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Éva (János’s sister) plays with a shovel in City Park in summer. Excursion to the country, on a hillside. János carries the camera bag. (01:15) János, Andris Berkes, and Gyuri Quittner race each other on the park pathway and play-wrestle. Along with fathers Sandor Berkes and Emi Quittner in knickerbockers, they hike in the hills and play tag in the grass. (03:52) János, Éva, mother Erzsébet, and the ...

Shmuel Czyzyk was born on February 8, 1924 or 1925, in Pulawy, a district of Lublin, Poland, to Chaim and Basia. Chaim was born in 1897 in Konskowola to Szyja and Miriam Czyzyk. Basia was born in Pulawy in 1898 to Leib and Simcha Franenberg. Shmuel had two sisters, Bronia, born 1920, and Golda, born 1928, and one brother, Moshe, born 1922. The family was observant Jews. His father was employed as a ...

Ernö (Ernest) Schiffer, born in Námesztó in 1893, studied medicine at university in Budapest. He enlisted in the Austro-Hungarian Army during World War I and was in charge of a medical unit on the Russian Front. In the 1920s, he worked at the Jewish Hospital in Budapest and specialized in the new field of radiology, developing techniques for the X-ray apparatus, various shutters, and cooling devices, ...

This is a collection of original papers of Philipp Manes, former fur trader, resident of Berlin and later inmate of Terezin, from where he was sent to his death at Auschwitz with his wife in 1944.</p><br />

This is a collection of original papers of Philipp Manes, former fur trader, resident of Berlin and later inmate of Terezin, from where he was sent to his death at Auschwitz with his wife in 1944.</p><br />

Lanzmann interviewed Franz Suchomel, who was with the SS at Treblinka, in secret at the Hotel Post in April 1976. This was the first interview Lanzmann filmed with the newly developed hidden camera known as the Paluche, and he paid Suchomel 500 DM. In the outtakes, Suchomel provides further details about the treatment of Jews at the camp, as well as a more ambivalent memory of his experiences than ...

“Václav Kostelecký. Květnová revoluce 1945.” AGFA logo. Picture reportage from Prague at the end of WW2 filmed by Vaclav Kostelecky from April 30 to May 16, 1945. View of the Prague Castle from a hillside. Mr. Kostelecky inspects a camera. Prague Castle and the top of the Church of Saint Nicholas. Intertitle: “30. duben 1945” April 30, 1945 Prague Castle and a building, perhaps the former headquarters ...

György (George Pick) was born March 28, 1934 in Budapest, Hungary. He was the only child of middle class Jewish parents. György’s father, Istvan, was an engineer responsible for producing hydraulic grape presses for wineries. His mother, Margit Pick (née Kornhauser), worked as a legal secretary. The Pick family could trace its history in the Austro-Hungarian Empire back 230 years, and György had many ...

Ruth Franken was born on July 15, 1937, in Haarlem, Netherlands, to Max, born on July 8, 1897, in Emmerich, Germany, and Irma Saloman, born on January 12, 1907, in Linden bei Bochum, Germany. Max served in the German Army during World War I (1914-1918), was wounded and received an Iron Cross and other military honors. He worked as an upholsterer. Irma was one of three children born to an Orthodox Jewish ...