Sophie Friedländer (1905-2006) was the only daughter of five children of a Jewish family of teachers in Hamburg. When she was one year old the family moved to Berlin. She studied at the University of Berlin and did her teacher training at her father's school, the Karl Marx Schule in Neuköln, a progressive reform education school. She qualified as a teacher in 1933. As she was not allowed to teach at ...

Montage showing in contrast the peaceful life in Germany before and life in Germany during Hitler. Two barefooted, weary men sleeping in park. Woman walking through alley looking in garbage cans. Children in slum street. Boys training in the Nazi Farm Corps. LS, fountain in park. CU, plow breaking ground. 01:12:30 Night scenes: Nazis on the march; burning of books. 1 shot of fires inside synagogue ...

Garden. 01:00:26 Peter Lederer with butterfly net. Lake, Robert Lederer (father) fishing. Peter picking grass. 01:02:31 Nina Lederer (with braids) walking on street reading comics. VAR CUs Lederer family and Emily (Waldstein) Bruck (Peter and Nina's grandmother) in Pacov, Czechoslovakia, walking down village street. At lake, Nina, Peter, and their grandmother on dock, walking around village. Nina and ...

The collection consists of documents and photographs pertaining to the experiences of Felicia Liban during the Holocaust as well as a 1995 copy of her birth certificate from Poland, a photocopy of her United States naturalization certificate from 1953, and five children's books that Felicia Liban read while she was in hiding in Poland

The collection contains a variety of materials related to the representation of the Holocaust in the Arts, both by Holocaust survivors and post-Holocaust artists. Much of the material was generated during research for Mary Costanza’s seminal monograph on the topic titled “The Living Witness.”.

Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Ramot Menashe
 
 Description of the material:
 
 1. Baptism and birth certificate of the wife of the submitter of the material, Nina Boniowka (false identity);
 2. Interview with Nina Boniowka, in Polish (printed from the book, ...

<p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Readers need to book a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archve</strong></span></p><p>Family papers</p>

Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Yagur&#x0D; &#x0D; Documents (photocopy):&#x0D; &#x0D; I. Regarding the Teheran Children:&#x0D; 17/11/1942 - Yagur Diary, meeting of the secretariat and the administration of the school regarding accepting the Teheran Children;&#x0D; 15/12//1942 - Diary ...

Copyright Holder: Mr. Douglas M. Kelley Jr.

This version includes scenes from the children's production of "Brundibar." Excerpts of well-known propaganda film made by the Nazis to show the International Red Cross and others that they were not mistreating Jews in the "ghettos." Documentary footage depicts the life of Jews in the ghetto of Theresienstadt [Terezin] in Czechoslovakia as harmonious and joyful. They wear yellow stars on their civilian ...

The Veres family (excluding Kati's father Bela Krausz) survived the Holocaust by living in hiding. Peter (b. October 23, 1938), the oldest son of Kati and George Veres, was born and baptized as an Anglican in London. As a British citizen, he was protected by the Swiss Embassy. Kati and George arranged for two Swiss women to hide six year old Peter for several weeks during the invasion of Budapest in ...

The Alzen family papers include identity papers, correspondence, and court papers documenting a Catholic farming family’s life in Nazi Germany, August Alzen’s forced sterilization, Johann Alzen’s death at Dachau, and the family’s efforts to receive compensation after the war. Documents include Agnes Alzen’s Arbeitsbuch; Albert Alzen’s Military Government questionnaire, Freie Deutsche Liga membership ...

"Reflecting on the work of one of the field's most influential scholars, the twenty essays in this book explore the evolution and application of Holocaust historiography, identify key insights into genocidal settings and point to gaps in our knowledge of humanity's most haunting problem. Why do they kill? The publication in 1992 of Christopher R. Browning's "Ordinary Men" raised crucial, previously ...

Horrified by the Holocaust, social psychologist Stanley Milgram wondered if he could recreate the Holocaust in the laboratory setting. Unabated for more than half a century, his (in)famous results have continued to intrigue scholars. Based on unpublished archival data from Milgram's personal collection, volume one of this two-volume set introduces readers to a behind the scenes account showing how ...

Man holding "Bryan" slate. Train. SG awards, spectators gathered. DPs with tags walk with luggage off train in line. Women, children, families. CUs, feet as they pass. One with guitar. MSs, CUs children boarding ship. Queue, checking tags with numbers. More shots, families getting off trains. Good views.

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 ...

Consists of pre-war photographs of Marie Cuttler and her parents, Felicia Grodzicka and Władysław Watnicki, both of whom perished in the Holocaust, as well as post-war photographs of Marie at the Munich Hospital. Also includes one small composition book in which Marie practiced English and one handkerchief embroidered with flowers and the words "Bad Aibling, IRO, Children's Village."

Copyright Holder: Mémorial de la Shoah, Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine

This book offers an extensive introduction and 13 diverse essays on how World War II, the Holocaust, and their aftermath affected Jewish families and Jewish communities, with an especially close look at the roles played by women, youth, and children. Focusing on Eastern and Central Europe, themes explored include: how Jewish parents handled the Nazi threat; rescue and resistance within the Jewish family ...

Tall wheat blowing in the wind. Field of flowers. Women in traditional dresses tend to crops, farming, tractor. Man uses a wrench to fix a wheel. Farmers cut away at the wheat. Horses pull grain drills across the field. Woman and young boy in the field. The farmers pile hay on top of wagons. Repairs. Shot from inside a moving car of the fields as the end of day sun peaks through the clouds above. 01:02:52 ...

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 ...

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 ...

P.31 - Collection of Ottó (Natan) Komoly, Chairman of the Magyar Cionista Szövetség (Hungarian Zionist Organization), 1941-1944&#x0D; &#x0D; Biography of Ottó Komoly:&#x0D; Ottó Komoly (Hebrew name: Natan-Zeev Kahan) was born in Budapest in 1892; by profession he was an engineer. In 1940 he was elected Deputy Chairman of the Magyar Cionista Szövetség, and in 1941, he was elected as its Chairman. In ...