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  1. Court of the First Instance in Skarżysko-Kamienna Sąd Grodzki w Skarżysku-Kamiennej (Sygn. 2944)

    Court files in civil and criminal matters in which one of the parties was a person of Jewish origin.

  2. Court of the First Instance in Stopnica Sąd Grodzki w Stopnicy (Sygn. 2486)

    Court files in civil cases in which Jews from Stopnica were parties: for reconstruction of birth, death, marriage certificates, for declaring ownership, for entering into possession of property, for declaring death or being declared dead, for correcting personal data, and for entering into possession of property.

  3. Selected records of the State Archive in Prešov, branch Vranov nad Topľou

    Selected records pertaining to anti-Jewish regulations and decrees, the persecution and registration of Jews, and the Aryanization of Jewish property and businesses. Also includes the Jewish Census of 1942 of this district territory (which is not available in the Slovak National Archives holdings).

  4. Leo Ullman collection

    Small WWII archive, containing over 45 mainly Dutch publications and pamphlets from 1940-1945. The materials are about Dutch resistance to the occupation and war and news bulletins, and include patriotic poetry. They are mainly printed, typed, or stenciled.

  5. "Hitler's Hangman" promotional photograph

    Promotional photograph depicting a scene from the film “Hitler’s Hangman.” The film was retitled “Hitler’s Madman” and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) in 1943. The film is a fictionalized portrayal of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich and its aftermath. Heydrich was Heinrich Himmler’s second-in-command and chief of the Reich Security Main office (Reichssicherheitshauptamt, RSHA), which was the major implementer of the systematic murder of European Jews. He was especially brutal, earning the nicknames “The Hangman of Europe” and “Hitler’s Hangman.” Under Heydrich’s leadership, ove...

  6. Exit papers collection

    Collection of Jewish exit papers from Nazi-occupied Poland in Warsaw involving a husband and wife

  7. Polish Police Headquarters of the City of Warsaw Komenda Policji Polskiej miasta Warszawy (Sygn. 1710)

    The collection contains materials on the organization of the Polish, so-called Blue Police in Warsaw during the German occupation, operational activities of police officers, and lists of officers.

  8. Heimann family collection

    Consists of Heimann family photographs, including a framed photo of Herman Heimann and Julie (Samson) Heiman, which was damaged by a bayonet on Kristallnacht. Also includes identification documents, such as several reisepass, or German passports, and the Wehrpass and United States immigrant ID card belonging to Julius Waixel's (Weichsel). Julius Waixel was the father of the donor, and Herman and Julie Heiman were the paternal grandparents of the donor's mother, Julie (Heimann) Waixel (Weichsel),

  9. Interior Ministry: General administration Selected Records from the French National Archives: F1a Ministère de l'Intérieur/Administration Générale

    The collection contains selections from the French Interior Ministry’s Delegation in the occupied zone, Department of Worship, and Interior Commission of Algiers documenting the status of Jews, religious worship, and deportations. Records include reports and circulars about the application of laws governing secret societies, the employment status of Jews, the operational status of Jewish organizations, descriptions of German-occupied France and anti-Jewish measures in occupied Europe, French attitudes towards obligatory labor service in Germany, the internment of Jews, and official French n...

  10. Peace Court in Skarżysko-Kamienna Sąd Pokoju w Skarżysku-Kamiennej (Sygn. 2924)

    Files of court cases concerning various disputes in which one of the parties was a person of Jewish origin. The cases concerned, among others, payment of debt, rent, division of inheritance, compensation, termination of the contract and other disputes.

  12. Freddy Schumer collection

    Comprised primarily of school documents, such as report cards, exam booklets, rosters, and a dossier, relating to the experiences of Freddy Schumer (formerly Siegfried Schumer, b. 1929) as a student in Malonne, Belgium at the Institut Saint-Berthuin under the false identity "Francois Demblon" while he resided at an orphanage with his younger brother, who also adopted a false identity, "Jacques Demblon." Additional documents include postcards, postwar packs of letters and information about Jewish orphans, and handwritten and typed correspondence with US Army Chaplains Judah Nadich, Morris Sa...

