Chs. 1-5 (pp. 10-89) deal with Germany before World War II: antisemitism in the Weimar Republic and in the NSDAP, the Nuremberg Laws, the expulsion of the Jews from the German economy, and the "Kristallnacht" pogrom. The rest of the book deals with the war period. 17 July 1942 was the date of Himmler's visit to Auschwitz, where he witnessed a selection and gassing and decided that the deportation and ...

Publicatie over de oorlogstijd, met de nadruk op de jodenvervolgingen, met erin opgenomen facsimiles van oorlogsdocumenten.

"In the immediate decades after World War II, the French National Railways (SNCF) was celebrated for its acts of wartime heroism. However, recent debates and litigation have revealed the ways the SNCF worked as an accomplice to the Third Reich and was actively complicit in the deportation of 75,000 Jews and other civilians to death camps. Sarah Federman delves into the interconnected roles--perpetrator, ...

Katalog der Konzentrationslager-Dokumente, die sich bei dem International Tracing Service Allied High Commission for Germany befinden. Hrsg. v. d. Allied High Commission for Germany (HIOG), Bad Arolsen 1951. Catalogue of Concentration Camp Records held by the International Tracing Service, ed. Allied High Commission for Germany, Bad Arolsen 1951. In der Nummernkartei (x.x.x.5) wurden alle Hinweiskarten ...

White, plaster of Paris, 1:15 sculptural model of Crematorium II and a gas chamber at Auschwitz-Birkenau (Auschwitz II) killing center, commissioned by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and created between 1989 and 1992 by Mieczyslaw Stobierski. “Model crematorium II – Birkenau” illustrates the entire process that killed 1.1 million people at the Auschwitz camp complex. While the model is ...

Interview with Bernard Weber (Lemberg 25 March 1922). Weber survived Auschwitz-Birkenau where he witnessed the uprising in crematorium B. For several months he worked in the Sonderkommando that had to burn dead bodies: "Day and night the fire burned four, five metres above the chimney".

Walter Hotz (1917-1974) was born in 1917. He studied law and worked as a court official (Amtsgerichtsrat). He was an associate judge at the First Frankfurt Auschwitz trial. He died in 1974. The bequest contains documents originating from Hotz's time as a judge at the Landgericht Frankfurt (Main). The records mainly regard his participation at the proceedings against Mulka and others (4 Ks 2/63). As ...

Dino Antonio Brugioni (December 16, 1921 – September 25, 2015) was a former senior official at the CIA's National Photographic Interpretation Center (NPIC). During World War II, Brugioni flew in 66 bombardment missions, as well a number of reconnaissance missions, over North Africa, Italy, Germany, Yugoslavia and France. He received the Purple Heart, nine Air Medals and a Distinguished Unit Citation. ...

Nazi-Looted Jewish Archives in Moscow. A guide to Jewish Historical and Cultural Collections in the Russian State Military Archive, ed. by D. E. Fishman, M. Kupovetsky, V. Kuzelenkov, Scranton - London 2010.

Rachel van Amerongen werd geboren in 1914 in Amsterdam. Dit gesprek concentreert zich op Rachels jeugd en de kennismaking met haar eerste man Charles Désiré Lu-A-Si, een Surinaamse Nederlander die in juni 1941 is gearresteerd vanwege zijn betrokkenheid bij de februaristaking. De nazi's zetten hem gevangen in Kamp Schoorl. Via Amersfoort, Neuengamme en Dachau werd Charles in Auschwitz gevangen gehouden. ...

De geïnterviewde vult het interview RG-50.570.0030 aan en beschrijft hoe vreselijk de onderduikperiode was in Haarlem aangezien het gezin gechanteerd werd door de onderduikgevers. Ze vertelt eveneens over de periode die ze door maakte nà het verraad, waardoor zij haar hele familie verloor en zelf onder meer Auschwitz overleefde. This interviewee complements the interview with interviewee RG-50.570.0030 ...

The collection consists of an armband, a concentration camp uniform jacket, pants, and cap, and a commemorative pin relating to the experiences of Henryk Karter (later Henry Carter) while a prisoner in Auschwitz I, II, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and III, Auschwitz-Monowitz (Buna) concentration camps in German occupied Poland during the Holocaust and in the United States after the Holocaust.

Copyright Holder: Państwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau

De geïnterviewde (Amsterdam, 1925) wordt in maart 1943 met haar ouders en broertje naar Westerbork gedeporteerd. Op 5 april 1944 wordt het hele gezin doorgestuurd naar Theresienstadt (transport (XXIV/5). In de herfst van 1944 wordt de vader van de geïnterviewde vanuit Theresienstadt gedeporteerd, daarna krijgen haar moeder en broertje een oproep voor Auschwitz. De geïnterviewde wil haar moeder (die ...