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Language of Description: Danish
Language of Description: English

  1. National Armed Forces. High command Narodowe Siły Zbrojne: Dowództwo (Sygn.1329)

    Contains records of the Narodowe Sily Zbrojne (NSZ), a Polish military organization established in September 1942 as a union of some underground groups including Narodowy Zwiazek Wojskowy (National Military Union) and Zwiazek Jaszczurczy (The Lizard Union). One component of the NSZ joined the Armia Krajowa (Home Army) as a result of an agreement made on March 7, 1944; another component of the so-called Brygada Świętokrzyska (The Holy Cross Brigade) moved to Western Europe with German permission. Some groups of NSZ remained active after the war, fighting against the new Communist regime.

  2. Diaries, chronicles, memoirs Dzienniki, kroniki, pamiętniki (Sygn.1349)

    Contains diaries, chronicles, and memoirs pertaining to World War II and the Holocaust. Includes a diary written by Ludwik Landau, distinguished economist and social researcher. His manuscript contains notes written over approximately 1600 days from 1939 to 1944. The notes relate to the political and economic situation of Poles and Jews in Poland under Nazi occupation as well as comments about the German press.

  3. Collection of files relating to Nazi crimes in Poland Zbiór materiałów dotycza̧cych zbrodni hitlerowskich w Polsce (Sygn. 1348)

    Contains various documents related to the activities of the Polish Courts and the Main Commissions for Investigation of Nazi Crimes in Poland after World War II. The documents supplement records kept in the Archives of the Instytut Pamieci Narodowej (Institute of National Remembrance) in Warsaw, Poland.

  4. Amy Rose papers

    Contains information about Dr. Morton Rose, a Jewish U.S. Army battalion surgeon, and liberator of the Colditz concentration camp (a sub-camp of Buchenwald). Includes testimonies and translations of Colditz survivors.

  5. Johannes Lehrbach papers

    Contains documents pertaining to the Lehrbach family's Holocaust experiences.

  6. David and Myrna Rymer family papers

    Contains correspondence and documents pertaining to the Holocaust experiences of the family of David and Myrna Rymer who fled Warsaw, Poland, to Lithuania, migrated to Russia, received visas signed by the Japanese diplomat, Chiune Sugihara, and journeyed to Japan. Documentation includes visas and booklets issued to Mirjam and Mojzesz Rymer, correspondence between 1939-1941, and materials related to the family's arrival in Japan in 1941, including tourist postcards, hotel receipts, and a pocket translator.

  7. Das General-Gouvernement

    One issue of "Das Generalgouvernement," 3. Jahrgang, 1943, Heft 2.

  8. Rafal Malec collection

    The collection consists of photographs documenting the pre-war lives of Rafal Malec and his family in Grodno, Poland (Hrodna, Belarus).

  9. Archives of the service for war victims Archives du service des victimes de la guerre : Mi

    Part Mi, contains records relating to the fate of Jewish and non-Jewish Belgians throughout Europe during the period of 1939 to 1950. Includes name lists from a wide variety of sources such as concentration and prisoner of war camps, relief and charity organizations, hospitals, prisons, and similar institutions. See also Parts A, P, and R (RG-65.002M; RG-65.003M; RG-65.004M).

  10. Neue Reichskanzlei (R 43 F)

    Contains records from Bundesarchiv, R 43 F "Neue Reichskanzlei", relating to various activities of the Reichskanzlei, 1933-1945. For a description of the Reichskanzlei, see also RG-14.020M and RG-14.021M.

  11. Aussenstelle Dahlwitz-Hoppegarten records: ZR

    Records compiled by former East German state security service (Stasi). Contains records relating to Nazi atrocities, mostly files with material used in the war crimes investigation.

  12. Walter Rathenau personal papers (NL)

    Contains personal papers of Walter Rathenau.

  13. Ingrid Sacks collection

    Consists of photographs; a 1945 Aufbau newspaper article; letters written in Gurs; a school notebook; six original photos of the donor, including one portrait and one at Ecole de Filles; and six copy photos of the donor prior to her deportation to Gurs, in Gurs, in hiding with a rescuer, and in an OSE home prior to leaving for the United States.

  14. Theresa Cahn-Tober papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Theresa Cahn-Tober (born Theresa Licht) and her parents Stephen Lighton (previously Szymon Licht) and Elizabeth Lighton (previously Esther Licht), all of whom survived the war in Warsaw under false-identities and lived in the München Neu Freimann displaced persons camp after liberation. Included are false-identity documents, identification papers, and a report card. Post-war documents stating the Licht family were former prisoners of Mauthausen are also false certificates used to get into the displaced persons camp.

  15. Zinaida Elkind collection

    Consists of a photograph, dated Summer 1944, of the donor at age twelve, with Anna Kosokovski, granddaughter of Vavara and Vladimir Kosokovski, her rescuers, outside the home in Berezino, USSR, where she lived in hiding for three years,.

  16. Esther Z. Stern collection

    Collection of five postcards written by Hirsz Majer Zielinski in the Sosnowiec ghetto to Estera Edzia Zielinska in Graben forced labor camp.

  17. Michael Mark collection

    Consists of a letter and envelope addressed to Sandor Kovacs [donor’s parents’ neighbor] in Nagy Kapos, Czechoslovakia [presently Veľké Kapušany, Slovakia] from Blanka Markovits (the donor’s mother) in Sweden, postmarked 17 July 1945. The author states that she is alive, recuperating in Sweden, having been brought there by the British government from Germany, and asks her neighbor to let her siblings, sons, and husband, upon their return, know of her whereabouts. Blanka Markovits died on 11 September 1945, in Sweden, as a result of her wartime experiences.

  18. Rosenfeld family displaced persons camp papers

    Consists of: an identification card, issued to Ignatzy Rosenfeld by the Jewish Committee in Munich, Germany, dated July 1948; two “ration” cards for “mann” and “kind” [man and child], issued by the Supply Office of the Jewish Committee in Munich; and a translation of a document, issued by the Registrar Office at Wolfratshausen Displaced Persons Camp, dated 26 Nov.1946, stating that Ignaz [sic] Rosenfeld is giving his wife’s child (the donor) his name.

  19. Mala Lachman collection

    Collection of 88 photographs from Stryj, Poland, before World War II and from Foehrenwald displaced persons camp.

  20. David Theisen photograph collection

    Consists of black and white photographs of American soldiers in Ohrdruf concentration camp immediately following liberation; printed in Elkhart, Indiana, dated July-August 1945, and created by John Eichholz (donor's uncle).