feeling fortunate that she did not have to wear a...

  10. Andrée D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Andrée D., a Catholic, who was born in Uccle, Belgium in 1922, one of three sisters. She recounts living in Congo from ages four to ten; attending school in Uccle; German invasion; working with the Resistance in Brussels and Bruges; smuggling downed Allied aviators to Paris; obtaining false identity papers in Lille; hiding two children in the Ardennes; denunciation; arrest with her parents; imprisonment in St. Gilles in August 1942; deportation with her father in August 1943 (her mother was released); separation from him in Essen; transfer to Mesum, Zweibrücken, the...

  11. Andrej Hartmann documents

    Contains a Czech passport issued for Andrej Hartmann, a certificate of native domicile, and a report card.

  12. Andrej K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Andrej K., who was born in Botoșani, Romania in 1922, the oldest of three children. He recounts growing up in Iași; cordial relations with non-Jews; completing high school; being taken with his father and brother in a round-up; being beaten and shot; deportation in cattle cars; being told he was removed from the train in Roman, and a non-Jewish woman (she was recognized by Yad Vashem) and the Jewish community in Călărași caring for him (he does not remember this); returning to Iași; living in his family home with their former maid; working for the Jewish communi...

  13. Andreja P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Andreja P., who was born in Pécs, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1912. He recounts his family's move to Zagreb; mobilization when Germany attacked in April 1941; traveling to Sinj and Split; troops deserting when Croatian independence was declared; Split's occupation by Italy; working as a musician; obtaining false papers to bring his parents and sister there; a non-Jewish friend bringing his sister; his parents' arrest by Ustaša en route; using influence to obtain their release; their return to Zagreb; his father's and uncle's deportation to Jasenovac (they were kill...

  14. Andrew "Harry" Lawford collection

    Contains materials documenting the wartime experiences of Andrew "Harry" Lawford. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  15. Andrew and Rose Hausman collection

    The collection consists of a set of tefillin, documents, drawings, and photographs relating to the experiences of Adolf Hausman in Hungary during and after the Holocaust and of documents relating to Rose Hausman after the Holocaust.

  16. Andrew B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Andrew B., who was born in Bushtyna, Czechoslovakia (presently Ukraine) in 1930. He recalls his family's long history in the town; Hungarian occupation; his bar mitzvah; Hungarians ransacking Jewish homes; the police chief's wife helping them; forced relocation to Kushnytsya; ghettoization in Ma?te?szalka; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau in summer 1944; separation from his mother and grandfather upon arrival (they perished), then from his father and brother; avoiding many selections; forced labor; liquidation of the Zigeunerlager (Gypsy Lager); remaining with a cous...

  17. Andrew Blau collection

    Contains materials donated by Andrew Blau documenting his family's experiences during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  18. Andrew Breit photograph collection

    Consists of one post-war photograph taken of a group of orphan children in Poland in 1946. The children are posing in front of pressed leaves.

  19. Andrew D'Alessandro photographs

    Consists of 22 photographs taken by Andrew J. D'Alessandro, who was a member of the United States Army during World War II. The photographs, which are mounted, depict D'Alessandro and members of his unit and images of American soldiers viewing corpses and speaking to survivors after the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp.

  20. Andrew Engel correspondence

    Contains two playing cards and correspondence addressed to Andrew Engel written by his parents.