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

An American film dramatizing the destructive effects of racial and religious prejudice. The film was made to make the case for the desegregation of the US Armed Forces. Reel 1: shows a fake wrestling match and crooked gambling games with narration: "There's a good old-fashioned word for people like this. We call them suckers." An agitator addresses a street crowd; he almost convinces an American man ...

Magdalena (Magda) Fischer was born on July 20, 1914, in Kolozsvar, Hungary (now Cluj-Napoca, Romania), to a Jewish couple, Rudolf and Gisella Widder Fischer. Magda had two brothers: Bela, born in 1920, and Stefan, born on December 18, 1922. Her father Rudolf was born in 1896 in Betlen, Transylvania (Beclean, Romania). He was a furniture manufacturer. Magda’s mother Gisella was born in 1892 in Miskolc, ...

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 ...

The Sheindel Trebits Sussman papers include a diary, ID card, and photographs relating to Sheindel “Bella” Trebits Sussman’s experiences during the war. The diary begins on July 8, 1945 and relates Sheindel's memories of her hometown of Bácskossuthfalva, Serbia, the German invasion of Hungary in 1944, her deportation to the Bácsalmás ghetto and Auschwitz, working in a munitions factory, and liberation ...

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Testimony, typescript, 4 pages, describing life in Mezotur, Hungary, implementation of anti-Jewish laws there, work in labor-regiment with Hungarian forces in Soviet Union (Voronezh), return to Hungary and work on forced labor battalions, deportation to Mauthausen toward end of the war, and liberation.

Dr. Fred Roberts Crawford was born in 1924 in San Antonio, TX. He was a fighter pilot with the Fourth Squadron, and was stationed in North Africa in 1943, and, in 1944, flew bombing raids over Italy, France, and Romania. In June 1944, Crawford was shot down by friendly fire over Hungary; captured and beaten by Hungarian civilians who believed him to be Jewish, he was saved by a policeman, Ferenc Felsovari, ...

"In 1941, as Nazi Germany began its disastrous campaign against the Soviet Union, Hitler's other campaign, to exterminate European Jewry, was also commencing in earnest. What began with organized executions carried out by the Einzatsgruppen evolved into systematic genocide, reaching its frenzied final moments just as the Wehrmacht was meeting defeat on the military front. These campaigns--and Germany's ...

Copyright Holder: Budapest Főváros Levéltára

Arthur Mainzer (1923-) was a cameraman in the 4th Combat Camera Unit of the 9th Air Force. The Combat Camera Unit was tasked with creating Air Force training films at Hal Roach Studios. After completing training at the Air Force Photo Technical School in Denver, CO and the First Motion Picture Unit in Culver, City, CA, Mainzer was deployed to Europe. He was filming bomb damage by the Allied Air Forces ...

Contains documents from various U.S. government agencies about the “Gold Train” or “Werfen Train,” which members of the Arrow Cross Party and officials of the Hungarian National Bank packed with looted Jewish valuables (mostly from Miskilc, Pecs, and Gyor) and sent across the border into Austria in March 1945. (This was not the only such train.) Although some items were pilfered en route, the U.S. ...

Sessions 6, 7, 8 and 9. The bulk of this tape is a compilation of points within the prosecution's speech. Attorney General Gideon Hausner's opening statement as he discusses concentration camps, specifically Majdanek: "...in one day, 18,000 Jews were shot." There is a blip at 00:06:54 and the story skips from examination of Majdanek to Auschwitz: "...this camp was established with the sure knowledge ...

Clara Lefkowitz Kempler was born in 1920 in Užhorod, Czechoslovakia (later Ungvar Hungary, now Uzhhorod, Ukraine) to Chaim and Leah Lefkowitz. Clara was deported in spring 1944 to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp then to subsequent concentration and slave labor camps Gelsenkirchen (Gelsenberg-Benzin AG) and Sömmerda. She survived a seven week death march in spring 1945 and was liberated by Soviet ...

The fonds contains the files concerning various forms of persecution of Jews in Revúca. It contains testimonies of Jews from Revúca on their harassment and persecution. Fonds also contains the information on partisan activities in the vicinity of village Muráň as well as on the anti-partisan operations of German security forces in that area. One file concerns the prosecution of the former member of ...

Consists of photographs of Andre Bernat and Magda (née Szemere) Bernat and their son Istvan (Stephen) while the family was living in a displaced persons camp in Bamberg, Germany. Included is a photo of the Bernats at the time of their wedding in 1946 as well as photos of the Bernats among friends and family. Among surviving relatives depicted are Andre's sister, Ibolya Weiss (later Violet White), and ...

The protocols and auxiliary files regarding the lawsuit submitted by the Attorney General of Israel against Malkiel Gruenwald and the protocols and auxiliary files from the Supreme Court, on the matter of the criminal appeal submitted by the Attorney General of Israel against Malkiel Gruenwald are accessible to the public in the State Archives in the series "Trial of Kasztner vs. Gruenwald", identified ...

The Gombosi family papers consist of biographical material, correspondence, and photographs relating to János, Magda, and Eva Gombosi’s experiences during the war. The collection includes an identity card from the Allied Expeditionary Force, a medical card, and a Läkarkort (doctor’s brief) for Magda, a post-war letter detailing what happened to János during war, and a handwritten contract handing guardianship ...

Established by Decree no. 15226 of the Foreign Ministry in 1919, the Legal Department was responsible for cases of international public, criminal and civil law and administrative legal aid. Initially had three departments: International Public Law, International Criminal and Civil Law and International Legal Aid, which later were divided into various sub-departments. Most relevant are the survived ...

Memoir, typescript, 129 page, written by Imre Gross (Emery Robert), describing his childhood and youth in Hungary, his conscription into a forced labor battalion between 1942-1944, his imprisonment by the Arrow Cross and subsequent escape and hiding in Budapest, liberation, and return to his hometown in 1945. Also described are his experiences in the immediate postwar years, including reunion with ...

Slate: "Capt. Carter, Prod #186, Buchenwald, Rock-C39, Date 4-16-45" HAS of crowd of German civilians in main courtyard of Buchenwald, moving about, mix of soldiers and civilians. Male survivor stands in front of a building. Barred window partially visible in BG. Man is wearing what appears to be a uniform coat and looks directly at the camera. CU of his face as he demonstrates facial wounds; he has ...

TR.7- Gruenwald-Kastner Trial 1954
 
 In 1954, the Attorney General of Israel, Haim Cohen, filed a lawsuit against Malkiel Gruenwald, the Jerusalem journalist of Hungarian origin, on the charge of publishing a pamphlet which claimed that Dr. Rudolf Kastner, who was serving then in a public position, had collaborated with the German occupation forces in Hungary. Kastner had been a Jewish public ...

Pendant that originally belonged to Magda Lowy. She received it before the beginning of World War II in 1939 and entrusted it to her aunt, Jolie, for safekeeping. Jolie survived the Holocaust by living in hiding in Belgium. In June 1944, 21 year old Magda and her family were deported from Satu Mare, Hungary (Romania) to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in Poland. She and her sister, Elizabeth, were ...

United States Navy Lieutenant E. R. Kellogg certifies motion pictures of Nazi concentration camps in an affidavit presented in the "Nazi Concentration Camps" film by the Americans as evidence during the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. Kellogg had expertise in motion picture and photographic techniques through his employment with Twentieth Century Fox Studios in California from 1929 to ...