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  1. Ministère de la Justice. Service des Cultes et de la Laïcité

    • Belgian Ministry of Justice. Office for Worships and Laicism
    • SPF Justice. Direction générale Législation, Droits fondamentaux et Libertés. Direction Droits Fondamentaux. Service des Cultes et de la Laïcité

  2. Ministère des Affaires Economiques. Office belge de gestion et de liquidation

    • Ministerie van Economische Zaken. Belgische Dienst voor Beheer en Liquidatie
    • Belgian Ministry of Economic Affairs. Belgian Office for Management and Liquidation

  3. Ministère des Affaires économiques. Direction de l'organisation professionnelle

    • Ministerie van Economische Zaken. Directie van de bedrijfsorganisatie
    • Belgian Ministry of Economic Affairs. Directorate for Corporate Organisation

  4. Royal Hungarian Gendarmerie

    Law enforcement agency founded in Hungary in 1881 based on the French model. Its primary tasks were to prosecute crime and maintain order in villages and rural areas. The police force was in charge of these tasks in towns. In 1944, the twenty-thousand-strong gendarmerie played a key role in the ghettoization and deportation of the Hungarian Jews. With few exceptions, gendarmes fulfilled their duty mercilessly, and some of them even went beyond orders, committing excesses out of antisemitic zeal and sadism. After the war, the gendarmerie was declared a criminal organization and dissolved.

  5. American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

    • AJDC

    1914/present

    Founded in 1914, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee provided assistance to Jews around the world, particularly in eastern Europe. During the Nazi era, this umbrella agency for aid organizations in the United States was involved in emigration planning and relief work in Germany, until 1939 providing an increasing share of the budget for German Jewish organizations, such as the Reichsvertretung. The Joint efforts continued after the war began and extended beyond the Reich into countries occupied or controlled by Germany.

  6. Pesti Izraelita Hitközség

    • Pest Israelite Congregation
    • Jewish community of Pest
    • PIH

    The Pest Israelite Congregation was the largest Reform (Neolog) congregation in Hungary, with close to 200,000 members before the Holocaust. Between 1929 and 1944, the congregation was presided by banker Samu Stern. After the German occupation of Hungary on March 19, 1944, the leadership of the Pest Israelite Congregation was dissolved and replaced the Central Jewish Council created by order of the Nazis.

  7. Rabbinical Seminary of Budapest

    • ORI - Országos Rabbiképző Intézet

    סמינר לרבנים

  8. People's Court - Hungary

    • בית משפט העם - הונגריה

    בתי משפט מיוחדים שהועמדו לאחר מלחמת עולם השניה ותפקידם היה לדון בפושעי מלחמה

  9. Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun vármegye Törvényhatósági Bizottsága

    • Municipal Committee of Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun County

  10. Historijski arhiv Sarajevo

    • The History Archive of Sarajevo

    The Archive was formed on 3rd of May 1948, as Archive of Sarajevo. It was founded by the People's Commitee of Sarajevo (Act I/6491, officialy published on 20th of May 1948). The Archive of Sarajevo changed several locations, most of them lacking in conditions for professional and adequate protection of archival records. Since 1999. it is stationed in the building at Alipasina no. 19, but it also has depo's with holdings in Vrbanjuša and other locations. The name of the Archive was changed in 1975, when it became "The Historical Archive of Sarajevo" (Istorijski arhiv Sarajevo).

  11. Uprava državnih nekretnina Sarajevo

    • The Office for State Property Sarajevo

    The Office for State Property Sarajevo was in charge of managing confiscated property seized by the new Yugoslav regime (Communist Party), but also managing of property whose owners were unaccounted for or perished in concentration camps (Jews, Serbs, etc.).

  12. Walter Braemer

    • Braemer, Walter
    • Walter Braemer (1883 - 1955)
    • Braemer, Walter (1883 - 1955)

    07-01-1883 / 13-06-1955

    Wehrmachtbefehlshaber or supreme military commander of the Reichskommissariat Ostland between 1941 and 1944.

  13. Narodni odbor Grada Sarajeva

    • City Committee of Sarajevo

    Sarajevo, as a city and separate political and territorial unit became a separate government unit in 1945. City's People Liberation Committee was formed on 19th of April 1945 and operated until 21st of July 1945, shortly after the end of World War II in Europe (May 1945), when it was reformed and renamed to City's People Committee. Ii supervised Sarajevo's five districts.

  14. Okresný úrad vo Vranove nad Topľou

  15. Béla Berend

    • Berend, Béla (1911 - 1987)
    • Berend, Béla

    1911 - 1987

    Berend, Béla (1911-1987) Chief Rabbi of Szigetvár and member of the Second, Third and Fourth Jewish Council. He was suspected of being an informant for the government. In 1946 he was sentenced to ten years in prison for collaborating with the Hungarian authorities during the Holocaust. In 1947 he was acquitted on appeal. In 1948, Berend immigrated to the United States where he changed his name to Albert B. Belton.

  16. Národný súd

  17. Deutsche Partei

    • DP

  18. Grünvald Fülöp

    • גרינוולד פולופ
    • Grünwald Fülöp
    • Fülöp, Grünvald
    • Fülöp, Grünwald

    1887-1964

    Hungarian historian and museologist.

  19. Historijski muzej Bosne i Hercegovine

    • History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina
    • Historijski muzej BiH, Muzej Revolucije

    Founded in 1945.

    The History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina aims to collect, preserve, explore, present, and promote the cultural and historical heritage of Bosnia and Herzegovina. From its founding in 1945 until 1993, the Museum remained thematically focused on the history of antifascism during World War II and the cultivation of socialist state values. The name of the Museum, once Museum of the Revolution of Bosnia and Herzegovina, has changed several times, but it has always been recognizable. After being renamed the History Museum in 1993, the thematic structure of the Museum has also changed. Now the...

  20. Kotarsko nadzorništvo narodne zaštite Sarajevo

    • District's Office for national protection Sarajevo