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  1. The Frank family at Schoberhof

    At Schoberhof, the Frank family with relatives. CUs of the family - a baby, young boy, and slender woman in a swimsuit. The Frank children Sigrid and Norman play and pose in costumes outdoors with Nanny Sophie. 02:19:47 Nazi flag waving, EXTs. Slow pan and LSs of Schoberhof.

  2. Felix Rosenthal papers

    The collection includes typescript memoirs and essays written by Felix Rosenthal describing his childhood in Germany, his emigration from Germany in 1933, his stay in Italy and eventual immigration to the United States, and his service in the United States Army as a “Ritchie Boy” during World War II. The collection also contains other essays and reflections from Felix’s experiences in the Army, including during his time serving with occupation forces in Germany from 1945-1947.

  3. Selected records of the United States Lines. Branch in Warsaw Linie Stanów Zjednoczonych. Oddział w Warszawie (Sygn. 247)

    Registers of passengers departing from Poland in the 1930s by the American lines, finacial documents of Nathan Pearlmutter (1939), identity documents and passenger’s passports, a weekly newsletter for emigrants: "Wiadomości dla Emigrantów" (1930-1939) and a publication: "Emigration and Colonization" (1938).

  4. Admor letter

    Contains a letter written by a prominent Admor near the end of WWII; a notation on the back of the letter states (in translation) "Erev Shabbos Kodesh, Vayakhel, in the morning 8:00, Tel Aviv." The author describes the deaths of his forefathers, family members, and friends, and his troubles during the Holocaust including the many attempts on his life and times he was saved from certain death. The back of the letter features a prayer in his hand. The letter reads (in translation): "Baruch Hash-m who took us out of the hands of murderers and the netherworld of destruction of the death camps ....

  5. Visiting England, 1947

    Maurits Schaap visits England in 1947 to get supplies for his hatmaker shop. Forested area. Fence marked "The Vale." Schaap visits acquaintances - house and expansive flower garden. Busy city streets. Back at the house, people greet the camera and offer small garden tours. 04:27:37 Man in what appears to be military dress. City life. Crowd gathers around a man speaking in front of a banner that reads "The New Health Crusade." Sign for Aldgate East Station in London. Vendors sell various goods, including newspapers, in the busy streets of the city. Various buildings in London. Large cathedra...

  6. Mignon Langnas papers

    Contains postcards received by Mignon Langnas (donor's mother), a Jewish nurse in Vienna, from Viennese Jews that had been deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp; the majority of the correspondence consists of inscriptions written on pre-printed postcards stating that the writer received packages sent by Mignon. Mignon remained in Vienna and sent packages to over thirty families interned in Theresienstadt, the majority of whom were ultimately deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp where they are assumed to have perished. Mignon was liberated in Vienna and ultimately immigra...

  7. Ernest Lowe collection

    The Ernest Lowe collection consists of documents and photographs related to the wartime experiences of Ernest Lowe (born Ernst Loewy/Löwy), who was born in Volenice, Czechoslovakia and raised in Vienna, Austria. Includes pre-war school documentation and report cards, documents related to his 1939 immigration to the United States, and family photographs of Ernest Lowe, his wife Valerie, and the extended Loewy family. Also includes oral history transcripts of interview with Valerie Ernei Lowe, who spent the war in hiding in Slovakia, and with Marianne (Mimi) Lowe Cahn, Ernest's sister, who im...

  8. J. N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of J. N., who was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia in 1938, the younger of two children. He recounts moving to Bratislava in 1941; his family's assimilated lifestyle; his father's exemption from deportation due to his training as a chemist; his work with explosives and deactivating bombs and mines; his parents obtaining false documents with Christian names from an evangelical priest in 1943; cancellation of his father's exemption; a non-Jew whom his father's brother had helped, hiding both families (a total of seven) in the countryside; their rescuer visiting once a week; di...

  9. Processo de pedido de visto para Charles Arvaab, Eveline Arvab Bartelo,Emanuel Bartels, Ida Bartels Brest, Abraham Horodisch, Alice Horodisch (nascida Garnman), Johannes Bouw, Rosa Blein-Fenniger, Yani Lien Cheng e Li Shin Su

    Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Amesterdão para Charles Arvaab, de nacionalidade holandesa e residente nos Países Baixos, com destino a Portugal. Sem informação de atribuição de visto. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Amesterdão para Eveline Arvab Bartelo, de nacionalidade holandesa e residente nos Países Baixos, com destino a Portugal. Sem informação de atribuição de visto. Processo de pedido de visto ao Consulado de Portugal em Amesterdão para Emanuel Bartels, de nacionalidade holandesa e residente nos Países Baixos, com destino a Portugal. S...

  10. Archief van de gemeente Vogelwaarde

    De gemeente Vogelwaarde kwam in 1936 tot stand door op 1 juli van dat jaar de gemeenten Boschkapelle, Hengstdijk, Ossenisse en Stoppeldijk samen te voegen. De gemeente Vogelwaarde heeft bestaan tot 1 april 1970, de datum waarop ze werd samengevoegd met buurgemeente Hontenisse en onder deze laatste naam een nieuwe gemeente vormde. Slechts enkele jaren na het ontstaan van de nieuwe gemeente brak de Tweede Wereldoorlog uit. Vogelwaarde bleef gelukkig gespaard voor plundering en oorlogsgeweld en alle dienstplichtige militairen uit de gemeente overleefden de mobilisatie (zie inventarisnummers 75...

