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Consists of documents, correspondence, newspaper clippings, copies of articles and speeches, and copies of archival holdings related to the work of George Mandel-Mantello. The material was collected by Mantello and by his son, Enrico Mantello, about his wartime activities as a diplomat for the El Salvadore consulate in Geneva, Switzerland from 1942 to 1945, during which time he created false Salvadoran ...

17:38 Civil party Esther Majerowicz testifies regarding her arrival at Auschwitz, including having her head shaved and being tattooed; she gives specifics of her daily life in the camp, and details her subsequent transport to another camp, Kratzau, where she worked in an arms factory 17:52 President Cerdini asks Mrs. Majerowicz to give precision regarding the number of times and circumstances under ...

<p>Frank Collins, formerly Francisek Wrobel, a German Jew, was born in Mannheim on 8 January 1918. He was interned at Gurs concentration camp, France, from 25 Oct 1940 to 4 August 1941. According to his 'Soldier's Release Book' he was called up for military service with the British army on 24 November 1943, having been listed as a butcher by trade. He was released on 19 March 1948. He was a member ...

VVGŽM HE copies' archive: there are 476 paper copies from 45 items.

The Dingfelder family collection contains identification papers, photographs, clippings, and a prayer book relating to the experiences of the family in pre-war Germany and in Theresienstadt concentration camp. Included are birth, bris, and marriage certificates; clippings of articles about their experiences in Nazi Germany and their new lives in the United States; and Siegfried Neu’s prayer book which ...

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 ...

Vera Mahler (née Hess, b. 1923) was born in Berga an der Elster to Adolf Hess (1887-1944) and Jette Hess (nee Falk, b. 1896) and had one sister, Ilse (1927-?). Adolf and Jette married in 1922 and lived in Berga where Adolf worked as a manufacturer. Adolf was arrested and sent to Buchenwald concentration camp during Kristallnacht in 1938. He was released four weeks later after promising to leave Germany. ...

O.7.sl - Documentation regarding the Jews of Slovakia, mainly during the Holocaust period&#x0D; &#x0D; In the Sub-Record Group there is documentation regarding the Sixth Slovak Brigade of labor battalions in the Slovakian Army and articles concerning the Jews of Slovakia during the Holocaust period, documentation about the Jewish communities in Slovakia, labor camps in Slovakia, confiscation of property, ...

Pen and ink drawing created by David Friedmann (from 1960, Friedman) in 1942, when he was incarcerated in the Łódź Ghetto in German-occupied Poland. The work depicts a trio of men called fecalists whose job was to haul away bodily waste. The Ghetto had no running water or sewers. Friedmann gave the drawing to Menachem Rubinstein with a personalized label in July 1950 in Tel Aviv, Israel. The men befriended ...

David Diamant is the pseudonym for David Erlich, born March 18, 1904 in Hrubieszow, Poland, into a family of 8 children, 4 of whom were deported or executed. His family was active in the Polish Communist Party and he became a member in May 1925. When he emigrated to France in the late 1920’s, he continued his political activities with the Party. Diamant was not called up for military service during ...