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Americans who remember World War II reminisce about how it brought the country together. The less popular truth behind this warm nostalgia: until the attack on Pearl Harbor, the nation was deeply, dangerously divided. In Hitler's American Friends, Bradley W. Hart uncovers the homegrown groups who sought to protect and promote Hitler, leave Europeans (and especially European Jews) to fend for themselves, ...

Ruth Gellis (née Wuhl) was born on October 31, 1925 in Essen, Germany to Joel Wuhl (b. 1889 in Hungary) and Clara Wuhl (born Anna Zeichner in 1891, in Poland) and had one sister, Margot (Margo, 1924-1928). Joel served in the Austrian Army from 1914-1918 and was in the business of photograph enlargements for traveling salesmen. Around 1935, Joel traveled to Johannesburg, South Africa to find a job in ...

Reel 4 of the English language version of "The Nazi Plan" produced by Twentieth Century Fox with new graphics. Most of this reel consists of German newsreel footage with the familiar German narrator, with an English voiceover. No title. Hitler speaks to the Reichstag. He addresses Roosevelt and says that any rumors of intentions by Germany to attack the US are crude lies. He addresses the British government ...

<p>The Strauss and Sterzelbach families came from Weiden, Bavaria, where Immanuel Strauss, grandfather of the depositor, was teacher, rabbi and shochet of the Jewish community. He was &nbsp;a teacher at the small Jewish school in Weiden for many years.</p><p>Kossy Strauss, the second of six children of Immanuel strauss, attended high school in Karlsruhe and then studied chemistry and metallurgy in ...

The collection consists of official and private documents belonging to the members of the Gordon, Auerbach, Heimann and Buchan families, including their correspondence and photographs. The letters between Alfred and Lore Gordon, most of which were written between June 1938 and January 1946, represent about two fifths of the entire collection. In addition there is a large body of correspondence between ...

This collection contains: a photomontage of portraits of Jewish children deported from Belgium, used as a cover for the commemorative publication entitled "Mémorial de la déportation de Belgique de 25.124 Juifs et de 351 Tziganes" by Serge Klarsfeld an Maxime Steinberg ; the pages of addendum number 2 of the "Mémorial de la Déportation des Juifs de France" [Memorial of the Deportation of Jews from ...

This collection is highlighted by a prisoner uniform jacket from Auschwitz, stitched together by Benjamin Silberberg, a survivor of the camp, from original fabric swatches sourced from various Auschwitz camp uniforms collected when he went back to the camp after the war. Notably, one of these (unclear if original) swatches bears the prisoner number 133427, belonging to Jacques Chil Raffeld, a deportee ...

<p>This collection contains correspondence relating to the estate of Betty Wixon (née Davidsohn) and her German pension awarded for loss of earnings under the Hitler regime.</p>Correspondence re estate and a copy of her death certificate and draft affidavit for Betty Wixon's restitution claim.<div><br /></div>

Dora Szajner (later Factor, 1897-1972) was born in Działoszyn, Russian Empire, to Hillel (?-1924) and Rosa Chaja Isbitska Szajner. Hillel was a Hebrew teacher, calligrapher, folk carver, and a felcher [traditional healer]. Dora had seven siblings, four brothers and three sisters, including Max Moszek (1905-1942), Sarah (later Koopman, 1908-1993), Hela (later Helen Bialogurski), Roza (Rosa), Joseph, ...

Daniel Jacobson (b. 1919) was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to Samuel David (1889-1977) and Annie (Anna) Rose Jacobson (1894-1966). Daniel’s parents were first generation Americans, who emigrated from Lithuania, Samuel in 1911 and Annie in 1914. Daniel had two younger brothers; Joseph (1924-2003) and Saul (1926-1999), and a younger sister, Beatrice (later, Bertha Lena Shannon 1929-1967). Samuel worked ...

M.41.ZGAPin - Documentation from the Regional State Archive in Pinsk&#x0D; &#x0D; The Regional Archive of Pinsk was established in 1940. During the German occupation, the Archive's activity was halted during 1941-1944 and was renewed only in August 1944. The Archive changed its mission following the dissolution of the Pinsk region, and it became the Municipal State Archive of Pinsk in 1954. In September ...

Geschichte des Bestandsbildners General Adolf Bruno Heinrich Ernst Heusinger Lebensdaten 04.08.1897 geboren in Holzminden (Niedersachsen) 30.11.1982 gestorben in Köln Dienststellungen 17.06.1915 Eintritt in das 1. Ersatzbataillon/7. Thüringisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 96, Gera (15. Infanteriebrigade, IV. Armee-Korps, Vierte Armee-Inspektion) 07.12.1915 Zum Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 96 ins Feld, Verwundung ...