De eerste polka speelt zich af rond 31 augustus 1939 in Gleiwitz, een katholiek stadje in de provincie opper-Silezië, eertijds aan de Duits-Poolse grens.

William Guttmann (1904-1986) was born in Gliwice, Poland (Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia), the son of a Jewish publican and distiller. He studied law in Munich then emigrated to Italy after the Nazi seizure of power. He arrived in England shortly before the outbreak of war. Through his brother, the eminent psychiatrist, Eric Guttmann, he was introduced to David Astor, the proprietor of The Observer newspaper. ...

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Tijd zonder klokken speelt op een later tijdstip, namelijk op Goede Vrijdag in 1943. Op die dag worden ook in Gleiwitz de klokken uit de kerktorens gehaald om te worden gesmolten. Dat terkt veel aandacht, meer dan de deportatie van een groep joden, die op een laadperron bij een groter transport worden gevoegd.

Dora Staub (née Pinkus, 1862-1943) was born on 5 December 1862 in Gliwice, Poland to Pinkus and Friederiek Pinkus. She married David Staub (1860-1917) and they had three children: Ludwig (1886-1944), Elfriede (1889-1940), and Paul (1898-1918). Dora lived in Berlin during the Holocaust, and was deported to Theresienstadt on 3 October 1942. She perished in the camp on 26 December 1943.

(Paris 458) US Prosecutor Col. Robert G. Storey tells of the Gestapo's part in Germany's attack on Poland ("attack" on the Gleiwitz radio station) and how the Gestapo and SD murdered thousands of Jews in occupied countries. CU, chart indicating the number of Jews murdered in the Baltic States and parts of Russia and Poland. Side view of Tribunal as Chief Justice Geoffrey Lawrence announces adjournment ...

Rob Cohen is in Amsterdam opgegroeid als zoon van middenstanders. Hij herinnert zich een onbekommerde jeugd waarbij hij veel buiten speelt. Tijdens de Duitse bezetting heeft Rob Cohen twee maal kunnen ontkomen aan een razzia. De eerste keer is bij het leeghalen van de bontwerkplaats in 1942 waarbij hij zich weet te verstoppen onder een stel stofjassen. Drie maanden later wordt er midden in de nacht ...

Welek (William) Wolf Luksenburg was born on February 1, 1923, in Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland. His father, Simcha (Simon David), was a wholesale meat merchant, born in Poland in 1896. His mother, Rozalia Feiner, was born in Sosnowiec in 1901. His brother Szlomo was born in 1917. The family was Orthodox and active in Zionist organizations. Szlomo trained to be a dentist. Welek attended a public school, ...

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Greenman was born in 1910 in London to a Jewish family; in 1913 he and his widowed father settled in Rotterdam. Greenman failed to escape to England when the war began, and in 1940 was caught by the German occupation. He lost his British identity papers and, because of bureaucratic procrastination on the part of Dutch officials and of the Swiss consulate that represented British interests, could not ...

Consists of one memoir, 30 pages, "Peter's Story: Surviving Auschwitz and a Death March," by Dr. Peter Ornstein, originally of Vienna, Austria. In his memoir, he describes wartime Vienna, being entrusted to neighbors as his mother and future stepfather had immigrated to China (with the intention that Peter and his two sisters would follow), and in 1939, to a convent when it became too dangerous. In ...

Jaccques Furth *7-7-1910 komt uit een diamantbewerkersgezin uit Antwerpen, dat naar Amsterdam trok. Hij trouwt in 1939, gaat wonen in de Transvaalbuurt en in februari 1941 wordt zoon Dave geboren. Jacques wordt alleen, zonder vrouw en kind, van huis gehaald, op de tweede verjaardag van zijn zoon. Hij verblijft in kamp Vught en maakt hier als lid van de Ordedienst de vertrekkende Kindertransporten mee. ...

