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Language of Description: English

  1. Американская объединенная восстановительная организация. Управление делами

    • American Joint Reconstruction Foundation
    • Amerikanskaia ob"edinennaia vosstanovitelnaia organizatsiia. Upravlenie delami

    The collection's contents are catalogued in three inventories. Each of these contains three sections: secretariat documents, documents of the finance department, and printed materials. The collection contains the JDC charter of 1924; the JDC's assignment of legal rights to the newly created American Joint Reconstruction Foundation; listings of transferred bonds, promissory notes, bills of exchange, and other securities (1924); and accounts of the Reconstruction Foundation's activities for 1924-26 and 1937-39. The collection also contains correspondence of JDC administrative council members ...

  2. Центральное объединение немецких граждан иудейского вероисповедания (г. Берлин)

    • Centralverein deutscher Staatsburger judischen Glaubens; Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith (Berlin)*
    • Tsentral'noe ob"edinenie nemetskikh grazhdan iudeiskogo veroispovedaniia (g. Berlin)

    The collection's contents are catalogued in three inventories arranged by structure and document type. Most of the materials in this collection originate from the 1920s and 1930s. The collection includes the charter of the Central Association and its local chapters; minutes of meetings of the Central Association's committee on drawing up a new charter (1926-28); minutes of the Central Association's board (1931) and of chapters (1932-38); reports by leaders of Central Association chapters on their activities; and reports on the state of the Jewish community in various German cities (1932-35)...

  3. Берлинское сионистское объединение

    • Berliner zionistische Vereinigung; Berlin Zionist Union*
    • Berlinskoe sionistskoe ob"edinenie

    The collection's contents are catalogued in one inventory; the inventory is arranged by document type. The collection includes the charter of the BZU; minutes of meetings of the BZU board for 1937; minutes of sessions of electoral caucuses, and materials on the election of delegates to the delegate assembly; minutes of the 1936 twenty-fifth congress of the Zionist Federation of Germany; minutes of preelection meetings of BZU members for 1938; circulars on admitting new members and on improving the work of Hebrew language courses; membership cards; and instruction booklets for new members. T...

  4. Еврейская религиозная община (г. Грац)

    • Israelitische Kultusgemeinde (Graz); Jewish Religious Community of Graz
    • Evreiskaia religioznaia obshchina (g. Grats)

    The collection's contents are catalogued in two inventories. The inventories are arranged by document type. The collection features documents of the Jewish Religious Community of Graz, the community's committee for the social security of Jewish émigrés, the Graz chapter of Hashomer Hatzair, and other Jewish organizations of Graz; community circulars for 1933; minutes of community meetings for 1922-38; correspondence with the Vienna taxation and revenue board, Jewish charitable organizations, community members, and lawyers regarding the election of board members and officers of the community...

  5. Еврейская религиозная община (г. Вена)

    • Israelitische Kultusgemeinde (Wien); Jewish Religious Communit), of Vienna
    • Evreiskaia religioznaia obshchina (g. Vena)

    The collection's contents are catalogued in three inventories. The inventories are arranged by structure and document type. The collection has charters of the Jewish religious community of Vienna — and of affiliated organizations: the Union to Aid Jewish Students, the Union for the Care of Orphans, Jewish Literary Association, the Mendelssohn Jewish Literary Union, and others. It contains the minutes of meetings of the community board for 1891-1938 as well as community financial documents — statements, estimates, summaries, income statements, cashbooks for 1928-37, and tax tables. The colle...

  6. Еврейское телеграфное агенство (JTA)

    • Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA)
    • Evreiskoe telegrafnoe agentstvo (ITA)

    The collection's contents are described in three inventories. Documents are catalogued in the inventories for the most part chronologically, and with geographical and chronological indexes. Copies of informational bulletins of the JTA published in Berlin, London, Prague, and Paris constitute the bulk of the collection's documentary materials. The collection also has copies of bulletins and journals published in Palestine and Switzerland; articles, accounts, reports, and newspaper clippings on the situation of the Jewish population of various countries, on the activities of Zionist and other...

