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  1. Biographical press cuttings collection (1945-1970s)

    The biographical files (close to 3,000) are arranged in alphabetical order and include information about different persons, mainly non-Jews, in the post-war world: political leaders, politicians, philosophers, writers, scientists, high ranking officers (including Nazis) and more, in Israel, the USA and different European countries. The documentation was gathered between 1945 and 1970s. It includes material from periodicals and press cuttings. Some files include biographical information from other sources.

  2. Research files: research conducted by the JCIO and the Wiener Library

    These files are the results of research enquiries the JCIO (Jewish Center Information Office) in Amsterdam, and later the Wiener Library in London, received and compiled during the war. The material was culled from books, periodicals and press cuttings, to form reliable documentation on specialized subjects. The files have been arranged under broad subject headings.

  3. Grahamstown Trial, Grahamstown, South Africa, 1934

    The "Grahamstown Trial" which took place in 1934 in Port Elizabeth (ZA) deals with several issues; a document crudely forged by Harry Victor Inch, the Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion and a Jewish world conspiracy. "Die Rapport" (an anti-Semitic newspaper) published a document allegedly stolen from the Western Road Synagogue in Port Elizabeth: This fake document contains a series of antigentile writings including a vague plan of Jewish world domination. The forgery pretends to be a record of an address delivered by Abraham Levy (the Minister of the Port Elizabeth Hebrew Congregation) to th...

  4. The Nazi Justice collection

    The Nazi Justice collection provides information on the judiciary of the Third Reich and hundreds of trial transcripts. One part of the collection (Box I) contains registers of convicts, laws and regulations, information on judges and attorneys, a detailed report of executions in Brandenburg (from October 1944 to April 1945) and a list of Nazis who had been active in Auschwitz. The other part (Boxes II to IX) contains trial transcripts in alphabetical order, mainly from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, from 1942 to 1945. Alleged crimes range from illegal slaughtering of animals to l...

  5. The Ludwig Dische papers : Bukovina’s Jewish history

    The Ludwig Dische papers address the history of the Bukovina before 1918, when Czernowitz was still part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Dr. Dische was the chairperson of the Committee for internal affairs (“Communicates Evreilor”) of the Jewish community in Czernowitz, Bukovina, in the war years from December 1941 to March 1944, when the Soviet army re-occupied the city. The collection contains letters, drafts, bulletins, pictures, prints, newspapers clips, and information about well-known Jews from Czernowitz, as well as Dr. Dische’s personal papers. Dische gathered these materials after ...

  6. The Key to the Mystery

    The Key to the Mystery, or Clé du Mystère, was a virulently anti-Semitic pamphlet, in the shape of a 32-pages booklet, published in Canada in French and English, and distributed in several countries in Europe in the 1930s. Adrien Arcand, the leader of the fascist Canadian paramilitary organization “Blue Shirts”, edited and published the pamphlet. By quoting distorted versions of texts written by prominent Jews, the Key aimed to prove the authenticity of the theories put forward in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. It accused the Jews of a worldwide domination plot and of communism. The c...

  7. United Restitution Organization (URO): Rundschreiben 1961-1973

    The collection contains circulars (“Rundschreiben”) that the main office of the United Restitution Organization in Frankfurt/Main sent out to the various offices of the organization between 1961 and 1973. The circulars detail judgements of the German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof) on claims of Holocaust survivors to individual indemnification for damages caused by Nazi persecution. Each circular is prefaced by a summary of the court’s decision and its significance for the jurisprudence of personal indemnification, which in Germany was regulated by the Federal Law on Compensati...

  8. Carl Schmitt – The Confidential File

    This collection contains the contents of a confidential dossier on Carl Schmitt, a prominent German jurist, political theorist, and ostensibly loyal member of the Nazi Party. At the time at which the Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführer SS – SD Hauptamt put together this dossier, documenting a campaign aiming to discredit Schmitt, he was considered the most outstanding legal scholar of National Socialism. He served on the leadership council of the Academy for German Law, was chairperson of the Committee for State and Administrative Law, member of the Prussian State Council, editor-in-chief of...

  10. Archives

    The collection includes personal archives, archives of private organisations, of collaborators and collaborationist movements, of resistance fighters and resistance organisations, of official institutions and services that existed only between 1939 and 1946 (based under the terms of an agreement with the General State Archives) and of microfilms and photocopies of foreign archival collections. Some archive collections are already accessible online. The collection allows researchers to explore a variety of subjects, in the first place on the Second World War: the policies of the Occupation a...

  11. Manuscripts

    In more than 2,000 diaries and manuscripts, people and personalities relate their experiences relating to the Exodus, the 18-day military campaign, daily life, deportation and the Liberation.

