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Roza Kwar was born on July 20, 1927, in Lwow, Poland (Lviv, Ukraine), to Benzion (Bentichek) and Ernestyna (Tinka) Hercer Kwar. Her father had four brothers and other relatives living in the United States. In 1938, Benzion’s brother Charles visited the family in Poland. He brought affidavits of support that were needed to apply for American immigration visas. When the family went to the embassy to ...

The footage begins in the middle of the session. Attorney General Gideon Hausner cross-examines Adolf Eichmann about threats he made to Josef Loewenherz, head of the Jewish community of Vienna. Eichmann warned Loewenherz that if he did not comply with Eichmann's demands, Eichmann would bring back the horrors of Kristallnacht. Eichmann examines the document that contains the statement made by Loewenherz ...

Hans Prause was an engineer with the German Reichsbahn who was stationed in Warsaw, Radom, Lvov, and Malkinia. He talks about the good relations between the German and Polish railroads, preparing trains before the invasion of the USSR, the situation in Lvov, hostile relations between the Poles and the Jews, and visiting the Warsaw ghetto. He defends the fact that he signed orders by saying that the ...

Eli Ringer, born on 30 May 1943, was the son of Salomon Ringer and Liane Pappenheim. Salomon, born on 8 February 1913, and his parents got their hands on Paraguayan identification papers on 21 October 1942. Liane was born on 18 November 1911. She and Salomon married on 15 April 1935 and had four children. Salomon, Liane and their family were orthodox Jews. Eli’s grandparents, Chaim Ringer born on 19 ...

Otto Pfister (1900-1985) was born in Munich to Catholic parents. Although he did well in school as a child and loved to read, his family did not have the money to allow him to continue his formal education. At the age of 14, he was apprenticed as a cabinet-maker. Health problems prevented him from being conscripted in the Germany army in World War I, and he produced hand-dovetailed ammunition boxes ...

Yehuda Bauer, an Israeli scholar, talks about how he first became involved in the study of the Holocaust and how he tries to strike a balance between emotional involvement and objectivity. He talks about the Jewish Council and Israeli attitudes to them after the war. Lanzmann and Bauer debate Kasztner's actions and motivations and the Nazi fantasy of the powerful "world Jewry". The interview was recorded ...

Claude Lanzmann was born in Paris to a Jewish family that immigrated to France from Eastern Europe. He attended the Lycée Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand. His family went into hiding during World War II. He joined the French resistance at the age of 18 and fought in the Auvergne. Lanzmann opposed the French war in Algeria and signed a 1960 antiwar petition. From 1952 to 1959 he lived with Simone ...

<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The contents of this archive document 3 narratives all of which relate to the same extended family. The first deals with Peter Hartman the main protagonist who came to England shortly before the invasion of his homeland, Czechoslovakia, by the Nazis in March 1938. There is general correspondence documenting his life and activities (1951/2) and family correspondence ...

Arthur Szyk (1894-1951) was born to Jewish parents, Solomon and Eugenia Szyk in Łódź, Poland, which at the time was part of the Russian Empire. He had his first public art exhibition at age 15, and then went to Paris, France, for formal art training at the Academie Julian. He visited Palestine in 1914 with a group of Polish-Jewish artists and studied Muslim art. Upon his return, he was conscripted ...

Fonds includes criminal cases concerning persons accused of particularly dangerous anti-government crimes against the Soviet state and who received criminal liability according to article Nr. 58 of the RSFSR Criminal Code (1926) and articles Nr. 59–68, 43, 74, and 84 of the Latvian SSR Criminal Code (1961), and persons who lived and had committed crimes in the territory of the Latvian SSR or who had ...