The O.80 record group is composed of 159 files in Latvian, German, Russian and Hebrew. The record group includes official German documentation photocopied by Westermann in various archives in Germany, and documentation from the Central Archives of Latvia; Description of the O.80 record group: The material in the O.80 record group includes reports, instructions, summaries and orders by local administration ...

Containts testimony and correspondence describing Jeseph Levy's experiences in Cologne, Germany; his deportation to Riga and then a succession of camps; his liberation in Kiel; and settlement in Sweden as a displaced person, where he met his wife, a Polish-born DP. Include materials related to his story, such as copy of verdict in post-trial against Nazis who administered Riga ghetto, and a typescript ...

Consists of one handwritten memoir, stapled and bound by a red cover with each entry dated 1985, telling the story of her family, childhood, and adulthood, ending with her family’s arrival at the Riga ghetto in 1941.

Examines the controversial life story of Fritz Scherwitz who presented himself after the war as a Jewish survivor of the Riga ghetto. Scherwitz was arrested in April 1948 on charges of war crimes; at the time, he was serving as a regional director for Support of Victims of National Socialism in München. The prosecuting attorney portrayed him as a former member of the Nazi Party, a Police and SS officer ...

M.43 - Documentation from archives in Latvia, 1918-1946
 
 In the collection there are files selected from the Latvian State Historical Archives in Riga and other files received from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.
 
 Description of the collection
 
 Included in the documentation from the Latvian State Historical Archives in Riga is correspondence ...

The archive records from the Terezín ghetto (24 November 1941 – 8 May 1945, and from the period after the liberation) are preserved only in fragments. Only a portion of the documents in the collection are connected with the official activities of the Terezín Council of Elders and with the various departments and sections of its self-government. The first group of documents comprise a relatively diverse ...

USHMM RG-18.002M (Latvian Central State Historical Archive (Rīga) records)

Manuscript, 12 pages, by Siegfried "Sigi" Ziering, written in the form of a letter to his father, from Holsbybrunn, Sweden, June 1945, and describing what Ziering had experienced from the time of his deportation to the Riga Ghetto in December 1941, until his liberation through a prisoner exchange arranged by the Red Cross in northern Germany in May 1945. Included are descriptions of the rounding up ...

Prewar footage (home movies) of the Katz family in 1929. Kovno street scenes. VAR CUs of Katz family strolling along Laisves al., showing Dita's mother Liola, grandfather, brother, uncle, and grandmother. 01:00:34 MS EXT of the grandfather's wholesale trade store - C. KACAS - on Presidento gatve. Here, the family sold typewriters, sewing machines, and bicycles. VAR shots of store and family at door ...

Copyright Holder: Charlotte Baum

O.80 - Documentation from the “Jews in Latvia” Museum
 
 The “Jews in Latvia” Museum was established in 1989 on the initiative of Holocaust survivors headed by well-known historian Marger Westermann. In the beginning the museum acted as a center for documentation. Its first permanent collection was opened in 1996. At present its collection is displayed in three galleries; the third gallery ...

Official documentation, memoirs and letters from the Holocaust Period collected by the Museum "Jews in Latvia"
 
 The Collection includes letters from Red Army soldiers sent from the front during 1941-1945, and memoirs of former Soviet prisoners regarding Salaspils, Kaiserwald and Stutthof camps; testimonies and memoirs regarding the Riga Ghetto life and Salaspils camp life; excerpts from ...

This collection of microfilmed documentation deals mainly with the activities of the Committee for the Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in Baltic Countries, in particular with the gathering of evidence for the prosecution of war crimes in the Riga Ghetto region during 1941-1944.<br /><br />The bulk of the material comprises authenticated statements and affidavits from eyewitnesses with covering letters. ...

During the Nazi occupation the Commandant's Office of the Security Police and the SD in Ostland was the highest institution of the German police. The commanders in Ostland were: Walter Stahleker 1941-1942, Heinz Jost 1942, Humbert Achamer-Pifrader 1942-1943, Friedrich Panziger 1943-1944, Wilhelm Fuchs 1944.

USHMM RG-18.002M (Latvian Central State Historical Archive (Rīga) records)

Copyright Holder: Charlotte Baum

Contains a testimony, 4 pages, typescript, describing author's experience of deportation from Germany to Riga ghetto and subsequent years in nearby concentration camps (Kaiserwald and Jungfernhof) before eventual liberation.

Claude Lanzmann was born in Paris to a Jewish family that immigrated to France from Eastern Europe. He attended the Lycée Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand. His family went into hiding during World War II. He joined the French resistance at the age of 18 and fought in the Auvergne. Lanzmann opposed the French war in Algeria and signed a 1960 antiwar petition. From 1952 to 1959 he lived with Simone ...

Gertrude Schneider was a Viennese Jew deported with her family to the Riga ghetto. The interview, which also includes Schneider's mother and sister, covers topics such as the perception of Viennese Jews by Latvian Jews, sex and pregnancy in the ghetto, and the March 26, 1942 deportation Aktion. At Lanzmann's urging, the women sing several Yiddish songs they learned in the ghetto. FILM ID 3221 -- Camera ...

List of Vilnius Jews (75 persons) transported to Riga, compiled in 1944 by the Extraordinary Soviet Commission; the certificate of the graduation from the Vilnius ghetto school issued to ghetto prisoner Lejba Lewkowitsch (1 July 1943); list of Vilnius Jews (44 persons) transported for annihilation to Riga, compiled in 1944 by the Extraordinary Soviet Commission (includes dates of birth and occupations ...

The collection consisting of a two prisoner badges, a commemorative pin, a poster, correspondence, documents, photographs, and sheet music relating to the experiences of Elja Heifecs who was imprisoned in Riga ghetto, Kaiserwald, Muhlgraben, Stutthof, and Buchenwald concentration camps during the Holocaust and in Riga, Latvia, before, during, and after the Holocaust.

Edith Brandon was born September 24, 1921 to Heinrich and Meta Blau (née Samuel). She spent much of her childhood in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland), where her father ran an import/export business. Edith’s parents first met in her mother’s family home in Minden, a German garrison town where her father was stationed near the end of WWI. Edith and her mother made frequent visits to Minden ...

This testimony is open with permission.

DER KRIEG. Germans enter Poland. Lwow pogrom amateur footage; stills. Nazis entering towns via truck; Hitler speeches; clips from Nazi propaganda and newsreels, Jews forced to work for Germans in occupied territory, roundups in Jonava, Latvia. Hangings in occupied territory. German raid, checking papers, in various Polish locations. Riga scenes of harassing Jews. (locations and images intermixed) Jews ...