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Sessions 41 and 42. Two male translators sitting in a booth. Near the beginning of Dr. Heinrich Grüber's testimony, Assistant State Attorney Bar-Or asks if Grüber knows the accused, when he first saw him, and about the discussion he had with Eichmann in their first meeting, which concerned Jewish immigration. Grüber describes Eichmann as a block of ice or marble and says that he never received from ...

The archival collection of the Tradesmen Association of the Košice District contains important documents regarding the situation of Jewish industrialists and tradesmen that inhabited the localities of the surroundings of Košice. It holds records from the interwar period and the years of Jewish persecution during WWII. A total of 14 boxes - which represents the half of the whole collection - are related ...

"The Last Ghetto is the first in-depth analytical history of a prisoner society during the Holocaust. Terezín (Theresienstadt in German) was operated by the Nazis between November 1941 and May 1945 as a transit ghetto for Central and Western European Jews before their deportation for murder in the East. Rather than depict the world of the prisoners as an atomized state of exception, it argues that ...

More scenes of life and the family visit to Bad Gastein, beginning with a farmer and his boys shoveling hay into a wagon. The family eats at an outside restaurant. The boys walk along a path in the mountains with their grandfather Fritz (and a nanny/host?). Waterfall. The boys enjoy another meal outdoors. The family takes a carriage ride through the city, and into the mountains. The boys pick flowers ...

Ellen (Maexie) Regenstreif Illich (1901-1965) came from a family of converted Sephardic Jews who had settled in Germany. Her industrialist father, Fritz (Pucki) Regenstreif (1868-1941), had a lumber business in Bosnia where he owned a sawmill at Zavidovic and an Art Nouveau villa on the outskirts of Vienna in Pötzleinsdorf built by Friedrich Ohmann. Piero Ilic (1890-1942) came from a landed family ...

Consists of one memoir, 42 pages, entitled "My Story," written in 2005 by Eva Biro Slott, originally of Szentes, Hungary. She describes her childhood in Hungary, the deaths of her parents in 1931, and living with various relatives. In 1944, she was living in Budapest and writes about the German invasion of Hungary. She was sent to forced labor but was soon released, returned to Budapest, and described ...

The collection consists of pre-war photographs of Bracha Plotnik with family and friends in Bedzin, Poland, several wartime photographs, and postwar photographs from various displaced persons camps including the Weiden and Beyruth DP camps.

Karl Akiva Schwarz was born on 21 August 1921 in Vienna Austria to Erich Josef (1895-1949) and Erna (née Flessig, 1896-1942?) Schwarz. His father was a veterinarian. Karl had one brother, Heinrich (1924-1942?) and one sister, Henrietta (1919-1944?). After graduating from middle school Karl became an apprentice in a metal factory and simultaneously attended a vocational school for two and a half years. ...

Gold hoop earrings worn by Sophia Kerpholz while she lived in hiding as a child from 1942-1944 in Poland. In early 1942, 9-year-old Sophia and her parents, Natan and Sarah, were imprisoned in the Jewish ghetto in Trembowla, Poland (Terebovlia, Ukraine) by the occupying German authorities. Sophia’s mother had to turn the earrings over to the Gestapo, but they were returned because they were too small ...

Familiar to anyone versed in the history of World War II or interested in the study of modern intelligence work, Bletchley Park was arguably the most successful intelligence operation in world history, the top secret workplace of the remarkable people who cracked Germany's vaunted Enigma Code. Almost to the end of the war, the Germans had firm faith in the Enigma ciphering machine, but in fact the ...