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  1. Selected records from the Office of the State Prosecutor = Дъержавно Обвинителство Derzhavno Obvinitelstvo (Fond 233k)

    Contains correspondence with the Military-Field Court and appeal records for the criminal investigation of Joseph Herbst. Joseph Herbst was a Jewish renowned journalist, the first director of the Bulgarian Telegraph Agency.

  2. Feuerlicht and Grussgott family papers

    Contains photographs (70), letters, passports, and other documents illustrating the experiences of Abraham Grussgott and Nelly Feuerlicht (donor). Abraham (b. 1924 in Bardekov, Czechoslovakia, present day Slovakia), survived in the woods of Czechoslovakia, running and on false papers; Nelly (b. Berlin Germany) fled with her mother Yetti Friedman [Feuerlicht] and father to Belgium, from where Nelly and Yetti were able to depart for the United States. Collection documents their unsuccessful efforts to get Ignatz [Nelly's father] a visa to enter the United States in 1942. He was deported and p...

  3. Officers oversee training and exercises at a Hitler Youth camp

    In Groedig, Austria, the Hitler Youth camp's site manager gives commands to the organized troop. He has a death's head emblem on his cap. A HJ member with SS patch practices giving orders. The troops run drills. A senior Hitler Youth officer with glasses reviews the men and gives orders. He wears a Hitler Youth uniform, with the rank of Obergebietsfuehrer, as well as an infantry assault badge and the ribbon for the Iron Cross, Second Class. 01:01:07 SS Oberscharfuehrer at left. The officer, second from left (shorter man), is an army Unteroffizier (roughly a corporal). He wears a buttonhole ...

  4. Nazi propaganda film on eugenics

    Part of a Nazi educational film (propaganda) [Aufklaerungsfilm] produced by the Nazi Party's Rassenpolitische Amt [Office of Racial Policy] regarding "unheilbare Geistkranke" [the "incurably insane"]. German mental hospitals and its patients including Jews. Text discusses "causes" and possible "solutions." Uses intertitles and graphics to discuss genetics of idiocy, unfair burden German people must bear to pay costs, and danger of ever increasing numbers of mentally ill. Patients supposedly live in luxury while many "normal" hardworking Germans live in substandard conditions.

  5. Tick, Norwind and Milchberg families collection

    Collection of photographs of the Tick, Norwind and Milchberg families in Nasielsk, Poland before the war, and after the war in several displaced persons campsin Germany, including Rosenheim. Faiga Milchberg Tick and her husband Shmuel Tick fled their hometown Nasielsk to Bialystok in the Soviet zone. In July 1940 the Soviets deported them to Vologda forced labor camp. They were able to return to Nasielsk, where their daughter Malka was born in September 1945. Soon after, they left Poland for a DP camp in Germany and immigrated to Canada in September 1948. The collection also includes photog...

  6. Board of the Jewish Community, Wilno (Fond 1232)

    Records of the Council of the Vilnius Jewish Community in Lithuania, reflecting the inter war period and beginning of World War II. The collection includes correspondence with local and government authorities, the Bureau of the Rabbi, the Chief of Police of the City of Vilnius, the Jewish Community Committee for Refugees, and Jewish communities across Lithuania regarding budgets and tax collection. Also includes reports, statistics, budget proposals, salaries of Jewish community officials, minutes, and certificates of war refugees.

  7. Morris and Rachel Zeif documents

    The collection includes post-war identity documents issued to Morris and Rachel Zeif (Mordka and Ruchla Zaif) in Bielawa, Poland and in a displaced persons camp in Italy.

  8. Albert Craig Levinson collection

    Consists of one typed testimony, three pages, dictated by Dr. Kurt Grunwald, a Czech physician, related to his Holocaust experiences in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and Ohrdruf. The testimony was typed by Albert Craig Levinson, a member of the 8th Infantry Division, after the liberation of Ohrdruf. Dr. Grunwald later reunited with his surviving son, Misa (Frank), whom he mourns in the testimony, believing Misa to have been killed at Auschwitz. Also includes a copyprint photograph of Albert Craig Levinson.

  9. Rosenwald family papers

    The collection contains letters sent to Fritz Rosenwald (Fred) in the United States from his parents Karl and Johanna Rosenwald along with his sister Liesel Rosenwald in Köln, Germany from 1938-1941, prior to their deportation to Riga, Latvia. Along with a small amount of correspondence from others, there is also correspondence, affidavits, and other documents regarding Fred’s unsuccessful efforts to secure a United States visa for Liesel.

