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  1. The American Joint Distribution Committee, Warsaw office, 1945-1949

    The American Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC, as it was known in Poland) was active in Poland from the time of its founding. Immediately after the end of World War I, in early 1919, AJDC sent representatives to Poland. The outbreak of war in 1939 did not stop the AJDC relief efforts in Poland. During the first years of Nazi occupation, the Joint was able to continue its activity, although much diminished compared to the prewar period. The branches of AJDC in the area of the General Government worked until December 1941. When the United States entered the war, AJDC’s work continued underg...

  2. Records of the Stockholm office of the American Joint Distribution Committee, 1941-1967

    The Stockholm Collection contains the records of JDC’s Stockholm office during the years 1941-1967. The majority of the materials focus on the Stockholm office’s activities during World War II and in the postwar period from 1944-1949. In wartime, JDC’s Stockholm office, strategically located in neutral Sweden, was well-placed to coordinate the delivery of supplies to survivors and refugees in Europe, collaborate in wartime rescue operations, and to establish contact with and coordinate searches for survivors after the war ended. These records also chronicle JDC’s collaborations with other o...

  3. Records of the Dominican Republic Settlement Association (DORSA), 1939-1977

    In 1938, President Roosevelt invited 32 governments to consult with U.S. representatives at Evian, France, on refugee problems, and the participants created an Intergovernmental Committee for Refugees (IGCR). For IGCR Reports on Refugees 1938 - 1940, and on Refugee Settlement in the Dominican Republic, see Files 45a - 45b. At the first IGCR meeting, Generalissimo Trujillo offered to admit into his country as settlers up to 100,000 refugees from Europe. Promptly, the Refugee Economic Corporation and the President's Advisory Committee on Political Refugees—under Executive Secretary George L. ...

  4. The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, Cyprus Operation, 1945-1949

    The Cyprus Collection of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJJDC) offers a unique window into a pivotal period of 20th-century history by documenting the dramatic events in Cyprus against the backdrop of the birth of the State of Israel. Beginning in August 1946, the British government began deporting Jews who came to Palestine in violation of the White Paper of 1939 to the island of Cyprus. From August 1946 to February 1949, the deportees--primarily Holocaust survivors--lived behind barbed wire in 12 detention camps. During this period, approximately 53,000 Jews passed thro...

  5. Concentration Camp Esterwegen

    The collection includes: Report by the commander’s office of Concentration Camp Esterwegen to the Inspector of the Concentration Camps in Berlin, Prinz-Albrechtstr. 8, and record of the interrogation of the post responsible for the shooting of a prisoner on protective custody who had tried to escape on 8.5.1935, Prisoner registration card created in Concentration Camp Esterwegen for Mr Charles Weise For the history of Concentration Camp Esterwegen 1933-1945 cf.:http://www.gedenkstaette-esterwegen.de/

  6. Külügyminiszter Kabinetjének iratai (1918-1944)

    • Records of the Cabinet of the Foreign Minister (1918-1944)

    The Cabinet of the Hungarian Foreign Ministry was responsible for presenting matters of foreign policy to the Council of Ministers as well as addressing internal matters that concerned the Foreign Minister as a member of the government. The Cabinet also prepared laws proposed in Parliament that belonged to the realm of foreign policy, parliamentary inquiries and ministerial decisions. The Cabinet also arranged meetings of foreigners with the Regent who did not have diplomatic status in Budapest. Last but not least, the Cabinet served as the secretariat of the Ministry.

  7. Ankarai követség iratai, 1924-1945

    • Records of the Hungarian Embassy in Ankara, 1924-1945

    Records of the Hungarian Embassy in Ankara, the capital city of neutral Turkey, that are relevant for the study of the history of the Holocaust include citizenship cases of Hungarian Jews, cases of Jews deprived of German citizenship, visa requests to enter as well as to leave Turkey, including the visa of emigrating Jews, records of extradition, records related to Jews expelled from Hungary, to the granting of diplomatic visa (such as that of Oscar Schindler). There are also birth, death, marriage and baptism certificates, documents of employment, of criminality, of settling in Turkey, inh...

  8. Видавництво газети "Українська думка" - орган Черкаської районної управи, м. Черкаси

    • Editorial board of the "Ukrainska Dumka" newspaper, an official organ of the Cherkasy district board, city of Cherkasy
    • Vydavnytstvo hazety "Ukrainska dumka" - orhan Cherkaskoi raionnoi upravy, m. Cherkasy

    As an occupation media, this newspaper contained orders and instructions addressed to the local population, as well as materials of propaganda nature, and thus can be related to the history of the Holocaust. File 1. Orders and instructions within the editorial board, 140 pages. File 2. Lists of workers and employees for 1942, 38 pages. File 3. Lists of workers and employees, 1943, 46 pages. File 4. Profiles and autobiographies of the staff, 1942, 8 pages. Files 5-7. Salary registers, 1942-43, each file is approx. 40 pages on average. File 8. Cash journal for honorarium payment to the author...

