Title: "Ein Leistungsbericht zum 10 jährigen bestehen der NSV." [A progress report on 10 years of achievement by the Nazi Welfare Organization]. 1932: Man stamping ID papers, pan, factories with smokestacks. "Eröffnung des Winterhilfswerkes 1933/34". Headlines of Voelkischer Beobachter. Nazi community self-help - Winterhelp work (WHW). Collecting, donating money. Crowds, street entertainment, circus, ...

Hélène Goldflus was born Hélène Cantkier, on 10 September 1931, the daughter of Natan and Therese, or Taube (née Klejtman), in Paris. Her parents, although originally from different towns in Poland, met in Warsaw and were married there in 1930. For their honeymoon, they travelled to Paris, where a cousin of Natan's lived, and decided to remain there. Hélène had three brothers, Maurice (born 1935), ...

The Joseph and Josie Peretz papers comprise documents and photographs concerning Joseph and Josie Peretz, a Jewish couple living in Antwerp, Belgian who survived the Holocaust. Joseph, after being released as a prisoner of war with the Belgian army was deported to a labor camp in northern France and escaped after procuring false French papers, while Josie, a Polish-born Jew, lived with a couple in ...

Digital copy available as KD_00514 at Kazerne Dossin

The Lottie Wallerstein Salz papers include her original typescript memoirs in German and an English translation. The memoirs describer her life in Prague; her time in Theresienstadt in 1942 and 1943; her deportation to Auschwitz with her parents in December 1943; her father’s death in in 1944; her experiences in the "family camp" at Birkenau; her deportation to Stutthof with her mother in July 1944; ...

The excerpt opens on a group of well-fed people around a table eating a sumptious dinner. They complain about rationing as they eat. A young boy dressed in a Hitler Youth uniform comes in and stands at the door listening, where he is joined by the maid. She says that if people don't give things up for the war, then it will end up as it was in 1918. The boy says, "yes, and they are waiting for that ...

Collection of the Stichting Landelijke Organisatie voor Hulp aan Onderduikers en Landelijke Knokploegen - LO (Fund to Help Those In Hiding and the National Organization of Teams of Fighters in the Netherlands), regarding Jews, 1940-1945
 
 Included in the collection:
 
 Documents collected by the Stichting Landelijke Organisatie voor Hulp aan Onderduikers en Landelijke Knokploegen ...

The records in this fonds pertain to the experience of Mayer Levit after his liberation from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. These include transit and identification documents, a prayer book, embroidered towel, ration card and official documents attesting to his status as prisoner and his subsequent application for compensation.

Sary Melles was born Nannie Sari Louise Magnus in Groningen, the Netherlands, on 10 June 1928, the daughter of Noach (born 9 June 1886) and Roosje (née Jakobs, born 23 February 1893) Magnus, both of whom were originally from Emmen. Noach owned a textile business in Groningen, and in addition to Sari, the Magnuses had two other children, a daughter Henriette, or Hetty (born 16 August 1916, Emmen), and ...

The Leah Press Kalina photographs contain photographic prints, photographic postcards, and Rosh Hashanah cards documenting the post-war experiences of Leah Press Kalina, her sister Ruchel, and friends. The majority of the images in this collection depict Leah in the Deggendorf displaced persons camp between 1946 and 1947. Images include daily activities within the camp, friends, weddings, and Leah ...

Film with prologue and text. Introduction and intertitles. Image rolls at 01:42:37 with two women crossing a canal bridge in the city of Amsterdam. The streets are mostly empty. View of houses, bridges and canals, pedestrians, cars, a statue of Johann Rudolph Thorbecke (nineteenth century Dutch politician), businesses, the club Alcazar, a street sign showing "Thorbeckeplein Centrum" [Thorbecke Square ...

Maurice Alwyn La Kerr (1912-1991) was born in San Diego, California on 15 November 1912 to Raymond Milton and Virda May Sims. His early career was in the entertainment business as an actor. In 1942, he became a junior fingerprint technician with the California Bureau of Identification and Investigation. In 1945 he joined the United States Army as a fingerprint classifier for the Public Safety division ...

