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Item type: Archival Descriptions

  1. Reichs Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, Berlin Reichsministerium für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda, Berlin (Fond 1363)

    1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

    The collection contains circulars, instructions, directives, minutes of conferences held by Joseph Goebbels, reports, questionnaires, announcements, personnel files of staff, texts and overviews of radio broadcasts, articles, pamphlets, list of German newspapers published in the German occupied territories, clippings on the persecution of Jews in Germany, and documents on hiring personnel for the Nazi Institute for the study of Jewish Question. Included are reports and correspondence relating to the departments of propaganda and radio broadcasts; lists of authors, topics of reports, and a l...

  2. Records of the Gestapo in Szczecin Geheime Staatspolizeistelle Stettin (Pommern) (Fond 503)

    1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

    Records relating to the surveillance and interrogation of Jehovah's Witnesses, individual Jews (case files) and Jewish organizations, Freemasons, and Seventh-day Adventists; relations between Jehovah's Witnesses and government agencies; emigration processes for Jews; internment of non-German Jews during the war; loss of citizenship for German Jews; "Rassenschande" cases; antisemitic actions; name lists of Germans working for Jewish firms and vice versa; centralization of Jewish organizations in the Centralverein der Juden in Deutschland (1935-1936); investigations of alleged homosexual beha...

  3. Police headquarter Berlin Polizeipräsidium Berlin (Fond 505)

    1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

    Records of the police surveillance of the organizations such as the Union of Białystok Jews, Zionistischen Vereinigung für Deutschland, Union of Jewish Youth, HIAS, Jewish Colonization Association, "Emigdirect," HICEM, the Centralverein deutsche Staatsbürger jüdisher Glaubens; some of those organizations' documents; speeches of antisemitic organizations; telephone directories of police establishments and departments; case files of appeals by Jewish citizens who had lost German citizenship and then lost the appeal also; and reports about internal SA quarrels. Note: USHMM Archives holds only ...

  4. State Court and State Prosecutorial Office Reichsgericht and Reichsanwaltschaft Leipzig (Fond 567)

    1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

    Investigative files concerning questions of "Aryan" heritage and confiscation of property and money. Includes questions of citizens' and nationals' "Aryan heritage" as well as divorces in mixed marriages. Most of records contain court documents from Vienna courts, primarily cases, investigating racial purity, many of them involving married couples and divorces. Among cases is one in which Jewish man is sentenced because of extra-marital relations with a non-Jew (Folder 245). Some of cases involve violations by Jews of reporting requirements of assets, or currency violations. Note: USHMM Arc...

  5. Miniature "button book" issued for charitable contributions by the Winter-hilfswerk des Deutschen Volkes

    1. Pablo Cano collection

    Miniature Nazi propaganda booklet featuring scenes of Hitler visiting the military, including wounded troops, and other public appearances between 1932 and 1937. A series of these books were distributed as premiums to contributors to the Winterhilfswerk, a fundraising drive conducted through the Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt (National Socialist People's Welfare Organization), to provide winter relief. Strings were attached so that the books, known as button books, could be worn to show that an individual had contributed to the war effort. Hitler's signature is printed at the end.

  6. de Boton family papers

    1. de Boton family collection

    The de Boton family papers document the Holocaust experiences of French Resistance activist Yves de Boton, his daughter Aline, his sister Alice and her husband Jean Robert Bernard (later Robert Bernard de Boton). The collection includes materials related to Yves involvement with several resistance groups, including Les Mouvements Unis de la Résistance (MUR); his arrest and murder by the Gestapo in 1944; his medical career and his military service. Other material includes family photographs, correspondence, passports and other identification papers, and school notebooks and adoption papers o...

  7. Charles Laufer papers

    1. Charles Laufer collection

    The Charles Laufer papers contain biographical materials, correspondence, education and employment records, subject files, and two scrapbooks. Biographical materials related to Charles Laufer, his parents, his sister, and his wife include Polish, German, and American birth, marriage, and death certificates, divorce papers, work and travel papers, passports, and military papers. Some of the Polish documents are accompanied by German translations. Correspondence among Charles Laufer and his family and friends in Germany, England, France, and Israel primarily documents family members' efforts ...

