Eduard Wirths (1909-1945), was the chief SS doctor (SS-Standortarzt) at Auschwitz-Birkenau from September 1942 to January 1945, where he supervised the work of approximately 20 camp doctors, including Josef Mengele, Horst Schumann, and Carl Clauberg. A member of the Nazi party since his student days at the University of Würzburg (1930-1935), he entered the Waffen SS in 1939, and saw combat action, ...

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Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Die nach dem Reichstagsbrand aufgrund der Notverordnung zum Schutz von Volk und Staat vom 28. Februar 1933 in großer Zahl verhafteten politischen Gegner des NS-Regimes wurden in unabhängig von Polizei- und Justizgefängnissen eingerichtete Konzentrationslager (KZ) ver‧bracht. Eine systematische Organisation und Vereinheitlichung der KZ und ihrer Wachmann‧schaften, der ...

Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Über den Beauftragten z.b.V. Heer ist - auch in der Literatur - nur wenig bekannt. In der Literatur sind (siehe unten: Hölsken: Die V-Waffen, S. 123, 137f.) Abstimmungsschwierigkeiten und Kompetenzrangeleien zwischen verschiedenen Wehrmachtteilen und Dienststellen sowie der SS im Bereich der Fernwaffen (V1=Luftwaffe, V2=Heer) erwähnt. Dabei wird der eigentlich im Bereich ...

Roza Ajlkichen (later Rosie Ajlkichen Leibman) was born on 25 January 1933 in Opole, Poland to Kiwa Ajlkichen (b. 1895) and Tcharna Fayga Fleichaker (b. 1904). She had two sisters, Dora (1926-1942) and Ida (1930-1931), and one brother, François (later Efraim Ajlkichen, b. 1936). Kiwa was a tailor living in Brussels, Belgium when he met Tcharna, and after they married in 1925 they operated a clothing ...

Jewish refugee children, many from internment camps in unoccupied France, gather in Portugal to embark on the SS Mouzinho for the United States. The voyage, including hundreds of Jewish refugees, was arranged by the JDC, with assistance from the United States Committee for the Care of European Children (USCOM), HICEM, OSE, and the American Friends Service Committee. 01:00:03 At a children’s colony ...

This collection contains : a studio portrait of siblings Dora and Mozes Ettinger ; a studio portrait of siblings Dora and Mozes Ettinger, and their mother Cznana (Chana or Anna) Scheiner.

Mania Novak (née Rapaport, 1927-2015) was born on 25 December 1927 in Będzin, Poland to Salomon and Sima Rapaport. Mania was sent to the Będzin ghetto in January 1940. In June 1943 she was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp. In January 1945 she was sent to Ravensbrück and then its Neustadt-Glewe sub-camp where she was liberated by the Soviet Red Army in May 1945. Mania had camp number 51677 ...

Taube alias Tauba Nussbaum, commonly known as Thérèse, was born in Siedlec, Poland, on 30 January 1896 as the daughter of Isaac Nussbaum and Esther Rosenman. Tauba’s family emigrated from Russia to Belgium in 1906, and first lived at Vandenpeereboomstraat 34 in Borgerhout, but then changed addresses frequently before fleeing to London, the United Kingdom, upon the outbreak the First World War. Upon ...

Beate Rocker (nicknamed Deta) was born Beate Goldfeld on 7 November 1924 in Vienna, Austria to Israel and Dora Goldfeld. Her father Israel owned a sweater factory in Vienna. Her mother Dora (née Heitner, 1883-1942) was born in Novosolitza, Romania (Novoselytsia, Ukraine). Beate had one brother, Albert (later Albert Goldfield, 1914-2005), who was born on 26 April 1914 in Novosolitza. Beate left Vienna ...

(LIB 5724) "MURDER, INC.", Gardelegen, Germany, 16 April 1945. Slate indicating cameraman Bowen from the 405th Regiment (102nd Infantry Division). The Isenschnibbe estate. Scorched doorways. US soldiers set up tripod outside crematorium. A pile of bricks. 00:00:36 CU of an empty, open grave. SS guards were unable to bury all of the bodies before the 102nd Infantry arrived in Gardelegen. 00:00:46 A ...

