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  1. Burger family collection

    Collection of documents, photographs, clippings, correspondence, an English translation of a diary, and other materials documenting the experiences of Solomon Burger from Vienna, Austria and his children: Herman, Alfred, Joseph, and Steffi and their experiences before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  2. Ferencz lecture: Wiesenthal Holocaust Center

    Ferencz lecture. Wiesenthal Holocaust Center, Los Angeles, CA. Second in five part series on Nazi war crimes trials. Ferencz discusses how the Nuremberg proceedings informed his life, his involvement in major restitution programs, and his understanding of "Never Again" through developing international law, an international criminal court, and defining aggression. He explains the legal precedents established at Nuremberg, including a) crime of aggression; b) crimes against humanity; c) trying heads of state; and d) guaranteeing rights to every prisoner (innocent until proven guilty in a cour...

  3. Records on prisoners camps of the Reich Ministry of Justice (Reichsjustizministerium), R 3001 (R 22)

    Contains records of Reichsjustizministerium (Reich Ministry of Justice) on Emsland camps which document the fate of individual prisoners and holds biographical information and detailed reports about the conditions of camp life and slave labor. Files contain personal information; lists of prisoners of the camps; and transport lists, including name, profession, and duration of sentence. Prisoners included criminal prisoners, homosexuals, Jews and political opponents of the National Socialist regime. German soldiers who were sentenced under military laws also were deported to these camps, maki...

  4. Kluizen - Coffres-forts. Collection

    This collection consists of the bank vaults which were not claimed by their original owners post-war. The owners were both Jewish and non-Jewish war victims or refugees who did not return to Belgium. The vaults do not contain any valuables, but documents including securities and personal documents, family photos, and objects such as cutlery, photo cameras and tableware. This collection is not accessible to third parties. Relatives who might be entitled to the content of one of the vaults are requested to contact archives@kazernedossin.eu

  5. Poster

    Poster: multi-color image of two German soldiers in the field with a Nazi ensignia in the top left corner and text in green and red on the bottom, "Die Polizei Im Fronteinsatz Tag Der Deutschen Polizei." The poster is signed on the right edge, "F. Albrecht 1941." The poster has been folded and has tears on the edges

  6. DPs moving in Germany; Inspection of army band/troops

    03:46:41 (Munich 756) Movement of DPs from Berlin to American Zone of Germany, Kassel, Germany, July 24, 1948. DPs line up, getting ready to pull out of Kassel area. CU, Maj A S Hyman speaking to group and Dr. William Haber, adviser to Gen Clay on DP affairs. MCU, woman holding child. CU, blonde girl. Two women sitting next to their belongings. DPs waiting at railroad station platform. CU, girl holding doll. DPs walking to the station. DPs getting aboard trucks Pan, line of trucks filled with DPs at Camp Mattenberg. People getting of trucks at camp. Men getting loaves of bread out of truck....

  7. Heilpern family papers

    Consists of two German passports (Reisepässe): one issued to Felix Heilpern on May 15, 1939, and one, in a leather passport protector, issued to Hans Heilpern on May 5, 1939. Also includes a pre-war copyprint of Hans and Sidonie Heilpern, and a family photograph of the Heilpern family taken before Felix left for the United States as one of the "50 children" with the assistance of the Kraus family. Also includes a copy of Felix's birth certificate, and an original document issued by the commandant of Buchenwald regarding Hans' internment in the camp.

  8. Gorodiscas family papers

    Consists of Bencelis Gorodiscas's passport from Lithuania, issued in 1921; the "livret de famille" family book documenting Bencelis's marriage to Malka Mendrzycka (originally of Warsaw) and the births of their children, Marguerite in 1933 and Gilbert in 1944. Also includes a certificate of liberation issued to Bencelis Gorodiscas from the Gurs internment camp in April 1943 and a bill for their immigration to the United States in 1961.

  9. Jewish Central Office in Romania

    • Centrala Evreilor din România
    • Управление по делам евреев Румынии
    • Upravleniye po delam yevreyev Rumynii

    Requests from persons of Jewish origin to register according to the law of 1941; checklists and registration books of 69 individuals

  10. Hanna Ben-Yami collection

    The collection consists of three copyprints of pre-World War II photographs of the donor's family, one original photograph of the donor's family, one purchase coupon from Theresienstadt concentration camp, and one transport order from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz with the donor's name on it.

  11. Deportation of the last Jews of Bruchsal, October 1940

    Title onscreen: "Bruchsal Judenfrei! Die letzten Juden verlassen Bruchsal, 18 Oktober 1940" [Bruchsal free of Jews! The last Jews leave Bruchsal, October 18, 1940] A line of Jews, wearing warm clothing and carrying suitcases and bags, files past the camera, including Marcus Rosenberg and his son Leo Rosenberg and Edith [Loeb] Leuchter and her mother, Julie. They are guarded by uniformed Germans, including police. Many people in civilian clothes stand in the background, watching the deportation. Uniformed Germans follow behind the last of the Jews. The last Jews of Bruchsal were deported to ...

