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1851. Second page of an album prepared by the employees of the Jewish Council in Kielce ghetto for the chairman of the council, showing the date: January 1, 1942.
the ghetto, directed by SS Hauptsturmfuehrer Ernst Karl Thomas and Hauptmann Hans Geier, was carried ... fines. Within the first weeks of the occupation the Germans set up a Jewish Council and named Dr. Moses ... Pelc refused to execute German directives, he was deported to Auschwitz and replaced with the ... approximately 1,000 Jews from Vienna were transferred to Kielce and several thousand more from the areas of
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1852. A member of the ghetto administration talks on the telephone while seated at his desk in the office of the Judenrat in the Kielce ghetto.
the ghetto, directed by SS Hauptsturmfuehrer Ernst Karl Thomas and Hauptmann Hans Geier, was carried ... fines. Within the first weeks of the occupation the Germans set up a Jewish Council and named Dr. Moses ... Pelc refused to execute German directives, he was deported to Auschwitz and replaced with the ... approximately 1,000 Jews from Vienna were transferred to Kielce and several thousand more from the areas of
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1853. Survivors of the Kovno ghetto view the ruins of the ghetto after liberation.
failed to appear for the round-ups and likely remained hidden in bunkers, the SS ordered German troops to ... period to concentration camps: the women to Stutthof and the men to Dachau. Knowing that thousands ... raze the former ghetto. Every house was blown up and the ruins doused with gasoline and incinerated ... charred landscape of rubble and stone chimneys. Only approximately 100 Jews survived the liquidation.
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1854. American troops inspect the site of the Gardelegen atrocity.
David over each grave and enclosed the site with a white fence. Though the SS troops who participated ... exhume corpses who were buried in a mass grave by the SS. ... April 4, 1945 between two and three thousand prisoners of the Rottleberode labor camp were boarded onto ... from Gardelegen. The prisoners were taken off the train and led on a forced march in the direction of
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1855. Jewish refugees doing construction work at the Westerbork camp before the German occupation of the Netherlands.
Kurt Majerowicz was the son of a Jewish father, Arthur Majerowicz, and a Christian mother, Marie ... (Ke Kurt Majerowicz was the son of a Jewish father, Arthur Majerowicz, and a Christian mother, Marie ... had two sisters Irma (b. 1920) and Ruth (b. 1929). Following the Nazi takeover of power, Kurt ... Holland but was turned back at the border and had to return home. Arthur only narrowly escaped
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1856. The courtroom in the Palace of Justice during the Flick Trial.
torture, and atrocities committed by the Nazi party, and specifically the SS; and Steinbrinck was charged ... General Telford Taylor is shown at the podium in the center, and the Tribunal is on the left. The ... in the Flick Concern, a large group of industrial enterprises, including coal and iron mines and ... steel producing and fabricating plants, or its subsidiaries. The men had been indicted on 18 March
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1857. Group portrait of the staff of the coffee house in the Vilna ghetto.
immediate family lived in the ghetto for the next two years. On September 4, 1943 Latvian SS shot and ... ), Shura Kessler (middle row, left) and the head of the cafe, Mrs. Cyrynska (front row, center, in the ... William Begell (born Wilhelm Beigel) is the son of Ferdinand and Liza (Kowarsky) Beigel. He was ... bor William Begell (born Wilhelm Beigel) is the son of Ferdinand and Liza (Kowarsky) Beigel. He was
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1858. Defendants in the dock at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp war crimes trial in Berlin.
Ludwig Rehn joined the SS in 1935, the Nazi Party a year later, and joined the Berlin SS reserve ... Sta Ludwig Rehn joined the SS in 1935, the Nazi Party a year later, and joined the Berlin SS reserve ... the SS in 1935, he served in the Waffen-SS and later as a member of the "Das Reich" division. In ... volunteered for the Waffen-SS, was made a guard at Esterwegen, and later joined the Nazi Party in 1940. From
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1859. Photograph of the defendant's dock at the International Military Tribune in Nuremberg.
fighter ace. He joined the NSDAP in 1922. In 1923 he was wounded in the Beer Hall Putsch and forced to ... asset to Hitler, using his connections in the army and business to gain support for the NSDAP. Upon ... -in-Chief of the Prussian Police and Gestapo, and Commissioner for Aviation. Goering set up the first ... concentration camps and organized the Gestapo with Heinrich Himmler and Reinhard Heydrich. In 1935 he was
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1860. The Fenyves family on an outing to the family's vineyard.
LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST -- Yugoslavia -- Family/Friends/Portraits ... Steven Joseph (Joska) Fenyves is the son of Lajos (Louis) Fenvyes and Klari (Claire) Gereb Fenyves ... Steven Joseph (Joska) Fenyves is the son of Lajos (Louis) Fenvyes and Klari (Claire) Gereb Fenyves ... in Budapest, Vienna, Dresden, Paris and Florence. Steven's family was assimilated and belonged to the
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1861. Raifeld/Welner siblings celebrate Hanukkah. Pictured from left to right are Ruth Anders, Theo Raifeld and Regina Anders
them not to make a sound. After a while the SS conferred and decided to release the girls telling ... education both in Israel and Germany. Zvi published his memoir "As a boy though the hell of the Holocaust ... and found work at the photography shop run by Moritz Raifeld. He and Moritz, became close friends ... and two sons, Theo and Benno. Later the friendship between Moritz's widow, Marta, turned into a deep
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1862. Jewish displaced persons in Lodz. Among those pictured are Mayer Spiro (second from left) and Jeannette Spiro (far left).
