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  1. Commission in Oświęcim to Investigate the German-Nazi Crimes Komisja Badania Zbrodni Hitlerowskich w Oświęcimu

    Contains records of the Commission in Oświęcim to Investigate the Nazi Crimes commited in Nazi camps. Records include files of investigations of German crimes and administrative files from KL Auschwitz, KL Dachau, and Nazi camps on the territory of France. Contains witnesses’ testimonies, protocols of investigation of witnesses, minutes and photographic documentation.

  2. District Court in Białystok (SOB) Sąd Okręgowy w Białymstoku (SOB), Sygn. GK 205

    Contains selected files from trials in the District Court in Białystok from 1945 to 1969. These trials pertain to crimes committed against Jews and Poles during the German occupation. Trials were based on the Decree of August 31, 1944 (“Sierpniówka”), issued by the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (PKWN), concerning the punishment of German criminals guilty of murders and persecution of civilians and prisoners of war, and the punishment of traitors to the Polish Nation. "Sierpniówka" was one of the world's first legislation on liability for war crimes committed during World War II. This...

  3. Government Code and Cypher School: German Police Section: Decrypts of German Police Communications during Second World War (HW 16)

    German language decrypted messages and English-language analytical summaries of German police radio communications from the late 1930s until 1945. Contains information relating to concentration camps such as Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Dachau and on the Russian Front. The series also contains details of the results of allied bombing raids and allied aircraft losses, prisoners of war (both captured and escaped) and German police operations against allied agents and partisans. Also included are verbatim German police messages for the years 1942-1945. These are contained in 27 volumes as pieces ...

  4. Teresa Matuszewska Stiland (Matla Rozenberg) collection

    Consists of a photograph of Chaim Rumkowski and two photographs taken at the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp. One depicts survivors in 1946, and one depicts a memorial tombstone in 1947. Also includes three poems written in Polish after the war about Holocaust experiences.

  5. "Some Victims of the Nazi Terror"

    Consists of one magazine entitled "Some Victims of the Nazi Terror," which contains photographs and propaganda information about the Kitchener camp in Richborough, England. The magazine describes the daily lives of the mostly Jewish refugees living in the Kitchener camp. The magazine was created by the Kitchener Camp Committee. In a special camp, Kitchener, in Richborough, Kent, England, some 5,000 people who needed immediate shelter were housed during an eighteen - month period from the end of Jan. 1939. These 5,000 refugees had been released from concentration camps, or their internment h...

  6. Sered concentration camp collection Koncentračný tabor v Seredi

    Contains a registry book, "Koncentračný Tábor Sered," of arriving Jewish deportees at the Sered camp consisting of daily, handwritten entries for the period of November 11, 1944 to March 29, 1945. Arriving inmates are registered in the order of arrival on each day. Main data of the each entry contains : the sequential number, last and first names, date of birth, place of birth, citizenship, profession, whereabouts of the married partner, number of children, whereabouts of the children (arrival date in camp, departure place, confiscated monies, in case of 'mixed marriages' the date of the we...

  7. Erna Fridman manuscript, "The Long Way Home"

    Erna Fridman’s manuscript "The Long Way Home" consists of an English translation prepared in 1995 of the original Polish memoir Erna composed following the Holocaust and her return home to Kraków in 1945. The translation is by her daughter, Pazit Gat, and also includes poems by Fridman and photocopies of family photographs and Fridman's visit to Kraków in 1993. Erna’s narrative describes her memories from before the war, the German occupation of Poland, and life in the Kraków ghetto. She describes the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp, her impressions of Amon Göth, learning about Auschwitz...

  8. Testimony regarding the Ribushcheetz family

    Consists of copies of typed testimony in English, Hebrew, and Russian, regarding the Ribushcheetz family, who hid the Sorovitz (Surowicz) family, who were Jewish, in their home in Podmostok, Ukraine, between 1942 and 1945. Includes details about the Ribushcheetz family, the new names of those they were hiding, and how they created shelters in the nearby forest. The testimony focuses on the heroism of Ivan Ribushcheetz's daughter, Mama Varka, who sacrificed a lot to save this family. Also includes two copy prints of portraits of the Sorovitz family.

  9. Wolf and Gidanskis letters

    The Wolf and Gidanskis letters consist of letters written in Yiddish between December 1938 and April 1941 in Lithuanian. One letter was written by Yitzhak Zev Wolf and eleven letters by Josef Gidanskis to his niece, Esther Golde. In the letters, Mr. Gidanskis discusses pre-war Jewish life in Lithuania and alludes to the news he is hearing about the Holocaust.