  11. Steinhoff, Johannes

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners geboren am: 15. Sept. 1913, gest. am 21. Febr. 1994 1934: Eintritt in die Reichsmarine 1936: Wechsel zur Luftwaffe 1936: Ernennung zum Leutnant 1939: Ernennung zum Oberleutnant 1942: Ernennung zum Hauptmann 1943: Ernennung zum Major 1943: Ernennung zum Oberstleutnant 1944: Ernennung zum Oberst 1952 - 1954: Angestellter im Amt Blank 1956: Eintritt in die Bundeswehr als Oberst 1958: Ernennung zum Brigadegeneral 1960 - 1963: Vertreter der BRD als deutscher Bevollmächtigter im Militärausschuss der NATO 1962: Ernennung zum Generalmajor 1965: Ernennung zum Chief of...

  12. Akta gminy w Celejowie

    • Files of the commune of Celejów

    Karta A: okres międzywojenny - sprawy budżetowe, finansowe, ruchu i ewidencji ludności - 3 j.a. okres okupacji - sprawy budżetowe, księgi biercze, wykazy szkód wojennych - 3 j.a. okres PRL - księgi uchwał, protokoły posiedzeń gminnych rad narodowych, ich prezydiów i zarządów gminnych, budżety gminy, sprawy osobowe i personalne, kontroli, sprawy rolnictwa, zdrowia, opieki społecznej, oświaty i kultury, majątkowe, podatkowe, budowlane, sprawozdania rachunkowe, wykazy strat wojennych - 86 j.a. Karta B: ewidencja ludności, 1934-1949, 14 j.a.

  13. Okresný ľudový súd v Žiline

    • District People´s Court in Žilina

    Not extensive fonds of the District People´s Court in Žilina contains various case files pertaining the activities and crimes committed during the period of the Hlinka´s Slovak People´s Party (HSĽS) regime in 1938-1945, including the persecution of Jews in Slovakia. It contains documentation of the trials against some local party dignitaries and members who were accused of propagation of the fascism and ruling regime. Several cases refer to the activities of the Special Units of the Hlinka Guard (POHG) and their collaboration with Nazi security bodies during the occupation of Slovakia in 19...

  14. Deutscher Zentralverband für das Rettungswesen e.V.- Bund der Inhaber der Rettungsmedaille

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Am 10.04.1910 von Behörden, Verbänden und Vereinen als Zweckverband zum Ausbau des Rettungswesens gegründet: Beratung interessierter Stellen, Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung, Erfahrungsaustausch, Vorbereitung internationaler Kongresse. Die Mitarbeit erfolgte ehrenamtlich, die Finanzierung über Beiträge und Spenden sowie Zuschüsse des Reichsministeriums des Innern. Mit der "Gleichschaltung" am 17. 05.1934 wurde der Reichsbund der Inhaber der Rettungsmedaille in den Zentralverband aufgenommen. 1936 wurde der Zentralverband in die neu geschaffene Reic...

  15. Louis Papageorge photographs

    The Louis Papageorge photographs consist of ten photographs, 16 enlarged photographs, and eight negatives taken by Papageorge depicting victims of the "Abtnaundorf massacre" at the Leipzig-Thekla subcamp of Buchenwald in April 1945; two street scenes in Hof, Germany, including a group of captured German troops being escorted past the office where Papageorge was stationed in May 1945; and two buildings in Leipzig identified as the city hall and justice building. Leipzig-Thekla was a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp established in 1943 to supply labor for the German war effort. As...

  16. Selected records of the District Commission to Investigate Nazi Crimes in Bydgoszcz Okręgowa Komisja Badania Zbrodni Niemieckich w Bydgoszczy (GK 170)

    Testimonies, protocols, reports, correspondence and other materials relating to crimes committed in Bydgoszcz, Starogard, Serock, Wejherowo and other places in 1939-1944, exhumation protocols in Serock and identification of victims, materials regarding General Hildebrand and others, statistics of executions carried out on Poles and Jews.

  17. Harry C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Harry C., who was born in Narvik, Norway, to a British father and Danish mother. He recalls a stepbrother from his father's first marriage; German bombardment; incarceration in Grini for about nine months; his mother's parents bribing a high Nazi official to free them; their "escape" to Copenhagen, with assistance from the underground in both countries (he never saw his father again); being warned of German deportations in fall 1943; departing from Kastrup to Landskrona, Sweden on boats, an underground operation; living in Göteborg until the end of the war; returning...

  18. Hyman M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hyman M., who was born in Huedin, Romania, in 1927. He recalls helping in the family store; attending Hebrew school; local conflicts between Vizhnitz and Satmar Hasidim; Hungarian occupation in 1940; his family selling their store rather than complying with Saturday opening requirements; his parents refusal to hide in the woods (his mother was pregnant with her ninth child); transfer to a Cluj brickyard in 1944; and his resentment when the Satmar rebbe escaped to Switzerland. Mr. M. recounts transport to Auschwitz; transfer with his father and brother to Kaufering (he...

  19. Arnold M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Arnold M., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1912, one of six children, to a Jewish father and Christian mother. He describes his family's poverty; resisting segregation of Jewish pupils in school; active involvement in the Social Democratic Party; anti-Jewish violence and humiliation; assistance from a non-Jewish co-worker; arrest with two sisters; their deportation to Theresienstadt; slave labor doing construction; his brother's arrival; smuggling food to him and others who were ill; choosing not to escape, fearing retribution toward others; helping a priest and ot...

  20. Meir S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Meir S., who was born in Transylvania, Romania in 1925, one of fourteen children. He recounts his family's orthodoxy (his father was a scribe); moving to Beclean; antisemitic harassment; attending yeshiva in Va?c; learning the textile trade in Budapest; German invasion in 1944; returning home; ghettoization in Dej; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; transfer to Longwy-Thil; slave labor; transfer to another camp; work in an underground salt mine; transfer to Dachau, then Allach; reunion with one brother (he died a few days later); liberation by United States troops; me...