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  1. Visszaemlékezések gyűjteménye (1945-2010)

    • Collection of Testimonies (1945-2010)
    • Holokauszt Emlékközpont
    • Visszaemlékezések gyűjteménye (1945-2010)
    • English
    • 1945-2010
    • ca. 850 files, 4 linear metres

    The collection includes about 850 handwritten or typed testimonies, mostly from the years between the early 1960s and the late 1980s. The size of the testimonies varies between one page to hundreds of pages. Most of them focus on the years of persecution between 1938 and 1945, with special emphasis on the concentration camps and labor service units. However, they also contain valuable information on the pre-war history of the Hungarian Jewish communities and reflections on their post-war fate.

  2. Munkaszolgálatos gyűjtemény 1939-1945

    • Labour Service Collection 1939-1945

    The labour service collection contain documents produced by state or municipal agencies, such as identification cards, ration cards, travel permits and various types of certificates as well as private documents of the labour servicemen including diaries, notebooks, photos and thousands of postcards

  3. Baltische Öl Gesellschaft mit beschänkter Haftung

    • Baltische Öl limited liability company
    • Rahvusarchiiv
    • ERA.R-187
    • English
    • 1941-1944
    • 74 records in 5 series

    The fonds contains original management and economical documents from the oil company Balt. Öl GmbH. Holocaust-related materials in this fonds concern data about forced labour of Jews from Vaivara Concentration Camp in the oil-shale industry in north-eastern Estonia. For example: statistics of forced labour implemented Jews in 1943-1944; reports about working conditions.

  4. Dokumenty niemieckie z okresu okupacji hitlerowskiej

    • German documents from the Nazi occupation period

    The documents of special importance to the history of the Holocaust are those gathered in Section I, among them: call no. 200 – Traktowanie Polaków i Żydów w tzw. Kraju Warty (różne zarządzenia) oraz sprawy wysiedleń z lat 1939-1943 (Treatment of Poles and Jews in the “Wartheland” [various orders], and resettlements in the years 1939-1943) call no. 398 – Przesiedlanie Polaków i Żydów do GG (Resettlement of Poles and Jews to the GG), call no. 699 – “Judentransportliste nr 1” (Jewish transport list) dated 13 December 1939; a list of 768 people deported from the camp at Główna Street in Poznań...

  5. Akta miasta Piotrkowa

    • Files of the town of Piotrków Trybunalski

    The subcollection "Commissar and Administration of the town of Piotrków 1919-1945" in addition to documents generated by the German administration, also contains files of the Rada Starszych Gminy Żydowskiej (Committee of Elders of the Jewish Community). The documentation contained in this collection is extremely extensive and concerns all aspects of the daily life of the Jews under the German occupation of the town, their internal organization, and their attrition and exploitation through forced labour.

  6. Akta miasta Skierniewic

    • Files of the town of Skierniewice

    The collection contains i.a. the materials on forced labour; correspondence with the Rada Żydowska (Judenrat, Jewish Council) regarding the establishment of the ghetto (1940); a list of names of wealthier Jews; postwar documents on issues including property rights cases;

  7. Ubezpieczalnia Społeczna w Zamościu

    • Social Insurance Institution in Zamość

    The insurance institution documents rare in Polish collections providing evidence of employment of Jews: named notifications and labour record cards for the area covered by a given Arbeitsamt (Labour Office), as well as a range of circulars and correspondence on Jewish-related matters dating from 1940-1942.

  8. Zbiór akt dra Janusza Petera 1891-1963, lekarza i regionalisty

    • Collection of files of Dr Janusz Peter

    Above all, this collection includes reminiscences and accounts about the partisan and resistance movements in the Zamość region

  9. Zarząd Policji w Polanicy Zdroju

    • Amtsbezirk Altheide Bad,Kreis Glatz
    • Police Board in Polanica Zdrój

    The collection contains i.a. orders issued by the authorities regarding foreigners and Jews, issue of passports to Jews, orders, and lists of Jews issued with Kennkarten, correspondence in various matters affecting and concerning Jews;

  10. Rejencja Wrocławska

    • Regierung Breslau
    • Wrocław Regional Administration,

    The collection contains i.a. – prewar issues, such as mixed marriages; Jewish assets (regulations, correspondence, lists of assets earmarked for “Aryanization”, lists of artisan workshops, and lists of land and plots belonging to Jews); regulations on arresting Jews of Polish descent; the activities and liquidation of Jewish organizations; correspondence of Wrocław Jewish community organizations on many different matters; regulations regarding changing Jewish names; applications for “award of German blood” to children from mixed marriages; official decisions on “degree of Jewish descent”; a...

  11. Eesti Omakaitse Peavalitsus

    • Main Administration of Estonian Home Guard
    • Hauptabteilung (Estnische) Selbstschutz
    • Rahvusarchiiv
    • ERA.R-358
    • English
    • 1941-1944
    • 117 records in 4 series; original bounded paper documents.

    The fonds contains different kind of documentation of Estonian Home Guard, which was subordinated to the Estonian self-administration. German Security Police involved Estonian Home Guard in arrests and repressions against local people, including Jews. It includes overviews about activities of paramilitary units of Omakaitse during last months of 1941, when Estonian Jews were arrested and executed; see [series 1](http://ais.ra.ee/index.php?module=202&op=4&tyyp=2&otsing_id=20140505150030348729&kokku=1&id=110000016332&f=1&active=&sess_id=1927846a938c7fd35459eb2c...

