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  1. Col. Wincenty Bąkiewicz collection Płk. Wincentego Bąkiewicza (Kol.138)

    Contains records of the Polish intelligence services, decoded dispatches from and to the Polish intelligence base in Teheran June 1942-June 1945, decoded dispatches from and to the Polish Army in Russia and the Polish intelligence services in Russia. Includes testimonies of the Polish civilians in Russia-refugees, POWs from Soviet camps, testimonies of the ex prisoners and „³agiernik” written mostly in 1944, various reports, testimonies on Katyń-Starobielsk-Ostaszków, evacuation of refugees from USSR (The Anders Army), Jewish issues in Palestine, the Jewish Agency in Palestine, Jewish prope...

  2. Roger Raczyński collection Raczyński Roger (Kol. 482)

    Contains selected records relating to Jewish matters in Romania, studies of the Jewish question in Poland, fragments of the study relating to Jewish organizations in Romania, and Jewish refugees from Poland in Romania, German minorities In Romania, the fragment of the study of the structure of power among Jews in the global context, including in Poland, and the copy of the letter of W. Pelc from the Polish Embassy in Paris to W. Bączkowski relating to Polish-Jewish.

  3. Selected records of applications for distinctions for SS and police officers in the General Government Zbiór wniosków na odznaczenia dla funkcjonariuszy SS i Policji w Generalnym Gubernatorstwie (Sygn. GK 107),

    This collection contains legal regulations concerning the granting of distinctions and applications of SS and police chief officers of various ranks submitted to superior authorities in order to decorate subordinating officers with: crosses and war medals, the Iron Cross, distinctions for “courage,” “gallantry," and “fighting bandits.” Also included is correspondence related to the confirmation or rejection of applications. The applications for distinctions contain the following data: last and first names of the officer to be distinguished; date and place of birth; service attachment (home ...

  4. Cultural Department (Freizeitgestaltung)

    1. Terezín/Theresienstadt
    2. Documents
    3. Documents from the period of occupation

    The Cultural Department was also divided into a number of sections. In addition to the Management and Administration Section with its own secretariat and sub-section for the preparation of programmes and the Technical Services, there were also activity-based sections. The Theatre Section had an art council and several sub-sections (Czech, German and Yiddish theatre, cabaret, performances in housing blocks). The Music Section was organized by genre (opera, orchestral works, etc.) and included a café programme and the upkeep and supply of musical instruments. There was also a Lecture Section,...

  5. Personal documentation belonging to the Schaffner family including identity cards, passports, letters, documents related to emigration to Shanghai and Eretz Israel and more

    1. O.30 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Austria, mainly during the Holocaust period
    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • O.30/230
    • English, Hebrew
    • pages 500 Letter Diary Poems/Songs Personal documents Identity card Curriculum Vitae (CV) Passport Original Handwritten, original Typewritten Original Typewritten original xerox

    Personal documentation belonging to the Schaffner family including identity cards, passports, letters, documents related to emigration to Shanghai and Eretz Israel and more Box 1: - Personal documents: Birth Certificates, Heimatscheine (Residence Certificates), Marriage Certificates, military documents, Mazal Schaffner (16 December 1917), Serafine Fischer [Schaffner] (14 November 1897) Nikolaus Schaffner (26 April 1896), Maximilian Schaffner (08 July 1923); - Emigration documents and documents regarding emigration to Eretz Israel (Austria, Shanghai, Eretz Israel); - Certificate issued by th...

  6. Proceedings of People's Court Session No. 9 in Sofia, 16 March 1945

    1. TR.6 - Documentation of the People's Court in Bulgaria, 1944-1945

    Proceedings of People's Court Session No. 9 in Sofia, 16 March 1945 Proceedings from the seventh panel of the court (for the judgement of the anti-Semites) 16 March 1945 (pp. 720-834 in the court session proceedings) - List of 51 witnesses some who did not appear; - Testimony of 13 witnesses: 1. Dimo Kazasov (Righteous Among the Nations), the Minister; 2. Menahem Faionov, the lawyer; 3. Grigor Cheshmedzhiev, the Minister; 4. Isak Fransez, the lawyer; 5. Dr. Iosif Confino- functioned as a physician on the deportation trains with the Jews of Thrace from Simitli to Gorna Dzhumaya; 6. Zhak Nata...