  7. Объединение "неарийских христиан" (г. Берлин)

    • Paulus-Bund Vereinigung nichtarischer Christen (Berlin); St. Paul Alliance of Non-Aryan Christians (Berlin)
    • Ob"edinenie "neariiskikh khristian" (g. Berlin)

    The collection's contents are described in one inventory, to which there is a geographical index. Certain documents catalogued in inventory no. 1 were transferred to the German Democratic Republic in 1957. The collection contains Alliance correspondence with Nazi German authorities defending the rights of "non-Aryan Christians," as well as correspondence with members of the organization on helping them find work, matriculate in programs of study, and travel abroad.

  8. Начальник полиции безопасности и СД на оккупированной территории советской Прибалтики (г. Рига)

    • Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei and des SD Ostland (Riga); Chief of the Security Police and SD in the Occupied Soviet Baltic Territories (Riga)
    • Nachal 'nik politsii bezopasnosti i SD na okkupirovannoi territorii sovetskoi Pribaltiki (g. Riga)

    The collection's contents are catalogued in two inventories. The inventories are, for the most part, arranged chronologically. The collection contains dispatches, German translations of documents, minutes, circulars, orders, reports, reviews, secret publications, accounts, correspondence, special bulletins, transcripts of testimony, and assorted other materials, such as copies of documents (from the German Democratic Republic) and maps. There is information on the participation of Jews in the partisan movement in the Baltics, and notes by the head of the Main Office of the Security Police a...

  9. Центральное строительное управление войск СС и полиции (г. Аушвиц)

    • Waffen-SS und Polizei. Zentralbauleitung in Auschwitz; Waffen-SS and Police, Central Construction Office in Auschwitz
    • Tsentral'noe stroitel'noe upravlenie voisk SS i politsii (g. Aushvits)

    The Construction Office of the Waffen-SS and Police at Auschwitz (Oświęcim), subsequently renamed the Central Construction Office of the Waffen SS and Police, was created in 1940 with the commencement of construction of the concentration camp. Here, in October 1941, construction began on a prisoner of war camp. In 1943, the Auschwitz concentration camp was divided into three independent camps: Auschwitz I (the main camp), Auschwitz II (Birkenau), and Auschwitz III, subsequently renamed the Monowitz concentration camp. The Central Construction Office of the Waffen-SS and Police at Auschwitz ...

  10. Фашистские и профашистские организации Германии

    • German Fascist and Pro-Fascist Organizations
    • Fashistskie i profashistskie organizatsii Germanii

    The collection's contents are described in one inventory. The documents are catalogued by document type, according to the organization to which they belonged. The collection includes various documents of German Nazi, pro-fascist, and nationalist organizations, including the Berlin-Charlottenburg Antisemitic Union and the German Union for Nationalist Propaganda Abroad. Among these are charter documents of organizations; correspondence between organizations and rank-and-file members; circulars, propagandistic literature, and Nazi periodicals; as well as membership cards, inventories, and pers...

  11. Имперское министерство экономики (г. Берлин)

    • Reichswirtschaftministerium (Berlin); Reich Ministry of Economics (Berlin)
    • Imperskoe ministerstvo ekonomiki (g. Berlin)

    The collection's contents are catalogued in 54 inventories, all of which are arranged by structure. The inventories are loose-leaf and type-written, and include inventory section indexes; there is a cartographic index to. the collection's files and an index of inventory titles. The collection contains thematically organized files consisting of circulars, orders, decrees, and correspondence devoted to restricting the rights of Jews in Germany and German-occupied territories (including the Soviet Union, the Baltic republics, and Belorussia) with regard to personal and property insurance, the ...

  12. Немецко-фашистские административные и судебные органы на временно оккупированных территориях

    • Nazi German Administrative and Judicial Agencies in the Temporarily Occupied Territories
    • Nemetsko-fashistskie administrativnye i sudebnye organy na vremenno okkupirovannykh territoriiakh

    The collection's contents entered the RGVA among materials brought by the Soviet Army from the territory of Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Poland in 1945-46, and from the First Special Department of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs in 1953. The collection is described in one inventory, arranged structurally. The collection includes a broad range of documentary materials of German administrative and judicial agencies in the occupied territories of the Soviet Union, as well as edicts and orders of the occupation authorities on the structure of administrative services and degrees of jurisdi...