  10. Frieder family with locals, greeting a boat, and preparing to depart Manila in 1936

    On the beach in the Philippines in Spring 1936. Sisters Edna and Louise Frieder play with local children and pass out candies. Younger sister Alice rides a horse. 01:04:52 Dark INT shots of people on a boat, then outdoors on deck where they (likely Frieder family relatives and Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria) wave and blow kisses to the camera. 01:05:45 CUs, guests on a ship. 01:05:47:11 - Corinne Rosenberg Frieder 01:05:49:12 - Louise Frieder 01:05:54 - Edna Frieder 01:05:56 The Frieders play with and feed monkeys in Ceylon. 01:06:29 CUs as friends and members of the Frieder famil...

  11. Selected records from the collection of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Religion. Directorate for Religious Affairs (Fond 166K)

    Contains records related to the certification of the baptismal certificates issued to Jews in Bulgaria, includes correspondence with the hierarchy of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church regarding baptized Jews, etc.

  12. Ahronheim and Less family papers

    Consists of a typed copy of "The Legacy Project: A History of the Ahronheim/Less Family, Lüneburg, Germany" by Margaret McQuillan. The manuscript incorporates family history, archival documents, and photographs to describe the experiences of the Ahronheim and Less families, focusing on the experiences of Leopold Less, who was arrested and sent to Sachsenhausen after Kristallnacht, his wife Anna, and his son Walter. Walter emigrated to the United States in 1934; his parents joined him in 1941. Also includes a copy of the family tree and a bound set of copies of primary source documents relat...

  13. Chimowicz family letters

    Consists of two letters, written by brothers Alfred and Hermann Chimowicz (later Herman Shine), from Karlsruhe, Germany, in the spring of 1946. The letters were sent to their cousin, Masha Glicenstein, who had immigrated to Palestine in 1937. The letters describe their own Holocaust experiences and those of the extended family, who were from Swarzędz (Schwersenz), Posen, Kalisz, and Łódź. Includes details of life in the Łódź and Warsaw ghettos, concentration camps Auschwitz, Stutthof, and Flossenbürg; a death march from Dresden to Theresienstadt (Terezin), and their post-war lives, includin...

  14. National Board of Education Consejo Nacional de Educación

    Contains administrative matters concerning German schools as well as Polish, Russian, Slovak, and Jewish schools in Buenos Aires and other provinces in Argentina. Investigation of teachers and school directors accused of pro-Nazi or Communist sentiments. Lists of teachers barred from teaching by the Anti-Argentine Activities Committee. Rehabilitation of teachers in 1944. Curriculum and text book suggestions and administrative matters concerning the German Kulturrat, the German Teachers Association and the German School Association in Argentina. Reports about Nazi propaganda taught in German...

  15. Ginsberg family papers

    Consists of original copies of birth certificates issued in 1941 for Helga Sara Gappe (born in 1920 in Berlin-Charlottenburg, Germany) and for Szymon Icyk Ginsberg (born in 1911 in Dąbrowa Górnicza (Poland), Poland). Ginsberg's birth certificate consists of a handwritten Russian original and typed German translation. Also includes a small booklet issued by the Commune de Saint-Josse-Ten-Noode in Belgium recording the marriage of Ginsberg and Gappe in 1939.

  16. Josef Jasny letter

    Consists of one letter, dated September 24, 1944, written by Josef Jasny, prisoner number 22088 from Sachsenhausen/ Oranienburg, to his wife Gertrud and their children, who were living in Toruń, Poland,

  17. Bert and Else Coles narrative

    Consists of a typed narrative, 2 pages, written by Ron Coles, the son of Bert and Else Coles, in 2010. In the narrative, Mr. Coles describes the early life of his parents in Germany, their marriage in 1932, their emigration to Panama in June 1938 and from there, to Cali, Colombia, where they spent the war. Mr. Coles also describes the family's 1946 emigration to the United States.

  18. Levine family photographs

    Consists of 10 photographs and postcards sent by the Levine family in Oszmiana, Poland (now Ashmi︠a︡ny (Belarus) from the 1920s and 1930s to family in the United States. All individuals in photographs perished in the Holocaust.

  19. Vidaver, Rozaner, and Katz family photographs

    Consists of 22 pre-war family photographs of the Vidaver, Rozaner, and Katz families of Gomel, Belarus, and Łomża, Poland. The photographs were sent to family members in the United States; the individuals depicted perished in the Holocaust.

  20. Gerö family collection

    Consists of documents and photographs related to Zoltan and Johanna Gerö and their daughter, Eva (now Eva Gerö Gal), originally of Budapest, Hungary. Includes an identity workbook for the shop in which Zoltan manufactured false Palestine certificates, a 1943 letter, and displaced persons paperwork, including a document attesting to Zoltan's death at Auschwitz.