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  1. Deutsche Umsiedlungs-Treuhand Gesellschaft m. b. H Verbindungsstelle Lemberg German Resettlement and Trust Society Office in Lviv Niemieckie Towarzystwo Przesiedleńczo-Powiernicze z o.o. Placówka Łącznikowa we Lwowie (Sygn. 643)

    Circulars, instructions, correspondence related to displaced persons: files of property, settlements, employment, and permissions to stay in the Generalne Gubernatorstwo (GG). Includes records of real estate administration and personal files of displaced persons.

  2. Selected records of the Herzfeld and Viktorius. Joint Stock Company, Factory in Końskie Herzfeld i Viktorius. Spółka Akcyjna, Fabryka w Końskich (Sygn. 724)

    Correspondence, reports, protocols, notarial deeds, excerpts from mortgage books, excerpts from the commercial register, inventory books, contracts and plans of the Herzfeld i Viktorius Compan in Końskie, Poland..

  3. Selected records of the commune Pianów located in Słupia Konecka Akta gminy Pianów z siedzibą w Słupi Koneckiej (Sygn. 534)

    Files of the Jewish kehilla in 1931; applications for identity cards from 1929-1939; population statistics from 1927-1932; alphabetical list of voters for the Sejm (Polish Parliament); register of the residents possessing assets, 1923; population census, 1942.

  4. Selected records of the commune Pacanów Akta gminy Pacanów (Sygn. 2519)

    The registry of residents of Pacanów, Poland from 1932-1948 with personal and residency information: surnames and names; parents' names and mother's maiden name; date and place of birth; a name of the main tenant and family members; occupation and position, the main source of income; confession; marital status and name of the spouse; attitude towards universal military duty; ID card; nationality; previous place of residence; a legal residence; a date of residence in the commune; the next place of residence; a date of leaving the commune; annotations about penalties; and comments.

  5. Selected records of the District Commission to Investigate Nazi Crimes in Bydgoszcz Okręgowa Komisja Badania Zbrodni Niemieckich w Bydgoszczy (GK 170)

    Testimonies, protocols, reports, correspondence and other materials relating to crimes committed in Bydgoszcz, Starogard, Serock, Wejherowo and other places in 1939-1944, exhumation protocols in Serock and identification of victims, materials regarding General Hildebrand and others, statistics of executions carried out on Poles and Jews.

  6. Selected records of the commune Przedbórz Akta gminy Przedbórz (Sygn. 531)

    Lists of voters for the Sejm (Polish Parliament) and Senate, list of property owners, and certificates-excerpts from the register of permanent residents.

  7. Bernhard Haas papers

    Two handwritten notebooks kept by Bernhard Haas, a Jewish prisoner in the Atlit detention camp near Haifa, 1944. Includes journal, poems and transcripts of letters. The date and place of writing are recorded on the first page of each notebook: Camp 195, Haifa, February 1944 / Camp 119, Atlit-Haifa, April 1944. The first notebook opens with a brief summary of Haas's life story until his arrest, including his childhood in Giessen, being orphaned of both his parents, the rise of the Nazis to power in Germany, his voyage to Palestine from Trieste, his studies in the Mikveh Israel agricultural s...

  9. Selected records of the Public School Hugo Kołłątaj in Kazimierza Wielka Publiczna Szkoła im. Hugo Kołłątaja w Kazimierzy Wielkiej (Sygn. 2267)

    Files the school's activities, certificates and lists of children, include 127 Jewish children.

  10. Edward Kossoy collection Akta Edwarda Kossoya (Sygn. 2633)

    Archives of Edward Kossoy (Jewish lawyer and publicist) consists of his education records, university diplomas, emigration and naturalization, official and private correspondance, fragments of memoirs of the victims, materials regarding German crimes, the chronicle of German capitulation, reports of the Sicherheitspolizei (SiPo) from Polish teritories, press clippings, articles and other publications, and numerous documents related to his private life. Includs biographies of clients, a letter from Andrzej Olechowski to Donald Tusk (2009), correspondence with Norman Davis (1993, 2002-2005), ...

  11. Travelogue of Rome

    Castle Films. "The World Parade" "Modern Rome" 1940? Travelogue of Rome with Mussolini, Fascist-era architecture, and large scale athletic exercises. Includes classic monuments and the Vatican.

