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  1. Prefettura di Potenza

    • Potenza Prefecture

  2. Reichsstatthalterei Kärnten

    • Carinthian Reichsstatthalterei

  3. Landesgericht Linz

    • Linz Regional Court

  4. Verband ehemalig politisch Verfolgter

    • Association of formerly politically persecuted

  8. Bezirksgericht Baden

    • Baden District Court

  9. Bezirksgericht niederösterreichischer Gemeinden

    • Lower Austrian Municipalities District Court

  10. Nyilaskeresztes Párt - Hungarista Mozgalom

    • Arrow Cross Party - Hungarist Movement
    • Arrow Cross

    (1935) 1939-1945

    Arrow Cross Party was the most popular right-wing extremist movement in Hungary before and during WWII. The party was founded in 1935 under the name of Party of National Will. Its leader, former officer of the General Staff, Ferenc Szálasi was imprisoned (1938-1940) and his party dissolved several times, however, managed to return to political life. In the last pre-war elections in 1939 the Arrow Cross gained 29 seats, making it the second largest party in Parliament. The party was re-named to Arrow Cross Party-Hungarist Movement in 1942. After Regent Miklós Horthy’s attempt to extricate fr...

  11. Leo Ansbacher

    • ליאו אנסבכר
    • אנסבכר ליאו

  13. British Military Court

    • בית המשפט הצבאי הבריטי
    • Brytyjski Sąd Wojskowy.

  14. Restitution and Reparations Branch of OMGUS

    • המחלקה להשבת הרכוש היהודי בגרמניה של OMGUS

    Department of the Office of Military Government of the United States (OMGUS) created with the function of locating and returning material to countries from which claimed property had been looted by the Nazis during World War II.

  15. Office of Military Government, United States

    • Amt der Militärregierung für Deutschland (U.S.)
    • OMGUS

    1946-01-01 / 1949-12-05

    The Office of Military Government, United States (OMGUS; German: Amt der Militärregierung für Deutschland (U.S.)) was the United States military-established government created shortly after the end of hostilities in occupied Germany in World War II. Under General Lucius D. Clay, it administered the area of Germany and sector of Berlin controlled by the United States Army. The Allied Control Council comprised military authorities from the United States, the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union and France. Though created on January 1, 1946, OMGUS previously reported to the U.S. Group Control Coun...

  16. Central Historical Commission of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the US Zone

    • CHC

    1945-12/1948

    The Central Historical Commission of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the US Zone was founded in 1945-12 in Munich. The CHC opened about 50 branches in the various Displaced Persons camps in Germany. Testimonies were recorded and questionnaires distributed. Attempts were also made to secure information about Jewish Communities from German sources, both by acquiring Nazi documentation and by distributing questionnaires among the Landraete (regional councils) in Germany. After three years the CHC was dissolved.

  17. National Committee for Attending Deportees (DEGOB)

    • DEGOB - Deportáltakat Gondozó Országos Bizottság
    • DEGOB

  18. Service European des Reserches des Juifs Deportes et Disperses, Paris (S.E.R.)

    • Service European des Reserches des Juifs Deportes et Disperses
    • S.E.R

  19. Jewish Agency

    • הסוכנות היהודית
    • JAFI
    • Jewish Agency for Israel

    Founded in 1921

    The Jewish Agency is established in Yishuv to promote Jewish self-government as a part of the British Mandate by the League of Nations. The Jewish Agency was reluctant to expends funds on rescue, arguing moneys should be provided by international Jewish communities. However, some funding was spent on modest rescue efforts. This group tried to rescue Jews in Transnistria, urged the Allies to save Jews from concentration camps, advocated the bombing of railway hubs, and brought orphans to Palestine. However, the Jewish Agency refused to fund the Europa Plan or ‘Blood for Trucks’.

  20. Juedische Historische Dokumentation - Linz

    Branch of the Central Historical Commission of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews in the U.S. Zone in Linz.