  8. Okresní úřad Tábor I.

    • District Office of Tábor I / NAD 1

    The fonds contains documents of the Tábor District Office from (1808) 1850-1945 (1958), official books, files, accounting material, and others. The documents concern municipal affairs, population movements (1869-1910 census), emigration, residence right, education, health, police, construction, poverty, charity, agriculture, trades, finance, and the military. The fonds also contains correspondence on Jewish registries, documents on the Jewish religious communities of Choustník, Chýnov, Jistebnice, Radenín, Tučapy, Soběslav, and Tábor, documents concerning the construction of a Jewish cemete...

  9. Okresní úřad Mnichovo Hradiště

    • District Office of Mnichovo Hradiště / NAD 25

    The fonds contains deeds, official books, file material, accounting material, and also census sheets which contain valuable records of Jews in the region. In general, the relevant items can be found in documents related to the trade agenda and religious issues in individual handling periods. Explicit references to Jews are then in the following documents: inv. no. 491 5/3-5/11 Churches, cemeteries, parishes, religious communities (1878-1892); inv. no. 516 5/25 Jewish religious communities; inv. no. 5/544 Jewish religious communities (1903-1913); inv. no. 771 VII/25 Jewish religious communit...

  10. Archiv města Smečno

    • Archives of the Town of Smečno / NAD 129

    The fonds deals with the history of the town of Smečno and contains deeds, official books, auxiliary books, files, and accounting material. The considerably fragmented fonds also contains information about Jews in the town .Files until 1850: inv. no. 161 A complaint of the Hosiery Guild against Jews for their door-to-door stocking trade (1711?), inv. no. 193 Leasing municipal property: b) a grain store to Jew Abraham 1791-1815, d) a teams of horses to Jew Abraham 1796, f) a tavern at the town hall 1841, inv. no. 199, also the maintenance of the army and other military affairs (an excerpt fr...

  11. Okresní úřad Vsetín

    • District Office of Vsetín / NAD 76

    The fonds contains documents arisen from the activities of the district office: official books, file material, accounting material and others. Information on Jews can be found in the following files: Group V Register and religion matters, Trade licensing matters, Apostasies and conversions (1909-1921). Jews are also explicitly mentioned in inv. no. 536 VII/37 Jewish religious associations 1936-40; inv. no. 528 VI/1 Register of Jewish property and Aryanization of Jewish enterprises 1942-43. Mentions of Jews can also be found in presidium files: inv. no. 35/1913 Jewish representatives in the ...

  12. Archiv města Plzeň – Městský úřad Plzeň (registratura D a měst. úřady)

    • City Archives of Pilsen – Pilsen Municipal Office (D registry and municipal authorities) / NAD 1258/18

    The fonds contains documents of the Municipal Office of Pilsen and municipal authorities and organizations. The fonds contains religious matters or Judaica: Documents and announcements of the Union of Czech Progressive Jews, the Makkabi Jewish physical education association, the Czech-Jewish National Association Pilsen, the Israeli Community Pilsen; collection of religious taxes, Jewish issues (securities, designation of non-Aryan shops, a list of Jewish merchants in Pilsen, 2%-fee from the Aryanization of companies, forced custody of the non-Aryan accounts, prohibitions - e.g. changes of r...

  13. Okresní úřad Praha-venkov-jih

    • District Office of Praha-venkov-jih / NAD 47

    The fonds contains documents arisen from activities of the district office during the Nazi occupation. It contains official books, file material, and accounting material. The fonds contains documents about the persecution of Jews, the seizure of their property, the transport of Jews, etc. (sections I/1, III/16). Reports on sabotage acts of the Czech population against the Nazi occupiers and illegal organizations, arrests, executions, and persecution of the population (in the Registry Department III). There are also documents concerning Czech refugees from the border region after the 1938 Mu...

