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  1. Military Historical Archives in Prague records

    Collection consists of historical documents related to the Holocaust. Records contain the following fonds: The SS-Nachrichtenstelle "Nordwest" Den Haag, Sbʹirka Koncentračni tʹabory, Kʹaznice a vězenice, Kommandostab RFSS, Police regiment center, Organization Todt, Einsatzgruppe VII, SS-Totenkopf Standarten, SS-Wachbatl. 2 Prag, SS-Pz. Div, "Totenkopf", SS- Wachbatl." Böhmen und Mäheren", SS-Freiw. Pz. Gren. Div. "Horst Wessel", SS-Varia, and Německʹe soudy vojenskʹe, policejnʹi a civilnʹi.

  2. Alzen family papers

    The Alzen family papers include identity papers, correspondence, and court papers documenting a Catholic farming family’s life in Nazi Germany, August Alzen’s forced sterilization, Johann Alzen’s death at Dachau, and the family’s efforts to receive compensation after the war. Documents include Agnes Alzen’s Arbeitsbuch; Albert Alzen’s Military Government questionnaire, Freie Deutsche Liga membership card, and statement about what happened to his father; August Alzen’s Deutsche Arbeitsfront membership book, military papers, court summons and sterilization decision; a certificate declaring Be...

  3. Presidency of Council of Ministers-Military Cabinet Presedintia Consiliul de Miniştri-Cabinet Militar (Fond 764)

    Records of the military cabinet of Ion Antonescu. Topics covered include the persecution and deportation of Jews, confiscation of Jewish properties, and military actions against partisans. There are also secret police records relating to the Romanian withdrawal from Bessarabia and Northern Bucovina in 1940, as the USSR occupied these regions. Microfilms accreted in 2013 contain various correspondence of Antonescu with Hitler, Maniu, Horia Sima, as well as reports on Iron Guard and communist activities, SSI reports, decision of Antonescu relating to the "Jewish problem," decision of Antonesc...

  4. Nazi persecution of Jewish communities in Bohemia and Moravia

    Contains documents relating to the persecution of Jewish communities by Nazi and other authorities in Bohemia and Moravia in Czechoslovakia.

  5. Gradislawa Fack Hadamar victim's patient file

    Contains the medical file for Gradislawa Fack, Peter Fack's grandmother.

  6. Landesarchiv Berlin records

    Contains questioners, protocols, name lists, correspondence, and other administrative and judicial documents relating to the Jews and non-Aryans of the city of Berlin since 1925 to 1945. Collection contains files pertaining to the Jewish properties, artwork, refugees, and other war a related issues in Berlin (Germany).

  7. Humboldt University Archives records

    Contains documents, mostly from the 1930s, deriving from various bodies and faculties of Humboldt University, concerning the status of Jewish professors and students. Includes financial and administrative files pertaining to antisemitic activities at the Humboldt University.

  8. Chava Meir collection

    Consists of a black and white photograph, dated 1946, of the donor at a hospital in Jordenbad, Germany, peering out a window with two other women; and a black and white photograph, dated 1947 of the donor, four women and one man standing behind a table with stacks of bowls, washing the dishes. The latter was taken in Cyprus prior to the donor's emigration to Israel..

  9. Israel Donner collection

    Consists of black and white photographs: 1) Israel Donner and Shimon Schipper standing on a balcony, wearing camp uniforms; 2) a group of young people standing in front of a tent with "1933 in a camp" on verso; 3) group of youths walking along a road with "Jewish sport club, Antwerp" on verso; 4) a group of young people standing behind a table-tennis table with "Jewish sport club" on verso; 5) a arge group of youths with "Jewish sport club, Antwerp" on verso; 6) portrait of the Donner family; 7) a group portrait of children.

  10. Porunca Vremii

    Porunca Vremii was one of the leading Iron Guard newspapers in Romania. This number was published seventeen days after the Iron Guard coup led by Gen. Ion Antonescu. The article, "Un asn dela Pedepsirea lui Armand Calinescu," (One Year after the Punishment of Armand Calinescu), concerns the former Minister of the Interior and Prime Minister under King Carol of Romania, Armand Calinescu, who was executed by the Iron Guard as revenge for the reprisals (especially the extrajudicial execution of C.Z. Codreanu, the leader of the Iron Guard) against the Iron Guard.

  11. Weiss family papers

    The Weiss family papers include biographical material, correspondence, immigration material, and school and professional material relating to Zygfryd, Stefania, and Ruth Weiss’ life in Poland before fleeing to the Soviet Union in 1939, imprisonment in Yakutsk, and immigration to the United Stated in 1947. The collection also includes a diary kept by Ruth from 1944-1945 while in Uzbekistan. Biographical materials include a military book, Polish ID card, and temporary ID card for Zygfryd as well as a Polish ID card and temporary ID card for Stefania. Emigration and immigration material includ...

  12. Abe Janower collection

    Consists of a printed antisemitic leaflet entitled "Polska bez zydow" (Poland Without Jews), which calls for a boycott of Jewish businesses, Włocławek, Poland.

  13. Peter Sharlitt collection

    Contains a haggadah issued for the Jews of Europe by Agudath Israel Youth Council of America.

  14. Leo Parenti collection

    The Leo Parenti collection consists of a black and white photograph of female corpses lying on the ground near the Helmbrechts concentration camp. Helmsbrechts is a sub-camp of Flossenbürg concentration camp. The photograph was taken by a member of the 26th Infantry (Yankee) Division, United States Army immediately after the discovery of the mass grave in 1944. Leo Parenti was present at the discovery of the mass grave and the unidentified photographer gave Parenti the photograph. Inscribed on the reverse of the photograph, in black ink: “Helmsberck [sic] Germany/sick/Polish Girl/Killed Jew...

  15. Laura Rouse collection

    Consists of a black and white photograph of a group of men in prisoners' uniforms standing near a cart containing corpses. Beside the cart are two prisoners carrying a stretcher with a corpse. The donor found the photograph in a book purchased at Goodwill in San Diego, CA.

  16. Human skin used as evidence; Milch questioned at Nuremberg Trial

    05:09:56 (Munich 26) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, February 1946. Pieces of human skin processed as leather are displayed on an easel in the courtroom while Russian prosecutor L N Smirnov addresses the Tribunal concerning this evidence. NOTE: Skin was reportedly removed from prisoners of a concentration camp in Koenigsberg, East Prussia. 05:14:07 (Munich 42) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, March 11, 1946. HAS, Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson interrogating Erhard Milch about officers' knowledge of Germany's preparedness for war. Milch keeps repeating that the officers had no kno...

  17. Oral history interview with Sydney Schwimmer

  18. Krakowski family papers

    The Krakowski family papers consists of one letter (in fragments) from Beaune La Rolande concentration camp, two photographs taken while in hiding on a farm, and six pre-war photographs of the the Krawkowski family.

  19. Gabor Kalman collection

    Consists of seven pre-war images of family members and the donor in Kalocsa, Hungary.

  20. Butterfass-Catell family papers

    Collection of photographs, documents, correspondence, and a musical recording; folders 1-3 contain material relating to Paula Butterfass Catell; folders 4-8 contain material relating to Albert Katz Catell.