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  1. Selected records of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Poland in London. Office for War Crimes Ministerstwo Spraw Wewnętrznych Rządu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Londynie. Biuro ds. Zbrodni Wojennych (Sygn. GK 159)

    This collection contains materials related to the research and investigation of perpetrators of war crimes such as: witness testimonies after the invasion of Germany in September 1939, reports of crimes committed against Poles on Polish territory and in Germany, lists of local German officials, Gestapo chief officers, guards of concentration camps, data related to concentration camps, German police authorities, accounts of Polish refugees about the conditions of life in Poland and crimes committed against civilians by the occupation authorities and Wehrmacht in the initial period of occupat...

  2. UNRRA selected records AG-018-028 : Switzerland Mission

    Selected files of the Switzerland Mission (S-1405), 1944-1949: Records include statistics, correspondence, files of displaced persons, lists of children, offers of temporary asylum for children, movement of children to Switzerland, Red Cross actions and personal inquires requesting tracing of individuals, as well as reports on activities of the UN relating to refugees and displaced persons.

  3. Joseph Tenenbaum papers

    The collection documents the career of urologist, author, and activist Joseph Tenenbaum, originally of Sasów, Poland. Included are biographical materials, correspondence, writings, subject files, photographs, and scrapbooks that document his medical career; his writings on medical topics, Judaism, and the Holocaust; his involvement in Jewish organizations such as the World Jewish Congress, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, and the Zionist Organization of America; and his work as the founder and chairman of the Joint Boycott Council of the American Jewish Congress (1933-1941...

  4. Proceedings of People's Court Session No. 13 in Sofia, 21 March 1945

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

    Proceedings of People's Court Session No. 13 in Sofia, 21 March 1945 Testimonies of 50 witnesses: 1. Nisim Aron Papo - the work battalion in Zvanichevo, 1943; 2. Yakob (Zhak) Mordohay Shaul - closure of his store by Ivan Neofitov; 3. Dimitar Kozhuharov; 4. Zhak Pinkas Sarfati; 5. David Isak Samuilov - testimony against the bank teller Yordan Markov; 6. Moni Zaharia Levi - testimony against Stamboldzhiev; 7. Elia Menahem - testimony against the lawyer Boyan Mihov; 8. Samuil Panizhel who was deported to Shumen - testimony against Stariradev and Markov, the National Bank tellers, policemen, an...

  5. Proceedings of People's Court Session No.15 in Sofia, 23 March 1945

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

    Proceedings of People's Court Session No.15 in Sofia, 23 March 1945 Testimonies of 48 witnesses: 1. Menahem Isak Koen - continuation of his testimony from Court Session No. 14, regarding the stages of the deportation of the Jews from Solun and its surroundings, the Lavozno camp, the Blehaner camp and Auschwitz; 2. Shentov Danon - behavior of Lonchev, Zahari Velkov and Kalitzin from the Commissariat for Jewish Questions (KEV); drafted to Lovech and Staro Oryahovo near Varna; 3. Petko Lalovski - prosecutor in Gyumyurdzhina during the war - deportation of the Jews from the city, the KEV repres...

  6. Proceedings of People's Court Session No.17 in Sofia, 26 March 1945

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

    Proceedings of People's Court Session No.17 in Sofia, 26 March 1945 Testimonies of 57 witnesses: 1. Stefan Velichkov - testimony on behalf of Padarev, the accused; 2. Vasil Hadzhivasilev - regarding the circumstances surrounding the fire in the Padarev camp; 3. Velizar Panayotov - regarding the activities of M. Pavlova in the Commissariat for Jewish Questions (KEV); 4. Bernard Rozenfeld - regarding the behavior of Markov, Stariradev and others in Shumen, release of the brother of the witness from the Thracian deportation transport with the assistance of the lawyer Ichkov; 5.Benzion Yakov Ka...

  7. Oberkommando der Heeresgruppe H (Oberbefehlshaber Nordwest)

    Es sind nur vier Akten überliefert, eine des Heeresgruppenintendanten, eine des Generals der Pioniere und zwei des Oberbefehlshabers, wovon eine nach der Kapitulation entstanden ist. Kriegstagebücher und Tätigkeitsberichte sind nicht überliefert.

