Circa 1947 recording featuring Polish popular jazz band exiled to Iran, "The Jolly Boys." Performers include Stanislaw Sperber, S. Helishkowski. The Jewish band found unexpected sanctuary in Tehran, where they had been invited to perform at the future Shah’s wedding party (in the summer of 1939), and where they continued to perform as a group until the war had ended. Although the “Jolly Boys” never ...

Consists of documents, clippings, publications, photographs, and correspondence related to the life of Max Goodman (Ghitman), originally of Orchard Park, NY. Max's family, who were originally from Germany, returned to Berlin shortly after Max was born, and Max studied music at the Berlin Conservatory of Music. He became a professional jazz musician, and immigrated to the United States in 1937 after ...

Consists of a photograph, circa 1943, of Istvan Weltman, the donor’s cousin (fourth from left) during his forced labor near Munkacs, Hungary; a photographic portrait, circa 1934, of Bora and Imre Barna with their daughter Anna (Bora and Anna perished in Auschwitz and Imre was killed in a labor battalion); a photographic portrait of the donor’s relatives – Reiner; a photographic portrait of Suzy Barna, ...

Side A: Kabootar (Khatibi) ["La Paloma" by Sebastian de Iradier (c. 1860)] - Columbia G.P. 107/CO 189. Side B: Yasseman (Fakoor) ["Solamente una vez" by Agustin Lara (1941)] - Columbia G.P. 107/CO 191. An instrumental recording featuring Polish popular jazz band, "The Jolly Boys," exiled to Iran. The performers include Stanislaw Sperber, Sonia Vartanian, Ghanbary, F. Socolow, and Igo Krischer. The ...

Still unresolved from last season is Sidney's love life. Handsome, worldly-wise, and virtuous, he should be an ideal catch. And at least one very promising female companion turns up in the new series. But will Sidney scare her away with his unconventional taste for jazz, blood-splattered crime scenes, and a married woman? The new season's cases include a shocking charge of sexual assault that turns ...

Henry (Chaim) Eisenman (1919-2005) was born July 29, 1919 in Wierzbnik, Poland, to Menachem (Mendel) Eisenman (Aizenman, Ajzenman, circa 1893-1944) and Ethel Binsztok (Bięsztok) Eisenman (circa 1897-1944). His family moved to Łódź when he was two years old, and he had a younger sister and two younger brothers: Deborah, Joseph, and Abraham. Henry’s father was a musician who played with the Łódź symphony ...

Leonid Edelstein was born in Saint-Petersburg, Russia, on 4 January 1906 as the son of pharmacist Magnus Edelstein (b. 17/12/1869 in Vilna, Poland) and Rywa Kamuscher (b. 06/02/1884 in Vilna, Poland). Leonid emigrated via Berlin to Belgium on 20 October 1923 to study at the university of Liège. His brother Eugene (b. 07/12/1911 in Saint-Petersburg, Russia) arrived 11 days later via Italy. The two routes ...

'Zeg Weet Je 't Al', een eenmalige gratis bijlage van weekblad De Gil, die op 27 juni 1944 door de PTT huis aan huis werd bezorgd, kreeg de bevolking te horen (en te zien) dat het er niet beter op zou worden, als de geallieerden zouden trachten Nederland te bevrijden. De Gil stond onder redactie van Willem W. Waterman, alias Willy van der Heyde. Het blad was zo populair dat de redacteur van de Duitsers ...

Music, the most beloved of the arts in Germany, began to be ideologized in Wagner's time. During the Nazi period, both music and musicology were adapted to the needs of the new regime, including "de-Judaization". The official Nazi policy in the first stage was segregation of Jewish musicians from Aryans. Jews were eliminated from the all-German musical scene, and the Jüdischer Kulturbund was established. ...

Geïnterviewde (1923) is geboren in Amsterdam, hartje Jordaan. Zijn biologische vader was een Hongaarse componist, zijn moeder afstammelinge van Baron Van Heeckeren. Hij woonde met zijn moeder en zijn stiefvader en 2 broers en een zus. Al op jonge leeftijd zat hij in een koor op de Rozengracht in Amsterdam, in de Rozenkerk. Later was hij begeleider van Johnny Jordaan en Tante Leen, hij heeft ook in ...

Arnold Schönberg (13 September 1874- 13 July 1951) was an Austrian and later American composer, associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School. Schönberg's approach, both in terms of harmony and development, is among the major landmarks of 20th century musical thought; at least three generations of composers in the European and American ...

05:34:05 20,000 Czech farmers at anti-Bolshevik rally in Czechoslovakia. Demonstration on market place, listening to speaker. Hugo Toscani. (no original sound or narration) 05:34:07 "Jews throughout the World" Classic antisemitic Nazi propaganda of stereotype of Jews around the world: in Moscow, during a distribution of prizes; in USA as street traders, black man tap dancing, Lower East Side, shots ...

Universum-Film AG - best known by its signature logo, Ufa - was once the largest, most exciting movie company in Europe. Founded by the German High Command as a propaganda outfit during World War I, and always central to Germany's nationalistic big-business interests, Ufa was also home to the most innovative talents of the Weimar Republic: Ernst Lubitsch, Marlene Dietrich, Fritz Lang, and Emil Jannings ...

Sary Melles was born Nannie Sari Louise Magnus in Groningen, the Netherlands, on 10 June 1928, the daughter of Noach (born 9 June 1886) and Roosje (née Jakobs, born 23 February 1893) Magnus, both of whom were originally from Emmen. Noach owned a textile business in Groningen, and in addition to Sari, the Magnuses had two other children, a daughter Henriette, or Hetty (born 16 August 1916, Emmen), and ...

Intertitle: “WL Film 37,” “Walther Lenger zeight: Leipziger Fahresschau 1936.” “April 1936: Die Kleinmesse am neuen Platz (Cottarueg).” The fair ride “Roll Lauf” in a town square in Leipzig. View from a wooden rollercoaster. People smile, sitting in gondolas on a zeppelin-style ride. “Juli 1936: Ein Besuch im Leipziger Zoo.” Flamingos, Ostriches, Giraffes, lions, elephants, bears, hippos, seals and ...

Geïnterviewde (1923) is geboren in Amsterdam, hartje Jordaan. Zijn biologische vader was een Hongaarse componist, zijn moeder afstammelinge van Baron Van Heeckeren. Hij woonde met zijn moeder en zijn stiefvader en 2 broers en een zus. Al op jonge leeftijd zat hij in een koor op de Rozengracht in Amsterdam, in de Rozenkerk. Later was hij begeleider van Johnny Jordaan en Tante Leen, hij heeft ook in ...

The sketchbook entitled 'Lagergedichte von J.S. in KLB' contains small drawings and rhymes created by Roma inmate Johann (Mongo) Stojka. The booklet’s contents depict everyday life at the Buchenwald concentration camp. The topics covered include the procedure upon arrival of new prisoners, food, labour performed by the prisoners, the role of the Blockälteste and members of the Lagerschutz in the camp, ...

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