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The Edward Anders paper consists of a Latvian identification card issued to Edward Anders (then known as Edwards Alperovics) in 1941; his mother, Erika Alperovics’ Latvian passport, issued in 1942; documents and related correspondence, including his draft notice for the Waffen-SS, in German and Latvian, circa 1943; a pamphlet, in German and English, entitled "Baltic War Criminals, Witnesses Urgently ...

Traces the history of three internment camps, established between 1943-44 in Paris by Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg for the processing of booty from homes of deported Jews as part of the Möbelaktion. Run by Dienststelle Westen, the camps of Austerlitz, Lévitan, and Bassano supplied the Germans with slave labor and served as Drancy's depot for inmates who were not eligible for deportation: Jews ...

Passbook, issued to Jay Stern, from the Jüdische Gemeinde zu Duisburg, documenting the dues paid by Stern over a period of a year and a half to a welfare organization benefiting Jews in Duisburg. Undated, circa 1930s. Document contains 17 adhesive stamps, in the amount of 1 Reichmark or 50 pfennigs, with representations on each stamp of various Jewish themes, such as festivals and holidays, and the ...

M.41.ZGAPin - Documentation from the Regional State Archive in Pinsk
 
 The Regional Archive of Pinsk was established in 1940. During the German occupation, the Archive's activity was halted during 1941-1944 and was renewed only in August 1944. The Archive changed its mission following the dissolution of the Pinsk region, and it became the Municipal State Archive of Pinsk in 1954. In September ...

Footage begins in the middle of Session 99 with the continuation of cross examination by Attorney General Gideon Hausner. Eichmann is questioned about the Economic-Administrative Main Office's recognition of two categories of Jews 1) transport Jews who arrived based on instructions from Eichmann's section and 2) custody Jews, who arrived on instruction from Department IVC2 (00:00:34). Hausner goes ...

DÖRFLOVÁ J.-KOHLERT R., Landrat Bílina 1938-1945, Inventář, 1960, 10 s.

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 ...

Under questioning from the judges, the German theologian Dr. Heinrich Grueber testifies about his role in the rescue of Jews. He says that he receives hate mail and threats for his rescue work and for agreeing to come to Jerusalem to testify. He refuses to publicly state the name of a fellow rescuer for this reason. He quotes Leo Baeck as he describes the difference between the reactions of working ...

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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 ...

Emil Knebel was a cinematographer known for Andante (2010), Adam (1973), and Wild Is My Love (1963). He was one of the cameramen who recorded daily coverage of the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem (produced by Capital Cities Broadcasting Corp and later held academic positions in Israel and New York teaching filmmaking at universities. Refer to CV in file.

"An estimated 160,000 persons were deported from France to camps in Central and Eastern Europe during the Second World War. 76,000 of these were Jews. Of the rest, a rough half, 41,000 or so, were résistants. The Jews did not survive the ordeal: a mere 2,500 returned. Résistants and others fared better-47,500 came back-, but the toll was still a terrible one. The figures are an eloquent reminder, ...

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This collection of correspondence documents the fate of 2 German Jewish émigré brothers and their families who managed to escape from Berlin in 1939 to Shanghai and Cawnpore, India respectively.

The fonds includes judicial files - files of the company register with prior documents since the second half of the 19th century, the records of termination of companies after 1945, and materials concerning forced auctions and forced administration. The criminal matters include accusations of communist thinking, Jewish origin, and contact with prisoners of war, illegal border crossing, smuggling, speculation ...

The Drielsmas were an upper middle-class secular Jewish family. Lisette was born in The Hague in April 1942, just a few months before the deportation of Jews from the city began. The family had the good fortune to be placed on the ‘Frederikslijst’, a list of names of Jews who, it was said, would receive preferential treatment due to contributions made to Dutch society. However the preferential treatment ...

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 ...

<p>This collection documents in part the lives and fates of members of the Briess family and related families who emanated from what is now the Czech Republic, formerly Czechoslovakia, Bohemia and Moravia. The papers show how a once wealthy, thriving, well established&nbsp; and well respected Jewish family was persecuted by the Nazis, many of whose members were murdered or forced to flee their homeland.&nbsp;</p><p>The ...

Collection includes: Order by the Lutsk city administration for the Jews of Lutsk to wear identification marks (inventory 1, files 114, 256). Correspondence between Lutsk city administration and Lutsk Judenrat regarding organization of the hospital in the ghetto, typhus and quarantine in the ghetto (inventory 1, file 117, pp. 9, 46, 59, 78, 95) Lists of the Jewish property left after the liquidation ...

The Jewish Community of Berlin-According to a census of June 16, 1933, the Jewish population of Berlin, Germany's capital city, was about 160,000. Berlin's Jewish community was the largest in Germany, comprising more than 32 percent of all Jews in the country. In the face of Nazi persecution, many Jews emigrated from Berlin. Berlin's Jewish population fell to about 80,000 people as a result of emigration ...

"Under the code name Operation Reinhard, more than one and a half million Jews were murdered between 1942 and 1943 in the concentration camps of Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka, located in Nazi-occupied Poland. Unlike more well-known camps, which were used both for slave labor and extermination, these camps existed purely to murder Jews. Few victims survived to tell their stories, and the camps were ...

Interviews with Polish inhabitants of Grabow, a village located 19 km from the Chelmno extermination camp. Prior to the war, Jews had accounted for over half the population of Grabow. In 1942, all of the approximately 4,000 Jews of Grabow were rounded up, locked in the town's Catholic church, and then transported to Chelmno. In these outtakes, Lanzmann reads a letter written by the rabbi of Grabow ...

Contains one photograph of Mayor Vincent Azema of Banyuls, France, and two newspapers from the 1980s. The copy of the newspaper "El Punt" features an article about Walter Benjamin's death while fleeing the Nazis in 1940; "Le journal independant" has a half-page interview with Lisa Fittko about her memoirs of the network that helped Jews escape across the Spanish border at Banyuls.