women were able to cross via a bridge, after bribing SS guards. On the Russian side, Mayer and Pinnuck ... accountant and another who worked in the wine import business. Leib and Cypora owned a small grocery store ... in the grain business, selling oats to horse owners and other grains to mills to grind for flour ... Miriam Ullman, also lived with the family. The family kept a kosher home, and attended shul on Friday
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1863. View of the town of Hellevoetsluis, where the Rosendahl family took refuge after the German invasion of the Netherlands.
where his job was to paint information on the on the railway boxcars. Work days were long and the SS ... /1872 in Odenkirchen, Germany) and Emma Kussel Rosendahl (also from Odenkirchen). The couple married ... 1917, Helmut was born and, two weeks later, Emma died from complications of childbirth and the ... grade school and recalls experiencing antisemitism there, particularly during the season of Passover and
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1864. The defendants in the dock listen to the proceedings at the International Military Tribunal trial of war criminals at Nuremberg.
criminals. On December 17, 1942, the leaders of the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union ... issued the first joint declaration officially noting the mass murder of European Jewry and resolving to ... countries in which the crimes had been committed and adjudged according to the laws of the nation concerned ... Nuremberg on November 20, 1945, only six and a half months after Germany surrendered. Each of the four
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1865. The interior of the Nuremberg prison, where the defendants were confined during the International Military Tribunal trial of war criminals.
criminals. On December 17, 1942, the leaders of the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union ... issued the first joint declaration officially noting the mass murder of European Jewry and resolving to ... countries in which the crimes had been committed and adjudged according to the laws of the nation concerned ... Nuremberg on November 20, 1945, only six and a half months after Germany surrendered. Each of the four
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1866. An American officer inspects the site of the Gardelegen atrocity.
David over each grave and enclosed the site with a white fence. Though the SS troops who participated ... April 4, 1945 between two and three thousand prisoners of the Rottleberode labor camp were boarded onto ... from Gardelegen. The prisoners were taken off the train and led on a forced march in the direction of ... Gardelegen, during which many were shot by their SS overseers. Twelve hundred of the prisoners made it to
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1867. Amon Goeth, former commandant of the Plaszow concentration camp, is led away from the courthouse after being sentenced to death.
Amon Leopold Goeth (1908-1946), a native of Vienna, joined the Nazi party in 1932 and the SS in ... 1940 Amon Leopold Goeth (1908-1946), a native of Vienna, joined the Nazi party in 1932 and the SS in ... 1940. During the war he was sent first to SS headquarters in Lublin and subsequently to Krakow, where ... he was put in charge of the liquidation of the ghettos and labor camps of Szebnie, Bochnia, Tarnow
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1868. Three administrators of the Lipa farming labor camp confer with each other while slave laborers work in the background.
work in the background. From left to right are a Czech farm administrator, SS guard Schmiller, and ... chief farm administrator and NSDAP member Karel Fousek (on the horse). ... ), an authority coordinating all activities associated with Jews after the Protectorate of Bohemia and ... a three-month period and then they were to move out of the Protectorate. However, moving out became
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1869. Nachman Zonabend (center) and Mendel Grosman (right) examine a framed portrait of Jewish Council chairman Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski.
chairman Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski. The portrait was photographed by Mendel Grosman and had to be ... period from 1940 to 1944. Zonabend is the son of Abram and Malka (Rozenberg) Zonabend. He was born ... but did not go to high school. Instead he went to work and took vocational courses related to the ... and chroniclers-- who took on the project to collect for posterity all manner of printed material
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1870. The charred corpse of a prisoner killed near Gardelegen
The charred corpse of a prisoner killed by the SS in a barn just outside of ... Gardelegen. The SS guards locked the prisoners, who were on a death
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1871. View of the defendants in the Dachau trial wearing identifying number tags seated in the dock.
Weiss, the camp commandant from 1942-1943; Dr. Klaus Karl Schilling, an SS physician who was brought to ... Dachau to find a method of immunizing people against malaria; and three former prisoners. The trial ... lasted from November 15 to December 13, 1945, with seventy witnesses called for the prosecution and fifty
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1872. Defendant Anton Kaindl speaks from the dock at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp war crimes trial in Berlin.
Anton Kaindl was born in Munich in 1902 and joined the Waffen-SS in 1935, serving in the SS ... -Totenkop Anton Kaindl was born in Munich in 1902 and joined the Waffen-SS in 1935, serving in the SS ... 1941 he served as an SS inspector in concentration camps, and from 1942 until 1945 he served as the ... Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; Central Archive of the Federal Security Service
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1873. Defendant Karl Zander stands in the dock at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp war crimes trial in Berlin.
Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; Central Archive of the Federal Security Service ... worked in the crematoria in Sachsenhausen and took part in mass shootings and hangings, including the ... killing of four thousand Soviet POWs and three thousand others. From March 1943 until the end of the war ... he was the Blockaeltester in Block 17 of the camp, taking part in the torture and beating deaths of
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1874. A defendant (probably Michael Koerner) speaks from the dock at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp war crimes trial in Berlin.
Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; Central Archive of the Federal Security Service ... Michael Koerner joined the Hitler Youth in 1931 and joined the SA and the Nazi Party in February ... 193 Michael Koerner joined the Hitler Youth in 1931 and joined the SA and the Nazi Party in February ... 1933, becoming part of the SS-Totenkopf Brigade (later the Totenkopf Division) in 1935. In September
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1875. Defendant August Hoehn stands in the dock at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp war crimes trial in Berlin.
August Hoehn was born in 1904 in Lipporn-am-Rhein, Germany. He joined the SS and the Nazi Party in ... August Hoehn was born in 1904 in Lipporn-am-Rhein, Germany. He joined the SS and the Nazi Party in 1933 ... Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; Central Archive of the Federal Security Service ... In September 1939 he was transferred to the Waffen-SS, joining the SS-Totenkopf Brigade (later the