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  1. Marta M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marta M., who was born in Kolta, Czechoslovakia (presently Slovakia) in 1924, one of nine children. She recalls starting school in 1933; Hungarian occupation; her father's death; draft of her older brothers into Hungarian slave labor battalions; transfer to the Šurany ghetto; forced labor harvesting carrots; transfer to Komárom for two weeks, then to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation with her younger sister from her mother and brother upon arrival; sorting rocks in a quarry; her sister's hospitalization; a female Hungarian physician saving her; assignment with a friend...

  2. Marta R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Marta R., who was born in a small town in Moravia in 1921. Mrs. R. describes her happy childhood; her gradual awareness of antisemitism; the German occupation; her education and work as a teacher; her marriage; and her and her husband's deportation to Terezi?n in December, 1942. She tells of daily life in Terezi?n; her transport, with her husband, to Auschwitz, where they were immediately separated (she never saw him again); her transfer after two weeks to Birnba?umel, a labor camp in a small village; the death march to Gross Rosen, from where she was taken by train t...

  3. Marten, Karl (Divisionspfarrer)

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners 15.03.1887 - 12.07.1958, Divisionspfarrer Bestandsbeschreibung Privater Schriftwechsel Dientanweisungen und Tagesbefehle aus der Tätigkeit als Militärgeistlicher im 1. Weltkrieg und in den Jahren danach; Materialien zur Militärseelsorge (1871-1941). Zitierweise BArch N 127/...

  4. Martens, Hans (Major)

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners geb. am 12. April 1884, gest. 1973, Major; 1903: Fahnenjunker beim Ulanen-Regiment Nr. 4; 1912: kdt. zur Kriegsakademie; 1916: Generalstabs-Stelle; 1917: kdt. in den Generalstab; 1919: Freikorps-Reichswehr im Generalstab; 1920: Lehrer für Taktik und Kriegsgeschichte; 1922: Verabschiedung aus Wehrdienst Bearbeitungshinweis 1,3 lfm unerschlossen Bestandsbeschreibung Unterlagen (mit Karten und Bildern) aus dem 1. Weltkrieg, dabei u.a. Befehle der 217. Division; Materialien von Traditionsverbänden und militärischen Vereinigungen; Erinnerungen an die Soldatenzeit ...

  5. Martens, Rolf

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Geboren am 30. September 1938 in Horst / Holstein Militärischer Werdegang: 1958 Eintritt in die deutsche Marine als Berufsoffizieranwärter 1958 - 1959 Militärische Grundausbildung in Glückstadt, Technologische Grundausbildung in Bremerhaven und Bordausbildung in Bremerhaben 1959 - 1960 Offizierlehrgang an der Marineschule Mürwik. 1960 - 1961 Besuch der Technischen Marineschule Bremerhaven, Fernmeldeschule Flensburg-Mürwik, Ortungsschule Bremerhaven und Unterwasserwaffenschule in Flensburg-Mürwik 1961 - 1962 Fernmeldeoffizier Schulfregatte BROMMY 1962 - 1963 A...

  6. Martha and Waitstill Sharp collection

    Reports, publications, interviews, obituaries, and photographs pertaining to the careers of Martha and Waitstill Sharp. Documents record the Sharps’ early social work in Meadville, PA, and their humanitarian and rescue work in World War II Prague, Czechoslovakia; Marseille and Pau, France; and Lisbon, Portugal. Materials also document Martha Sharp’s postwar campaign for Congress, activities in Israel, continuing work for the Unitarian Church in Czechoslovakia, family and personal life, and work with the Cogan Foundation and other charitable agencies. The collection includes Martha’s unpubli...

  7. Martha Bernstein collection

    The Martha Bernstein collection includes photocopies of material originally created in the 1940s relating to the wartime experiences of the Bernstein and Heumann families. Included in the collection is correspondence from Therese Heumann, Martha Bernstein's oldest sister, letters between the Bernstein and Blakenstein families, poems written by Benjamin Blankenstein, a fourteen-page diary written by Helene Blumenfeld, and documents issued in Westerbork and Theresienstadt.

  9. Martha D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Martha D., who was born in Sátoraljaújhely, Hungary in 1923, the second of four daughters. She recalls her family's poverty; leaving school in 1937; German invasion in March 1944; ghettoization; the disappearance of one sister; deportation with her family in May to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from her parents (she never saw them again); she and her sisters remaining together; transfer to Bergen-Belsen in the fall; an SS woman assisting her care for her sick sister; transfer to Braunschweig in December; slave labor clearing bombing rubble; starvation, illness, and...

  10. Martha E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Martha E., who was born in Kazimierz Dolny, Poland in 1937. She recounts her family's affluence; German invasion; fleeing to the Soviet Union; living in Siberia; her aunt joining them; privileged status because her mother was a pharmacist; moving to Bukhoro; attending school; her father's two-year imprisonment; returning to Warsaw after the war; reunion with a cousin; moving to Munich; antisemitic harassment; moving to the Bremen displaced persons camp; emigration to the United States with assistance from HIAS; attending school; and marriage to a survivor.

