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  1. Rinkinių apskaitos ir apsaugos skyrius

    • Inventory and Conservation of Holdings Department
    • Vilniaus Gaono žydų istorijos muziejus
    • VŽM
    • English
    • Judaica holdings are classified as primary (VŽM) and academic support (VŽMP) collections under the Museum’s statute with consideration of the extant value of the item as a museum piece. Currently around 30,000 items are being conserved. Primary collection consists of: 1. Household decorative items, ritual equipment, tangible exhibition pieces of historical significance. 2. Writings and documents. 3. Photography. 4. Visual and decorative art. 5. Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz‘s memorial collection. 6. Archive of Josif Shapiro (collector of ex-libris).

    The collections include: 1. Household decorative items, ritual equipment, tangible exhibition pieces of historical significance. Materials include metal, wood, leather, ceramics, precious metals, textiles, bone and other materials. Among these items are around 100 unique artifacts from Paneriai mass killing sites, material from the ghetto period and from prisoners, people who perished and people who survived. There are also artifacts of the Great Synagogue and from Jewish cemeteries. 2. Writings and documents include books, press, manuscripts, posters, documents. There are 5000 items in tot...

  2. Gunnar Josephsons arkiv

    • Gunnar Josephson's archive
    • Riksarkivet
    • Gunnar Josephsons arkiv
    • English
    • 1920-1971
    • 0,2 linear meters of textual records and photographs.

    The archive consists of a box of correspondence, including correspondence with Archbishop Erling Eidem about his response to the deportations of Norwegian Jews. The collection also contains correspondence with and about Salomon Adler-Rudel (1894-1975), a German-Jewish refugee worker in exile in London, concerning his rescue activities in Sweden, as well as an exchange of letters between Josephson and the German-Jewish lawyer in exile, Hans Schäffer (1886-1967). The collection also includes a memo with Josephson's critical reflections on a 1933 meeting on Jewish assimilation as a strategy to...

  3. Medicinalstyrelsen

    • National Board of Health
    • Riksarkivet
    • Medicinalstyrelsen
    • English
    • 1868-1967

    The Medical Board's archives include documents relating to the care of concentration camp survivors who came to Sweden in 1945 through the Red Cross and the UNRRA operation. There are documents relating to patients, hospitals, camps and staff. The National Board's archive, 1945 refugee health care includes the series _ Medical index cards regarding refugees_ (Läkarkort rörande flyktingar) D 2. The series contains 16 boxes of medical cards of survivors, and documents from certain immigration centers and emergency hospitals, patient registers and patient rolls from various emergency hospita...

  4. Utrikesdepartementet. Beskickningsarkivet

    • Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Archives of Swedish foreign missions
    • Riksarkivet Täby
    • Utrikesdepartementet. Beskickningsarkivet
    • English
    • 1674

    The embassy archives from Sweden's various missions abroad contain correspondence and diplomatic reports, including reports on the Nazi persecution of Jews and the Holocaust. There are also documents discussing Swedish entry and visa regulations for Jewish refugees. There are also sources dealing with Sweden's involvement in rescue operations in Denmark, Hungary and Germany. The series include the archives of the Swedish legations in Berlin, Vienna, Prague and Budapest.

  5. Utrikesdepartementet

    • Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs
    • UD
    • Riksarkivet
    • Utrikesdepartementet
    • English
    • 1791

  6. The Jewish (Mosaic) Congregation of Stockholm

    • Riksarkivet
    • SE/RA/730128
    • English, Swedish
    • 1771-2000

  7. Zemaljska komisija za Bosnu i Hercegovinu za utvrđivanje zločina okupatora i njihovih pomagača

    • State Commission for Bosnia and Herzegovina for the Investigation of the Crimes of the Occupiers and their supporters

    Contains information about questioning and deportations of Jews in Banjaluka and confiscation of Jewish property, details of terror against Jews in Bihać during 1941, details about seized buildings by Ustasha government, extortion of gold and silver, theft of synagogue's inventory, etc. Also contains records regarding torture of Jews in town of bijeljina, conducted by local Culturbund (local Germans). Similar details can be found regarding town of Mostar, in 1942. Jews in Mostar were imprisoned by Italian government and transferred to camps located on island in Adriatic sea, where they were...

  8. Zbirka dokumenata

    • Collection of documents
    • Muzej Vojvodine
    • MV ZD
    • English
    • 1941-1945
    • There are 80 boxes of paper documents in which Holocaust relevant items could be found. Also, there are index cards containing basic info about each World War II civil victim from Vojvodina region.

    The Holocaust related material in the Collection consists of documents concerning the “Raid” in southern Bačka, documents containing basic personal data for WWII victims and perpetrators associated to Vojvodina, as well as documents produced by occupation regimes in Vojvodina during the WWII (mostly acts containing discriminatory measures, acts related to confiscated property and deportation to concentration camps).

  9. Zbirka fotografija

    • Collection of Photographs
    • Muzej Vojvodine
    • MV ZF
    • English
    • 1941-1945
    • Overall, the Collection includes almost 28 000 inventoried photos and Holocaust related photographs can be found via index cards.

    Dozens of photos presenting scenes of punitive and discriminatory measures, incarceration and deportation, former synagogues, “Raid” in southern Bačka, and victims.

  10. Државна комисија за утврђивање злочина окупатора и њихових помагача

    • State Commission for the Investigation of the Crimes of Occupiers and their Supporters
    • Državna komisija za utvrđivanje zločina okuaptora i njihovih pomagača

    Commission created by Yugoslav Partisan Government during WWII in 1943. for collection all data about Crimes committed by Occupiers and their Accomplices. The fund consists primarily of statements of survivors and their relatives, decisions for War Criminals, partly by original documents or copies of documents. There are comprehensive lists of War Criminals. Part of documentation published by Commission in 93 Saopštenja (Comunique) and in some other publications.

  12. Pressesammlung

  14. KZ Dachau

    • Concentration camp Dachau
    • Konzentrationslager Dachau
    • KL Dachau
    • KZ-Gedenkstätte Dachau
    • 01
    • German
    • 1933
    • 35 Regalmeter, verschiedene Medien, u.A. Papier, digital, Fotos, Pläne.

    Materialien aus der Zeit des Bestehens des Konzentrationslagers Dachau. Darin Materialien und Angaben zu Peronen (ehemalige Häftlinge, SS-Personal, Häftlinge im SS-Straflager Dachau, weitere Personen), Orten (Stammlager Dachau, Außenlager und -kommandos), Verwaltung, Häftlingsgesellschaft, Lageralltag, Täter etc.

  15. Konzentrationslager und Verfolgungsstätten

    • andere Konzentrationslager und Verfolgungsstätten

  16. Stadt Dachau

    • Dachau
    • City of Dachau

  18. M.52.DASO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Sumy Region

    M.52.DASO - Documentation from the State Archives of the Sumy Region History of the Archives: The regional archival administration in Sumy was established in 1925. Its function was to collect documentation from the local archives, to absorb documentation of the archives that were dismantled, to create original collections and to establish the newspaper archives. In 1930 the archival administration underwent reorganization and it became the local administration of Sumy. In 1932 it became the Historical State Archives of Sumy. Upon the establishment of the Sumy region in 1939, the State Histo...

  19. Documentation of the Senatskanzlei - Personalabteilung II (Senate Chamber - Personnel Department II) in Hamburg

    Documentation of the Senatskanzlei - Personalabteilung II (Senate Chamber - Personnel Department II) in Hamburg