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  1. Army Engineering Corps requests

    permission to use Jews in communication services and other special positions. Jewish women to be also mobilized; to be used for hospitals or other institutions and should not be put to heavy manual work.

  2. Instructions

    for Jewish forced labor brigades, forced labor, guards, field work, instructions for procurement of cattle food, concurrence between the base units and the spread-out formations for improving the situation of the villages. April 1 - August 3, 1944. Instructions for the formation of guard units. Documents related to the above.

  3. Suspicious elements in the Army

    Communists, Legionnaires, Irredentists, Sectants, terrorists. Due to the international situation, an increase in the activities of various factions requires higher vigilance in the detection of suspicious elements in the armed forces. Under suspicion are officers of German origin (Saxons, swabs). Reports and analyses of personnel from various minorities and provinces: German, Ukrainian, Hungarian, Bessarabia, Transylvania.

  4. Remarks

    Requests for lists of all military personnel, divided by categories in accordance with their activities, belonging to a political movement, or who committed acts of terrorism, maiming or killing. Follow lists from various Units.

  5. Campaign against Hungary

    Activity of the propaganda groups. Distribution to the troops of materials received from the Soviet Union. Preparations for a military gazette. Atrocities committed by the Hungarian army.

  6. Jews

    Problems related to use of Jewish hospitals and workers, Various requests from Jewish communities and individuals, mostly related to forced labor. Lists of Jews provided with certificate of dispensation from forced labor.

  7. Propaganda, Counter-propaganda, Intelligence, Censorship

    A calendar is distributed containing texts elogious of the Hungarian army.

  8. Orders and requests.

    Orders of permanent nature, for military personnel and organization. Colonization of Bessarabia. Request to settle there, from a number of NC officers. Officers’ wives requested to perform duties at social services. Instructions regulating the duties of Jews in the working brigades. Order from Antonescu to limit the body weight of the officers to 75 Kg. Obligatory physical exercises are instituted. Casa Ostirii (Army Club): description, history, functions.

  9. Холокауст

    • Holocaust
    • Holokaust

    Documents issued by various authorities in Yugoslavia during WW II, both domestic and occupational. There are a lot of personal documents, manuscripts, books. Fund includes database of Jewish victims of the Holocaust and record books.

  10. Terezín/Theresienstadt

    The archive records from the Terezín ghetto (24 November 1941 – 8 May 1945, and from the period after the liberation) are preserved only in fragments. Only a portion of the documents in the collection are connected with the official activities of the Terezín Council of Elders and with the various departments and sections of its self-government. The first group of documents comprise a relatively diverse range of maps, plans and drawings of the ghetto, the surrounding area, the housing blocks and buildings, various sketches of the facilities and equipment, as well as notices. The collection a...

  11. Photo Archive Collection

    Stored in the Photo Archive Collection of the Jewish Museum in Prague are several thousand photographs taken between the start of the 1940s and the present day. This includes negatives of various materials and dimensions (from glass plates to colour film) as well as positive prints, of which several thousand (predominantly glass plates and medium format negatives on artificial stock) document the life and activity of the war-time Jewish Community in Prague under the administration of the occupation authorities. Another major unit comprises documentation of Jewish areas in Bohemia, which has...

  12. Ярунська районна управа, м. Ярунь Житомирської області

    • Iarun district administration
    • Iarunska raionna uprava

    File 1 contains protocols of meetings of villagers of Iarun district. P. 4 of the file contains an order by Iarun district administration to village administrations to register Jewish population in their villages.

  13. Житомирська обласна комісія зі встановлення збитків, заподіяних німецько-фашистськими загарбниками під час Великої Вітчизняної війни, м. Житомир

    • Zhytomyr regional commission for investigation of the damage caused by the German-Fascist invaders

    Inventory 1. File 2. Report on the results of the work of Zhytomyr Regional Commission on damage accounting and investigation of atrocities committed by the German-Fascist invaders and their accomplices in Zhytomyr region, 78 p. File 3. Memorandum "Results of damage calculation and the investigation of the atrocities of the German-Fascist invaders in Zhytomyr region", 1944, 29 p. File 4. Report “Results of activities of Zhytomyr Regional Commission on damage calculation and investigation of atrocities committed by the German-Fascist invaders and their accomplices in the Zhytomyr region of t...

