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Language of Description: Finnish

  1. Претура Францфельдського району, с. Францфельд Овідіопольського р-ну Одеської області

    • District Pretura of the Frantsfel’d District, Village of Frantsfel’d (Ovidiopol’ County)

    The fonds’ inventories are systematized according to the structural-chronological principle. Included are directives, instructions, and orders of the Romanian civilian and military authorities on restrictive measures regarding Jews located in the territory of Transnistria. Among these is a copy of orders of the migration service and the Governorate Directorate of Labor on procedures for transmitting material aid to Transnistrian Jews from the Central Office of the Jews of Romania (1943). Documents of the Romanian authorities regarding the conscription of Jews into forced labor include copie...

  2. Претура Ландауського району, с. Ландау Ландауського району Березівського повіту

    • District Pretura of the Landau District, Landau Colony (Berezovka County)

    The fonds’ inventories are systematized according to the structural-chronological principle. Documents on “the Jewish question” contained in the pretura fonds may provisionally be divided into the following thematic groups: 1. Directives of the Romanian civilian and military authorities that defined the legal status of the Jewish population of Transnistria; these include copies of Governorate of Transnistria orders halting the use of Jews as Ukrainian language translators (1942); on setting up ghettos for the Jewish population and using Jewish specialists for work in institutions and enterp...

  3. Претура Варварівського району, с. Варварівка Варварівського району Очаківського повіту

    • District Pretura of the Varvarovka District, Village of Varvarovka (Ochakov County)

    The fonds’ inventories are systematized according to the structural-chronological principle. Documents on “the Jewish question” contained in the pretura fonds may provisionally be divided into the following thematic groups: 1. Directives of the Romanian civilian and military authorities that defined the legal status of the Jewish population of Transnistria; these include copies of orders of the commander of the Third Army Corps stipulating that Jews working in various Governorate directorates be closely surveilled by gendarme legions; 2. Orders of local authorities dealing with the forced l...

  4. Претура Александерфельдського району Очаківського повіту.

    • District Pretura of the Aleksanderfel'd District, Village of Aleksanderfeld (Ochakov County)

    The fonds’ inventories are systematized according to the structural-chronological principle. Documents on “the Jewish question” contained in the pretura fonds may provisionally be divided into the following thematic groups: 1. Directives of the Romanian civilian and military authorities that defined the legal status of the Jewish population of Transnistria; these include copies of decrees of Transnistria civilian governor G. Alexianu (4 August 1943) on remuneration of Jewish labor in accordance with rates established for the local population; (3 May 1943) on remuneration of the labor of Jew...

  5. State Archive of the Odessa Region

    The fond includes four inventories systematized chronologically and, for personal files in op. 2L, alphabetically. Included are materials (op. 1) connected with the work of archive personnel in assisting the Odessa Regional Extraordinary State Commission, in particular, the album Fascist Atrocities in the Odessa Region during its Temporary Occupation, with photographs of the ghetto near the village of Bogdanovka (Domanevka district, Odessa region) showing external and internal views of living quarters, excavations of burial sites in places of mass shootings of Jews, a medical commission’s w...

  6. Photographic archives

    The photographic archives consist essentially of the collections of the Sipho agency which distributed a large element of the Belgian as well as the international press photographs from 1930 until 1944. In 1946, the Sipho responsibles were brought to trial and its collections were confiscated. In 1970 they were transferred to the Centre. This important collection (some 300,000 photographs) consists of a Belgian and an international section. It has been regularly supplemented with new acquisitions such as the collections of Otto Kropf (relating to daily life in occupied Belgium), of Raphaël ...

  7. 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...

  8. Archival Section of the Administration of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Odessa Region, City of Odessa

    The fond includes forty-three inventories, in which documents are systematized chronologically and, for personal files in op. 11, 39, and 40L, alphabetically. Documents in the fond include (op. 2, 24) correspondence with the Main Archival Administration of the Ukrainian SSR, subsections of the NKVD and Ministry of Internal Affairs, and local organs of executive power on ascertaining and investigating crimes of the German-Romanian invaders in the Odessa region; chronologies of the occupation of population centers in the Odessa region, including information on instances of mass terror perpetr...

  9. Archival Section of the Administration of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Izmail Region

    The fond includes one inventory systematized chronologically. Included are chronologies of the German-Romanian occupation of population centers of the Izmail region; these contain information on instances of mass killings of Jews, toward whom the occupiers harbored “a particularly horrifying hatred,” including in Akkerman (from 1944 on, Belgorod-Dnestrovskii), the towns of Artsiz, Kiliia, Tatarbunary, and Tarutino, and the villages of Briiany, Manzur, Novyi Fershampenuaz (Artsiz district), Sarata, and Shabo (1946). A number of documents indicate the names of victims. There are also lists of...