  11. Martha Fruchter Gulyas papers

    The papers consist of photographs and one identification card relating to Martha Fruchter Gulyas [donor's grandmother] and her family from the time period of the Holocaust. The identification card was issued to Martha Fruchter Gulyas from the Hungarian Jewish services in 1945 in Budapest, Hungary; this was the first identification papers she received her liberation.

  12. Martha H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Martha H., who was born in Vilma?ny, Hungary in 1927. She recalls about fifty Jewish people living there; commuting to a Catholic school in Abau?jsza?nto? at age ten; attending a boarding school in Budapest in 1943; German invasion in March 1944; hearing from home for a short time; forced labor with friends clearing bombing rubble; hiding briefly in a basement; being rounded-up; escaping with her friends; a Jewish agency placing them in a Swedish safe house; disbanding of the house when it became too dangerous; receiving false papers; liberation by Soviet troops; trav...

  13. Martha H. Patterson photograph album

    The Martha H. Patterson photograph album consists of a photograph album of the 1936 Summer Olympic games in Berlin, Germany. The album includes pictures taken by a spectator who attended the games and later immigrated to the United States. Images include the opening ceremonies, with spectators giving the Nazi salute to the Olympic flame; African-American athlete Jesse Owens; Glen Morris; general track and field events; a swimming pool; and the entrance to the stadium marked with the Nazi swastika.

  14. Martha K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Martha K., who was born in Oradea, Romania, in 1922 and moved to Budapest, Hungary, at the age of three. She recalls her childhood in Budapest and growing up in two cultures in her family--Jewish and assimilated. She describes the worsening situation of the Jews beginning in 1938, when she had to leave the University of Budapest and learn a trade, and culminating in mass murders and deportations in 1944. Mrs. K. relates the fate of family members, many of whom were murdered in Auschwitz while others survived by living in "safe houses" or using false papers. She detail...

  15. Martha Michelsohn - Chelmno

    Martha Michelson was the wife of a Nazi schoolteacher in Chelmno. She talks about the Sonderkommando, Jews killed in a church, the terrible smell that pervaded the town when bodies were burned, the Poles' attitude toward the Jews, and the operation of gas vans. She says that she told people in Germany about the extermination in 1942 or 1943 but they accused her of spreading atrocity propaganda. FILM ID 3352 -- Camera Rolls #1-3 -- 01:00:00 to 01:32:09 Lanzmann asks Michelson for help understanding what things were like in Chelmno. She says that conditions were very primitive: no running wat...

  16. Martha S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Martha S., who was born in Uz?horod, Czechoslovakia in 1919. She recalls her affluent, orthodox home; one sister's emigration to the United States in 1937; her non-Jewish boyfriend; being fired in 1942 because she was Jewish; her father's death; German occupation; refusing to leave her mother to hide with her boyfriend; deportation to Auschwitz in 1944; separation from her mother (she never saw her again); transfer to Dundangen three days later; working in the kitchen; supplying food to friends; escape with a male prisoner; their capture and imprisonment; benign condi...

  17. Martha S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Martha S., who was born in Cluj, Romania in 1934. She recalls her parents were physicians who worked in a small village (Jews were banned from hospital positions); taking an orphan into their home; close relations with a large, extended family; moving to Gherla; Hungarian occupation; her father being taken for Hungarian slave labor battalions from 1942 to 1944; frequent visits; German occupation in 1944 (her father was home); anti-Jewish regulations; the round-up of Jews into a factory; train transfer to the Cluj ghetto; a friend warning her father not to go on transp...

  18. Martha S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Martha S., who was born in Megyaszo?, Hungary in 1926. She recalls a wonderful childhood; attending a Protestant school; changes beginning in 1942; German occupation in 1944; orders from the mayor to all Jews to gather in the synagogue; transport to the Sa?toraljau?jhely ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz; total chaos; separation from her family, except her sister; a baby's birth in her barrack (the baby and mother "disappeared"); managing to remain with her sister even when officially separated; the disappearance of those in the Czech family camp one night; separation ...

  19. Martha S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Martha S., who was born in Prague in 1907. Mrs. S. describes her early family life; her family's move to the Sudeten in 1909; and her family's reaction to her marrying a non-Jewish child survivor of the Armenian genocide. She recounts the plight of the Jews in the wake of Kristallnacht and her husband's help in assisting her and her parents to flee to Czechoslovakia. She recalls anti-Jewish restrictions; her designation, along with her oldest "Jewish" daughter, for transport to a labor camp (a younger daughter was not designated as Jewish); and her husband's conscript...

  20. Martha Salm Oppenheimer collection

    The collection consists of documents relating to the experiences of Martha Salm Oppenheimer during the Holocaust and two Iron Cross medals and sketches drawn in 1941 by a friend of Martha Salm's friend in a concentration camp during the Holocaust.