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Babette (Betty) Isner (née Lutz, 1895-1949) was born in Nuremberg and Justin Isner (1889-approximately 1942) was born in Hüttenbach. Their children Bella and Ruth were born in Nuremberg in 1928 and 1929. The Isner family boarded the MS St. Louis in May 1939 for Cuba but was forced to return to Europe with most of the other passengers. They disembarked at Boulogne and were originally directed to Poitiers ...

Info from the MOT story card: Hitler has given every man a job and new-found security, but at the expense of freedom. Demands of the Nazi state, glorified by Goebbels, are extremely exacting. Nothing must be wasted, "collections" are actually compulsory, youth is regimented, Jews and Communists are blamed for everything. In the US, Fritz Kuhn and his Bund flourish openly. But one American town, surfeited, ...

Rudolf Franz Höss (1900-1947), Commandant of the Auschwitz extermination camp from 1940 to 1943, became a member of the NSDAP between 1922 to 1923, but was arrested with Martin Bormann for the murder of Walther Kadow soon after joining. He was released from prison in 1928 as part of a general amnesty, and remained active in the party. In 1934, Heinrich Himmler recruited Höss into the SS, and gave ...

Affidavit by Rudolf Hoess, the Commandant of Auschwitz from 1940-1943, taken at Nuremberg in April 1946. Includes mimeograph version and photocopies of versions in German and Russian.

The collection consists of photographs depicting the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943 including burning buildings, Polish firefighters, German SS officers, and captured Jews being marched down Nowolipie Street prior to deportation. Also included is one post-war photograph depicting Hungarian troops preparing to execute Lajos Remenyi-Schneller, who was tried and convicted in 1946 of collaborating with ...

The Roman Haar collection contains documents from Roman’s childhood, growing up in Poland. The photographs in the collection are mainly of Roman, but some show him posing with his father Salo, and his mother Erna, and his half-brother Joachim Fritsche. The larger photograph taken in 1943 is of Roman while he was hiding in Rzeszow, and one photograph from 1946 is of Roman, Erna, and Joachim. Another ...

Testimony, typescript (presumably unpublished), bound, 336 pages, undated but compiled in early 1990s, by survivor (Sam Seltzer) originally from Poland (Upper Silesia), but living in Detroit area.

Five photographic prints depicting Hitler Youth and Hitler Maidens. Depictions include a boy and girl who appear to be older teenagers, both wearing Hitler Youth uniforms in all but one image; final image appears to be family photograph in which both boy and girl are included, but not in uniform. Geography unknown.

Pierre Saragoussi was born in Paris on 24 November 1937, the second child of Bitty and Allegre (nee Yomtov) Saragoussi, who had immigrated to France from Saloniki, Greece during the 1920s. His father worked as a merchant in Paris, and the family lived in an apartment in the XVIII arrondissement. With the outbreak of war in 1939, his father joined the Foreign Legion, but returned to Paris after the ...

Hitler speaks, good CUs. Speech: "It is not the economists, or professors or artists...that have raised the German people, but the political soldiers of the NSDAP... (cheers) ...The citizens who say yes to the Fuehrer, but say the Party is something else, know the Fuehrer is the Party and the Party is the Fuehrer... (cheers) ...I believe and I know that the Party will lead Germany to a bright future..." ...