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Language of Description: Danish
Language of Description: English

  1. Selected records of the Prison in Sieradz Więzienie w Sieradzu (Sygn.199) : Wybrane materialy

    A daily calendar from January 17, 1923 to November 7, 1928 with the names and surnames of prisoners admitted and released, a list of prisoners (prisoner category and penalties); personal files with information related to an admission order, a prisoner's description, a visit permit, an exemption order, petitions and complaints, reasons for conviction, like as: propagating communism, pedophilia, pimping, theft.

  2. Selected records of the Offices and institutions of Galicia District Urzędy i Instytucje Okręgu Galicja (Sygn.119)

    Files of 10 gendarmes from the Galicia District. Includes personal documents of the gendarmes.

  3. Copy correspondence and papers re Möbelaktion

    This collection of copy documents deals with every aspect of the expropriation of Europe's Jewish population by the Nazis, in what was described as the MöbelaktionUnited Restitution Organisation report outlining the Nazi confiscation of Jewish property between 1940 and 1944 in France, Belgium and Holland, 22 July 19585 pagesCopy correspondence and papers from various Nazi authorities detailing the expropriation of Jewish communities147 pages

  4. Records of the Gemilas Chesed Credit Union in Lwów, Poland (Fond 456, Opis 1)

    The collection consists of records of the Gemilas ChesedTax-Free Credit Union branch in Lwow, Poland (now L'viv, Ukraine). The union rendered financial assistance to craftsmen and small business owners and served as the central office for all of Eastern Galicia (Malopolska). Documents include financial reports prepared for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (Joint) in Warsaw (a sponsor of the union), correspondence with local banks and government agencies, and the other materials. The Gemilas Chesed Tax Free credit union opened its branch in Lwow to provide financial assistanc...

  5. Records of the Association of Jewish cooperatives in Poland, Lwów branch

    The collections includes bylaws and other documents of the association, minutes of the meetings of the board of the organization, correspondence with cooperatives and Jewish organizations in Poland and abroad, financial and bank records, various reports, and records related to the activities of the agricultural coops in Eastern Galicia.

  6. Landsarkivet for Sjælland, Lolland-Falster & Bornholm

    • Provincial archives of Sealand, Provincial archives of Sealand, Lolland-Falster & Bornholm
    • Rigsarkivet
    • Landsarkivet for Sjælland, Lolland-Falster & Bornholm
    • English
    • records and files from local and regional authorities and institutions in Sealand, Lolland-Falster, Moen and Bornholm. The collections date back to the 12th century, and today there are more than 140 kilometres of shelving.

    Landsarkivet for Sjælland collected and stored mainly archival material from local government authorities (e.g., police, courts and ecclesiastical authorities), but some collections also passed from the Zealand estates and from private individuals. In the archive database Daisy one can find tables of contents of the files that are found in provincial archives of Zealand's collection. The collection filled 50,000 linear metres in 2008.

  7. "Das Krematorium in Dachau"

    Consists of a copy of "Das Krematorium in Dachau," an eyewitness report given by Willy Furlan-Horst shortly after the liberation of Dachau. The report describes the interior of the crematoria, the gas chambers, the procedures for torture and execution of prisoners, the duties of the crematoria Kommandos, and the facilities for housing the SS attack dogs. Also included are copies of four photographs of death scenes in Dachau after liberation, and an English translation prepared by USHMM Archives volunteers.

  8. Mestský úrad v Lučenci II. 1938 - 1944

    • City Office of Lučenec II. 1938 - 1944

    The collection holds the records of the city administration of Lučenec between 1938 and 1944. It contains various files regarding the political, economic, and social life of Lučenec during the wartime period. The persecution of the Jewish population is documented in the major part of the collection. Researchers might find in the collection the files of Jewish inhabitants who applied for an exception or their applications for certificates of state affiliation, as well as more documents concerning their trade permits which they have lost as a result os Anti-Jewish measures. An important part ...

  9. Maurice F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Maurice F., who served in the United States military, 2nd Infantry Regiment, in a medical detachment from 1943 to 1945. He recalls encountering a group of approximately seventy-five emaciated women in Eggenfelden, who related to him that they had been on a death march; their sense of hopelessness; their desire for Jewish contact (he spoke to them in Yiddish); his unit and local people disinterring bodies of others from their group and reburying them in coffins; his special bond with the women because he was Jewish; and some postwar correspondence. He notes sending pho...

  10. 804 Research collection Sobibór Jules Schelvis

    Contains source materials for research of Jules Schelvis, a Holocaust survivor, on the death camp of Sobibór. Includes articles; reports; copies of evidence; documentations, illustrations; and eye witness reports. He published his findings in his work "Vernietigingskamp Sobibór /Death camp Sobibór " (Amsterdam 1993) and "Sobibór: A History of a Nazi Death Camp- Jules Schelvis" (New York, 2007, Published by Berg Publishers in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum).

  11. Anti-Jewish Acts in Baltic States

    Shots of the INT of a synagogue, possibly Jonava. SS guard ordering Jewish men and young men coming out of a building (the synagogue?) -- a roundup. The Jews run down the street. The following scenes are disjointed. Shots of the Riga synagogue burning at night. The famous shots of forced labor of Jewish men climbing out of a ditch with shovels and digging on the roadside; one religious man is approached by soldiers and made to take off his shirt. Jews beaten in streets by locals and then forced labor of Jews cleaning the streets after bombing and destruction, lots of rubble. In Mogilev, Jew...