  13. Hecht family collection

    The collection documents the prewar, wartime, and postwar experiences of Arthur Hecht and his family, who primarily lived in Hörstein, Germany prior to WWII. Documents include birth and death certificates, a naturalization certificate, military discharge papers, a track award, and a 1946 clipping documenting Arthur’s reunification with his parents after their immigration to the United States. Original and copy print photographs include depictions of pre-war family life in Germany and life in the United States after immigrating, including Arthur’s time in the military.

  14. Files of the Ciepielów commune Akta Gminy Ciepielów (Sygn. 2809)

    Files on various orders of the Kreishauptmann in Starachowice-Wierzbnik County, including information on the method of appointing the Jewish Council and its competences; list of people elected to the Council in Ciepielów (includes 16 names). List of all Jews living in the Jewish religious community in Ciepielów (the list includes 510 names). In the post-war records information on Jewish properties.

  15. Zeilsheim DP Camp (color)

    Color film of Zeilsheim Displaced Persons camp taken by Jewish survivor Albin H. White [under the false identity Albin Ostrowski] around June 1947, including shots of the assembly center, an office, outdoor performances, children, the monument to murdered Jews, soccer, school, and machine shops. Opening pan over the countryside, street scene with homes, residential area. Sign: “Zeilsheim/Assembly Center/UNRRA Team 1022” with two stars of David. “Achtung" [announcement] poster underneath dated 25 June 1947. Woman and child walking near to an entrance: “UNRRA TEAM…[1022]” Street scenes in wha...

  16. Jewish family in prewar Budapest

    The Nash family in Budapest in 1932.

  17. Prewar Pacanow and Aleksandrów, Poland

    Home movies taken by Abraham (Abe) Hershkowitz while visiting family in Pacanow and Aleksandrów, Poland in 1934 including local villagers, street scenes in Pacanow, family members, water carrier, children's home, and a market.

  18. Tenth Sokol Congress 1938; Suzi's fourteenth birthday

    Kodak Safety Film logo. Continuation from RG-60.7180 (no leading title card) with scenes of the 10th Sokol Congress in Prague. Athletic meet and calisthenic performance in a gigantic stadium. Simon Guttmann and family attend the big event, seated in the stadium at 01:18:47. Performance and spectators. 01:22:16 Title card: “Středoškolské hry 1938” More stadium demonstrators and coordinated exercises. Czechoslovak flags line the stadium. 01:25:17 Guttmann family in the stands. Airplanes. Spectators clap and wave flags. 01:26:36 Title card: “Sokolský průvod 1938” Procession in Prague city stre...

  19. War damage; Himmler's greenhouse; Zeilsheim DP Camp

    Albert Scher served with the U.S. military intelligence between November 1945 and May 1946. The film of "Germany" includes coverage of war damage in Frankfurt, Air force station at Eschborn (Wiesbaden air force base), Orly airbase near Paris, Himmler’s greenhouse in Frankfurt (color), daily life in the Zeilsheim DP camp, soccer match, and children in costume for Purim. 01:09:27 to 01:18:06 - Zeilsheim sequence. Assembly center entrance sign. EXTs. Camp life, crowd of DPs. DP policeman. DPs get into car leaving for Palestine via Itay. Hand-made sign on building: "We Want to Go! We Have to Go...

  20. Visiting family in Pinsk, 1934

    The Lourié family visits relatives in Pinsk, Belarus in August 1934, including shots of the family's plywood factory in Pinsk. Woman looks at large plaques written in Hebrew, outdoors. Two pre-teen girls climb over large logs, walk out of a building and look at another building. Pan of the town of Pinsk and the family factory. Shoreline filmed from a moving boat, and men in canoes. On shore, one of the girls and a woman walk over as men bring large logs onto the shore. 5:02 Three men talk, one in a suit. Lourie plywood factory process: large logs, bark removed from smaller logs by two men w...