07:00:40 (Paris 489) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 11, 1946. Inserts, hands turning pages of "Der Stuermer." LS of courtroom as Chief Justice Geoffrey Lawrence adjourns court. LS, MSs, defendants talking to their lawyers during recess. MLS, Dr. Franz Blaha appearing as a witness. Dr. Blaha was arrested when Germany invaded Czechoslovakia in March 1939, held in a Gestapo prison without ...

(LIB 6591) Estedt, Germany. German civilians smooth dirt over fresh graves in a fenced area, then pound grave markers (crosses) into the dirt. A group of Polish former forced laborers led by a man in a Polish army uniform, carries a large wreath with a red and white ribbon in a procession (Polish funeral march). Wreath inscribed with "Od Polaków z Estetu ku czci pomordowanych rodaków" [From the Poles ...

About eight million people were forced to work for the "Reich war economy" during the Second World War. Their stories were rediscovered in recent years by a new, detail- and person-oriented approach to contemporary history. Fifty-four years after the end of the war, the lack of restitution for their labor and their suffering has turned into an international legal dispute. This collection presents new ...

Georg Bürger was born in 1926 and studied law at Frankfurt University. Following his studies, he worked as an attorney and notary and had his own law firm in the east of Frankfurt (Main). He was the assigned counsel to the defendant Bruno Schlage during the "proceedings against Mulka and others (4 Ks 2/63)" ("Verfahren gegen Mulka u.a. (4 Ks 2/63)"), the First Frankfurt Auschwitz trial. At the same ...

Collection and memoirs illustrating the experiences of Bronislaw Bulkowski, born Roman Catholic on July 11, 1920 in Ostrowiec, Poland, surrounding the Holocaust. Bronislaw was a forced laborer for the Nazi occupying authorities and was conscripted to the German Rail Authorities in Altena, Germany. Between 1942 and 1945, he slave labored alongside other forced laborers. Included is a diary ("Wartime ...

Documentation of the Educational-Industrial Corporation next to the Minsk City Governor's office, 1941-1942
 
 The Collection includes documentation regarding Jewish laborers who were taken out of the Minsk Ghetto; documentation of the Labor Bureau regarding the allocation of food for the Jewish laborers; documentation of workers' training institutions regarding the dismissal of Jewish workers; ...

Two wheeled wooden handcart used by inmates while working as forced laborers at the Small Fortress in Theresienstadt (Terezín) ghetto-labor camp northwest of Prague, Czechoslovakia. Carts like this were used to transport food and other heavy loads. Special workers also used them to transport bodies of ghetto residents who had died of starvation and disease. After the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, ...

Ancsel Feuerwerker (later Arthur Feuer) was born on November 4, 1922, in Craciunesti, Romania, to a Jewish couple, Lazar (Zvi) Eliezer and Regina (Rywka) Chaya Perl Feuerwerker. Zvi was born on August 24, 1893, in Tiszakarácsonyfalva (later Craciunesti), and had 1 sister. He worked as a timber cutter, floating the large logs down river in Romania to Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Rywka was born in 1897, ...

The collection contains various records collected by the Polish-German Reconciliation Foundation (FPNP) during the project related to the payment of indemnities to Polish citizens for their forced labor on the territories of the Third Reich. Records include questionnaires, accounts, memoirs, diaries, interviews, correspondence, press cuttings; some photographs or other related documents are attached ...

Paula Dash (b. Paula Garfinkel, 1920-2007) was born in Łódź, Poland, to Aron Itzhak and Chaja Cypra Garfinkel. Paula had three siblings, Leon, Sala (1922-1942), and Henry. Aron was an architect and owned a furniture store. The family lived in a second floor apartment with a corner balcony in the nice part of the city. Paula and her siblings belonged to Gordonia, a Zionist group that believed in humanistic ...

Consists of two photographs owned by Tova (Tonka) Gamzo, who was part of a group of women who worked as forced laborers in the Ober Alstadt concentration camp, a subcamp of Gross-Rosen. The photographs are portraits of Germans (an unknown male and female) who helped the female forced laborers working in the factories.

Scenes from a transit camp located in the Philips factory in Eindhoven, Netherlands. According to the IWM record, the camp was run by the 506 Detachment, Civil Affairs, and the nationalities of the laborers include Dutch, French, Polish, and Russian. Adult and children civilians (former foreign forced laborers) and British soldiers in front of military trucks. CUs of a woman talking and laughing with ...

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Edwin Konrad Dutkiewicz (1925-1981) was born in Bydgoszcz, Poland to Stanisław Dutkiewicz and Pelagi Kocikowska and was raised Catholic. At the age of 14, Edwin was taken as a forced laborer and was assigned to Organisation Todt and later sent to Finland in 1943. From August 1943 through September 1944, he was assigned to a camp in Kuusamo, a location near the border of the Soviet Union that was used ...

Documentation of the Lwow municipality, 1941-1944
 
 Included in the collection:
 
 - Correspondence by the mayor of Lwow with the State Attorney's office and the German Security Police;
 - Instructions published by the mayor of Lwow regarding the Jews and Jewish property;
 - Correspondence regarding the establishment of the Lwow Ghetto;
 - Instructions published ...

Documentation of the District administration in Braslaw, 1941-1944
 
 The Collection includes lists of Jewish porfessionals; lists of Jewish residents; lists of Jewish forced laborers; instructions by the District Commissioner (Gebietskommissar) regarding Jews including the obligation of Jews in mixed marriages to report the nationality of their relatives; fines handed the Jews by the District ...

The collection consists of three photographs depicting a group of Jewish forced laborers wearing yellow armbands in Dej, Hungary, (now Romania) in 1943; David Hersch wearing his concentration camp uniform; and Hersch's sisters with their children in Dej in 1943.

Photographs, documents, and correspondence from before, during and after WWII relating to the experiences of Jadwiga Wolinska (b. October 6, 1919 in Blizyn) and her husband Bronislaw Parakowski (b. October 29, 1914 in Niedrzwica Duza), both Roman Catholics who were taken to Germany as forced laborers in Leipzig, she in the HASAG factory and he in the Mansfeld machine works. Bronislaw had previously ...

Contains a one-page testimony of a former forced laborer in Romania.

Testimony, 5 pages, handwritten, describes time in eastern Poland (Bolechow), invasion of Soviets and then Germans, time in ghetto and as forced laborer.

Copyright Holder: Ms. Monica Raffai

Bernard Klajminc was born on November 30, 1901, in Lagow, Poland, to Herzl and Miriam Milbergow Klajminc. He had a brother, Tzvi Hersch, who immigrated to Canada in 1924 with his wife, Annie, and their children. Bernard married Bertha (Bajla) Horenkrig, who was born on August 27, 1905, in Warsaw. The couple lived in Brussels, Belgium. Bernard was a tailor. They had a daughter, Marie-Jose, on December ...

Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of Holocaust in Romania http://www.inshr-ew.ro/ro/

Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of Holocaust in Romania http://www.inshr-ew.ro/ro/