  14. Velika Župa Bilogora

    • The Great Governorate of Bilogora

    Velika Župa, or the Great Governorate of Bilogora, was established in August 1941. As one of the 22 Great Governorates across the Independent State of Croatia, it was the highest regional authority directly responsible to the Ustasha-led government. Velika Župa Bilogora is composed of seven counties: Bjelovar, Križevci, Koprivnica, Đurđevac, Čazma, Grubišno Polje and Garešnica. The first part of the archival collection of Velika Župa Bilogora (boxes 1-7 and books 1-2) is mainly concerned with the orders from the top which it received from various state ministries. However, the fond also con...

  15. Files of the arbitrator for claims for compensation in Stuttgart

    Files of the arbitrator for claims for compensation in Stuttgart: The legal basis for the work of the arbitrator for reparations in the American zone was Law No. 59 of the Military Government (American Control Area) of November 10, 1947. According to this, the confiscated property, firm, bank account or other property was to be returned or compensation for it was to be paid. For this, the injured party or his legal successor had to conduct contentious proceedings against the individual or institution liable for restitution, which had seized the property. In order to prevent every claim for ...

  16. M.53: Documentation from the Central State Archives of Supreme Bodies of Power and Government of Ukraine, 1941-1945

    M.53: Documentation from the Central State Archives of Supreme Bodies of Power and Government of Ukraine, 1941-1946 In the collection there is documentation regarding the Reichskommissariat (Regional Commissariat- occupation regime in Ukraine), 1941-1945. Additionally, there is documentation regarding the period prior to the German occupation, such as documentation from courts in Ukraine regarding Jews accused of anti-Soviet propaganda, theft and profiteering, reports of meetings of the Council for Religious Affairs (CRA) attached to the USSR Council of Ministers (SNK), including decisions ...

  17. Bequest Ernst Bürgin

    The Fritz Bauer Institute acquired the bequest of Ernst Bürgin from the historian Dr. Florian Schmaltz in March 2007. Ernst Bürgin was born in Wyhlen on July 31, 1885. After attending school in Basel, he studied chemistry and electrochemistry there and in Berlin. In 1911, he earned his doctorate. Subsequently and only interrupted by his deployment in World War I, he worked as a chemist for various companies in Berlin and the Rhineland. In 1924, he became the procurator and head of the plant Rheinfelden of the Chemische Fabrik Griesheim-Elektron (CFGE), which became part of the I.G. Farben i...

  18. TR.18 - Documentation from Committee for State Security (KGB) archives in Ukraine

    TR.18 - Documentation from Committee for State Security (KGB) archives in Ukraine In the collection there are files selected from the State Archives of the Ukrainian Security Service in Kiev and its branches by regions: Chernigov, Chernovtsy, Khmelnitskiy, Ternopol, Sumy, Rovno, Poltava, Nikolayev, Lvov, Kirovograd, Ivano-Frankovsk, Zaporozye, Zhitomir, Donetsk, Simferopol, Vinnitsa, Odessa and Drogobych. Collection description Files of investigations conducted by the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), the Counter-Intelligence Department (SMERSH [Death to Spies]), and the Mi...

  19. Documentation of the I. G. Farbenindustrie Company from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1928-1943

    Documentation of the I. G. Farbenindustrie Company from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1928-1943 The I. G. Farbenindustrie Company was established in 1925 from the amalgamation of several chemical industry companies, and it was, in its time, the largest company in this field in the west. During World War II it was notorious due to its involvement in the Nazi oppression and murder process, and mainly due to the production and supply of the gas Zyklon B which was used for mass murders in Auschwitz, and for the establishment of the Buna factory for synthetic fuel as part of the Auschwitz camps c...

  20. American propaganda poster depicting Mussolini, Tojo, and Hitler listening for information

    Poster depicting the heads of Axis leaders, Benito Mussolini of Italy, Hideki Tojo of Japan, and Adolf Hitler of Germany, above a clear warning. Each man is holding a hand cupped to one ear, suggesting that he is listening carefully for any careless talk revealing valuable information about the United States or their allies. The poster was designed by Ralph Iligan, an artist working for the Graphics Division of the United States Office of War Information, in 1942. The need to manage information about the war on the home front led to the establishment of the OWI in June 1942. This office con...