S.L. Shneiderman (1906-1996), was born Samuel Loeb Sznajderman in Kazimierz, Poland, the son of Abraham and Chana (nee Mandelbaum) Sznajderman. He studied at Warsaw University, and following that, worked as a journalist, serving as Paris correspondent for a number of Jewish daily newspapers in Poland, and covering the Spanish Civil War. In 1933 he married Eileen (Hala) Szymin (1908- ), and in 1940 ...

"Should French railwaymen during the Second World War be viewed as great resisters or collaborators in genocide? Ludivine Broch revisits histories of resistance, collaboration and deportation in Vichy France through the prism of the French railwaymen - the cheminots. De-sanctifying the idea of railwaymen as heroic saboteurs, Broch reveals the daily life of these workers who accommodated with the Vichy ...

The biography of a Swedish diplomat during World War II, who risked his life daily as he provided Swedish passports and papers to thousands of Jewish refugees in Budapest. Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-218). xii, 218 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm

The archive records from the Terezín ghetto (24 November 1941 – 8 May 1945, and from the period after the liberation) are preserved only in fragments. Only a portion of the documents in the collection are connected with the official activities of the Terezín Council of Elders and with the various departments and sections of its self-government. The first group of documents comprise a relatively diverse ...

MCU of two women, seen from behind viewing the merchandise in the window of a corset shop. All signage is in German. Two young girls look at an umbrella display in a shop window; shots from inside the women's clothing store to the street and people outside reflected in the windows. VS, along the water, views of the banks along the Baltic Sea; MS, traffic cops, men loading large bags onto ships. More ...

This set of manuscript war-time diaries from an Austrian Jewish refugee provide a unique insight into a refugee's life and his interpretation of national events. A number of enclosures were found loose within the diaries. These have been catalogued separately [1277/16] with a note of their place of origin. Hollitscher begins his English diaries by remembering his last days in Vienna, but soon turns ...

Esther Pauline Lloyd was born in London in 1906 of Jewish parentage. She later married a non-Jew, having relinquished her Jewish identity and brought their children up as nominal Christians, which, according to an entry in her diary, she later regretted.<br /><br />Having been deported without her family by the occupying Germans in February 1943, she later managed to successfully appeal the decision ...

Provides a close-up look at the story behind Berlin's Jewish Hospital, the only Jewish institution in Germany to survive the Holocaust, drawing on accounts of survivors to describe daily life in the hospital under the Nazis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-283) and index. xxii, 311 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm

The Norman Winiker papers primarily contain letters from Norman Winiker of the 65th Infantry Division of the United States Army to his parents and two sisters in Brooklyn, New York. The letters were written from different locations in Germany and Austria, and span March 25-August 9, 1945. Topics include fighting at Saarlautern, Germany (now Saarlouis), attitudes of Germans, rounding up German soldiers ...

Albert Scher served with the U.S. military intelligence between November 1945 and May 1946. The film of "Germany" includes coverage of war damage in Frankfurt, Air force station at Eschborn (Wiesbaden air force base), Orly airbase near Paris, Himmler’s greenhouse in Frankfurt (color), daily life in the Zeilsheim DP camp, soccer match, and children in costume for Purim. 01:09:27 to 01:18:06 - Zeilsheim ...

Daily life at a Nationalsozialistischer Lehrerbund (NSLB) school. The NSLB was founded in 1929 in association with the NSDAP. Its task was to indoctrinate teachers into the Nazi worldview. Title on screen: Weltanschauliche Schulung [education in the [Nazi] worldview]. A group of men, presumably schoolteachers are instructed by Stadtradt Fink, who is speaking. They are outside under a tree. Title on ...

Samuel Chalupovitsch (1911-1990) was born on 10 April 1911 in Helsinki, Finland to Pesach (1879-1972) and Hana (née Engel, 1874-1934) Chalupovitsch. Samuel had three sisters, Sara (b. 1906), Feige (1907-1990), and Liebe (1914-1995). They were an observant Jewish family, and Pesach worked as a merchant. During World War II, Samuel served in the Finnish Army on the Eastern front of the Continuation War ...

Béla (born Vojtech, 1892-1942) Weichherz was born in Čadca, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia) and had seven siblings: Hugo, Martin, Gyula, Ninka, Josephine, Lotti and Malvine. He worked as a traveling salesman for the Philips Company and lived in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia). Béla married Esti (born Estera, 1899 -1942) and they had a daughter, Kitty (born Katharina, 1929-1942). After Kitty's ...