  12. Selected records of the Polish Care Committee in Busko Polski Komitet Opiekuńczy w Busku (Sygn. 2170)

    Reports of the Polski Komitet Opiekuńczy w Busku (Polish Welfare Committee in Busko) related to the situation of Busko city's population, 1940-1944 and situation in Pińczów after the fire in September 1939 . Includes posters, announcements, and two issues of the German propaganda magazine “Służba światowa” ("World Service", subtitle "International Information Agency for the Study of the Jewish Question"), July-October 1943. The articles in the newspaper were intended to discredit the Jewish community around the world. The following articles appeared in the October issue: "The leading positi...

  13. Komendant Policji Porządkowej Dystryktu Radomskiego Der Kommandeur der Ordnungspolizei im Distrikt Radom (GK 648)

    Personal files of Polish police officers in the District of Radom during occupation of Poland. Consists of correspondence, reports, certificates and a list of employed engineers and technicians in the ammunition factory in Skarżysko Kamienna. Includes personal files of the following police officers (Volksdeutsche): Franz Bartkowiak, Bruno Bilau, Zdzisław Ciecierski, Adolf Felscher, Georg Hessler, Gustav Kapler, Ernst Lachmann, August Mittelstädt, Sigismund Radtke/Radke, Reinhold Weiss, Adolf Zelcher.

  14. Criminal Police of the Protectorate Protektorátní kriminální policie

    Records of the Criminal Police of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, featuring alphabetically arranged registration cards of prisoners; alphabetically arranged cases of prisoners accused of so-called economic crimes; reports of suicide attempts and injuries; cases of so-called protective custody (Schutzhaft); daily reports; reports of deaths; lists of persons deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp; transport lists from the Kounicova dormitories in Brno-Žabovřesky which were used as a prison and execution site.

  15. Russian TASS New Agency- a collection of news Radziecka Agencja Informacyjna TASS-zbiór komunikatów (Sygn. 1424)

    News from the Russian news agency TASS regarding: the Anders Army in the USSR and the East; the situation on the fronts of World War II and the Red Army; conferences in Yalta, San Francisco and Potsdam, and the results of Mikołajczyk's visit in Moscow; Soviet opinions about the Catholic church; The Krajowa Rada Narodowa (National Council) and the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego, PKWN (Polish National Liberation Committee); the situation of Polish people in the USSR and in the West; situation of Poland during the occupation; Polish territories occupied by the Red Army in 1944; post-war ...

  16. Department for the Investigation of Enemy War Crimes by the French Judiciary Police Service de recherche de crimes de guerre ennemis de la police judiciaire (SRCGE)

    Investigations conducted by the Department for Investigation of Enemy War Crimes (SRCGE) into war crimes committed either on the French mainland or involving French citizens in camps outside of France. The investigations were conducted by judiciary police starting in late 1944. They are organized alphabetically by département or by the country where they are presumed to have occurred (Germany, Austria, Poland), and also by subject matter. Investigated activities include arrest, arson, denaturalization denunciation, deportation, execution, expropriation, forced labor, homicide, internment, k...

  17. Selected records of the District Commission to Investigate Nazi Crimes in Gdańsk Okręgowa Komisja Badania Zbrodni Niemieckich w Gdańsku (GK 172)

    Contains records on war crimes committed on Poles and other nationalities by Germans during War World Second in Gdańsk region, Poland. Includes testimonies of Albert Forster's (Gauleiter der Reichsgau Danzig-Westpreußen activities, lists of Poles who died in concentration camps or during forced labor in the Third Reich, materials on the gas chamber and mass grave in the Nowy Port in Gdańsk, documents on germanization of Polish children and the “educational camp” in Snopki near Pisz.

  18. Oral history interview with Sergei Ackerman

  19. Selected records of the "Neptun" Iron Casting Factory Fabryka Odlewów Żeliwnych „Neptun” (Sygn. 616)

    Consists of "Neptun" factory records relating to employment and dismissals from work. Includes also factory correspondence and financial records. The German authorities confiscated the “Neptun” factory during the WWII.

  20. Association of former Participants of the Fight for Freedom of Spain (Dąbrowszczaków Association) Związek byłych Uczestników Walk o Wolność Hiszpanii (Związek Dąbrowszczaków) (Sygn. 1485)

    Records of the Związek Dąbrowszczaków (Association "Dąbrowszczaków" related to participation of Polish people in the civil war in Spain, 1936-1939. Includes reports, statutes, correspondence, minutes, financial books, and poems, list of members and their families, personal files of participants of the civil war in Spain, photographs, ID cards and other documents. Many of the fighters were Polish citizens of Jewish origin.