  12. Ferenc Klopfer papers

    Consists of photocopied documents from Dr. Ferenc Klopfer, including a handwritten memoir of Klopfer's experiences in Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Theresienstadt, written in the latter location after liberation in May 1945. A separate text describes in more detail events during the death march from Buchenwald to Theresienstadt in early 1945. Also included is a photocopy of the surviving portion of a list of patients treated by Klopfer in the hospital at Buchenwald, with names of patients, including their birthdates and places of birth, dates of their deaths, as well as diagnoses and causes of...

  13. Joe W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Joe W., who was born in Schweinfurt, Germany in 1922. He describes his family's business, established in 1833; a happy childhood; attending trade school in Berlin in 1937 after Jews were expelled from public schools; hiding with his friend during Kristallnacht; learning of his father's imprisonment and wanton destruction of their business; obtaining permission to go to Sweden with assistance from a Swedish counsel; obtaining a passport with assistance from a German officer; arriving in Sweden on April 30, 1939; and emigrating to the United States from Norway. Mr. W. r...

  14. Fighting as the Soviets advance

    Map showing cities from Berlin to Warsaw. German troops who survived the battle for Budapest receive food and drink. Sign on a building welcomes the "Rueckkaempfer aus Budapest der Waffen SS." CUs of soldiers, some of whom have beards. The men board an open truck and depart down a muddy street. German soldiers march past a sign reading Ratibor (Raciborz, Poland). Fighting in Silesia. Atrocities committed by the Soviet troops in territory re-captured by Germany. Destroyed houses and scattered clothing. The corpse of a murdered old man. Corpses covered in sheets while people mourn over their ...

  15. Touring Germany

    Scenes of the German countryside filmed from a train. 01:00:52 Busy square in the city of Dresden with a church, market and crowds, including the Katholische Hofkirche with an ornate façade and figurative statues and a nearby tower. Along the Elbe River, a boat named "Leipzig" is docked. 01:02:02 Street scenes and a large building. 01:02:09 The Cologne cathedral with the Rhine River in the BG. Boat tour along the Rhine, Nazi flag waves from the boat, castles and architectural ruins among the cliffs. Quick view of a boat labeled "Bayonne" passing by on its way to or from France. Sights inclu...

  16. 1942/1943 School book from the high school “Slavčo Stojmenski in Štip”

    • Училишна книга од 1942/1943 од средното училиште „Славчо Стојменски“ во Штип
    • Ucilisna kniga 1942/1943 od srednoto uciliste "Slavco Stojmenski" vo Štip
    • Државен Архив на Република Македонија—Oдделение Штип
    • 1942/1943 School book from the high school “Slavčo Stojmenski in Štip”
    • English, Macedonian
    • 1942-1943
    • 1942/1943 School book from the high school “Slavčo Stojmenski in Štip” is an archival file within the Fund for primary and secondary schools in Štip and Štip district placed in the Department Štip. The School book is handwritten and it includes all the students enrolled in the high school “Slavčo Stojmenski in Stip” in 1942/43.

  17. Lisa Fittko papers

    The papers consist of three maps of Cerbère, France, and the Mediterranean coast and one envelope addressed to Lisa Fittko. The maps are as follows: (1) is a map of Port Vendres, printed on paper with inscriptions in ink, circa 1943. 27 3/4" x 29." (2) is a topographical map of Cerbere and the Mediterranean coast, printed on paper with inscriptions in ink, circa 1942-1943. Printed by the Institut Geographique National, Paris. Map is composed of 2 pieces glued together. 27" x 33." (3) is a topographical map of Cerbere and the Mediterranean coast, also printed by the Institut Geographique. I...

  18. Gisevius testimony at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 128) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, April 26, 1946. LSs, Dr. Rudolf Dix, counselor for Schacht, questions the witness Hans Bernhardt von Gisevius. MLS, Gisevius testifying. Pan to Hermann Goering scribbling notes. 19:02:40 Pan to dock, Ribbentrop. CU, Gisevius testifying. MCU, Dr. Otto Stahmer and another defense counselor making notes. 19:07:33 MCS, right side of dock, including Speer, Von Hindenburg, Fritsch, Frank, Frick, Streicher, and Funk listening to Gisevius testify. LSs, Gisevius speaking of the relationship between the German Army and the Gestapo. Pan from Chief Pr...

  19. Eva and Győrgy with baby András

    Mother Eva plays with baby András. CUs, András. Baby plays with various teddy bears and toys. EXT, apartment in Szeged, Győrgy walks out holding the baby. He walks up to the camera and starts to rock the baby (repeats). András in a basket on a sidewalk. Eva picks him up, coddling him and posing. They both look happy and smile. Pető bounces baby András in his arms, both smile. Eva stands over the baby in a basket, playing with András. Film ends 02:30

  20. Niusia A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Niusia A., who was born in Krako?w, Poland, circa 1924. She describes the changes caused by the German takeover of Poland; her family's move to the nearby town of Bochnia; the ghettoization of Bochnia and the subsequent liquidation of the ghetto; and her and her mother's return to Krako?w to avoid deportation (her father had died before the war). She also tells of living on the Aryan side in Warsaw and her journey from Warsaw to Budapest, where she remained until the German invasion of Hungary; her capture while trying to escape to Romania; and her detention in a Roma...