Contains information about Leonard Zawaki's experiences during the German invasion and occupation of Poland, his incarceration at Pawiak prison and Auschwitz concentration camp, his escape from Auschwitz, and his activities with a resistance movement.

Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Landesorganisation für Interessenvertretung der Naziverfolgten im Ungarun

They did not know each other before World War II, although they were from the same neighborhood in Amsterdam. Rose and Louis Van Thyn each endured Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps, were the only surviving members of their original families, lost their first spouses, and met and married after the war in Amsterdam. This is their story of survival, and a new life in the United States. 221 ...

Homogeschiedenis in (West-)Duitsland, omstreeks het begin van de 20ste eeuw, in de Nazi-tijd en na de tweede wereldoorlog.

Analyzes the works of writers and philosophers in whose writings the central theme is the destruction of the Jews during World War II. Deals also with the works of Max Weber, Franz Kafka, and Walter Benjamin, who were discussing a future catastrophe already before the Holocaust. Focuses on analysis of works by Hannah Arendt, Günther Anders, Theodor Adorno, Paul Celan, Jean Améry, and Primo Levi. ...

Barracks from Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp established by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland from October 1941-January 18, 1945. Barracks were primitive wooden structures with large wooden shelves for bunkbeds. There were 36 bunks per barrack; 5 to 6 prisoners were packed on a shelf to fit over 500 prisoners per barracks. Inmates wore the same ragged clothes for work and sleep. The barracks ...

Subject: The almost unbelievable story of Denis Avey, now 92, began in 1944 when he was captured and sent to a POW work camp. He was put to work every day in a German factory, where he labored alongside Jewish prisoners from a nearby camp called Auschwitz. The stories they told him were horrifying. Eventually Avey's curiosity, kind-heartedness, derring-do, and perhaps foolhardiness drove him to suggest--and ...

Uitgebracht in drie talen - Nederlands - Pools - Engels. Het leven van Joodse Nederlanders van de 16e en 17e eeuw tot na 1945.

Motivation für den Beitrag war die Idee, den von Bohdan Pietka, Historiker und Mitarbeiter der Gedenkstätte und des Museums Auschwitz-Birkenau, 2014 in gleich zwei polnischen Zeitschriften veröffentlichten Artikel über homosexuelle Häftlinge im KZ Auschwitz ins Deutsche zu übersetzen und damit einem deutschsprachigen Publikum zugänglich zu machen. Die schwerwiegenden methodischen und inhaltlichen Mängel ...

Doct.scr. Algemene Geschiedenis, R.U. Leiden. 66 p. ; 30 cm

Der 14. Juni ist ein polnischer Gedenktag - am 14. juni 1940 wurden die ersten 728 Häftlinge ins gerade eröffnete Konzetrationlager Auschwitz eingeliefert, ausschließlich polnische Widerstandskämpfer, unter ihnen auch jüdische Partisanen. Für mich war es 2017 nicht die erste Reise nach Polen. Zum ersten Mal hatte ich die staatliche Gedenkstätte Auschwitz vor über 28 Jahren mit einer ersten offen schwulen ...

Claude Lanzmann was born in Paris to a Jewish family that immigrated to France from Eastern Europe. He attended the Lycée Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand. His family went into hiding during World War II. He joined the French resistance at the age of 18 and fought in the Auvergne. Lanzmann opposed the French war in Algeria and signed a 1960 antiwar petition. From 1952 to 1959 he lived with Simone ...

This film features Claude Lanzmann's interview with Maurice Rossel, conducted in 1979 for Lanzmann's epic film "Shoah". Rossel was the Swiss delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Berlin. The central task of the delegates was to visit camps to control the observance of the Geneva Convention and the delivery of aid packages. In an official capacity, Rossel was asked to inspect ...

Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Bestandsgeschichte Im Zuge von Rückführungen deutscher Akten aus den USA, die dort nach einem dem Einheitsaktenplan (EAP) der Wehrmacht zu Grunde liegenden Schema alfa-numerisch geordnet worden waren, gelangte der Bestand im Jahre 1962 in das Bundesarchiv. Nach der Eingliederung des sogenannten NS-Archivs des Ministeriums für Staatssicherheit der DDR (1990) und des ehemaligen ...

"Auschwitz, the largest and most notorious of Hitler's concentration camps was founded in 1940, but the Nazis had been detaining Jews in camps ever since they came to power in 1933. 'Before Auschwitz' unearths the little-known origins of the concentration camp system in the years before World War II and reveals the instrumental role of these extralegal detention sites in the development of Nazi policies ...

Wydział I - komendantura obozu Dokumenty wydziału I dotyczą ogółu spraw związanych z załogą SS pełniącą służbę w KL Auschwitz. Stąd w tej części zbiorów archiwalnych znajdują się na przykład: • akta personalne niektórych esesmanów z załogi obozowej Auschwitz; • zbiór rozkazów komendantów obozu (z lat 1941-1944); • telegramy informujące o ucieczkach więźniów z KL Auschwitz; • telegramy informujące rodzinę ...