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  1. A family history

    Photocopied typescripts compiled by various members of the extended Marmorek family, documenting their emigration from Austria during the Nazi era. Compiled in 1991.

  2. A family's daily life in Belgium during World War II

    Family home movies documenting the de Brouwer family at their home in St Denis-Westrem, near Ghent, Belgium. A man in a suit poses while sitting on the ground near a gathering of trees. A woman rides her bike and looks at the camera. The man and woman ride together in the countryside. 00:00:34 Denise and Carl de Brouwer and their 5 children ride bikes to Ghent to view the bomb-damaged Bellem church in September 1940. CUs of church spire and niche statues. A crowd gathers. 00:00:59 The de Brouwers' Jersey cows graze in the yard. Carl bought the cows to independently produce milk and surplus ...

  3. A glimpse of the Holocaust

    Testimony, 4 pages, typescript, about William Newby's experiences as an American soldier in Bavaria in 1945 encountering a group of former concentration camp inmates.

  4. A handwritten memoir relating to the persecution of a Jew in Berlin

    Handwritten memoir (2 pages), which relates to the donor's experience in 1939 watching a Jewish person being persecuted in Berlin.

  5. A history of the Jews of Gyor

    Contains an album of text, photocopies, and photographs about the history of Jews in Gyor, Hungary during the Holocaust.

  6. A Holocaust survivor returns to Bergen Belsen 20 years later

    Notes from the NFB/ONF online catalog: A Jewish Holocaust survivor takes a holiday from his glazier's shop to join an emotional pilgrimage to Bergen-Belsen. In traveling through new Germany, this man remembers. Scenes still vivid in his mind are recalled in flashback. The memorandum was Hitler's dealing with the solution to the "Jewish problem."

  7. A Jewish engineer in Europe during the Hitler years in memory of my parents Salomon Nossen and Rosa Hadra Nossen

    Testimony, 40 pages, typescript, about the experiences of the author and his family in Berlin, then in various parts of Europe (Denmark, Netherlands, the Westerbork and deportation to Theresienstadt), as well as role of El Salvador (specifically George Mandel-Mantello) in helping save him and family's life by issuing citizenship certificates.

  8. A Jewish Resistance network in France Groupe d'Action Coutre la deporation-En hommage a son fondateur et Chef: Joseph Bass

    Contains one memoir about Denise Siekierski's Holocaust experiences.

  9. A Jewish wedding in Budapest

    Tinted amateur film. S. Jay Kaufmann’s wife gets in a car, followed by S. Jay. The car pulls up in front of a building with an ornate iron fence entrance and they exit the vehicle. INT as the coupel moves through a hall, followed by their guests. They enter a room with a chuppah and rows of pews, where the Jewish wedding ceremony is performed. Still photos of the bride and groom and the ceremony. EXT young boys line the steps and a rabbi walks towards the camera. Another rabbi moves down the stairs, followed by the wedding party. The bride’s dress gets stuck for a moment and she tugs it fre...

  10. A jogszolgáltatás területi szervei

    • The Territorial Bodies of Jurisprudence

    During the ever more drastic anti-Semitic turn of Hungary in the late years of the 1930s and the years of the Second World War, anti-Semitic radicalization has largely been a legalized process – even if a host of regulations that may not have been explicitly anti-Semitic were also applied to anti-Semitic effect (called bureaucratic anti-Semitism) and there were initiatives coming from lower levels that often violated the discriminatory laws in place (i.e. illegal anti-Semitism). Nevertheless, how exactly the Hungarian justice system functioned in these years and how it related to the escala...

  11. A Journey From Germany The Memoirs of Curt Nussbaum, From Birth, Through the Holocaust, To America (1912-1946)

    Contains a memoir about Curt Nussbaum's Holocaust experiences.

