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  1. Okresné živnostenské spoločenstvo v Kráľovskom Chlmci 1925 - 1949

    • Tradesmen Association of the Kráľovský Chlmec District 1925 - 1949

    The archival collection of the Tradesmen Association of the Krášovský Chlmec District contains materials related to Jewish industrialists and tradesmen who inhabited the localities of the district. 11 boxes of collection (boxes number 46-57) are related to the period between 1938 and 1945 including various archival files on anti-Jewish persecution, anti-Jewish regulations and the Aryanization of Jewish members of the association. The collection records preserve register books and several documents concerning the trade permits of Jewish members of the association. Furthermore, one might find...

  2. Hlavnoslužnovský úrad Medzibodrožského okresu v Kráľovskom Chlmci 1944

    • Chief Constable's Office of the Medzibodrožský District in Kráľovský Chlmec 1944
    • Bodrogközi Járás Főszolgabírói Hivatala

    The collection holds only the fragments of the administrative agenda that used to belong to the Chief Constable's Office of the Bodrogköz District. A total of 6 documents are preserved in the archival fond and all of them concerns the Aryanization of Jewish property in Kráľovský Chlmec. These files document the appointments of non-Jewish managers at the head of the store of Jenő Reisman, Hugó Tannenbaum, Ignác Salamon, Miksa Rieder, Jenő Braun and Emanuel Weisz.

  3. Okresný národný výbor v Kráľovskom Chlmci 1945 - 1960

    • District National Committee of Kráľovský Chlmec 1945 - 1960

    The agenda of the District National Committee of Kráľovský Chlmec contains documents that were preserved in the district administration in the period between 1945 and 1960. It contains files about post-WWII Jewish life in the localities of the district, such as the list of the members of Jewish associations or lists of Jewish persons registered to immigrate. Furthermore, the collection holds records on the Aryanized Jewish real estates that remained in the ownership of non-Jewish people after the end of WII, as well as the vetting process of these former administrators of Jewish property. T...

  4. Okresný národný výbor vo Veľkých Kapušanoch 1945 - 1960

    • District National Committee of Veľké Kapušany 1945 - 1960

    The agenda of the District National Committee of Veľké Kapušany holds records of the district administration in the period between 1945 and 1960. A specific segment of the archival collections preserves archival materials related to the immediate post-WWII period when Holocaust survivors were returning from the concentration camps. The collection contains documents of Jewish property and lists of Jewish people living in the territory of the district. A specific segment of the archival collections includes the list of those who were taken to the concentration camps from the localities that b...

  5. Obecný notársky úrad v Kráľovskom Chlmci 1821 - 1944 (1945)

    • Notary Office of Kráľovský Chlmec 1821 - 1944 (1945)

    The agenda of the Notary Office of Kráľovský Chlmec holds records of the local administration in the period between 1821 and 1944, including the wartime years (1939 - 1944). It contains materials about the situation of the Jewish population, the Anti-Jewish measures, and files on Jewish property, as well as the minutes of the municipality of Kráľovský Chlmec from the years 1939 – 1944.

  6. Notársky úrad v Jelšave

    • Notary Office of Jelšava

    The agenda of the Notary Office of Jelšava holds records of the local administration in the period between 1939 and 1944, including materials on the Anti-Jewish measures, the persecution of Jews, and the Aryanization of Jewish property in 1944. The archival collection contains the minutes of the city council of Jelšava from the years 1939 – 1944, in which various documents regarding the Anti-Jewish measures have been preserved. For example, one might find here the measure in which Jews were forbidden to sell their goods on the local markets or various files concerning citizenship ...

  7. Abovsko-turnianska župa II.

    • Abov-Turňa County II.

    The fonds contains archival materials from the whole territory of Abov-Turňa County. It preserves documents on the various forms of anti-Jewish measures and persecution of the Jewish population taking place in the countryside the the Abov-Turňa County. These documents concern mainly the property of the Jewish population and the aryanization of the property of Jewish tradesmen.

  8. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The documents were collected by Dr. Wiener and his assistants from the early 1930s, during the war and its aftermath, until the late 1970s. As they constitute the library’s core, these documents were the first to be digitized and accessible online. They include the correspondence and decrees of various Nazi agencies, documents from concentration camps, and documentation of the activities, the life and the fate of Jewish associations, communities, and individuals before, during and after the Holocaust.

  9. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

    The Protocols of the Elders of Zion – or Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion - is an anti-Semitic forgery, detailing in 24 chapters the "Jewish plan" to take over the world. The fake document is a compilation from various sources, issued in Russia by Sergei Nilus in 1905, and since then, published in various languages around the globe. The collection includes documents on the origins and the development of the myth.

  10. United Restitution Organization (URO): Rundschreiben 1961-1973

    The collection contains circulars (“Rundschreiben”) that the main office of the United Restitution Organization in Frankfurt/Main sent out to the various offices of the organization between 1961 and 1973. The circulars detail judgements of the German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof) on claims of Holocaust survivors to individual indemnification for damages caused by Nazi persecution. Each circular is prefaced by a summary of the court’s decision and its significance for the jurisprudence of personal indemnification, which in Germany was regulated by the Federal Law on Compensati...