  7. Proceedings of People's Court Session No.12 in Sofia, 20 March 1945

    1. TR.6 - Documentation of the People's Court in Bulgaria, 1944-1945

    Proceedings of People's Court Session No.12 in Sofia, 20 March 1945 Testimonies of 34 witnesses: 1. Solomon Nissim Aladzhem - forced labor, deportation of his family to Shumen, arrest, threats, being beaten by Stariradev and others; 2. Yosif Nisimov Yosifov - the clerks Stariradev and Tasev; 3. Marsel Izrael Confino - bribe given to Miziev; 4. Hristo Slavov Hristov - clerk in Skopie during the deportation of the Jews; 5. Kosta Nikolov Rusinov - confiscation of Jewish-owned property; 6. Levy - condition of the Jews in Plovdiv, restrictions, stealing of Jewish-owned property, deportation of J...

  8. Proceedings of People's Court Session No.14 in Sofia, 22 March 1945

    1. TR.6 - Documentation of the People's Court in Bulgaria, 1944-1945

    Proceedings of People's Court Session No.14 in Sofia, 22 March 1945 Testimonies from 31 witnesses: 1. Mariyka Behar regarding the fire in the camp near Pleven and testimony implicating Zimriev, the accused, as the arsonist; 2. Isak Rozanes head of the Jewish community in Vidin, regarding the condition of the Jews in the city after the arrival of the deportees from Sofia, 1943; 3. Buko Isakov, drafted as a physician in Samokov and Kavala, regarding the deportation of the Jews from Kavala; 4. Ruben Nisim Levi - testimony against Gesharov, the engineer in Ihtiman, 1943; 5. Leon Levi - testimon...

  9. Testimony of Szyje Bartnowski, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1919, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, Pruzana, as a partisan, in Auschwitz-Birkenau, in Blechhammer and in other places

    1. M.11 - The Mersik-Tenenbaum Archive: Documentation regarding the Bialystok Ghetto underground

    Testimony of Szyje Bartnowski, born in Bialystok, Poland, 1919, regarding his experiences in the Bialystok Ghetto, Pruzana, as a partisan, in Auschwitz-Birkenau, in Blechhammer and in other places Deportation from the Bialystok Ghetto to Pruzana with his family, October 1941; life in Pruzana until December 1941; escape into the forests in Bialowieza with two Polish Communists; joins a Soviet partisan battalion; works at providing clothing from the Pruzana Ghetto to the partisan battalion with help from the Judenrat; move back to the ghetto when he contracts typhus; deportation of the Jews f...

  10. Survey of the situation in various countries as reported in the Nazi press in the Balkan countries and Switzerland, with emphasis on the situation of the Jews, August-September 1942

    1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959
    • צרור רשימות - חומר להרצאה בדבר מצב היהודים בארצות הכבוש הנאצי - מס. 3

    Survey of the situation in various countries as reported in the Nazi press in the Balkan countries and Switzerland, with emphasis on the situation of the Jews, August-September 1942 Poland: Information regarding the economic situation in Poland; changes in the situation of industry and agriculture in Poland since the Nazi occupation and expulsion of the Jews; introduction of German settlers and modern technology; transition to agricultural cooperatives and obligation to turn over agricultural produce to the authorities; establishment of the Estonian Legion, which will fight alongside the Ge...

  11. Survey of the situation in the Nazi-occupied countries as reported in the Nazi press, the local press and witnesses, with emphasis on the situation of the Jews, January 1943

    1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959
    • צרור רשימות - חומר להרצאה על מצב היהודים בארצות הכיבוש הנאצי - מס. 22

    Survey of the situation in the Nazi-occupied countries as reported in the Nazi press, the local press and witnesses, with emphasis on the situation of the Jews, January 1943 Survey regarding the attitude of the churches towards the Jews in the Netherlands, Norway and Switzerland; no information arriving from the ghettos in Poland; waiving of customs charges between the Generalgouvernement and the Reich; kerosene factories in Galicia under German ownership; improvements in the conditions of outstanding Polish workers; Polish railroad workers; establishment of a German Archive in Poznan; medi...

  12. Survey of what is happening in the world, as reported in the Nazi and local press, and from various sources of information, with emphasis on the situation of the Jews, February 1943

    1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959
    • צרור רשימות- מס. 30

    Survey of what is happening in the world, as reported in the Nazi and local press, and from various sources of information, with emphasis on the situation of the Jews, February 1943 Poland: Memo from the Polish Government in Exile in London regarding events in the Warsaw Ghetto before the deportations, 10 December 1942; Book describing the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto as seen through the eyes of the Nazi "artist", Bruno Hant; various items of information from the Generalgouvernement; German settlers in the Generalgouvernement; bringing of German children for convalescence in the Generalgouvern...