  12. A Journey Through Darkness

    Transcript written by Mimi Markus of interview with Nat Glass entitled "A Journey Through Darkness"

  13. A Kassai VIII. Csendőrkerület (1944-1945)

    • Records of the Kassa or 8th Gendarmerie District of Hungary (1944-1945)

    Next to various levels of public administration and the Hungarian police forces, the Hungarian gendarmarie was the major organization responsible for the implementation of the Holocaust in Hungary in 1944. Its representatives ghettoized and deported Hungarian Jews from the countryside and often did so in a cruel and brutal manner. The 8th Gendarmerie district of Hungary was organized upon Hungary's (re)acquisition of territory from Czechoslovakia around the time of the latter's destruction. Records of the 8th gendarmerie district concern, above all, the processes of confiscation, processing...

  14. A Kassai VIII. Csendőrkerület Ungvári Osztályának Gazdasági Hivatala (1939-1945)

    • Records of Ungvár Economic Office of the Kassa or 8th Gendarmerie District of Hungary (1939-1945)

    Next to various levels of public administration and the Hungarian police forces, the Hungarian gendarmerie was the major organization responsible for the implementation of the Holocaust in Hungary in 1944. Its representatives ghettoized and deported Hungarian Jews from the countryside and often did so in a cruel and brutal manner. The 8th Gendarmerie district of Hungary was organized upon Hungary's (re)acquisition of territory from Czechoslovakia around the time of the latter's destruction. The gendarmerie district had its center in Kassa and had one of its divisions in Ungvár. Miscellaneou...

  15. A kleinichker vintele | A ganze vokh

    Phonograph record 5. USSR, 2 sides. Tatyana Weintraub, vocalist; State Ukrainian SSR Folk Music and Dance Ensemble, Solomon Feintuch, conductor. Recorded in Kiev, 1939. Side A: A kleinichker vintele (A kleynikhker vintele). Folk song, arranged by Joel Engel. Side B: A ganze vokh (A gantse vokh). Folk song, arranged by Solomon Feintuch. Yiddish singer Tatyana Weintraub (Tatiana Vayntraub) may have been "disappeared" during a Stalinist purge (see Joel Rubin, liner notes to CD "Shalom Comrade"). Solomon Feintuch (1899-1985) was a popular and prolific Soviet-Ukrainian conductor-composer-pianist...

  16. A kormányzói iroda iratai

    • Records of the Regent’s Cabinet Office

    In 1920, in order to facilitate the administrative work of the Regent of Hungary, new offices were established called the Cabinet Office, the Military Office and the Economic Office though the last of the three was soon merged into the Cabinet Office. A tiny fraction of their documents survived and many of the other materials of the Office of the Head of State was also destroyed. For the Cabinet Office, practically the only remaining documents are from the years 1945-46 and concern economic matters (K 588). The scope of these economic affairs was rather restricted as it concerned the salary...

  17. A közigazgatás területi szervei

    • The Territorial Bodies of Administration

    The collection on the Territorial Bodies of the Administration at the Budapest Municipal Archive contains much that is of relevance for the study of anti-Semitic radicalization and the Holocaust in Hungary. First of all, there is the documentation of the Hungarian police organs of the capital city who were among the Hungarian authorities actively involved in the persecution of Jews. The collection includes vast records of the Chief Captancy of the Hungarian Royal Police of Budapest (Magyar Királyi Államrendőrség Budapesti Főkapitánysága), its Central Organization (Budapesti Rendőr-főkapitán...

  18. A letter (memoir) relating to the hiding of Jewish children in Radom

    Letter, dated 1993, sent as condolence to the Melamed family at death of Leon Melamed, and reminiscences about how he saved author of letter, Felicia Sandzer, during war.

  19. A letter and a Nazi publication relating to the Nazi view of Jewry

    Letter, from German Consul General in Montreal, Canada (L. Kempff), November 1933, addressed "Dear Sir" and elaborating justification for Germany's treatment of Jews, along with printed booklet, titled "Germany's Fight for Western Civilization," 32 pages, printed in Berlin. Letter may have been mass produced for wider distribution in Canada, in response to speeches of Rabbi Stephen Wise.

  20. A letter describing conditions at Dachau

    Letter (photocopied), 5 pages, sent from Pfc. Melvin Swick to his wife, May 1945, describing conditions at Dachau after liberation.