The Rose Kaplovitz papers consist of correspondence, autograph books, and photographs documenting the lives of Rose and her family in Sosnowiec, Będzin, and Łazy. The collections relates to their experiences before the Holocaust, Rose’s survival in the Sosnowiec ghetto and Ober-Altstadt forced labor camp, and her postwar life in a Jewish orphanage in Chorzów and at the Leipheim displaced persons camp. ...

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The collection consists of two copies (one each in English and Hebrew), of "My Lost Childhood", a memoir by Bronia Bratt Landau, originally of Kromołów, Poland, which details her experiences between 1942-1945 in the Stalag Luft III prisoner-of-war camp in Sagan, Germany (now Żagań, Poland), the Grünberg subcamp of Gross-Rosen concentration camp, and the Helmbrechts subcamp of the Flossenbürg concentration ...

Jews walking on sidewalk, nicely dressed, past storefronts, including "Schumacherei". Jewish Stars marked "Jude" worn on clothing, mostly young adults. CUs. Funny angle up, Jewish star on clothes of boy and his dad. 01:00:24 Policeman passing quickly close to camera. 01:00:30 Large group of many smiling women with Jewish stars close together, elevated camera angle. CU, pan CU to more faces. 01:00:31 ...

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<p>Francis and Anna Wahle came to Great Britain on a Kindertransport organised by the Quakers from their home city, Vienna, in 1939. Whilst both children were raised as Catholics, they qualified for inclusion as their parents, Karl and Hedwig, had converted from Judaism. Anna grew up to become an ordained nun and a member of the order ‘Our Lady of Sion’ (specifically dedicated to Christian-Jewish understanding) ...

Hersz Iteld (sometimes referred to as Zeidy, later known as Harry, 1890-1969) was born in Brańsk, Poland to Judas Gitel Naiman and Nochum Iteld (b. 1859). He had eight brothers and sisters: Lazar, Menucha, Avram, Hinka, Nechome, Ruven, Sholem, and Nachman. All his siblings but Sholem were killed in the Holocaust. Guta Shereshefsky (1897-1990) was born in Szczuczyn, Poland to Ewa Rosenthal (Chava) and ...

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De overheidsorganisaties in de textielsector (d.w.z. de Rijksbureaux voor Handel en Nijverheid) vormden een integrerend deel van het geheel der Ned. textielwereld. Dit wil niet zeggen, dat er geen tegenstellingen tussen overheid en bedrijfsleven hebben bestaan. Anderzijds vormden overheid en bedrijfsleven tezamen een front tegen de overweldiger. Twee doeleinden hebben gedurende de gehele bezettingstijd ...

Harry Richard Loewenberg was born in 1887 in Posen, Germany. During his career as a journalist, he served as Editor-in-Chief of "Textile Woche" in Berlin, Germany. From 1939 until 1948 Loewenberg lived in England and for two of those years (1940-1941) was interned on the Isle of Man as a German national. After his return to Germany he began work for the Institute for Economic Research in Munich, Germany. ...

White wooden crucifix (grave marker) in a wide open field. A horse and plow move through BG. VS, wide angle and CU of Dubno prison. Four old women, sitting on a cement floor sorting through bits of rags. Dissolves into scene in a factory, several looms at work. Men operating the machines. VS pulleys, CU men at the machines. VS workers and peasants at work, in tattered clothing, MS and CU men, women ...

Ralph Steinhart was born Rolf Steinhart on 5 September 1928 in Bochum, Germany to Fritz and Käthe Steinhart. His father Fritz (later Fred Steinhart, 1890-1960) was born on 17 March 1890 in Leipzig, Germany. His mother Käthe was born Käthe Rosenberg (later Kate Steinhart) on 17 January 1897 in Münster, Germany. Ralph had one brother, Karl Heinz Steinhart (1924-1994). His family lived in Hannover, Germany ...

Traces the history of German claims to western Poland from the Middle Ages to its annexation as the Warthegau in 1939, focusing on the city of Łódź, an important textile center with some 230,000 Jewish inhabitants in 1939. After the occupation, the Germans deported 80,000 Jews and many Poles, in order to resettle the Warthegau with ethnic Germans, until it was decided to exploit the city's industries. ...

Opening scene: color footage of visitors to the Jasenovac Memorial Area. Image switches to black and white footage of CU pan of a sculpture of a human form lying on the ground on top of smooth white stones. Ceremony: Military giving out badges and medals. An unidentified high ranking officer pins a male soldier as the soldier salutes him; MCU of women who have been awarded medals, standing in a row. ...

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David Weyl (1873-1948) was born on 11 October 1873 in Erkelenz, Germany to Anselm (1831-1897) and Flora (née Leffmann, 1844-1919) Weyl. He had 15 siblings: Albert (1864-1937), Friederika (1866-1935), Henrietta (b. 1867), Helena (1869-1942), Johanna (1871-1871), Moritz (1872-1936), Bernhard (1875-1930), Louis (1876-1934), Julia (1878-1878), Emanuel (1879-1879), Lina (1880-1907), Jakob (1882-1942?), ...

<p>Ralph Liebman was born Rolf Liebmann on 6 July 1928, son of Oscar and Rosie Liebmann in Mannheim, Baden, Germany. He had a brother, Heinz (later Harry), who was born 29 October 1922. Their father, Oscar, came from a Jewish family in the Palatinate in Southwest Germany. His paternal grandfather had died in about 1901 and Oscar, then aged 19, took over the family business of wholesale textiles. Ralph's ...

MS, men cleaning a freight car floor with shovels. Group of men pulling small wagon filled with empty cans? Pressing cans, separating and cutting metal pieces. 01:34:28 Westerbork's paper factory. Men and women separating sheets of paper. MS, piles of white paper sheets. Large hall packed with women working on sewing machines, using dark colored textiles (for military uniforms?). Men cutting through ...

Correspondence, speeches and writings, government documents, printed matter, audiovisual material and memorabilia, relating to an escape route through the Netherlands and France from Nazi-occupied Europe, for political refugees, Jews, and Allied servicemen, which was under the leadership of John Henry (Johan Hendrik) Weidner (1912-1994). The collection consists of microfilm copies of the originals, ...

The Josef and Josefine Schmitz papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, emigration files, photographs, and restitution files documenting their lives in Břeclav, Vienna, Brno, and Tel Aviv; their emigration from Czechoslovakia to Palestine in 1939 with their daughter Judith; and their efforts to recover their property and receive restitution after the war. Biographical materials include ...

The Veľké Kapušany District after the First Vienna Arbitration, between 1938 and 1945, belonged to the Ung County. Its territory included 30 localities, 6 of which today are situated in the territory of Ukraine. According to the Hungarian census of 1941, there were approximately 1100 Israelites that inhabited the localities of the district. In Veľké Kapušany (in Hungarian Nagykapos) which had the largest ...

<p>Franziska Willer née Manasse (1903-1999) came from an assimilated Jewish family in which her father was not observant and mother had converted to Protestantism. Her father, Paul Manasse, was a distinguished Professor of medicine in Strassburg. </p><p>Franziska and her four siblings had all been christened and confirmed into the Protestant Church but were not religious. She married Johannes David ...

In 1939, fashion became an economic and symbolic sphere of great importance in France. Invasive textile legislation, rationing and threats from German and American couturiers were pushing the design and trade of Parisian style to its limits. It is widely accepted that French fashion was severely curtailed as a result, isolated from former foreign clients and deposed of its crown as global queen of ...