The Moshe Sheps photograph collection consists of photographs of members of "Hashomer Hadati" in Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland; the "Kibbutz Buchenwald" in Gersfeld, Germany and in Italy awaiting immigration to Palestine; four family photographs from Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland; and three photographs of the Gorset family, Moshe Sheps' cousins.

displaced Jews in the American zone of Germany from 1945 to 1950. The Central Committee was founded on July 1, 1945, at the first meeting of representatives of Jewish DP camps held in Feldafing. It came into being through the joint effort of Dr. Zalman Grinberg, the head of the St. Ottilien hospital DP camp and former director of the Kovno ghetto hospital, and Rabbi Abraham Klausner, an American reform ...

M.1 - Documentation of the The Central Committee of the Liberated Jews in the U.S. Zone of Germany 
 
 The Central Committee of the Liberated Jews in the U.S. Zone of Germany was the official representative body of displaced Jews in the American zone of Germany from 1945 to 1950. The Central Committee was founded on July 1, 1945, at the first meeting of representatives of Jewish DP camps ...

Judith Prejzerowicz was born on March 17, 1934, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, the only child of Josek Aron Prejzerowicz and Erna Friedmann Prejzerowicz. The family lived in Frankfurt, and Josek’s large family (he was one of nine children) lived in Częstochowa, Poland, where he was born and raised. Erna was born and raised in Frankfurt. Her father passed away in 1913, and her mother, Miriam, remarried ...

The papers consist of 53 photographs of Cesia Ritter (née Honig) as a child before World War II and post-war photograph of her rescuers; an employment certificate for her father Naftali Honig in "Deutsche Dachpappenfabrik - Papapol" in Tarnow, Poland, in 1942; and identification card for Cesia Honig issued by ORT in Anvers, Belgium, in 1947; a copy of a letter written to Cesia's uncle in Palestine ...

Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Friedrich Ruge wurde am 24. Dezember 1894 als Sohn Walther Ruges und seiner Frau Martha Friederike Ruge in Leipzig geboren. Er besuchte dort die Volksschule und die Thomas-Schule. 1911 zog die Familie nach Bautzen um, wo der Vater das Amt des Gymnasialdirektors übernahm. Sein Sohn legte 1914 an diesem Gymnasium das Abitur ab. Friedrich Ruge schloss sich der "Wandervogel"-Bewegung ...

The Christopher R. Browning papers consist of Browning’s expert reports, correspondence, court records, photocopies of historical evidentiary materials, indexes, preparatory and background materials for trial, printed materials, and witness testimony gathered or created during preparations for court proceedings against alleged war criminals Radislav Grujicic and Serge Kisluk in Canada, Andre Sawoniuk ...

Elizabeth Cecilia Gabrielle Weigl (later Deutschhausen, 1902-1994) was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Austria), to Alfred C. and Ida H. Kling (1877-1962) Weigl. Elizabeth often went by the nickname, Elsie, and had one younger brother, Alfred (1906-1969). Elizabeth graduated from the Vienna Art School, where she studied art and theater set and costume design. She also designed lace, clothing, ...

Der Bestand umfasst im Wesentlichen die Unterlagen aus dem Tätigkeitsbereich von Dr. Gregor Ebner, der als Vorstandsmitglied, Leiter der Abteilung Gesundheitswesen und Leiter des Lebensbornheims Hochland in Steinhöring agierte. Dabei geht die Thematik zuweilen über seinen eigenen Geschäftsbereich hinaus, wie er auch selbst einmal vermerkt (NS 1 / 7095, fol. 164; digitales Archiv: ID-Nr. 82458553). ...

Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Wie die Kriegstagebücher aller anderen Verbände, Einheiten und Dienststellen des Heeres auch, waren die Kriegstagebücher der Heeresgruppenkommandos vom Mobilmachungstag an (26. Aug. 1939) dem Heeresarchiv Potsdam einzureichen, wo sie eine Zugangssignatur erhielten (anfangs getrennt nach Kriegsschauplätzen: P für Polen, W für Westen; nach der Beendigung des West- und ...

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, ...

Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Die organisationsgeschichtlichen Angaben und Unterstellungsübersichten sind aus dem Werk von Georg Tessin, "Verbände und Truppen der deutschen Wehrmacht und Waffen-SS im Zweiten Weltkrieg 1939 - 1945", Frankfurt/Main und Osnabrück, 1966 ff. übernommen. I. Heeresgruppen/-kommandos Die im Frieden bestehenden 6 Heeresgruppen-Kommandos wurden bei Kriegsbeginn aufgelöst und ...