  8. Correspondence, reports and instructions from branches of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Mandatory Palestine [Eretz Israel] regarding education, commerce, the Haavara (Transfer) Agreement, employment, culture, organization and Templers

    1. R.3 - Documentation of the Nazi Party (National Socialist Party - NSDAP) in Eretz Israel, 1928-1939

    Correspondence, reports and instructions from branches of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Mandatory Palestine [Eretz Israel] regarding education, commerce, the Haavara (Transfer) Agreement, employment, culture, organization and Templers Also in the file: - Copies of speeches given by Hitler and Goebbels, October 1933; - List of the Templers [living in] in the German Colony in Bethlehem. Pages 2-13; -Regulations for the Organization of German Officials; the rules deal with the exclusion of Jews, obligations and privileges of the members, payments, the various organizations and their classification...

  9. Vor 40 Jahren, Teil XVI.

    1. Sammlungen
    2. Hesslein, Bernd C. (Bundeswehr, NDR)
    3. Film- und Fernsehproduktionen

    Materialsammlung - Zeitungsartikel; Kopien aus Büchern und weiteres Informationsmaterial zu folgenden Schwerpunkten: - Adenauer-Regierung; - Ahlener Programm; - Annan, Lord Noel Gilroy; - Ardennen-Offensive; - Besatzungszonen/Besatzungspolitik; - Bombenkrieg; - Deutschland-Politik, amerikanische; - Edelweißpiraten; - Ermächtigungsgesetz; - Erzberger, Matthias; - Europäische Verlagsanstalt; - Exodus (Haganah-Flüchtlingsschiff); - Ferdinand, Horst; - Flucht und Vertreibung/Flüchtlinge - Frauen der ersten Stunde; - Kaiser Friedrich II. von Hohenstaufen; - Generalstreik 1920; - Grasshoff, Eberh...

  10. C G2 PA Service “Immigration en Palestine”.

    Firstly, this fonds contains general correspondence, notes, administrative documents, reports, … of which some are of importance for the history of the Jewish population during the war, and in the immediate after war period. See files C G2 PA 065.03 (lists of messages to recipients in Belgium, sent to the Association des Juifs en Belgique, 1944), C G2 PA 067.29 (report of M. Jaquet concerning his mission to i.a. Belgium, 1946), C G2 PA 067.48 (notes on the visit of Mrs. Daïnow to Belgium, correspondence with the AIVG, 1947), C G2 PA 057.22 and C G2 PA 057.21. The following files contain var...

  11. Tiraspol district prefecture and its subordinated preturas and town halls

    • Judeţul Tiraspol – prefercturile judeţene, subprefecturile plaselor (preturilor) şi comunelor subordinate lor din stînga Nistrului
    • Тираспольская уездная префектура и подчиненные ей претуры и примарии
    • Tiraspol'skaya uyezdnaya prefektura i podchinennyye yey pretury i primarii

    Files of the Administration Department (orders of the Transnistrian governorate, acts of examination and reports on the condition of the districts, registration of persons who fled from Northern Transylvania and settled in the county, travel certificates for employees of the prefecture, correspondence on administrative issues); files of the Economic Department (statistics on the condition of the county districts); files of the Agricultural Department; files of the Agricultural Machinery Department; files of the Veterinary Department; files of the Department of Education (correspondence on t...

  12. Ehrenkreuz der deutschen Mutter [Cross of Honor of the German Mother] bronze medal acquired by a US soldier

    1. Norman K. Holloway collection

    Cross of Honor of the German Mother bronze medal [Ehrenkreuz der deutschen Mutter] acquired by 19 year old Norman Holloway, while a soldier in the United States Army, 6th Armored Division, in Germany in 1945. A December 16, 1938, decree by Adolph Hitler instituted the award to encourage German women to bear more children. A recipient could be nominated by the Party or a government official and had to be of pure German origin and good character. The medal was issued in three levels: first class, gold, for eight or more children; second class, silver, for six to seven children; third class, b...

  13. Concentration camp uniform jacket with badge worn by a Lithuanian Jewish inmate

    1. George J. Fine collection

    Striped concentration camp uniform jacket issued to Getzel Fingerhut, 22, as a replacement for his oil slicked jacket, while interned in Kaufering X slave labor camp, known as Dachau 10, from August 1944 to April 1945. Getzel was an oiler for a diesel shovel and when his jacket got covered in grease and oil ca. November, his German boss requested this one for him. He wore this jacket for 5 or 6 months, over his oily jacket, to keep warm. He made the number patch 92041, a copy of the one on his old jacket, because he would be punished if he had no identifying badge. There was only one German...

