Describes the internment camp in Les Milles in the south of France, based on testimonies of survivors (or their families) and archival material. Set up in September 1939, it served at first as a military camp. After 1940 it was a camp for foreigners who sought asylum in France, including Jews. Between 3 August-10 September 1942 it served as a transit camp for Jews sent to Auschwitz via Drancy. Includes ...

1st ed. 217 pages : 3 portraits ; 22 cm

20:00:41 (LIB 5168-LIB 5170) Hadamar Murder Mills, Hadamar, Germany, April 7, 1945. LSs building of insane asylum where interrogation is taking place. INT, Dr. Adolf Wahlmann, Karl Willig, and Adolph Merkle being interrogated by War Crimes Investigation team. MSs, CUs, political prisoners leaving building and entering car. Car driving off. 20:05:45 (LIB 5211) Atrocities at Ohrdruf, near Gotha, Germany, ...

<p>This collection contains the personal papers of Eva Mills and her mother Gertrude Najman. Eva was sent to England on a Kindertransport in 1938 whilst her parents fled Germany separately aiming to reach Palestine. Eva's father, Jankiel Najmann, managed to get to Haifa in 1944 after spending several months at Ferramonti di Tarsia internment camp in Italy. Her mother, Gertrude Najmann, became a prisoner ...

An account of the author's imprisonment in Royallieu, concentration camp at Compiègne. On cover: 3. mille. 246 p., 2 l. front. (port.) 19 cm.

Forced labor in the Deutsche Erd- und Steinwerke GmbH (DEST). 289 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Attempt at Danube Crossing, Near Neustadt, Germany, April 27, 1945. Seq: Soldiers of 2nd Br. 395th regt, 99th Inf Div, rest behind dike. LSs, MSs, CU, troops carrying assault boats make their way unopposed through forest. MSs, troops pinned down beside assault boats in woods. VS, crew fires mortar in wooded area. LS, medics carry wounded soldier on litter. MSs, MCU, soldier hurriedly digs foxhole beside ...

Scenes of DP camp Neu-Freimann near Munich, Germany. Street scenes, DPs riding bicycles. Sign: "IRO Area Team 1055 / Neu-Freimann / Siedlung" VAR DPs, man looking at announcement board, working, Red Cross trucks, queue at "Warehouse". Jack Sutin and another man, walking towards the camera, smoking. CU, poster of "Fusball Matsch" Street scenes, DPs milling about. 01:11:35 Soccer match at Neu-Freimann. ...

(LIB 7013) UNRRA at Displaced Persons Camp, Wetzlar, Germany, June 14-15, 1945. LSs, MSs, male displaced persons doing calisthenics and drilling under direction of UNRRA worker. MS, children enter bus for tour of local area. Girls wave as bus pulls away. MLS, men and women in uniform standing in front of doors labelled "Headquarters DET DP 46". CU, group of men and women. CU, another group of men and ...

(LIB 7013) UNRRA at Displaced Persons Camp, Wetzlar, Germany, June 14-15, 1945. LSs, MSs, male displaced persons doing calisthenics and drilling under direction of UNRRA worker. MS, children enter bus for tour of local area. Girls wave as bus pulls away. MLS, men and women in uniform standing in front of doors labelled "Headquarters DET DP 46". CU, group of men and women. CU, another group of men and ...

Hans J. Steinitz left Germany for France in 1934, after Hitler's rise to power. He served briefly in the French army, but was arrested by the French police and imprisoned in Gurs concentration camp after France's surrender to Germany. He was imprisoned in Gurs from October 1940 through the summer of 1942, where he kept a diary. In 1942 he was transferred to Les Milles concentration camp. He escaped ...

George Kadish, born Zvi (Hirsh) Kadushin (1910- 1997), was a Lithuanian Jewish photographer who documented life in the Kovno Ghetto during the Holocaust. Prior to World War II he was a mathematics, science and electronics teacher at a Hebrew High School in Kovno, Lithuania. As a hobby, Kadish was a photographer. He was skilled at making home-made cameras. During the period of Nazi control of Lithuania ...

(B-1205) Concentration Camp, Ebensee, Austria, May 8, 1945. MCU, body placed in furnace of crematorium. CU, naked corpse (pan of body from feet to head). MSs, CUs, men unloading cart of corpses, carrying bodies into crematorium on stretchers. Mountain range in BG. Two boys in uniforms sleeping on bench with luggage between them. MS, three men unloading bread from truck into building. LS, EXT, storage, ...

Kurt Rosenthal worked as a banker in Berlin, Germany. In 1933, he left Berlin and moved to France. Rosenthal was interned in Les Milles and Gurs internment camps in France as an “enemy alien.” His son is Robert Ronald.

Remnants of Nazism, Ludwigslust, Germany, May 6, 1945. MCU, German civilians coming out of concentration camp building after viewing bodies of victims. Woman is very distraught, crying into kerchief. More civilians leaving building. LS, square. LS, MS, CU American soldiers entering and leaving same building. Digging Graves, Ludwigslust, Germany, May 6, 1945. LSs, MSs, CUs, German civilians digging ...

George Kadish, born Zvi (Hirsh) Kadushin (1910- 1997), was a Lithuanian Jewish photographer who documented life in the Kovno Ghetto during the Holocaust. Prior to World War II he was a mathematics, science and electronics teacher at a Hebrew High School in Kovno, Lithuania. As a hobby, Kadish was a photographer. He was skilled at making home-made cameras. During the period of Nazi control of Lithuania ...

Transfer of defendant to a trial. Shots of crowd, MPs, UNRRA officials, judges moving/walking through streets of Landsberg DP camp. VAR, UNRRA or military officials walking in streets, entering and exiting a building, talking. Children boarding train, some in scouts uniforms. More views of the UNRRA officials on the street. Parade of scouts marching, rally, flags. Some men in suits. Demonstration of ...

Remnants of Nazism, Ludwigslust, Germany, May 6, 1945. MCU, German civilians coming out of concentration camp building after viewing bodies of victims. Woman is very distraught, crying into kerchief. More civilians leaving building. LS, square. LS, MS, CU American soldiers entering and leaving same building. Digging Graves, Ludwigslust, Germany, May 6, 1945. LSs, MSs, CUs, German civilians digging ...

Dr. Mieczyslaw (Mietek) Dortheimer, born in 1911 in Krakow, Poland, set out to be a lawyer after graduating from Krakow’s Jagiellonian University. When the Nazis marched into Krakow, he fled with his wife and father to Lwow. His father later moved to the Warsaw Ghetto and was subsequently gassed at Treblinka. Later, Dortheimer worked in Tarnow as a factory administrator, on false papers. After the ...

Ilse Rothschild (1916-2011) was born in Bad Hersfeld, Germany to Eduard Cohn and Hedwig Katzenstein Cohn. She lived in Antwerp until 1938 and survived the war in Brussels and Namur under the pseudonym Yvonne Collin. Following liberation, she worked for the United States Army in various roles, including as a language teacher. She married Erich Rothschild (1913-1995), who was born in Friedberg, Germany ...

Contains correspondence and documents relating to the donor's father's internment in Camp Gurs and Les Milles: drawings made by Gurs inmates in 1939; documentation of attempts to obtain visas; photographs taken by donor's husband while in Germany with the U.S. Army, some from Dachau taken two days after liberation; documents from the Red Cross International Tracing Service concerning the donor's mother's ...

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