Documentation of the Todt Organization in Minsk, 1942-1944

Anyone who asks about forced labor in Hitler's Europe has to talk about the Organization Todt (OT). As the largest construction organization in the Nazi state, it carried out important military work in all German-occupied areas and employed local workers and companies on a large scale. How did this mobilization succeed? How did the incentives relate to coercion, what were the working and living conditions? ...

German film on the construction of the Siegfried Line. Reel 1, views of various German cities and maps the site of the fortifications. Dr. Todt studies plans, officers survey the land, and draftsmen draw plans. An animated chart depicts the Todt engineering organization. The ground is cleared, steel is made in mills, and railroads move supplies to the site. Workers arrive, march to the site, live in ...

In his memoir Erno (Erno) Lazarovits describes his experiences in the Holocaust. He was drafted into the Budapest labor battalion in May 1944. The forced laborers were herded towards the western border of the country (Gánt, Bodajk, Mór, Fertoʺrákos, Szombathely), and later transferred by the Hungarian gendarmes to the German Todt organization, which took them to Deutsch-Schützen, Austria. Subsequently ...

Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of Holocaust in Romania http://www.inshr-ew.ro/ro/

USHMM RG-18.002M (Latvian Central State Historical Archive (Rīga) records)

USHMM RG-31.002M, see http://collections.ushmm.org/findingaids/RG-31.002M.pdf

Collection consists of historical documents related to the Holocaust. Records contain the following fonds: The SS-Nachrichtenstelle "Nordwest" Den Haag, Sbʹirka Koncentračni tʹabory, Kʹaznice a vězenice, Kommandostab RFSS, Police regiment center, Organization Todt, Einsatzgruppe VII, SS-Totenkopf Standarten, SS-Wachbatl. 2 Prag, SS-Pz. Div, "Totenkopf", SS- Wachbatl." Böhmen und Mäheren", SS-Freiw. ...

Copyright Holder: Derz︠h︡avnyĭ arkhiv Volynsʹkoï oblasti

Contains orders, lists, reports, correspondence, and various other records relating to activities of the Haupteisenbahndirektion (HBD) Mitte; activities of the Reichsverkehrsdirektion(RVD) Mitte; railroad construction in occupied areas; railroad personnel; activities of partisans; combating partisans; use of labor in the railroad system; persecution of Jews and Roma; killing of Jews; transports to ...

Drive in 1936 via Salzburg to the Black Sea, impressions from the Balkan Reichsautobahnbrücke and Munich border. 00:21:53 Sea, France, soldiers, Paris, Eiffel Tower, Atlantic coast, port. Red Cross column. 00:40:50 Excavator loads railroad cars, motive: Westwallbau, Organization Todt. 00:57:40 rail transport. 00:58:17 Freiburg. 01:08:35 Winter: Postman on skis with packages. 10:14:00 Bridge for Reichsautobahn. ...

Copyright Holder: Derz︠h︡avnyĭ arkhiv Z︠H︡ytomyrsʹkoï oblasti

1941-1944 Armaments specialists at conferences and weapons demonstrations, including Armaments Minister Albert Speer, Hitler, Himmer, military and industrial leaders. Reel 2: Events of 6 and 7 June, 1943, in Hillersleben, Germany. Participants in front of the conference building, talking to each other and posing for the camera. Goebbels, Speer, others, exit the building. Conference participants watch ...

Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of Holocaust in Romania http://www.inshr-ew.ro/ro/

Copyright Holder: Arhiv Republike Slovenije

The Abraham Lewent papers include biographical materials, correspondence, immigration materials, poems, and personal narratives documenting Abraham Lewent, the concentration camps he survived during the Holocaust, his refugee and displaced person status and job training after liberation, and his immigration to the United States. Biographical materials include a list of the places Lewent was incarcerated, ...

M.41.NARB - Documentation of the National Archive of the Republic of Belorussia (Natsionalny Arkhiv Respubliki Belarus)
 
 History of the National Archive of the Republic of Belorussia 
 
 The Central Archive for the October Revolution of the Belorussian Soviet Republic was established in the city of Minsk on 28 May 1927. The Archive moved to the city of Mogilev in 1930. The Archive ...

Kazerne Dossin Research Centre

Documentation of the Geheime Feldpolizei (Secret Field Police-GFP) unit known as Eichenhain (in the area of Hitler's headquarters in the Winniza area of Ukraine) and of other GFP units in the occupied Soviet Union areas, from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1941-1943
 
 The first part of the collection includes documents from various units. The first part contains many documents from the Eichenhain ...

Contact Kazerne Dossin Documentation Centre: archives@kazernedossin.eu

Baruch alias Bernard Gross was born on 25 July 1908 in Losie, Poland, as the twelfth of fifteen children born to the orthodox Hassidic couple Arie Leib Gross and Silka Gross. The family lived in the shtetl Gorlice and spoke Yiddish at home. Bernard attended a cheder and was well educated in the Jewish scriptures. In his free time he played chess. In 1927 Bernard’s parents sent him abroad so he would ...

Selma Schwarzwald was born on September 2, 1937, in Lvov, Poland (Lviv, Ukraine), to Daniel and Laura Litwak Schwarzwald. Her father had a successful timber export business. Her mother had studied economics at the Lvov Academy of Commerce before her marriage. Lvov was in eastern Poland which was occupied by the Soviet Union in September 1939. It was then occupied by Germany following their invasion ...

Moses Pinkas alias Maurice Apsel was born in Dolynyany, Poland (today Ukraine), on 11 November 1909 as the son of Markus and Pesie Apsel. In September 1927 Moses obtained the necessary papers to emigrate to Belgium where he was to be employed as a diamond clover by the diamond trading company ‘Apsel, Dattner & Mire’. Moses arrived in Antwerp on 8 May 1928 and temporarily lived at Justitiestraat 22, ...