  13. Дочерние ложи Великой ложи Германии "Бней-Брит"

    • Affiliated Lodges of the German Grand Lodge of B'nai B'rith
    • Dochernie lozhi velikoi lozhi Germanii evreiskogo ordena "Bnei-Brit"

    The collection's contents are described in two inventories. In them, documents are catalogued by type. The collection features an accumulation of documents of affiliated lodges of the German Grand Lodge of the Order of B'nai B'rith in 36 German cities, including East Prussia (in Allenstein/Osterode), Abraham Geiger (Berlin), Berthold Auerbach (Berlin), Gabirol (Berlin), Montefiore (Berlin), Spinoza (Berlin), Julius Fenchel (Berlin), Leopold Zunz (Braunschweig), Lessing (Berlin), Nehemia Nobel (Naumburg), Leibniz (Hannover), Zion (Hannover), Friedrich (Heidelberg), Silesia (Berlin), Moritz L...

  14. Союз еврейской молодежи "Ринг" (г. Берлин)

    • Bund Judischer Jugend "Ring"; Union of German Jewish Youth "Ring" (Berlin)*
    • Soiuz evreiskoi molodezhi "Ring" (g. Berlin)

    The collection's contents are catalogued in one inventory. The inventory is arranged by document type. The collection includes the "Ring" union charter; circular letters of the union and its local chapters for 1933-36; lists of union members; the program of the 5th conference of the Association of Jewish Youth Societies in Germany, held in Düsseldort appeals by Jewish youth organizations on the holding of charity events; the Montefiore Jewish youth organization's plan of operation for 1925-26; correspondence with union members and local chapters on organizing lectures and submitting reports...

  15. Krajowy Zakład Leczniczy w Międzyrzeczu - Obrzycach

    • Landesheilanstalt Meseritz-Obrawalde
    • Regional Treatment Institute in Międzyrzec-Obrzyce

  16. Polsko-Brytyjskie Towarzystwo Okrętowe S.A.

    • Polish-British Shipping Company

    Files include official correspondence regarding reservations, copies of tickets, lists of émigré passengers, among whom were large numbers of Jews, and shipping documents. These materials are an interesting source for research into emigration of Jews from Poland on the eve of the outbreak of World War II. They contain considerable information on mutual aid campaigns by Jewish organizations, which assisted with all the formalities surrounding emigration. There is also a large volume of correspondence regarding reservations and information.

  17. Akta miasta Łowicza

    • Files of the town of Łowicz

    The collection contains i. a. information on forced labour among Jewish artisans in the years 1940-1942, including in the local labour centre established specifically for this purpose, the Dom Pracy (Labour House, call no. 3045, 3046, 3052), as well as a list of Jews dating from 1940 (call no. 3060) and documents referring to confiscations of industrial plants owned by Jews.

  18. Akta Miasta Lublina. 1939-1944

    • Files of the city of Lublin

    The collection contains i.a. materials concerning the establishment of the ghetto, “lists of deaths” among the Jews, and forced labour, and also large numbers of residential registration ledgers

  19. Rejencja Opolska

    • Rejencja Opolska
    • Opole Regional Administration

    The collection comprises i.a.the extensive correspondence in connection with the destruction and liquidation of synagogues during the Kristallnacht, 9-10 November 1938, and other antisemitic incidents; documents of the Związek Żydów Polskich (Union of Polish Jews) and other materials (file with the call no. 1963, Wydział I [Department I]).

  20. Kalevi-Liiva süüdistab

    • Kalevi-Liiva accuses, Documentary
    • Filmiarhiiv
    • EFA.203.1436
    • English
    • 1961
    • Record contains film tape (b/w, sound; 35 mm), duration 21 minutes.

    Contains video materials about a show trial in Tallinn (March 6-11, 1961) against war criminals Ain-Ervin Mere, Ralf Gerrets, and Jüri Viik, who were accused of a massacre in Kalevi-Liiva (Camp Jägala).