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Documentation from the Bobruysk district administration, 1941-1944
 
 The Mogilev and Vitebsk regions, a large part of the Gomel region, the eastern districts of the Minsk region and part of Polesye belonged to the outlying area under the control of the Heeresgruppe Mitte (Army Group Centre). The occupying regime established local administrations in the city as auxiliary power. 
 
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05:03:07 Title: "Verhandlung gegen die Reichstags-Brandstifter am Tatort. Senatspraesident Dr. Buenger eroeffnet im Hauptausschuss-Saal des Reichstages die Sitzung." Berlin. Reichstag building, dome, meeting room. The accused Reichstag fire-setters entering courtroom, public standing. Chief Judge Dr. Buenger (president of the Senate) presides over the trial (original sound). LS Reichstag. Proceedings ...

Murray Goldblatt was U.S. soldier who served during World War II in Belgium, France, Czechoslovakia and Germany from 1943 to 1945, most likely with the 15th Finance Corps. Born in Brooklyn to a Jewish family, Murray worked in the family's hardware store before enlisting with the Army on January 23, 1943. After his release on December 27, 1945, Murray returned to New York and later settled in Princeton, ...

"The early 1990s saw Europe's first conflict for almost 40 years when bitter fighting broke out in the former Yugoslav republic. Colonel Colm Doyle of the Irish Army found himself in the midst of this appalling civil war when in October 1991 he became first a European Community Monitor and almost immediately Head of the Monitor Mission in besieged Sarajevo. After six months he was appointed Personal ...

The Council of Ministers was the most important executive authority in Hungary before and during the Holocaust. It was composed of Ministers who could be substituted by leading Ministry officials. It was presided by the Head of State (Regent Horthy until 1944) or, in his absence, the Prime Minister. The Council of Ministers tended to hold its sessions once a week but occasionally more often than that. ...

<p>Ruth Krzesny was born to the unmarried Frieda Wolzendorff née Krzesny on 19.2.1914 in Breslau. She was put up for adoption by Frieda's father and Frieda on 11.6.1918. The adoptive parents, Siegfried and Martha Ucko (nee Roloff), had answered an advertisement for a Jewish child to be adopted in 1918. An authenticated copy of a Notarial adoption contract dated (11 Feb 1918), 5 July 1938, (1651/1/15) ...

Sylvain Paul Zucker was born in Berchem, Antwerp, on 3 October 1913, as the son of diamond merchant Naftali Mozes alias Maurice Zucker and his wife Hena alias Helene Mire. Sylvain had two older brothers: Joseph (born on 16 March 1910 in Antwerp) and Adolf Isaac (born on 24 April 1912 in Antwerp). In 1913 the Zucker family moved to the Netherlands where a fourth son, named Jacques Theodoor, was born ...

Gerhard Badrian, the author's mother's cousin, was, by all accounts, a gentle soul, quiet, thoughtful, artistic, compassionate. In a normal world, his passionate love affair with a beautiful young woman would have led to marriage and children, along with a successful career as an outstanding commercial photographer. The world of Nazi-occupied Holland was not a normal world. To cope with a ruthless ...

Paul Stephen Löwy (later Lowy) was born in Vienna in 1913 as the only child of Alfred and Johanna (née Müller) Löwy. His father died in 1915 due to complications with his war injury. Johanna Löwy was a dressmaker and continued the family clothing company after her husband's death. In April 1939 she went to Switzerland under the pretext of a business trip to flee anti-Jewish persecutions. She emigrated ...

Universal Newsreel, Vol. 18, No. 393, Part 1. Release date, 04/26/1945. Scenes of atrocities: (Ed Herlihy commentator) "Helpless prisoners tortured to death by a bestial enemy...Here is the truth!" Freed US POWS at side of road cheering on tanks as they go by. Boy smiles. MCU, POWs get soup from big tureen. CU, in line, medical aid. Group MS. Bandaging a man's back, covering up a bloody calf wound, ...

The Martin Weiss papers consists of identification documents collected by Martin Weiss in post-war Czechoslovakia. The documents were collected by Weiss after his release from the Gunskirchen concentration camp, a sub-camp of Mauthausen concentration camp, and were intended to be used for Weiss’ immigration to the United States.

Contains a Haggadah (Hagadah), nine pages, hand-written text in Hebrew (reproduced on page?) with drawing and explanation of seder plate. Extra page with typed text on both sides (torn in half). Cover page with hand-written text, "Maas Inge" on one side and inscription on verso dated Pessach 1941, Camp de Gurs (torn in half). Haggadah, multi-paged, hand-written text in Hebrew with drawing and explanation ...