  11. The Nazi Justice collection

    The Nazi Justice collection provides information on the judiciary of the Third Reich and hundreds of trial transcripts. One part of the collection (Box I) contains registers of convicts, laws and regulations, information on judges and attorneys, a detailed report of executions in Brandenburg (from October 1944 to April 1945) and a list of Nazis who had been active in Auschwitz. The other part (Boxes II to IX) contains trial transcripts in alphabetical order, mainly from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, from 1942 to 1945. Alleged crimes range from illegal slaughtering of animals to l...

  12. The Ludwig Dische papers : Bukovina’s Jewish history

    The Ludwig Dische papers address the history of the Bukovina before 1918, when Czernowitz was still part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Dr. Dische was the chairperson of the Committee for internal affairs (“Communicates Evreilor”) of the Jewish community in Czernowitz, Bukovina, in the war years from December 1941 to March 1944, when the Soviet army re-occupied the city. The collection contains letters, drafts, bulletins, pictures, prints, newspapers clips, and information about well-known Jews from Czernowitz, as well as Dr. Dische’s personal papers. Dische gathered these materials after ...

  13. The Key to the Mystery

    The Key to the Mystery, or Clé du Mystère, was a virulently anti-Semitic pamphlet, in the shape of a 32-pages booklet, published in Canada in French and English, and distributed in several countries in Europe in the 1930s. Adrien Arcand, the leader of the fascist Canadian paramilitary organization “Blue Shirts”, edited and published the pamphlet. By quoting distorted versions of texts written by prominent Jews, the Key aimed to prove the authenticity of the theories put forward in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. It accused the Jews of a worldwide domination plot and of communism. The c...

  14. Research files: research conducted by the JCIO and the Wiener Library

    These files are the results of research enquiries the JCIO (Jewish Center Information Office) in Amsterdam, and later the Wiener Library in London, received and compiled during the war. The material was culled from books, periodicals and press cuttings, to form reliable documentation on specialized subjects. The files have been arranged under broad subject headings.

  15. Judge Hadassa Ben-Itto collection 1926-2018

    The collection contains the documents collected by Judge Ben-Itto during years of research for her book The Lie That Wouldn't Die: The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. The book tells the story of those who forged the Protocols, distributed it around the world and used it as an antisemitic weapon. It also pays tribute to those who exposed and disproved it; with special emphasis given to the two major trials, both initiated in 1934 by Jewish communities in Switzerland and in South Africa against local Nazi distributors of the document.

  16. Grahamstown Trial, Grahamstown, South Africa, 1934

    The "Grahamstown Trial" which took place in 1934 in Port Elizabeth (ZA) deals with several issues; a document crudely forged by Harry Victor Inch, the Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion and a Jewish world conspiracy. "Die Rapport" (an anti-Semitic newspaper) published a document allegedly stolen from the Western Road Synagogue in Port Elizabeth: This fake document contains a series of antigentile writings including a vague plan of Jewish world domination. The forgery pretends to be a record of an address delivered by Abraham Levy (the Minister of the Port Elizabeth Hebrew Congregation) to th...

  17. Carl Schmitt – The Confidential File

    This collection contains the contents of a confidential dossier on Carl Schmitt, a prominent German jurist, political theorist, and ostensibly loyal member of the Nazi Party. At the time at which the Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführer SS – SD Hauptamt put together this dossier, documenting a campaign aiming to discredit Schmitt, he was considered the most outstanding legal scholar of National Socialism. He served on the leadership council of the Academy for German Law, was chairperson of the Committee for State and Administrative Law, member of the Prussian State Council, editor-in-chief of...

  18. Biographical press cuttings collection (1945-1970s)

    The biographical files (close to 3,000) are arranged in alphabetical order and include information about different persons, mainly non-Jews, in the post-war world: political leaders, politicians, philosophers, writers, scientists, high ranking officers (including Nazis) and more, in Israel, the USA and different European countries. The documentation was gathered between 1945 and 1970s. It includes material from periodicals and press cuttings. Some files include biographical information from other sources.

  19. Bern Trial, Bern, Switzerland, 1934-1935

    The Bern Trial that was held in Bern, Switzerland between 1934 and 1935. The plaintiffs sued and won the Bund Nationalsozialistischer Eidgenossen (BNSE) which distributed anti-Semitic pamphlets during a meeting of June 13, 1933 organized by the National Front and the Heimatwehr in the Casino of Bern, notably "Die zionistischen Protokolle". This section includes documents on the public and legal campaigns before and during the trial.

  20. Συλλογή Δεληγιάννη Ιωάννη

    • Deligiannis Ioannis Collection
    • Sillogi Deligianni Ioanni

    The collection consists of two sections. The first section concerns the academic career and the social action of Deligiannis. Participation in conferences, suggestions, articles, material about family law and teaching material. It also contains correspondence with his colleagues and institutions, and material from the administrative positions he held. The second section consists of legal cases undertaken by his legal office. There are many cases of divorce, contracts, real estate, corporate and civil disputes. Important for the history of the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki are some record...