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Authority Type: Corporate Body

  1. Judenrat der Lachwa

    • Rada Żydowska w Łachwie

    Łachwa. Niemcy wkroczyli do miasteczka 8.07.1941. Prezesem Rady Żydowskiej został Mojżesz Łopatin (następnie w partyzantce). W marcu 1942 r. utworzono tu getto. 2350 Żydów stłoczono w 40 domkach. 3.09. 1942 getto zostało otoczone przez milicję ukraińską i żandarmerię niemiecką. Wcześniej utworzona żydowska samoobrona przygotowała wszystkie zabudowania do podpalenia, aby uniemożliwić wkroczenie Niemców . Teraz podpalono je, co spowodowało dezorientację milicji i żandarmerii oraz umożliwiło 500 Żydom przedarcie się do lasu. W sumie podczas akcji likwidacyjnej zginęło 1800 mieszkańców getta i ...

  2. Видавництво газети "Золотоніські вісті"

    • "Zolotonosha Herald" editorial board
    • Vydavnytstvo hazety "Zolotoniski visti"

  3. Державний архів Чернігівської області

    • State Archive of Chernihiv Oblast
    • Derzhavnyi arkhiv Chernihivskoi oblasti

  4. Gdynia-Ameryka. Linie Żeglugowe S.A

    • Gdynia-America Shipping Lines

    The shipping company Gdynia – Ameryka Linie Żeglugowe S.A. was founded in 1930 to carry émigrés on the line Gdynia–Halifax –New York. In 1932 a “Palestine line” was launched, serving the route Constanţa–Haifa–Pireus–Istanbul– Constanţa. In 1938 this line was suspended as financially non-viable, and from then on GAL ships served lines to ports in South America. The surviving files include contracts for transport of Jewish passengers on the Palestine line, official correspondence regarding people of Jewish birth being smuggled on the MS Piłsudski in the years 1935-1937, collective lists of pa...

  5. Amtsgericht Dietfurt

    • Sąd Obwodowy w Żninie

    W okresie okupacji na terenie okręgu administracyjnego Kraju Warty najwyższą jednostką był Sąd Nadkrajowy (Oberlandesgericht) w Poznaniu ,któremu podporządkowane były sądy krajowe (Landgerichte), a tym z kolei sądy obwodowe (Amtsgerichte). Szczególowe informacje - patrz karta zespołu 552.

  6. Tallinnfilm AS

    Tallinnfilm is the oldest operative film studio in Estonia. Originally founded as Estonian Culture Film in 1931, the studio was nationalized in 1940, after Estonia was brought into the Soviet Union. During the first year of Soviet occupation (1940-1941), Eesti Kultuurfilm was taken over by the Communist Party and renamed Kinokroonika Eesti Stuudio (the Estonian Newsreel Studio). In 1942, during the German occupation in World War II, it was renamed Kinokroonika Tallinna Stuudio (The Tallinn Newsreel Studio). In 1947 the Soviet renamed it Tallinna Kinostuudio (The Tallinn Film Studio); in 195...

  7. Eesti NSV Ülemkohus

    • Supreme Court of Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic

    1941 and 1944-1991

    After Soviet forces occupied Estonia in 1940 and Estonia was incorporated into the USSR the Estonian court system was restructured. The Soviet government created a court system in Estonia that corresponded to Soviet law. This system consisted only of district courts, called the People’s Courts, and a Supreme Court of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic (ESSR). During the Soviet period the Supreme Court of the ESSR reviewed civil and criminal appeals as the court of second instance. It reviewed some cases as the court of first instance, for example, murder cases under aggravating circumst...

  8. Sicherheitspolizei und SD in Estland, Gruppe B (Estnische Sicherheitspolizei)

    • Estonian Security Police
    • German Security Police and SD in Estonia, Group B
    • Saksa Julgeolekupolitsei ja SD Eestis, grupp B

    1941-1944

    The Estonian Security Police and SD, or Sipo, was a security police force created by the Germans in 1942. The force integrated both Germans and Estonians within a unique structure mirroring the German Security Police. Following the German occupation in 1941, the German Army created police prefects based upon the old Estonian police model. In 1942 a new Security Police structure departments A-I to A-V, and an Estonian component, called "Group B," with corresponding departments was installed. The new Sipo force was designed by Martin Sandberger, leader of Einsatzkommando 1a. It was a unique j...

