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  1. Concentration and POW camps in Germany and the Occupied Territories Konzentrations- und Kriegsgefangenenlager in Deutschland und in den besetzen Gebieten (Fond 1367)

    1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

    The collection contains various documents of concentration camps and Prisoner of War (POW) camps: regulations, instructions, daily reports, lists, summaries, journals, personnel files, card files, questionnaires, registers, and correspondence. Includes fragmentary compilations of records of Sachsenhausen (approximately 6,000 prisoner file cards for KL Sachsenhausen/Oranienburg), Buchenwald, Wewelsburg, Gross Rosen, Dachau, Lublin (Majdanek), Natzweiler, Neuengamme (Hamburg), Treblinka, and Esterwegen concentration camps; of POW camps III-A in Luckenwalde, I-A in Stalag, IX-C in Bad Sulza, N...

  2. Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR) (Fond 1401)

    1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

    The collection contains a photocopy of Goring’s directive establishing the headquarters in German-occupied territories for the confiscation of valuables form the Jewish and masonic organizations, Rosenberg’s orders stablishing the task Force, memoranda and correspondence of the ERR special headquarters in the Ukraine and Croatia. Most of material pertains to Yugoslavia and ERR efforts to collect and remove to Germany cultural material, and to conduct propaganda against Jews and Freemasons. Included are lists of confiscated Jewish property; protocols of interrogations of Jews and Freemasons ...

  3. Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA), Paris Jüdische Telegraphen-Agentur (JTA), Paris (Fond 674)

    1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

    The bulk of the collection constitutes copies of international bulletins published in Berlin, London, Prague, Paris, Palestine and Switzerland. It includes articles, accounts, reports, correspondence, and newspaper clippings on the situation of the Jewish population of various countries, on the activities of Zionist and other Jewish organizations, and on holding of Zionist congress. Contains a review of activities of the Zionist organization Haavara that transferred Jewish money from Germany to Palestine; reports of the Committee of Jewish Delegations, Bucharest, about the legal situation o...

  4. Records of the Israelitische Allianz, Vienna "Israelitische Allianz", Wien (Wohltätigkeitsverein) (Fond 675)

    1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

    The collection contains letters and correspondence with other Jewish organizations; minutes of the Council of the Alliance in Vienna and the Joint Foreign Committee of the Israelite Alliance in London; reports from neighboring countries including those of the Portuguese Marranos Committee, French organizations, the Netherlands, and Belgium; correspondence from 1935 to 1936 about the release of a film entitled "Process of Millennium" about the persecution of Jews; correspondence about arranging public canteens from 1936 to 1938; financial statements and minutes of the organization’s board; l...

  5. Reich Ministry of the Interior Reichsministerium des Innern (Fond 720)

    1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

    Consists of arrest reports as well as reports on other Gestapo activities such as raids and persons killed while trying to escape. The reasons for the arrests are included in the reports and include printing illegal material, spreading atrocity reports, suspicion of espionage, illegal possession of weapons, membership/leadership in illegal organizations, and being a Communist, foreigner, or Jew. Also included are reorganization plans for the Sipo Hauptamt in January 1938 and the whole Reichsministrium in July 1941. Note: USHMM Archives holds only selected records.

  6. Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairf, Berlin Auswärtiges Amt, Berlin (Fond 1357)

    1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

    Reviews and reports on the political situation and Jewish affairs in Europe (1936), notes of talks with political figures and foreign correspondents, and various press clippings concerning French affairs. Note: USHMM Archives holds only selected records.

  7. Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories Reichsministerium für den besetzten Ostgebiete, Berlin (Fond 1358)

    1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

    The collection contains orders, dispatches, directives, briefings, job descriptions, accounts, overviews, memoranda, bulletins, certificates of commendation, questionnaires, documentation of employees business trips, Ministry correspondence, monthly reports, and statistics. Records document German policy on the German occupied territories, mass arrests and robberies of Jews, establishment of ghettos, annihilation of Jews. Includes also a monthly report, Nov. 10, 1941 issued by the Wehrmacht Ostland commander of Belarus on plans for the annihilation of Jews, and statistics on Jews residing i...

  8. 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...

  9. 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...

  10. 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 ...

  11. 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...

  12. 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.

  13. 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...

  14. 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 ...

  15. 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...

  16. 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...

  17. 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...

  18. 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 ...

  19. 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...

  20. 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...