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  1. Landgericht (Reichs Provicial Court) of Brno

    The fonds contains documents from the activities of the Landgericht (Reichs Provincial Court) in Brno from the time of occupation by Nazi Germany. In the civil agenda, the only document relating to Jews is the Administrative Files (Attorneys, representation of Czech and Jewish parties); in the criminal agenda, this includes mainly records regarding Jewish property: Hein Artur 29.5.1883, Moravská Ostrava – non-reporting of Jewish property; Kaštický Gustav 8.7.1907, Brněnské Ivanovice – thefts of Jewish property; Stolaříková Anna 10.7.1918 Luhačovice – Jewish property; Tichý Ladislav 20.3.191...

  2. Selected records of state security investigations of Hungarian war criminals (ABTL)

    Contains records of interrogations of suspected war criminals by the investigative branch of the Hungarian Ministry of Internal Affairs, Hungarian Police State Protection Department (Magyar Államrendőrség Államvédelmi Osztálya, ÁVO), and later by the independent Agency for State Security State Protection Authority, (Államvédelmi Hatóság, ÁVH), primarily confessions and witness testimonies.

  3. Lea-Lily S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lea-Lily S., who was born in Larisa, Greece in 1903. She recalls her five brothers; attending teacher's college in Thessalonike?; marriage; her daughter's birth; divorce; her immediate family escaping to Palestine, via Turkey after German invasion; not leaving with them due to her illness; obtaining false papers; her brother's friend hiding her and her daughter in a nearby village; leaving because she feared exposing her rescuers; traveling by boat to Skopelos Island in June, 1943; teaching in the local school; detention by German troops; a German releasing her with a...

  4. Pénzügyminisztérium, Elnöki rezervált iratok (1871-1944)

    • Ministry of Finance, Classified Presidential Documents (1871-1944)

    The Holocaust was not only the largest genocidal operation in 20th century Hungarian history but also a gigantic campaign to systematically rob the wealth of Hungarian Jewry. In Hungary, the Europe-wide campaign of robbery usually referred to by the name of Aryanization had various initiators and a large segment of benefactors in society but it was planned as a state-directed and -controlled process with the Ministry of Finance playing a crucial role in it. Between 1938 and 1944, the Ministry was headed by Lajos Reményi-Schneller (1892-1946), i.e. he served as Minister under the successive ...

  5. Orhei County Tribunal

    • Tribunal judeţean Orhei
    • Оргеевский уездный трибунал
    • Orgeyevskiy uyezdnyy tribunal

    Intelligence provided by the informants about the individuals suspected in pro-communist simphaties and activities; information about residents of Orhei county and their mood and activities under the Soviet rule (1940-1941); information about employees under investigation for various offenses; information given by the Prosecutor General on the moral and political mood of the population

  6. Second Global Structures Convocation lecture by Ferencz

    Lecture, "Creating Global Structures for Agenda 21." Second Global Structures Convocation, Washington, DC. February 6-9, 1992. ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT (tape 10 in conference series) Introduction by Robert Livingston, president of Positions for Social Responsibility. Second introduction by Catherine Porter, executive director of US Citizens Network. Ferencz discusses new structures needed to create a more peaceful planet. Broad frameworks include a world community that is environmentally healthy, free from war, and economically sound. He argues for coordinated action on an international ...

  7. Jacqueline L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jacqueline L., who was born in Paris in 1932. She recounts her family was not religious, although she knew she was Jewish; awareness of "bad feelings" beginning in 1940; not answering the door when French police came for them on September 24, 1942; a non-Jewish neighbor telling them to go away (she knew they were home); being placed in hiding with the non-Jewish wife of a relative; knowing her parents and older sister were hiding in southern France; her "aunt" tutoring her (she could not attend school) and trying to convert her to Christianity; having a ration card (s...

  8. Institut d'etude des questions juives (GR 28 P 15)

    Contains records documenting the conception and construction of the famous 1941-1942 exhibition at the Palais Berlitz, "Le Juif et la France," including media coverage and the speech given by the IEQJ’s Secretary General Paul Sézille; documentation produced by the IEQJ; studies of Jewish influence in various domains and professions; records documenting the activities of the IEQJ; in-coming and out-going mail; denunciations of Jewish business owners and employees, and offers to buy their confiscated belongings; foreign press; and publicity.

  9. Landgericht (Reichs Regional Court) of Cheb

    The fonds contains documents relating to the judicial, political and economic development of detached regions in West Bohemia in 1938–1945. For study of Jewish history, it is possible in particular to use call № 2005, box № 1 (Organisation of officials, 1939), call № 2008, box № 1 (List of staff status, 1939–1942) and also the personal files of legal representatives (call № eA1 to eZ4, box № 86–91) and notaries (call № fB1 to fT3, box № 91–92), which provide information on racial matters and staffing circumstances in the judicial system in the Sudetenland Reichsgau (Sudeten region). Attenti...

  10. State Court Graz: Nazi-related court cases Landesgericht Graz : NS-Verfahren

    Postwar court and investigative records of Nazi-related cases in Styria, Austria for the years 1954 to 1992. The collection includes court case against Franz Murer, the deputy of the SS commandant of the Vilna (Vilnius) ghetto ("Stellvertreter und/oder Adjutant des Gebietskommissars der Stadt Wilna und Referent für Jüdische Angelegenheiten"); includes both cases that did and did not reach verdicts.