  12. Ministère des Affaires étrangères

    The record of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs contain among other subfonds the following three subfonds which contain information on the persecution and the fate of Jews in Luxembourg: government in exile, the Luxembourg embassy in Washington and World War II.

  13. Κοµµουνιστικό Κόµµα Ελλάδας (ΚΚΕ)

    • Greek Communist Party (KKE)
    • Kommounistiko Komma Elladas (KKE)

    • Congresses, conferences and plenary sessions of the KKE Central Committee (1945- 1968). • Secret shorthand minutes of plenary sessions of the Central Committee. • Decisions and proclamations of the Politburo (1944-1968). • Correspondence of the Central Committee with illegal party organizations in Greece and KKE organizations in Eastern European countries. Central contact mechanisms in Western Europe (1946-1968); Relations of the KKE with the communist movements of the Eastern countries (in particular: USSR, Yugoslavia, Albania) during the years of the Civil War in Greece; Party organizat...

  14. Corte d'assise d'appello di Firenze

    Le corti d’assise d’appello vennero istituite dalla legge 10 aprile 1951 n. 287, nel quadro del riordinamento generale dei giudizi d’Assise. La legge rispondeva ad un’esigenza di giustizia sostanziale largamente avvertita, massimamente in relazione ai reati più gravi, introducendo il secondo grado di giudizio nei procedimenti d’Assise, fino ad allora inappellabili nel merito. Essa rispettava ed attuava i principi costituzionali dell’obbligo della motivazione di tutti i provvedimenti giudiziari (art. 111 Cost.) e della partecipazione diretta del popolo all’amministrazione della giustizia (ar...

  15. AV0001

    Da questa area è possibile accedere alle schede catalografiche e ai materiali audio-visivi prodotti e/ o raccolti dalla Fondazione CDEC a partire dagli anni '80, in particolare le collezioni "Testimonianze sulla Shoah" e "Interviste alla storia". "Testimonianze sulla Shoah" comprende 150 registrazioni audio, realizzate dallo staff del CDEC fra il 1982 e il 2002. In essa sono incluse alcune delle prime - talvolta uniche - audio-interviste registrate in Italia agli ebrei reduci della deportazione o scampati in vario modo alla deportazione. La collezione "Interviste alla storia" è composta dal...

  17. Verwaltungsamt für innere Restitutionen, Stadthagen

    Die Aufgabe des Verwaltungsamtes für innere Restitutionen war die Rückgabe von Effekten an Inhaftierte der Nationalsozialisten und der Alliierten. Effekten bezeichnen das persönliche Eigentum, das den Häftlingen bei der Inhaftierung abgenommen wurde. Die in diesem Findbuch beschriebenen Effekten waren der Behörde vorwiegend von der britischen Besatzungsmacht übergeben worden und zwischen 1962 und 1964 an den ITS übergegangen. Der Bestand enthält umfangreichen Schriftverkehr mit den Empfängern der zurückgegebenen Effekten. Bei dem Findbuch handelt es sich um das Ergebnis einer Neuerschließun...

  18. Record Center.

    Ce fonds comprend des documents émanant de diverses organisations juives de Belgique. On y trouvera également des dossiers relatifs à la bibliographie des professeurs de l’IEJ, comme les listes des publications de ces professeurs. Anna Kempinska a par ailleurs rassemblé de la documentation concernant des associations juives en France, dont les mouvements de jeunesse juifs comme le Bne Akiva, le Dror, l’Hashomer Hatzair, les Éclaireurs Israélites de France et l’Ihud Habonim. Ces dossiers comprennent des pamphlets, des publications des organisations, des affiches, de la correspondance et des ...

  19. Ministère des Affaires économiques. Direction de l'organisation professionnelle

    • Ministry of Economic Affairs. Directorate of Professional Organisation

    The archives inventoried here constitute a mine of information for anyone interested in the organisation and operations of the Belgian economy under German occupation, economic collaboration, or the persecution of Jews.

  20. Administration de la Sûreté Publique. Service de la Police des Étrangers. Dossiers individuels ouverts entre 1835 et 1912 (nos 1 – 999.999).)

    • Public Security Administration. Foreign Police Department. Individual files opened between 1835 and 1912 (no. 1 - 999.999.999).

    The Foreign Police opened an individual file on each foreigner who entered the country. The files are numbered in the order assigned to them when they were first opened. These files generally consisted of: a declaration of registration in a municipality, references to the family and professional situation and the period during which the foreigner wished to remain in Belgium; relocations and changes of residence; civil status records, including marriage, birth and death certificates; the files dating back to the 19th century contain few photos except for the files of so-called "dangerous" fo...