  10. Justice Ministry : Signature VI : Criminal Cases NSDAP Justizministerium : Signatur VI : Strafsachen NSDAP

    Contains court cases against illegal Nazi party members in Austria before annexation to Nazi Germany.

  11. List of Jews living in Luxembourg on May 10, 1940

    Contains names of Jewish residents in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg as of 10 May 1940. It includes all Jews who were resident on 10 May, the date of the German invasion. It excludes all Jews who left Luxembourg before then. It is a working list still not completed, there are 4462 entries.

  12. Gunvor Jensen collection

    Consists of letters and testimony written between 2003-2004 by Gunvor Jensen about his activities in the Norwegian Resistance. The testimony explains the history of resistance activity in the city of Stavanger in the Rogaland area of southern Norway, and explains Mr. Jensen's personal activities within the group. Includes photographs, maps, and contextual explanation. In his letters, Mr. Jensen answers questions about the testimony and provides additional information, including a list of "Jackdaws," female members of the resistance dropped in France.

  13. Dr. Joseph Antognini collection

    Consists of a small photograph album entitled "From out of the Dachau Concentration Camp," which was sold in June 1945 in a photography shop owned by Hans Uschold in Munich, Germany. The album, which contains thirty mass produced photographs taken after the liberation of Dachau, was purchased by Corporal Joseph Antognini, who was stationed in Munich with the 38th AAA Brigade.

  14. Jeffrey Bryan collection

    Documents and photographs concerning Rudi Britzmann's (donor's father) experiences in Nazi occupied Germany; in the United Kingdom; on board the ship "Dunera"; in the Hay and Tatura camps in Australia; and as a post-war war crimes investigator and participant in the Nuremberg war crimes trials. Includes photographs of Lore Koenigshoffer (donor's mother) in pre-war Germany and war-time United Kingdom.

  15. Justice Ministry : Files of the State Public Prosecutor's Offices ; miscellaneous matters Justizministerium : Akten der Staatsanwaltschaften. Verschiedene Angelegenheiten

    Consists of administrative orders and internal reports pertaining to prisons and incarceration facilities in Polish territories occupied by the Third Reich. A preponderance of documents in this collection were issued by the Prosecutor's Office in Katowice, Poland (Kattowitz) in regard to prisons and incarceration facilities in Bielsko Biala (Bielitz) and the Prosecutor's Office in Wrocław (Breslau) in regard to prisons and incarceration facilities in Sosnowiec (Sosnowitz). Includes ordinances about treatment of political prisoners, POWs, and Polish slave laborers; reports about prisoner esc...

  16. Selected records from the Estonian State Archive

    Contains selected records of Baltöl, the German petroleum company in Estonia; arrest and interrogation records of Jews (R-64); and other miscellaneous records concerning the Holocaust in Estonia.

  17. Relli Schmerler Katz memoir

    Consists of one memoir, 25 pages, untitled, by Relli Schmerler Katz, originally of Czechoslovakia. In the memoir, written in 1996, Mrs. Katz describes pre-war Jewish life. Her family was deported in April 1944 to the ghetto in Mátészalka, Hungary, and from there to Auschwitz. She describes the process of arrival in Auschwitz, reuniting with an aunt who had been deported previously, and surviving multiple selections. In August 1944, she and her mother were sent to the Geislingen an der Steige forced labor camp. She describes a number of her specific memories of the camp, including the memory...

  18. Chris Makas papers

    Consists of a memoir written by and oral history conducted with Sgt. Chris Makas, a member of the 63rd Infantry Division of the United States Army, who participated in the liberation of the Kaufering concentration camp. Both the memoir, which is undated, and the oral history, which was conducted in December 2000, describe his wartime experiences. Includes copyprints of Sgt. Makas and several images of Kaufering after liberation. Also includes copies of several documents related to Sgt. Makas's history and memories of Kaufering. The oral history was conducted by Sgt. Makas's daughter, Elaine...

  19. Tova Strauss photograph collection

    Contains seven photographic images of Tova (Gittel) Strauss (nee Wolmerman) of Pirtan, Germany, while living in a Jewish orphanage or children's home near Kremberg, Germany. Gittel Wolnerman was a child passenger on board the Exodus.

  20. "Story of a Jew who Fled Treblinka in August 1943"

    Consists of one typed document, 6 pages, in Hebrew, regarding the escape of a man named "D.M." who escaped Treblinka on August 30, 1943. The document describes D.M.'s experiences hiding under a pile of garments and then fleeing the camp with two other boys, as well as his description of life in the extermination camp. The document was published by the secretariat of the Kibbutz Meuchad "Ha-Chalutz" committee and is dated October 4, 1943.