Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Nach der Eingliederung Österreichs in das Deutsche Reich wurde in Linz die Donauflottille aufgestellt, die bei Kriegsausbruch verkleinert, nach dem Westfeldzug im Frühjahr 1940 nach Holland verlegt, im April 1941 je doch wieder zurückverlegt wurde. Mit Beginn des Rußlandfeldzuges großteils im Schwarzen Meer eingesetzt, war ihr Flottillenchef vom Januar bis August 1942 ...

The collection consists of an unused envelope and a piece of letterhead stationery for the Reichswerke Aktiengesellschaft für Erzbergbau und Eisenhütten "Hermann Göring", an armaments factory established by Nazi Germany in Linz, Austria, in 1938, just before World War II.

Barnett Bader served with the United States Army in the Third Armored Division under General Patton.

Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Für Österreich wurden am 1. April 1938 die Wehrkreiskommandos XVII und XVIII (Salzburg) geschaffen. Den Wehrkreiskommandos oblagen u.a. Leitung des Ersatzwesens, Vorbereitung der Mobilmachung, Betreuung und Einsatz der Landesschützen-Bataillone (hauptsächlich Kriegsgefangenenbewachung), Überwachung der Ausbildung der unterstellten Truppen, Sicherung des Befehlsbereichs ...

Consists of a German photo album acquired by US serviceman John Racik Jr. (b. 1925) while stationed in the region around Linz am Rhein, Germany. Included in the album are scenes of uniformed German troops at leisure and in the field. Other scenes depict family life, and show party figures such as Adolf Hitler.

Contains records from the Oberösterreichisches Landesarchiv in Linz, Austria related to the confiscation and restitution of Jewish property in Austria and Germany. Includes correspondence, questionnaires, financial documents, reports, newspaper clippings, name lists, property lists, and restitution claims from the Finanzlandesdirektion of Upper Austria.

The collection includes Dr. Eduard Bloch's autobiography titled “Warum ich Europea verlassen, und was ich in Amerika erreicht habe,” written between 1941 and 1945. In his autobiography, Eduard provides a history of his family and details his life in Austria and his family’s immigration to the United States as well as and his career as a physician, including his professional acquaintance with the Hitler ...

Trunk used by Ruth Linz's husband when he immigrated from Nazi Germany to the United States.

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Dr. Eduard Bloch (1872-1945) was a Jewish medical doctor who practiced in Linz, Austria in the late 1800s to early 1900s. Eduard was born in Frauenberg (currently Hluboká nad Vltavou, Czech Republic) and had three sisters and one brother. He married Emilie Kafka (Emliy, 1875-1961, born Linz) in 1902 and they had a daughter, Gertrude Bloch (Trude, later Kren, 1903-1992, born in Austria). Eduard studied ...

Collection of materials documenting the postwar life of Wolf and Rachel Munic in various locations including Linz, Berlin, Frankfurt, and Hamilton, Canada. Includes their Canadian passports, a notebook, handwritten memoirs by Wolf Munic dated circa 1948, their ketubah, identity papers, correspondence, and other documents from the late 1940s to early 1970s.

Adolf Eichmann wurde 19.3.1906 in Solingen geboren. Bereits 1914 zog die Familie nach Linz an der Donau, wo Eichmann aufwuchs. Nach dem Besuch der Höheren Lehranstalt für Maschinenbau in Linz war er von 1925 bis 1933 als Vertreter bei verschiedenen Firmen, zuletzt bei der Vacuum Oil Company AG tätig. 1932 trat er der österreichischen NSDAP und SS bei. 1933 ging er zurück nach Deutschland, war dort ...

Black and white photograph depicting corpses piled on ground and on a cart, survivors and barracks visible in the background at the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria. On the verso is a handwritten inscription in blue ink: "Mauthausen / Concentration / Camp / near Linz, Austria / May 1945." The photograph was brought home from the war by Sgt. William Stanton of Vermont who served with the 11th ...

Met lit.opg., index. ix, 300 p. : graf., tab. ; 25 cm.

The collection consists of three drawings, postcard correspondence, documents, and a Spanish Schutzpass relating to the experiences of Magda Mezei and her family before and during World War II in Budapest, Hungary, during which her father Henrik and older brother Janos perished and Magda, her mother Berta, and brother Gyorgy survived by obtaining a Spanish schutzpass and refuge in the Spanish safe ...

Der Bestand enthält den größten Teil jener Arisierungsakten, denen nach dem Ende des Nationalsozialismus kein gerichtliches Rückstellungsverfahren folgte, so dass sie weder im Amt der Landesregierung (vgl. Finanzabteilung Bestand Rückstellungen (FIRK)) noch bei Gericht (vgl. LG Linz, Sondergerichte – Rückstellungskommission) weitergeführt wurden. Weil die Wiederherstellung der zerstörten Ordnung nicht ...

The collection consists of artifacts and a photograph relating to the experiences of Irena Ehrlich vel Sluszny (now Urdang de Tour) and her family in Warsaw and the Warsaw ghetto in Poland before and during the Holocaust, to Irena's experiences in a slave labor factory in Berlin, and in Bindermichl displaced persons camp in Linz, Austria, after the Holocaust.

Photographs illustrating pre-war and post-war life of Alexander Salomon, born in Satu-Mare, Romania and his wife Amalia (nee Rosenbaum) born in Tiszaferegy Haza, in what is today Czech Republic, and their children Michael, Morris and Elizabeth born between 1939-1941 in Satu-Mare, Romania. The family remained in Satu-Mare in hiding during the Holocaust and lived in Bindermichl and Ebelsberg displaced ...

Contains a bound manuscript written by Kurt Grubler titled, "Death or Survival: A Survivor's Holocaust Experience," correspondence and documents relating to the Nazi persecution of Jews in Austria and Poland, and materials comprised chiefly of correspondence (1915-1948) and official documentation (1900-1942) of the Grubler and Littner families. The collection includes copies of drawings, photographs, ...

Contains documents on illegal Nazi activities in Austria before its annexation to Germany in March 1938. Topics covered include the Nazi administration in Oberdonau from 1938 to 1945 and the Aryanization of Jewish property, as well as postwar denazification.The collection includes records from the Bezirkshauptmannschaften of Braunau am Inn; Eferding; Gmunden; Grieskrichen; Kirchdorf an der Krems; Linz-Land; ...

Consists of a certificate issued on 14 June 1945 in Linz, Austria, to Israel Bloch, donor’s husband, stating that he was born on 18 September 1911 in Krakow, Poland, and was imprisoned in the Mauthausen concentration camp from 13 March 1942 until liberation on 5 May 1945; and a declaration of intention to become a citizen of the United States, filed by Israel Bloch on 28 March 1951, in Toledo, Ohio, ...