  12. Saksa fašistlike okupantide roimade ja nende poolt tekitatud kahjude kindlakstegemise ja uurimise Eesti Vabariiklik Komisjon

    • Extraordinary State Commission for the Establishment and Investigation of Crimes and Damages Perpetrated by German-Fascist Invaders and Their Collaborators Against Citizens, Kolkhozes, Public Authorities, State Companies and Agencies.
    • Eesti Ajaloomuuseum
    • AM, D 152
    • English
    • 1944-1945
    • 9 records in 2 series; original bound paper documents.

    This archival fonds contains, in addition to documents from the Extraordinary State Commission, original documents from German authorities. Documents that are directly related to the Holocaust include original reports from SS camp doctor KZ Vaivara Franz von Bodmann from October 1943 until June 1944 (Der SS Lagerarzt K.L. Waiwara an das SS Wirtschafts- und Verwaltungshauptamt. Monatsberichte Oktober 1943 – June 1944). These reports present statistics and death rates of inmates in KZ Vaivara and subcamps (AM.D-152.2.40). Documents partially related to the Holocaust include original documents...

  13. Akta miasta Węgrowa

    • Files of the town of Węgrów

    The collection contains i.a. general information on the situation of the Jews during the occupation, orders and circulars, tribute payment collection ledgers for the years 1940-1941 (in which the address is recorded alongside the name) and 1941-1942 (in this section there is an alphabetical list of the Jews of Węgrów).

  14. Akta miasta Rozwadowa

    • Files of the town of Rozwadów

    The collection contains i.a. the breakdown of the assets belonging to Jews (1941), rent and apartment ledgers, a register of abandoned real estate, and a ledger in which are recorded expropriations of former Jewish assets.

  15. ENSV Vabariiklik Komisjon Saksa fašistlike sissetungijate ja nende kaasosaliste roimade ja nende poolt tekitatud kahjude uurimiseks

    • Extraordinary State Commission of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic for the Establishment and Investigation of Crimes and Damages Perpetrated by the German-Fascist Invaders and Their Collaborators
    • Rahvusarchiiv
    • ERA.R-364
    • English
    • 1941-1947
    • 732 records in 3 series

    This fonds contains different kinds of reports, including photos, about Nazi crimes and war damages. The reports of the Commission were compiled in a very short time and under strong political guidance, and mostly by non-specialists. They contain a large amount of information, which for historical research is applicable only to strong source criticism. It includes some Holocaust-related reports: - ERA.R-364.1.201 - Lõppkokkuvõte Klooga koonduslaagris toime pandud mõrvade kohta / Summary about murders in Klooga concentration camp - ERA.R-364.1.202 Akt toime pandud roimade kohta Klooga koondu...

  16. ENSV ORKA erifondide osakonna Saksa okupatsiooni dokumentide uurijatele kasutamiseks väljaantud koopiate kollektsioon

    • Collection of copies, including documents about the German occupation, preserved in the special collections department of the Central State Archives of the October Revolution (ORKA) of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic intended for investigators and researchers

    This collection of copies includes various relevant copied documents, including: - The testimonies of the Klooga camp survivors. - Materials of the ESSR Extraordinary Commission. - Acts and interrogations (1944-1945) concerning crimes in Estonia during the German occupation. The finding aid to this collection is available [online](http://ais.ra.ee/index.php?module=202&op=4&tyyp=2&otsing_id=20140404100401624199&sess_id=bd7fcfa717d638e1c7b9b7b07fb26ee0&pealkiri=&naita_ridu=10&sort=&active=1&viitekood=&leidandmed=ERA.4215.1.1&tasand=0&kokku=1&amp...

  17. Gmina Wyznaniowa Żydowska w Czudcu

    • Jewish Community in Czudec

    In addition to registry files, there are also minutes of meetings of the Jewish Council dating from 1940, records including numbers of Jews before the war and in May 1940, number of people resettled, the community budget, other economic and business matters, social welfare, lists of people paying subscriptions to the community organization, the cash ledger, insurance documents for the bathhouse and synagogue, correspondence with the Joint and the Żydowska Samopomoc Społeczna (ŻSS, Jewish Self-Help), orders issued by the German authorities, lists of forced labourers, lists of Jews receiving ...

  18. Naczelna Rada Starszych Ludności Żydowskiej Dystryktu Radomskiego w Radomiu. Dział Dowodów Osobistych

    • Supreme Council of the Jewish Population in the Radom District – Personal Identification Division

    This is a collection of several thousand applications by Radom Jews for identity documents, which contains a vast quantity of personal data, as well as the photographs submitted for the issue of these Kennkarten.

  19. Wydział Powiatowy w Piotrkowie

    • County Department in Piotrków Trybunalski

    The collection contains i.a. many documents and information on the state of health of the Jews during the occupation and the struggle with infectious diseases; the personal details of Jewish physicians; correspondence concerning social welfare, sanitation issues, Jewish cemeteries and burial of the dead; and many other statistical and personal data

  20. Akta miasta Łodzi

    • Files of the city of Łódź

    The Gettoverwaltung documents are correspondence with the Judenrat on all manner of subjects related to the ghetto, and correspondence with German government offices and companies regarding the ghetto’s manufacturing output, employment of Jews in labour camps, looting of their property – on matters of this nature reports were submitted by the Kripo (the German criminal police, which had a police station inside the ghetto). There is also a wealth of valuable material in Wydział Ogólny Zarządu Miejskiego w Łodzi (Allgemeine Verwaltung Stadtverwaltung Litzmannstadt, General Administration of t...