Consist of correspondence, reports, statistics, newspaper clippings, and articles relating to welfare programs of various agencies, displaced persons in Hungary, and repatriation of Hungarians from Palestine, welfare institutions and projects in Budapest, and to Hungarian journalists.

M.43.LVVA - Documentation from the State Historical Archives of Latvia in Riga
 
 This sub-record group contains files selected from the State Historical Archives of Latvia in Riga and files received from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in Washington DC.
 
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 The documentation of the State Historical Archives of ...

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Consists of selected records from the institutional archive of Interessengemeinschaft Farbenindustrie AG, commonly known as IG Farben, a German chemical and pharmaceutical conglomerate. Records pertain to slave labor at the IG Farben complex at Auschwitz, as well as forced labor throughout the IG Farben complex (such as the arms production and the mining industry such as the Riebek'sche Montanwerke ...

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Reel 2: 00:00:00 German military advance with horse-drawn camouflaged artillery. Men digging holes. Troops advance on horseback. German soldier operates a radio; views of/from the radio tower. The camera pans across the landscape from the radio tower, a large column of smoke is visible in the distance, figures moving across an open field. Panning shots of a small military camp at the edge of a tree ...

The origins of the Swedish Red Cross date back to 1865 as Föreningen för frivillig vård av sårade och sjuka i fält (Association for the Voluntary Care of the Wounded and Sick in the Field) was formed according to the guidelines laid down at a congress in Geneva the previous year and contained in the well-known Geneva Convention of 1864. The association's first president was the Duke of Östergötland, ...

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Contains pre-war photographs of the Fingerhut family (George Fine's family) from Siauliai, Lithuania, and of the Marmor family (Shari Fine's family) of Bistrita, Romania. Includes postwar identification cards issued to the donors and immigration paperwork documenting Shari Marmor's immigration to Canada. Also includes playbills, posters, songbooks, and other materials documenting Yiddish theatrical ...

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 ...

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Opis 1. 1. Directives and orders concerning personnel of the administration, correspondence with organizations and institutions of the rayon 1a. Orders of the burgomaster 2. Orders about the administration and its personnel. ID documents and certifications of employees. Lists of employees of the police and of the bread factory. Rules on internal order for employees of prisons and for prisoners. Lists ...

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Sally Chase (1928-2017) was born Sala Silberstein to Daniel (1885/87-1942) and Estera (nee Hochberg, 1890-1942) Silberstein in Radom, Poland. She had seven siblings: Abraham (?-1942), Jakob (known as Jack, 1909-1989), Moses (1912-1943), Joshua (1915-1943), Pinchas (?-1944), Hadassa (later Helen Kaluski, 1922-1981), and Rosa (later Eisenberg, b. 1924). The family lived in a nice, three-room apartment, ...

Jan Karski tells of his capture and torture by the Gestapo when he was a courier for the Polish underground. He also describes his clandestine visit to the Warsaw ghetto and his meeting with Szmul Zygielbojm, six months before Zygelbojm's suicide. See pages 491 - 494 of the English translation of Lanzmann's memoir The Patagonian Hare (March 2012) for a description of his interactions with Karski after ...

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Claude Lanzmann was born in Paris to a Jewish family that immigrated to France from Eastern Europe. He attended the Lycée Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand. His family went into hiding during World War II. He joined the French resistance at the age of 18 and fought in the Auvergne. Lanzmann opposed the French war in Algeria and signed a 1960 antiwar petition. From 1952 to 1959 he lived with Simone ...

Henryk Gawkowski was a locomotive conductor at the Treblinka station and estimates that he transported approximately 18,000 Jews to the camp. He drank vodka all the time because it was the only way to make bearable his job and the smell of burning corpses. He describes the black market and the prostitution that developed around the camp. This interview also includes conversations with several other ...