  11. Postwar: Verdoner children emigrate to the US

    VS, the three Verdoner children - Otto, Francisca and Yoka playing in the woods. This footage was shot post war, the Verdoner children were hidden children. Their mother Hilde was deported to Auschwitz and perished during the war. Cut to Otto on the deck of a ship SS Gripsholm. VS, of the three children on deck, as well as other women. They are on board the ship that took them from Europe to the US in 1946. High angle, MLS, Francisca sits on a bench on deck and waves to the camera. CU, an unidentified woman aboard the ship.

  12. Judy F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Judy F., who was born in Czechoslovakia in 1929. She describes her childhood in a small, Hungarian-speaking town; the gathering of the town's Jews in a synagogue in April 1944; and her transport, with family members, to Auschwitz in a cattle car. She recalls conditions at Auschwitz; being taken to Birkenau, where she worked in the Canada kommando, sorting belongings; the camp's evacuation and liberation by Russians; and her emaciated condition upon liberation. She remembers returning to Budapest to search for her father; meeting her present husband and his sister; her...

  13. Erdélyi Lapok [Newspapers]

    Selected issues of the antisemitic newspaper Erdélyi Lapok published in Oradea,Transylvania. The paper was published with the financial support of the Roman Catholic Church. In 1936 changed its name to Új Lapok and later to Magyar Lapok,

  14. Collection of the Tribunal Général de Gouvernement pour la Zone Française d'occupation en Allemagne - General Court of Law of the Government in the French Occupation Zone in Germany, 1945-1949

    Collection of the Tribunal Général de Gouvernement pour la Zone Française d'occupation en Allemagne - General Court of Law of the Government in the French Occupation Zone in Germany, 1945-1949 Division of occupied Germany into four zones: Russian, American, British and French, following the Allied Forces victory in 1945; Included in the collection: Legal documentation, protocols and verdicts of the Tribunal Général de Gouvernement pour la Zone Française d'occupation en Allemagne - General Court of Law of the Government in the French Occupation Zone in Germany, 1945-1949; Documents and proto...

  15. Stalingrad (Battle)

    Animated map showing Stalingrad and surrounding area. The narrator announces "The Battle for Stalingrad." Stalingrad, which lasted from October 1942 to February 1943, and ended with a German defeat, was the turning point in the war against the USSR. This footage must be from the early days of the battle, when things were going well for the Germans. Two men, with their backs to the camera. One looks through binoculars into the distance. The narrator says that the Germans are firing on an ordnance factory. Shots of cannons firing alternate with shots of the city being shelled. Stukas flying o...

  16. Jüdische Gemeinde Hamburg collection

    Contains community records of five main Jewish communities in Germany: Münster, Oldenburg, Detmold, Lippe, and Lübeck. It includes correspondence with the Centralverein, the Reichsvertretung, and other organizations; and records relating to financial and social welfare matters within these Jewish communities.

  17. Trudy T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Trudy T., who was born in Heilbronn, Germany in 1924. She recalls her family's assimilated life; attending public school; anti-Jewish regulations, including the expulsion of Jews from schools; attending a Jewish school; her older sister's emigration to Palestine in 1938; her own emigration on a HIAS children's transport to the United States in October 1938; living with a foster family in St. Louis; fear for her family in Germany when Kristallnacht occurred; learning of her brother's emigration to England on a children's transport; the importance of the emotional suppo...

  18. Fond nezavisna država Hrvatska

    • The Independent State of Croatia Collection

    The collection contains various documents from ministries, state institutions, regional and local state, and military institutions. Researchers of the Holocaust will be interested in the materials related to the looting of Jewish property, “Aryanization,” intermarriage, as well as the reactions to persecution from ordinary citizens. The collection contains rich material on interethnic and inter-confessional relations across Bosnia-Herzegovina. This includes cooperation and conflicts between Catholic and Muslim communities in Sarajevo and other locations in Bosnia during the Holocaust. Repor...

  19. Documentation from the Preussische Bau und Finanzdirektion in Berlin, 1933-1943

    Documentation from the Preussische Bau und Finanzdirektion in Berlin, 1933-1943 Following the dissolution of the regional government in Berlin by the Prussian State in 1821, the Ministerial Militaer und Baukommission was established, which fulfilled the functions of the regional government in the Prussian State for the city. These functions included the administration of military matters, the construction of public works, the administration of state lands, and other similar functions. Following the end of World War I, the military functions were cancelled; despite this, however, financial m...

  20. Auschwitz liberated

    This film was taken by a Soviet military film crew upon liberating Auschwitz in January 1945. Opening titles. People in camp in winter with snow on the ground. CUs, prisoners behind wire (women and children). LSs, AVs, the camp covered with snow. Map of Auschwitz, plans for the crematorium. INT, women in rows of bunks. "Arbeit Macht Frei" gate. Barbed wire. INT, gas chamber. CUs women in the bunks. CUs albums of photographs (showing different nationalities). VS groups of survivors behind wires, worn faces, dead in the street, men with blankets over their heads. The evacuation of the camp - ...