  14. Stainless steel fork with SS runes acquired by a Lithuanian Jewish concentration camp inmate

    1. George J. Fine collection

    Table fork with an SS officer school stamp owned by Getzel Fingerhut. It is unclear when he acquired it, but most likely it was after his liberation from Kaufering X slave labor camp, also called Dachau 10, where he was imprisoned from August 1944 to April 1945. In August 1941, Getzel, 19, and his family were interned in the ghetto in German occupied Siauliai, Lithuania. Getzel worked in a series of forced labor camps until July 1944, when the ghetto residents were deported to Stutthof concentration camp. Getzel, his father, Josef, and his brother, Eliahu were then transferred to Kaufering ...

  15. Sonja Schulmann Schwartz papers

    1. Sonja Schulmann Schwartz collection

    The Sonja Schulmann Schwartz papers consist of an autograph book, diary, biographical materials, Dachau letter, photographic materials, and subject files documenting the Schulmann, Golnick, and Klarmann families. The collection focuses on Sonja’s father, his birth in a small town in Belarus, his capture as a German prisoner during World War I and subsequent release, the establishment of his family in Germany, his imprisonment in Dachau, and his immigration to the United States with Sonja. The autograph book belonged to Sonja Schulmann and contains signatures, poems, and dedications from her...

  16. Bella and Benjamin Herson papers

    1. Bella and Benjamin Herson collection

    The Bella and Benjamin Herson papers consist of correspondence, a memoir, photographs, printed materials, prisoner of war materials, and reference materials documenting Bella and Benjamin Herson, the Herszon, Sztajnhorn, and Rys families, Bella’s experiences in the Łódź ghetto, Auschwitz, and Birnbäumel, and Benjamin’s imprisonment in prisoner of war camps Oflag XI A ‐ Osterode and Oflag II C ‐ Woldenberg. Correspondence primarily consists of postcards among the Sztajnhorn family in Zduńska Wola, Bialystok, Łódź, and Kuznica (near Grodno), which are accompanied by English translations provi...

  17. Word of the Week German Word of the Week propaganda poster declaring the inevitability of victory

    1. Parole der Woche poster collection

    German propaganda poster likely issued from January 3 to 16, 1943, from the Parole der Woche (Word of the Week) series, showing a German soldier and civilian pushing forward against Germany’s Soviet, American, British, and Jewish enemies. By January 1943, Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union had stalled in the face of Soviet opposition, and German forces in North Africa were being worn down by Allied forces. The Nazis used propaganda to buttress public support for the war effort, shape public opinion, and reinforce antisemitic ideas. As part of their propaganda campaign, the Nazis created...

  18. Kormányzó félhivatalos iratai

    • Semi-official Records of the Regent

    The collection holds the semi-official diplomatic records as well as private and family documents of Miklós Horthy, the Regent of Hungary between 1919 and 1944. The collection is divided into two main thematic groups: Records related to Internal Affairs and Foreign Affairs (I-II.) Files with relevance to the history of Hungarian Jews and the Holocaust include the letters of Prime Ministers Bethlen, Gömbös, Teleki and Bárdossy to Horthy (I.B), memorandum of the policy of the Imrédy government (I.C), various pro memoriae and letters on political parties and problems (I.D) and letters and prop...

  19. Sephiha-Eskenazi family. Collection

    Testimony of Germaine Sephiha on the role played by the Turkish government and the Turkish consul regarding the persecution of the Jews in Belgium, and on the exchange of Turkish detainees at Ravensbrück for German prisoners of war ; two booklets containing wartime and postwar song lyrics and poems related to the Second World War and life in concentration camps ; two postwar Turkish passports of Esther Eskenazi ; the marriage booklet of Nessim David Sephiha and Esther Eskenazi, signed in Levallois-Perret in 1914 ; two postwar political prisoner IDs of Esther Eskenazi ; sheet music of the so...

  20. Hollander-Götz family. Collection

    This collection contains two photos : portrait of Vigdor Getsel (Victor) Hollander and a pre-war photo of Esther Pschetizki with her sons Abraham, Isaak, Eliezer and Israel Helfgott.