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Language of Description: French

  1. GR 2 P 123-136-Ministry of National Defense and War, Department of Civil Personnel, 2nd office (Jews), Dismissal from Administrative Jobs or Continuance in Office, (Mainland France) GR 2 P 123-136-Ministère de la Défense nationale et de la Guerre Direction des Personnels Civils 2ème bureau (Juifs). Radiation des Contrôles des Administrations ou maintien en fonction (Métropole)

    Consists of records concerning Jewish civilians in government jobs at the French Ministry of Defense. The decree of the 2nd Statute, June 2, 1941 (a replacement of the Decree, October 3, 1940) defined who was to be considered a member of the "Jewish race" elaborating rules concerning grandparents. The Article 4 of this decree listed the professions and positions that Jews could not exercise (positions in ministries). Exceptions were made when an individual could prove that he and/or his family had provided exceptional service to the French nation. This law applied to all of French territory...

  2. Grace D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Grace D., who was born in Piotrko?w Trybunalski, Poland in 1920. She recalls being the youngest of ten siblings in an orthodox home; German invasion; ghettoization a few weeks later; separation from her family in the October 1942 deportation; her sister-in-law's refusal to give up her child to save herself; and her pain at not having said goodbye to her family. She describes work making dresses for German women from October 1942 until February 1943; deportation to Skarz?ysko-Kamienna; work in Camp B making artillery shells; Polish civilian workers who brought her food...

  3. Grace Miller photographs

    The images are of U.S. troops with the 415th Infantry Regiment, 104th Infantry Division supervising German civilians who were forced to clear corpses from the ruins of the "Boelke Kaserne" at Nordhausen concentration camp.

  4. Grace N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Grace N., who was born in Posen, Germany (presently Poznan?, Poland) in 1920. She describes her family; moving to Berlin when Posen became part of Poland; the family's successful piano store; their comfortable life; changes with the rise of Nazism; the impact of the Nuremberg laws on their personal lives; her siblings emigrating; the destruction of their store on Kristallnacht; being offered a job by a concert pianist to accompany her on a tour of the United States; and difficulties obtaining papers to leave. She recalls the emotional departure from her parents; missi...

  5. The Grade Teacher [Magazine]

    Consists of the October 1942 issue of "The Grade Teacher" magazine, published for school teachers in the United States, which includes instructions on having students create war propaganda posters. Includes samples for students to color.

  6. Gradislawa Fack Hadamar victim's patient file

    Contains the medical file for Gradislawa Fack, Peter Fack's grandmother.

  7. Gradska komisija za ispitivanje zločina okupatora i njihovih pomagača

    • City Committee for the Investigation of Crimes Committed by the Occupiers and Their Helpers

  8. Gradska uprava narodnih dobara Sarajevo

    • City's bureau for public goods Sarajevo

    Contains information about Jewish property whose owners perished during the Holocaust.

  9. Gradsko poglavarstvo Banjaluka

    • Municipality of Banjaluka 1941-1945

    Contains records of local, municipal government of Banjaluka for 1941-1954, during the Independent State of Croatia's rule.

  10. Gradsko poglavarstvo Brčko

    • City municipality of Brčko

    Contains projects for different communal buildings (schools, power plant, etc), minutes from meetings of municipal administration, property lists, permits to open shops and taverns, bills, dossiers of employees in the municipality, list of debtors of the town power plant (among them members of Jewish community), service records of employees and forced retirement of Jewish ones (1941), etc.

  11. GRADSKO POGLAVARSTVO BROD NA SAVI

    • City Council Office, Brod na Savi

  12. Gradsko poglavarstvo Dubrovnik

    • The Dubrovnik City Authority Office

  13. Gradsko poglavarstvo grada Križevci

    • The City Authorities of Križevci

    The collection is incomplete and contains various instructions and orders issued and received by the city authorities of Križevci. Researchers of the Holocaust will find files regarding the activities of the State Office for Renewal [Državno Ravnateljstvo za ponovu] here. This office oversaw the managing and distributing of property confiscated from Jews during the Holocaust. In addition, for scholars interested in perpetrator studies the files of the city employees are a potentially helpful source.

  14. Gradsko poglavarstvo Osijek

    • The City Government of Osijek

    The collection contains minutes from meetings, files from the mayor's office files (prezidijal); documentation concerning various boards, the health services, the police, accounting and city budget, the military departments, the Social Services Commission, the Tax Office, the Committee for food; financial documentation. Particularly noteworthy are Civil Office documents among the well-preserved material of the architectural project.

  15. Gradsko poglavarstvo Požega

    • City Administration of Požega

    Similar to the county administration collection, this collection follows the laws, rules, and activities of the enforcement/administration level until the first days of the new administration in April 1941.

  16. GRADSKO POGLAVARSTVO SLAVONSKI BROD

    • City Council Office, Slavonski Brod

  17. Gradsko poglavarstvo Tuzla

    • City municipality Tuzla

    The collection includes documents relating to the work of the Office for "renewal", which dealt with the confiscated Jewish and Serbian property within the Independent State of Croatia. Property of Jewish families that were sent to concentration camps was seized by the authorities. Documents of the collection can serve as a valuable source for studying of the activities and work of the Government of the city of Tuzla in the stated period, but also the history of this region, because the documents can follow the work and procedures related to the property of Jewish families from Tuzla during...

  18. Gradsko poglavarstvo Varaždin

    • City Council of Varaždin

    The collection holds a series of files referred to as the Jewish Department (1941–1942), 10 boxes. This series contains documents that directly or indirectly concern the deportation of Varaždin Jews to concentration camps in the territory of the NDH (Independent State of Croatia).

  19. Gradsko poglavarstvo Zagreb

    • City Administration of Zagreb

    757 books, 2450 boxes. (316.3 m)

  20. Graf Rothkirch; Ludwigslust

    Wochenschau. Lenski rides through Ludwigslust, ex Grand Duke of Mecklenburg. Ludwigslust city.