Adolf Heidemann (born 1887 in Osterholz) was the youngest of three sons of the Jewish couple David and Dina Heidemann (née Herzberg). He worked as an apprentice at Silberstein, a small private bank in Halberstadt. Adolf married Therese Senior from Halberstadt in 1919. They had their only daughter Ruth in 1920. In 1922 Adolf Heidemann obtained a job as manager of the Hamburger Handelsbank in Stade and ...

Margarita Shtromaite (Mara, later Lady Margaret Kagan) is the daughter of Jurgis (b. 1894) and Eugenia Shtromas (b. 1901). Margarita was born on July 12, 1924 in Riga, Latvia, and grew up in Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania. Her younger brother, Alexandras (Alik), was born on April 14, 1931. Though their father was born in Lithuania, their mother, Eugenia, was born and raised in St. Petersburg, Russia. After ...

The collection consists of a prisoner patch, documents, testimony, and publications relating to the experiences of Hermann Naidorf (later Neudorf) and his family members before and during the Holocaust in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, and Łódź, Poland, during which Hermann was imprisoned in Riga Ghetto and Kaiserwald, Stutthof, and Buchenwald concentration camps, and after the Holocaust when he emigrated ...

Reel 6: 1933 boycott of Jewish shops in Berlin, storefronts defaced, chanting crowd and SA men (scenes may be longer than usual with an additional chant). Nazi speaking. "Jude" painted on window. 05:48:03 Goering reading document to crowd, Nazi elite in FG (speech translated to English). 05:48:25 Round-ups, confusion, women and men pushed through Nazi crowd. Soft focus amateur footage of Lvov attack ...

Percy Haid, b. Riga, Latvia 1913-d. Chicago 1977. Composer and musician active in the Kovno ghetto. Haid performed and arranged music for the Ghetto Orchestra, and played piano and accordion at the ghetto's "coffee house," the Cafe Monika. His original song "Mamele" (The Old Mother), written in the wake of a Kinderaktion, became widely known in Kovno and other locales; his symphonic poem, Fantasie ...

Copyright Holder: Walter Schoenholz

Joseph Harmatz was born January 23, 1925 to Abrasha (Abraham) and Dora (Dvora) Baron Harmatz of Rokiskis, Lithuania and had two brothers, Zvi Hirsch (b. 1923) and Efraim (b. 1927). Joseph's father was a wholesale merchant, who owned a warehouse in Rokiskis' market square. The Harmatz family moved to Vilna in 1940, where Abrasha purchased several factories. Joseph was enrolled in a Lithuanian gymnasium ...

This documentary in the style of a Wochenschau [weekly newsreel] depicts the 'irresistible' military advance of the German army on the Eastern front of WWII, its reception as 'liberators' by the respective populations, & the scorched earth left behind by the retreating Soviet troops. Scenes show the German-Finnish border & the polar circle the German army crossed in summer 1941 as they advanced toward ...

Used Star of David badge given to 18 year old Bettina Mayer in Deggendorf displaced persons camp in 1945 by another camp resident. It was worn by the unknown person in Cologne, Germany, and it was given to Bettina because she was originally from Cologne. Jews were ordered to were a Judenstern badge at all times to identify them as Jews. Bettina, her parents, Siegmund and Johannette, and her brother, ...

The Kalman Linkimer diary was kept by Kalman Linkimer from 1944-1945 while in hiding with ten other Jews in the cellar of Robert and Johanna Seduls’ home in Liepāja, Latvia. Kalman began his diary in 1941, but he had to leave it behind when he escaped from the Liepāja ghetto. After he went into hiding at the Seduls’ home, he began a second diary from 1944-1945 and recounts his experiences recorded ...

Contains a memoir which Alice Shragai [donor] describes as a kind of diary about her experiences growing up in Kosice, Czechoslovakia, her experiences with anti-Semitisim, and involvement with a Zionist organization called Betarim. She discusses her life in the Riga ghetto and deportation to Auschwitz along with her return home and eventual emigration to Israel and later the United States.

The collection consists of a safety razor and a photograph relating to the experiences of Denes-Deszo Herskovits, when he was a forced laborer in Hungary and an inmate in Gunskirchen concentration camp in Austria, and a lice comb belonging to Borbala (Babi) Nussbacher (later Herskovits), when she was deported from Szilagysomlyo ghetto in Hungarian annexed Romania to Auschwitz, then Riga, Stutthof, ...

