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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: French

  1. Rīgas apgabaltiesas prokurors

    • Riga District Court Prosecutor
    • Riga Kreigerichts Staatsanwalt

    The fonds contains information about supervision of criminal and civil cases since 1917. The wartime documents contain information about unlawful acquisition of Jewish property, escapes from prisoner-of-war camps, and interdiction of contacts with Jews.

  2. Valmieras apriņķa policijas iestādes

    • Valmiera District Police Institutions
    • Polizeibehörden Kreis Wolmar

    The fonds contains information about the activities of the police administration in the district since 1919. The war time files contain lists of nationalized and ownerless Jewish property (1942).

  3. Jelgavas apriņķa policijas iestādes

    • Jelgava District Police Institutions
    • Polizeibehörden Kreis Mitau

    The fonds contains information about activities of the police institutions in the district since 1919. The wartime documents contain information about prisoners of war and war refugees, pursuit and apprehension of communists, Jews and Roma, Roma escapes from prisons (1941-1942), and lists of persons drafted into the German Army (1944).

  4. Daugavpils pilsētas policijas iestādes

    • Daugavpils City Police Institutions
    • Polizeibehörden Stadt Dünaburg

    The fonds contains a large amount of information about activities of the police institutions in the district since 1920. The wartime documents include instructions to the chief of the Jewish camp (ghetto) and information about guarding the ghetto, internal rules, and a report about unnamed police members arresting Jews and taking their belongings in 1941.

  5. Rēzeknes apriņķa policijas iestādes

    • Rezekne District Police Institutions
    • Polizeibehörden Kreis Rezekne

    The fond contains a large amount of information about activities of the Police Institution in the district since 1920. The wartime documents include information about Jewish property, acquisition of former Jewish belongings, confiscation of radios and bicycles, divorcing of mixed marriages, hiding of Jews, baptizing of Jews, list of Christian priests who baptized Jews, measures for preventing demonstration of November 8, 1941 (commemorating the Revolution of 1917) at the places of mass executions and Jewish cemeteries, Jews from Rezekne prison working at factories in Rezekne, Ortskommandant...

  6. Rīgas apriņķa policijas iestādes

    • Riga District Police Institutions
    • Polizeibehörden Kreis Riga

    The fonds contains information about the activities of the police administration in the district since 1919. The wartime files contain Drechsler’s orders (August 1941) regarding restrictions for Jews (wearing of Star of David, occupations, use of transport, etc.).

  7. Rīgas pilsētas policijas iestādes

    • Riga City Police Institutions
    • Polizeibehörden Stadt Riga

    The fonds contains a large amount of information about activities of the Police Institution in the district since 1919. The wartime documents include reports of the chief of the Riga and district police precincts and criminal department about arrests of Jews, evictions from apartments, shooting of Jews in Riga and environs, suicide cases, burning of synagogue, and using of Jewish labour.

  8. Ludzas apriņķa policijas iestādes

    • Ludza district Police Institutions
    • Polizeibehörden Kreis Ludza

    The fonds contains a large amount of information about activities of the police institution in the district since 1920. The wartime documents include information about Jewish property and arrests of Roma in the district (1941-1942).

  9. A magyar háborús bűnösök állambiztonsági vizsgálatának dokumentumai

    • Records of State Security Investigations of Hungarian War Criminals

    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.

  10. Ministerstvo vnutrennykh del Rumynii (g. Bukharest)

    • Ministerul de Interne (Bucure0); Ministry of Internal Affairs of Romania (Bucharest)

    The collection is described in one inventory. Materials are catalogued chronologically. The file was transferred to the archive from the archival administration of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The collection contains applications received by the Bucharest prefecture from cultural, youth, religious, and other societies for licenses to engage in activities stipulated in the societies' charters. There are charter and other documents on Jewish religious, cultural, philanthropic, and other organizations active on Romanian territory: the Intaitarea society to help poor students with clot...

  11. Prezidijalni spisi

    • Presidial writings collection

  12. Великая ложа Германии еврейского ордена "Бней-Брит" (УОББ) (г. Берлин)

    • German Grand Lodge of B'nai B'rith (Berlin); Grossloge für Deutschland des Unabhangigen Ordens "Bne Brith" (UOBB) (Berlin)
    • Velikaia lozha Germanii evreiskogo ordena "Bnei-Brit" (UOBB) (g. Berlin)

    The collection's contents are described in three inventories; the collection has a geographical index. Deposited in the collection are the constitution of the Independent Order of B'nai B'rith; charters of the Grand Lodge and of affiliated lodges in Germany and the United States; the charters of the order's committees on youth organizations and Jewish women's organizations; the charters of affiliated lodges' courts of honor; draft charters of youth organizations; the charters of the women's charitable society Schwesternbund, of the Eintracht lodge's women's organization, and of the women's ...

