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  1. Private collection of the family of Masha Moishevna (08.12.1938 - 29.12.2021) and Anatolii Ivanovych (16.09.1937 - 17.01.2021) Kedrovsky

    One package (the family could not estimate the number of items in the package) with documents, photographs of M.M. Kedrovska and her husband Anatolii Ivanovych Kedrovskyi, a Ukrainian by birth from the village of Zapovit, who was also interested in the history of the Holocaust in the region. Birth certificate from 1938 and other documents, personal photos of M. M. Kedrovska dated to the second half of the 20th century, starting from her teenage years.

  2. Municipal institution “Vysokopillia Museum of Local Lore”, Vysokopillia, Beryslav district, Kherson region

    The history of Vysokopillia and Vysokopillia district from the beginning of the 20th century to the present. Lists of Ostarbeiters (15 sheets) were already in the museum when Bibik became director, she does not know their origin. Bibik estimates the number of photographs related to the period of World War II to be 100. A local resident, Hennadii Trush, found and handed over to the museum the lists of Soviet combatants buried in the Vysokopil district. The number of sheets and the availability of this list needs to be clarified. In general, the entire collection needs a detailed qualitative ...

  3. Local museum on the basis of the House of Culture, Lvove village, Beryslav district, Kherson region

    6 handwritten records of memories recorded by local librarian Liudmyla Pyliuk, up to 10 paper records of memories recorded by Larysa Dyakiv group, 2 audio testimonies. About 100 photos and certificates provided by local residents remained in the local school, which is now destroyed as a result of Russian aggression. Dyakiv's notebook, which remains in her home in Lvove. While working at the Kherson Regional Archives in 2017-2018, Dyakiv copied down from the catalogs a list of documents that the regional archive had on the history of Lvove. This part of the archive's collection was probably ...

  4. Private collection of Chekhutska Valentyna Yukhymivna

    One folder entitled “Kalininske”, which consists of 30 sheets of biographical information about local Jews, their memoirs, photographs, and correspondence with one of them who left for Israel. Also in the folder are two handwritten sheets with a list of local Holocaust victims, 20 publications by Chekhutska V.I. on the Holocaust published in local periodicals, and 8 handwritten sheets on the Holocaust. Dates from the second half of the 20th century.

  5. Συλλογή δικηγόρων Σαμουήλ και Φρατέλη Ναχμία

    • Collection of attorneys Samuel and Frateli Nahmia
    • Syllogi dikigoron Samouil kai Frateli Nahmia

    Claims for compensation by Jews, residents of Greece or abroad, as victims of Nazism under Legislative Decree 4178/61. The association "Union of Jewish Hostages of Greece," based in Thessaloniki (1945–1970). Legislation on German reparations (Brueg and Beg Laws). Nominal lists of hostages from the Jewish Communities of Athens and Thessaloniki. Declarations of census data for those protected under tenancy laws. Cases of recognition of National Resistance fighters.

  6. Πρακτικά συνεδριάσεων του Δικαστηρίου του εν Θεσσαλονίκη Πρωτοδικείου

    • Proceedings of Minutes of the First Instance Court in Thessaloniki
    • Praktika synedriaseon tou Dikastiriou tou en Thessaloniki Protodikeiou

    Holocaust Survivors claimed property for losses suffered during the Nazi Occupation. The archive contains the Judge rapporteurships and the proceedings.

  7. PSRS Pārbaudes filtrācijas punktos un nometnēs ieslodzīto Latvijas iedzīvotāju personas lietas

    Dokumenti par personām, kas II pasaules kara noslēgumā atradušās ieslodzījumā uz laiku līdz personības noskaidrošanai PSRS Iekšlietu Tautas komisariāta pārbaudes un filtrācijas nometnēs un punktos: personas anketas, pratināšanas protokoli, dokumenti par atrašanos filtrācijas nometnēs un pārbaudes punktos, autobiogrāfija, personu apliecinoši dokumenti (pases, karavīru apliecības "Soldbuch", citas apliecības), nometnēs izdotās kvītis, formulāri, slēdzieni un izziņas. Filtrācijas lietu reģistrācijas žurnāli un filtrēto personu alfabētiskā kartotēka krievu alfabēta secībā ar vairāk nekā 80 000 ...

  8. Latvijas PSR Valsts drošības komitejas (VDK) par sevišķi bīstamiem pretvalstiskiem noziegumiem apsūdzēto personu krimināllietas

    • The Latvian SSR Committee of State Security (KGB) Criminal Case Files of Persons Accused of Particularly Dangerous Anti-Government Crimes

    Fonds includes criminal cases concerning persons accused of particularly dangerous anti-government crimes against the Soviet state and who received criminal liability according to article Nr. 58 of the RSFSR Criminal Code (1926) and articles Nr. 59–68, 43, 74, and 84 of the Latvian SSR Criminal Code (1961), and persons who lived and had committed crimes in the territory of the Latvian SSR or who had been born in Latvia and committed crimes in the territory of another republic of the USSR; these Criminal cases were delivered for storage in Latvian SSR CSS Archive. Criminal cases include info...

  9. Pre-1963 Correspondence

    This large series of correspondence, traditionally referred to as the 'Pre 1963 Correspondence', broadly covers the period from the immediate aftermath of World War Two to just after Alfred Wiener's death. It covers a vast array of subject matter and contains 1600 correspondents including politicians, historians, theologians, resistance fighters, Holocaust survivors, civil servants and private researchers. Some of the more widely covered themes include Christian-Jewish relations; historiography; eyewitness testimony; restitution claims; postwar antisemitism

  10. Adolf Barta collection

  11. Ilse Frankenbusch collection

    The collection consists of correspondence, along with some family papers, of the Frankenbusch family. Most of the correspondence is between Ilse, her mother Hulde and grandmother Gisela, while they were living in separate countries during the Second World War. Correspondence also documents Ilse’s attempts to send financial aid to her mother after the surrender of France.

  12. Union Österreichischer Juden: Archives

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  13. Sally Grabenheimer collection

    Copy document and printed antisemitic slogans

  15. Stettin Jewish Community archives

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  16. Grant Rechnic collection

  17. Bund deutsch-jüdischer Jugend: Archives

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  18. Brotherhood

  19. Jack Scott collection

    The collection consists of the personal and family paper of Jakob Schloss/ Jack Scott, including wartime documentation of his own war service and his father’s deportation from France, and later documentation of memorials and tributes to Baruch Schloss and Jack’s commando. It also includes photographs of family members and memorial sites.

  20. Geoffrey Marx collection

    The collection consists of material belonging to the Marx and Eversfield families, the vast majority from Marika Szücs/ Lӧw-Beer/ Eversfield/ Rotter. Includes a large amount of wartime and post-war correspondence between England and Hungary (including letter informing Marika of her mother’s death at Auschwitz), personal and family papers documenting immigration, and collection of Marika’s art, fashion and advertising work.