Kurt Fleischer (1891-1951) was born on November 11, 1891 in Berent, Prussia (today: Koscierzyna, Poland), son of Dr. Hans Fleischer, a dentist. Kurt Fleischer was a soldier in the German Army during WWI. He was wounded in action; he received two Iron Crosses for his service. Ilse Kroner (1904- ) was born in Posen, Germany (today: Poznan, Poland) on September 28, 1904. She was the oldest child of Else ...

Wilhelm Fuchs (later William, 1865-1949) was born on January 10, 1865 in Weingarten, Germany to Maier (1838-1911) and Eva (née Praeger, 1833-1878) Fuchs and had three siblings: Sarah (b. 1863), Babette (1866-1950), and Nanette (b. 1868). Wilhelm lived in Weingarten and owned a clothing store. In 1894 he married Katchen Bruchfeld (1871-1946, born in Crumstadt, Germany) and they had four children: Ludwig ...

17:38 Civil party Esther Majerowicz testifies regarding her arrival at Auschwitz, including having her head shaved and being tattooed; she gives specifics of her daily life in the camp, and details her subsequent transport to another camp, Kratzau, where she worked in an arms factory 17:52 President Cerdini asks Mrs. Majerowicz to give precision regarding the number of times and circumstances under ...

Rachel Barish was born Rachel (Chellie) van Leeuwen on September 21, 1936 in the Hague, Netherlands, to Judith Degroot and Isaac van Leeuwen. Her older sister Elly had been born in 1931, her family had lived in the Hague for generations, and her father owned a bicycle and small appliance shop. In May 1940, the Germans invaded the Netherlands, and the following year, Isaac volunteered to go to Westerbork ...

Papieren fotomapje met opdruk van Fotohandel E. Sipkes te Groningen. Aan de voorzijde bovenaan handgeschreven: ‘Interieur P. Saenredamstraat 10-5-‘40’. Inhoud van het mapje betreft 7 vooroorlogse interieurfoto’s van de woning in de Pietersaenredamstraat 42 te Utrecht waar Eddy Jacques van Bergen vanaf eind 1941 tot en met 1945 in onderduik verbleef bij zijn pleegouders Cornelis (‘Kees’) Sneijders de ...

W 1939 r. Gmina Żydowska w Będzinie liczyła 25.264 członków. W styczniu 1940 r. kierownik referatu ds. żydowskich w katowickim gestapo, komisarz generalny Hans Dreier powołał w Sosnowcu Centralę Rad Starszych Gmin Żydowskich Wschodniego Górnego Śląska, której w październiku tego roku podlegało 96.283 Żydów w 34 gminach i ich filiach. Na czele centrali stał Mojżesz Merin. Początkowo położenie ludności ...

Digital copy available as collection KD_00083 at Kazerne Dossin

Printed inventory: Retribučné súdy a orgány obžaloby na Spiši 1945-1945, Author: Alžbeta Liščáková, 1970, available in the Researchers´ room of the archive.

Jacob Gora (b. August 22, 1896, Poland - d. June 6, 1976, Ottawa) was an antiques dealer, author, and survivor of the Holocaust. Jacob lived in Warsaw prior to WWII, where he owned a business. He lost his wife, his 20 year old daughter and his 17 year old son not long after the German invasion of Warsaw. He lived in the Warsaw Ghetto, and spent time in several different camps before the end of the ...

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The Moshe Sheps papers consists of 52 photographs and a postcard relating to Moshe Sheps' family before and during World War II in Poland.

Benedikt Felsen was born on 25 January 1905 in Lemberg, Poland (today Lviv, Ukraine). Regina Degen had been born in the same city on 12 July 1903. Both moved to Vienna, Austria, before the war. There, on 14 August 1932, Regina married Ernst Ingber (b. 19/06/1901 in Unterwikow, now Vicovu de Jos, Romania). On 20 August 1938, Regina Degen and her husband Ernst Ingber fled from Austria to Belgium. It ...

