This report provides an account by a former Auschwitz inmate of the last days of the camp and of the subsequent fate of prisoners who ended up in Sachsenhausen.</p><p>In addition to the original typescript report, there is a transcript by the depositor and notes regarding provenance and authorship by the depositor. The report is missing at least one page and the transcript is incomplete. The partial ...

Subject: The almost unbelievable story of Denis Avey, now 92, began in 1944 when he was captured and sent to a POW work camp. He was put to work every day in a German factory, where he labored alongside Jewish prisoners from a nearby camp called Auschwitz. The stories they told him were horrifying. Eventually Avey's curiosity, kind-heartedness, derring-do, and perhaps foolhardiness drove him to suggest--and ...

Greenman was born in 1910 in London to a Jewish family; in 1913 he and his widowed father settled in Rotterdam. Greenman failed to escape to England when the war began, and in 1940 was caught by the German occupation. He lost his British identity papers and, because of bureaucratic procrastination on the part of Dutch officials and of the Swiss consulate that represented British interests, could not ...

Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Bestandsgeschichte Im Zuge von Rückführungen deutscher Akten aus den USA, die dort nach einem dem Einheitsaktenplan (EAP) der Wehrmacht zu Grunde liegenden Schema alfa-numerisch geordnet worden waren, gelangte der Bestand im Jahre 1962 in das Bundesarchiv. Nach der Eingliederung des sogenannten NS-Archivs des Ministeriums für Staatssicherheit der DDR (1990) und des ehemaligen ...

The collection consists of an armband, a concentration camp uniform jacket, pants, and cap, and a commemorative pin relating to the experiences of Henryk Karter (later Henry Carter) while a prisoner in Auschwitz I, II, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and III, Auschwitz-Monowitz (Buna) concentration camps in German occupied Poland during the Holocaust and in the United States after the Holocaust.

Wydział I - komendantura obozu Dokumenty wydziału I dotyczą ogółu spraw związanych z załogą SS pełniącą służbę w KL Auschwitz. Stąd w tej części zbiorów archiwalnych znajdują się na przykład: • akta personalne niektórych esesmanów z załogi obozowej Auschwitz; • zbiór rozkazów komendantów obozu (z lat 1941-1944); • telegramy informujące o ucieczkach więźniów z KL Auschwitz; • telegramy informujące rodzinę ...

The collection includes a one-page testimony by Ralph R. Parker describing his experiences as a forced laborer, deportation to Auschwitz III (Buna-Monowitz) in 1943, forced march to Gleiwitz and Sachsenhausen, and liberation near Schwerin. Also included is a photocopy of a report given by Rolf Pakuscher (Ralph Parker) for a court case in Hamburg in 1946, describing conditions at Auschwitz.

Katalog der Konzentrationslager-Dokumente, die sich bei dem International Tracing Service Allied High Commission for Germany befinden. Hrsg. v. d. Allied High Commission for Germany (HIOG), Bad Arolsen 1951. Catalogue of Concentration Camp Records held by the International Tracing Service, ed. Allied High Commission for Germany, Bad Arolsen 1951. In der Nummernkartei (x.x.x.5) wurden alle Hinweiskarten ...

Copyright Holder: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Nazi-Looted Jewish Archives in Moscow. A guide to Jewish Historical and Cultural Collections in the Russian State Military Archive, ed. by D. E. Fishman, M. Kupovetsky, V. Kuzelenkov, Scranton - London 2010.

Jaccques Furth *7-7-1910 komt uit een diamantbewerkersgezin uit Antwerpen, dat naar Amsterdam trok. Hij trouwt in 1939, gaat wonen in de Transvaalbuurt en in februari 1941 wordt zoon Dave geboren. Jacques wordt alleen, zonder vrouw en kind, van huis gehaald, op de tweede verjaardag van zijn zoon. Hij verblijft in kamp Vught en maakt hier als lid van de Ordedienst de vertrekkende Kindertransporten mee. ...

Obóz funkcjonował od kwietnia 1942 roku do kwietnia 1944 roku, a w dokumentach figurował pod nazwami: Rü. Lager Degussa, Gleiwitz Steigern oraz Zwangsarbeitlager Degussa, Gleiwitz Steigern. Kierownikiem tego obozu do 3 maja 1944 roku był Jungnikiel. Zarówno robotników cudzoziemskich, jak i Żydów początkowo zatrudniano przy budowie fabryki, a potem przy produkcji sadzy. Warunki pracy były skrajnie trudne. ...

Memoirs of a Jew born in 1926 in Schmallenberg, near Dortmund. Many Schmallenbergers in official positions were in the SS; after the "Kristallnacht" pogrom, in which the synagogue was destroyed, they forced the family to "sell" them all its property. Frankenthal, his father, and his brother Ernst were sent to a nearby labor camp. In March 1943 the family was deported to Auschwitz. The parents were ...

Dino Antonio Brugioni (December 16, 1921 – September 25, 2015) was a former senior official at the CIA's National Photographic Interpretation Center (NPIC). During World War II, Brugioni flew in 66 bombardment missions, as well a number of reconnaissance missions, over North Africa, Italy, Germany, Yugoslavia and France. He received the Purple Heart, nine Air Medals and a Distinguished Unit Citation. ...

Archief van Nicolaas Koning (Velsen 21-12-1895). Gehuwd met Annigje Koning-Bot (Goudriaan, 25 -11-1896). Verzetsdeelnemers. Nicolaas Koning en zijn vrouw waren AJC'ers en vonden het vanzelfsprekend om Joodse onderduikers op te nemen, zoals de toen 16- jarige Philip Gans. In de eerste dagen van de oorlog verborgen de heer Nicolaas Koning en zijn echtgenote Annigje Koning-Bot in hun huis te Santpoort, ...

<p>This collection contains the personal papers of Leon Greenman, a British survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps, documenting his experiences in the camps and post-war educational and political activities relating to the Holocaust.</p>

Copyright Holder: Dr. Georges Hauptmann

Photocopies of two declarations made by the donor’s parents, Joseph and Celina de Jong, originally of Amsterdam, at the Rijksinstitut voor Oorlogsdocumentatie (present-day NIOD), describing their experiences during the German occupation of the Netherlands during World War II, and their arrest and deportation to concentration camps, including Auschwitz-Birkenau. Donation includes English translations ...

Copyright Holder: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

The collection consists of artwork created by Walter Peiser-Preisser ("Prei"). One woodcut print that is part of a series of 12, created in the Neustadt/Holstein DP camp, circa 1946. Seven prints (one hexagon and six trapezoids) depicting scenes from multiple concentration camps including Auschwitz-Monowitz, Birkenau, Gross Rosen, and general scenes of commemoration that include names of camps, prisoner ...

Stefan Buthner (1913-1994), named Stefan Budziaszek until 1950, was born on April 24, 1913. He studied medicine at the university of Krakow and subsequently worked there as a resident. During the German occupation of Poland, Budziaszek was arrested and was committed to Auschwitz concentration camp on February 10, 1942. Via different work detachments and satellite camps, he was then transferred to Auschwitz ...

Elias Cala was born September 19, 1917, to a Jewish family in Dobrzyn nad Wisla. His parents were Joseph (b. 1885) and Miriam (nee Diamont). He was the middle child of five siblings, Rachel (b.1914), Saul (b. 1916), Shlomo (b. 1920), and Victor (b. 1925). His father died of natural causes before World War II. In 1938, Elias entered the Polish army. His older brother, Saul, had been conscripted, but ...