The Pilpel Family papers consist of correspondence, photographs, and documents related to the family of Franz Josef and Marion (Stern) Pilpel (later Pell), their daughter Nina, and their son Ronald, chiefly related to the family's immigration from their native Austria to India, and their subsequent immigration to the United States. Includes personal and biographical documents, correspondence between ...

Nazi-Looted Jewish Archives in Moscow. A guide to Jewish Historical and Cultural Collections in the Russian State Military Archive, ed. by D. E. Fishman, M. Kupovetsky, V. Kuzelenkov, Scranton - London 2010.

<p>Ruth Gertrude Peschel was born in Jauer, Silesia, in 1923. She was the daughter of shoemaker Otto Peschel (b 1898) and his wife Helene (b 1894, née Jakobowitz), who married in 1920. Due to Nazi legislation Ruth had to leave school early in 1937 and was unable to train as a seamstress. In 1938 she moved with her parents to Breslau.</p><p>Ruth Peschel emigrated on a Kindertransport to England in June ...

By agreement with Germany (signed 30 August 1941 in Bendery), Romania received a mandate to implement temporary “administrative and economic operation” of the Governorate of Transnistria (Rus. Zadnestrov’e) – an artificially created administrative-territorial formation including German-Romanian occupied parts of the Vinnitsa, Odessa, and Nikolaev regions of Ukraine and the left-bank districts of Moldavia ...

Antonie (Toni) Eckstein-Bloch was adopted by Františka Kapoun (1873–1931), a Catholic housekeeper for the Bloch family. Toni’s first husband Emerich Schmeer (married in 1917) was killed in WW1 when he had to return to the battlefields. After the death of her step-father, Leopold Bloch, in March 1933, Toni became the successor of the Bloch properties in Brno and Veverská Bítýška. She married Leopold's ...

Correspondence from the Foreign Department of the Jewish Community in Prague (Transfer Auslandsabteilung Israelitische Kultusgemeinde in Prag), November 1939 to July 1940. The Jewish Community staff had to send copies of replies to the Head Office of Emigration of Jews (Zentralstelle fuer Auswanderung der Juden). The letters from the Jewish Prague community had to be concise and refer only to emigration ...

The fond includes three inventories systematized chronologically. Documents in the fond include orders of the governor of Transnistria (11 November 1941) that a special count be taken of Jews, that special lists be drawn up of their settlement in colonies, and that their labor conscription be organized; (2 January 1942) that the Jews of Odessa be deported beginning 10 January 1942 with the aim of their ...

Born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Robert Kan and his family escaped the Nazis on May 13, 1940 and emigrated to Queens, New York via the Dutch East Indies. He received a BA in Economics from Hofstra Univeristy and worked for thirty years for the US government at the Department of Commerce, the Atomic Energy Commission, the National Science Foundation, and the American Embassy in Tokyo. After retiring ...

Birth certificate, passport, autograph book, newsletter, photograph, and other documents related to the immigration of Ella Spiegler (later Goldstein), who left Austria for the United States in 1939 as one of the fifty children sponsored by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus. The Stammbuch is a booklet that was given to Ella before her departure from Vienna in 1939, and in which friends and relatives wrote ...

Hans Yakov Vogel (December 3, 1926-1943), was born in Cologne, Germany, the son of Simon (b. 1898) and Hannah Vogel (b.1898), and had a younger brother, Walter Joseph (August 1, 1929). Hans’ paternal grandfather, Jacob Yakov Vogel, was prominent in a Jewish congregation and worked in the chemical and steel trade, which both Simon and Hannah adopted as their professions. The family celebrated major ...

Reel 1: Part 1, 10th anniversary of the death of Professor Paul Ludwig Troost; still photos of Troost and shots of the House of German Art and the Koenigliche Platz in Munich. 01:02:06 Part 2, The Ruhr: Captain Ruempler (Oak Leaves) and his comrades visit a mine, and go underground; shots of the miners and the soldiers. 01:02:50 Part 3, Germany: report on the hard and dangerous work of stevedoring; ...

<p>This collection contains the personal papers of Henri and Grete Falkenstein, a German Jewish couple who emigrated together with their children to the UK in 1937.</p><p>Personal papers including correspondence and documents for emigration such as tax clearance certificate ('Unbedenklichkeitsbescheinigung'), Abmeldeschein, contract for the sale of Grete Falkenstein's inherited property, notice of ...

