Ludwig Steiner was born in 1872 in Zirl, Austria. He was arrested on 29 September 1939 and imprisoned at the Gestapo prison Innsbruck. Every day one person of the family "kept watch" and stood outside the prison as Ludwig Steiner could sometimes be seen at a window on the top floor of the building. On 7 December 1939 he was transferred to Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg concentration camp and later to Dachau. ...

Collectie 243b: Nederlands Informatiebureau - New York > Persafdeling > Uitgaande persberichten > Diversen

2nd ed. XXXII, 274 p. ; 20 cm.

6 p. ; 28 cm.

One letter, handwritten, 5 pages, dated 26 May 1946, from Sara Rudney, writing from the St. Ottilien displaced persons camp, to her brother-in-law, Saul Rudney, presumably in Baltimore, Maryland, asking from release from her halakhic obligations to marry him after the death of her husband during the Holocaust. In the letter, Sara Rudney describes the circumstances of the death of her husband, Moishe, ...

The papers consist of an identification card issued to Harry Gutreich [donor] after his release from Buchenwald concentration camp, a telegram to Harry Gutreich in Zurich, Switzerland, from Lotti Gutreich sent after his release from Buchenwald, and a telegram sent from "Uncle Max" in London, England, to Harry Gutreich in Basel, Switzerland, after the latter's release from Buchenwald.

Collectie 235c: Nederlanders in Londen 4. > Diversen

Universal Newsreel Vol. 6, No. 310, Part 3. Release date, 12/12/1934. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: Other Big News Pictures Include: Moscow turning out in a monster celebration of the Soviet Revolution. Sound of Soviet marching hymn, Stalin and officials watch parade. Parade with banner of Stalin. CU, Stalin and Voroshilov. Paraders carrying Lenin's banner. Cut-in spectators. More ...

Release 134. Newsreel release date 22-Dec-44. "B-29’s Over Tokyo" "Sixth Army Advance On Leyte" "Plane in Full Flight Rescues Lost Airmen" 08:02 "Metz, Strasbourg, Belfort Fall to the Allies"

Consists of one memoir, 71 pages, in typed and handwritten German, written by Dr. Paul Laband in 1938 after his release from the Buchenwald concentration camp, where he was imprisoned for 1937-1938. In the memoir, he describes many details of daily life, and began writing the memoir almost immediately after his release, when his family emigrated to Trinidad. Includes an English language typed translation ...

Collectie 182_ENG: Inventory 2. > Departments and committees of the Jewish Council 2.03. > Department "Expositur"

Collectie 182_ENG: Inventory 5. > Separate subjects 5.1.1. > Westerbork

The report describes a meeting between Norbert Masur and Himmler in Berlin, 20 April 1945, which was arranged by Felix Kersten, Himmler's doctor, the objective of which was to bring about the release of Jews from concentration camps. The meeting resulted in the release of all the women from Ravensbrück and of prisoners from a number of other camps.

Consists of a copy of a news release entitled "Informations Bulletin" published by Rat der Jüdischen Gemeinden in Bömen und Mären zu Prag in March 1959. The release describes a variety of Holocaust remembrance events concerning the Jewry of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia during the Holocaust. Among the topics mentioned are the killing of thousands of Czechoslovakian Jews in the gas chamber ...

Universal Newsreel, Vol. 19, No. 470, Part 3. Release date, 01/21/1946. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: "Rebuilding Warsaw" Warsaw, Poland. Citizens of this war-ravaged city bend their backs to the staggering task of digging their homes out of the rubble, and rebuilding Warsaw to its former splendor. Aerial shots of bombed out city. Reconstruction. MS people strolling along street/park ...

Universal Newsreel, Vol. 10, No. 709, Part 2. Release date, 10/10/1938. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: "Four-power Parley brings Peace" Munich, Germany. The conference between Europe's leaders that averted war! Spectacular scenes as Prime Minister Chamberlain of England, Premier Daladier of France, and Il Duce arrive at the flag-bedecked city for the epochal agreement over Czechoslovakia. ...

Hans Israel Abraham was born in Bad Pyrmont, Lower Saxony, in 1916 where he lived and worked as a merchant. He was arrested during the November pogroms in 1938 and sent to Buchenwald concentration camp. After his release in December 1938 he emigrated as a refugee to England in 1939. He changed his name to Harry Edward Anderson. He served in the army in France from 1940 to 1944 but was discharged early ...

Universal Newsreel, Vol. 17, No. 278, Part 2. Release date, 03/20/1944. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: "Nazi Prisoners Work" Michigan. Nazi prisoners of war volunteer for forest duty in the north woods. Warmly clothed, they work like beavers. Then they devour their food, and return to the recreation rooms for checkers, ping pong and music by a German band. Other parts of newsreel ...

Universal Newsreel, Vol. 36, No. 87, Part 2. Release date, 10/24/1963. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: "Twenty Five Years Ago" A quarter of a century ago history recorded fifteen days of international crisis that forever shaped the destiny of man. There were riots in Sudetenland as pro-Hitler Germans backed his demand that this Czech territory and its people be returned to the Reich. ...