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Döme Sztójay (1883-1946), politician, diplomat and soldier. Sztójay served as Hungarian ambassador in Nazi Germany between 1936 and 1944. Upon March 19, 1944, Horthy was to appoint him to be Prime Minister and Foreign Minister in the collaborationist government of Hungary. Sztójay held these function between March and August 1944 and was thus directly responsible for the mass deportations of close ...

Half a century after the murder of his mother in Auschwitz, Isaac Lipschits writes her a letter. In it he reawakens memories of their family life in the years before the outbreak of the Second World War, and its repercussions. He relates to her the fate of her husband, her daughter and her five sons. First published in Dutch as Onbestelbaar: Herinneringen in briefvorm, the book recieved wide acclaim ...

Hanna Marton is from Cluj (now Romania), formerly the capital of Transylvania. Both Hanna Marton and her husband were lawyers and Zionists. Marton was aboard the train organized by Rudolf (Rezso) Kasztner, carrying 1684 'privileged' Jews that left Hungary for Germany, eventually bringing them to Bergen-Belsen on 9 July 1944. Claude Lanzmann asks questions in French, which Hanna Marton understands, ...

Session 32. Iranian Jews are being discussed in the reading of a document into the record by the Prosecution. This document includes Iranian Jews who practice other faiths in the extermination, to be treated the same as the Jews of Europe. The document is signed by Eichmann. 00:03:54 A document is being read into the record by the Prosecution, signed by Eichmann, saying that as soon as transports were ...

One common explanation for the world's failure to prevent the Holocaust is that the information about the Nazi extermination program seemed too incredible to believe. Fifty years later, Americans may now also find it difficult to believe that their fellow citizens were among the twelve million people murdered by the Nazis, abandoned to this fate by their own government. The outbreak of war in Europe ...

Pp. 13-48 contain the memoirs of Stránský, a Czech Jew (b. 1921). Describes the children's block of the "Czech family camp" in Auschwitz (he was in charge of the house of the 3-6 year olds), including visits by Mengele, who took children on his lap and played with them; the liquidation of his transport after half a year; the labor camp at Schwarzheide; and the death march to Theresienstadt in April ...

Třešť had been a non-royal town with a strong Jewish minority since the 15th century. Jews were mentioned to live in Třešť as early as the second half of the 13th century. From 1686, the compact Jewish settlement (ghetto) had been separated from the Christian community. In 1850–1864 Třešť was part of the judicial district of Jihlava, and in 1864–1911 a part of the judicial district of Jihlava-Country. ...

Jacqueline was a half-Jewish girl in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam when she met Anne. They quickly became inseparable - until the day Anne and her family went into hiding to escape deportation to the Nazi concentration camps. In this memoir, Jacqueline remembers Anne, their friendship, and her own chilling Holocaust experience of narrowly escaping deportation by the Nazis and helplessly watching friends ...

During a walk to town, Elizabeth Welt Trahan allows the memories of her childhood to surface after more than a half century - first in short, disconnected snippets but then more and more insistently, until she is pulled back into the nightmarish world of Hitler's Vienna where, being Jewish, she barely survived. But this is also the story of the maturing process of a young girl during those shattering ...

Amalia Malka Schwimmer (later Maria) was born on August 10, 1914 in Jazłowiec, near Buczacz, in Poland. She was the second daughter of Natan Karp Schwimmer, who owned a foundry and a metal works shop and Chana Finkelman Schwimmer. Amalia had three siblings: Rosa (b. 1913), Josef (b. 1916), and Feliks (b. 1926). Amalia attended a Jewish trade school for girls, which she graduated as a licensed dressmaker. ...