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  1. Kotarska oblast Bjelovar

    • (The Independent State of Croatia) County administration Bjelovar

  2. Zbirka matičnih knjiga židovskih bogoštovnih općina

    • Collection of birth registries of the Jewish religious communities
    • Državni arhiv u Bjelovaru
    • HR-DABJ-0592
    • English
    • 1784-1944
    • 20 books (covering the towns of Bjelovar, Daruvar, Križevci)

  3. Kormányzó félhivatalos iratai

    • Semi-official Records of the Regent

    The collection holds the semi-official diplomatic records as well as private and family documents of Miklós Horthy, the Regent of Hungary between 1919 and 1944. The collection is divided into two main thematic groups: Records related to Internal Affairs and Foreign Affairs (I-II.) Files with relevance to the history of Hungarian Jews and the Holocaust include the letters of Prime Ministers Bethlen, Gömbös, Teleki and Bárdossy to Horthy (I.B), memorandum of the policy of the Imrédy government (I.C), various pro memoriae and letters on political parties and problems (I.D) and letters and prop...

  4. Grazi konzulátus iratai, 1928-1945

    • Records of the Hungarian Consulate in Graz, 1928-1945

    Records of the Hungarian Consulate in Graz, the capital of the federal Austrian state of Styria contain considerable material concerning Hungarian Jews, especially from the months following the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany in March 1938. The bulk of the material documents the efforts of Hungarian authorities to secure the assets of the Hungarian Jews living in Nazi-occupied Austria. These records include various registries and reports concerning the property of the Hungarian Jews in Styria, documents on German-Hungarian negotiations on the wealth of Hungarian Jews and other anti-Je...

  5. Külügyminisztérium Jogi osztály iratai, 1918-1945

    • Foreign Ministry Records of the Legal Department, 1918-1945

    The records in the collection from 1919-1923 are organized by date and topics. The most relevant topics from this period include internment, expulsion and passport issues and name change cases. The localization of Jewish-related cases requires item-level investigation. This part of the material also includes a fascicle containing complaints, petitions and reports concerning atrocities committed by the troops and paramilitary forces of Miklós Horthy’s National Army in 1919 (Fasc. 13.) The material from the years 1924-1945 is organized by countries. The most relevant part of the collection is...

  6. The Edgar Brichta Archive (1939-1964)

    The Edgar Brichta Archive consists of correspondence regarding Brichta’s family, his stay in Norway and regards to post-war compensation as well as some photographs. The archive gives an insight to several aspects of the Holocaust in Norway - it shows the functions and the effects of Nansenhjelpen, and it also documents the life the very few Jews who survived the war in Norway.

  7. The Ruth Maier Archive (1933-1942)

    Ruth Maier kept a diary throughout her life. During her stay in Norway, she corresponded with her sister in England. The archive consist of 69 letters and eight diaries, covering both her time in Vienna and her time in Norway as well as correspondence between her and other family members. The Ruth Maier Archive documents the thoughts and life of a young Jewish woman facing the Nazi occupation in Austria and Norway. At the same time, several of her writings are marked by normality and everyday life. In addition to her remarkable language and writings she left beautiful drawings, sketches and...

  8. The Else Mendel Archive

    The archive is divided into three groups: letters, personal documents and copies. The letters include Mendel’s correspondence with her family expressing fear and concern about their deported family members.

  9. The Karl Peter and Victor Federer Archive (1937-1950)

    The archive does mainly consist of the letters from the Federer family to the Meyer couple during 1940-1945, both during their sons stay, his travel back to Prague and their deportation. Some of the later letters are also written by Karl Peter himself. After the war, the letters are written from Victor Federer, among other things to tell the Meyers about his wife and sons fate. There are also some photographs of the family, dating prewar and pre-deportation. The archive gives insight to the fate of one family, and a clear picture into the evacuation of Jewish children, the Norwegian foster ...

  10. SS un vietējās policijas priekšnieks Liepājā

    • The SS and Police Leader of Libau
    • Der SS–und Polizeistandartenführer Libau

    Guideline for treatment of Jews, including information about interdiction against communication with Jews, mixed marriages, forms to be completed for declarations of Jewish property, record keeping of Jewish property used in barracks, belongings left after executions. Attitude of German soldiers to Jews; the mood of Libau inhabitants after executions of Jews. Arrests of Jews because of violations of the restriction rules; black trade; escaped Jews from ghetto and camps; hidden Jews; arrests of Latvians who helped Jews to hide and issued false papers. Arresting of group of Jews intending to ...