  14. Бердичівська міська управа, м. Бердичів Житомирської області

    • Berdychiv city administration
    • Berdychivska miska uprava

    File 2 contains: Order of gebietskommissar in Berdychiv to chairmen of Berdychiv city administration and district administrations of Berdichiv, Andrushivka and Yanushpil from November 27, 1941, on taxation of the Jewish population. Order of gebietskommissar in Berdychiv to chairmen of Berdychiv city administration and district administrations of Berdichiv, Andrushivka and Yanushpil, dated January 20, 1942, on wearing identification marks by the Jews. Order of the city administration of Berdychiv on January 21, 1942 about the same. Order of gebietskommissar in Berdychiv to chairmen of Berdyc...

  15. Житомирский генерал-комиссариат, г. Житомир

    • Zhytomyr General Commissariat
    • Zhytomyrskyi general-komissariat

    The following files contain information about the organization of the occupation administrative and power apparatus, as well as anti-Jewish policies: File 1. Orders for transfer of policemen, sentences, October 28, 1942 - October 21, 1943, 54 p. File 2. Reports of district officials on their work in the field and the structure of the of the OUN (Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists), July 31, 1941 - March 25, 1943, 179 p. File 3. Reports by Kovalsky M., Vingalova N., Arendt M., Grinasevich M., Stavichenko M., Sheriy V., Vetvitsky S. and Kulitsky A., December 9, 1941 - February 24, 1942, 2...

  16. Балківська районна управа, с. Балки Барського району

    • Balkivska raionna uprava
    • District administration of Balky village, Bar district

    Statements from Jews asking permission to open buffets and stores [inventory 1, file 54]. Acts of sanitary inspection of the ghetto [inventory 1, file 225]. Lists of ghetto prisoners in the Balky district, with separate list of deported Jews with the indication of the locality from which they were deported [inventory 2, file 5, pp. 26-45, 46-52]. The order of the praetor about the prohibition for the Jews, under threat of execution, to leave territory of the ghetto without a permit [inventory 4, file 17, p. 14].

  17. Шпиківська районна управа (періоду німецько-фашистської окупації)

    • Shpykivska raionna uprava
    • Shpykiv district administration

    Some cases contain information about anti-Jewish actions: Inventory 3, file 1, p. 332. Orders of Prefect concerning the resettlement of the Jews into ghettos of Tulchyn, Bratslav, Shpykiv, Ladyzhin. Inventory 3, file 1, pp. 104-108, 447-461, 466-494. Information about the prisoners of ghettos located on the territory of Tulchyn district - lists of inhabitants of Shpykiv and Pechersk ghettos. Inventory 3, file 25, pp. 779-780. The correspondence of the Prefect of Tulchin district with the praetor of Shpikov in 1943, contains information on the life of Jews in the county (the creation of Jewi...

  18. Крижопільська районна управа

    • Kryzhopilska raionna uprava
    • Kryzhopil district administration

    The minutes of the meeting of the Kryzhopol district administration contains, in particular, the requirements to wear Jewish marking signs on clothes, to provide the Jews with bread made of flour of second quality [inventory 2, file 5, p. 9], prohibiting Jewish children from attending school [inventory 3, file 15, p. 34], and prohibition to all Jews to walk in the central streets of small towns, and so on. Documents on the organizational and economic activity of Jewish communities in the ghetto: permission for shoe, tailoring and pottery workshops, the opening of barbershops, sofas, bakerie...

  19. Ямпільська повітова управа

    • Iampilska povitova uprava
    • Iampil county administration

    Some cases contain registration materials in the form of lists of ghetto prisoners and labor camps, prisoners in the workers' columns, lists of people for food aid, etc., 1942-1943. In particular, this is information about the place of residence and the composition of Jewish families, as well as information on the age of ghetto prisoners and the profession of adult family members [inventory 3, files 81, 82, 84, 86]. Available documents with statistical data on the Jewish population of the county. The statistical data for 1942-1943 on the quantitative composition of the population in the ghe...

  20. Тростянецька районна управа (періоду німецько-фашистської окупації), с. Ладижин Тростянецького району

    • Trostianets district administration
    • Trostianetska raionna uprava

    Documents on the organizational and economic activities of Jewish communities in the ghetto: permission for shoemaking, tailoring and pottery workshops, opening of barbershops, sofas, bakeries, buffets and grocery stores, production of sausage wares, fur trade, small-scale trade [inventory 1, files 84, 88, 104, 110, 130-131; inventory 3, files 17, 20, 36]. An order for the isolation of those sick on typhus in the ghetto [inventory 3, file 1, p. 150; inventory 1, file 11, p. 17]. Orders for the establishment of a Jewish ghetto and a special regime for the detention of prisoners, prohibition ...