  9. Estnische Selbstschutz

    • Estonian Home Guard
    • Eesti Omakaitse

    1941-1944

    In August 1941, the commander of the German occupying army unit Nord, Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, decided to better secure the rear and so gathered the troops composed of the Forest Brothers who had participated in the Summer War. The new organisation was called the Estonian Home Guard and was subordinate to local civilian authorities (Estonian Self-administration). Territorially, the Home Guard was divided into 13 county units. Their leaders took orders from local police prefects. The Home Guard was a voluntary organisation; the minimum age for schoolchildren was 17 years of age, and for othe...

  10. Baltische Öl Gesellschaft mit beschänkter Haftung

    • Baltic Oil Limited Liability Company
    • Baltische Öl GmbH

    1941-1944

    German Kontinentale Öl was a holding company which held exclusive rights for both trading oil products and acquiring oil assets in Germany and German-occupied territories. The company operated through its numerous subsidiaries. In July 1941, the subsidiary Baltische Öl GmbH was founded for shale oil extraction in Estonia, and all of the existing oil shale industry in Estonia was merged into it. During the years 1941-1943 most of the workers in the company’s mines and factories were Soviet prisoners of war. The Vaivara concentration camp network (which included numerous subcamps) was establi...

  11. Schutzpolizei

    • Protective police
    • Schupo

    City or municipal police.

  12. Виконавчий комітет Полтавської обласної ради народних депутатів

    • Executive committee of Poltava regional Council of Peoples Delegates
    • Vykonavchyi komitet Poltavskoi oblasnoi rady narodnykh deputativ
    • Управління Народного комісаріату внутрішніх справ УРСР по Полтавській області
    • Управління Міністерства внутрішніх справ УРСР по Полтавській області
    • Виконавчий комітет Полтавської обласної ради депутатів трудящих
    • ...

  13. Вовчанська сільська управа, с. Вовча Кобеляцького р-ну Полтавської обл.

    • Vovcha village board, Vovcha village, Kobeliaky district, Poltava region
    • Vovchanska silska uprava, s. Vovcha Kobeliatskogo raionu Poltavskoi oblasti

  14. Державний архів Полтавської області

    • State Archive of Poltava Oblast
    • Derzhavnyi arkhiv Poltavs'koi oblasti

  15. Ministerstvo spravedlnosti, Praha

    • Ministry of Justice, Prague

    The Ministry of Justice was established in 1918 after the constitution of the first Czechoslovak republic. Its scope of authority was to control to organise and to administer all matters of public courts and prosecutor offices, prison services, pedagogical institutions for the young or matters of Czechoslovak layers and notaries and other formal orders, regulations and laws.

  16. Joniškio miesto savivaldybė

    • The Municipality of the City of Joniškis

  17. Державний архів Черкаської області

    • State archives of Cherkasy region

  18. Ordnungspolizei

    • Order Police
    • Orpo

    Founded in 1936

    The Ordnungspolizei were reserve police battalions under the control of Police General Kurt Daluege. The Ordnungspolizei, a terroristic and murderous group, were used to secure and hold down occupied areas in the East, particularly Poland and Russia. They guarded ghettos and controlled the Schutzpolizei. They engaged in horrendous atrocities. Recent data has revealed that these genocidal activities of ordinary men, not front-line caliber soldiers, preceded even the Einsatzgruppen.

  19. Коропська районна поліція, с. Короп Коропського району Чернігівської області

    • Korop district police, Korop village of Korop district of Chernihiv oblast
    • Koropska raionna politsiia, s. Korop Koropskoho raionu Chernihivskai oblasti

  20. Oberfeldkommandantur 396

    • Headquarters of Higher Field Command Number 396