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Israel Berkenwald (1923-2009) was born on 2 April 1923 to Efroim Menashe (1883-1943) and Leia (née Grossman, 1885-1943) Berkenwald in Łódź, Poland. Israel, the youngest of five children, had three sisters, Sala (1905-1944), Dora (1908-1943), and Roza (1914-1944), and a brother Mendel (1921-1942). The Berkenwald family were employed as tailors and lived among many extended relatives in Łódź. Following ...

(B 1138) Leipzig, Germany, 04/23/1945 Slate reads "Roll 1 Madru." U.S. infantry mop-up around Leipzig. German children run down a street. A wounded German boy receives help from an American medic. Wounded American soldier. Sherman tanks roll through the streets. US soldiers on the street, filmed from the tank. American troops fire from behind the cover of tanks. 01:22:03 German civilians wave white ...

Consists of one memoir, approximately 70 pages, in English, entitled "Eddie Klein: A Rescued Life" by Edward Klein, originally of Sieradz, Poland. In the memoir, Mr. Klein, describes his pre-war family and religious life; escape to Warsaw and then to Łódź after the German invasion; life in the Łódź ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz in August 1944; transfer to Sosonowiec; forced march to Mauthausen; ...

The bequest Wilhelm Boger was given to the Fritz Bauer Institute by his granddaughter in 2012. Wilhelm Boger was born in Stuttgart on December 19, 1906. His father was a businessman and Boger also completed a commercial traineeship after graduating from high school. Starting in 1925, he worked for the Deutschnationaler Handlungsgehilfenverband in Stuttgart. During his school years, he became an active ...

Shmuel Czyzyk was born on February 8, 1924 or 1925, in Pulawy, a district of Lublin, Poland, to Chaim and Basia. Chaim was born in 1897 in Konskowola to Szyja and Miriam Czyzyk. Basia was born in Pulawy in 1898 to Leib and Simcha Franenberg. Shmuel had two sisters, Bronia, born 1920, and Golda, born 1928, and one brother, Moshe, born 1922. The family was observant Jews. His father was employed as a ...

Joseph Harmatz was born January 23, 1925 to Abrasha (Abraham) and Dora (Dvora) Baron Harmatz of Rokiskis, Lithuania and had two brothers, Zvi Hirsch (b. 1923) and Efraim (b. 1927). Joseph's father was a wholesale merchant, who owned a warehouse in Rokiskis' market square. The Harmatz family moved to Vilna in 1940, where Abrasha purchased several factories. Joseph was enrolled in a Lithuanian gymnasium ...

TR.20- Documentation of trials conducted against war criminals submitted by the United States Department of Justice 
 
 The Record Group is comprised of microfilms that contain documentation of trials against war criminals and collaborators conducted by American courts in the US Occupation Zone in Germany. The original material is preserved in the United States National Archives and Records ...

Bestandsbeschreibung Aufnahmen von Angehörigen der Wehrmacht und Auslandseinsätzen, u.a. Einsatz des Sonderkommando Dora Zitierweise BArch RW 5-BILD/...

The Moshe Sheps papers consists of 52 photographs and a postcard relating to Moshe Sheps' family before and during World War II in Poland.

The Moshe Sheps photograph collection consists of photographs of members of "Hashomer Hadati" in Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland; the "Kibbutz Buchenwald" in Gersfeld, Germany and in Italy awaiting immigration to Palestine; four family photographs from Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland; and three photographs of the Gorset family, Moshe Sheps' cousins.

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Henri Gayot (1904–1981) was born in Panilleuse, France. His father was a veteran of World War I (1914-1918) and both parents were teachers. Henri obtained a degree as an art teacher in 1930. He taught at Fromentin Normal School in La Rochelle, where he lived with his wife and two sons. On September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland, and France declared war on Germany. Henri was mobilized into the ...