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  1. Salomono Arono portretas

  2. Salon; new fashions; Russian designer

    Salon, group of women sitting, letting hair set under hairnets. Male hairdresser brushes out one's locks. Another male hairdresser points to chart on wall, Stalin posters hang beside it. Women modeling new fashions. Group of women sit at bottom of stairs looking at new fashions on models. Longer shot as they pose for the camera. A designer sketches into notepad. Shots of group watching models. New outfits featured on rotating doors.

  3. Salpeter family collection

    The Salpeter family collection consists of biographical and genealogical information regarding the Salpeter family of Düsseldorf, Germany. The collection includes correspondence, dated 1937-1942, sent between the Salpeter family in Germany and Poland, and Klara Salpeter, who had immigrated to the United States in 1938. Photographs of the Salpeter family include candid and studio portraits of Oskar Salpeter, Brunhilde Salpeter, Klara Salpeter, Rieka Salpeter, Dorothea Salpeter, and Charlotte Salpeter. All members of the Salpeter family, except Klara Salpeter, perished in the Holocaust.

  4. Salpeter family collection

    The collection consists of correspondence, claim forms, documentation, banking statements, and receipts for payments to file paperwork illustrating the experiences of Claire (Klara) Salpeter Greenwald and her attempt to gain reparations from the German government in the 1950s and 1960s and Swiss banks in the 1990s and 2000s. The claims relate to her parents and sisters, including efforts to claim losses for her father's business as well as life insurance policies related to each individual. The paperwork dealing with claims against Germany is in German and English, and often involves the Un...

  5. Salvador B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Salvador B., who was born in Preveza, Greece in approximately 1923 and lived in Io?annina, part of the Romaniot Jewish community. He recalls attending university in Athens; joining EAM (National Liberation Front) in March 1942; working with EPON (the youth group of EAM); partisan work in the mountains, Athens, and Io?annina; benign Italian occupation; German occupation in July 1943; obtaining false papers as a non-Jew from EAM people; assistance from fellow university students; evacuation to the mountains with assistance from EAM; joining ELAS, the military arm of EAM...

  6. Salviati, Alexander von (Generalleutnant)

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners 09.02.1827 - 22.02.1881, Generalleutnant Bestandsbeschreibung Dokumente und Aufsätze zum Feldzug in Frankreich 1870; private und dienstliche Korrespondenzen, u.a. mit dem Heeresmeister des Johanniterordens Prinz Carl von Preußen; Vierteljahresarbeiten der Kriegsakademie; Manöverausarbeitungen, Unterlagen über Generalstabsreisen und Kriegsspielaufgaben (1853-1879). Zitierweise BArch N 216/...

  7. Saly Mayer Archive: Documentation regarding the activities of Saly Mayer, President of SIG (the Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland), on behalf of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)

    The documentation is from 1939-1950. Most of the documentation describes the activities of Saly Mayer as the (unofficial) representative of the JDC in Switzerland during World War II.Saly Mayer transferred JDC funds to persecuted Jews in Europe and Shanghai in different ways. He also distributed money for the care of the Jewish refugees in Switzerland. As part of his activities, he received information regarding what was happening in Europe against the Jews, for example in Slovakia (from the Bratislava Working Group). He was in contact with representatives and activists of various Jewish or...

  8. Saly Mayer Archives.

    This fonds contains archival material produced by Saly Mayer, who was the principal liaison between the JDC and the Jewish communities in Nazi-occupied Europe – including Belgium. Nr. 29 contains a file titled “Belgium, 1943-1945”, in which we find correspondence and reports on the activities of the Comité National de Défense des Juifs en Belgique, financed by Saly Mayer and the JDC.

  9. Salzburg in 1941/42

    Salzburg in 1941/42

  10. Salzheringseinfuhr GmbH

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Bestandsgeschichte Die Bestände der Kriegswirtschaftsorganisationen des I. Weltkrieges waren in den Jahren 1943 und 1944 zunächst auswahlweise nach Staßfurt und dann unter Einbeziehung der gesamten zunächst zurückgelassenen Bestände und Bestandsteile nach Schönebeck ausgelagert worden. Im Zuge der Nachkriegsereignisse gelangten sie in das Deutsche Zentralarchiv, Abt. Merseburg, wo sie bis 1955 verblieben. Im Juli/August 1955 wurden die Bestände der Kriegsorganisationen des I. Weltkrieges nach Potsdam in das Zentralarchiv überführt. Archivische Bewertung und B...