Wooden comb and paper case given to 21 year old Esther Dykman by a friend on December 27, 1944, when they were slave laborers in an AEG Factory in Kaiserwald concentration camp in Riga, Latvia. The friend found the comb on the side of the road and made the holder from materials taken from the factory where she and Esther worked. Germany invaded Soviet controlled Poland in June 21,1941, and three days ...

The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Ann Strauss-Salfield (née Schloss), originally of Stuttgart, Germany. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence between Ann, who fled to England in 1939, and her future husband Milton Strauss living in the United States. The correspondence focuses on their daily lives, but there are frequent discussions of her attempts to get a visa ...

Consists of papers related to the Holocaust and immigration experiences of the family of Isac and Lydia Hirschfeld, originally of Liebau, Latvia. Isac Hirscheld passed away before the war, and once the war began, Lydia and her daughters Fanny, Frida, and Marie were interned, first in the Riga ghetto, and later in a forced labor camp. The collection includes a wartime address book, Fanny's diary, kept ...

The camera fades in on the courtroom. Adolf Eichmann sits in the booth and cleans his glasses. The camera pulls out to a wide shot of the courtroom. Various shots of Eichmann and Servatius. A shot of the defense and the prosecuting attorneys. Eichmann is shown sitting in the booth. He turns to his right and looks over his shoulder (00:04:33). All stand as the judges enter the courtroom and Judge Landau ...

Raya Kirschner (later Feig) was born on May 21, 1929, in Bialystok, Poland, to Rabbi Meir Leib and Shaindel (Sonia) Denenberg Kirschner. She had an older brother Ben-Zion (Beno), born in 1925 in Papile, Lithuania. The family lived in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania. Her father was born in 1895 in Papile to Ben Zion and Rasha Rutenberg Kirshner. Rabbi Kirschner was the director of the Hebrew Gymnasium in ...

This collection primarily documents the wartime experiences of Richard Wertheimer and Klara (Deutsch) Wertheimer of Vienna, Austria securing passage to Havana, Cuba and joining their daughter Greta in New York between 1941 to 1942. The collection also documents the Wertheimer family’s life in Vienna in the 1920s and 1930s, including Greta Wertheimer’s report cards and Richard Wertheimer’s license to ...

Copyright Holder: Dr. Barbara Lau

Collection of documents, photographs and correspondence illustrating the experiences of donors before, during, and after the Holocaust; includes photographs from Bernard’s experiences in forced labor (March 1943-March 1944) and ghetto (March-May 1944), in addition to his post-war life in Displaced Persons camps in Germany and Italy [Trani] (1945-1949). Also included are records of Bella’s pre-war life ...

Part 3 of ENGLISH language version [corresponds to NARA reels 5 & 6] Excludes extra shot of nurses and Mogilev gassing. Courtroom scene, Russian prosecutor Gen. Rudenko at podium speaking about Canaris and Hans Frank describing Nazi policies and methods for exterminating Poles and others. Goering, Hitler, and other Nazi officials in a meeting. Pan, hut with thatched roof. CU pipes from a German police ...

<div>Erwin&nbsp;Rockwell (formerly Rachwalsky)&nbsp;left Berlin in 1933 to work as a civil engineer in Copenhagen, Denmark. &nbsp; In 1936 he came to England as he had managed to get a job with London Transport, starting in January 1937. &nbsp; Carla Simon joined him from Berlin &nbsp;and they were married at Hampstead Registry Office on the 30th December 1936. &nbsp;Their daughter, Alice, was born ...

Part 3 of GERMAN language version [corresponds to NARA reels 5 & 6] Includes extra shot of nurses and Mogilev gassing. Courtroom scene, Russian prosecutor Gen. Rudenko at podium, Gen. Erwin Lahousen in witness stand. Narrator quotes Lahousen speaking about Canaris and Hans Frank describing Nazi policies and methods for exterminating Poles and others. Goering, Hitler, and other Nazi officials in a meeting. ...

The envelope was sent by Rosa Goldberg from Millergasse 12.-16, Kassel, Germany to Morris Moidel at 4 Equality Park, W. Newport, RI, USA. The Moidel family were friends of the Goldberg family in Kassel and managed to get visas and immigrate to the United States before the war. The envelope bears four stamps of German National Insignia, encircled with "Oberkommando der Wermacht." The word "Geöffnet" ...