Morris Unger, his wife Ethel, and their sons Robert and Sy traveled from New York City to Morris' hometown, the village of Niebylec, Poland (Niblitz or Neblisch in Yiddish), in the summers of 1932 and 1934. The purpose was to visit Morris' father, Kalman Unger. Kalman had sent Morris and his six daughters, one by one, to the United States. Morris was successful in the wholesale produce and frozen food ...

15:48 A witness, Mrs. Francine Gudefin, testifies; she describes torture carried out by Francis André and by Barbie, and being forced to watch her brother being waterboarded; the witness describes a serious injury to her ear, as well as to her vertebral column; she describes the "chambre des torturés" (room of the tortured people) in the basement of the Gestapo headquarters at Place Bellecourt; description ...

By agreement with Germany (signed 30 August 1941 in Bendery), Romania received a mandate to implement temporary “administrative and economic operation” of the Governorate of Transnistria (Rus. Zadnestrov’e) – an artificially created administrative-territorial formation including German-Romanian occupied parts of the Vinnitsa, Odessa, and Nikolaev regions of Ukraine and the left-bank districts of Moldavia ...

George Mandl was born on September 12, 1908, in Miskolc, Hungary, to Lajos and Sidonie Mandl. He had one sister, Anna Nora Mandl. He was one of only a few Jewish students educated at the Frater Gyorgy Catholic Gymnazium in Miskolc, where he graduated in 1926. In the fall of 1926, he entered the University of Vienna Medical School. He graduated in November 1932, During 1933-1934, he completed clinical ...

The Jewish Labor Committee, an umbrella group of Jewish trade unions and fraternal organizations, was founded in 1934 for the purpose of organizing opposition to Nazism, providing assistance to its victims, and fighting all forms of bigotry and the denial of human and labor rights. After the World War II the Committee continued its program of relief to Holocaust victims by providing shipments of food, ...

Documentation from Amtsgerichte (Courts of Law) in Hessen, Germany&#x0D; &#x0D; In the collection is documentation from ten Courts of Law in the rural area of the Darmstadt Province: Alsfeld, Altenstadt, Bad Nauheim, Bad Vilbel, Bensheim, Beerfelden, Butzbach, Gernsheim, Herbstein, and Hirschhorn.&#x0D; &#x0D; For general information (in German) regarding the sub-group in the original Archive, including ...

Copyright Holder: Eli Schaap

Jacques Czapnik was born in Paris, France, on 30 July 1925, as the son of Polish tailor Chaim alias Charles Czapnik (born on 16 May 1903 in Czemierniki, Poland) and Jochweta Rozencwaig (born on 26 August 1896 in Sulejow, Poland). Jacques’ two eldest siblings were also born in France: an older sister named Simonne on 2 April 1924 in Paris and a younger brother named Louis on 5 November 1927 in Amiens. ...

Amelia Samson (1875-1945) lived in Amsterdam along with her daughter Marie, son-in-law Barand, and grandchildren Clara and Maurice. During the German occupation, the family hid with friends, while Barand participated in the underground resistance. Eventually discovered, the family was transported to Westerbork transit camp. Barand was transported to another camp and was killed. From September 1943 ...

Ingeborg Herlitz (18981982), daughter of Karl Herlitz (1853-1935) and Gerda Fredholm (1862-1923), was a Swedish politician, insurance officer, and health counselor. From 1945 to 1946, Herlitz served as a counselor at Lärbro military Hospital in Gotland, providing care to former prisoners of concentration camps (from Germany, Poland, and various other countries) suffering from tuberculosis. She also, ...

The amateur films shot by German infantryman Corporal Eugen Biedenbach of 419 Infantry Regiment record his training and active service in the German campaigns against Yugoslavia and on the southern sector of the Eastern Front. The films also containg pre- and post-war scenes of Biedenbach family life in Stuttgart (where the family of Eugen's wife owned a clothes store) as well as recreational activities. ...

The Medical Board's archives include documents relating to the care of concentration camp survivors who came to Sweden in 1945 through the Red Cross and the UNRRA operation. There are documents relating to patients, hospitals, camps and staff. The National Board's archive, _1945 refugee health care_ includes the series _ Medical index cards regarding refugees_ (Läkarkort rörande flyktingar) D 2. The ...