  11. Tukuma-Talsu apriņķa policijas iestādes

    • Tukums-Talsi District Police Institutions
    • Polizeibehörden des Kreises Tukums-Talsen

    The fonds contains extensive information about activities of the Police institutions in the district since 1919. The wartime documents include information about the Jewish property and the acquisition and registration of Jewish belongings; confiscation of Jewish books; hiding of Jews; Jews who escaped from Kaltene camp (August 1941) and from the Salaspils pit factory; Jews and Poles who escaped from Częstochowa prison; list of Jews in Talsen; manhunting of Roma; Roma living in Kandava (1942); Russian prisoners of war who escaped from Grobina camp; and a list of prisoners of war.

  12. Latvijas vēstures dokumenti ārzemju arhīvos

    • Foreign archive documents about Latvian history

    Registration cards of Latvian inmates of Stutthof and Buchenwald Concentration camps.

  13. Képviselőház és nemzetgyűlés, 1861-1944: Elnöki és általános iratok

    • Lower House of Parliament and National Assembly, 1861-1944: Presidential and General Records

    The Lower House of the Hungarian Parliament was a centrally important stage for debates about the political behaviour, socioeconomic position and legal status of Jews in the late 1930s and early 1940s. The Hungarian Parliament was responsible for worsening anti-Semitic legislation in these years that gradually withdrew Jewish emancipation. The opinion that gained the upper hand in the parliamentary debates viewed Jews as a group opposed to the interests Hungariandom and was to define Jewry as a racial entity. The laws enacted gravely restricted the opportunities of Jewish citizens and incre...

  14. Halla Aurél államtitkár iratai

    • Records of State Secretary Aurél Halla

    The overwhelming majority of the records of the Ministry of Trade and Transportation were destroyed during the siege of Budapest in 1944-45, when the main building of the ministry was destroyed by bomb attack. Therefore, the records of the ministry survived in other collections have special relevance for the study of the economic anti-Jewish policies in Hungary. State Secretary Aurél Halla was one of the key persons in the Ministry of Trade and Transportation responsible for the planning and implementation anti-Jewish legislation. Halla also worked for various companies, and he was an activ...

  15. Akta gminy Rydzyna

    • Files of the commune of Rydzyna

    The collection contains i.a. cases concerning forced labourers, a list of residents of Rydzyna by nationality (1941 and 1943), various statistical information, lists of Jews from the camp in Kłoda (Judenarbeitslager Roden b. Reisen) dating from 1942, and copies of entries in the land register concerning the Jewish synagogue and cemetery.

  16. Akta miasta Przemyśla

    • Files of the town of Przemyśl

    The collection contains i.a. materials on the establishment of the ghettos and Jewish community assets, correspondence regarding the Jews, German orders, and a list of administrators of the assets of the Jewish community in Przemyśl.

  17. Akta miasta Rzeszowa

    • Files of the town of Rzeszów

    The collection contains i.a. items including German bills and public announcements; information on the establishment of the ghetto and forced labour for Jews; confiscations of property and its administration; death sentences; lists of deceased Jews for the years 1935-1942; an incomplete list of the Jews of Mielec (1941); lists of licences issued and tribute payments by residents in the years 1941-1943; registers of houses and lists of names of the tenants of various real properties; records of personal identity documents issued; alphabetical card files on population movements ; and the orig...

  18. Więzienie Karne Warszawa - Mokotów

    • Penitential Prison in Warsaw - Mokotów

    The collection contains i.a.contains several thousand personal files of Jews convicted of various occupation crimes, such as being outside the ghetto illegally, not wearing the armband with the Star of David, illegal trade and smuggling, theft, forgery, and similar cases. This record group is of unparalleled significance in view of the excellent state of preservation of the files, and their completeness.

  19. Akta miasta Radomska

    • Files of the town of Radomsko

    The collection contains i.a. lists of the personal identification documents issued to Jews in the years 1939-1940, as well as registration and residence registration documents from specific properties, house residence registration ledgers for the years 1931-1943, and registers of houses by street.

  20. Urząd Metrykalny Izraelicki w Rzeszowie

    • Israelite Registry Office in Rzeszów

    The collection contains i.a. records and registry files from the years of the occupation: marriage certificates (Trauungsscheine), birth certificates, death certificates, as well as various other certificates, personal identity documents, residence registration documents, etc.