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Moys Amir was born in Thessaloniki in 1912. He was a bedmaker and ran his own shop at 19 Valaoritou Street. He was displaced by the German occupiers on April 21, 1943 and imprisoned in Auschwitz II Birkenau, Auschwitz I, Mauthausen and Gusen, where he was liberated by American troops. He was married to Binni or Bienvenida Saltiel, who was exterminated in the death camps. His half-sister survived in ...

Etwa 66.000 Jüdinnen und Juden aus Österreich kamen im Rahmen der nationalsozialistischen Verbrechen ums Leben. Während die meisten Menschen zuschauten bzw. wegschauten, widersetzten sich einige der mörderischen Politik. Sie halfen den Verfolgten beim »Unter­tauchen± oder der Flucht außer Landes. 1. Auflage. 444 pages : many illustrations (partly color), facsimiles, portraits ; 25 cm

This collection is from the archives of the men’s’ religious order of Notre-Dame de Sion (NDS) in Paris and documents the monastery’s efforts in saving European Jews, especially children, during the rise of Nazism and the period of the German Occupation during World War II. It consists of printed publications by the order in French, handwritten ledgers keeping track of children entrusted to NDS during ...

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 ...

Personal files of Jewish refugees in Switzerland, 1930-1950
 
 The files are located in the N-Serie section in the Police department of the Swiss Ministry of Justice and the Police; the section contains approximately 45,000 personal files of civilian refugees who were absorbed by Switzerland from 1936 and until after World War II; approximately half of the refugees were Jews.

Döme Sztójay (1883-1946), politician, diplomat and soldier. Sztójay served as Hungarian ambassador in Nazi Germany between 1936 and 1944. Upon March 19, 1944, Horthy was to appoint him to be Prime Minister and Foreign Minister in the collaborationist government of Hungary. Sztójay held these function between March and August 1944 and was thus directly responsible for the mass deportations of close ...

Half a century after the murder of his mother in Auschwitz, Isaac Lipschits writes her a letter. In it he reawakens memories of their family life in the years before the outbreak of the Second World War, and its repercussions. He relates to her the fate of her husband, her daughter and her five sons. First published in Dutch as Onbestelbaar: Herinneringen in briefvorm, the book recieved wide acclaim ...

Hanna Marton is from Cluj (now Romania), formerly the capital of Transylvania. Both Hanna Marton and her husband were lawyers and Zionists. Marton was aboard the train organized by Rudolf (Rezso) Kasztner, carrying 1684 'privileged' Jews that left Hungary for Germany, eventually bringing them to Bergen-Belsen on 9 July 1944. Claude Lanzmann asks questions in French, which Hanna Marton understands, ...

Session 32. Iranian Jews are being discussed in the reading of a document into the record by the Prosecution. This document includes Iranian Jews who practice other faiths in the extermination, to be treated the same as the Jews of Europe. The document is signed by Eichmann. 00:03:54 A document is being read into the record by the Prosecution, signed by Eichmann, saying that as soon as transports were ...

One common explanation for the world's failure to prevent the Holocaust is that the information about the Nazi extermination program seemed too incredible to believe. Fifty years later, Americans may now also find it difficult to believe that their fellow citizens were among the twelve million people murdered by the Nazis, abandoned to this fate by their own government. The outbreak of war in Europe ...

Pp. 13-48 contain the memoirs of Stránský, a Czech Jew (b. 1921). Describes the children's block of the "Czech family camp" in Auschwitz (he was in charge of the house of the 3-6 year olds), including visits by Mengele, who took children on his lap and played with them; the liquidation of his transport after half a year; the labor camp at Schwarzheide; and the death march to Theresienstadt in April ...

Třešť had been a non-royal town with a strong Jewish minority since the 15th century. Jews were mentioned to live in Třešť as early as the second half of the 13th century. From 1686, the compact Jewish settlement (ghetto) had been separated from the Christian community. In 1850–1864 Třešť was part of the judicial district of Jihlava, and in 1864–1911 a part of the judicial district of Jihlava-Country. ...