Copyright Holder: Mr. Christian de Monbrison

Esther Raab was born in Chelm (Poland). Having grown up in a middle-class Jewish family, she remembers a "comfortable" childhood. Her father had many non-Jewish clients, with whom he could get on well. One of them helped Esther and her brother hide from the Nazis during the last year of the war. Esther had worked in a number of labour camps before she arrived in Sobibor in December 1942. In Sobibor, ...

György (George Pick) was born March 28, 1934 in Budapest, Hungary. He was the only child of middle class Jewish parents. György’s father, Istvan, was an engineer responsible for producing hydraulic grape presses for wineries. His mother, Margit Pick (née Kornhauser), worked as a legal secretary. The Pick family could trace its history in the Austro-Hungarian Empire back 230 years, and György had many ...

A single Vietnamese province in the Mekong Delta, My Tho, is the focus of this history of the Vietnamese revolutionary movement in the south. Elliott (Pomona College) has based the work largely on interviews conducted with prisoners and defectors conducted by the Rand Corporation and the U.S. Department of Defense during 1965-74. He argues that land reform helped mobilize the peasantry to fight for ...

<div>Robert Norton (formerly Robert Joachim Neubauer) was born in Teplitz Schönau (Teplice Sanov) in what was known as the Sudetenland, northern Czechoslovakia in 1932 into a well to do middle class Jewish family. His mother’s extended family had lived in the area for 250-300 years. His father was born into poverty in Budapest where he lived with his widowed mother and sister until the age of 15. In ...

<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 ...

Hans Frank (1900-1946) was Governor-General of Poland and Hitler's personal attorney. Frank joined a Freikorps unit to fight the Communists, after serving just one year in World War I. In 1919 Frank joined the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, which was later absorbed into the NSDAP. In 1923 he participated in the Beer Hall Putsch as a stormtrooper. In 1926 he passed the bar exam and soon became a star lawyer ...

Julien Hequembourg Bryan (1899-1974) was an American documentarian and filmmaker. Bryan traveled widely taking 35mm film that he sold to motion picture companies. In the 1930s, he conducted extensive lecture tours, during which he showed film footage he shot in the former USSR. Between 1935 and 1938, he captured unique records of ordinary people and life in Nazi Germany and in Poland, including Jewish ...

<div>Vera Eliyashiv was born into an upper middle class Jewish family in Kovno, Lithuania, in 1929. Her father, Solomon Gutman, was a civil servant. Her mother Rachel née Gotlieb, died when Vera was six. Her father taught her to read and employed a governess to look after her after her mother died. She learnt Russian, Lithuanian and German at school where Jews and non-Jews alike mixed. The family was ...

Memoirs of a Czech Jew, born in 1921 as Peter Eisenberg into a well-established middle class family in Ostrava. Erben, who received his high-school degree in Brunn in 1940, was deported to Theresienstadt with his mother in 1942. In October 1944 he was sent to Auschwitz and in January 1945 he was transported, via Mauthausen, to the Gusen III labor camp. He was liberated in May 1945 by the U.S. army. ...

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This collection comprises Zdenĕk Leder's personal papers including documents, notebooks and correspondence; papers documenting the publication of his book on the Theresienstadt Ghetto; compensation claim papers; papers documenting his activitities as an employee of Radio Free Europe.

Hans Frank (1900-1946) was Governor-General of Poland and Hitler's personal attorney. Frank joined a Freikorps unit to fight the Communists, after serving just one year in World War I. In 1919 Frank joined the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, which was later absorbed into the NSDAP. In 1923 he participated in the Beer Hall Putsch as a stormtrooper. In 1926 he passed the bar exam and soon became a star lawyer ...

Hans Frank (1900-1946) was Governor-General of Poland and Hitler's personal attorney. Frank joined a Freikorps unit to fight the Communists, after serving just one year in World War I. In 1919 Frank joined the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, which was later absorbed into the NSDAP. In 1923 he participated in the Beer Hall Putsch as a stormtrooper. In 1926 he passed the bar exam and soon became a star lawyer ...

Hans Frank (1900-1946) was Governor-General of Poland and Hitler's personal attorney. Frank joined a Freikorps unit to fight the Communists, after serving just one year in World War I. In 1919 Frank joined the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, which was later absorbed into the NSDAP. In 1923 he participated in the Beer Hall Putsch as a stormtrooper. In 1926 he passed the bar exam and soon became a star lawyer ...

In summer, the Frank children and mother Brigitte relax at their vacation home at Schoberhof. Brigitte consoles her son, Michael. Nanny reads book to the child Brigitte. Young Niklas in checkered-trim smokes a cigarette. Short scene where young women don furs on the porch with a uniformed German. These are two friends of Brigitte, including a Hungarian countess (Noell?) on the right. 02:04:47 The Frank ...

Hans Frank (1900-1946) was Governor-General of Poland and Hitler's personal attorney. Frank joined a Freikorps unit to fight the Communists, after serving just one year in World War I. In 1919 Frank joined the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, which was later absorbed into the NSDAP. In 1923 he participated in the Beer Hall Putsch as a stormtrooper. In 1926 he passed the bar exam and soon became a star lawyer ...

Hans Frank (1900-1946) was Governor-General of Poland and Hitler's personal attorney. Frank joined a Freikorps unit to fight the Communists, after serving just one year in World War I. In 1919 Frank joined the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, which was later absorbed into the NSDAP. In 1923 he participated in the Beer Hall Putsch as a stormtrooper. In 1926 he passed the bar exam and soon became a star lawyer ...

This video contains three films of Leeuwarden from the collections of the Frisian Film Archive. 00:33:47 to 00:43:19 - Filmed before World War II. Private residences and passing pedestrians. Cars and bicycles sporadically dot the streets. Man smokes a cigarette, conversing with a female companion on a nearby bench. A middle-aged woman sweeps her front porch; a younger woman polishes a door-handle. ...

Hans Frank (1900-1946) was Governor-General of Poland and Hitler's personal attorney. Frank joined a Freikorps unit to fight the Communists, after serving just one year in World War I. In 1919 Frank joined the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, which was later absorbed into the NSDAP. In 1923 he participated in the Beer Hall Putsch as a stormtrooper. In 1926 he passed the bar exam and soon became a star lawyer ...

The Hermann family correspondence consists of letters and postcards written by Sophie, Julius, and Gerda Hermann in Munich and Brussels, Paul and Ruth Bohrmann in New York, and Elise Bickart in Munich and shared with Kurt and Gertrude Hermann in Cuba and Florida. The correspondence relates news about the Hermann, Bickart, and Bohrmann families and their relatives and friends, condolences on Julius’ ...

The collection contains the private records of László Endre, one of the most influential extreme right wing politicians in modern-era Hungary and one of the key perpetrators of the Holocaust. The most relevant part of the collection is his private correspondence (XIV.2.a.) with several dramatis personae of the interwar and World War II history of Hungary, many of those played roles in antisemitic and ...

Hans Frank (1900-1946) was Governor-General of Poland and Hitler's personal attorney. Frank joined a Freikorps unit to fight the Communists, after serving just one year in World War I. In 1919 Frank joined the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, which was later absorbed into the NSDAP. In 1923 he participated in the Beer Hall Putsch as a stormtrooper. In 1926 he passed the bar exam and soon became a star lawyer ...