The Moshe Sheps photograph collection consists of photographs of members of "Hashomer Hadati" in Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland; the "Kibbutz Buchenwald" in Gersfeld, Germany and in Italy awaiting immigration to Palestine; four family photographs from Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland; and three photographs of the Gorset family, Moshe Sheps' cousins.

Nizel alias Nathan Wejnberg (also Weinberg or Wajnberg) was born in Nowe Miasto, Poland, on 15 October 1885 as the son of Joseph Wejnberg and Kajla Frajdenraf. Nizel became a digger. During the First World War he served as a soldier in the Russian army. On 29 May 1919 Nizel married Laja Dymensztajn in Tomaszow, Poland. Laja had been born in Radoszyce, Poland, on 15 August 1898 as the daughter of Szlama ...

Ladder used by Michael Goldmann (later Goldmann-Gilead), Chanan Ansbacher, and Eli Heilman to hide in Konrad and Regina Zimoń’s hayloft in January 1945, in Rybnik, Poland. The men had escaped from a forced march after Auschwitz concentration camp was evacuated. They hid for a week, during which time the Zimoń’s oldest daughter, Stefania, regularly brought them food. In summer 1939, fearing a German ...

Horthy, Miklós (1868–1957) was an Austro-Hungarian admiral and conservative Hungarian politician. After leading the 1919 counterrevolution, from March 1, 1920, to October 16, 1944 (in the so-called Horthy era), he was appointed head of state of the Hungarian Kingdom, holding the title of regent. The leitmotif of his foreign policy was the revision of the Trianon Peace Treaty. Following the German occupation ...

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 ...

Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Geschichte des Bestandes 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. Durch Bestandsbereinigungen gelangten auch eine Akte aus dem sogenannten NS-Archiv des Ministeriums für Staatssicherheit ...

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Calixte Vandevelde was born on 18 October 1922 in Hoeleden, today part of Kortenaken, Belgium, as the son of Frans Vandevelde and Pelagie Sacréas. His parents, who were farmers, built a large family. Calixte had ten siblings. He attended a local primary school until the age of fourteen and then started working for the Blavier construction company in Oreye. When Nazi-Germany invaded Belgium on 10 May ...

Getto w Łodzi utworzono 8.02.1940 a ostatecznie zlikwidowano między 2 a 30.08.1944 r., wywożąc pozostałych Żydów do Auschwitz- Birkenau i Stutthofu (we wcześniejszych akcjach do ośrodka zagłady w Chełmnie nad Nerem). Przed wojną mieszkało w mieście 223 tys. Żydów. W getcie znalazło się 160 tys. mieszkańców Łodzi, a wraz z przesiedlonymi z Austrii, Czech, Luksemburga, Niemiec i miasteczek Kraju Warty ...

Louis Moses (1930-) was born on 9 February 1930 in Rikswijk, the Netherlands to Froukje (née Hoogstraal, later Vos) and Siemon Moses. Louis had one sister, Engeline. After the Germans invaded the Netherlands in 1940, Louis’s parents sent him into hiding with a Christian family in The Hague. After the neighborhood was deemed unsafe, he was moved to a new family where he was reunited with his mother. ...

The Elly Moses photographs consist of pre-war, wartime, and post-war original and reproduction photographs of Elly van Leeuwen Moses, her sister Rachel (Chellie), and her parents, Isaac and Judith, as well as of one of the families who hid her during the Holocaust.

György Pető (Dec 20, 1906-1971) was a talented violin player, photographer, and class lottery businessman in the southern Hungarian city of Szeged. He began making 8mm films in 1938. Pető was first in a Jewish forced labor company in Kiszombor in 1940. After returning home, Pető married Eva Lengyel (d. 1970) on September 8, 1941. They had a son, András, on October 3, 1943. Pető was again transported ...