Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn565747
• English
• 1933-1941
• 19 microfilm reels (digitized), 16 mm digital images,
• Updated 7 months ago

Records related to the activities of the Zagreb Office of the HICEM Committee in Yugoslavia. The Zagreb office of HICEM gained importance after the Anschluss in 1938, when Austrian and German Jews tried to flee Europe, joined in smaller numbers by Czech, Polish, and Hungarian Jews. HICEM Zagreb registered and sheltered the refugees during their temporary stay in Yugoslavia, and took care of their everyday needs. HICEM also advised them about visas, transportation routes, tickets, and prepared them for emigration, in the process providing many with financial aid. The collection contains exte...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn566607
• English
• 1926-1941
• 137 microfilm reels, 16 mm approximately 264, 000 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 7 months ago

Administrative files of the council of HICEM, including minutes, reports of the HICEM’s bureau of statistics, and finance department, circulars, and field trip reports. Other materials include reports on the status of Jews in various countries, lists of emigrants, reports on conferences, including minutes taken at the 1938 Evian conference, bulletins and periodicals issued by HICEM, press and media clippings, correspondence with branches and organizations in various countries, including correspondence with local HICEM branches, local charities and Jewish communities, correspondences with in...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn566610
• English
• 1923-1941
• 1 microfilm reels (digitized), 16 mm 956 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 7 months ago

Correspondence related to the various activities of the Jewish community (public events, charity, educational and religious matters, membership duties etc.), correspondence with Jewish and Zionist organizations in Yugoslavia and worldwide, Yugoslav government authorities (Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs) and Zagreb City administration (petitions, requests, complaints, applications for the citizenship. residence permits etc.) The entire collection was copied in 2017, replacing a possibly incomplete version received in 1993.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn566611
• English
• 1931-1941
• 5 microfilm reels (digitized), 16 mm digital images,
• Updated 7 months ago

Records relating to the activities of the Grand Lodge of B'nai B'rith in Yugoslavia and its affiliated lodges "Serbia", "Sarajevo" and “Zagreb." Consists of circular letters, register of proceedings ("Serbia" lodge), list of board members, biographical information on the leaders, letters of recommendation and application of candidates, bylaws, minutes and agendas of the meetings (“Zagreb" and "Sarajevo"), list of members and leaders of the "Menorah" lodges in Osijek and "Manat Yad" in Subotica; correspondence with the Yugoslav authorities, various reports on activities (struggle against ant...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn566615
• English
• 1918-1940
• 14 microfilm reels (digitized), 16 mm approximately 26,000 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 7 months ago

Various reports, news bulletins, correspondence and appeals of the Palestine Bureau. Includes general reports on the activities of the Thessaloniki Palestine Bureau for 1924-1926; reports to the leadership of the Zionist Federation of Greece on Jewish settlements in Palestine, on the fundraising activities on behalf of Jewish victims of pogroms in Palestine, financial records (register of donated funds, salaries etc.) and extensive correspondence between Palestine Bureau and various Jewish organizations, Jewish communities and private individuals. Also includes questionnaires of Greek Jews ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn566632
• English
• 1933-1941
• 33 microfilm reels (digitized), 16 mm digital images,
• Updated 7 months ago

Records related to the organization of the First World Jewish Congress (WJC). Includes minutes of the sessions of the WJC central bureau and executive and administrative committees, accounts and correspondence related to the political and organizational activities of the Committee, letters, petitions, memoranda, and press releases related to the persecution of Jews in various countries, correspondence with Jewish organizations, international organization (League of Nations), government and public officials, lists of local WJC committee members and leaders of Jewish organizations in various ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn566633
• English
• 1709-1940
• 2 microfilm reels (digitized), 16 mm digital images,
• Updated 7 months ago

Records of the Jewish Community of Ragusa (Dubrovnik). Consists of marriage, death, and birth registers, financial documentation, registers of dues and fees, and an account book of the Jewish community of Dubrovnik.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn594882
• English
• 1936-1944
• 40 microfilm reels (partial), 16 mm 82,121 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 7 months ago

Files from the following Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA) departments: Amt I (Administration, Organization, and Legal Affairs)-includes directives for management of the Sipo (security police), prewar organization of Einsatzkommandos, mobilization against Poland, office telephone lists, and activity reports of Einsatzgruppen in the Occupied Eastern Territories. Amt II (Personnel)-includes personnel lists and internal telephone directories. Amt III (SD-Inland)-includes statistical data on Germans’ religious affiliations and conversions. Amt IV (Gestapo)-includes descriptive material and repor...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn599257
• English
• 1933-1945
• 6 microfilm reels (partial), 16 mm 7,661 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 7 months ago