Consists of one memoir, 174 pages, written in 1986, entitled "My Life Story," by Joseph Fischer, originally of Bicsad, Transylvania. Mr. Fischer recalls his experiences growing up in Bicsad, his family's deportation to the Satu-Mare ghetto and their May 1944 deportation to Auschwitz. Mr. Fischer was the only member of his family selected to work and was given the number A-3338. He describes his experiences ...

ir. J.A. Ringers (1885-1965) en C. Ringers-Mann > Openbaar leven 1906-1943 > Regeringscommissaris voor de Wederopbouw/Algemeen gemachtigde voor de Wederopbouw en de Bouwnijverheid 1940-1943 > Correspondentie over het verzoek van mevrouw Lethem om te bemiddelen bij de vrijlating van haar echtgenoot, A.F. Lethem, voormalig boekhouder bij de Zuiderzeewerken, die als krijgsgevangene met de Engelse nationaliteit ...

Reel 1. Multiple sequences showing the entire family (including the visiting Louis and Harry Sommer, Hermann Klein, and Jacob Grossman) posing for the camera, probably in Humenne, Slovakia. Family members (well-dressed) take turns walking towards the camera in a street/alley. Dark shots in a field. Man holds up his pocketwatch. More posed shots around an automobile. 00:03:50 The children play near ...

Louis Sommer was born in Izbugya, Hungary and emigrated to the United States in 1899. He settled in Omaha, Nebraska where he owned a grocery business at the intersection of Dodge Street and 49th Street. Louis and his brother Harry visited their father Barnath and extended family and friends in Humenne, Slovakia in March 1932. They recorded Jewish families and businesses with a movie camera. Bernard ...

Soms ook vermeld als "elf trawlers" (bouwnrs 227-237) met bouwnr 237 als geannuleerd. Bouwnrs 231-236 soms ook vermeld als "op andere Nederlandse werven gebouwd". Vier afgebouwd: <br/>- bouwnr 227: 'Antares' <br/>- bouwnr 228: 'Artan' <br/>- bouwnr 229: 'Gleiwitz', naar Antwerpen, later 'Monty' <br/>- bouwnr 230: 'Rugen', naar Antwerpen, later 'Comte de Hainault'

Reel 5. Brief pan of Budapest (gray, repeated in RG-60.1451). Intertitle: "Humenne -- My Home Town, A Typical Slovakia Village." Trains, people board and deboard. Train station. Boy on peasant cart with cows and a wagon in the main square of Humenne. People gathered in the town square for market days (on Mondays and Fridays). Lots of people, carts, wagons, activity, shops, and houses in BG. Hotel, ...

Louis Sommer was born in Izbugya, Hungary and emigrated to the United States in 1899. He settled in Omaha, Nebraska where he owned a grocery business at the intersection of Dodge Street and 49th Street. Louis and his brother Harry visited their father Barnath and extended family and friends in Humenne, Slovakia in March 1932. They recorded Jewish families and businesses with a movie camera. Bernard ...

The Maria Lichtsztejn and Sarah Montard collection contains personal narratives by Maria and Sarah describing their experiences during the Holocaust. Three copies of a memoir written by Maria is comprised in this collection, including translations in Yiddish, English, and French. In it, Maria describes her and Sarah’s second arrest in 1944, their internment at Drancy, and deportation to Auschwitz. ...

Memoirs of a Jew, born as Zisa Fried in Khust (then Slovakia, now Ukraine) in 1928. He was deported in 1944 with his family to Auschwitz, where he worked in IG-Farben's Buna plant. His parents perished in Auschwitz. In January 1945, he and his brothers were taken on the death march to Gleiwitz and then on a ten-day journey by train with 10,000 others to Nordhausen (the Mittelbau-Dora camp), without ...

Reel 3. Marketplace in Humenne with tents and shops. The Klein family's shop was located across from this market. Peasants from the local villages traveled to Humenne on Mondays and Fridays to sell their wares. Local policemen pose for the camera with one of the American relatives (Louis or Harry Sommer in a dark suit and hat). Cousins stand before their leather goods shop owned by uncle Jacob Grossman. ...

Reel 4. Women and children from the Sommer and Klein families in alley and doorway of house; they walk towards the camera. Some gather in BG (VQ: fuzzy). Children and women in a group. CU, children slowly walk towards camera. 02:00:43 Pan (left to right), men posing (all in suits, hats, overcoats), glimpse of an automobile next to them. Women and children at family's storefront; pan (left to right) ...