  12. Germans in Occupied Ukraine

    Footage shot by a German cameraman during Germany's occupation of Ukraine in World War II. Footage with German photographers traveling through the Ukraine photographing cities, villages, and collective farms. The most extensive footage is taken with a female photographer from her trip to Ukraine in the summer of 1943. She traveled by plane and car from southern Ukraine (the Melitopol region) just north of Crimea, then along the Dnepr River northward over Dnepropetrovsk to Kiev and then due west to Rovno and then the border of General Government. Reel 9: 06:20:07 LS Horses lined up on both s...

  13. Вовчанська сільська управа (сільуправа), с. Вовча Кобеляцького р-ну Полтавської обл.

    • Vovcha village board, village of Vovcha, Kobeliaky district, Poltava region
    • Vovchanska silska uprava, s. Vovcha Kobeliatskogo raionu Poltavskoi oblasti

    Orders by district board about collecting food for German army, arrest of population for refusal to work; requests to purchase farmlands; salary lists; list of volunteers to German army and persons deported to Germany. Titles of selected files related to local administration, population policies, and the Holocaust: File 1. Orders by Kobeliaky district board. File 2. Lists of evacuated school-age children, statistical data on the population of Vovcha village board. File 3. Orders by Kobeliaky district board. File 4. Decisions by district board. File 7. Instructions by district board. Holocau...

  14. Landrat (District Councillor) of Jablonné v Podještědí

    The fonds contains documents of the District Councillor’s Office in the territory of the Provincial District of Jablonné v Podještědí (the judicial districts of Jablonné v Podještědí, Zwickau and Mimoň, including the occupied territory of the judicial districts of Mnichovo Hradiště and Bělá pod Bezdězem). The inventory lists the following documents on the history of Jews - report police, alien police, passports: inv. No. 165 Surveillance of Jews, registration of Jews (1938-1941); Trade police: inv. No. 175 Removal of Jews from the German economic life (1938-1942); health care, inheritance a...

  15. Selected records from the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Service of Diplomatic & Historical Archives

    The collection primarily consists of correspondence between the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other agencies of the Greek government and with foreign governments and people living outside Greece. The correspondence concerns establishing the whereabouts of family members, reparations issues, immigration issues, and other concerns of Greek Jews living in Greece and abroad.

  16. Silent Heroes Entschädigungsamt Berlin. Unbesungene Helden (B Rep. 078)

    Contains a unique set of records documenting the cases of non-Jewish Germans who helped Jews hide. The collection contains unique stories of hiding of Jews in the West Berlin area through testimonies from helpers and survivors, including investigation if the information could be verified. The collection is a result of an early attempt and initiative of the Berlin senate between 1958-1966 to honor helpers in the Berlin area, on instigation of the Berlin Minister of Interior, Joachim Lippschitz. 1500 files were created which precedes Yad Vashem's Righteous Among the Nations Initiative. It giv...

  17. Soviet Camp for Romani Kids

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 2, No. 104, Part 4. Release date, 12/24/1930. According to UN Official Motion Picture Release: News Paragraphs: Moscow, USSR "Establish first junior Soviet!" New Roma community controlled and run by children. A Soviet camp (genuine summer camp) for Roma children. MS, children playing, eating. CU, faces. Little boys, shirtless, running out of cabin with shovels. CU, eating outside at benches/tables from enormous bowls/spoons. Boy washing his cup. CU smiling boy, bashful. Little boy dancing inside circle of seated, clapping. MCU woman with turban in white dress with t...

  18. Licco Haim and friend ski and climb mountains

    AGFA 8 1939. Handwritten title "Winter 1940." Title over with the date 25 February 1940 over a still image of the group with their names. Two men tie skis to the roof of a car. CUs, of women as they walk on a city sidewalk to join the ski trip to the winter resort at Borovets. Good MS of the group skiing on the slopes. 01:03:46 Title with date 21 April 1940, "On the South Side of Black Peak" at Vitosha Mountain. Mountaineering and skiing. 01:07:25 Title with 21 April 1940 date, "Anny and Licco on the Wall", a skiing track on the south side of Black Peak. Zinka, Kiro, Anny, and Licco (the ba...

  19. Copy correspondence from girl re life in Vienna

    They are mirror image typescript mimeographed transcriptions, the majority of which are copy letters from Leni, the 12 year old girl. In addition to the above there is an (apparently unrelated) unidentified mirror image mimeographed manuscript memo re tax allowances.

  20. Selected records of the County Office in Jędrzejów Starostwo Powiatowe Jędrzejowskie (Sygn. 1653)

    Records related to Jewish minorities in Jędrzejów after the World War II (seven Holocaust survivors are listed), war losses, displacements and resettlements of the population during the war, change of names from Jewish to Polish, war crimes, and Jewish property.