Contains the surveillance files on communists, social-democratic, anti-fascist, and Jewish organizations; reports on “unreliable” persons and on masonic lodges; police surveillance on activities of organization outside Germany; clippings of German and foreign newspapers and journal concerning the situation in Germany. Includes also records related to the Zionist movements in Germany: correspondence of the Reich and Prussian Minister of the Interior and of the Prussian Gestapo Office with the Zionist Federation of Germany (Zionistische Vereinigung für Deutschland); reports by the Jewish Tel...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn599258
• English
• 1939-1944
• 54 microfilm reels (partial), 16 mm 121,673 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 7 months ago

Orders, reports, correspondence, memoranda, plans, explanatory notes, estimates, blueprints, computations, drafts, diagrams, photographs of installations, bookkeeping records, staff inventories, list of employees, personal files of security guards, index cards of prisoners and workers, death notices, and list of prisoners. The records relate to the complete history of the construction and maintenance of the Auschwitz camps complex. Includes correspondence with the camp commandant’s office, the Silesia Construction Inspectorate and the main office regarding daily operations of camp and crema...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn599261
• English
• 1933-1944
• 7 microfilm reels (partial), 16 mm 6,379 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 7 months ago

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...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn599262
• English
• 1941-1944
• 5 microfilm reels (partial), 16 mm 5,218 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 7 months ago

The collection contains reports, German translations of documents, minutes, circulars, orders, reviews, secret publications, financial documents, correspondence, special bulletins, transcripts of testimonies, and various materials such as copies of documents and maps. Includes information on police activities against partisans and other resistance efforts in the Occupied Eastern Territories; the activities of Einsatzgruppe A; directives and instructions of Himmler and other senior police officials about the treatment of foreign workers; measures for their punishment; the treatment of Commun...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn599263
• English
• 1919-1944
• 5 microfilm reels (partial), 16 mm 4,684 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 7 months ago

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 ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn599265
• English
• 1933-1941
• 3 microfilm reels (partial), 16 mm 2,822 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 7 months ago

Consists of various reports, correspondence, investigative files, memos and other antisemitic documents: Reports on the economic and political situation with comments on Jewish influence in numerous countries; reports alleging inhumane treatment of Nazis in camps in pre-Anschluss Austria; reports of the Bureau of Frontier Intelligence, SD Abschnitt Southwest (the Saar); reports on German intelligence agents in Romania (including Weber, who was deported from Romania); correspondence of the Nationalsozialistiche Kriegsopferversorgung, April 1938; correspondence with NSDAP members relating to ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn599266
• English
• 1881-1945
• 5 microfilm reels (partial), 16 mm 9,426 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 7 months ago

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...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn599267
• English
• 1914-1945
• 9 microfilm reels (partial), 16 mm 7,590 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 7 months ago

Consists of directives for organizing the Four-Year Plan, with estimates of labor needed from civilian prisoners, foreign workers, and POWs; a 1936 memorandum from Hitler about German foreign policy, including preparation for war with the Soviet Union, "Lebensraum," and ascriptions of collective Jewish responsibility for economic crimes; information about Göring's conferences with military commanders and the Agriculture Ministry regarding increasing food production for Germany from the Occupied Territories; records about Göring's orders on forced mobilization of the male and female populati...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn599269
• English
• 1821-1945
• 11 microfilm reels (partial), 16 mm 21,108 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 7 months ago

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.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn599797
• English
• 1941-1942
• 1 microfilm reel (partial), 16 mm 16 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 7 months ago

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...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn599798
• English
• 1926-1936
• 1 microfilm reel (partial), 16 mm 800 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 7 months ago

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.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn599803
• English
• 1910-1946
• 1 microfilm reel (partial), 16 mm 456 digital images, JPEG
• Updated 7 months ago

Court files of investigation of people charged with state treason, sabotage, listening to foreign broadcasts, and other treasonable acts involving the Netherlands, Belgium, and France. Included are correspondence and orders regarding the investigation of Poles, Czechs, Jews, and Russians; excerpts from "highly treasonable" radio broadcasts printed in "Deutsche Volkszeitung" (October 1938) and broadcast over "German Freedom Station." Note: USHMM Archives holds only selected records.