  11. Salzmann family collection

    The collection consists of documents, correspondence, medical bags, a prayer book, and smoking pipes that relate to the experiences of Berthold Salzmann, his sister Ernesta Spieler, and their family in Austria, and Germany before and during the Holocaust and the United States during and after the Holocaust.

  12. Sam A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sam A., who was born in 1921 and served with the United States Army 21st Armored Infantry Battalion in World War II. He recounts approaching Mauthausen concentration camp on May 5, 1941, after German troops had left; the pervasive odor; gas chambers; pits filled with naked bodies; ovens with rollers to deliver bodies in an assembly line; and emaciated, dazed inmates. Mr. A. recalls three months of rotating guard duty at the camp while billeted in Linz; gradual improvement in the inmates' condition after treatment by military medical units; and realizing later that the...

  13. Sam and Celia Feldman collection

    The collection consists of ten photographs, an identification card, a certificate, and one newspaper relating to Sam and Celia Feldman and their families' experiences during the Holocaust.

  14. Sam and Susan Gasson collection

    Contains materials documenting Sam and Susan Gasson's experiences during and after the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  15. Sam and Susan Weiss collection

    The Sam and Susan Weiss collection consists of documents and photographs related to the pre-war and post-war lives of Salomon (Sam) Weiss and Zuzana Lehrmanova (later Susan Weiss), both originally of Uzhorod, Czechoslovakia. The collection includes citizenship documents, identification documents, and immigration documents. The photographs include members of the Weiss family and the Lehrmanova family, most of whom did not survive the Holocaust.

  16. Sam B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sam B., who was born in Vel?ke? Ras?kovce, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy in 1917, one of eight children. He recalls attending the Jewish gymnasium in Brno; training for illegal emigration to Palestine; a local official who offered to hide his sisters when deportation orders arrived; their refusal, wanting to stay with the family; his deportation to Theresienstadt in spring 1942; sharing food with his sister; transfer to Auschwitz in fall 1944; receiving extra food from his sister; transfer to Kaufering; slave labor; escaping from an evacuation train with others; receiving...

  17. Sam C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sam. C., who was born in Thessalonike?, Greece in 1922, the younger of two sons. He recounts his father's death in the late 1920s; his mother working to support him and his brother; graduating from the French Lyce?e in 1939 with a degree in commercial studies; working for a Greek import company; his brother's military draft; bombings by Italy in October 1940; German occupation in April 1941; a one-day round-up to Eleftheria (Freedom) Square in late 1942; his brother's marriage; ghettoization; deportation with his friend in 1943 by train; slave labor building railroad ...

  18. Sam F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sam F., who was born in Dokshit?s?y, Belarus. (then Poland) in 1913. He recalls his family; attending yeshiva; work in his uncle's bakery at age fourteen; his sister's emigration to Palestine; attempts to join her; membership in a Vilna zionist organization; conflicts between Lithuania and Poland in Vilna; a pogrom; his escape to Il?i?a?; service in the Polish army; and the German invasion. He recalls a mass killing in March 1942; hiding; ghettoization; another mass killing; escape to the woods; hiding with a farmer, then in the forests for six months; joining the par...

  19. Sam F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sam F., who was born in Kassel, Germany in 1912, one of six children. He recounts the family's move to Gusakov after World War I; his father's death after a beating by antisemitic Ukrainians; attending Polish school; learning tailoring at age thirteen; working in Przemys?l from age fifteen onward in the Polish military; German invasion; a mass killing of 500 men in Przemys?l; Soviet occupation days later; German invasion; fleeing to the village of a Ukrainian, non-Jewish tailor whom he had helped before; working for him while posing as a non-Jew; hearing his family ha...

  20. Sam F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sam F., a Protestant, who was born in Piétrebais, Belgium in 1918. He recounts that his parents were very religious; working in their market; military draft in 1939; German invasion; demobilization; continuing to work for his father; moving to Brussels to avoid forced labor; sending packages to Belgian POWs in Germany; arrest in June 1944; incarceration in Charleroi prison; deportation to Buchenwald in August; transfer several weeks later to Blankenburg; slave labor in construction; frequent deaths and starvation; a death march to Magdeburg; a mass killing of prisone...