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"Under the code name Operation Reinhard, more than one and a half million Jews were murdered between 1942 and 1943 in the concentration camps of Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka, located in Nazi-occupied Poland. Unlike more well-known camps, which were used both for slave labor and extermination, these camps existed purely to murder Jews. Few victims survived to tell their stories, and the camps were ...

Interviews with Polish inhabitants of Grabow, a village located 19 km from the Chelmno extermination camp. Prior to the war, Jews had accounted for over half the population of Grabow. In 1942, all of the approximately 4,000 Jews of Grabow were rounded up, locked in the town's Catholic church, and then transported to Chelmno. In these outtakes, Lanzmann reads a letter written by the rabbi of Grabow ...

Heinz Prossnitz Collection
 
 Heinz Prossnitz was born in Czechoslovakia in 1926. Following the German occupation of Czechia and Moravia in March 1939, Heinz joined the Maccabi Hatzair movement in Prague. His "Forbearance" group numbered ten members and it was led by Fredy Hirsch, who was much admired among the Jewish youth in the Protectorate. During the 1940/1941 school year Heinz studied ...

Contains one photograph of Mayor Vincent Azema of Banyuls, France, and two newspapers from the 1980s. The copy of the newspaper "El Punt" features an article about Walter Benjamin's death while fleeing the Nazis in 1940; "Le journal independant" has a half-page interview with Lisa Fittko about her memoirs of the network that helped Jews escape across the Spanish border at Banyuls.

Presents the text of a letter written in April 1946, in Prague, to Rothenberg's family in São Paulo (Brazil) describing the main events of the Holocaust in Drohobycz. Before the war there were about 19,500 Jews in Drohobycz, nearly half of the entire population. Most of them were transported to Bełżec or killed on the spot between December 1941-November 1942. Ca. 500 Jews survived the war, among ...

James Georg Lau (1927-2011) was born in Riga, Latvia to a German-Latvian, Harry Lau, and a Jewish mother, Betty (née Firkser) Lau. After their marriage the family identified as Christian and James was baptized into the Protestant church in December, 1927. The family lived in Libau (Liepaja), Latvia where his father was the director of a cork factory that manufactured corks for bottles and linoleum ...

Documentary on the life of Chaim Weizmann. (1874-1952) Weizmann was a scientist, president of the World Zionist Organization during the Nazi era and the first president of Israel. He met with world leaders to protest the racial persecution of the Jews in Germany and elsewhere. His efforts to organize rescue plans and to influence the British to relax immigration restrictions were rejected by the British. ...

The first record of a Jewish community in Holešov dates from the first half of the 16th century. It was re-established after the Second World War. In the 1950s it became a synagogue congregation under the direction of the Jewish Religious Community of Kyjov, from 1960 under the direction of the Jewish Religious Community of Brno. The congregation disbanded in about 1980.

Henryk Gawkowski was a locomotive conductor at the Treblinka station and estimates that he transported approximately 18,000 Jews to the camp. He drank vodka all the time because it was the only way to make bearable his job and the smell of burning corpses. He describes the black market and the prostitution that developed around the camp. This interview also includes conversations with several other ...

The fonds contains deeds, books of patents, land registers, town finances, minutes of the council board and council, court documents (also disputes with Jewish residents). From the period up to 1848, a rich archive of the Jewish community has been preserved. The period since 1848: Jewish community, rabbis, teachers of religion, members of the community, fees, Czech-Jewish movement. The period of 1938-1945: ...