Jewish settlement in Beroun is documented from the end of the 17th century. A Jewish community existed there from the middle of the 19th century until the Nazi occupation. The community was not re-established after the Second World War.

Henry (Heinrich) Kalmus (1906-1982) was born in Vienna, and after his studies in that city, he obtained a degree in engineering and moved to Budapest when he was offered a position with the Orion Radio company. In 1938 he left Budapest, first for London, and then he immigrated to the United States, initially living in New York and Chicago, working for Zenith Radio in the latter city. In the late 1940s, ...

The amateur films shot by German infantryman Corporal Eugen Biedenbach of 419 Infantry Regiment record his training and active service in the German campaigns against Yugoslavia and on the southern sector of the Eastern Front. The films also containg pre- and post-war scenes of Biedenbach family life in Stuttgart (where the family of Eugen's wife owned a clothes store) as well as recreational activities. ...

Large covered trucks pull up outside the Louvre, the entrance to which is guarded by armed police. Shots of large crates containing works of art as they are unloaded from the trucks. A woman checks off items against a list. 01:24:52 Hearses enter and exit the garage of "104 rue d'Aubervilliers, the building of municipal undertakers" (according to the dope sheet). Interior shots of men building coffins ...

The Michael V. Roth photograph collection consists of photographs of relating to the Holocaust experiences of Michael (Miklos) Roth of Ricse, Hungary. The pre-war photographs include photographs of children in Ricse, Hungary, Michael Roth as a child, and members of the Roth family. The post-war photographs include the exterior of the Kloster Indersdorf children’s home and a group of children at the ...

Ellen Weinberg (later Nebel) was born on March 6, 1925 in Hannover, Germany. Her father, Emmanuel Weinberg, was the owner of J.P. Neumark, a piece goods store in Hannover. Her mother Else was a pianist. The Weinberg family was not observant, but still maintained a strong Jewish identity. In the prewar period, the anti-Semitism of the German government restricted Ellen’s life, but she still managed ...

Records reflect primarily the activities of the Amsterdam Judenrat with its various departments, and the Jewish interaction with the German and Dutch authorities, the daily life and living conditions of the Jews in Holland under the Nazi occupation, some documents relate to Jewish life in Netherlands prior to, and subsequent to the Holocaust. Included are records of the Joodsche Raad (Judenrat), the ...

Emil Rueb was the son of David and Berta Rueb. He was born August 23, 1906 in Guntersblum, Germany, where his father worked as a real estate agent, owned vineyards and sold agricultural products. Emil had a younger sister, Hedwig (Hede, b. 1915). Soon after the Nazi seizure of power, the family business was ruined by the anti-Jewish boycott. Emil then decided to study photography in order to obtain ...

This study, closely researched by Philip Towle over the past thirty years, is principally concerned with the military relations between Britain and Japan during the first half of the twentieth century and the ambivalence, misunderstandings and misconceptions that informed their relationship, described by the author as 'an epic tragedy'. Following the signing of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance in 1902, ...

Digital copy available as collection KD_00977 at Kazerne Dossin Research Centre

Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych

"This book explores the dynamic role of love in German-Jewish lives, from the birth of the German Empire in the 1870s, to the 1970s, a generation after the Shoah. During a remarkably turbulent hundred-year period when German Jews experienced five political regimes, rapid urbanization, transformations in gender relations, and war and genocide, the romantic ideals of falling in love and marrying for ...

<p> <strong>FOR PERMISSION TO ACCESS THIS ARCHIVE PLEASE CLICK THE LINK BELOW IN THE ATTACHED DOCUMENTS FIELD AND PRINTOUT, FILL OUT AND SEND TO ADDRESS GIVEN.</strong></p>The Defence Archive contains reports from the Jewish community's observers who attended many local and national meetings held by these groups, assessments of the groups' aims and capabilities, correspondence with the police and government, ...

Typescript copy and translations of the memoirs of Moses Lissiansky (1872-1943), describing his life in pre-revolutionary and revolutionary Russia, originally written in Austria in the 1930s, as well as translations and summaries of correspondence that his son, Arnold Lissance, had received from his family in Austria after his own immigration to the United States in the 1930s. Also contains documents ...

Simon Steil is the son of Adolf Steil and Eliza nee (Meizels) Meissels Steil. Simon was born on May 4, 1938 in Antwerp Belgium. He had one older brother Mark who was born in 1929 in Lvov, Poland. In 1931 Simon's parents and brother moved to Belgium where his father worked in the diamond business. In May 1940, Germany invaded Belgium and two years later began deporting Jews to the death camps in Poland. ...

Maria Dworzecka (born Marysia Rozenszajn, 1941- ) was born on June 19, 1941 to Izak (Wlodek) Rozenszajn (d. 1941) and Bela Rozenszajn (Bella, née Kaufman, 1909-1948). Bela Rozenszajn was born in 1909 in Pinsk (now Belarus) and had been active in the Communist party since 1929. Bela moved to Warsaw, Poland where she met Izak Rozenszajn. After the start of World War II, they fled to Białystok, Poland ...

Louis Hane (1910‐1979) was born Lothar Kahn in Lollar, Germany, to Albert and Regina Kahn and had an older sister named Leni. He became a Social Democrat after World War I and started working for his father’s oil supply business in 1928. In 1933 he married Maria Dort, who was not Jewish. He was imprisoned at the Osthofen concentration camp for three weeks in August 1933 as a political prisoner because ...

Mandil Family photograph collection consists of pre-war and post-war photographs of the Mandil family, Konfino family, and the Ben-Yosif family all of Yugoslavia, as well as the Veseli family of Krujë, Albania. The photographs of the Mandil family include photographs of Gavra and Irena Mandil used as advertisement for the family’s photograph studio including a photograph of the Jewish children standing ...

The Ita Dimant papers include correspondence, photographs, personal documents, a diary, and memoirs relating to Ita Dimant’s experiences in hiding under false papers and in a labor camp in Germany. The collection includes false identification documents, correspondence between Ita and her family and wartime and post-war correspondence with the Brust family, who helped protect Ita. Also included are ...

Contains pre-war photographs of the Fingerhut family (George Fine's family) from Siauliai, Lithuania, and of the Marmor family (Shari Fine's family) of Bistrita, Romania. Includes postwar identification cards issued to the donors and immigration paperwork documenting Shari Marmor's immigration to Canada. Also includes playbills, posters, songbooks, and other materials documenting Yiddish theatrical ...

Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych

<u> Brief biography of Itzhak Katzenelson</u><br> Poet, author, playwright, teacher, and educator, Itzhak-Yechiel Katzenelson was born in 1885 or 1886 in Karelicze, Minsk district, Belorussia. In 1887 his family relocated to Lodz. Katzenelson’s literary, dramatic, and pedagogical talents were recognized at an early age, he wrote plays, poems, and stories for children. In Lodz in 1912, he founded the ...

Footage begins with a shot of the courtroom in the middle of Session 51. The judges are looking over a set of documents. Judge Landau notes that they have decided to admit into evidence selections from the diary of Advocate Yomtov Yekuel and an affidavit from Advocate Asher Rafael Moissis (00:02:00). State Attorney Yaacov Bar-Or addresses the court with excerpts from Yekuel's diary pertaining to the ...

Correspondence, identification and citizenship documents, school report cards, letters of reference, photographs, and other items, that primarily document the lives of Irma Rothstern and her son Heinz, of Hamburg, Germany, during the 1910s to 1930s, and then following their forced emigration due to Nazi persecution, in Shanghai, China from 1939 to 1955. Included is a document about the citizenship ...