  10. David Boder Collection: Testimonies of survivors in DP camps in Germany

    This record group is a collection of testimonies recorded by David Boder, a Professor of Psychology at the Illinois Institute of Technology, in DP camps in Europe in 1946. The collection is comprised of testimonies of Jews and non-Jews, recorded in various languages and translated into English. The testimonies focus on the events in the lives of the survivors during the war in the ghettos and camps, while serving in the military, in hiding and in children's homes. The testimonies also contain information regarding the rehabilitation of the survivors from immediately after the war until the ...

  11. Munkaszolgálattal kapcsolatos gyűjtemény

    • Labour Service Collection

    The collection holds selected documents concerning the establishment and maintenance of the labor service system, the implementation of anti-Jewish laws (Act IV of 1939 Act XV of 1941 and Act XXV of 1942) and decrees in the military as well as various antisemitic initiatives and administrative procedures exceeding the existing laws and decrees. Besides Jewish-related records, the collection also holds documents concerning other minority groups, including Christian denominations who refused armed service on religious grounds, such as Nazarenes, Pentecostals, Adventists and Jehovah’s Witnesse...

  12. Συλλογή Σιμόπουλος Τάκης

    • Collection Simopoulos Takis
    • Syllogi Simopoulos Takis

    Personal documents, diary, documents of the Service for the Disposal of Jewish Property.

  13. Συλλογή Στρατόπεδο Παύλου Μελά

    • Collection Military Camp Pavlou Mela
    • Syllogi Stratopedo Pavlou Mela

    Catalogue of the executed prisoners (among them 7 were Jewish).

  14. Συλλογή Μοδιάνο

    • Collection Modiano
    • Syllogi Modiano

    Title deeds, contracts, correspondence with Italian Authorities, certificates of nationality, judicial documents.

  15. Legal documentation from KGB Archives in Moldavia, 1944-1945

    In the collection there is legal documentation from the Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti (KGB- Committee for State Security) Archive of Moldavia including investigative files of war criminals in the areas of Moldavia and Ukraine. The documentation includes detention orders, interrogation reports of local residents accused of the persecution of the Jews and murder of Jews in Moldavia and Ukraine, indictments and court rulings regarding the search for a specific criminal throughout the Soviet Union.

  16. Kriegsverbrecherreferat (War Criminals'Section), Legal Department at the Central Committee of Liberated Jews, Munich

    • Personal files regarding Nazi war criminals and Ukrainian, Latvian and Lithuanian collaborators (Subsection M.21.1); - Personal files regarding Jews suspected of collaboration (Subsection M.21.2);- Files containing much documentation regarding criminals according to the places where they were active in camps and ghettos (Subsection M.21.3); - Correspondence regarding war criminals;- Photographs of war criminals; - Newspaper clippings.

  17. Saly Mayer Archive: Documentation regarding the activities of Saly Mayer, President of SIG (the Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland), on behalf of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)

    The documentation is from 1939-1950. Most of the documentation describes the activities of Saly Mayer as the (unofficial) representative of the JDC in Switzerland during World War II.Saly Mayer transferred JDC funds to persecuted Jews in Europe and Shanghai in different ways. He also distributed money for the care of the Jewish refugees in Switzerland. As part of his activities, he received information regarding what was happening in Europe against the Jews, for example in Slovakia (from the Bratislava Working Group). He was in contact with representatives and activists of various Jewish or...

  18. War Criminals Department, Legal Division (Kriegsverbrecherreferat) of the Central Committee of Liberated Jews) - Munich

    n the collection there are personal files regarding Nazi war criminals and Ukrainian, Latvian and Lithuanian collaborators, mainly in the areas of Poland. There are testimonies of survivors in all the documentation.

  19. The She’erit Hapletah Collection - Displaced Persons life in the camps, 1945-1948

    In this Collection there is documentation regarding the lives of the displaced persons (DPs) in the camps. It contains thousands of placards from the camps, mainly concerning cultural and artistic matters, religious life, sport, elections and political parties. Additionally, there are announcements , principally issued by administrative departments in the Eschwefe DP camp and the Feldafing DP camp. There are letters or surveys on subjects related to daily life in the DP camps in a few individual files.

  20. The Recha Freier Archive: Founder of Youth Aliyah in Germany, 1935-1951

    The collection contains Recha Freier's personal files, including correspondence with various international organizations, among them the Hadassah Women's Zionist Organization of the United States, which directed its main efforts to the project to rescue Jewish children during the Holocaust.