Scenes from the filming of a 1942 film about Theresienstadt. Interior of a crowded coffehouse with a band playing on stage. Star of David badges are visible on clothing. A man sits down at a table with his young daughter and a waitress serves them coffee. The scene is repeated. Shots of the band and people in the audience. The next scene shows a man leaving the coffeehouse. A sign on the door states ...

The collection contains correspondence, identification papers, photographs, testimonies, and restitution claims documenting the experiences of Regina Gruber and Tuvia Sheres in Poland, Lithuania, and Italy during the Holocaust, and their post-war experiences in Italy prior to immigrating to Canada. Included are papers regarding their time as displaced persons in Bari, Italy; and their work with the ...

M.41.GABr - Documentation from the State Archive of the Brest Region
 
 History of the State Archive of the Brest Region:
 
 The State Archive of the Brest Region was created on 11 February 1940 as part of the system of the People's Commissariat for Interior Matters. The Archive stores the documentation of the Polish state institutions and organizations that were active in the Polesie ...

Footage beings in the middle of session 96. Attorney General Gideon Hausner continues cross examination of the accused with questions regarding whether Theodor Dannecker, Dieter Wisliceny, Alois Brunner, Rolf Günther and Gustav Richter received instructions from Eichmann. This is duplicate footage also found on Tape 2149 (at 01:01:55). Eichmann concedes that they did receive instructions from him with ...

Salomon alias Edmond van Dam was born on 22 July 1883 in Antwerp, Belgium, as one of eight children of the Dutch-Jewish couple Hijman Isaac van Dam and Sara Andriessen. Salomon studied to become a dentist and obtained his diploma in 1901. On 24 May 1933, Salomon van Dam married the non-Jewish Yvonne Flamme, who had been born in Woluwé-Saint-Lambert, Belgium, on 2 October 1904. The couple first lived ...

Small bronze statue cast from the figurine made by Vera Meisels from a bar of washing soap shortly after her liberation from Theresienstadt concentration camp in early May 1945. This figurine was cast in 2002 because the original was drying out and losing its original shape. The work is based upon Vera's memories of the concentration camp inmates called Musselmann, prisoners near death due to exhaustion, ...

Digital copy available as collection KD_00628 at Kazerne Dossin

Collection of the Generalkommissariat für Verwaltung und Justiz (the German Office for Administration and Justice) in the Netherlands, 1940-1944
 
 The Germans established a system for civil administration in 1940; Arthur Seyss-Inquart stood as the Reichskommissar - head of the civil administration; establishment of the Generalkommissariat für Verwaltung und Justiz (German Office for Administration ...

Correspondence on administrative issues; correspondence on mobilization issues; the case of Sura Gesser who is incriminated with the distribution of communist leaflets; disclosure cases of underground communist organizations; documents “in the Jewish language” about the activities of the 'Maccabi' society in Kaushany; correspondence about the moral and political mood of the population in Tighina district; ...

Scale model, 1:10 ratio, of Block 5, men's barracks, at Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp made by Jiri Lauscher after the war. It was based upon his experiences as an inmate of the camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia from December 1942 - May 1945. Even while in the camp, Jiri was concerned with preserving memories of the prisoner's experiences. He remained dedicated to this memorial work for the ...

The Leonard Lauder collection consists of materials documenting anti‐Semitism in Germany in the first half of the 20th century, particularly during the Nazi era, that Lauder acquired from private vendors. The collection includes the Georg Hirschberg papers, Helmrich Heilmann correspondence, Hugo Simon correspondence, Chiune and Yukiko Sugihara materials, printed materials, photographic materials, banknotes, ...

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Lewis H. Weinstein was born on April 10, 1905, to Jacob Menehem and Kuna Romanow Weinstein in Arany, Lithuania. His parents emigrated to the United States the next year. He had a brother and a sister and was raised in Portland, Maine. Weinstein worked as a reporter for a local newspaper and taught Hebrew school before moving to Boston in 1921. He graduated from Harvard College magna cum laude in 1927 ...

An Einsatzgruppe execution between late July and mid-August 1941. Jewish men being shot by Germans, in dugout pit. Two brief shots of German Kriegsmarine standing along the bank near the bushes (screen left) washing himself. Footage includes executions of three groups of men. Soldiers and others, including Kriegsmarine personnel and civilians, stand around. Also visible are many people watching from ...

(LIB 6591) Estedt, Germany. German civilians smooth dirt over fresh graves in a fenced area, then pound grave markers (crosses) into the dirt. A group of Polish former forced laborers led by a man in a Polish army uniform, carries a large wreath with a red and white ribbon in a procession (Polish funeral march). Wreath inscribed with "Od Polaków z Estetu ku czci pomordowanych rodaków" [From the Poles ...

Miksa Rottenberg (Max, 1902-?) was born in Dés, Austria-Hungary (now Dej, Romania) to Albert Dov (1868-1943) and Anna Rozia Dina Rosmann (Rozman, 1879-1944) Rottenberg. Anna was born to Efraim and Sara Rosmann in Falstin, Austria-Hungary (now Falsztyn, Poland.) Anna had six siblings: Shlomo, Bernhard Jakob Dov, Khain Mordekhai Markus, Hermin Khava, Rosa Rakhel, and Braindel Blanka. Albert was born ...

An Einsatzgruppe execution between late July and mid-August 1941. Jewish men being shot by Germans, in dugout pit. 01:00:38 Two brief shots of German Kriegsmarine standing along the bank near the bushes (screen left) washing himself. Footage includes executions of three groups of men. Soldiers and others, including Kriegsmarine personnel and civilians, stand around. Also visible are many people watching ...

Wolf Vova Werba (later Zeev Raveh) was born on May 23, 1923, in Maniewicze, Poland (Prilesnoye, Ukraine) to Shlomo, born in 1893, and Miriam Mancia Cyrulnik, born in 1896. Shlomo had three brothers: Hershel Zvi and Schmuel Baruch, who immigrated to Argentina and Israel, and one sister, Zitka, married to Arie Farbman. Miriam had four siblings: Menachem Mendel, Shikl, Lejbl, and Cipora. Shlomo and Miriam ...

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Sephardic songs of Monastir, Macedonia. CD 1 contains forty tracks of music sung by Avram Sadikario, recorded in 2004. CD 2 contains a document with the text of the lyrics.

Documentation of the local government authorities in the Dnipropetrovsk region, 1941-1942
 
 Included in the collection:
 
 - Decision by the Dnipropetrovsk municipality regarding the function and the composition of the Judenrat;
 - Orders by the commander of the Security Service in Dnipropetrovsk, regarding the Security Police in Dnipropetrovsk and the registration of dangerous ...

Josek alias Joseph Kichka was born in Skierniewice, Poland, on 15 March 1900. He held Polish nationality and became a tailor. During the First World War he was held at a detention camp for civilian prisoners in Havelberg, Germany. In November 1918, Josek clandestinely fled from Germany to Belgium. When he was tracked down by the immigration authorities in Brussels in February 1919, Josek was transferred ...