In 1938 and 1939, Shaul and Yitzhak Goskind of Warsaw-based Sektor Films produced six short films about urban Jewish communities in Poland. One, about Łódź, is lost. The other five-on Bialystok, Cracow, Lwow, Vilna, and Warsaw-have survived and are now called "Five Cities." These low-budget 35mm films were made for Landsmanshaften groups in America for fundraising purposes. On the eve of war, the Goskinds ...

The Lourié plywood factory and daily family life in Vienna, Austria in the year 1929. "Ein Familienfilm aus dem Jahre 1929 Vienna, Part 1" "Hergestellt durch: Hans Brueckner Wien I. Operngassse 2." "Die Holzbearbeitungsfabrik LOURIE & CO. in Wien X." Lourié & Co. was founded in 1899 by Leopold Lourié. Pan of factory in the industrial neighborhood, tour of exterior, factory operations with businessmen. ...

Jerzy Sieraczek (Jerome Sears) (b. 1936) was born in Warsaw, Poland to Henryk Sieraczek (1903-1982) and Leokadia Eizenberg. After the German invasion of Warsaw and the establishment of the Warsaw ghetto Henryk worked in the textile factory. In 1941 Leokadia was captured in a raid and taken to a concentration camp. In 1942, Henryk arranged for Jerzy to escape from the ghetto and live with the Bonczak’s ...

Ellen Gale is the wife of Manfred Gale (Gallewski). Manfred (also known as Manni) lived with his family in Trebnitz, Germany. After Hitler came to power, the family was persecuted culminating in the imprisonment of Richard Gallewski (Manfred's father) in Buchenwald. He was released after two weeks because he was a hero of World War I. The family; Richard (father), Kate (mother), Manfred, and Klaus, ...

Tamar Lazerson-Rostovsky (born Tamara Lazerson) was born in 1929 in Kovno, Lithuania to Wolf and Regina Lazerson and had two brothers, Rudolph (b. 1925) and Victor (b. 1927). She grew up in an assimilated Jewish household where they spoke Lithuanian and celebrated Christian holidays. Following the German invasion of Lithuania, her father and brother, Rudolph, were captured by Lithuanian nationalists. ...

The Avraham Polack papers contain letters relating to the Polack family in Haifa, Israel, and in particular Avraham Polack’s imprisonment with other Irgun and Lehi members in several British detention camps in Africa from 1944-1947. The letters provide detailed descriptions of his daily life within the camps and reflect Polack’s concern for his family. Other letters relate to Avraham’s continuing education ...

M.79 - Documentation of the Jewish community of Luxembourg regarding the persecution of Luxembourg Jews during the Holocaust, 1932-1990&#x0D; &#x0D; The files extend from 1932 to 1990, but the core period is 1940 to 1947.&#x0D; &#x0D; The documentation deals with Jewish daily life under the German occupation:&#x0D; &#x0D; - Confiscations; &#x0D; &#x0D; - The yellow badge and marking of Jewish houses; ...

Copyright Holder: Naczelna Dyrekcja Archiwów Państwowych

This collection contains: two photos of Dora Turksma as a child, including a photo of her with her mother Klara Schilt at the beach; the ‘Volksmisboek en Vesperale’ (catholic prayer book) Dora Turksma received when being baptised as a hidden child in 1944; several dozen post-war prayer cards and devotional cards tucked away in the bible, signed by nuns and pupils at the boarding schools Dora attended; ...

Daily life of the 51st Field Hospital personnel at a training camp, possibly in the US or in England. Captain Beatrice Wachter (the donor's grandmother) enlisted in June 1943 and departed from Europe on February 26, 1944. A group of men in military uniform and women uniformed as nurses laugh and joke around for the camera. The man with a moustache wears the eagle pin on his cap and the caduceus insignia ...

The history of the Russian fascist movement in Harbin, Manchuria during the 1930s has become increasingly relevant to our understanding of modern Russia. As a railway junction and an important centre of the Jewish Diaspora, the city of Harbin became a focus of Russian emigration to Manchuria in the early 1930s, partly because of its proximity to the resource-rich Manchurian plains. In this multicultural ...