  13. Американская объединенная восстановительная организация. Управление делами

    • American Joint Reconstruction Foundation
    • Amerikanskaia ob"edinennaia vosstanovitelnaia organizatsiia. Upravlenie delami

    The collection's contents are catalogued in three inventories. Each of these contains three sections: secretariat documents, documents of the finance department, and printed materials. The collection contains the JDC charter of 1924; the JDC's assignment of legal rights to the newly created American Joint Reconstruction Foundation; listings of transferred bonds, promissory notes, bills of exchange, and other securities (1924); and accounts of the Reconstruction Foundation's activities for 1924-26 and 1937-39. The collection also contains correspondence of JDC administrative council members ...

  14. Центральное объединение немецких граждан иудейского вероисповедания (г. Берлин)

    • Centralverein deutscher Staatsburger judischen Glaubens; Central Association of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith (Berlin)*
    • Tsentral'noe ob"edinenie nemetskikh grazhdan iudeiskogo veroispovedaniia (g. Berlin)

    The collection's contents are catalogued in three inventories arranged by structure and document type. Most of the materials in this collection originate from the 1920s and 1930s. The collection includes the charter of the Central Association and its local chapters; minutes of meetings of the Central Association's committee on drawing up a new charter (1926-28); minutes of the Central Association's board (1931) and of chapters (1932-38); reports by leaders of Central Association chapters on their activities; and reports on the state of the Jewish community in various German cities (1932-35)...

  15. Берлинское сионистское объединение

    • Berliner zionistische Vereinigung; Berlin Zionist Union*
    • Berlinskoe sionistskoe ob"edinenie

    The collection's contents are catalogued in one inventory; the inventory is arranged by document type. The collection includes the charter of the BZU; minutes of meetings of the BZU board for 1937; minutes of sessions of electoral caucuses, and materials on the election of delegates to the delegate assembly; minutes of the 1936 twenty-fifth congress of the Zionist Federation of Germany; minutes of preelection meetings of BZU members for 1938; circulars on admitting new members and on improving the work of Hebrew language courses; membership cards; and instruction booklets for new members. T...

  16. Еврейская религиозная община (г. Грац)

    • Israelitische Kultusgemeinde (Graz); Jewish Religious Community of Graz
    • Evreiskaia religioznaia obshchina (g. Grats)

    The collection's contents are catalogued in two inventories. The inventories are arranged by document type. The collection features documents of the Jewish Religious Community of Graz, the community's committee for the social security of Jewish émigrés, the Graz chapter of Hashomer Hatzair, and other Jewish organizations of Graz; community circulars for 1933; minutes of community meetings for 1922-38; correspondence with the Vienna taxation and revenue board, Jewish charitable organizations, community members, and lawyers regarding the election of board members and officers of the community...

  17. Еврейская религиозная община (г. Вена)

    • Israelitische Kultusgemeinde (Wien); Jewish Religious Communit), of Vienna
    • Evreiskaia religioznaia obshchina (g. Vena)

    The collection's contents are catalogued in three inventories. The inventories are arranged by structure and document type. The collection has charters of the Jewish religious community of Vienna — and of affiliated organizations: the Union to Aid Jewish Students, the Union for the Care of Orphans, Jewish Literary Association, the Mendelssohn Jewish Literary Union, and others. It contains the minutes of meetings of the community board for 1891-1938 as well as community financial documents — statements, estimates, summaries, income statements, cashbooks for 1928-37, and tax tables. The colle...

  18. Еврейское телеграфное агенство (JTA)

    • Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA)
    • Evreiskoe telegrafnoe agentstvo (ITA)

    The collection's contents are described in three inventories. Documents are catalogued in the inventories for the most part chronologically, and with geographical and chronological indexes. Copies of informational bulletins of the JTA published in Berlin, London, Prague, and Paris constitute the bulk of the collection's documentary materials. The collection also has copies of bulletins and journals published in Palestine and Switzerland; articles, accounts, reports, and newspaper clippings on the situation of the Jewish population of various countries, on the activities of Zionist and other...

  19. Объединение "неарийских христиан" (г. Берлин)

    • Paulus-Bund Vereinigung nichtarischer Christen (Berlin); St. Paul Alliance of Non-Aryan Christians (Berlin)
    • Ob"edinenie "neariiskikh khristian" (g. Berlin)

    The collection's contents are described in one inventory, to which there is a geographical index. Certain documents catalogued in inventory no. 1 were transferred to the German Democratic Republic in 1957. The collection contains Alliance correspondence with Nazi German authorities defending the rights of "non-Aryan Christians," as well as correspondence with members of the organization on helping them find work, matriculate in programs of study, and travel abroad.

  20. Всемирная организация борьбы против расовой ненависти и нужды (г. Вена)

    • Weltorganisation gegen Rassenhass and Menschcnnot (Wien); World Organization Against Racial Hatred and Poverty (Vienna)
    • Vsemirnaia organizatsiia bor 'by protiv rasovoi nenavisti i nuzhdy (g. Vena)

    The collection's contents are catalogued in two inventories. The inventories are arranged by document type. The collection contains bylaws, memoranda, platforms, minutes, instructions, and appeals of the World Organization; biographical information on the organization's leader, Irene Harand; applications to join the organization; correspondence with subscribers to the newspaper Gerechtigkeit (by country); lists of subscribers to the newspaper Gerechtigkeit; correspondence on providing aid to the Jewish population of Vienna; letters of invitation to Harand; proposals for publication in the n...