  9. Amszterdami főkonzulátus iratai, 1924-1945

    • Records of the Hungarian Consulate General in Amsterdam, 1924-1945

    Records of the Hungarian Consulate General in Amsterdam, the capital city of Netherlands contain considerable material concerning Hungarian Jews, especially from the period 1938 to 1944, the era of anti-Jewish laws in Hungary and the Nazi occupation and the Holocaust in the Netherlands. Relevant parts of the collection include in large quantities citizenship cases and visa-related documents of the Hungarian Jews residing in the Netherlands. After the German occupation in May 1940, Jews were subjected to various anti-Jewish measures. In this context different types of records can be found in...

  10. Колекція. Листи громадян, які служили в німецько-фашистських військових частинах

    • Collection. Letters of persons who served in German-Fascist military units.
    • Kolektsiia. Lysty hromadian, yaki sluzhyly v nimetsko-fashystskykh viiskovykh chastynakh

    File 1. Letters of persons who served in German-Fascist military and police units, 52 pages.

  11. Népbíróságok Országos Tanácsa, 1945-1950

    • National Council of People’s Courts, 1945-1950

    Documents of the People’s Courts are among the most significant sources pertaining to the interwar and wartime history of Hungary as well as the Holocaust. The materials include trials against former prime ministers, several ministers, undersecretaties of state and other protagonists of the anti-Jewish policies as well as the direct perpetrators of murders and other atrocities against labour servicemen and Jewish civilians, trials against members of the Arrow Cross, the Volksbund, gendarmerie and various other pro-Nazi organizations and institutions, journalists, informants, beneficiaries o...

  12. Sudbeni stol u Požegi

    • The Independent State of Croatia Court in Požega

  13. Редакція газети "Українське Полісся", м. Чернігів Чернігівської області

    • Editorial board of "Ukrainian Polissia" newspaper, city of Chernihiv, Chernihiv region
    • Redaktsiia hazety "Ukrainske Polissia", m. Chernihiv Chernihivskoi oblasti

    As an occupation media, the newspaper contained orders and instructions addressed to the local population, as well as materials of propaganda nature, and thus relates to the history of the Holocaust. Inventory 1. File 1-18. Copies of “Ukrainian Polissia” newspaper and concomitant materials. Each file is approx. 40 pages on average. File 19. Report on newspaper publication from November 1 – December 31, 1943, 1 page. File 21. Informational newsletter by Ortskommandantur from December 1941, 3 pages. File 23. Reports on expenses on economic issues, 8 pages. File 24. Invoices and receipts for t...

  14. Козелецька районна управа, смт. Козелець Козелецького району Чернігівської області

    • Kozelets district board, town of Kozelets, Kozelets district of Chernihiv oblast
    • Kozeletska raionna uprava, s.m.t. Kozelets Kozeletskoho raionu Chernihivskoi oblasti

    Local administration documentation can contain information connected to the Holocaust. Titles and sizes of the selected files potentially related to the subject: File 13. Orders by Kozelets ortskommandantur to submit lists of ethnic Germans. Lists of ethnic Germans registered in Kozelets district board, number of pages not available. File 14. Orders by Kozelets ortskommandantur to compile lists of persons who have arrived from another locations, to prohibit prisoners of war from marrying, and to register prisoners of war, 31 pages. File 24. Decree by Kozelets ortskommandantur to allocate la...

  15. Petras Baublys

    Personal fonds of Pediatrician Petras Baublys who 1942-1944 worked as a director of an orphanage in Kaunas. Help for the Kaunas ghetto underground organization to hide children in the orphanage. The fonds consist of articles, abstracts, publications, reports and conferences' papers, various notes on medicine topic and issues, correspondence, lectures' material; various documents and photos with collegues.

  16. Općinski odbor Saveza udruženja boraca narodnooslobodilačkog rata Hrvatske, Daruvar

    • Anti-Fascist Veterans' Organization, Daruvar committee

  17. Kauno IX forto muziejus

    • Kaunas Ninth Fort Museum

    Some files of the fonds contain documents concerning how the museum collections were compiled (documents and register lists of the artifacts and personal belongings of people who were imprisoned in the Ninth Fort and who donated these items to the museum; documents and register lists of the items that were purchased from the locals.

  18. Kotarski sud Bjelovar

    • The Independent State of Croatia County Court in Bjelovar

  19. Kotarska oblast Bjelovar

    • (The Independent State of Croatia) County administration Bjelovar

  20. Zbirka matičnih knjiga židovskih bogoštovnih općina

    • Collection of birth registries of the Jewish religious communities
    • Državni arhiv u Bjelovaru
    • HR-DABJ-0592
    • English
    • 1784-1944
    • 20 books (covering the towns of Bjelovar, Daruvar, Križevci)