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Rachel Hakker was born in Switzerland on 9 December 1942. Her family originated from Antwerp. Rachel’s father Simon Hakker was born in the Belgian port city in 1912, as the son of the Dutch couple Joseph Hakker and Rachel Simons. Like his father, Simon became a pastry chef. The Hakker family had a bakery at Provinciestraat in Antwerp. In 1934, grandfather Joseph Hakker won a baking competition by creating ...

(LIB 6198) Stalag #4 Concentration Camp, Landsberg, Germany, April 29, 1945. US soldiers of the 103rd Division, VI Corps, Seventh US Army, round up civilian work detail and load men with picks and shovels into trucks. MS, CUs German civilians bury bodies of Jewish political prisoners. INT underground barracks used to house the prisoners. CUs emaciated bodies of dead Jews in the camp. CUs and long pan, ...

Consists of articles written by Esther Berkensztadt Sendrowicz containing her account of her experiences during the Holocaust. The articles are entitled, "Finding Kindness in Auschwitz," "It's Hard to be Alone Here," "I was Thinking She Would Kill Me", "I was by the Gallows," "Hess and Hessler Selected from over 1000, 137 to go Back to the Barracks," "Dr. Mengele in Auschwitz," "My American Liberators ...

Consists of one typed portion of a memoir, 37 pages, entitled "80574" written by Simha Naor, born Stella Silberstein, 1899-1994, originally of Vienna, Austria. In the memoir, which was written based on the diary she began immediately after liberation, Simha describes her arrest in southern France in 1943, her deportation to Drancy and almost immediately thereafter, to Auschwitz. She describes the process ...

LS, EXT, large unidentified city/town. Trolleys passing by on busy street, civilians, buildings, fountains, cathedral. Cut to VS, American soldiers at barracks, walking about, open fields and mountains in the BG. VS, countryside surrounding the base camp. MCU, local woman with young girl sitting in a car speaking to cameraman and smiling. VS, aerial views of unidentified town, ships docked at port. ...

Corpses at Nordhausen. US medical crews evacuate survivors. MS, corpses. Survivors assisted onto litters, evacuated for treatment, man praying/crying, eating, loaded onto ambulances. Victims buried in a common grave by German civilians, corpses carried (gruesome), priest at jeep. Civilians march with shovels. Soldiers stand by mass graves. Red Cross workers feed soup to Hannover survivors. CUs, men ...

(B-1222) KZ Gusen, Austria, May 11, 1945. MSs, CUs, large pile of bodies and individual bodies at Gusen, a sub-camp of Mauthausen. MSs, CUs, weak, emaciated prisoners wandering in the camp. CUs, starved prisoners. MSs, inmates of women's section. CUs, starved, naked prisoners being cared for by other inmates. MSs, CUs, German SS troops pulling carts containing bodies. VS, bodies being gathered throughout ...

Reel I: Germans in Paris, placing wreaths at the tomb of the unknown soldier, flags, wreaths, etc. March in streets, rally, Vel d'Hiv. Speaker: Jaques Doriot. Workers (men and women, some POWs) in a factory, in mines, etc. The music is very reminiscent of the opening theme of Beethoven's Third Symphony, Eroica. Reel II: EXT, soldiers clowning around outside of their barracks. Soldiers eat, sing, dance, ...

Six photographs are taken of the situation at Buchenwald and Nordhausen camps upon liberation--photographs of barracks, of lines of corpses, of piles of bone, and of an inmate showing his tattoo. Two of the photographs have the words "Buchenwald Concentration Camp--not for publication" and "Nordhausen" written on them. One photograph is of what appears to be Jewish-American soldiers being led in prayer ...

Consists of one page of typed testimony written by Gerhard Moos (now Gerard Moss) about his arrest in Munich on Kristallnacht and being imprisoned in Dachau at age 16. Also includes copies of official documents, an original wedding announcement, and testimony related to the experiences of Max Rosenbaum, originally of Munich, who was also arrested in Kristallnacht and imprisoned in the same barracks ...