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The tape begins in the middle of Session 71, with testimony from Gedalia Ben-Zvi. Ben-Zvi describes his attempt to get into the commando unit in "Canada" and his duties in that unit. "Canada" was the nickname for the looted property taken from arriving transports, and referred the supposed riches possessed by people who lived in Canada. A portion of the last segment is repeated. Ben-Zvi gives an account ...

The letter, addressed to Susan Tabue, was written in Hamburg, Germany by Margarete Jacobson. The letter reveals the fate of Susan Taube’s mother and sister, Bertha and Hilde Strauss.

The Litke family papers document the experiences of Chaim Litke and Frida Hoffmann Litke in concentration camps during the Holocaust, and their post-war lives in the Eggenfelden displaced persons camp, Eggenfelden, Germany from 1945-1949. The collection includes papers from Eggenfelden, immigration and naturalization documents, restitution papers, Frida’s testimonies about her time in Auschwitz concentration ...

Official documentation, memoirs and letters from the Holocaust Period collected by the Museum "Jews in Latvia"
 
 The Collection includes letters from Red Army soldiers sent from the front during 1941-1945, and memoirs of former Soviet prisoners regarding Salaspils, Kaiserwald and Stutthof camps; testimonies and memoirs regarding the Riga Ghetto life and Salaspils camp life; excerpts from ...

Documentation of the regional Commission for the Investigation of Nazi War Crimes in Szczecin, dated 1964-1981
 
 Included in the collection:
 
 Information booklets of the State Museum of Auschwitz Camp, 1976-1981; list of places of Nazi crimes in Police; documentation regarding crimes by Nazis suspected of murdering inmates in the Police labor camp (a sub-camp of the Stutthof ...

Collectie 250k: Concentratiekampen buiten Nederland > Stutthof

Concentration camp uniform cap issued to Werner Sauer while interned in Stutthof concentration camp as a German marine deserter in early 1945. The cap is lined with cloth because German military deserters were treated better than Jewish prisoners. The hats Werner had been issued previously as a Jewish inmate were not lined. Werner saved the cap, and refused to ever have it cleaned, as evidence of his ...

In June 1941, the Nazis attacked Gorzd (Gargzdai), Lithuania, Baum's birthplace, and transported all of the Jewish women and children to Anelishke. During this time, Baum's family was trying to secure emigration papers. Instead of receiving visas for the United States, they received visas for Shanghai and had to report to the ghetto in Rīga, Latvia. Around July 1943, Jews in Rīga were being transported ...

In June 1941, the Nazis attacked Gorzd (Gargzdai), Lithuania, Baum's birthplace, and transported all of the Jewish women and children to Anelishke. During this time, Baum's family was trying to secure emigration papers. Instead of receiving visas for the United States, they received visas for Shanghai and had to report to the ghetto in Rīga, Latvia. Around July 1943, Jews in Rīga were being transported ...

Discusses the internment and annihilation of Jews in 18 camps during World War II: concentration camps Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Dachau, Dora, Flossenbürg, Gross-Rosen, Mauthausen, Natzweiler-Struthof, Neuengamme, Ravensbrück, Sachsenhausen, Stutthof; and extermination camps Auschwitz, Bełżec, Chełmno, Majdanek, Sobibór, Treblinka. Deals with the history and organization of the camps, based on ...

The artist and painter Esther Lurie (1913-1998) grew up in Latvia. She studied in Belgium and made aliya to Eretz Israel in 1934. In 1938 she won the Dizengoff Prize. She traveled to visit her relatives in Latvia and Lithuania in 1939, and was unable to return to Eretz Israel. In June 1941 she was in Kaunas. She was deported to the Kaunas Ghetto and documented life in the Kaunas Ghetto in her paintings. ...

Jérôme Scorin continues his testimony before the Court. He describes his transfers from Montluc, Drancy, and ultimately Auschwitz-Birkenau. He then discusses his experience at Auschwitz-Birkenau, including forced labor, sickness, and persecution. He was subsequently moved to Stutthof, to a camp near Stuttgart, to Ohrdruf Le Revier, and then to Buchenwald before being marched away from the encroaching ...