Overdruk uit: Signs ; vol. 38 (2013) no. 3 (Spring). P. 503-533. ; xx cm.

A propaganda film declared as a "documentary film contribution about the problem of world Judaism," in which antisemitic stereotypes are disseminated by the Nazis, including scenes showing: Poland as a nesting place for Judaism; the comparison of Jews with rats; the difference between Jews and Aryans; "international crime"; "financial Judaism"; "assimilated Jews"; the Jewish influence on economics, ...

Allan Leon Dreyfuss (1919-2011) was born in Brookline, MA to Alice Schwab and Charles Dreyfuss. He attended Brookline High School and earned a Bachelor’s degree at the University of Chicago. Allan enlisted in the Army Air Corps at the beginning of WWII and began a career in journalism as a reporter for Stars and Stripes, the armed forces newspaper. In 1945 he was assigned to cover the trials in Nuremberg, ...

This volume demonstrates how German expansion in the Second World War II led to shortages, of food and other necessities including medicine, for the occupied populations, causing many to die from severe hunger or starvation. While the various chapters look at a range of topics, the main focus is on the experiences of ordinary people under occupation; their everyday life, and how this quickly became ...

Amateur film with German titles shot by a member of the German Reichsarbeitsdienst (RAD) [State Labor Service] records scenes of cordial contact between Germans of this non-combatant (railway repair?) unit and local Polish and Russian civilians, some female, before the unit entrains for their Eastern Front destination of Stalingrad (not seen) during the German advance in the summer of 1942. Scenes ...

<strong style="text-decoration-color: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ff0000; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">This material has been digitised. Readers should book a reading room terminal to access it.</strong>

GERARD WOUDSTRA /p>Gerard Woudstra was zeventien jaar toen hij mee moest met de razzia. Hij kwam samen met een vriend per schip en trein, aan in Krottendorf, wat vlakbij de (huidige) Tsjechische grens ligt. Daar heeft hij gewerkt in een blikwarenfabriek waar hij een vingertop verloor. Dat is gaan ontsteken en uiteindelijk is hij de hele vinger kwijtgeraakt. Ook heeft hij geleden aan een hongeroedeem.Meneer ...

J.J. VAN DER BLOM De heer J.J. van der BlomDe heer Van der Blom ging op jonge leeftijd al mee met de razzia. Hij had toen al het nodige gezien van de bezetting: het centrum van Rotterdam in brand in mei 1940, een ziekenhuis wat plotseling werd ontruimd om de Duitse gewonde soldaten in te verplegen, en later een vergeldingsactie van Duitsers toen hij bij NSB’ers een raam had ingegooid en er mensen werden ...

No restrictions on access

01:00:00 Sign: “Funk Caserne, Emigrant Assembly Center, Repatriation Center, Infiltree Center.” Soldier in front of a gate. Signs: “Deutsche Ungaren Rumanen Bulgaren Dürfen das Lager nicht betreten,” and “Übernachtungen von Gasten und Enzelnen durchreisenden im Lager sind nicht erlaubt.” Displaced men, women, children, one carries a funeral wreath. Men and women in uniform smile for camera. WS, ambulances, ...

Photographic print: black and white image of Wanda, Marian and Andrzej Glass seated together indoors with bookshelf and window behind them; handwritten inscription on verso; taken in New York after their journey from Poland; dated May 5, 1941; in Polish

James B. Donovan. United States Navy Commander. Associate Prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials, where he coordinated and presented all Nazi films at the trials. General Counsel to OSS. Negotiated the exchange of Bay of Pigs prisoners with Fidel Castro as an independent lawyer under backdrop of the missile crisis, securing the freedom of nearly 10,000 people. Portrayed by Tom Hanks in "Bridge of Spies". ...

The Spitzer family photographs consist of seven prewar, wartime, and postwar photographs of the Spitzer family of Iași, Romania and their relatives. The photographs depict Anton and Fany Spitzer and their children, Sara, Nathan, and Lily as well as Fany’s sister and brother, Chana and Lazar Wax, and a cousin, Simcha Wax.

Jacob Gora (b. August 22, 1896, Poland - d. June 6, 1976, Ottawa) was an antiques dealer, author, and survivor of the Holocaust. Jacob lived in Warsaw prior to WWII, where he owned a business. He lost his wife, his 20 year old daughter and his 17 year old son not long after the German invasion of Warsaw. He lived in the Warsaw Ghetto, and spent time in several different camps before the end of the ...

Portrait drawn by Esther Lurie, in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1951. Michlean Amir met Esther Lurie in the apartment of her grandmother’s friend, the historian Nellie Schur. Dr Schur was working on a project to create maps of the new state of Israel with the cartographer, Joseph Shapiro, who was Lurie's husband. Lurie offered to do her portrait. Esther Lurie was a professionally trained artist whose drawings ...

Esther Lurie (1913-1998) was born in Liepaja (formerly Libau), Latvia, to a religious, intellectual Jewish family. Her parents were Josef and Bluma and she had five older sisters and an older brother. The family was forced to move to Riga during World War I (1914-1918), when Liepāja, a Baltic seaport which was then part of the Russian Empire, was taken over as a military port. Esther’s artistic gifts ...

Otto L. Plaut, like his father Maximillian Plaut, was a doctor. He practiced in Leipzig, Germany before the outbreak of the war. Otto and his wife Johanna Plaut (née Löwenstein) raised three children: Renate (b. 1930) and twins Andrew and Martin (b. 1937). Dr. Otto Plaut filmed his family in their home city of Leipzig and on various holidays from 1931 to 1937, and after the war in Massillon, Ohio. ...

Print of a portrait drawing by Esther Lurie of a young woman in checked dress with two Star of David patches. It is print 19 of 20 and is signed the artist. This print is a version of the drawing, Portrait of a Young Girl with Two Yellow Badges, which Lurie did in the Kovno ghetto and for which she was awarded the Dizengoff Prize in 1946 in Palestine. In 1934, Esther and her family emigrated from Latvia ...

No restrictions on access

Welek (William) Wolf Luksenburg was born on February 1, 1923, in Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland. His father, Simcha (Simon David), was a wholesale meat merchant, born in Poland in 1896. His mother, Rozalia Feiner, was born in Sosnowiec in 1901. His brother Szlomo was born in 1917. The family was Orthodox and active in Zionist organizations. Szlomo trained to be a dentist. Welek attended a public school, ...

Concentration camp uniform cap issued to Werner Sauer while interned in Stutthof concentration camp as a German marine deserter in early 1945. The cap is lined with cloth because German military deserters were treated better than Jewish prisoners. The hats Werner had been issued previously as a Jewish inmate were not lined. Werner saved the cap, and refused to ever have it cleaned, as evidence of his ...