The Stolz and White families papers include biographical material, correspondence, school records, writings, restitution material, and photographs relating to the pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences of Erika Stolz and her parents, Leon and Rosa, originally of Vienna, Austria. At the beginning of the war Erika was sent on a Kinderstransport to Christian boarding school in England. Leon and Rosa ...

This collection contains: the wedding booklet of Moise Josef alias Joske Gemeiner and Rosa Lewy, 1933 ; three fake ID cards issued to Rosa Lewy during the war under the false names Virginie Stevens (Antwerp), Coleta Avezals (Schoten) and Anna Opdebeeck (Antwerp) ; card for a beneficiary of the status of political prisoner issued to Salomon Gemeiner as beneficiary of his father Moise Josef Gemeiner, ...

Description of the files are available on IDEA ALM system at Yad Vashem Archives reading room

This collection contains: a digital copy of the Rosenblatt-Ginsberg family photo album, including photos of Hans Rosenblatt, his parents Adolf Rosenblatt and Lea Ginsberg, his uncle Samuel Rosenblatt and his adoptive parents David Dorn and Hanna alias Fanny Dorn taken before, during and after the war ; Samuel Rosenblatt’s American immigrant identification card from 1939 ; an album with handwritten ...

Collection of Hanns Albin Rauter, the Höhere SS und Polizeiführer, Generalkommissar für das Sicherheitswesen in the Netherlands, 1940-1945
 
 Hanns Albin Rauter was the head of the security system in the Netherlands, the Generalkommissar für das Sicherheitswesen en Höhere SS und Polizeiführer, the HSSPF during 1940-1945; operating beneath him were the SS, the Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei, ...

Film with text. The film (as seen in Story 1315) repeats with added intertitles in Dutch (see linked document). Image rolls at 01:16:19 with an older couple stands and converses. An adolescent boy comforts a young woman [this scene is clearly acted out with the characters wearing stage makeup]. An older man then opens the door, enters the room, and converses with a girl. Several people arrive and are ...

Film without text. An older couple stands and converses. An adolescent boy comforts a young woman [this scene is clearly acted out with the characters wearing stage makeup]. An older man then opens the door, enters the room, and converses with a girl. Several people arrive and are greeted warmly. They all wear yellow stars. INTs of the apartment. The table is set. A girl knits. People lounge about; ...

Natan Ramet was born in Warsaw, Poland, on 5 June 1925 as the son of Judka Ramet (born on 21 June 1886 in Warsaw) and Sura Polakiewicz (born on 15 January 1898 in Drohosiem, Poland). He had an older sister named Felicie who was born on 27 August 1921. In 1930, the family emigrated from Poland to Belgium as they were regularly confronted with antisemitism and violence against the Jewish community in ...

Painting and frame created by Dr. Samuel Vreedenburg in 1944 while he was living in hiding in the home of his former assistant and her husband, Janny and Willem Blom, in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It is a copy of Van Gogh’s The Zouave and was painted on a pillowcase with a frame made from crib slats. Germany occupied the Netherlands in May 1940 and, in 1942, Samuel and his wife Marianne sent their 9 year ...

Giza Golda Rozenblum-Schtoltzberg (now Wiernik) is the only child of Mordechai Rozenblum-Schtoltzberg and Chaja Tema Bitman. She was born on August 2, 1917 in Jamna, Poland, near Nadworna where her parents owned a grocery store and a summer lodge. Giza graduated from high school in 1935. After the start of World War II, Jamna fell under Soviet occupation, but life did not change much for Giza or her ...

O.30 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Austria, mainly during the Holocaust period
 
 The collection is primarily comprised of original documents: typewritten documents, manuscripts, surveys and duplicated reports entrusted to the Yad Vashem Archives over the years, mostly by private bodies. 
 
 The internal division of the Record group was changed a few years ago, and the original ...

Andries Sternheim was born into a Jewish family with three children in Amsterdam in 1890. His parents divorced when he was 15 years old. His mother worked in the diamond business and arranged an apprenticeship for him between 1905-1908. In 1910 he obtained a teaching certificate in Political Economy and Statistcs. He joined the labour union of the ANDB and the local branch of the Social Democratic ...