  13. Survey of the situation in various countries, as reported in the Nazi and local press, radio broadcasts and letters, with emphasis on the condition of the Jews, April-June 1943

    1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959
    • צרור רשימות מס. 33

    Survey of the situation in various countries, as reported in the Nazi and local press, radio broadcasts and letters, with emphasis on the condition of the Jews, April-June 1943 Warsaw Ghetto: Information regarding raids on the ghetto and Jewish resistance; help from Polish divisions; heavy casualties to the Germans; Sweden: Information from the Swedish press regarding general hunger and typhus; lessening in the numbers of Jews; a call from a Swedish priest to rescue Jews from annihilation; Vienna: Mass deportations of Jews; rescue of Jews married to Aryans from deportation; deportation to T...

  14. Survey of conditions in German-occupied countries and the Middle Eastern countries, as reported in the Nazi and local press, letters and by witnesses with an emphasis on the situation of the Jews, June-July 1943

    1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959
    • צרור רשימות מס. 6/37 - חומר על מצב היהודים בארצות הכיבוש הנאצי

    Survey of conditions in German-occupied countries and the Middle Eastern countries, as reported in the Nazi and local press, letters and by witnesses with an emphasis on the situation of the Jews, June-July 1943 Poland: The history of the Warsaw Ghetto; establishment of the ghetto; liquidation of the ghetto; the Uprising; deportations; deportations in the outlying areas; gas chambers in Treblinka; report from a person who visited Poland; severe economic situation; murder of Poles; murder of the intelligentsia and mass murder of farmers in the villages; lack of control of the German officers...

  15. Archives allemandes de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale

    This collection, a conglomerate of several archival fonds produced by German institutions (among others, the Militärbefehlshaber in Frankreich), contains first and foremost archives of the Militärbefehlshaber in Belgien und Nordfrankreich. It was responsible for key aspects of the Shoah in Belgium. The archives in this collection contain several files that explicitly concern the anti-Jewish policies of the occupier – see for instance the files including documents on the inventory of ‘vacant’ Jewish homes in Belgium and northern France (nr. AJ40/37; year 1942); orders and application of anti...

  16. William Justis, Jr. testimony

    1. William G. Justis Jr. collection

    Consists of typed testimony written by William (Bill) Justis, Jr., in 2013 regarding his experiences as an Army Ranger during World War II, including the days he spent at Buchenwald immediately after the camp's liberation.

  17. Verwaltungsschef im Militärbezirk Łodź Szef Zarządu Cywilnego Okręgu Wojskowego w Łodzi (Sygn. 175)

    This collection contains records of the various departments of the Verwaltungsschef im Militärbezirk Łodź (Administrative Office of the Military District of Łódź), of the German occupation authorities. The records include office documents, journals of ordinances beginning on Sept. 19, 1939, daily ordinances, headquarters ordinances, reports of the Committee of Citizens of the city of Łódź, documents relating to personnel matters of the employed officers, operations against Polish leaders, German minorities in Poland, membership of the NSDAP, exchange of prisoners of war and war refugees b...

  18. Stanisław Kot collection Archiwum Stanisława Kota

    Papers of Stanisław Kot, a Polish historian and politician. The collection includes: official and private correspondence addressed to Stanisław Kot, records on the political, military, economic and social conditions of Polish citizens in Poland during the Nazi occupation, on Polish citizens in exile in the United Kingdom, France, Romania and Hungary, including the USSR (eastern territories of the Second Polish Republic), files related to the organization and operation of the Government of the Republic of Poland in Exile, Polish diplomatic missions and other Polish institutions operating on ...

  19. Otto and Monna Weinmann papers

    The collection consists largely of correspondence between Otto and Monna Weinstein during their courtship and after their marriage, while Monna was living in London and Otto was serving with the 2nd Armored Regiment, 3rd Squadron of the Czech forces under British command. While the bulk of the collection consists of their personal correspondence, Otto was very careful to keep any information about his work or location away from enemy hands; therefore, their correspondence with each other is largely personal. Also includes pre-war and wartime correspondence between Otto and his uncle Paul in...

  20. Eichmann Trial -- Session 3 -- Attorney General's reply to preliminary introductions

    Session 3. Recording begins while the court is in recess. There are several camera shots of audience members, court officials, and Adolf Eichmann as he enters the courtroom. As the trial commences, Attorney General Hausner introduces precedents and protocols established by the United Nations and the International Military Tribunal regarding war crimes trials. He cites several documents such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as well as the proceedings from such conferences as the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. Hausner also refers ...