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  1. Haupt-und Personalamt der Stadt Riga

    • Main Board and Staff of City of Riga
    • Rīgas pilsētas Galvenā un personālā valde

    The Main Board and Staff of City of Riga was established in July of 1941 and in July-September appears in the documents as Riga City Board, the Central Riga City Board and later as Main board and staff of Riga city. The city major was appointed Hugo Wittrock.

  2. Arbeitsamt Riga

    • Riga City Labour Administration

  3. Jacobstadt Stadtverwaltung

    • Jekabpils City Council
    • Jēkabpils pilsētas valde

  4. Stadtverwaltung Doblen

    • Dobele City Council
    • Dobeles pilsētas valde

  5. Stadtverwaltung Dünaburg

    • Daugavpils City Council
    • Daugavpils pilsētas valde

  6. Ludza Stadtverwaltung

    • Ludza City Council
    • Ludzas pilsētas valde

  7. Madonas pilsētas valde

    • Madona City Council
    • Stadtverwaltung Madohn

  8. Polizeibehörden Kreis Illuxt

    • Ilukste District Police Institutions
    • Ilūkstes apriņķa policijas iestādes

  9. Wilhelm Canaris

    German admiral, and chief of Abwehr, the German military intelligence service, from 1935 to 1944. During the Second World War, he was among the military officers involved in the clandestine opposition to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime. He was executed in the Flossenbürg concentration camp for the act of high treason.

  10. Ελληνική Πρεσβεία Καϊρου

    • Greek Embassy in Cairo
    • Elliniki Presveia Kairou

  11. Комісія з історії Великої Вітчизняної війни при Академії наук УРСР.

    • Commission on the History of the Great Patriotic War at the Academy of Sciences of USSR

  12. Polsko-Brytyjskie Towarzystwo Okrętowe S.A.

    • Polish-British Shipping Company

    Files include official correspondence regarding reservations, copies of tickets, lists of émigré passengers, among whom were large numbers of Jews, and shipping documents. These materials are an interesting source for research into emigration of Jews from Poland on the eve of the outbreak of World War II. They contain considerable information on mutual aid campaigns by Jewish organizations, which assisted with all the formalities surrounding emigration. There is also a large volume of correspondence regarding reservations and information.

  13. Видавництво газети "Золотоніські вісті"

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

  14. Державний архів Чернігівської області

    • State Archive of Chernihiv Oblast
    • Derzhavnyi arkhiv Chernihivskoi oblasti

  15. Franz von Bodmann

    1908-1945

    Franz von Bodmann was a medical school graduate. From 1930-1934 he was a member of the SA; in 1932 he joined the NSDAP; in 1939 he served in the SS-Verfügungstruppe regiment in Ulm; in 1942 he was called to SS service. In 1942 he served as physician in the concentration camps of Neuengamme, Auschwitz and Majdanek, and in 1943-1944 in the Vaivara concentration camp network. Later, he was in the SS Main Office Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle, in the rank of SS-Obersturmführer. In 1945 he was in the Waffen-SS Division Wiking. He committed suicide as a prisoner of war after the war.

  16. Hans Aumeier

    1906 – 1948

    Hans Aumeier was a Nazi war criminal, an SS-Sturmbannführer (Major) and the deputy commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp. From autumn 1943 to August 1944 Commandant of the Vaivara concentration camp in Estonia. 1944-1945 served at the Kaufering concentration camp at Dachau, February-May 1945 at the Grin concentration camp at Mysen, Norway. Sentenced to death on 22. December 1947 in Cracow and hanged with 20 others of Auschwitz staff on 24 January 1948.

  17. 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...

  18. 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...

  19. 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...

  20. 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...