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  1. Josef Baur papers

    The Josef Baur papers consists of correspondence, identification documents, photographs, and two photo albums relating to Josef Baur (b. 1907) and his family. The papers relate to Josef Baur’s military experiences as a member of the Police Battalion 131 and the 14th SS Police Regiment during World War II. The majority of the correspondence is between Josef Baur and his wife, Agnes Baur (b. 1910) and written from 1940 and 1943. Several letters sent by Josef included photographs. Agnes numbered both the letters and photographs then placed the photographs in albums with the correlating number ...

  2. Fonds Monneray (MDXXXV)

    Records related to Military Tribunal in Nuremburg, the creation of the U.N., work on humanitarian aid and human rights with international organizations, Monneray's work as a jurist, as well as books and articles, and his involvement with the Jewish community.

  3. Kreishauptmannschaft Warschau Selected records of the County Starosty in Warsaw Starostwo Powiatowe Warszawskie (Sygn. 486/II)

    Selected reports by Kreishauptmann, Sonderdienstkommando, and gendarmerie, orders concerning police hours, identity and cards (Kennkarte), as well as records relating to administrative borders, propaganda, changes of names of towns and streets, appointments of mayors, heads of communes and villages, name lists of employees of offices, confiscation and housing assignments, matters of organization, maintenance, training and duties of the Polish Police, matters of confiscated properties including those relating to buildings in the Warsaw ghetto, confiscation of Jewish assets, as well as cases ...

  4. Selected records from the Šiauliai Regional State Archives in Lithuania related to history of the local Jewish community before, during and after WWII (Fond 945)

    Records of various state agencies (the County Tax Office. State Notary, County Executive Committee) related to history of the Jewish Community of the Šiauliai County, Lithuania, before, during and after World War II. It includes records related to the payment of taxes, information about real estate, lists of the nationalized property, payrolls and correspondence files, court and notary files concerning inheritance and restitution of Jewish property after WWII and other documentation.

  5. Hauptamt Wissenschaft (RG 216)

    Consists of individual files on German academic personalities, scientists and institutions; checks and reports on their political reliability; and examinations of their political credentials before granting promotions, appointments or honors. Includes also reports, newspaper clippings, summaries of lectures, petitions, applications and correspondence of various Nazi institutions. Records relate to the activities of the division of the Main Office of Science of the Nazi Party (NSDAP-Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei) under the direction of Alfred Rosenberg. The records are inco...

  6. Jakob Künzler and Elisabeth Künzler-Bender on a roof terrace in Beirut

    Jakob and his wife Elisabeth Künzler in Beirut. Jakob Künzler was an eyewitness to the Armenian Genocide. He was a Swiss pharmacist who helped provide for thousands of Armenian orphans and the sick and wounded in his hospital in Urfa, Turkey. Elisabeth holds a baby. Jakob plays with the baby’s ears, hands, and cheeks. Elisabeth points at the camera. Jakob talks to the baby. The baby holds onto the woman’s ears. Shot of the couple sitting and talking. They smile at the camera. They balance a book on their knees and read it, looking up at the camera. They pose for the camera on a balcony with...

  7. Excerpts of films made by Lizzy Kessler (15 rolls)

    15 rolls of trims from Lizzy Kessler's film collection.

  9. Personal papers of F. Th. Dijckmeester

    The personal archive of Frans Theodoor Dijckmeester (1917-2003). The collection consists of documents concerning the "Kersten" matters: the report, correspondence and newspaper clippings about Dr. F. Kersten. It also includes a report by Kersten about his network in the occupied Netherlands, and a German translation of an article by Prof. L. de Jong about Dr. F. Kersten, and corresponding letters. Felix Kersten (1898-1960) was before and during WWII a personal physical therapist of Heinrich Himmler. Kersten used his contacts with Himmler to help people persecuted by Nazi Germany. He played ...

  10. Mathilde Möller Bing collection

    Collection of documents and correspondence relating to Dr. Mathilde Möller Bing, who survived in Switzerland during WWII.

  11. "Die Vormerkung fuer die Einzahlungen in das Sonderkonto I..."

    Document from the Haavara, "Die Vormerkung fuer die Einzahlungen in das Sonderkonto I der Bank der Tempelgesellschaft," undated

  12. William Harris Pysher collection

    Photographs taken by American serviceman, William Harris Pysher, shortly after the liberation of Buchenwald.

  13. John Davis collection

    Contains photographs taken after the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp. Images show corpses of concentration camp inmates piled on the ground and in open trucks. Also pictured are bodies of German soldiers, possibly camp guards.

  14. Bulgarian funeral photograph album

    Photograph album consisting of six large photographs documenting a Jewish funeral procession in Sofia, Bulgaria circa 1942. The album depicts images of two men with Star of David armbands on their coats walking along the procession, the coffin draped with cloth with Star of David, women and children carrying wreaths at the head of the procession, and Chief Rabbis of Sofia Rabbi Asher Yitzchak Chananel and Rabbi Daniel Zion.The cover has "Album hand printed across it and features a circular portrait of a man presumed to be the deceased in the upper left corner.

  15. Minnie and William Fuchs papers

    Contains a copy of a report to be presented to the United States Congress on the investigation and conditions of concentration camps discovered in former Nazi occupied Germany as detailed by Dwight Eisenhower; dated April 20, 1945; in English.

  16. Oral history interview with Robert Schubach

  17. Babamusta family collection

    Testimonies, photographs, newspaper article, and CD, among other items, documenting the history of the Babamusta family, of Kavaja, Albania, and their role in sheltering and rescuing Jewish refugees from Nazi persecution in Albania in 1943. Includes the essay “Acts of Courage and Heroism” and “The contribution of the Babamusta family in the rescue of 178 Jews in Kavaja, Albania;” photographs, including copy prints of vintage photographs, of the Babamusta family; a print out of an article about Neki Babamusta, from the Albanian newspaper “Sot,” August 2013, along with an English translation ...

  18. Memories and diaries Wspomnienia i pamietniki (Sygn. IZ. Doc II)

    Diaries, memoirs, narratives, questionnaires, correspondence and letters of various individuals, articles, and press clippings. Records relate to experiences of Poles and Jews during the WWII. Included are records relating to German provocations before WWII, the course of the September campaign of 1939, German settlement action and treatment of Poles, forced labor, armed resistance of Poles, intensive germanization, displacement and round-ups, executions of Poles in Mosina and Szamotuły district, working conditions in labor camps, secret teaching, terror and murders of the Poles carried out...

  19. Envelope

    First day cover with canceled stamp issued in Bonn on May 17, 1979 in honor of what would have been Anne Frank's 50th birthday. Cachet features 3-color embossed rendering of Anne Frank and diary. Round postmark: "Bonn 1; 50.Geburtstag Anne Frank; Erstaus 17.5.1979 Gabetag; 5300."

  20. Central Bank of China one cent scrip